[205] The old copy has it, Enter Have-at-all; but it is an obvious error of the press.—Collier.
[206] See note to "The Antiquary" [act i., sc. 1, vol. 13].
[207] A term anciently used in salutation, or rather in drinking. See Selden's notes on the ninth song of Drayton's "Polyolbion," and [Steevens's] notes on "Macbeth," act i. sc. 7, for a particular account of the origin of this phrase.—Steevens.
[208] [A term in fencing.]
[209] [Cartwright's adoption of the English of a period of which he was evidently very ignorant, has made his character of "The Antiquary" a very tedious and troublesome one. By intermete we are here to understand intermit; but there is no such word in early English. Intermit occurs in Coleridge's "Glossary," 1859.]
[210] To do.
[211] [Old copy, paynant.]
[212] Morglay was the sword of Bevis of Southampton. It afterwards became a cant word for a sword in general. See "Every Man in his Humour," Act iii. so. 1; also "Every Woman in her Humour," 1609, sig. D 4—
"Had I been accompanied with my toledo or morglay."
[213] Pity.