Note 54 — SCENE V.
Reading edition
on my thumb-nail] In Nash’s Pierce Pennilesse, a marginal note explains the words “drinke super nagulum” to be “a deuise of drinking new come out of Fraunce, which is, after a man hath turnd vp the bottome of the cup, to drop it on his naile and make a pearle with that is left, which if it shed and he cannot make stand on, by reason there’s too much, he must drinke againe for his penance.” Sig. F. ed. 1595.