"The setting sun and music at the close." [173] Fr. for whistlings.--_Steevens_. [174] i.e., Petitionary.--_Steevens_. [175] [Altered by Mr Collier to _girls_; but _gulls_ is the reading of 1607.] [176] _Like an ordinary page, gloves, hamper_--so the first edition; but as the two last words seem only the prompter's memoranda, they are omitted. They are also found in the last edition.--_Collier_. [177] Ready. [178] Graceful. See Mr Malone's note on "Coriolanus," act ii. sc. 1. [179] [Edits., _blasting_.] I would propose to read the _blushing childhood_, alluding to the ruddiness of Aurora, the _rosy morn_, as in act iii. sc. 6-- "Light, the fair grandchild to the glorious sun, Opening the casements of the _rosy morn_," &c. --_S. Pegge_. [180] So in "Hamlet," act i. sc. 1-- "But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, _Walks_ o'er the dew of _yon high eastern hill_." [181] A _fool's bauble_, in its _literal_ meaning, is the carved truncheon which the licensed fools or jesters anciently carried in their hands. See notes on "All's Well that Ends Well," act iv. sc. 5. --_Steevens_. [182] Winstanley has asserted that Oliver Cromwell performed the part of Tactus at Cambridge: and some who have written the life of that great man have fixed upon this speech as what first gave him ideas of sovereignty. The notion is too vague to be depended upon, and too ridiculous either to establish or refute. It may, however, not be unnecessary to mention that Cromwell was born in 1599, and the first edition of this play [was printed in 1607, and the play itself written much earlier]. If, therefore, the Protector ever did represent this character, it is more probable to have been at Huntingdon School. [183] [Old copies, _scarve_, and so the edit. of 1780. Mr Collier substituted _change_ as the reading of the old copies, which it is not. See Mr Brae's paper read before the Royal Society of Literature, Jan. 1871, 8vo edit. 1873, p. 23, et seq.] [184] Edits., _deeds_. Pegge thought that by _deeds_ was intended Tactus himself; but it is hard to say how this could be made out, as Tactus cannot be translated _deeds_, though Auditus might be rendered by metonymy _ears_. [185] [Edit., _fear'd_.] [186] In Surphlet's "Discourses on the Diseases of Melancholy," 4to, 1599, p. 102, the case alluded to is set down: "There was also of late a great lord, _which thought himselfe to be a glasse_, and had not his imagination troubled, otherwise then in this onely thing, for he could speake mervailouslie well of any other thing: he used commonly to sit, and tooke great delight that his friends should come and see him, but so as that he would desire them, that they would not come neere unto him." [187] Hitherto misprinted _conclaves_.--_Collier_. [First 4to, correctly, _concaves_.] [188] See Surphlet, p. 102. [189] [An allusion to the myth of the werewolf.] [190] [This proverb is cited by Heywood. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 392.]