Shakespeare Jest-Books / Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare

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[179] Neatly.

[180] The germ of this and the fallowing story may be found in Lane's Arabian Tales and Anecdotes, p. 112.

[181] Importuned.

[182] Prowled.

[183] Careful.

[184] Diogenes Laertius (Lives of the Philosophers, translated by Yonge. 1853, p. 18).

[185] The orig. reads whiche on a tyme. I have therefore ventured to strike out the unnecessary word.

[186] A cant term for a bonnet.

[187] Thick bushy hair.

[188] See Brand's Popular Antiquities, ed. 1849, iii. 132, where Brand cites Melton's Astrologaster, or the Figure-Caster, 1620, to show that to dream of the devil and of gold was deemed an equally lucky portent. To dream of gold is also pronounced a happy omen in the Countryman's Counsellor. 1633.