Note 724 — ACT I. SCENE I.

I was as well given, &c.] "Imitated from Shakespeare’s First Part of K. Henry IV. act iii. sc. 3, where Falstaff says, ‘I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough: swore little; diced not above seven times a-week; went to a bawdy-house not above once in a quarter—of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three or four times; lived well, and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass.’" Reed.