Note 335 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
paritor] i.e. apparitor—a messenger employed to cite persons to appear in the spiritual courts. The word is found so contracted not only in prose but in verse:
“Belike thou art the Diuell’s Parrator,
The basest officer that liues in Hell.”
Wily Beguilde, sig. H 3, ed. 1623.