[5] Standing unseen for the present.—Collier.
[6] The 4o reads Look, look upon, and ready, &c.—Collier.
[7] A proverb or wise saying. So in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," l. 6240—
"But all for nought, I sette not an hawe
Of his Proverbes, ne of his olde sawe."
[8] Distrained. So in "Thomas, Lord Cromwell," 1602—
"His furniture fully worth half so much,
Which being all strain'd for the king,
He frankly gave it to the Antwerp merchants."
[9] The 4o reads four pence and ninepence. This play, in the former editions, is very incorrectly printed.
[10] So in Massinger's "Maid of Honour," act iv. sc. 5, Sylli says, "The King ... break girdle, break!" Again, Falstaff says, in the "First Part of King Henry IV."—
"Dost thou think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father?
Nay, an' if I do, let my girdle break."
To explain the phrase "may my girdle break," it should be remembered that the purse was anciently worn hanging at the girdle. Hence the propriety of Trincalo's complaint, that while Ronca embraced him his "purse shook dangerously." See "Albumazar," act iii. sc. 7 [xi. 368].