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=15 Like the young adders. = It is said that young adders, when
frightened, run into their mother's mouth for protection.

=16 Would wee could stand due North. = I. e. , be as infallible as
the compass.

=17 Muscouy glasse. = Cf. Marston, _Malcontent_, _Wks_. 1. 234: 'She
were an excellent lady, but that her face peeleth like Muscovy
glass. ' Reed (_Old Plays_ 4. 38) quotes from Giles Fletcher's _Russe
Commonwealth_, 1591, p. 10: 'In the province of Corelia, and about
the river Duyna towards the North-sea, there groweth a soft rock
which they call Slude. This they cut into pieces, and so tear it
into thin _flakes, which naturally it is apt for_, and so use it for
glasse lanthorns and such like.
It giveth both inwards and outwards
a clearer light then glasse, and for this respect is better than
either glasse or horne; for that it neither breaketh like glasse, nor
yet will burne like the lanthorne. ' Dekker _(Non-dram. Wks. _ 2. 135)
speaks of a 'Muscouie Lanthorne. ' See Gloss.

=22 the Diuell of Edmunton. = _The Merry Devil of Edmunton_ was
acted by the King's Men at the Globe before Oct. 22, 1607. It has
been conjecturally assigned to Shakespeare and to Drayton. Hazlitt
describes it as 'perhaps the first example of sentimental comedy
we have' (see _O. Pl. _, 4th ed. , 10. 203 f. ).