9 want lack

coy disdainful

10 curious fastidious

22 What is’t you lack a common shopkeeper’s cry (with an ironic echo of Hammon’s reflection at lines 8-9); it is the refrain of the shop scenes in Middleton and Dekker’s Roaring Girl.

Calico fine cotton cloth lawn fine linen

23 bands hat-bands, collars, ruffs

31 live earn my living

34 Look how you wound Just as you prick (with your needle)

39 Enjoined ed. (In mind Q1) Most editors emend Ql’s ‘In mind’, which is possibly the result of a typesetter’s misreading; enjoined, meaning ‘compelled’, makes considerably more sense in this context.

46 fray a) ‘a feeling of fear’; b) ‘an assault, attack’; c) ‘a din, a noise, a stir’ (O.E.D. n. 1, 2, 3c)

55 myself thine me your husband

57 breath ‘judgment or will expressed in words’ (O.E.D. n. 9a)

59 silly . . . silly unworthy . . . ridiculous

68 constant have - ed. (constant have. Q1) The quarto reading of this line make no sense unless Jane’s remark is interrupted by Hammon.

74 Pressed conscripted

75 by wanting him because I miss him

78 be it ne’er so poor however poor a condition

85 place rank

86 names . . . fight a rather implausible assertion, as we have been told at 8.9 that four thousand were killed. This raises the question of whether Hammon has, as Jane initially suspects, deliberately forged the document.

95 bill document

101 dead (Q2; deede Ql)

108 moan grief

115 rude rough (Hammon lunges at Jane)

119 that you thus because you are specifically

0 s.d. shop board counter at shop window

1 Hey . . . derry an approximate reprise of lines 9-10 from the second three-man’s song; some editors consequently place the latter at the beginning of the scene, but it may be sung also at play’s end. See note on the Second Three-Man’s Song, p. 7.

2 Well said Well sung

3 pell-mell straight away

6 tickle it live it up; see note to 11.69. Sybil also uses the phrase at line 42.

10-11 Forward . . . bootes ‘Indeed, Firk, you are a jolly youngster. Listen, master, I bid you cut me a pair of vamps for Master Jeffrey’s boots’. A ‘vamp’ is the part of the shoe covering the front.

16 counterfeits copies, i.e. a pair of similar vamps. Dekker may have intended ‘counterforts’, meaning the stiff leather at the back of a shoe. pass current be considered legitimate (a term for coining)

19 aunts whores (slang)

23 lame doing Firk, with a typically bawdy innuendo, teases Ralph about his injury.

25 yerked and firked your Priscilla had Priscilla sewn up (with yet more bawdy innuendo)

26 This gear will not hold this won’t last. Firk could be referring either to his work or to his voice, which he says is in need of liquor.

29 Roger Oatmeal i.e. Sir Roger Oatley, who fed the shoemakers in Scene 11; ‘oatmeal’ is also slang for a profligate.