That every crackrope may fling rotten egs at the clown.”
—Collier. [See also Tarlton’s “Jests,” 1611 (“Old English Jest-Books,” ii., p. 211).]
[86] [Old edition, which.]
[87] [Old editions have monckes.]
[88] [Old editions have pantacle.] I suppose he means to say a pantofle—i.e., a slipper. Perhaps he begins his attack with a kick.—S. The second edition reads—
“Even heere with a faire pantacle I will you disgrace,”
an epithet not found in the oldest copy, and hardly consistent with the supposition that pantacle means pantofle.—Collier. [Probably, a slap on the face.]
[89] Geve, second edition.
[90] More properly touch-box. While match-locks, instead of fire-locks, to guns were used, the touch-box, at which the match was lighted, was part of the accoutrement of a soldier.
“When she his flask and touch-box set on fire.”