[477] Old copy, _you_.
[478] Old copy, _Richard's_.
[479] [Old copy, _us_.]
[480] Succeed.
[481] Perhaps the dance so called is meant.
[482] [Old copy, _them_.]
[483] [Old. copy, _ye spoke_.]
[484] Old copy, _rove_.
[485] i.e., From the time of the Confessor.
[486] i.e., Spain; old copy, _Gads_.
[487] A word or words left blank in the old copy.
[488] His gown.
[489] Old copy, _Levarnian_.
[490] Old copy, _It_.
[491] Old copy, _ane_.
[492] The word _search_ is here, and again a little further on used in the sense of _searchers_.
[493] Old copy, _another_; but Redcap is evidently accompanied by two assistants.
[494] This appears to stand for officers of the peace, as the _watch_ and the _search_.
[495] Old copy, _King_.
[496] A brothel.
[497] [Old copy, _age_.]
[498] [Old copy, _Fau_, for _Fauconbridge_.]
[499] [This might appear to be a corruption of _go out_, or of _God's gut (God's guts_ is an ejaculation found elsewhere); but from a subsequent passage we can but conclude that the disease so called is intended.]
[500] Old copy, _fill'd_, the compositor's eye, perhaps, having strayed to the next line.
[501] Strong. See a long note in Nares, edit. 1859, p. 606.
[502] Old copy; _here_.
[503] A room in the Salutation so called.
[504] Guests.
[505] Old copy, _at_.
[506] Old copy, _Raynald_.
[507] [Old copy, _me of_.]
[508] i.e., Terms, as mentioned before. Old copy, _then_.
[509] To _meet with_ is a very common phrase for to _serve_ out, _requite_.
[510] Skink issues from the hermit's house in the disguise of the man whom he is supposed to have cured, and as he leaves, addresses parting words to the hermit within.
[511] Breviary.
[512] Old copy, _them_.
[513] Brand.
[514] Old copy, _of_.
[515] Old copy, _Glo_.
[516] [Old copy, _last_.]
[517] [Old copy, _this_.]
[518] Old copy, _salutes he_.
[519] Old copy, _you for_.
[520] Old copy, _in_.
[521] [Old copy, _we_.]
[522] [Old copy, _we'll_.]
[523] [Old copy, _sighs and songs_.]
[524] In this passage the phrase, _to wear the yellow_, seems hardly to bear the ordinary construction of, _to be jealous_.
[525] Old copy, _pining_.
[526] Old copy gives this line to the lady, i.e., the merchant's wife.