“My rest is up, wench, and I pull for that
    Will make me ever famous.” Woman’s Prize, I. 2.

    “Faith, sir, my rest is up,
    And what I now pull shall no more afflict me
    Than if I play’d at span-counter.” Monsieur Thomas, IV. 9.

Dyce accepts Nares’ suggestion that pull means to draw a card; but if a player is standing on his cards, why should he want to draw a card?  There is an old expression, to “pull down a side,” i.e. to ruin one’s partner (by bad play); and I am inclined to think that to “pull at a rest” in primero meant to try to pull down (beat, go beyond) the player who was standing on his cards.  The first player might say, “My rest is up”; the other players might either discard or say, “See it”; then the first player would either “revie” it (cover with a larger sum) or throw up his cards.  At length—­for some limitation would have been agreed upon—­the challenger would play his cards, and the opponents would “pull at his rest”—­try to break down his hand.  I am not at all sure that this is the proper explanation; but pull in the text cannot possibly mean draw a card.

[213] The body of Leydenberg was not exposed until two days after Barneveld’s execution.

[214] Charles I. was particularly anxious that these trained bands should be made as efficient as possible, In the “Analytical Index to the Series of Records known as the Remembrancia” (printed for the Corporation of the City of London, 1878) there are several letters from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mayor on this subject (pp. 533-9).  The Directions sent round to the Lord Lieutenants (An. 1638) concerning the Trained Bands of the several counties are given in Rushworth’s Historical Collections, Part 2, vol. i. p. 790.

[215] An allusion, of course, to Bardolph’s famous definition of “accommodated” (2 Henry IV., iii. 2).

[216] Fox was a cant term for a sword of English make.  At Hounslow Heath there was a sword-blade manufactory:—­“Nov 30 (1639).  Benjamin Stone, blade maker, Hounslow Heath, to the Officers of the Ordnance.  Will always be ready to deliver 1,000 swords of all fashions every month throughout the year, and will put in such security as the office shall desire.  Has now ready at the Tower and in his own house 2,000 swords to deliver when the officers shall please.”—­Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1639-40, p. 134.

[217] Ticktacks was a game somewhat similar to backgammon.  It is described in the Compleat Gamester, 1674.

[218] The Pacification of Berwick took place in June, 1639.

[219] Tobacco-pipefuls; but no doubt a pun was intended.  For Bermudas tobacco Nares quotes from Clitus’s Whimz., p. 135, “Where being furnished with tinder, match, and a portion of decayed Bermoodus they smoke it most terribly.”