[49] [Old copy, a.]
[50] The old word for engineer: so in Heywood's "Edward IV., Part II.," 1600, sig. M 3—
"But it was not you
At whom the fatal enginer did aim."
Ben Jonson uses it in his "Cataline," act iii. sc. 4—
"The enginers I told you of are working."
[51] A well-known instrument of torture.
[52] Dekker, in his "Bellman of London," sig. H 2, explains foist to be a pickpocket; and instances of the use of it in this sense, and as a rogue and cheater, may be found in many of our old writers.
[53] It will be recollected that Brainworm, in "Every Man in his Humour," is represented upon a wooden leg, begging in Moorfields, like an old soldier. [See further in Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iv. 38-40.]
[54] This passage, among others, is quoted by Steevens in a note to "Twelfth Night," to show that cut, which also means a horse, was employed as a term of abuse. In "Henry IV., Part I.," Falstaff, for the same purpose, uses horse as synonymous with cut: "Spit in my face, and call me horse."
[55] [i.e., Furtively.]