[83] The next line, as in many instances, has been cut away at the foot of the page. [84] "The _close contriver_ of all harms."--Macbeth, iii. 5. [85] "The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his _uneffectual fire_."--Hamlet, i. 5. [86] "Blacke and blewe," i.e., first as a kitchen-drudge and afterwards as a personal attendant. Blue was the livery of serving-men. [87] It is not always easy to distinguish between final "s" and "e" in the MS. I printed "blesseing_e_" in the Appendix to vol. II. [88] Devices on shields. [89] A baser sort of hawk (kestrel). [90] A word before or after "thys" seems wanted to complete the line: "yet, _Richard_, thys;" or, "yet thys disgrace." [91] Gervase Markham in the Second Part (cap. vi.) of the "English Husbandman" gives the following explanation of the term _plashing_.--"This plashing is a halfe cutting or deviding of the quicke growth, almost to the outward barke, and then laying it orderly in a sloape manner, as you see a cunning hedger lay a dead hedge, and then with the smaller and more plyant branches to wreathe and binde in the tops, making a fence as strong as a wall, for the root which is more then halfe cut in sunder, putting forth new branches which runne and entangle themselves amongst the old stockes, doe so thicken and fortifie the Hedge that it is against the force of beasts impregnable" (ed. 1635, pp. 68-9). [92] The first five lines of this speech are crossed through in the MS. [93] In the MS. "reverend prelats" is crossed out and "preists" written above. To make sure that the correction was understood, the author or reviser has written in the left-hand margin, "read preists." [94] i.e., star. [95] "Brawl" was the name of a dance. [96] Old terms in the art of fencing. [97] In Halliwell's "Nares" two instances of the transitive use of stoop ("to lower, humiliate") are given, and _both are from Chapman_. [98] On the upper stage, a balcony raised a few feet from the ground. Cf. stage-direction in Day's _Humour out of Breath_, iv. 3. "_Enter Aspero, like Hortensio, Florimell, and Assistance on the upper stage_." Later in the same scene: "_They renew Blind mans Buff on the Lower stage_." See also Dyce's note on Middleton's _Family of Love_, i. 3. [99] A correction in the MS. for _Musquett_. [100] In the Appendix to Vol. II. I printed "misse"; and so one would naturally read the word before becoming thoroughly acquainted with the handwriting. [101] The words "so begett" are repeated in the MS. [102] i.e. prisons. [103] MS. good. [104] The expression "Fool's paradise" was common long before Milton used it. A writer in _Notes and Queries_ (Jan. 7, 1882) gives instances of its occurrence in Udall's "Apophthegmes of Erasmus," 1542. I have met it in Bullein's "Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence," 1564.