[148] [i.e., Is that thy cue.]
[149] [Old copy, land prisado. See Dyce's Middleton, iii. 532.]
[150] [Old copy, Elose.]
[151] [Old copy, out a.]
[152] [This song is not noticed in Mr Halliwell's "Early Naval Ballads," 1841.]
[153] [Staunch.]
[154] [In 1641 appeared a tract entitled "The Brothers of the Blade answerable to the Sisters of the Scabbard," &c., but the phrase was, no doubt, older.]
[155] [Old copy, yet.]
[156] [An allusion to the well-known practice of chalking up scores at taverns. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 386.]
[157] [Housewife. Perhaps it had already, however, become in vogue in a contemptuous sense.]