ce's Glossary under "Besonian".

[10] "Knight of the post" was the name given to those who gained their
living by giving false evidence at law-courts. Nares quotes from Nash's
"Pierce Pennilesse":--"A knight of the post, quoth he, for so I am
tearmed: a fellow that will swear any thing for twelve pence."

[11] Cf. Lear, iii. 2. _Vaunt-curriors_ to oak-cleaving thunder-bolts.
(First folio.)

[12] "Division" was a technical term in music for "the running a simple
strain into a great variety of shorter notes to the same modulation"
(Nares). The "plain song" was the simple air without variations.

[13] Sir Thomas Overbury says, in his character of 'A very woman,' that
'her lightnesse gets her to swim at top of the table, where her wee
little finger bewraies carving'.

[14] 4tos. Ladies.

[15] 4tos. Eternesses.

[16] To do anything with 'a wet finger' is to do it easily. 'It seems
not very improbable that it alluded to the vulgar and very inelegant
custom of wetting the finger to turn over a book with more
ease.'--_Nares_.

[17] Ov. Metam. I., ll. 322-23.

[18] Ed. 1606, one; ed. 1636, on.

[19] The 1606 ed. marks "Exit" Penelope.

[20] Here Momford retires to the back of the stage, where Clarence is
waiting. The 4tos. mark "Exit." I thought the lines "_Mens est_," etc.,
were Horace's, but cannot find them. "Menternque" destroys sense and
metre. An obvious correction would be "et nomen."

[21] "_Falsus_ honos juvat, _et_ mendax infamia terret
Quem, nisi mendosum et medicandum."
Hor. Ep. l. 16, ll. 39, 40.

[22] A card that cools a player's courage (I. Hy. VI., v. 3, 1. 83, &c.).

[23] The "Family of Love" was the name given to a fanatical sect; David
George, of Delph (obiit 1556), was the founder.

[24] The reference is to the visit of the Marechal de Biron and his
suite in the autumn of 1601.

[25] 4tos. _Foul_.

[26] Pick-thatcht, ed. 1606.

[27] A term in card-playing; to "vie" was to cover a stake.

[28] The name of a famous bear. Cf. Epigrams by J. D.--

"Leaving old Plowden, Dyer and Brooke alone,
To see old Harry Hankes and Sacarson."

Master Slender ("Merry Wives," I. 1) told Anne Page: "I have seen
Sackarson loose twenty times and have taken him by the chain."

[29] 4tos. _King_.

[30] The reference is, I suppose, to Roger Bacon's "Libellus de
retardandis Senectutis accidentibus et de sensibus conservandis.
Oxoniae, 1590."

[31] Quy. infr