Note 488 — ACT IV.

We have the expression “trick-of-twenty” again in the Dutch Courtesan. What the particular figure was I am unable to say. (Sometimes “trick-of-twenty” is used in the sense of “excellent device.” Cf. Brome’s City Wit, iv. 2 :—“Well, ’twas mine error, not malice; but as for the procurer of it, if I pay not him in his own coin, Mr. Footwell! I’ll show you a trick of twenty.”)