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5. 29, 30 answering=
=With the French-time, in flexure of your body. = This may mean
bowing in the deliberate and measured fashion of the French, or
perhaps it refers to French musical measure. See Gloss.

=3. 5. 33 the very Academies. = See note 2. 8. 20.

=3. 5. 35 play-time. = Collier says that the usual hour of dining in
the city was twelve o'clock, though the passage in _Case is Altered_,
_Wks. _ 6.
331, seems to indicate an earlier hour:

Eat when your stomach serves, saith the physician,
Not at eleven and six.

The performance of plays began at three o'clock.
Cf. _Histriomastix_, 1610:

Come to the Town-house, and see a play:
At three a'clock it shall begin.

See Collier, _Annals_ 3. 377. Sir Humphrey Mildmay, in his Ms.
Diary (quoted _Annals_ 2. 70), speaks several times of going to
the play-house after dinner.

=3. 5. 39 his Damme. = _NED. _ gives a use of the phrase 'the
devil and his dam' as early as Piers Plowman, 1393. The 'devil's
dam' was later applied opprobriously to a woman. It is used thus
in Shakespeare, _Com.