pon her wedding-day she
should have carried on her head fifty of the tallest oaks upon his
estate. He further informed me that he would have given her a coalpit to
keep her in clean linen; that he would have allowed her the profits of a
windmill for her fans, and have presented her once in three years with
the shearing of his sheep for her under-petticoats."--_Spectator_, No.
295.

In Wilson's "Discourse uppon Usurye," 1572, the subsequent passage
occurs:--"Thus master merchant, when he hath robbed the poore gentleman
and furnisht him in this manner to get a little apparel upon his back,
girdeth him with this pompe in the tail: Lo, sayethe hee, yonder goeth a
very strong stowt gentleman, for _he cariethe upon his backe a faire
manour, land and all_, and may therefore well be standard-bearer to any
prince Christian or heathen."

[364] [Chicken.]

[365] The place most commonly used for exposing the heads of traitors.

[366] [Edits.--

"O! but what shall I write?
Mine own excuse."

[367] [Edits., _large, full_.]

[368] [Edits., _appearance, and so as they are, I hope we shall be, more
indeer'd, intirely, better, and more feelingly acquainted_.]

[369] [Either whets their appetite, or prostrates them. The speaker
alludes probably to the early forenoon meal then in vogue.]

[370] The line was formerly mispointed, and misprinted thus--

"Then live a strumpet. Better be unborn."

Clare means, that it were better never to have been born than to live a
strumpet.--_Collier_.

[371] Edit. 1611, _would_; and in the next line, _did_.

[372] [Edits., _That_.]

[373] [Edits., _writes_.]

[374] Pitiless, without pity.

[375] [Edits., _her_.]

[376] [This line is assuredly corrupt, but the true reading is a matter
of question.]

[377] [Edits., _and_.]

[378] Their exit is not marked, but as their re-entrance is noticed
afterwards, it is to be presumed that they followed, the old man out.

[379] Perhaps misprinted for _haven_.--_Collier_.

[380] _Example by, &c_.--second and third edits.

[381] [Edits.], _stare_-wearer, which means no doubt _stair_-wearer, or
wearer of the stairs by going up and down them so frequently at call.
--_Collier_.

[382] [Edit. 1607, _ha't for you_.]

[383] "_Red lattice_ at the doors and windows were formerly the external
denotements of an alehouse; hence the present _chequers_." Mr Steevens
observes (note to "Merry Wives of Windsor," act ii. sc. 2) that "perh