Note 127 — ACT II. SCENE I.

And keep a better table than that, I trow.] “This wretched fellow is punning upon the word table, which, as applied to his father, meant a large sheet of paper, where precepts for the due regulation of life were set down in distinct lines; and as applied to himself—that he would keep a better house, i. e. live more sumptuously, than his father.”—Gifford.