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.