Note 817 — SCENE IV.
Reading edition
tweaks] Equivalent to punks:
“A rare sense-seazing Tweake.”
Brathwait’s Honest Ghost, 1658, p. 95,
in which work the word also occurs at pp. 110, 111, 173, 262. Brome uses it in a very different sense: “O they are a brace of subtle dry Tweakes” [i. e. whoremongers], says Careless, speaking of Thrivewell and Saveall,—A Mad Couple well matched, sig. E 2, (Fiue New Playes,) 1653.