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[17] Use.
[18] The music between the acts.
[19] Pert youth.
[20] i.e. thread of life. (An expression borrowed from palmistry: _line
of life_ was the name for one of the lines in the hand.)
[21] Rashers.
[22] See note [105] in Vol. III.
[23] Old ed. "safely."
[24] Bushes. In I _Henry IV_., 5, i., we have the adjective _busky_.
Spenser uses the subst. _busket_ (Fr. _bosquet_).
[25] I can make nothing of this word, and suspect we should read "cry."
[26] Quy. flewed (i.e. with large chaps)? Perhaps (as Mr. Fleay
suggests) flocked = flecked.
[27] Old ed. "fathers."
[28] i.e. had I known. "A common exclamation of those who repented of
anything unadvisedly undertaken."--Nares.
[29] 4to. "tell."
[30] Equivalent to a dissyllable (unless we read "damned").
[31] Baynard's Castle, below St. Paul's, was built by a certain Baynard
who came in the train of William the Conqueror. It was rebuilt by
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, and was finally consumed in the Great Fire
of London.
[32] Perhaps this speech should be printed as verse.
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