act iv. sc. 4.

# 339:

_thus_] Old ed. “this.”

# 340:

_bulk_] “i. e. body.” REED.

# 341:

_a country where no venom prospers_] Saint Patrick, according to the legend, having purged Ireland from all venomous creatures: see Shirley’s _St. Patrick for Ireland_, act v. sc. 3—_Works_, vol. iv.

# 342:

_give_] Old eds. “to _giue_.”

# 343:

_Fond_] i. e. foolish.

# 344:

_stuft a pair of breeches_] See note, vol. ii. p. 111.

# 345:

_then_] Qy. “them?”

# 346:

_Plymouth cloak_] “‘That is,’ says Ray, in his _Proverbs_, 1742, p. 238, ‘a _cane_, a _staff_; whereof this is the occasion. Many a man of good extraction, coming home from far voyages, may chance to land here, and, being out of sorts, is unable for the present time and place to recruit himself with clothes. Here (if not friendly provided) they make the next wood their draper’s shop, where a staff cut out serves them for a covering. For we use when we walk in _cuerpo_ to carry a staff in our hands, but none when in a cloak.’” REED.

# 347:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 348:

_split all_] See note, vol. ii. p. 518.

# 349:

_Mirror of Knighthood_] The name of a celebrated romance, translated from the Spanish.

# 350:

_shells_] A cant term for money: see note, vol. ii. p. 543.

# 351:

_agen_] The old spelling of _again_, and necessary here for the rhyme.—This is an imperfect couplet (compare p. 52, and note), for the preceding speech of Matheo is certainly prose.

# 352:

_An old_, &c.] Makes part of Lodovico’s speech in old ed.]

# 353:

_sort_] i. e. set, company.

# 354:

_keep a door_] i. e. be a bawd.

# 355:

_Frenchman_] Old. ed. “Frenchmen.”

# 356:

_muttons_] See note, p. 102.

# 357:

_Sirrah_] See note, vol. ii. p. 491.

# 358:

_What is’t you lack_] See note, p. 24.

# 359:

_Car._] Old ed. “Lod. and _Car._”

# 360:

_She nibbled_, &c. ... _which I know_] Old ed. by mistake assigns this to Lodovico.

# 361:

_garden-house_] See note, vol. i. p. 162.

# 362:

_bolt_] “i. e. sift.” REED.

# 363:

_warden-tree_] i. e. “pear-tree.” REED.

# 364:

_the_] Old ed. “de.”

# 365:

_agen_] See note, p. 182.

# 366:

_brave_] “i. e. fine, gaudily dressed.” REED.

# 367:

_a wild Cataian of forty such_] “i. e. forty such shallow knights, &c. would go to the composition of a _dexterous thief_. See a note on _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, [‘I will not believe such a _Cataian_,’ &c.,