[5.27] #attaint# accusation. [5.28] #topping# lopping off. [5.29] #where# _i.e._ whereas. [5.30] #suburbians# the suburbs of London were formerly the chief resort of loose women. [5.31] #holly# holy. [5.32] #hatchel# heckle or dress. [5.33] #with Duke Humphrey dine# _i.e._ not dine at all. “This phrase is said to have arisen from part of the public walks in Old St. Paul’s called Duke Humphrey’s walk, where those who were without the means of defraying their expenses at a tavern were accustomed to walk in hope of procuring an invitation.”--_Halliwell_. [5.34] #hey ho# a favourite ballad-burden. [5.35] #cocket# pert. [5.36] #Attalia# Heywood was probably thinking of Horace’s _Attalicæ condiciones_. [5.37] #pounded# _i.e._ penned up. [5.38] #upse freeze# strong beer, imported from Friesland: hence to drink _upse freeze_ was to drink hard. [5.39] #tassaker# from _tasse_? Hence a cup or goblet. [5.40] #manage# management. [5.41] #lavoltoes# a dance in the course of which the woman, after being turned round several times, sprang up as high as she could with her partner’s assistance. [5.42] #wheel# _i.e._ a spinning-wheel. [5.43] #rebatoes# _i.e._ turn your ruffs into loose collars. [5.44] #frontlets# forehead-bands. [5.45] #rails# short mantles. [5.46] #billements# head and neck ornaments. [5.47] #bongraces# shades to preserve the complexion. [5.48] There is no dash in the original; the singer evidently substituted the refrain for the omitted word. [5.49] This song also occurs in Heywood’s _Challenge for Beauty_. [5.50] #cony-wool# rabbit skin. [5.51] #shag# rough hair. [5.52] #monmouth# a kind of flat cap. [5.53] #chapine# chapines were shoes with very high soles, worn by ladies to make them look tall. [5.54] #humorous# damp. [5.55] #stars# _i.e._ candles. [5.56] #tread not too hard for disturbing# _i.e._ lest you should disturb. [5.57] #staves-acre# a kind of larkspur used to kill lice. [5.58] #opinion# reputation. [5.59] #defend# forbid. [5.60] #uncrazed# unbroken. [5.61] #mechal# adulterous. [5.62] #stare# starling. [5.63] This catch, which jokes in such a ribald fashion over Tarquin’s crime, furnishes a pointed example of the way in which the dramatists of the period pandered to the tastes of the less refined among their audiences. [5.64] #to my death to fall# to let fall, as often to be found in Shakespeare. [5.65] #infinite# _i.e._ infinite numbers. [5.66] #buckler# defend. [5.67] #battle# battalion. [5.68] #tire# tear, like a beast or bird of prey. [5.69] #bulk# body. [5.70] #constant# resolute. [5.71] #snaky# “snake” was often used as a term of contempt. [5.72] #single monomachy# “single monomachy” is rather an absurd pleonasm. [5.73] #garboils# tumults. [5.74] #with one scorns# _i.e._ that scorns. [5.75] #rock-sampier# samphire. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.