[403] i.e. Grow jolly, at the spectacle.
[404] A play upon “fool” and “foul.”
[405] Elucidation of his jargon must be left to the discretion of the reader.
[406] See ante, “They mean to fall to their hey-pass and re-pass.”
[407] A reference probably to a woman exhibited at some show in London, and transferred by Dekker, with his usual artistic liberty, to Cyprus.
[408] This is an imaginative prevision on the part of Ampedo, as again in his next speech, “My want is famine.”
[409] Virtue here evidently addressed Queen Elizabeth, as she sat in the audience; this direct recognition is kept up to the end of the play.
[411] An allusion to the popular old play of The Merry Devil of Edmonton, written about twenty years previously.
[412] i.e. Acquit.