"And if you go to Darby, Sir,
You may eat a bit of the pie."
[33] A foot-pad.
[34] A promooter, was an informer.
[35] A provincialism for hare.
[36] A sempstress.
[37] A milliner.
[38] This verse is evidently altogether a shaft levelled against the follies of fashion and foppery of the time, and against those who made it their trade to promote them.
[39] Carbanado, a steak cut crossways for broiling.
[40] The "Cap of Maintenance" was a mark of dignity: the "Pudding of Maintenance" is evidently a severe satirical allusion to the fondness for good living of corporate functionaries.
[41] Hench boy,—a page; an attendant on a nobleman or dignitary.