[112] [Query, a page who walks behind a lady in the street.
Compare Halliwell in _v._]
[113] [Sheldrake, or shieldrake.]
[114] [A play on the similarity of sound between _meddler_ and _medlar_.]
[115] [Tobacco. Old copy, _mundungo's_.]
[116] [Old copy, _her_.]
[117] [Old copy, _him_.]
[118] [Old copy, _Ciens_.]
[119] [Old copy, _with_.]
[120] [Old copy, _century_.]
[121] [An equivoque may be intended.]
[122] [Old copy, _Apozems_. Perhaps the boy means _pozzets_.]
[123] [Old copy, _masquerellas_.]
[124] [Capricious, fanciful.]
[125] [Old copy, _breath'd_.]
[126] [Old copy, _not my sad fate t' observe_.]
[127] [Old copy, _Gothsemay_.]
[128] [Moustachoes.]
[129] [Loose, scattered.]
[130] [Sporter, if indeed it is not to be taken in an obscene sense, as suggested by one of the interpretations in Nares.]
[131] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 301.]
[132] [Trifling.]
[133] [Of course a play on the similarity between _folio_ and _foolio_.]
[134] [Old copy, _small to_.]
[135] [Old copy, _all that was all_.]
[136] [See Nares, arts, _lave-eared_, and _loave-ears_.]
[137] [Old copy, _hair_. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," p. 392.]
[138] [Literally, to lie on the ground, like game; but it is here used in the sense _to lie_.]
[139] [This passage seems to corroborate the explanation already given of this word.]
[140] [Old copy, _Nor_.]
[141] [Old copy, _that endeared_.]
[142] [Leopard.]
[143] [More usually spelt _carricks_.]
[144] [Successful.]
[145] [The two Citizens appear to retire only, while the events occupying the two next scenes take place, after which they come forward again.]
[146] [Attempt, enterprise.]
[147] [A not unusual form of Algiers.]
[148] [_i.e._, Is that thy cue.]
[149] [Old copy, _land prisado_. See Dyce's Middleton, iii. 532.]
[150] [Old copy, _Elose_.]
[151] [Old copy, _out a_.]
[152] [This song is not noticed in Mr Halliwell's "Early Naval Ballads," 1841.]
[153] [Staunch.]
[154] [In 1641 appeared a tract entitled "The Brothers of the Blade answerable to the Sisters of the Scabbard," &c., but the phrase was, no doubt, older.]
[155] [Old copy, _yet_.]
[156] [An allusion to the well-known practice of chalking up scores at taverns. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 386.]
[157] [Housewife. Perhaps it had already, however, become in vogue in a contemptuous sense.]
[158] [An obvious imitation of Shakespeare's Dogberry.]
[159] [The island of Bermuda was formerly supposed to be enchanted, and was sometimes called by the sailors the Isle of Devils. This is a curious passage: the writer had perhaps in his recollection the speech of Ariel in the "Tempest," act i. sc. 2.
The old copy has _Barmondes_. See Hunter's "New Illustrations of Shakespeare," i. 149.]
[160] [Without weapons.]