[108] Ready.
[109] Companion, therefore—equal.
[110] Axis.
[111] Confound, therefore to destroy.
[112] Adyt; the innermost sanctuary of a temple.
[113] "The ale" here means the ale-house, as it does in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona (II. 5).
[114] A famous comic trick in the early plays. Adam is a late figure of the Vice type. Compare Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay ([V. 2]) in which Miles is carried off on a Devil's back.
[115] Bold, brave.
[116] An instrument used by pick-pockets in cutting purses.
[117] To shave or cut, therefore to pillage, plunder.