Note 992 — ACT II. SCENE I.

wears a smock] Equivalent, I believe, to—is a knave: “the answer of a mad fellowe to his mistresse, who being called knaue by her, replied that it was not possible, for, said he, if you remember yourselfe, good mistresse, this is leape yeare, and then, as you know well, knaues weare smockes.”—Treatise against Jud. Astrol., &c., by J. Chamber, 1601, p. 113. Compare too vol. iii. p. 81.