[Footnote 64:  St. Paul’s Cathedral was, during the reigns of Elizabeth and James, a sort of exchange and public parade, where business was transacted between merchants, and where the fashionables of the day exhibited themselves.  The reader will find several allusions to this custom in the variorum edition of Shakspeare, K.  Henry IV., part 2.  Osborne, in his Traditional Memoires on the Reigns of Elisabeth and James, 12mo, 1658, says, “It was the fashion of those times (James I.) and did so continue till these, (the interregnum,) for the principal gentry, lords, courtiers, and men of all professions, not merely mechanicks, to meet in St. Paul’s church by eleven, and walk in the middle isle till twelve, and after dinner from three to six; during which time some discoursed of business, others of news.”  Weever complains of the practice, and says, “it could be wished that walking in the middle isle of Paul’s might be forborne in the time of diuine service.” Ancient Funeral Monuments, 1631, page 373.]

[Footnote 65:  In the Dramatis Personal to Ben Jonson’s Every Man in his Humour, Bobadil is styled a Paul’s man; and Falstaff tells us that he bought Bardolph in Pauls. King Henry IV., part 2.]

[Footnote 66: 
                 ——­“You’d not doe
   Like your penurious father, who was wont
   To walk his dinner out in Paules.”

—­Mayne’s City Match, 1658.]

[Footnote 67:  The time of supper was about five o’clock.]

[Footnote 68:  Paul’s cross stood in the churchyard of that cathedral, on the north side, towards the east end.  It was used for the preaching of sermons to the populace; and Holinshed mentions two instances of public penance being performed here; in 1534 by some of the adherents of Elizabeth Barton, well known as the holy maid of Kent, and in 1536 by Sir Thomas Newman, a priest, who “bare a faggot at Paules crosse for singing masse with good ale.”]

[Footnote 69:  Dole originally signified the portion of alms that was given away at the door of a nobleman.  Steevens, note to Shakspeare.  Sir John Hawkins affirms that the benefaction distributed at Lambeth Palace gate, is to this day called the dole.]

[Footnote 70:  That is, the contents of his basket, if discovered to be of light weight, are distributed to the needy prisoners.]

[Footnote 71:  Study, first edit.]

[Footnote 72:  The first edition reads post, and, I think, preferably.]

[Footnote 73:  Keep for attend.]

[Footnote 74:  Squeazy, niggardly.]

[Footnote 75:  And the clubs out of charity knock him down, first edit.]

[Footnote 76:  That is, runs you up a long score.]

[Footnote 77:  This, as well as many other passages in this work, has been appropriated by John Dunton, the celebrated bookseller, as his own.  See his character of Mr. Samuel Hool, in Dunton’s Life and Errors, 8vo, 1705, p. 337.]