A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
General
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07
English drama
[500] Old copy, _fill'd_, the compositor's eye, perhaps, having strayed
to the next line.
[501] Strong. See a long note in Nares, edit. 1859, p. 606.
[502] Old copy; _here_.
[503] A room in the Salutation so called.
[504] Guests.
[505] Old copy, _at_.
[506] Old copy, _Raynald_.
[507] [Old copy, _me of_.]
[508] i.e., Terms, as mentioned before. Old copy, _then_.
[509] To _meet with_ is a very common phrase for to _serve_ out,
_requite_.
[510] Skink issues from the hermit's house in the disguise of the man
whom he is supposed to have cured, and as he leaves, addresses parting
words to the hermit within.
[511] Breviary.
[512] Old copy, _them_.
[513] Brand.
[514] Old copy, _of_.
[515] Old copy, _Glo_.
[516] [Old copy, _last_.]
[517] [Old copy, _this_.]
[518] Old copy, _salutes he_.
[519] Old copy, _you for_.
[520] Old copy, _in_.
[521] [Old copy, _we_.]
[522] [Old copy, _we'll_.]
[523] [Old copy, _sighs and songs_.]
[524] In this passage the phrase, _to wear the yellow_, seems hardly to
bear the ordinary construction of, _to be jealous_.
[525] Old copy, _pining_.
[526] Old copy gives this line to the lady, i.e., the merchant's wife.
[527] This seems to be some popular and well-understood allusion--well
understood then, but now obscure enough; nor does Steevens's explanation
help us much. See "Pop. Antiq. of Gr. Britain," 1870, iii. 322.
[528] An allusion to an old proverb.
[529] Old copy gives this line to Gloster.
[530] Old copy, _weak_.
[531] Halliwell says, "a squall."
[532] Fear.
[533] Old copy, _wray_.
[534] Old copy, _not thou art_.
[535] i.e., Gloster, disguised also as a hermit.
[536] Old copy, _he's_.
[537] Old copy gives as the stage-direction here merely, _Enter John_.
[538] Old copy, _Lan_.
[539] Compare "First Part of Jeronimo," vol. iv., p. 349, and the note.
[540] [Old copy, _breath_.]
[541] [Compare Courthope's "Historic Peerage," 1857, _v_. Hereford.]
[542] [In allusion to the proverb, _Threatened men live long_.]
[543] [Old copy, _William_.]
[544] Old copy, _them_.
[545] Something seems to have dropped out of the text.
[546] I do not find this phrase anywhere.
[547] Old copy, _may_.
[548] i.e., Gloster.
[549] There is an evident corruption here. Query, _Life kneels to
thrones_.
[550] Old copy, _thy_.
[551] Old copy, _not_.
[552] Old copy, _is_.
[553] Old copy, _set_.
[554] i.e., _Mort de Dieu_.
[555] Old copy, _ye_.
[556] Old copy, _Sarasons_.
[557] An exclamation of doubtful meaning and origin. See a long note in
Nares, edit. 1859, _v. Rivo_.
[558] Old copy, _for_.
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