[547] “He was wrapt up in the tail of his mother’s smock,—saying of any one remarkable for his success with the ladies.”—Grose’s Class. Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[548] i.e., copiousness.—Ben Jonson was fond of using the word copy in this sense.
[549] Simplicius seems to be trying to recall some passage of Euphues.
[550] Old eds. “boyes.”
[551] Plunder.
[552] “This may be an allusion,” says Dilke, “to a superstition still existing in a degree among sailors, that to whistle during a storm will increase its violence.” No such allusion is intended. The “whistle” is the boatswain’s whistle.
[553] Old eds. “crownes.”
[554] Old eds. “Adrian.”
[555] Ed. 1. “stut.”
[556] Ed. 2. “thirsting.”—Spenser has thrist and thristy (for thirst and thirsty).