Gentle Apollo, touch thy nimble string;
Our scene is done; yet ’fore we cease, we sing.
[The Song, and exeunt.
[493] Slipper.—It was part of a page’s duty to carry the pantofles of his master or mistress. On entering service he was said to be “sworn to the pantofle.”
[494] Crack was a common term for a pert boy.
[495] A game at cards.
[496] Pair of dice.—It would seem that to cog a die was a favourite form of roguery among pages. Nashe, in an address to “the dapper messieurs pages of the court,” prefixed to The Unfortunate Traveller (1594), says:—“Thirdly, it shall be lawful for any whatsoever to play with false dice in a corner.”
[497] So ed. 2.—Ed. 1. “pustulent.”
[498] Attendant on a lady of pleasure.
[499] Petticoat.
[500] Cant term for a whore.