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134) we find: 'His greatest
vexation is going upon sleevelesse arrands, to know whether some lady
slept well last night, or how her physick work'd i' th' morning,
things that savour not well with him; the reason that ofttimes he
goes but to the next taverne, and then very discreetly brings her
home a tale of a tubbe. '

Cf. also B. & Fl. , _Fair Maid of the Inn_ 2. 2: '_Host. _ And have
you been in England? . . . But they say ladies there take physic for
fashion. '

Dekker, _Guls Horne-booke_, _Non-dram. Wks. _ 2. 255, speaks of 'a
country gentleman that brings his wife vp to learne the fashion,
see the Tombs at Westminster, the Lyons in the Tower, or to take
physicke.
' In the 1812 reprint the editor observes that in Jonson's
time 'fanciful or artful wives would often persuade their husbands
to take them up to town for the advantage of _physick_, when the
principal object was dissipation. '

=4. 4. 219 Corne-cutter. = This vulgar suggestion renders hopeless
Pug's pretensions to gentility. Corncutters carried on a regular
trade (see _Bart. Fair_ 2. 1. ), and were held in the greatest
contempt, as we learn from Nash (_Four Letters Confuted_, _Wks. _ 2.
211).

=4. 4. 232 The Moone. = I. e.