[33] Own.
[34] 4to. "this."
[35] 4to. "This."
[36] 4to. "misguiseth."
[37] _White_ was a term of endearment,--as in the common expression
_white boy_.
[38] 4to. "ease-dropping."
[39] Dwell.
[40] Deformed, ugly (lit. branded with an iron).
[41] Cf. Middleton's _Trick to Catch the Old One_, V. 2:--
"And ne'er start
To be let blood _though sign be at heart_;"
on which passage Dyce remarks that "according to the directions for
bleeding in old almanacs blood was to be taken from particular parts
under particular planets."
[42] Is admitted to "benefit of clergy." Harrison, in his _Description
of England_, tells us that those who "are saved by their bookes and
cleargie, are burned in the left hand, vpon the brawne of the thombe
with an hot iron, so that if they be apprehended againe, that marke
bewraieth them to have beene arraigned of fellonie before, whereby they
are sure at that time to have no mercie. I doo not read that this
custome of saving by the booke is vsed anie where else then in England;
neither doo I find (after much diligent inquirie) what Saxon prince
ordeined that lawe" (Book II.
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