[Footnote 5: 'Thou art the more in a state of grace, for it is a vice to know him.']
[Footnote 6: 'his manger shall stand where the king is served.' Wealth is always received by Rank—Mammon nowhere better worshipped than in kings' courts.]
[Footnote 7: 'a bird of the crow-family'—as a figure, 'always applied to rich and avaricious people.' A chuff is a surly clown. In Scotch a coof is 'a silly, dastardly fellow.']
[Footnote 8: land.]
[Footnote 9: 'friendship' is better than 'Lordshippe,' as euphuistic.]
[Footnote 10: 'I thanke your Lordship; (puts on his hat) 'tis very hot.']
[Footnote 11: 'rather cold.']
[Footnote 12: 'and hot—for my temperament.']
[Footnote 13: Not able to go on, he plunges into his message.]
[Footnote 14: —takes off his hat.]