and Cavendish’s Life of Wolsey; “At last, as ye have heard here before, how divers of the great estates and lords of the council lay in a-wait with my Lady Anne Boleyn, to espy a convenient time and occasion to take the cardinal in a brake.” p. 147. ed. 1827.—In our text, and in the passages just quoted, brake seems to be used for trap: among its various significations, it means a strong wooden frame for confining the feet of horses, preparatory to their being shod; see Gifford’s note on Jonson’s Works, iii. 463.
Page 105. v. 327. gambone] i. e. gammon.
v. 328. resty] i. e. reasty, rancid.
v. 330. Angry as a waspy]—waspy, i. e. wasp. So Heywood;
“Now mery as a cricket, and by and by,
Angry as a waspe.”
Dialogue, sig. C 4,—Workes, ed. 1598.
v. 331. yane] “I yane I gaspe or gape.” Palsgrave’s Lesclar. de la Lang. Fr., 1530. fol. ccccxi. (Table of Verbes).
—— gaspy] i. e. gasp.
Page 106. v. 332. go bet] Compare;