Note 24 — ACT I., SCENE I.

A cutter was, about the beginning of the last century, a cant word for a swaggering fellow. This appears in the old black-letter play entitled "The Faire Maid of Bristow," sig. A iij., where Sir Godfrey says of Challener—

"He was a cutter and a swaggerer."

He is elsewhere (sig. A 4) called a swaggering fellow.—MS. note in Oldys's Langbaine.