[285] Stuffed out.
[286] The clap or clack-dish was properly a box carried by beggars, the lid of which they used to rattle to attract notice and bring people to their doors.
[287] Hospital.
[288] Booty.
[289] Meaning his sword.
[290] Steevens pointed out that Arlotte was not the concubine of an English king but was the mistress of the father of William the Conqueror.
[291] i.e. Then.
[292] A net, the mouth of which was drawn together with a string.
[293] To drink tobacco was a common phrase for smoking it.—Reed.
[294] A long barge with oars.