o show their braveries, and to make knowne their
beauties, to beholde the passengers by, to view the coast, to see
fashions, and to acquaint themselves with the bravest fellows; for if
not for these causes, I see no other causes why they _should sit at
their dores_, from morning till noon (as many do), from noon to night,
thus vainly spending their golden dayes in filthy idleness and sin.
Againe, other some being weary of that exercise, take occasion (about
urgent affaires you must suppose) to walke into the towne, and least
anything might be gathered, but that they goe about serious matters
indeed, they take their baskets in their hands, or under their arms,
under which pretence pretie conceits are practized, and yet may no man
say black is their eye.

"In the field's and suburbes of the cities they have gardens either
paled or walled round about very high, with their harbers and bowers fit
for the purpose. And least they might be espied in these open places,
they have their banquetting-houses with galleries, turrets, and what
not, therein sumptuously erected: wherein they may (and doubtless do)
many of them play the filthy persons. And for that their gardens are
locked, some of them have three or four keys a piece, whereof one they
keep for themselves, the other their paramours have to goe in before
them, least happily they might be perceived, for then were all the sport
dasht. Then to these gardens they repair, when they list, with a basket
and a boy, where they meeting their sweet harts, receive their wished
desires."

[409] See note to "The Parson's Wedding," iii. 3.

[410] [A woman of loose character. Such was its ordinary acceptation,
yet not its invariable one. See Lovelace's Poems, by Hazlitt, 1864, pp.
xl., xli., and 133, notes.] See note to "King Henry IV., Part II.,"
edit. 1778, v. 522.--_Steevens_.

[411] [Edits., _throw_.]

[412] "Towards the rear of the stage there appears to have been a
balcony or upper stage, the platform of which was probably eight or nine
feet from the ground. I suppose it to have been supported by pillars.
From hence, in many of our old plays, part of the dialogue was spoken;
and in front of it curtains likewise were hung, so as occasionally to
conceal the persons in it from the view of the audience."--Malone's
"History of the Stage." See his edition of "Shakespeare" by Boswell,
iii. 79.

[413] [The two brothers, disguised for the purpose, pretend to be their
sister's uncles,