Note 974 — ACT V. SCENE I.

provant breeches] i. e. such breeches as were supplied to the soldiers from the magazines of the army: see Gifford’s note on B. Jonson’s Works, vol. i. p. 70.—Provant meant provision: “put in apposition with any other thing,” says Nares, it “implied that such an article was supplied for mere provision; as we say ammunition bread, &c., meaning a common sort.” Gloss. in v.