[364] [Chicken.]
[365] The place most commonly used for exposing the heads of traitors.
[366] [Edits.—
"O! but what shall I write?
Mine own excuse."
[367] [Edits., large, full.]
[368] [Edits., appearance, and so as they are, I hope we shall be, more indeer'd, intirely, better, and more feelingly acquainted.]
[369] [Either whets their appetite, or prostrates them. The speaker alludes probably to the early forenoon meal then in vogue.]
[370] The line was formerly mispointed, and misprinted thus—
"Then live a strumpet. Better be unborn."
Clare means, that it were better never to have been born than to live a strumpet.—Collier.