[321] Ram-Alley is one of the avenues into the Temple from Fleet Street. It formerly, among other places, claimed to be exempt from the process of the Courts of Law, a privilege which was taken from it by the Stat. of 9 & 10 William III. c. xxvii. s. 15.
[322] [Compare Dyce's Middleton, iii. 81.]
[323] [Old copies, my.]
[324] [A contemptuous allusion—one of many—to the profusion with which James I. created this dignity for the sake of raising money.]
[325] [Edits., wholesale-men.]
[326] A paint or composition used by the ladies to beautify the face and heighten the complexion. It is mentioned in Ben Jonson's "Sejanus," act ii. sc. 1—
"To-morrow morning
I'll send you a perfume, first to resolve
And procure sweat, and then prepare a bath
To cleanse and clear the cutis; against when
I'll have an excellent new fucus made,
Resistive 'gainst the sun, the rain, or wind,
Which you shall lay on with a breath or oil,
As you best like, and last some fourteen hours."
["Works," by Gifford, 1816, iii. 45, where breath seems to be an error—forsaw, brush.]
[327] A laundress is the name still preserved at the Inns of Court for the women, who attend to the men in chambers.
[328] The 4o of 1636 has it If I spend, which was followed by Mr Reed, but the first 4o of 1611 gives the true reading, If I speed.—Collier.