"You, sirrah,
Is my Lady Ninny awake yet?"
is given in the old 4o to Scudmore, but it belongs to Sir John Worldly. Scudmore is not on the stage.
[62] Old copy, doing.
[63] Old copy, moustachios.
[64] [The old copy and Collier give this speech to Strange.]
[65] [In the sense of hot, salacious.]
[66] An allusion to the well-known story of Friar Bacon and his brazen head, which spoke three times, but was not attended to by his man Miles. See Greene's "Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay," [in Dyce's edits, of Greene, and the prose narrative in Thoms's Collection, 1828.]
[67] A boisterous, clownish character in the play of "The Lancashire Witches," by Heywood and Brome. It was not printed until 1634. Either Lawrence was a person who figured in that transaction, and whose name is not recorded, or (which is not impossible) the play was written very long before it was printed.
[68] Perhaps the play originally ended with a song by a boy, in which the rest joined chorus.
[69] [Although the printed copies bear the date here given, the plays in question were written many years before, Middleton having probably died in 1626.]