[210] Tell me what good ware for England you do lacke, edit. 1592.
[211] According to "Extracts from the Stationers' Registers," i. 88, William Griffith was licensed in 1563-4 to print a ballad entitled "Buy, Broomes, buye." This maybe the song here sung by Conscience. A song to the tune is inserted in the tract of "Robin Goodfellow," 1628, 4°, but no doubt first published many years earlier.
[212] [So both the 4°s, but Mr Collier suggests soften.]
[213] Play, and are not in the second 4to.
[214] [The writer seems here to have intended an allusion to Scogin, whose "Jests" were well-known at that time as a popular book.]
[215] [I think, omitted in second 4to.]
[216] A strong kind of cloth so called, and several times mentioned in Shakespeare. See "Henry IV." Part I., act i. sc. 2; "Comedy of Errors," act iv. se. 3, &c.—Collier.
[217] The Venetians came nothing near the knee. Venetians were a kind of hose, or breeches, adopted from the fashions of Venice.
[218] [First 4to reads, not agree.]
[219] [A pun, probably, upon alms and arms.]