Note 593 — ACT V. (continued 2)

In Every Man in his Humour Cob speaks of Bobadil as a “Burgullian fencer“; and Dekker in the Preface to Satiromastix says that “Horace [Jonson] questionless made himself believe that his Burgonian wit might desperately challenge all comers, and that none durst take up the foils against him.” In each case the allusion is to the Bastard of Burgundy who was overthrown at Smithfield in 1467 by Anthony Woodville. There is doubtless the same allusion in the present passage.