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[539] From the Battle of Alcazar, 1594 (attributed to Peele):—“Feed then and faint not, fair Calipolis.” Pistol in 2 Henry IV. quotes the line as it is given by Marston.
[541] i.e., cover or embroider thickly. Cf. Guilpin’s Skialetheia, epigr. 53:—
“He wears a jerkin cudgell’d with gold lace,
A profound slop, a hat scarce pipkin-high.”
[542] Half-a-crown was a somewhat extravagant price for an ordinary. Two shillings or eighteenpence was the usual price for a good ordinary.
[543] Hatch’d sword was a sword with an engraved hilt.
[544] See note, vol. i. p. 36.
[545] Cheator was a cant term for a rogue who made his living by cheating at dice.—“Cheating Law—or the art of winning money by false dice: those that practise this study call themselves cheators, the dice cheaters, and the money which they purchase cheats.”—Dekker’s Bellman of London (Works, ed. Grosart, iii. 117).
[546] Throws at dice.