[147] Quart d'écu—a fourth part of a crown.
[148] A quibble on the aurum potabile of the old pharmacists. —F.G. Fleay.
[149] In the MS. is a marginal note, "Stagekeepers as a guard."
[150] Sarleboyes' speeches are scored through in the MS.
[151] This speech is scored through.
[152] Mopper of a vessel.
[153] A not uncommon corruption of Mahomet.
[154] "Sowse" = (1) halfpenny (Fr. sou), (2) blow. In the second sense the word is not uncommonly found; in the first sense it occurs in the ballad of The Red Squair—
"It greivit him sair that day I trow
With Sir John Hinrome of Schipsydehouse,
For cause we were not men enow
He counted us not worth a souse."
We have this word again on p. 208, "Not a sowse less then a full thousand crownes."