Note 102 — ACT II. SCENE I.
Reading edition
in your waistcoat] i. e. (as Nares rightly explains the passage, Gloss. in v.) in that alone, without a gown or upper dress. Low prostitutes were generally so attired, and were hence called waistcoateers.
Reading edition
in your waistcoat] i. e. (as Nares rightly explains the passage, Gloss. in v.) in that alone, without a gown or upper dress. Low prostitutes were generally so attired, and were hence called waistcoateers.