"Leaving old Plowden, Dyer and Brooke alone,
To see old Harry Hankes and Sacarson."
Master Slender ("Merry Wives," I. 1) told Anne Page: "I have seen
Sackarson loose twenty times and have taken him by the chain."
[29] 4tos. King.
[30] The reference is, I suppose, to Roger Bacon's "Libellus de retardandis Senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis. Oxoniae, 1590."
[31] Quy. inframed (F.G. Fleay).
[32] Ed. 1636, "state."
[33] Ed. 1636 makes sad work of the text here:—
"Merry clad in inke,
Is but a manner" &c.
[34] Quy. thridlesse (sc. that cannot be pierced). Mr. Fleay suggests "rimelesse."
[35] Ed. 1636 reads "antheame."