See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," p. 78. Thornton was a merchant of Newcastle.]
[233] [In the modern editions, this speech improperly makes part of the next scene.]
[234] [The folio reads Mistress.]
[235] An aunt of the suburbs was synonymous with bawd. See [Dyce's Middleton, i. 444.]
[236] [From the context, evidently a place of entertainment, a kind of restaurant. Perhaps the modern Glass-House Street may fix the site.]
[237] i.e., The bill of the mortality by the plague. The theatres were sometimes closed, in consequence of the prevalence of the disease. Such was the case in the latter end of the reign of Elizabeth. See note to Nash's "Summer's Last Will and Testament [viii. 15]."—Collier.
[238] [The folio reads hogough.]
[239] [In old copy this word forms part of the next sentence.]
[240] [Probably a tavern so called.]
[241] [The weight inserted in a bowl.]