[37] Old eds. “shew’d.”
[38] So ed. 1633.—The 4to gives “blinks.”
[39] A piece of whalebone, steel, or wood worn down the front of the stays to keep them straight.
[40] Rents, cracks.
[41] “Truss my hose” = tie the tagged laces of my breeches.
[42] Hurl violently.
[43] Old eds. “Exeunt Ant. and Alb.”
[44] Common, worthless.—The use of “modern” in this sense is frequently found, and was sanctioned by Shakespeare; but it did not escape Ben Jonson’s censure in The Poetaster, v. i.:—
“Alas! that were no modern consequence
To have cothurnal buskins frightened hence.”
[45] “The old cut” = the old fashion. So Nashe in the epistle dedicatory prefixed to Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters, 1593:—“You are amongst grave Doctors and men of judgment in both laws every day. I pray ask them the question in my absence whether such a man as I have described this epistler to be ... that hath made many proper rhymes of the old cut in his days,” &c.