[393] Note the fondness for proverbs, a trait taken from life and often to be found in later plays.—Sherwood: To whurre, whurle (or yarre) as a dog, Gronder comme un chien. Cooper: scolding. It is perhaps = whirr, whirret (slashing, slash)?
[394] Cf. III. iii, 102; Heywood's Proverbs, 1, ch. 2 (p. 6); Camden's Proverbs, 276, 277, etc.
[395] Apparently vv. 17, 18.
[396] Heywood's Proverbs, 2, ch. 7. Patten: a wooden shoe that made a great clattering.
[397] Wager; cf. G. G. N., I. iii, 20; I. iv, 47.
[398] entering.
[399] Sherwood: Une vieille charougne. A tough toothlesse trot, etc.
[400] The same song is alluded to in A pore Helpe (Hazlitt's Early Pop. Poetry, 3, 253).
[401] stitch.
[402] Cf. whippit (in Halliwell): to jump about, etc. In A Treatise shewing ... the Pryde and Abuse of Women Now a Dayes (c. 1550): "With whippet a whyle lyttle pretone, Prancke it, and hagge it well," etc.