[20] Ed. 2. “giddy youth, and unsetled.”
[21] It appears from many passages in old writers that bawds were accustomed to wear rings with death’s heads on them. Cf. Dekker and Webster’s Northward Ho, iv. 1:—“And as if I were a bawd no ring pleases me but a death’s head.”
[22] Turnmill Street, the headquarters of Elizabethan whores, was situated in Clerkenwell.
[23] i.e., is in ambush.
[24] Old eds. “proportion.”
[25] A corruption of Dutch “alderliefster.”
[26] A term for a courtezan; particularly applied to a captain’s mistress.
[27] “Via”—away, on!
ACT II.
SCENE I.