[373] A Portuguese coin having a cross on one side and worth about 2s. 3d., but varying in value at different times.
[374] “Pies” in the original, an evident misprint.
[375] A common reproach for the affectation of the courtiers in Elizabeth’s reign.
[376] See [note] ante. p. 301. “The Parcae were generally represented as three old women with chaplets made with wool, and interwoven with the flowers of the narcissus. They were covered with a white robe, and fillet of the same colour, bound with chaplets. One of them held a distaff, another the spindle, and the third was armed with scissors with which she cut the thread which her sisters had spun.”—Lempriere.
[377] Sempstresses, alluding to their spinning.
[378] See The Devil’s Answer to Pierce Pennylesse, p. 100, “that great Dego of Devils.”—Dekker’s Non-Dramatic Works.
[379] Death, in original,—an evident misprint.
[380] Swaggering mood.
[381] Ital. Latta, tin-plate.
[382] Succeed.