[36] "White-boy" was a common term of endearment for a favourite son.
[37] Quy., hot.
[38] i.e., companions.
[39] Doubtless the writer was thinking of Dogberry's "Comparisons are odorous."
[40] A pun is intended. "Cast of merlins" = a flight of merlins (small hawks); and "cast-of" = cast-off.
[41] "Foisting-hound." A small lap-dog with an evil smell, "Catellus graveolens."
[42] The 'clap-dish' which beggars used to beat in order to attract the attention of the charitable.
[43] Both quartos give "all."
[44] Ovid, Metam., I., 523.
[45] Ed. 1606: Antevenit sortem moribus.