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[ pot: Old ed. "plot.">[
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[ thou shalt have broth by the eye: "Perhaps he means—thou shalt SEE how the broth that is designed for thee is made, that no mischievous ingredients enter its composition. The passage is, however, obscure." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).—"BY THE EYE" seems to be equivalent to—in abundance. Compare THE CREED of Piers Ploughman:
"Grey grete-heded quenes
With gold BY THE EIGHEN."
v. 167, ed. Wright (who has no note on the expression): and Beaumont and Fletcher's KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE, act ii. sc. 2; "here's money and gold BY TH' EYE, my boy." In Fletcher's BEGGARS' BUSH, act iii. sc. 1, we find, "Come, English beer, hostess, English beer BY THE BELLY!">[
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[ In few: i.e. in a few words, in short.]
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[ hebon: i.e. ebony, which was formerly supposed to be a deadly poison.]