Note 230 — SCENE II.

virginals; and still his jacks, &c.] The virginals was an instrument of the spinnet kind: for a correct description of it, see Nares’s Gloss. in v.—In a note on the Second Part of this drama Steevens cites from Bacon, “In a virginal as soon as ever the jack falleth and toucheth the string, the sound ceaseth.”