"--_Arte of English Poesie_, 1589,
p. 69.
[163] Matilda is here, and elsewhere, called Marian, before in fact she
takes that name; and after she has assumed it, in the course of the play
she is frequently called Matilda.
[164] [Old copy, _Into_.]
[165] Jest is used in the same sense in "The Spanish Tragedy," act i.,
where the king exclaims--
"But where is old Hieronimo, our marshal?
He promis'd us, in honour of our guest,
To grace our banquet with some pompous _jest_."
Dr Farmer, in reference to the line in "Richard II., act i. sc. 3--
"As gentle and as jocund as to _jest_,"
quotes the above passage from "The Spanish Tragedy" to show that to
_jest_, "in old language, means _to play a part in a mask_."
[166] [Old copy, _my_.]
[167] [Old copy, _place_.]
[168] Ritson has the following note upon this sign: "That is, the inn so
called, upon Ludgate Hill. The modern sign, which, however, seems to
have been the same 200 years ago, is _a bell_ and _a wild man_; but the
original is supposed to have been _a beautiful Indian_, and the
inscription, _La belle Sauvage_. Some, indeed, assert that the inn once
belonged to a Lady _Arabella Sauvage_; and others that its name
originally, the _belle_ and _Sauvage_, arose (like the _George and Blue
Boar_) from the junction of two inns with those respective signs.
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