[Note 1] Wasted, squandered.
[Note 2] Regimental badge or device.
[Note 3] Wespons and martial equipment.
[Note 4] A gold coin, worth about three pounds twelve shillings.
[Note 5] The quarto has "with a piece." Piece (old Fr. bobelin) was sometimes loosely used for the shoe itself, as well as for the piece of leather used in repairs. See Colgrave.
[Note 6] Twiddle-twaddle
[Note 7] Apparently one of Eyre's frequent improvised phrases, referring here to his wife's trick of repeating herself, as in her previous speech.
[Note 8] An imaginary Saracen god, represented in the old moralities and plays as of a quite ungodly tendency to violence.
[Note 9] A nick-name, possibly, for some character of the day, used with a vague reference to King Lud.
[Note 10] Tales told to curry favour.
[Note 11] The groat was the silver four-penny-piece. The simile of a cracked coin is an obvious expression of worthlessness.
[Note 12] Little yellow spots on the body which denoted the infection of the plague.
[Note 13] Another of Eyre's improvised phrases, whose component parts sufficiently explain its meaning.
[Note 14] With a vengeance.
[Note 15] Crushed crab apples.
[Note 16] A kind of trousers, first worn by the Gascons.
[Note 17] A phrase from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy.
[Note 18] i.e. Go and be hanged !
[Note 19] i.e. Dressing himself.
[Note 20] Bread soaked in pot liquor, and prepared secundum artem.
[Note 21] Salted beef.
[Note 22] A dog kept fastened up as a watch-dog, and therefore given to loud barking.
[Note 23] A woman who washed and pickled pigs' faces.