[202] "Mr. Rob." took the part.
[203] In the right-hand margin we find the actor's name, "Mr. Bir.," i.e. Bir[ch].
[204] "The quantity of ten of any commodity; as a dicker of hides was ten hides, a dicker of iron ten bars. See 'Fragment. Antiq.,' p. 192. Probably from decas, Lat."—Nares.
[205] Sc. pumpkin (Fr.).
[206] "Dewse-ace. Deux et az." Cotgrave. (Cf. Love's Labour's Lost, I. 2.) The lowest cast of the dice, two aces, was called "ames ace."
[207] Among the Romans the highest cast was called Venus and the lowest canis. (Cf. a well-known couplet of Propertius, lib. iv. el. viii. l. 45—
"Me quoque per talos Venerem quaerente secundos
Semper damnosi subsiluere canes.")
[208] Sc. quatre et trois.
[209] Embroidered, figured.
[210] The actors' names, "Mr. Rob." and "Mr. Rice," are written in the right-hand margin.