A pun upon the word cue, which is a hint to the actor to proceed in his part, and has the same sound with the letter q, the mark of a farthing in college buttery-books. To size means to battle, or to be charged in the college accounts for provisions. [A q is so called because it is the initial letter of quadrans, the fourth part of a penny.]
[124] This seems to be quoted from the first imperfect edition of "The Spanish Tragedy;" in the later (corrected) impression it runs thus—
"What outcries pluck me from my naked bed,
And chill," &c.
—[v. 54.]
[125] [Old copy points this sentence falsely, and repeats thing.]
[126] Old copy, woe.
[127] [Old copy, birds. Perhaps, however, the poet may have meant swans.]
[128] Old copy, sooping.
[129] [I think this is much more likely to be an allusion to Shakespeare, than the passage in the prologue to which Hawkins refers.—Ebsworth.]
[130] [Old copy, some.]