238: 'Walke
vp and downe by the rest as
scornfully
and as carelesly as a
Gentleman-Usher.
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4. 197 Hee makes a wicked leg.= Gifford thinks that _wicked_ here
means 'awkward or clownish.' It seems rather to mean 'roguish,' a
common colloquial use.
=4. 4. 201 A setled discreet pase.= Cf. 3. 5. 22; 2. 7. 33; and
Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks._ 2.
238: 'Walke
vp and downe by the rest as
scornfully
and as carelesly as a
Gentleman-Usher.
'
=4. 4. 202 a barren head, Sir.= Cf. 2. 3. 36, 7 and 4. 2. 12.
Here again we have a punning allusion to the uncovered head of
the gentleman-usher. 'It was a piece of state, that the servants
of the nobility, particularly the gentleman-usher, should attend
bare-headed.' Nares, _Gloss._ For numerous passages illustrating the
practice both in regard to the gentleman-usher and to the coachman,
see the quotations in Nares, and Ford, _Lover's Melancholy_, _Wks._
1. 19; Chapman, _Gentleman-Usher_, _Wks.
