[151] This speech is scored through.
[152] Mopper of a vessel.
[153] A not uncommon corruption of _Mahomet_.
[154] "Sowse" = (1) halfpenny (Fr. sou), (2) blow. In the second sense
the word is not uncommonly found; in the first sense it occurs in the
ballad of _The Red Squair_--
"It greivit him sair that day I trow
With Sir John Hinrome of Schipsydehouse,
For cause we were not men enow
He counted us not worth a _souse_."
We have this word again on p. 208, "Not a _sowse_ less then a full
thousand crownes."
[155] Prison.
[156] A quibble. "Points" were the tags which held up the breeches.
[157] This line is scored through.
[158] Old form of _convert_.
[159] _Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as the
Remembrancia_ (printed for the Corporation of London in 1878),
pp. 215-16.
[160] See _Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1611-18, p. 207.
[161] See Gilford's note on _The Devil is an Ass_, ii. 1;
_Remembrancia_, p. 43; _Cal. of State Papers, Domestic_, 1611-18.
[162] Quy. "true"?
[163] Esteem, weigh.
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