[159] _Jest_ was used by our ancestors in various senses, but here it means a deed or action only; thus Sir T. Elyot, as Mr Todd notes, speaks of "the _jests_ or acts of princes and captains." In fact, this is the general signification of the term, though it has sometimes a more particular application. _Gest_ and _jest_ are the same word, though now and then distinguished. [160] Old copy, _floats_. [161] Old copy, _lo_. [162] Old copy, _yea_. By _She_ Sylla must be understood to refer to Fate, whom he has just mentioned. [163] [Old copy, _while_.] [164] i.e., _Verse_. [165] See vol. iv. p. 80, respecting the _razors of Palermo.--Collier_. [Mr Collier's suggested retention of _shave_, the reading of the old copy, I cannot support.] [166] "_Phlegon's_ hot breath" is mentioned in "Fuimus Troes;" one of the horses of the sun was so named. [167] [Old copy, _fairs_.] [168] From the edition of 1610. It is not in the first 4°. [169] In the edition of 1610 the number of performers is raised to ten. The two additional characters are the _King of Valentia_ and _Anselmo_. [170] Perhaps the earliest instance of the use of this expression, as to which see "Old English Jest-Books," 1864, iii.; "Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson," Introd. [171] [The 4° of 1610 makes Tremelio enter here; but he does not appear to come on till afterwards.] [172] [Old copies, _Catalone, a_.] [173] [Old copies, _Oh_.] [174] Old copies, hardly I did oft. [175] Old copies, _on_. [176] Edit. 1598, _Therefore to_. Edit. 1610, _There for to_. [177] Edit. 1598 and 1610, _hath forget_. [178] Edits, transpose the two commencing words of this line, and the first word of the preceding one. [179] Edits., _say_. [180] Anticipated. Old copies read _we_ for _me_. [181] Old copy, _are_ [182] Old copies, _her_. [183] Edit. 1610, _attend_. [184] Edit. 1610, _axe_. [185] Old copies, _his_. [186] Edit. 1598, _Wily_; edit. 1610, _wilde_. [187] Old copies, _his Bremo_. [188] Edits., _ah, hermit_! [189] Edits., _fair lady_. [190] Edits., _this is_. [191] In the old copies there is here a direction, _He disguiseth himself_, which appears wrong, as Mucedorus is already disguised, and what he next does is, in fact, to discover himself. [192] Edits., _none, none, no_. [193] Edit. 1620, _sacred_. [194] Old copies, _look_. [195] Edit. 1598, _paled_; 1106, _pallade_. [196] Edit. 1610, _strike_. [197] After this line, in the edition of 1610, occurs the following substitution for the lines in edit. 1598, beginning "Ho, lords," and concluding with "Exeunt omnes:"-- Were but thy father, the Valentia lord, Present in view of this combining knot. _A shout within. Enter a_ MESSENGER. What shout was that? MESSENGER. My lord, the great Valentia king, Newly arrived, entreats your presence. MUCEDORUS. My father?