[215] Hats.
[216] Club foot.
[217] Informer.
[218] Slippers. Fr. pantoufles.
[219] In playing the virginal the sound ceased whenever the jack fell and touched the string.
[220] A flap-dragon was a raisin floating on lighted spirit in a dish or glass and had to be snatched out with the mouth and swallowed. Gallants used to toast their mistresses in flap-dragons.
[221] “An almond for parrot,” and “a rope for parrot,” were common phrases at the time.
[222] A corruption of God’s sanctity or God’s saints.—Steevens.
[223] In the game of barley-break the ground was divided into three compartments, the middle one of which was called “hell.”
[224] i.e. Infelice.