[519] To carry coals was esteemed the vilest employment to which a man could be put.
[520] Ed. 2. “hath.”
[521] “What [ed. 1. Of what] religion ... cuckold” (ll. 123 -137).—This passage is not found in some copies of ed. 1.
[522] Cf. Day’s Isle of Gulls, iii. 1:—
“Lys. Thou speak’st like a Christian: prethee what religion art of?
Man. How many soever I make use of, I’ll answer with Piavano Orlotto the Italian, I profess the Duke’s only.
Demet. What’s his reason for that?
Man. A very sound reason: for, says he, I came raw into the world and I would not willingly go roasted out.”
[523] Ed. 2. “Yfaith.”
[524] “There goes but a pair of shears betwixt”—i.e., they are cut out of the same piece. An old proverbial expression.
[525] Ed. 1. “that.”
[526] Omitted in ed. 2.
[527] Ed. 1. “Looseth”