[277] Strut.
[278] This lyrical passage was undoubtedly sung.
[279] See Æneid XII., 411; a favourite allusion of the Euphuists.
[280] Again addressed to the audience.
[281] A church seat for loungers, the original in Carfax Church, Oxford. To sit on Pennyless Bench indicated extreme poverty.
[282] Kittredge's emendation. For the unintelligible "lakus" of the quarto one would accept Collier's conjecture "Jack-ass," were it not for the fact, enunciated by Collins (after N. E. D.), that this word was unknown before the eighteenth century.
[283] Collier's emendation for "a rapier and dagger," it being clear that Slipper has miscalled the weapons.
[284] So also in the quarto, line 5, scene v. of this act, French "oui" is spelled "wee."
[285] Shrew.
[286] Love.