[240] [Videlicet.]
[241] [Ignorant.]
[242] [Alluding to some wood engraving of Tarlton, which Simplicity had in his basket. To the reprint of "Tarlton's Jests," by the Shakespeare Society, are prefixed two wood-cuts, made from a drawing of the time of Elizabeth, and no doubt soon after the death of Tarlton of the plague in 1588.]
[243] [Preferment.]
[244] An ejaculation, apparently equivalent to God.
[245] The first purchase made in the day—the ballad which Wit had bought of Simplicity.
[246] Espial. The word occurs again further on.
[247] [Probably a reference is intended to the proverbial expression about Mahomet and the mountain.]
[248] An ambry or aumbry is a pantry or closet. The next line explains the word.
[249] [Old copy, lent.]