Note 1053 — SCENE III.

a noise of fiddlers] i.e. a company of musicians,—an expression frequently occurring: “those terrible noyses, with thredbare cloakes, that liue by red lattises and Iuy-bushes, hauing authority to thrust into any mans roome, onely speaking but this, Will you haue any musicke?” Dekker’s Belman of London, 1608, sig. B 4.