Note 40 — ACT I., SCENE I.
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Roarer was the common cant word for the swaggering drunkard of our poet's age. Its occurrence is sufficiently common. So in Dekker's play, "If it be not a Good Play, the Devil's in it"—
"Those bloody thoughts will damn you into hell.
Sou. Do you think so? What becomes of our roaring boys then, that stab healths one to another?"