[61] A perfume-ball worn round the neck or carried in the pocket. [62] The trials of the Scotch witches in 1590 (for practising to shipwreck James VI. on his return with his bride from Denmark) were too horrible to be soon forgotten. [63] 4to Ape. [64] Quy. cliffe. [65] I suspect that we should read-- "What rock hath bred this savage-minded man That such true love in such rare beautie _shuns_?" [66] 4to. clime. [67] Quy. lead. [68] 4to. _Alp_. [69] Vide note on vol. I, p. 117. [70] The direction in the 4to is "_Enter Flores and Homer_!" [71] Vide note [16]. [72] 4to. craines. [73] Compare _Midsummer Nights Dream_, ii. 1, 15: "And hang a pearl on every cowslip's ear." [74] 4to. where. [75] Not marked in the 4to. [76] 4to. rake. [77] 4to. Sorrowed tired. [78] The 4to prints the lines thus:-- "Where since he found you not, He asked of me the place of your abode,-- And heere I have brought him?" In other passages I have restored the metre silently. [79] Qto. visition. [80] I regret to say that Mr. Fleay was misled by a mistake of mine. In my first hasty reading of the play I took the long double "s" to be a double "f": the character is "La Busse." [81] Mr. C.H. Herford, to whom I showed the MS., writes as follows:-- "The first two words make it highly probable that the whole inscription is, like them, in Italian. In that case the first two Greek letters give very easily the word 'fideltà' (=_phi, delta_), which combines naturally with the _nella_. The second part is more difficult, but perhaps not hopeless. [Greek: fnr] may, perhaps be read _phi ny_ (as Latinised spelling of [Greek: nu]), _rô_, or finirô. Then, for the 'La B.,' suppose that the words form, as emblems often do, a rhymed couplet; then 'B.' would stand for Beltà, and naturally fall in with 'la.' The whole would then read-- '_Nella fideltà_, Finiro la Beltà. This does not seem to me very excellent Italian, but we need not suppose the author was necessarily a good scholar; and in that case we might extract from it the fairly good sense: 'I will make fidelity the end (the accomplishment) of beauty.'" This explanation seems to me very satisfactory. ["'La Bussa' suits my explanation as well as, if not better than 'La Buffa.' The meaning now is, 'I will end my _task_ faithfully, with an equivoque on 'I will end _La Busse_, or the play containing him as a character, faithfully.' There is no shadow of reason for supposing a rhyme, or for Field's thinking that any reader would interpret La B. by _la beltà_. Moreover no other name but Field's out of the 200 known names of dramatic writers anterior to 1640, can be found in the letters. There are other works of Field than those commonly attributed to him still extant, as will be seen in a forthcoming paper of mine." --F.G. FLEAY.] [82] So the MS., but I suspect that we should read "ruyne," which gives better sense and better metre.