"High spirits soaring still at great attempts, And such whose wisdomes, to their other wrongs, Distaste the basenesse of the government." p. 62, l. 15. 4to. are we; MS. arowe. p. 66, l. 4 "Sed quis custodiet ipsos || Custodes. Juvenal"--noted in margin of MS. p. 68, l. 15. 4to. Galley-asses? MS. gallowses. p. 69, l. 1. The MS. makes the difficulty even greater by reading-- "Silver colour [sic] on the _Medaean_ fields Not _Tiber_ colour." p. 75, l. 2. 4to. One that in whispering oreheard; MS. one that this fellow whispring I oreharde. p. 78, l. 22. 4to. from whence _it_ first let down; MS. from whence _at_ first let down. p. 80. In note (1) for "Eilius Italicus" read "Silius Italicus." p. 127. In note (2) for "_Henry IV_" read _I Henry IV_. p. 182, l. 6. Dele [?]. The sense is quite plain if we remember that soldiers degraded on account of misconduct were made "pioners": vid. commentators on _Othello_, iii. 3. Hence "pioner" is used for "the meanest, most ignorant soldier." p. 228. In note (2) for "earlle good wine" read "Earlle good-wine." p. 236. In note (2) after "[Greek: _staphis_] and" add "[Greek: _agria_]." p. 255. The lines "To the reader of this Play" are also found at the end of T. Heywood's "Royal King and Loyal Subject." p. 257, l. 1. I find (on turning to Mr. Arbor's _Transcript_) that the _Noble Spanish Souldier_ had been previously entered on the Stationers' Registers (16 May, 1631), by John Jackman, as a work of Dekker's. Since the sheets have been passing through the press, I have become convinced that Dekker's share was more considerable than I was willing to allow in the prefatory _Note_. p. 276. Note (2) is misleading; the reading of the 4to "flye-boat" is no doubt right. "Fly-boat" comes from Span. filibote, flibote--a fast-sailing vessel. The Dons hastily steer clear of the rude soldier. p. 294. In note (1) for "Bayford ballads" read "Bagford Ballads." THE TRAGEDY OF NERO, _Newly Written_. Imprinted at _London_ by _Augustine Mathewes_, and _John Norton_, for _Thomas Jones_, and are to bee sold at the blacke Raven in the Strand, 1624. The Tragedie of Nero. _Actus Primus_. Enter _Petronius Arbyter, Antonius Honoratus_. _Petron_. Tush, take the wench I showed thee now, or else some other seeke. What? can your choler no way be allayed But with Imperiall tytles? Will you more tytles[1] unto _Caesar_ give? _Anto_. Great are thy fortunes _Nero_, great thy power, Thy Empyre lymited with natures bounds; Upon thy ground the Sunne doth set and ryse; The day and night are thine, Nor can the Planets, wander where they will, See that proud earth that feares not _Caesars_ name. Yet nothing of all this I envy thee; But her, to whom the world unforst obayes, Whose eye's more worth then all it lookes upon; In whom all beautyes Nature hath enclos'd That through the wide Earth or Heaven are dispos'd.