Note 1148 — ACT V. SCENE I.

skeldering] “A cant term, generally applied to a vagrant, and often used by our ancient poets. It appears to have been particularly appropriated to those vagabonds who wander about under the name of soldiers, borrowing or begging money.” Reed. See also Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s Works, vol. ii. p. 8: “Skeldring was a cant term for impudent begging,” &c.:—and Dekker’s Gull’s Horn-book, p. 129, reprint; “whom he may skelder [i.e. cheat, defraud], after the genteel fashion, of money.”