[174] i.e., "I shall be even with you." So Pisaro in Haughton's "Englishmen for my Money," says of his three daughters—
"Well, I shall find a tune to meet with them."—Sig. E 2.
[175] Alluding to the challenges of the officers who are aiding and assisting the Sheriff.
[176] Paris Garden (or as it is printed in the old copy, Parish Garden), was a place where bears were baited and other animals kept. Curtal was a common term for a small horse, and that which Banks owned, and which acquired so much celebrity for its sagaciousness, is so called by Webster—
"And some there are
Will keep a curtal to show juggling tricks,
And give out 'tis a spirit."
—"Vittoria Corombona," [Webster's Works, by Hazlitt, ii. 47.]
Sib is related to; and perhaps the ape's only least at Paris Garden, may apply to Banks's pony. Dekker, in his "Villanies Discovered," 1620, mentions in terms "Bankes his Curtal."
[177] In the course of the play John is sometimes called Earl John, and sometimes Prince John, as it seems, indifferently.
[178] [Old copy, deceive.]
[179] It must be recollected that the Queen and Marian have exchanged dresses.