[1378] W. omits 'sheat.' G. reads, 'Neat, sheat, and [as] fine, as a briske cup of wine.' Qtos. have comma after 'neat,' making 'sheat' an adjective, for which Cent. Dict. suggests the meaning 'trim.' Poppey, in Lodge's Wounds of Civil War (H. Dods. VII. 191), says, "Fair, fresh and fine, As a merry cup of wine."
[1379] dear: Lk. Gl., 1481; R. D., I. i. 49; and frequently. In American slang, to-day, 'good-natured.'
[1380] Perhaps the caps of Doctors of Law and Physic. Ward.
[1381] Dy., W., careful of R.'s grammar, read 'I will.'
[1382] From the inner sole. Peg in Wily Beg. (Hawkins III. 356) glories in 'cork'd shoes.' Ward. So also Mall in 2 A. W. A. iii. 167.
[1383] So Qtos. The mistake for Barclay is as likely to be Miles's as the compositor's.
[1384] Do., Dy., W. change to dicis. A parody of Construas hoc, etc., in Skelton's Ware the Hauke. Dyce. So, for a fool, Ingeland's Disob. Child (H. Dods. II. 285); and frequently. Cf. 'Woodcock' in Johann, and Hamlet, I. iii. 115.
[1385] Old north gate, Oxford, used as a prison; taken down, 1771. As hard to get out of as the Bocardo mood of the syllogism. Dyce and Ward.
[1386] "Are meet for just such low-born devils as they are."
[1387] 5 Qtos., Essex.