[140] i.e., a vain boaster.  “Puckfist” is the fungus commonly known as “puff-ball.”

[141] “Carbonade.  A carbonado, a rasher on the coals.”—­COTGRAVE.

[142] Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, i. 3:—­

    “Upon your sword sit laurel victory.”

The form of expression is common.  Cf. Knight of Malta, iv. 2 (Fletcher’s portion):—­

    “Art thou a knight? did ever on that sword
    The Christian cause sit nobly?”

I make this note because I find Mr. G.C.  Macaulay, in his interesting “Study of Francis Beaumont,” choosing the words, “Victory sits on his sword” (Maid’s Tragedy, i. 1), as one of the “special passages which suggest imitation, conscious or unconscious,” of Shakespeare.

[143] 4to. honord.  The correction (which would occur to most readers) is made by Dyce on the fly-leaf of his copy in the Dyce and Forster Library.

[144] If we retain “unscorcht” we must suppose the construction to be proleptic.  But quy. “sun-scorcht.”

[145] The stage-direction is my own.

[146] Ink-stand (more commonly “standish").

[147] Plan, design.  Cf. Arden of Feversham, ii. 1.  “And I will lay the platform of his death.”

[148] “Termagant” or “Trivigant” is often coupled with “Mahound.”  Cf.  “Faery Queene,” vi. 7. (47):—­

    “And oftentimes by Termagant and Mahound swore.”

Our ancestors were not accustomed to draw fine distinctions.  They regarded Mohammedans as heathens, and Termagant and Mahound as false gods.

[149] 4to.  Ruthelesse and bloudy slaughters.

[150] “Pickt-hatch” was a notorious brothel in or near Turnbull Street.

[151] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” p. 212 (ed. 1801).

[152] Swaggered, crowed.

[153] i.e. sucking rabbit.  So Falstaff,—­“Hang me up by the heels for a rabbit sucker” (I Henry IV., ii. 4).

[154] A variation of Bobadil’s oath “By the foot of Pharaoh.”

[155] For the sake of the metre I should like to read “You, Pembrooke, worthy knight.”