Again, in the "First Part of Jeronimo," 1605-- "And let not wonted fealty be _denayed_." And in "Gammer Gurton's Needle"-- "Loke, as I have promised, I will not _denay_ it." --_Collier_. [63] _Prease_ signifies _a crowd or multitude, or any assemblage of a number of persons_. So in "Damon and Pithias," vol. iv., pp. 49, 53-- "The King is at hand, stand close in _the prease_, beware," &c. And ibid.-- "Away from the prisoner, what a _prease_ have we here!" Again, in the "History of Euordanus Prince of Denmark," 1605, sig. H: "The Prince passing forwards sorely shaken, having lost both his stirrups: at length recovering himselfe, entred _the prease_, where on all sides he beate downe knights, and unbarred helms." [It must be repeated, once for all, that such totally unnecessary notes as this have been retained only from a reluctance to impart to these volumes the character of an abridged or mutilated republication.] [64] [Draweth.] [65] _Raught_ is the ancient preterite of the word _reach_. It is frequently used by Spenser, Shakespeare, and other ancient writers. [66] [Old copy, _where her_.] [67] [Reward.] [68] Alluding to the vulture that gnawed the liver of Titius. In "Ferrex and Porrex," act ii. sc. 1, is this line-- "Or cruell gripe to gnaw my groaning hart." --_Reed_. The allusion is rather to the vulture of Prometheus. --Steevens. [69] _Vipeream inspirans animam_. The image is from Virgil. Rowe likewise adopts it in his "Ambitious Stepmother"-- "And send a _snake_ to every vulgar breast."--_Steevens_. [70] i.e., The wretch. The word _miser_ was anciently used without comprehending any idea of avarice. See note on "King Henry VI, Part I.," edit. of Shakespeare, 1778, vol. vi. p. 279.--_Steevens_. [71] "A _stoop_, or _stowp_; a post fastened in the earth, from the Latin _stupa_."--Ray's "North Country Words," p. 58, edit. 1742. [72] Not that she is careful or anxious about, or regrets the loss of this life. So in Milton's "Paradise Lost," Bk. ix. line 171-- "Revenge at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils; Let it; _I reck not_, so it light well aim'd." And again, in the "History of Sir John Oldcastle," 1600-- "I _reck_ of death the less in that I die, Not by the sentence of that envious priest." [73] Petrarch and Laura.