[156] Old copy, on.
[157] Old copy, Sick.
[158] As we should say, by the forelock.
[159] i.e., Says Mr Steevens (note to "Merry Wives of Windsor," act i. sc. 1), "three venues, Fr. three different set-to's, bouts, a technical term." Several instances are there produced, to which may be added the following:—
Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour," act i. sc. 5—
"Mat. But one venue, sir.
Bob. Venue! fie, a most gross denomination as ever I heard."
"The Old Law," by Massinger, &c., act iii. sc. 2—
"To give your perfum'd worship three venues.
A sound old man puts his thrust better home
Than a spic'd young man."
Greene's "Historie of Fryer Bacon and Fryer Bungay," Sig. G 4, edit. 1630—