[5] _Timeless_ in the sense of _untimely_ occurs in Marlowe, &c.
[6] Old ed. "attended."
[7] The old form of _guests_.
[8] The word _fairing_ (i.e. a present brought home from a fair) is
explained by the fact that Beech was murdered on Bartholomew eve ("Tis
Friday night besides and Bartholomew eve"). Bartholomew Fair was held
the next day.
[9] A famous tavern in Thames Street.
[10] Proposal.
[11] Nares supposed that the expression _fear no colours_ was "probably
at first a military expression, to fear no enemy. So Shakespeare derives
it [_Twelfth Night_, i. 5], and, though the passage is comic, it is
likely to be right."
[12] "Here on" = hear one.
[13] i.e. what are you doing here so late?
[14] Old ed. "gentleman."
[15] Old ed. "ends."
[16] Mr. Rendle in his interesting account of the _Bankside and the
Globe Playhouse_ (appended to Pt. II. of Mr. Furnivall's edition of
Harrison's _England_) says:--"As to the features of the locality we may
note that it was intersected in all directions with streams, not shown
in the map of the manor, except _Utburne_, the _Outbourne_ possibly; and
that bridges abounded.
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