[72] A line from a well-known ballad of the time.
[73] [Old copy, attract.]
[74] In allusion to the ears of corn, straw, &c., with which he was dressed.
[75] Old copy, God's.
[76] The exclamations of a carter to his horse. In "John Bon and Mast. Person" (Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv. 16), it is haight, ree.
[77] Old copy, had.
[78] i.e., Cheated.
[79] A play upon the similarity of sound between vetches and fetches. In the old copy, to render it the more obvious, they are spelt alike.
[80] Mr Todd found this word in Baret's "Alveary," 1580, as well as in Cotgrave; but he quotes no authority for the signification he attaches to it—viz., a lubber. Nash could have furnished him with a quotation: it means an idle lazy fellow.
[81] Alluding to the attraction of straw by jet. See this point discussed in Sir Thos. Brown's "Vulgar Errors," b. ii. c. 4.