"England ne'er would thrive,

Till all the whores were burnt alive."

—See Holinshed, vol. 9., 754, Ed. 1807.—O. G.

[257] [Thee is not in the old copy.]

[258] i.e., Rat. So in one of the Chester Whitsun plays—

"Here is a rotten, there a mouse."—S.

[259] Not thy equal, but thy mistress.

[260] i.e., Rank strumpet from the stews.—S.

[261] Fygh—First edition.

[262] i.e., Hodmandod.—S.