Note 268 — ACT III. SCENE I.
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little-ease] Was a cant term, used long before Middleton’s time, for the pillory, stocks, or bilboes, (and, as I suspect from several passages in our early writers, for some apartment in a prison);
“You dare not make discovery
For feare of Little-ease. That were a prison
Too fearful for such bravery to stoop into.”
Brome’s New Academy, p. 58.—Five New Playes, 1659.