Note 419 — ACT V. SCENE I.

sits in a blue gown] “It appears from a passage in Promos and Cassandra [and from a dozen other passages in various writers], that a blue gown was the habit in which a strumpet did penance. So too in The Northern Lass, 1633, ‘All the good you intended me was a lockram coif, a blue gown, a wheel,’ &c. The wheel, as well as the blue gown, are mentioned in subsequent scenes of this comedy.” Steevens.