[567] Ed. 1598 “guildeth.”

[568] Ed. 1599 “rest.”

[569] The allusion is to Drayton’s Mortimeriados originally published in 1596 (and republished in 1603, with many alterations, under the title of the Baron’s Wars).

[570] Befouls. The word is ridiculed in The Poetaster.

[571] Baboon.—Old eds. “Babilon.”

[572] “Non lædere, sed ludere: non lanea, sed linea: non ictus, sed nictus potius.”—Marginal note in old eds.

[573] See note, vol. i. p. 35.

[574] Get goods on credit.

[575] A piece of ordnance.

[576] Gluttony.—The word is not uncommon.