= Mistresse Gallipot is the name of a
tobacconist in Dekker's and Middleton's
_Roaring
Girle_.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
38, 9 makes a Lady of sixty Looke at sixteen.= Cunningham
thinks this is a reference to the _In decimo sexto_ of line 50.
=4. 4. 39, 40 the water Of the white Hen, of the Lady Estifanias!= The
Lady Estifania seems to have been a dealer in perfumes and cosmetics.
In _Staple of News_, _Wks._ 5. 166, we read: 'Right Spanish perfume,
the lady Estifania's.' Estefania is the name of a Spanish lady in B. &
Fl.'s _Rule a Wife_.
=4. 4. 47 galley-pot.
= Mistresse Gallipot is the name of a
tobacconist in Dekker's and Middleton's
_Roaring
Girle_.
=4. 4. 50 In decimo sexto.= This is a bookbinder's or printer's
term, 'applied to books, etc., a leaf of which is one-sixteenth of
a full sheet or signature.' It is equivalent to '16mo.' and hence
metaphorically used to indicate 'a small compass, miniature' (see
_Stanford_, p. 312). In _Cyn. Rev._, _Wks._ 2. 218, Jonson says:
'my braggart in decimo sexto!' Its use is well exemplified in John
Taylor's _Works_, sig. L_1 v^{0/1}: 'when a mans stomache is in Folio,
and knows not where to haue a dinner in Decimo sexto.
