[59] The herb of remembrance, used at weddings and funerals.
[60] “With a wanion,”—with a plague!
[61] A misquotation from a song in John Dowland’s First Book of Songs or Airs (1597):—
“Now, O now, I needs must part,
Parting though I absent mourn,” &c.
[62] Sir Francis Drake’s ship, in which he sailed round the world. By order of Queen Elizabeth it was laid up at Deptford, whither it attracted many sightseers. See Nares’ Glossary.
[63] “Both the quartos [there is only one] have it ‘With eyes stern usurous jealousy,’ which may be right, though the sense is rather forced.”—Collier. The copy that lies before me gives, “With his sterne vsurous Ielosie.”
[64] Device, trick.—In The Insatiate Countess, ii. 3, we have the word “whiblin” used in the same sense.
[65] Fidgetty, volatile.
The Blue Anchor, Billingsgate.
Enter Seagull, Spendall, and Scapethrift, in the Tavern, with a Drawer.