[23] A proverb. Tu hai mantillo di ogni acqua.—S.
[24] i.e., The onset.—S.
[25] i.e., God's nails. So afterwards "By his wounds"—"His blood"—without repetition of the sacred name by way of introduction.—S.
[26] In Fox's third volume of "Ecclesiastical History," 1630, p. 799, is an account of one Richard Woodman, who was burnt at Lewes, with nine others, on the 22d of June 1557. The circumstances attending his apprehension resemble those above-mentioned, and seem to be the same as are alluded to by the author of this morality.
[27] [i.e., What of this?]
[28] An expression of dislike or aversion used by almost every writer of the times. Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels, A. iv. S. 5—"Of all nymphs i' the court, I cannot away with her."
Poetaster, A. iii. S. 4—"And do not bring your eating player with you there; I cannot away with her."
Bartholomew Fair, A. i. S. 6—"Good 'faith, I will eat heartily too, because I will be no Jew, I could never away with that stiff-necked generation." [Gifford's edit. iv. 400-1.]
[29] [Beat him by stratagem. See Halliwell's Diet, in v.]
[30] i.e., I care not. Camden in his "Remains" says, "I force not of such fooleries." Shakspeare has the same phrase.—S.