[501] Cf. Every Man out of His Humour, iv. 4:—“Let a man sweat once a week in a hot-house, and be well rubb’d and froted with a good plump juicy wench and sweet linen, he shall ne’er ha’ the pox.”
[502] Old eds. “sithing and sithing.”
[503] i.e., an advertisement for a situation: see Nares’ Glossary. The middle aisle of Paul’s was the favourite place for the display of such advertisements.
[504] Properly a German trooper (reiter or reuter); but the term was also applied to a roistering gallant.
[505] So ed. 1.—Ed. 2. “cuckolds.”
[506] Red.
[507] Facings, trimmings.
[508] Pilfer.
[509] Cozen.
[510] “At the loose“—at my dismissal of you. Loose was a term in archery for the discharging of an arrow.