Note 45 — ANTONIO AND MELLIDA.
Reading edition
“The old cut” = the old fashion. So Nashe in the epistle dedicatory prefixed to Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters, 1593:—“You are amongst grave Doctors and men of judgment in both laws every day. I pray ask them the question in my absence whether such a man as I have described this epistler to be ... that hath made many proper rhymes of the old cut in his days,” &c.