[234] [Old copies read _when_.]
[235] So second edit. First edit., _in the_.
[236] So second edit. Not in first edit.
[237] [Meaning a tavern of that name.]
[238] Sheathe your sword.
[239] Edits., _me_.
[240] [Old copy, _He's_.] Read, for the metre, _He is_.
[241] i.e., Quality, disposition.
[242] [Old copies, _he'll_.] Read, for the metre, _he will_.
[243] [Fine worsted.]
[244] [Old copies, _his hat, and all green hat_.]
[245] [Old copies, _indirect_.]
[246] Edits., _vassailes_.
[247] So second edit. First edit., _women's_.
[248] Qy. _for an_?
[249] [Old copies, _She's_.] Read, for the metre, _She is_.
[250] A corruption of God's.
[251] [Old copies, _pale_.]
[252] Edits., _apprehend_, but certainly Mall had spoken with sufficient plainness.
[253] i.e., Nature.
[254] So second edit. First edit., _nay_.
[255] The common dress of a serving-man.
[256] Edits., _you_, which, perhaps, is the right reading, some word having dropp'd out after it. Qy. thus--
'MRS BAR. Mistresse flurt, you _mean_, Foule strumpet, light a loue, short heeles! Mistresse Goursey Call her,' &c.
--_Dyce_. [But _yea_ seems to be the more likely word.]
[257] So second edit. First edit., _tell_.
[258] i.e., Vile.
[259] Edits., _forlorn_.
[260] Qy., _Mother, he loves_?
[261] So second edit. First edit., _the_.
[262] So second edit. First edit., _Thaust_.
[263] i.e., Refuse.
[264] So second edit. First edit., _Gads_.
[265] Edits., _His_.
[266] Qy., _Franke_ he is _young_? Compare the preceding line but one.
[267] i.e., By our lady.
[268] i.e., Miserly persons.
[269] The author probably wrote _neuer was_.
[270] i.e., Honest men.
[271] So second edit. First edit., _ma_.
[272] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 128.]
[273] So second edit. First edit., _faith in_.
[274] Edits., _some_.
[275] Edits., _treason_.
[276] i.e., Vomits: a common pun in old dramas.
[277] i.e., Easily.
[278] Edits., _But_.
[279] So second edit., First edit., _cehape_.
[280] Read, for the metre, _He is_.
[281] Equivalent to--poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. As _pingle_ signifies a small croft, Nares (citing a passage from Lyly's "Euphues") says that _pingler_ is "probably a labouring horse, kept by a farmer in his homestead." "Gloss." in v.--In Brockett's "Gloss, of North Country Words" is "_Pingle_, to work assiduously but inefficiently,--to labour until you are almost blind." In Forby's "Vocab. of East Anglia"