s him encounter,
And by arrest, they beare him to the Counter.
Now Marcus may set up all rests securely:
For now he's sure to be encountred surely."

Minsheu thus explains _Primero_:--"_Primero and Primavista_, two games
at cards. Primum et primum visum, that is, first and first seene,
because he that can show such an order of cards first, winnes the game."
[See Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," in _v_.]

[247] See Note 30 to "The Dumb Knight."

[248] [See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 318-19.] So in
Dekker's "Belman's Nights-walke," it is alluded to:--"The set at _Maw_
being plaid out."

Henslowe in his Diary mentions a play under the title of "The Maw,"
which probably had reference to the game at cards so called. It was
acted on the 14th December 1594. He also names a play entitled "The
Macke," under date of Feb. 21, 1594-5; but it is doubtful if they were
not the same.--_Collier_.

[249] In the old editions this is given as a part of what is said by
Anamnestes.--_Collier_.

[250] [See Dyce's "Middleton," iii. 106. _There's no ho_, there are no
bounds or restraints with them.--_Reed_. They are not to be restrained
by a call or ho. The expression is common.--_Dyce_.]

[251] Rather Ptolemy.--_Pegge_.

[252] _Latten_, as explained by Dr Johnson, is "Brass; a mixture of
Copper and Caliminaris stone." Mr Theobald, from Monsieur Dacier, says,
"C'est une espece de cuivre de montagne, comme son nom mesme le
temoigne; c'est ce que nous appellons au jourd'huy du _leton_. It is a
sort of mountain copper, as its very name imports, and which we at this
time of day call _latten_." See Mr Theobald's note on "The Merry Wives
of Windsor," act i. sc. 1.

Among the Harleian MSS. is a tract, No. 6395, entitled "Merry Passages
and Jeasts," written in the seventeenth century, [printed by Thoms in
"Anecdotes and Traditions," 1839,] in which is the following story of
Shakespeare, which seems entitled to as much credit as any of the
anecdotes which now pass current about him: "Shake-speare was god-father
to one of Ben Jonson's children, and after the christning, being in a
deepe study, Jonson came to cheere him up, and ask't him why he was so
melancholy? No, faith, Ben (sayes he) not I, but I have been considering
a great while, what should be the fittest gift for me to bestow upon my
god-child, and I have resolv'd at last; I pr'y thee what, says he? I
faith, Ben, Ile e'en give him a douzen good _Lattin_ spo