[357] Old copy, must.
[358] A corruption of corragio! Ital. courage! a hortatory exclamation.—Steevens.
A cant word, meaning a good round sum of money. "Canting Dictionary," in voce.—Pegge.
[359] Thus in "A Woman Kill'd with Kindness," 1607, the first scene we have, on a wager being laid—
"What, clap ye hands,
Or is't no bargain?"
—Collier.
[360] In addition to this play, Robert Tailor was author of "Sacred Hymns," 4o, 1615.—Gilchrist. [No. This was a different person. But the author of the present play has some complimentary lines before Taylor the Water-poet's "Whipping and Snipping of Abuses," 1614.]
[361] "Reliquiæ Wottonianæ," fourth edit., 1685, p. 402.
[362] [A story perhaps originating in Swinnerton's name.] W. Smith dedicates his "Hector of Germaine; or, The Palsgrave Prince Elector," 1615, "To the right worshipfull the great Favourer of the Muses, Syr John Swinnerton, Knight, sometimes Lord Mayor of this honourable Cittie of London." He adds that the play was expressly written for citizens.—Collier.
[363] i.e., The play of that name attributed to Shakespeare. Perhaps a sneer was designed. To say that a dramatic piece was fortunate, is not to say that it was deserving; and why of all the pieces supposed to be written by our great author was this particularised?—Steevens.