[405] St Paul's Cathedral, which at this period was open all day, and the resort of all the idle, profligate, or necessitous people in town.
Bishop Carleton tells us ("Thankful Deliverance," 1625, p. 101), that Babington'a and Ballard's Conspiracy was "conferred upon in Paul's Church."—Gilchrist.
[406] [Back-yard.]
[407] See ["Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 71.]
[408] [Old copies, I'll.]
[409] i.e., Respectful. So, in "The Second Part of Amonio and Mellida," act iii. sc. 4—
"I give the noble duke respective thankes."
In "Every Man out of his Humour," act v. sc. 4—
"I am bound to pledge it respectively, sir,"
and in "Cynthia's Revels"—