2. 1. 5 With Aqua-vitae. Perhaps used with especial reference to line 1, where he has just called money a bawd Compare:
O, ay, as a bawd with aqua-vitae. —Marston, The Malcontent, Wks. 1. 294.
‘Her face is full of those red pimples with drinking Aquauite, the common drinke of all bawdes.’—Dekker, Whore of Babylon, Wks. 2. 246.
2. 1. 17. See variants. Line 15 shows that the original reading is correct.
2. 1. 19 it shall be good in law. See note [1. 2. 22].
2. 1. 20 Wood-cock. A cant term for a simpleton or dupe.
2. 1. 21 th’ Exchange. This was the first Royal Exchange, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1566, opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1570-1, and destroyed in the great fire of 1666 (Wh-C.). Howes (1631) says that it was ‘plenteously stored with all kinds of rich wares and fine commodities,’ and Paul Hentzner (p. 40) speaks of it with enthusiasm.
It was a favorite lounging-place, especially in the evening. Wheatley quotes Hayman, Quodlibet, 1628, p. 6:
Though little coin thy purseless pockets line, Yet with great company thou’rt taken up; For often with Duke Humfray thou dost dine, And often with Sir Thomas Gresham sup.
‘We are told in London and Country Carbonadoed, 1632, that at the exchange there were usually more coaches attendant than at church doors.’ Cf. also Bart. Fair, Wks. 4. 357: ‘I challenge all Cheapside to shew such another: Moor-fields, Pimlico-path, Or the Exchange, in a summer evening.’ Also Ev. Man in, Wks. 1. 39.