"How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!
O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs."
See Dr Johnson's note on this passage.
[320] [The author may have had in his mind an anecdote related of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Edward Dyer. See the "New London Jest Book," p. 346.]
[321] [Flatulent.]
[322] [Rett and Cater appear to be the names of dogs. Edits. print ware wing cater.]
[323] [See note at p. 367.]
[324] Idle, lazy, slothful. Minsheu derives it from the French lasche, desidiosus.
[325] [See a review of, and extracts from, this very curious play in Fry's "Bibliographical Memoranda," 1816, pp. 345-50.]
[326] Catalogue of the library of John Hutton. Sold at Essex House, 1764, p. 121. The whole title of the tract, which Mr Reed does not appear to have seen, as he quotes it only from a sale catalogue, is as follows:—"Three Miseries of Barbary: Plague, Famine, Ciuill warre. With a relation of the death of Mahamet the late Emperour: and a briefe report of the now present Wars betweene the three Brothers. Printed by W.I. for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold in Pater noster rowe, at the signe of the Sunne." It is without date, and the name of the author, George Wilkins, is subscribed to a dedication, "To the right worshipfull the whole Company of Barbary Merchants." The tract is written in an ambitious style, and the descriptions are often striking; but there is nothing but the similarity of name to connect it with "The Miseries of Enforced Marriage."—Collier.
[327] [Hazlitt's "Handbook," 1867, p. 656.]