p. 222 jiggiting.  To jigget = to jig, hop or skip; to jump about, and to fidget, cf.  T. Barker, The Female Tatler (1709), No. 15:  ’She has a languishing Eye, a delicious soft Hand, and two pretty jiggetting Feet.’ cf. to giggit.  Note, Vol.  II, p. 436. fisking and giggiting. The City Heiress, ii, II (p. 262).

p. 223 we’ll toss the Stocking.  This merry old matrimonial custom in use at the bedding of the happy pair is often alluded to. cf.  Pepys, 8 February, 1663:  ’Another story was how Lady Castlemaine, a few days since, had Mrs. Stewart to an entertainment, and at night begun a frolique that they two must be married; and married they were, with ring and all other ceremonies of church service, and ribbands, and a sack posset in bed and flinging the stocking; but in the close it is said my Lady Castlemaine, who was the bridegroom, rose, and the King come and take her place.’

p. 224 the Entry.  In the Restoration theatre it was the usual practice for the curtain to rise at the commencement and fall at the end of the play, so that the close of each intermediate act was only marked by a clear stage.  There are, however, exceptions to this rule, more particularly when some elaborate set or Tableau began a new act.  A striking example is Act ii, The Forc’d Marriage.

p. 224 Mr. Cheek.  Thomas Cheek was a well-known wit and songwriter of the day.  His name not infrequently occurs to the graceful lyrics with which he supplied the theatre.  There are some pretty lines of his, ‘Corinna, I excuse thy face’, in Act v of Southerne’s The Wives Excuse; or, Cuckolds make Themselves (1692); and a still better song, ’Bright Cynthia’s pow’r divinely great,’ which was sung by Leveridge in the second act of Southerne’s Oroonoko (1699), came from his prolific pen.

p. 225 Bandstrings.  Strings for fastening his bands or collar which were in the seventeenth century frequently ornamented with tassels, cf.  Selden, Table-Talk (1689):  ‘If a man twirls his Bandstrings’; and Wood, Ath.  Oxon. (1691):  ’He [wore] snakebone bandstrings (or bandstrings with huge tassels).’

p. 225 yare.  Eager; ready; prepared from A.-S. gearo. cf. Measure for Measure, iv, II:  ‘You shall find me yare’; and The Tempest, i, I:  ‘Cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare!’; also Act v, sc.  I:  ’Our ship ... is tight and yare.’  Also Antony and Cleopatra, v, II:  ’yare, yare, good Iras; quick.’  Ray gives it as a Suffolk word, and the ‘hear, hear’ of Lowestoft boatmen of to-day is probably a disguised ‘yare, yare’.

p. 226 Livery and Seisin.  A very common error for the legal term ‘livery of seisin’ which signifies the delivery of property into the corporal possession of a person.