Note 486 — ACT IV.
Reading edition
“Qy. ‘Los guantes?’ Mr. Collier (Shakespeare Soc. Papers, i. 28), quotes from Rawlinson’s MS. No. 108, Bodl. Lib., a list of dances, among which is ‘Quarto dispayne;’ while Mr. Halliwell (Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words) gives from the same MS., ‘Quanto-dispaine.’—In Munday’s Banquet of Daintie Conceits, 1588, is:—
“‘A Dyttie expressing a familiar controversie between Wit and Will: wherein Wit mildlie rebuketh the follies of Will, and sheweth him (as in a glasse) the fall of wilfull heads.
“‘This Dittie may be sung after the note of a courtlie daunce, called Les Guanto.’”—Dyce.