So in "Every Woman in her Humour," 1609: "And the little God of love, he shall be her captain: sheele sewe under him _'till death us depart_, and thereto I plight thee my troth." And Heywood, in his "Wise Woman of Hogsdon," iii., makes Chastley also quote from the marriage ceremony: "If every new moone a man might have a new wife, that's every year a dozen; but this _'till death us depart_ is tedious." [343] [Edits., _two sentinels_.] [344] Edits., _them one_. [345] [Edits., _lives_.] [346] [Remind.] [347] [Edits., _know him great_, which could only be made sense by supposing it to mean, _knowing him rich_, and not a person to be offended. Scarborow afterwards repudiates the idea of being _ungrateful_.] [348] By a misprint the three following lines have been till now given to Harcop.--_Collier_. [349] [Edits., _your presence_.] [350] First edit., _even_. [351] [Edits., _is_.] [352] [Edits., _what_.] [353] That is, acquainted, or informed him. So in "Every Man in his Humour," act i. sc. 5, Bobadil says, "_Possess_ no gentleman of our acquaintance with notice of my lodging." And again, in Beaumont and Fletcher's "Honest Man's Fortune," act ii. sc. 1-- "Sir, I am very well _possess'd_ of it." [354] Edits. 1629 [and 1637], _honoured_. [355] First edit., _how_. [356] [Edits., _they_.] [357] The word _sir_ was inserted here as if only to spoil the measure. --_Collier_. [358] i.e., Amerce.--_Steevens_. [359] [i.e., the bond.] [360] [Edits., _pergest_, which Steevens in a note explained _goeth on_, from Lat. _pergo_; and Nares cites the present passage for the word. I do not believe that it was ever employed in English, though Shakespeare uses the original Latin once. _Purgest_ is surely preferable, since Ilford has been just giving a list of those he has undone.] [361] [Apparently a play on the double meaning of _talent_ is intended.] [362] [Bonds.] [363] In a similar vein of humour, but much more exquisite, Addison, speaking of Sir Roger de Coverley, says, "He told me some time since that, upon his courting the perverse widow, he had disposed of an hundred acres in a diamond ring, which he would have presented her with, had she thought fit to accept it; and that upon her wedding-day she should have carried on her head fifty of the tallest oaks upon his estate. He further informed me that he would have given her a coalpit to keep her in clean linen; that he would have allowed her the profits of a windmill for her fans, and have presented her once in three years with the shearing of his sheep for her under-petticoats."--_Spectator_, No. 295.