Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

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[413] Hazlitt: intentional nonsense for 'nobis miscebetur[!] miserere.' Liturgical words muttered indistinctly and used here jocosely. Heywood: "betweene you and your Ginifinee Nycebecetur" (Prov. 1, ch. 11, p. 57 = 'What's her name?' Nescio quid dicitur?).

[414] Cf. 'spoke,' V. v, 5; and 'take,' III. iii, 135.

[415] make (Hazlitt).

[416] avise, advise.

[417] R.'s oaths are generally not so strong; I count in G. G. N. 48 oaths beginning with, By Gog's, Cocks, etc.

[418] For the rhyme's sake; cf. Wilson's Rhetorique, 202: Reticencia, A whisht or warning to speake no more.

[419] These lines are assigned to R. in E.

[420] Cf. Sherwood: Grison, gray with age, ... grizle.

[421] This part of the scene is the reverse of Plaut. Miles, v. 1000 seq., where Pal. has difficulties in keeping Pyrg. from falling in love with the servant.

[422] Cf. G. G. N. p. 252.