Note 336 — SCENE VII.
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Duellists being punished by law in England, it has been usual for them to go over to Calais, as one of the nearest ports of France, to decide their quarrel out of the reach of justice. Trincalo is pleasant on this subject.—Steevens.
This custom is mentioned in an epigram in Samuel Rowlands's "Good Newes and Bad Newes," 1622, sig. F 2—
"Gilbert, this glove I send thee from my hand, And challenge thee to meet on Callis sand: On this day moneth resolve I will be there, Where thou shalt finde my flesh I will not feare. My cutler is at work," &c.