That swallowed burning coals to overtake him,
Though all their several worths were given to one,
With this is to be mention’d.”
[IV, iv, 112]. on it—i. e., “on what you say.”
[IV, iv, 156]. be—“be” expresses more doubt than “is” after a verb of thinking. Cf. Abbott, S. G., § 299.
[V, i, 5]. lay me vp—imprison me.
[V, i, 7]. varlets—the name given to city bailiffs or sergeants. Perhaps here, however, it is applied merely as a term of abuse.
[V, i, 9]. Innes of court man—a member of one of the four Inns of Court (The Inner Temple, The Middle Temple, Lincoln’s Inn, and Gray’s Inn), legal societies which served for the Elizabethan the function which our law-schools perform to-day. Overbury says of the Inns of Court Man, in his Characters: “Hee is distinguished from a scholler by a pair of silk-stockings, and a beaver hat, which make him contemn a scholler as much as a scholler doth a school-master.... He is as far behind a courtier in his fashion, as a scholler is behind him.... He laughs at every man whose band sits not well, or that hath not a faire shoo-tie, and he is ashamed to be seen in any mans company that weares not his clothes well. His very essence he placeth in his outside.... You shall never see him melancholy, but when he wants a new suit, or feares a sergeant....”
[V, i, 13]. coming forth—appearance in court, or from prison.
[V, i, 28]. manchets—small loaves or rolls of the finest wheaten bread. There seems to have been a commonplace concerning the huge quantities of bread devoured by tailors. Cf. [l. 88] below, and Note.