03] _Glaves_ are swords, and sometimes partisans.--_Steevens_.

[204] Lat. for phalanxes.--_Steevens_.

[205] [Edits., _dept_.]

[206] Mars.

[207] See Note 2 to the "First Part of Jeronimo," [v. 349].

[208] [Edits., _kist_. The word _hist_ may be supposed to represent the
whistling sound produced by a sword passing rapidly through the air.]

[209] i.e., Exceeds bounds or belief. See a note on "The Merry Wives
of Windsor," act iv. sc. 2.--_Steevens_.

[210] "_Graecia mendax_
Audet in historia."--_Steevens_.

[211] [His "History," which is divided into nine books, under the names
of the nine Muses.]

[212] i.e., Whispered him. See note to "The Spanish Tragedy," [vi. 10.]

[213] [Peter Martyr's "Decades."]

[214] A luncheon before dinner. The farmers in Essex still use the
word.--_Steevens_.

So in the "Woman-hater," by Beaumont and Fletcher, act i. sc. 3, Count
Valore, describing Lazarillo, says--

"He is none of these
Same Ordinary Eaters, that'll devour
Three breakfasts, as many dinners, and without any
Prejudice to their _Beavers_, drinkings, suppers;
But he hath a more courtly kind of hunger.
And doth hunt more after novelty than plenty."

Baret, in his "Alvearic," 1580, explains _a boever_, a drinking betweene
dinner and supper; and _a boier_, meate eaten after noone, a collation,
a noone meale.

[215] See Note 19 to "The Ordinary."

[216] [In 1576 Ulpian Fulwell published "The First Part of the Eighth
Liberal Science, Entituled Ars Adulandi."]

[217] This word, which occurs in Ben Jonson and some other writers,
seems to have the same meaning as our _numps_. I am ignorant of its
etymology.--_Steevens_. [Compare Nares, 1859, in _v_.]

[218] i.e., Other requisites towards the fitting out of a character.
See a note on "Love's Labour Lost," vol. ii. p. 385, edit. 1778.
--_Steevens_.

[219] A busk-point was, I believe, the lace of a lady's stays. Minsheu
explains a _buske_ to be a part of dress "made of wood or whalebone, a
plated or quilted thing to keepe the body straight." The word, I am
informed, is still in common use, particularly in the country among the
farmers' daughters and servants, for a piece of wood to preserve the
stays from being bent. _Points_ or laces were worn by both sexes, and
are frequently mentioned in our ancient dramatic writers.

[220] [Edits., _hu, hu_.]

[221] [i.e., Our modern _pet_, darling, a term of endearment.] Dr
Johnson says t