Face still has to convince Dame Pliant and Kestrel that
someone is Spanish if he is to pull off his scam, which is why he asks Drugger for a Spanish suit. Face asks Drugger if he knows any actors, or “players,” with costumes, such as “Hieronimo’s old cloak” from
The Spanish Tragedy (Jonson himself played Hieronimo in Thomas Kyd’s play). When Drugger says yes and asks if Face saw him “play the fool,” this is a bit of theater humor for Jonson’s contemporaries. The actor who was first cast to play Drugger also played the Fool in a recent production of Shakespeare’s
King Lear.