[285] Old ed. “valley.”

[286] Old ed. “Flau.”

[287] Old ed. “Tul.”

[288] “Fortune, my foe, why doest thou frown on me?” is the first line of an old ballad.

[289] Not marked in old ed.

[290] Old ed.  “Tis.”

[291] “Unreadie” = undressed.

[292] To the christening.

[293] There is no stage-direction in the old ed.

[294] Old ed. “foole.”

[295] “Duns the mouse”—­a proverbial expression.  See Dyce’s Shakespeare Glossary.

[296] Old ed. “a close.”

[297] Not marked in old ed.

[298] i.e. bezzling, tippling.

[299] “Well nigh whittled, almost drunke, somewhat overseen.” —­Colgrave.

[300] Not marked in old ed.

[301] Contracted.

[302] An allusion to the proverbial expression, Wit without money.

[303] An old form of “apron.”

[304] The citizens of London continued to wear flat caps (and encountered much ridicule in consequence) long after they were generally disused.

[305] Not marked in old ed.

[306] Not marked in old ed.

[307] Old form of digestion.

[308] Old ed.  “Philantus.”

[309] More.

[310] Old ed. “Phylantus.”

[311] Quy. “and, swilling those bowels [bowls], Death did,” &c.?

[312] Old ed. “him himselfe.”

[313] See note [288].—­In old ed. the words are given to Grac.

[314] See note [295].

[315] Hip-bone.

[316] Old ed. “are are.”

[317] Virg. Ecls. iv. 1. 49. Bovis is of course an intentional misquotation for Jovis.

[318] Honest.

[319] Old ed. “prig”; but on p. 375 we have “a mad merie grig.”

[320] The City of Niniveh and Julius Caesar were famous puppet-shows.

[321] Not marked in old ed.

[322] Old ed. “and.”

[323] Old ed. “Cittie Wife.”

[324] This speech is printed as verse in the old ed.

[325] Old ed. “witnesses.”