[203] Glaves are swords, and sometimes partisans.—­Steevens.

[204] Lat. for phalanxes.—­Steevens.

[205] [Edits., dept.]

[206] Mars.

[207] See Note 2 to the “First Part of Jeronimo,” [v. 349].

[208] [Edits., kist.  The word hist may be supposed to represent the whistling sound produced by a sword passing rapidly through the air.]

[209] i.e., Exceeds bounds or belief.  See a note on “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” act iv. sc. 2.—­Steevens.

[210] “Graecia mendax
      Audet in historia.”—­Steevens.

[211] [His “History,” which is divided into nine books, under the names of the nine Muses.]

[212] i.e., Whispered him.  See note to “The Spanish Tragedy,” [vi. 10.]

[213] [Peter Martyr’s “Decades.”]

[214] A luncheon before dinner.  The farmers in Essex still use the word.—­Steevens.

So in the “Woman-hater,” by Beaumont and Fletcher, act i. sc. 3, Count Valore, describing Lazarillo, says—­

    “He is none of these
    Same Ordinary Eaters, that’ll devour
    Three breakfasts, as many dinners, and without any
    Prejudice to their Beavers, drinkings, suppers;
    But he hath a more courtly kind of hunger. 
    And doth hunt more after novelty than plenty.”

Baret, in his “Alvearic,” 1580, explains a boever, a drinking betweene dinner and supper; and a boier, meate eaten after noone, a collation, a noone meale.

[215] See Note 19 to “The Ordinary.”

[216] [In 1576 Ulpian Fulwell published “The First Part of the Eighth Liberal Science, Entituled Ars Adulandi.”]

[217] This word, which occurs in Ben Jonson and some other writers, seems to have the same meaning as our numps.  I am ignorant of its etymology.—­Steevens. [Compare Nares, 1859, in v.]

[218] i.e., Other requisites towards the fitting out of a character.  See a note on “Love’s Labour Lost,” vol. ii. p. 385, edit. 1778. —­Steevens.

[219] A busk-point was, I believe, the lace of a lady’s stays.  Minsheu explains a buske to be a part of dress “made of wood or whalebone, a plated or quilted thing to keepe the body straight.”  The word, I am informed, is still in common use, particularly in the country among the farmers’ daughters and servants, for a piece of wood to preserve the stays from being bent. Points or laces were worn by both sexes, and are frequently mentioned in our ancient dramatic writers.

[220] [Edits., hu, hu.]

[221] [i.e., Our modern pet, darling, a term of endearment.] Dr Johnson says that it is a word of endearment from petit, little.  See notes on “The Taming of the Shrew,” act i. sc. 1.

Again, in “The City Madam,” by Massinger, act ii. sc. 2—­