“A heavy purse, and then two turtles, makes.”
“Makes,” frequent in old books, and even now used in some counties for mates, or pairs.
Ib. sc. 3. Host's speech:—
...“And for a leap
Of the vaulting horse, to play the vaulting house.”
Instead of reading with Whalley “ply” for “play,” I would suggest “horse” for “house.” The meaning would then be obvious and pertinent. The punlet, or pun-maggot, or pun intentional, “horse and house,” is below Jonson. The jeu-de-mots just below—
...“Read a lecture
Upon Aquinas at St. Thomas à Waterings”—
had a learned smack in it to season its insipidity.
Ib. sc. 6. Lovel's speech:—