[7] Weapons and martial equipment.
[8] A gold coin, worth about three pounds twelve shillings.
[9] The quarto has “with a piece.” Piece (old Fr. bobelin) was sometimes loosely used for the shoe itself, as well as for the piece of leather used in repairs. See Cotgrave.
[10] Twiddle-twaddle.
[11] Apparently one of Eyre’s frequent improvised phrases, referring here to his wife’s trick of repeating herself, as in her previous speech.
[12] An imaginary Saracen god, represented in the old moralities and plays as of a quite ungodly tendency to violence.
[13] A nick-name, possibly, for some character of the day, used with a vague reference to King Lud.
[14] Tales told to curry favour.
[15] The groat was the silver fourpenny-piece. The simile of a cracked coin is an obvious expression of worthlessness.
[16] Little yellow spots on the body which denoted the infection of the plague.