Note 923 — SCENE II.

Faith, they were some counterfeit rogues ... they said they’d play The Slip] “We have here a play upon words very common in our ancient writers, and which will be totally unintelligible, unless it is remembered that a slip was formerly the name of a piece of counterfeit money.... Robert Greene’s Thieves falling out, True Men come by their own: ‘And therefore he went and got him certain slips, which are counterfeit pieces of money, being brass, and covered over with silver, which the common people called slips.’” Reed. See also Gifford’s note on Ben Jonson’s Works, vol. vi. p. 77.