80. [I will bite thee by the ear.] A playful expression of endearment, common in the old dramatists.
81. [Good goose, bite not.] A proverbial phrase, found in Ray's Proverbs.
82. [Sweeting.] A kind of sweet apple. The word is still used in this sense, at least in New England. Steevens quotes Sumner's Last Will and Testament, 1600: "as well crabs as sweetings for his summer fruits." There was also a variety known as the bittersweet. Cf. Fair Em: "And left me such a bitter sweet to gnaw upon."
84. [And is it not well served in], etc. White remarks that "the passage illustrates the antiquity of that dish so much esteemed by all boys and many men—goose and apple-sauce." Cf. the allusions to mutton and capers in T.N. i. 3. 129, and to beef and mustard in M. N. D. iii. 1. 197 and T. of S. iv. 3. 23.
86. [Cheveril.] Soft kid leather for gloves, proverbially elastic. Cf. Hen. VIII. ii. 3. 32:—
"which gifts,
Saving your mincing, the capacity
Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,
If you might please to stretch it."