Note 906 — SCENE II.

sixpenny ordinary] There were ordinaries of all prices. Our author notices, in Father Hubburd’s Tales, a three-half-penny ordinary; in No Wit, no Help like a Woman’s, a twelvepenny ordinary, act ii. sc. 3; in The Black Book, an eighteenpenny ordinary; in A Trick to catch the Old One, a two-shilling ordinary, act i. sc. 1; Fletcher, in The Wild-Goose Chase, a ten-crown ordinary, act i. sc. 1; and our author, in Father Hubburd’s Tales, mentions a person who had spent five pounds at a sitting in an ordinary.