[383] Farcy, a disease to which horses are subject, still sometimes miscalled “Fashions” by country farriers. Dekker puns on it again in The Gull’s Horn-Book:—“Fashions then was counted a disease, and horses died of it: But now (thanks to folly) it is held the only rare physic, and the purest golden Asses live upon it.”
[384] Bow.
[385] Prostitutes.
[386] Barded, or barbed: i.e. Adorned with trappings.
[387] The mark was worth 13s. 4d.
[388] The angel varied from 6s. 8d. to 10s. in value.
[389] Skill.
[390] “My heart is weighed down, my soul much tormented. No, by Heaven, the Spanish foot does not beat to music on English ground.”
[391] “The truth, sir; the Spanish dance is full of state, majestic, and fit for monarchs: your English low, fantastic, and very humble.”
[392] “I desire only to please you: your eye has conquered its prisoner. You shall hear the Spanish Pavan, let your music be grave and majestic: Page, give me tobacco; take my cloak and my sword. Higher, higher: Make way, make way friends, higher, higher.” The Pavan was a stately Spanish dance.