Note 1161 — ACT V. SCENE I.

kinchin mort in her slate] Old ed. "kitchin-mort."—“Kinching-morts are girles of a yeare or two old, which the Morts (their mothers) cary at their backes in their Slates (which in the Canting-Tongue are Sheetes) if they haue no children of their owne, they will steale them from others, and by some meane disfigure them, that by their parents they shall neuer be knowne.” Dekker’s Belman of London, 1608, sig. D 3.