[82] Here the audience were to suppose that a change of scene had taken place--that the stage now represented Brachiano's chamber: later on Gasparo says, "For Christian charity, avoid the chamber." [83] Rosette. [84] Orris powder. [85] See Pliny, Nat. Hist., viii. 27. [86] A species of plover. [87] Strong broth. [88] Smother. [89] A curtain on the stage. [90] "I never saw anything like this dirge, except the ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the Tempest. As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates."--C. Lamb, _Spec. of Eng. Dram. Poets_. [91] Assured. [92] A low term for women. [93] Pir. [94] This plant, respecting which many superstitions prevailed, was said to give a loud shriek when it was torn up. [95] Bitch-hounds. [96] One of the fifty daughters of Danaus, the son of Belus, brother of Ægyptus. She preserved her husband Lynceus, who afterwards slew Danaus. [97] A French and Italian sword dance of fools. [98] Slang for "sword." [99] Martial ii. 91. [100] An actor of considerable eminence, who is supposed to have originally played the part of Brachiano. He is known to have been the original performer of Captain Goodlack in Heywood's _Fair Maid of the West_, of Sir John Belfare in Shirley's _Wedding_, and of Hanno in Nabbes's _Hannibal and Scipio._ When Marlowe's _Jew of Malta_ was revived about 1633 Perkins acted Barabas. [101] The twelfth Lord Berkeley. "My good lord," says Massinger, inscribing _The Renegado_ to him, "to be honoured for old nobility or hereditary titles, is not alone proper to yourself, but to some few of your rank, who may challenge the like privilege with you: but in our age to vouchsafe (as you have often done) a ready hand to raise the dejected spirits of the contemned sons of the Muses, such as would not suffer the glorious fire of poesy to be wholly extinguished, is so remarkable and peculiar to your lordship, that, with a full vote and suffrage, it is acknowledged that the patronage and protection of the dramatic poem is yours and almost without a rival." [102] An allusion to the sport called "Running at the Ring," at which the tilter, while riding at full speed, endeavoured to thrust the point of his lance through, and to bear away, the ring, which was suspended in the air.--_Dyce._ [103] A play upon the word, "tent" meaning also a roll of lint or other bandage. [104] A lively dance. [105] Coaches. [106] Behaviour. [107] _i.e._ Ornamental, belonging to accomplishments.--_Dyce._ [108] Incontinent. [109] The net in which he caught Mars and Venus. [110] _i.e._ Ingenuous.