Note 571 — ACT V.
Reading edition
A frotted jerkin—a jerkin in which sweet oil had been rubbed. Cf. Cynthia’s Revels, v. 2:— “Amo. Is the perfume rich in this jerkin? Per. Taste, smell; I assure you, sir, pure benjamin, the only spirited scent that ever awaked a Neapolitan nostril.... I frotted a jerkin for a new-revenued gentleman yielded me three score crowns but this morning, and the same titillation.”