[131] [There were several Greek _literati_ of this name. Amoretto's page, personating his master, is so nicknamed by the other, who personates Sir Raderic--unless the passage is corrupt.] [132] [Old copy, _Irenias_.] [133] [Old copy, _Nor_.] [134] [Old copy, _we have_.] [135] [Old copy, _run_. Mr Ebsworth's correction.] [136] Old copy, _cluttish_. [137] Old copy, _trus_. [138] One of the old copies reads _repay'st_. [139] Old copy, _seeling_. [140] This play is not divided into acts. [141] [Cadiz.] [142] [Shear-penny.] [143] [Extortion.] [144] [Old copies, _waves_.] [145] [Old copy, _fates to friend_.] [146] [Old copy, _springold_.] [147] [Old copy, as before, _springold_.] [148] [Old copy, _doff off_.] [149] [Old copy, _wat'ry_.] [150] [Resound.] [151] Edit. 1606 has: _Mi Fortunate, ter fortunate Venus_. The 4to of 1623 reads: _Mi Fortunatus, Fortunate Venter_. [152] [Intend.] [153] She means to say eloquence, and so it stands in the edition of 1623. [154] [Robin Goodfellow.] [155] [See p. 286.] [156] [This must allude to some real circumstance and person.] [157] [Attend.] [158] [Bergen-op-Zoom.] [159] [Old copy, _our_.] [160] [Lap, long. See Nares, edit. 1859, _v. Lave-eared_.] [161] [Old copy, _seas_.] [162] [Orcus.] [163] [Worried.] [164] [An answer to a summons or writ. Old copy, _retourner_.] [165] [This most rare edition was very kindly lent to me by the Rev. J.W. Ebsworth, Moldash Vicarage, near Ashford.] [166] [Cromwell did not die till September 3, 1658, a sufficient reason for the absence of the allusion which Reed thought singular.] [167] [i.e., The human body and mind. _Microcosmus_ had been used by Davies of Hereford in the same sense in the title of a tract printed in 1603, as it was afterwards by Heylin in his "Microcosmus," 1621, and by Earle in his "Microcosmography," 1628.] [168] _Skene_ or _skane: gladius, Ensis brevior.--Skinner_. Dekker's "Belman's Night Walk," sig. F 2: "The bloody Tragedies of all these are onely acted by the women, who, carrying long knives or _skeanes_ under their mantles, doe thus play their parts." Again in Warner's "Albion's England," 1602, p. 129-- "And Ganimaedes we are," quoth one, "and thou a prophet trew: And hidden _skeines_ from underneath their forged garments drew, Wherewith the tyrant and his bawds with safe escape they slew." --See the notes of Mr Steevens and Mr Nichols on "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 4. [169] The edition of 1657 reads, _red buskins drawn with white ribband. --Collier_. [170] Musical terms. See notes on "Midsummer's Night's Dream," vol. iii. p. 63, and "King Richard III." vol. vii. p. 6, edit. 1778.--_Steevens_. [171] A metaphor drawn from music, more particularly that kind of composition called a _Ground_, with its _Divisions_. Instead of _relish_, I would propose to read _flourish_.--_S.P_. [172] Mr Steevens supposes this to be a musical term. See note on "Richard II." act ii. sc. 1--