[xi:5] See [note p. ix].
[xii:1] i. e. St. Leger’s Round, an old country dance.
[xii:2] Terms used in the Buttery Books at the universities: see Minsheu in v. v. Size and Cue.
[xii:3] An allusion to Dekker’s Satiromastix, or The Vntrussing of the Humorous Poet.
[xii:4] A character in Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy. The speech here given by Studioso from that celebrated piece (and which Burbage of course ought previously to recite), begins in the earlier 4tos.
“What outcries pluck me from my naked bed;”
and in the later—
“What outcry calls,” &c.
See Dodsley’s Old Plays, iii. 130, last ed.
[xii:5] From this passage it has been conjectured that Kemp acted Justice Shallow.