Note 334 — SCENE II.
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a bell and a clack-dish] A clack-dish, or clap-dish, was a wooden dish with a moveable cover, which was carried by beggars, and which they clacked to shew that it was empty: see Steevens’s note on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 2. The bell was another means of attracting attention.