[142] i.e. Earnest.
[143] With which it was the custom to strew the floors.
[144] The quarto drops the "her."
[145] At the siege of Ostend, which is described in Borachio's speech.
[146] Appearance. This meaning passes into that of countenance.
[147] This way of description, which seems unwilling ever to leave off weaving parenthesis within parenthesis, was brought to its height by Sir Philip Sidney. He seems to have set the example to Shakespeare. Many beautiful instances may be found all over the Arcadia. These bountiful wits always give full measure, pressed down and overflowing.—Charles Lamb.
[148] Play on the double meaning—clown, leathern flagon—of the word "jack."
[149] With the O of one in pain. An odd and tragical application of a rule from the Latin grammar.—Collins.
[150] Sanctified Puritan.
[151] To man is to attend or escort.