Note 398 — SCENE III.

play Ambidexter] So in Nash’s Pierce Pennilesse; “it is like inough he is playing Ambidexter amongst them.” Sig. B, ed. 1595. The allusion is to Preston’s Cambises King of Percia, n. d. (written about the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign), in which the Vice is named Ambidexter. This “lamentable tragedie mixed full of plesant mirth” is reprinted in the first vol. of Hawkins’s Origin of the English Drama.