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28 Plays
introduced ten tilters each, wearing the colours of the newly wedded
pair; the bride's colours were murrey and white, the bridegroom's green
and yellow. See vol. vn, p. 391.
80. the biggen. Volp. v. ix. 5 n.
88. garters. Brand (Popular Antiquities, ed. Ellis, 1888, 11, p. 128)
quotes Hernck, 'A Nuptiall Song to Sir Chpseby Crew' (Works, ed.
Moorman, p. 114):
Quickly, quickly them prepare;
And let the Young-men and the Bride-maids share
Your Garters, and their joynts
Encircle with the Bride-grooms Points.
And C. Brooke, 'An Epithalamium' in England's Helicon, ed. Macdonald,
p. 217:
Youth's; take his Poynts; your wonted right;
And Maydens; take your due, her Garters.
epithalamium. See Jonson's comment in Hymenaei, 435-40.
in. vii. 2. noyses in the musical sense: Sej. v. 452.
15. hanging dull eares. Cf. Horace, Sat. i. ix. 20, 'demitto auriculas
ut miquae mentis asellus'.
47. rouse, a deep draught, full cup, especially in pledging a toast.
iv. i. 3. chronicles. In the Quarto text of E.M.O. in. viii. 61-2 it is
proposed to put Sordido's conversion in 'the Chronicle'.
8-11. Cf. Libamus, op. cit., p. 5:
8. neesing, sneezing. Job xli. 18, of the leviathan, 'By his neesings a
light doth shine'.
20. goe away i'the lest, die with laughing.
21. nest of night-caps. Cf. 'a nest of goblets', i e. a large goblet containing
many smaller ones of gradually diminishing size which fit into
each other and fill it up.
25. the sadlers horse in Fleetstreet. 'In the same way Shakespeare
says of Poms that he wore his boot smooth "like the sign of the leg"'
(Cunningham).
35-6. Women ought to repaire . . . Ovid, Ars Amatona, ii. 677-8:
Illae munditus annorum damna rependunt,
et faciunt cura ne videantur anus.
37-46. And an intelligent woman . . . Ibid. iii. 261-80:
Rara tamen mendo facies caret. Occule mendas,
quaque potes vitmm corpons abde tui.