[423] 'Is it not she?' cf. v. 88; II. iv, 14. Elliptical construction, cf. Heywood, Johan, ll. 26 and 624.
[424] friendly (Cotgr.).
[425] Cf. Chaucer's Miller's Tale, 3268, Skelton, etc.
[426] C., 'to' spare.
[427] Cf. the first scene in Plaut. Miles. Instead of the blue spider, etc., Thersites kills Cotswold Lions, fights against a snail, as Horribilicribrifax against a cat, and Sir Thopas (in Endymion) against the 'monster' Ovis.
[428] Pouldre blanche: a powder compounded of Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmegs (Cotgrave). Cf. Blaunche laund in the Story of Fulk Fitz Warine; the Lady of Blanchland in the poem on Carle off Carlile in Percy's Folio Ms. 3, 279, etc.
[429] Cf. Plaut. Miles, I. i, 26.
[430] Northern dialect for 'bush.'
[431] In the series of the 'blue spider' and the 'gozeling.' Cf. "the King of Cockneys on Childermas-day," Brand's Pop. Ant. 1, 536, etc.
[432] by the holy blood? (Hazlitt: quasi semblety, semblance.)