"Some, well I wot, and of that sum full many, Wisht or my _faire_ or their desire were lesse." --_Scilla's Metamorphosis_, 1589. See also note to "The Wounds of Civil War" (vol. vii. p. 118). Shakespeare may be cited in many places besides the following-- "My decayed _fair_ A sunny look of his would soon repair." --_Comedy of Errors_, act ii. sc. 1. See Steevens's note on the above passage. [300] The King calls him in the old copy _good Oxford_, but Oxford is not present, and from what follows we see that the command was given to Salisbury. The same mistake is again made by Hubert in this scene. Salisbury must be pronounced _Sal'sb'ry_. [301] [Accepted.] [302] [Old copy, _muddy_.] [303] [A very unusual phrase, which seems to be used here in the sense of _masculine passions or properties_.] [304] In the old copy it stands thus-- "Yes, but I do: I think not Isabel, Lord, The worse for any writing of Brunes." [In the MS. both Lord and Le were probably abbreviated into L., and hence the misprint, as well as misplacement, in the first line.] [305] [i.e., You may count on her wealth as yours. We now say to build _on_, but to build _of_ was formerly not unusual.] [306] See the notes of Dr Johnson, Steevens, and other commentators on the words in the "Comedy of Errors," act ii. sc. 1--"Poor I am but his _stale_." [See also Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," 1868, in v.] [307] The stage directions are often given very confusedly, and (taken by themselves) unintelligibly, in the old copy, of which this instance may serve as a specimen: it stands thus in the 4to--"_Enter Fitzwater and his son Bruce, and call forth his daughter_." [308] [A feeder of the Wye. Lewis's "Book of English Rivers," 1855, p. 212.] [309] Alluding most likely to the "Andria" of Terence, which had been translated [thrice] before this play was acted; the first time [in 1497, again about 1510, and the third time] by Maurice Kiffin in 1588. [The former two versions were anonymous. See Hazlitt's "Handbook," p. 605.] [310] _Holidom_ or _halidom_, according to Minsheu (Dict. 1617), is "an old word used by old country-women, by manner of swearing by my _halidome_; of the Saxon word _haligdome, ex halig, sanctum_, and _dome, dominium aut judicium_." Shakespeare puts it into the mouth of the host in the "Two Gentlemen of Verona," act iv. sc. 2. [311] The entrance of Richmond clearly takes place here, but in the 4to he is said to come in with Leicester. [312] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," p. 22.] [313] [In the 4to and former editions this and the following nine words are given to Richmond.] [314] Meaning that her father Fitzwater [takes her, she having declined to pair off with the king.] The whole account of the mask is confused in the old copy, and it is not easy to make it much more intelligible in the reprint.