105 ‘Right Worshipful’ appropriate address for a London alderman.

107 dressed adorned

109 brisk smart

113 only for their apparel except for their dress

114 s.d. LACY ed. (Hans Q1 passim)

115-17 Godden . . . nempt it ‘Good day, master. This is the skipper who has the ship of merchandise. The commodity is good: take it, master, take it’

120-2 De skip . . . copen ‘The ship is in the river. There are sugar, civet, almonds, cambric, and a thousand thousand things, by God’s sacrament. Take it, master; you shall have a good bargain’

124 carrot-roots, turnips these are seemingly incongruous items in an otherwise exotic list; carrot-root may be Firk’s garbled version of ‘cambric’, though both carrots and turnips were introduced into England from Holland only in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may have still been considered somewhat outlandish.

124-5 brave fatting meat exquisite, fattening food

128 Yaw . . . gedrunck ‘Yes, yes, I have drunk well’

129 countenance protection, patronage

131 quoth’a! says he!, indeed!

132 butter-boxes derogatory slang for Dutchmen (cf. note to 4.50) veal pun on ‘veale’, Dutch for ‘well’

135 rising in my flesh ennobling of my condition. Firk, of course, interprets Margery’s remark in a bawdy sense in lines 136-8. 141 my worship me; Margery is putting on airs.

2 eighteen eighteenth

9 of name of the rank of gentleman or above. Dodger’s account recalls that of the battle of Agincourt in Shakespeare’s Henry the Fifth, 4.8.102-6, though Dekker takes care not to make any explicit reference to either King Henry V or any specific details of his famous French campaign.

11 Two . . . well Q1 and subsequent seventeenth-century editions attribute this line to Dodger; I follow most modern editions in reassigning it to Lincoln.

17 witnesses (Q1; witness Q3)

19 advised certain

21 supplied took

22 Sent . . . France Sent me from France to fetch him

23 thither (hither Q1)

29 of . . . estimate he puts no value on my love

33 giddy frivolous

39 puling whining

42 credit a) reputation b) financial resources

44 to his as his

54 Be circumspect. . . Exeunt ed. (Be circumspect. Exit . . . Exit, Q1)

20 square quarrel

22 strange distant, perverse

24 fond foolish

25 quit requite

32 still always

39 to another end with another goal in mind

40 pule whine

44 spoil exploit

45 at tourney and at tilt at a jousting tournament; chivalrous knights would wear their lady’s gloves as pledges, or signs of devotion.

51 wench i.e. Jane Old Change the old Exchange (a street named after the commercial building of the same name)

56 mammet puppet; derived from ‘maumet’, a variation on Mohammed, hence ‘a false god; an image of a false god, an idol’ (O.E.D. 1a). Capulet uses the same term to berate his daughter - who similarly refuses his marriage plans for her - in Romeo and Juliet, 3.5.184.

57 coyness reluctance

59 strait strictly

67 him; for your bills of lading (Q3; him for your bils of lading, Q1)