[271] The Woman Hater in Beaumont and Fletcher's play.
[272] "Canaries" was the name of a quick, lively dance. Cf. Middlemen's Spanish Gipsy (IV. 2): "Fortune's a scurvy whore if she makes not my head sound like a rattle and my heels dance the canaries."
[273] Cf. a similar passage in Shirley's Brothers (iii. 1).
[274] In Sidney's Arcadia.
[275] Cf. Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour, II. 1: "They say there's a new motion of the city of Niniveh with Jonas and the whale to be seen at Fleet bridge." (A motion, of course, is a puppet-show.)
[276] This line occurs, word for word, in Shirley's Bird in a Cage (IV. 1):—
… "A bird to be made much on. She and the horse That snorts at Spain by an instinct of nature Should have shown tricks together."
[277] An allusion to the game of "barley-break."
[278] In the MS. the speaker's name is omitted. I have chosen Courtwell at a venture.
[279] Holland's Leaguer was the name of a notorious brothel in Southwark.