n the midst of the sermon pulles
out his _tables_ in haste, as if he feared to loose that
note," &c. Decker, in his _Guls Hornebooke_, page 8,
speaking to his readers, says, "out with your _tables_,"
&c.

6, note 6.--This is also mentioned in _Whimzies_, 8vo.
1631, p. 57. "Hee must now betake himself to prayer and
devotion; _remember the founder, benefactors, head, and
members of that famous foundation_: all which he
performes with as much zeale as an actor after the end
of a play, when hee prayes for his majestie, the lords
of his most honourable privie councell, and all that
love the king."

13, note 10.--From a subsequent edition, obligingly
pointed out to me by the rev. Mr. arch-deacon Nares, I
find that this also is a translation: _Regimen Sanitatis
Salerni. This booke teachyng all people to gouerne the
in health, is translated out of the Latine tongue into
Englishe, by Thomas Paynell, whiche booke is amended,
augmented, and diligently imprinted. 1575._ Colophon. [P]
_Jmprynted at London, by Wyllyam How, for Abraham
Ueale._ The preface says, that it was compiled for the
use "of the moste noble and victorious kynge of England,
and of Fraunce, by all the doctours in Phisicke of the
Uniuersitie of Salerne."

17, line 17, "_door-posts_."--It was usual for public
officers to have painted or gilded posts at their doors,
on which proclamations, and other documents of that
description, were placed, in order to be read by the
populace. See various allusions to this custom, in
Reed's _Shakspeare_, v. 267. _Old Plays_, iii. 303. The
_reformation_ means that they were, in the language of
our modern churchwardens, "repaired and beautified,"
during the reign of our alderman.

45, line 11, for _Gollobelgicus_ read _Gallobelgicus_.

47, line 15. "_post and pair_" was a game at cards, of
which I can give no description. The author of the
_Compleat Gamester_ notices it as "very much played in
the West of England." See Dodsley's _Old Plays_, 1780.
vii. 296.

48, line 12--"_guarded with more gold lace_." The word
_guarded_ is continually used by the writers of the
sixteenth century for _fringed_ or _adorned_. See Reed's
_Shakspeare_, vii. 272. _Old Plays_, iv. 36.

59, line 15, "_clout_." Shakspeare (Cymbeline, act iv.
scene 2.) uses the expre