Note 996 — ACT II. SCENE I.

spittle] i.e. hospital. “The reuenge was common as the Law, or as the blowes of a Spittle whore.” The Owles Almanacke (by Dekker), 1618, p. 18.—Gifford wished to make a distinction between spittle and spital (note on Massinger’s City Madam, act iii. sc. 1); but see Todd’s Johnson’s Dict., and Nares’s Gloss. in v.