_Onae_. Oh, I could dye with him! _Queen_. Since the bright spheare I mov'd in falls, alas, what make I here? [_Exit_. _Med_. The hammers of blacke mischiefe now cease beating, Yet some irons still are heating. You, Sir Bridegroome, (Set all this while up as a marke to shoot at) We here discharge you of your bed fellow: She loves no Barbars washing. _Cock_. My Balls are sav'd then. _Med_. Be it your charge, so please you, reverend Sir, To see the late Queene safely sent to Florence: My Neece _Onaelia_, and that trusty Souldier, We doe appoint to guard the infant King. Other distractions Time must reconcile; The State is poyson'd like a Crocodile. [_Exeunt_. FINIS. FOOTNOTES: [1] The title, I suppose, of "Cuckold." [2] Tacitus in a few words gives a most masterly description of Poppea: --"Huic mulieri cuncta alia fuere praeter honestum animum: quippe mater eius, aetatis suae feminas pulchritudine supergressa, gloriam pariter et formam dederat: opes claritudini generis sufficiebant: sermo comis, nec absurdum ingenium: modestiam praeferre et lascivia uti: rarus in publicum egressus, idque velata parte oris, ne satiaret aspectum, vel quia sic decebat. Famae numquam pepercit, maritos et adulteros non distinguens, neque affectui suo aut alieno obnoxia: unde utilitas ostenderetur, illuc libidinem transtulit."--Ann. XIII. 45. [3] 4to. Why? Is he rais'd. [4] Cf. Dion Cassius, [Greek: X G] 20. [5] 4to. cleare th'ayre. [6] "Push" and "pish" are used indifferently by Elizabethan writers. [7] Cf. Verg. Aen. vi. 805-6:-- "Nec qui pampineis victor iuga flectit habenis, Liber, agens celso Nysae de vertice tigres." [8] 4to. Turpuus. (Vid. Sueton. Vit. Ner. 20.) [9] Tacitus (Ann. xvi. 14) mentions an astrologer of this name, who was banished by Nero. [10] Vid. Sueton. Vit. Ner. 25. [11] 4tos. _Servinus_. [12] Tacit. Ann. xv. 49. [13] By those "wicked armes" is meant, I suppose, the struggle between Caesar and Pompey. Posterity will think the horrors of civil war compensated by the pleasure of reading Lucan's epic! [14] 4tos. Ciria. [15] 4tos. beeds. [16] 4tos. begins. [17] A certain Volusius Proculus was one of the infamous agents in the murder of Agrippina, and afterwards betrayed the fearless woman Epicharis who confided to him the secret of Piso's conspiracy; but no one of this name was executed by Nero. [18] Quy. How! bruised, &c. [19] Quy. Say that I had no skill!--If the reading of the 4tos. is right the meaning must be, "As for his saying that I had no skill." [20] A copy of the 1633 4to. gives "shoulder-eac't," which is hardly less intelligible than the reading in the text. Everybody knows that Pelops received an ivory shoulder for the one that was consumed; but the word "shoulder-packt" conveys no meaning. "Shoulder-pieced," i.e., "fitted with an (ivory) shoulder," would be a shade more intelligible; but it is a very ugly compound.