[45] Some seven or eight years ago I pointed out in Notes and Queries that the idea of this droll incident was taken from a passage of Timaeus of Tauromenium (see Athenaeus, Deipnosoph., ii. 5); but others—as I afterwards learned—had anticipated my discovery.
[46] This and the following speech are marked for omission in the MS.
[47] The words "Not so, frend," are scored through.
[48] The words "Frenshe monster" are scored through.
[49] "Makarel" = maquerelle (a bawd).
[50] This passage illustrates 2 Henry IV., iv. 2:—"This Doll Tearsheet should be some road." See my note on Middleton's Your Five Gallants (Works, vol. iii. p. 220).
[51] Small boats with narrow sterns (Fr. pinque). Cf. Heywood's I Edward IV.:—"Commend me to blacke Luce, bouncing Bess, and lusty Kate, and the other pretty morsels of man's flesh. Farewell, pink and pinnace, flibote and carvel, Turnbull and Spittal" (Works, i. 38).
[52] Fast-sailing vessels (Span, filibote).
[53] The words "that … husband" are scored through in the MS.
[54] This and the two following lines are marked for omission.