[413] This speech is very corrupt. Dyce suggested “lewdness” in place of the “laundress” of the old edition.
[414] Assure.
[415] Skeleton.
[416] Persuaded.
[417] A stalking-horse, cover.
[418] Make over.
[419] i.e. Blunt and honest. An old proverb.
[420] Another term for “bewitch” commonly in use; the word probably implied the muttering or “forspeaking” of a spell.
[421] A winding thoroughfare which led from Eastcheap to Fish-street-hill.
[422] “An inner part between the tenor and the base.” Blount’s Glossographia, 1681. It was customary in the morris to adorn the dresses of the dancers, the trappings of the hobby-horse, &c., with bells of different pitch, but arranged to sound in harmony. Hence, “treble,” “mean,” &c.