[178] "And bycause some Hares by haunting the lowe watrie places do become foule and mesled, such Hares doe never follow the hard ways nor make such pathes to their formes, but use all their subtleties and pollecies by the sides of the Ryvers, brookes and other waters." Turberville's _Booke of Hunting_ (1575), p. 160. [179] "R.T." took the part. [180] MS. they. [181] "Tho: Po:" (i.e. Thomas Pollard) is written in the right-hand margin. [182] MS. Potents. [183] The part was taken by "G. Lowen." [184] The Wife's part was taken by "Nich", who may possibly be (as Mr. Fleay suggests) Nicholas Tooley; but I suspect that a younger actor than Tooley would have been chosen for the part. [185] "Jo: Rice" took the part. [186] A corruption of Dutch _kermis_ (the annual fair). [187] An ironical expression (very common) of denial or astonishment. [188] _Sc_. merrily (Dutch _lustig_), "Lustick, as the Dutchman says." --_All's Well_, II. 3. [189] A corruption of Dutch _brui_. The meaning is "A plague on his Excellencie!" [190] In the MS. follow two and a half lines, spoken by _Vandort_, and a speech of _Barnavelt's_, twenty-four lines long. These were cancelled on revision. I have succeeded in reading some of the lines; and perhaps after a keener scrutiny the whole passage might become legible. But I have no doubt that the lines were cancelled by the author himself (Massinger?) in order to shorten the scene. [191] Nearly forty lines of dialogue that follow are cancelled in the MS., in order to shorten the scene. [192] Not marked in MS. [193] This passage is marked in pencil, as for omission, in the MS. [194] The words "Upon my soule" are crossed through in the MS. [195] This line and the eleven lines following are marked for omission in the MS. [196] The words "tooke that course That now is practisd on you" are crossed through in the MS., and "cutt of his opposites" substituted in the right-hand margin. [197] In the MS. the words "you can apply this" are crossed through. [198] The words "to a Monarchie" are corrected in the MS. "to another forme." [199] Not marked in MS. [200] Not marked in MS. [201] T[homas] Holc[ombe] took the part. [202] "Mr. Rob." took the part. [203] In the right-hand margin we find the actor's name, "Mr. Bir.," i.e. Bir[ch]. [204] "The quantity of ten of any commodity; as a _dicker_ of hides was ten hides, a _dicker_ of iron ten bars. See 'Fragment. Antiq.,' p. 192. Probably from _decas_, Lat."--Nares. [205] Sc. pumpkin (Fr.). [206] "Dewse-ace. _Deux et az_." Cotgrave. (Cf. _Love's Labour's Lost_, I. 2.) The lowest cast of the dice, two aces, was called "ames ace." [207] Among the Romans the highest cast was called _Venus_ and the lowest _canis_. (Cf. a well-known couplet of Propertius, lib. iv. el. viii. l. 45-- "Me quoque per talos Venerem quaerente secundos Semper damnosi subsiluere canes.") [208] Sc. quatre et trois. [209] Embroidered, figured.