[393] “Vulgar Errors,” bk. iii. p. 7.
[394] See “Cymbeline,” ii. 4; “Winter’s Tale,” i. 2.
[395] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p 173.
[396] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 29; see “1 Henry IV.,” ii. 3, “of basilisks, of cannon, culverin.”
[397] “Handbook Index to Shakespeare.”
[398] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. x. p. 118.
[399] See Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, pp. 66, 75, 79, 80, 113, 117.
[400] See “As You Like It,” iv. 2; “All’s Well That Ends Well,” v. 2; “Macbeth,” iv. 3; “1 Henry IV.,” v. 4; “1 Henry VI.,” iv. 2; “2 Henry VI.,” v. 2; “Titus Andronicus,” iii. 1, etc.
[401] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. viii. p. 421
[402] Chappell’s “Popular Music of the Olden Time,” 2d ed. vol. i. p. 61; see Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” p. 432; see, too, Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. i. p. 440.