[295] [Primary.]
[296] [The wine so called.]
[297] Finer, more gaudily dressed. So in "Wily Beguiled"—
"Come, nurse, gather:
A crown of roses shall adorn my head,
I'll prank myself with flowers of the prime;
And thus I'll spend away my primrose time."
And in Middleton's "Chast Mayd in Cheapside," 1630 [Dyces "Middleton," iv. 59]—
"I hope to see thee, wench, within these few yeeres
Circled with children, pranking up a girl,
And putting jewels in their little eares,
Fine sport, i'faith."
[298] i.e., Whisper, or become silent. As in Nash's "Pierce Penilesse, his Supplication to the Divell," 1592, p. 15: "But whist, these are the workes of darknesse, and may not be talkt of in the daytime." [The word is perfectly common.]
[299] While he is speaking, Crapula, from the effects of over-eating, is continually coughing, which is expressed in the old copies by the words tiff toff, tiff toff, within brackets. Though it might not be necessary to insert them, their omission ought to be mentioned. —Collier.
[300] i.e., Glutton; one whose paunch is distended by food. See a note on "King Henry IV., Part I," v. 304, edit. 1778.—Steevens.
[301] i.e., Whisper.