[385] Old copy, _clitter_ (for _clatter_), which the compositor's eye
most have caught from the next line. _So_ is agreeable to the metre and
the sense.
[386] Old copy, _at that_.
[387] Old copy, _in laps_.
[388] Old copy, _doth_.
[389] Old copy, _kind_.
[390] Old copy, _sendeth_.
[391] Old copy, _force_.
[392] Peeping.
[393] Rival.
[394] Old copy, _wit's_.
[395] Old copy, _our_.
[396] Old copy, _Reason_.
[397] i.e., Take away from me.
[398] Old copy, _It_.
[399] Old copy, _this_.
[400] Old copy, _Amity_.
[401] Old copy, _grief_.
[402] Prize.
[403] Pretend.
[404] Old copy, _heare_.
[405] Old copy, _trade_.
[406] Bonds.
[407] A proverbial expression not found in the collections. It may
signify the hangman's cord.
[408] Old copy, _desire_.
[409] Old copy, _breeds_.
[410] Old copy, _and return_.
[411] Old copy, _by_.
[412] Old copy, _Will_.
[413] Old copy, _In_.
[414] Old copy, _This gentle news of good Will are_. The gentlewomen
referred to are _Recreation_ and _Idleness_.
[415] A line seems to have dropped out here.
[416] i.e., That business is despatched. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs,"
1869, p. 352.
[417] Old copy, _fitly_.
[418] By my faith.
[419] i.e., "It would rejoice my heart to change coats with him."
[420] Old copy, _thy--thy_; but Ignorance is to change clothes with Wit,
while the latter sleeps in the lap of Idleness.
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