[348] By a misprint the three following lines have been till now given to Harcop.—­Collier.

[349] [Edits., your presence.]

[350] First edit., even.

[351] [Edits., is.]

[352] [Edits., what.]

[353] That is, acquainted, or informed him.  So in “Every Man in his Humour,” act i. sc. 5, Bobadil says, “Possess no gentleman of our acquaintance with notice of my lodging.”  And again, in Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Honest Man’s Fortune,” act ii. sc. 1—­

    “Sir, I am very well possess’d of it.”

[354] Edits. 1629 [and 1637], honoured.

[355] First edit., how.

[356] [Edits., they.]

[357] The word sir was inserted here as if only to spoil the measure. —­Collier.

[358] i.e., Amerce.—­Steevens.

[359] [i.e., the bond.]

[360] [Edits., pergest, which Steevens in a note explained goeth on, from Lat. pergo; and Nares cites the present passage for the word.  I do not believe that it was ever employed in English, though Shakespeare uses the original Latin once. Purgest is surely preferable, since Ilford has been just giving a list of those he has undone.]

[361] [Apparently a play on the double meaning of talent is intended.]

[362] [Bonds.]

[363] In a similar vein of humour, but much more exquisite, Addison, speaking of Sir Roger de Coverley, says, “He told me some time since that, upon his courting the perverse widow, he had disposed of an hundred acres in a diamond ring, which he would have presented her with, had she thought fit to accept it; and that upon her wedding-day she should have carried on her head fifty of the tallest oaks upon his estate.  He further informed me that he would have given her a coalpit to keep her in clean linen; that he would have allowed her the profits of a windmill for her fans, and have presented her once in three years with the shearing of his sheep for her under-petticoats.”—­Spectator, No. 295.

In Wilson’s “Discourse uppon Usurye,” 1572, the subsequent passage occurs:—­“Thus master merchant, when he hath robbed the poore gentleman and furnisht him in this manner to get a little apparel upon his back, girdeth him with this pompe in the tail:  Lo, sayethe hee, yonder goeth a very strong stowt gentleman, for he cariethe upon his backe a faire manour, land and all, and may therefore well be standard-bearer to any prince Christian or heathen.”

[364] [Chicken.]

[365] The place most commonly used for exposing the heads of traitors.

[366] [Edits.—­

          “O! but what shall I write? 
    Mine own excuse.”

[367] [Edits., large, full.]

[368] [Edits., appearance, and so as they are, I hope we shall be, more indeer’d, intirely, better, and more feelingly acquainted.]