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[402] Prize.
[403] Pretend.
[404] Old copy, _heare_.
[405] Old copy, _trade_.
[406] Bonds.
[407] A proverbial expression not found in the collections. It may signify the hangman's cord.
[408] Old copy, _desire_.
[409] Old copy, _breeds_.
[410] Old copy, _and return_.
[411] Old copy, _by_.
[412] Old copy, _Will_.
[413] Old copy, _In_.
[414] Old copy, _This gentle news of good Will are_. The gentlewomen referred to are _Recreation_ and _Idleness_.
[415] A line seems to have dropped out here.
[416] i.e., That business is despatched. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs,"
1869, p. 352.
[417] Old copy, _fitly_.
[418] By my faith.
[419] i.e., "It would rejoice my heart to change coats with him."
[420] Old copy, _thy--thy_; but Ignorance is to change clothes with Wit, while the latter sleeps in the lap of Idleness.
[421] Old copy, _is my tryer_. He has indistinct misgivings that his clothes are not all right.
[422] Old copy, _scot_.
[423] Old copy, fish-hosts.
[424] A colloquialism, of which the exact import must be matter of guess. Old copy, _Hope haliday_. Perhaps a corruption of _upon my haliday_.
[425] Old copy, _It is_.
[426] Old copy, _These marks_.
[427] Old copy, _will_.
[428] Old copy, _troble_.
[429] Old copy, _die_. The same appears to be, "That are not driven to behold those wretched cares, which I _am driven_, &c."
[430] Old copy, _your_.
[431] Fellow. The word is frequently used, as we now use the word _chap_, which is in fact the same, being an abbreviation of _chapman_.
[432] _Fet_ (or _feat_) seeing to be here employed in the sense of _play_ or _perform_. _Friscols_ has occurred before in this play.
[433] So old copy; but perhaps we ought to read _this hap_ in the line preceding.
[434] See Halliwell's _Dict_, in _v_.
[435] _Squich_, a word of most uncommon occurrence and of dubious meaning. From the immediate context we should infer that it signified _skip, move lightly and quickly_.
[436] Old copy, _labores_.
[437] Query, _examples_.
[438] _Push_, i.e., do not close.
[439] Old copy, _durte_ (dirt); We still say, _to make a dust_.
[440] A direction to _Tediousness_, that he is to be tripped up by _Will_.
[441] Old copy, _blest_.
[442] Old copy, _O_.
[443] Old copy, _have_.
