ereof, to make them pleasant." _Sack and sugar_ are mentioned in "Jack
Drum's Entertainment," sig. G 3; "The Shoemaker's Holiday," sig. E;
"Everie Woman in Her Humour," sig. D 4; and "The Wonderful Yeare," 1603.
It appears, however, from the following passage in "The English
Housewife," by Gervase Markham, 1631, p. 162, that there were various
species of _sack_: "Your best _sacke_ are of Seres in Spaine, your
smaller of Galicia and Portugall: your strong _sackes_ are of the
islands of the Canaries and of Malligo, and your Muscadine and Malmseys
are of many parts of Italy, Greece, and some speciall islands." [But see
an elaborate note on sack (vin sec) in Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary,"
in _v_.]

[390] [Edit., _courses_.]

[391] [A room in the inn so called.]

[392] The second edition has it, _my master hopes to ride a cockhorse by
him before he leaves him_.--_Collier_.

[393] _Such is Master Scarborow; such are his company_--edit. 1611.
--_Collier_.

[394] [A room so called.]

[395] [Old copies, _time_.]

[396] See note to "The City Nightcap," act iii.

[397] Move, or stir. _Bouger_, Fr.

[398] I believe an _Epythite_ signifies a beggar--[Greek: epithetaes].--
_Steevens_.

[399] [Alluding to a tapestry representing the story of Susanna.]

[400] [Edits., _father's old man_.]

[401] [Edits., _to_.]

[402] [Booty, earnings.]

[403] This is a corruption of the Italian _corragio_! courage! a
hortatory exclamation. So, in the Epilogue to "Albumazer," 1615--

Two hundred crowns? and twenty pound a year
For three good lives? _cargo_! hai, Trincalo!"

--_Steevens_.

[404] A Fr. G. _Cigue_, utr. a Lat. Cucuta.--_Skinner_.

_Cigue_ f. Hemlocke, Homlocke, hearbe Bennet, Kex.--_Cotgrave_.

[405] _Dry-meat_ is inserted from the copy of 1611.--_Collier_.

[406] _Heir_ and _heiress_ were formerly confounded in the same way as
_prince_ was applied to both male and female. So in Cyril Tourneur's
"Atheist's Tragedy," 1612, we have--

This Castabella is a wealthy _heire_."

--_Collier_.

[407] We must here suppose that butler whispers to Ilford the place
where the lady _lies_ or _lodges_.--_Collier_.

[408] The following extracts from Stubbes's "Anatomie of Abuses," 4to,
1595, p. 57, will show the manners of the English in some particulars
which are alluded to in the course of these volumes: "Other some
(i.e., of the women of England) spend the greatest part of the day _in
sitting at the dore_, t