See! the clear Sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping!
Lo, how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches sleeping.
Therefore, awake, make haste, I say,
And let us without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the park a-maying."
[263] "A sort of game played with cards or dice. Silence seems to have
been essential at it; whence its name. Used in later times as a kind of
proverbial term for being silent."--_Nares_.
[264] Embrace.
[265] Cf. _Titus Andronicus_, v. 1, "As true a dog as ever fought at
head." In bear-bating dogs were incited by the cry _To head, to head_!
See my edition of Marlowe, iii. 241.
[266] Artery.
[267] The sword of Sir Bevis of Southampton; hence a general term for a
sword.
[268] Lint applied to wounds.
[269] The mixture of muscadine and eggs was esteemed a powerful
provocative.
[270] A corruption of _Span_. "buenos noches"--good night.
[271] Old ed. "_Philantus_."
[272] Old ed. "earely."
[273] Bellafront in Pt. II. of _The Honest Whore_, iv.
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