Take mine ease. 1 Henry IV. III. 3.
Cibber’s manager’s coat. Colley Cibber (1671–1757), actor, dramatist, and manager. See the Apology for his Life (1740).
Books, dreams. Personal Talk. [‘Dreams, books, are each a world.... Two shall be named pre-eminently dear ... by heavenly lays....’]
IV. ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, Etc.
[249]. Misuse [praise] the bounteous Pan. Comus, 176–7.
Like eagles newly baited. Cf.
‘All plumed like estridges that with the wind
Baited like eagles having lately bathed.’
1 King Henry IV., IV. 1.
[250]. Cast the diseases of the mind. Cf.