PIERO. Her funeral shall be wealthy; for her name Merits a tomb of pearl. My Lord Antonio, For this time wipe your lady from your eyes; No doubt our grief and yours may one day court it, When we are more familiar with revenge. ANT. That is my comfort, gentlemen, and I joy In this one happiness above the rest, Which will be call'd a miracle at last That, being an old man, I'd a wife so chaste. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [7] ["There is some confusion in the arrangement of this scene. From the duke, &c., passing over the stage, it should be some open part of the duke's palace; but from the reflections on the _skull_, &c., it would appear to be Vendice's private study. But perhaps it was intended to represent _two_ scenes, one _above_ the other, as was frequently done at the period of this play."--_MS. note in one of the former_ _edits._] [8] With a skull in his hand. That he has the skull of his mistress is evident from the whole of the scene. He makes use of it afterwards in act iii.--_Collier._ [9] Luxury was the ancient appropriate term for incontinence. Hence this wanton old duke was called a _luxur_. See Mr Collins's note on "Troilus and Cressida," edit. 1778, ix. 166.--_Steevens._ [10] [Old copy, _palsy_.] [11] [Old copy, _time_.] [12] This is not a name of the _Lues Venerea_, but a comparison only of it to a _mole_, on account of the effects it sometimes produces in occasioning the loss of hair.--_Pegge._ [13] [Old copy, _unnaturally--e'en_.] [14] A phrase in common use, signifying to accompany one. [15] Hitherto [formerly] misprinted _inscription_: _insculption_ is the word in the old quartos.--_Collier._ [16] [Out of place in the mouth of housewives.--_MS. note in one of the former edits._] [17] The entrances and _exits_ of the various characters are very defectively noticed in the old copies, and Mr Reed accurately supplied most of them.--_Collier._ [18] Tourneur has urged this doctrine at greater length in the second act of his "Atheist's Tragedy," 1612.--_Gilchrist._ [19] She means from the highest to the lowest of her sex. At this time women of the inferior order wore _hats_. See Hollar's "Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus," 1640. [20] [Old copy, _honors_.] [21] "Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride a gallop. _Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum._--Claudian. _Il n'est orgueil qui de pauvre enrichi._--Fr. There is no pride to the enriched beggar's. _Il villan nobilitado non conosce il parentado._--Ital. The villain ennobled will not own his kindred or parentage."--[Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 331.] [22] That part of a ring in which the stone is set.--Johnson's "Dictionary." [23] [Old copy, _met_] [24] _i.e._, Sand it, to prevent it from blotting, while the ink was wet.--_Steevens._ [25] _i.e._, compress, embrace her. See Mr Steevens's note on "Macbeth," act v. sc. 5.