[75] In first edition and Isham, "then doth he this." G. [MS. "he doth all this." D.]
[76] MS. "valiant and all-daring." D. [First edition, "braue, most all daring." G.]
[77] MS. "Knight." D.
[78] Isham, 'dare.' G.
[79] Hospital: or query prison? So late as Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" (c I. 77) we have the word: "all the diseases which the spittles know." G.
[80] Probably most readers are aware that it was formerly the custom of gallants to smoke tobacco on the stage, during the performance, either lying on the rushes or sitting upon hired stools. D. [In Hutton's 'Satyres' and 'Epigrams' (1619) well edited by Rimbault for the Percy Society, there are various passages illustrative of above, e.g.
"Dine with Duke Humfrey in decayed Paules"
Confound the streetes with chaos of old braules,
Dancing attendance on the Black-friers stage
Call for a stoole with a commanding rage, &c. [pp. 68, 69.] Cf.
Also Ben Jonson's Devil is an Ass (1616) who censures the conduct of the gallants allowed seats on the stage. G.
[81] Mr. Dyce spells Heywodum. John Heywood's Epigrammes accompany his Proverbs: 1562. G.
[82] 1st edition, 'which in epigrams did;' Isham 'which did.' [The Epigrams of John Heywood are well known. An allusion to this epigram of Davies occurs in Sir John Harington's Metamorphosis of Ajax, 1596: "This Heywood for his proverbs and epigrams is not yet put down by any of our country, though one [Marginal Note, M[aster] Davies doth indeed come near him, that graces him the more in saying he puts him down," p. 41, edition 1814. (In the same work we find, "But, as my good M. Davies said of his epigrams, that they were made, like doublets in Birchin-lane, for every one whom they will serve, &c. p. 133. D.] [I add from T. Bastard's 'Chrestoleros' [Lib. II: Epigram 15] an answer to this: