[465] See Cowell’s Interpreter.
[466] Rusty, rancid. Hall has the expression “reez’d bacon” in Virgidem., iv. 2.
[467] Stretch. So Hall in Virgidem. vi. 1. 207: “When Lucan streakèd on his marble bed, &c.”
[468] “Gilt” (or gelt)—money.—Old eds. “guilt.”
[469] Clownish.—“Maudolé. Misshapen, ill-framed, ill-favoured, luskish, without proportion.”—Cotgrave. Athens is evidently Cambridge; and Marston is again glancing at Hall.
[470] It seems to have been too common a practice for the patron of a living to pocket the best part of the incumbent’s income—to “geld” the vicarage. Cf. Jack Drum’s Entertainment:—
“Sir, it were good you got a benefice,
Some eunuch’d vicarage or some fellowship”
(Simpsons’s School of Shakspere, ii. 172); Hall’s Virgidem., iv. 2, 105-6:—
“plod at a patron’s tail
To get a gelded chapel’s cheaper sale.”
[471] See note, vol. ii. p. 60.
[472] Faded.