Buttons. "It is in his buttons" (M. W. ii. 2), seems to mean it is in his doublet which is buttoned on him; i.e. it is in him, he is able to accomplish it.
By. This prep. sometimes occurs (like bei, Germ.) in the sense of beside, near, in contact with, a sense it still retains, chiefly in poetry. But by the position given it in our poet it often causes ambiguity. See Two Gent. ii. 4, As Y. L. iii. 5, and
"If thou be found by me thou art but dead."
2 H. VI. iii. 2.
"To die by thee were but to die in jest."
Ib.
Cade of herrings (2 H. VI. iv. 3), a barrel of red herrings containing 600, i.e. five hundreds of six score to the hundred. See Notes and Queries, 3 S. ix. 324.
Calipolis (2 Hen. IV. ii. 4), one of the characters in Peele's Battle of Alcazar.
Callat, a term of reproach for a woman. Perhaps it is merely a corruption of the Irish cailleach, old woman, learned from the Irish costermongers in London.
Callinó castorè me (Hen. V. iv. 4) misprinted calmie custore me; but restored by Boswell from the Handful of Pleasant Delights, 1584, where it forms the burden of a song beginning with