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= Jonson is never tired of punning on
the names of his characters.

=1. 4. 5 halfe a piece. = 'It may be necessary to observe,
once for all, that the _piece_ (the double sovereign) went for
two and twenty shillings. '--G. Compare 3. 3. 83, where a
hundred pieces is evidently somewhat above a hundred pounds.
By a proclamation, Nov. 23, 1611, the piece of gold called the
Unitie, formerly current at twenty shillings was raised to the
value of twenty two shillings (S. M. Leake, _Eng. Money_ 2.
276).
Taylor, the water-poet, tells us that Jonson gave him 'a
piece of gold of two and twenty shillings to drink his health
in England' (_Conversations_, quoted in Schelling's _Timber_,
p. 105). In the _Busie Body_ Mrs. Centlivre uses _piece_ as
synonymous with _guinea_ (2d ed. , pp. 7 and 14).

=1. 4. 31 Iust what it list. = Jonson makes frequent use of the
subjunctive. Cf. 1. 3. 9; 1. 6. 6; 5.