d_ is the true word. _Weary_ appears to be wrong, at any rate.]

[317] [Edits., _bedewy_.]

[318] [This and Chanter are the names of dogs. Auditus fancies himself
a huntsman.]

[319] _Counter_ is a term belonging to the chase. [Gascoigne,] in his
"Book of Hunting," 1575, p. 243, says, "When a hounde hunteth backwardes
the same way that the chase is come, then we say he hunteth _counter_.
And if he hunt any other chase than that which he first undertooke, we
say he hunteth _change_." So in "Hamlet," act iv. sc. 5--

"How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!
O, this is _counter_, you false Danish dogs."

See Dr Johnson's note on this passage.

[320] [The author may have had in his mind an anecdote related of Queen
Elizabeth and Sir Edward Dyer. See the "New London Jest Book," p. 346.]

[321] [Flatulent.]

[322] [_Rett_ and _Cater_ appear to be the names of dogs. Edits. print
_ware wing cater_.]

[323] [See note at p. 367.]

[324] Idle, lazy, slothful. Minsheu derives it from the French _lasche_,
desidiosus.

[325] [See a review of, and extracts from, this very curious play in
Fry's "Bibliographical Memoranda," 1816, pp. 345-50.]

[326] Catalogue of the library of John Hutton. Sold at Essex House,
1764, p. 121. The whole title of the tract, which Mr Reed does not
appear to have seen, as he quotes it only from a sale catalogue, is as
follows:--"Three Miseries of Barbary: Plague, Famine, Ciuill warre. With
a relation of the death of Mahamet the late Emperour: and a briefe
report of the now present Wars betweene the three Brothers. Printed by
W.I. for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold in Pater noster rowe, at the
signe of the Sunne." It is without date, and the name of the author,
George Wilkins, is subscribed to a dedication, "To the right worshipfull
the whole Company of Barbary Merchants." The tract is written in an
ambitious style, and the descriptions are often striking; but there is
nothing but the similarity of name to connect it with "The Miseries of
Enforced Marriage."--_Collier_.

[327] [Hazlitt's "Handbook," 1867, p. 656.]

[328] [Not in the old copies.]

[329] "This comedy (as Langbaine improperly calls it) has been a great
part of it revived by Mrs Behn, under the title of 'The Town Fop, or Sir
Timothy Tawdry.'"

[330] These were among the articles of extravagance in which the youth
of the times used to indulge themselves. They are mentioned by Fennor,
in "The Compters Commonwealth,