'2 Player [to the other]. Go get a dishclout to make clean your shoes, and I'll speak for the properties. [Exit Player.] My lord, we must have a shoulder of mutton for a property, and a little vinegar to make our devil roar.'
This insertion is repeated by all subsequent editors, till Capell struck it out of the text and Steevens placed it in a note.
Ind. 2. 96. The following speeches are here inserted by Pope from the same source:
'Sly. By th' mass I think I am a lord indeed.
What's thy name?
Man. Simon, an't please your honour.
Sly. Sim? that's as much as to say Simeon or Simon; put forth
thy hand and fill the pot.'
Capell was the first to strike it out of the text.