Note 590 — ACT V. (continued 2)

So in the Induction to the Malcontent:—“I am one that hath seen this play often: I have most of the jests here in my table-book.”—Dekker, in the Gull’s-Horn Book, advises a gallant to “hoard up the finest play-scraps you can get, upon which your lean wit may most savourly feed for want of other stuff, when the Arcadian and Euphuized gentlewomen have their tongues sharpened to set upon you!”