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Cf. Stephen Gosson, _Pleasant
Quippes_:

These worsted stockes of bravest die, and silken garters
fring'd with gold;
These corked shooes to beare them hie makes them to trip
it on the molde;
They mince it with a pace so strange,
Like untam'd heifers when they range.

=1. 1. 128 cut-worke smocks, and shirts. = Cf. B. & Fl. ,
_Four Plays in One_:

----She show'd me gownes, head tires,
Embroider'd waistcoats, smocks seamed with cutworks.

=1. 1. 135 But you must take a body ready made. = King James in his
_Daemonologie_ (_Wks. _, ed. 1616, p.
120) explains that the devil,
though but of air, can 'make himself palpable, either by assuming any
dead bodie, and vsing the ministerie thereof, or else by deluding as
well their sence of feeling as seeing. '

=1. 1. 143 our tribe of Brokers. = Cf. _Ev. Man in_, _Wks. _ 1. 82:

'_Wel. _ Where got'st thou this coat, I marle?
_Brai. _ Of a Hounsditch man, sir, one of the devil's
near kinsmen, a broker. '

The pawnbrokers were cordially hated in Jonson's time. Their
quarter was Houndsditch. Stow says: 'there are crept in among
them [the inhabitants of Houndsditch] a base kinde of vermine,
wel-deserving to bee ranked and numbred with them, whom our old
Prophet and Countryman, _Gyldas_, called _AEtatis atramentum_,
the black discredit of the Age, and of place where they are suffered
to live. .