[242] This probably is the same tavern mentioned in "A Match at Midnight," act i.: "My master means the sign of the Devil," &c.—Collier.
[243] [i.e., It is presumed, put a quart of sack into your head at my expense. He afterwards gives him an angel. A half-moon was an old cant term for a wig. See Dyce's Middleton, ii. 382.]
[244] i.e., Who can that be? In this manner the word who is pronounced in some parts of the kingdom, particularly in the county of Kent.—Pegge.
[245] i.e., The Tailor, who very suddenly got drunk, and as suddenly drowsy.—Collier.
[246] Jolly makes his exit at the same time, and returns again where his entrance is marked.—Collier.
[247] [Probably Faithful's Christian name was Moll, which Jolly pronounces Mull.]
[248] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 141.]
[249] [This word was perhaps then, as now, understood in a cant sense.]
[250] [A crowd had assembled outside, it appears, inquisitive to know what was going on within.]
[251] [Old copy, thy.]