Chapter 143

p. 398 _Cushion-Dance._ A merry old English round action dance common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

p. 398 _Nickers._ Or knickers, marbles generally made of baked clay. cf. Duffet’s farce, _The Mock Tempest_ (1675), Act iv, I:—

Enter _Hypolito playing with Nickers_.

Hyp. Anan, Anan, forsooth— you, Sir, don’t you stir the Nickers. I’l play out my game presently.