“Diana’s shape and habit them indued.”—Sandys’ Ovid, b. ii.
“One first matter all
Indu’d with various forms.”—Milton, Par. Lost.
[P. 11], l. 6. unuenidall sinnes] Unvenial? it seems used in contradistinction to venial.
[P. 11], l. 8. despairing protestations] This is an allusion to “The Protestatyon of Martin Mar-Prelat, wherein notwithstanding the surprizing of the printer, he maketh it known vnto the world that he feareth, neither proud priest, Antichristian pope, tiranous prellate, nor godlesse catercap.”
[P. 12], l. 28. burlibond] Todd, in his edition of Johnson, has adduced one illustration of the word burly, which approximates to the meaning here, that of loud, boisterous; derived, as he supposes from borlen, Teut., to make a noise. Though neither in Nares nor Todd, it will be found in Nash’s Pierce Penniless [Reprint, Shaksp. Soc., p. 25]: “The most grosse and senseless proud dolts are the Danes, who stand so much vpon their vnweldie burlibound souldiery, that they account of no man that hath not a battle-axe at his girdle to hough dogs with, or weares not a cock’s fether in a thrumb hat like a caualier: briefly, he is the best foole bragart under heaven.”
[P. 13], l. 25. hodie-peeles] Nash, in his Anatomie of Absurdities, uses the word hoddy-peke, there implying cuckold, which is the meaning it bears in this place.
“Who under her husband’s that hoddy-peke’s nose must have all the distilling dew of his delicate rose.”
[P. 14], l. 2. true-pennie] See the Notes to the Reprint of “Hay any Worke for Cooper,” p. 79.
[P. 14], l. 7. Buls slicing.] Bull was the name of the common hangman; he is quoted some two or three times in “Pap with a Hatchet,” and in many of the Dramas of the time.