[193] Henslowe, in his Diary, mentions a play [by Martin Slaughter] called "Alexander and Lodwicke," under date of 14th Jan. 1597, and in Evans's "Collection of Old Ballads," 1810, there is a ballad with the same title, and no doubt upon the same story.--_Collier._ [It is the same tale as "Amis and Amiloun." See Hazlitt's "Shakespeare's Library," 1875, introd. to "Pericles."] [194] So in "King Richard III."-- "Thou troublest me: I am not in the vein." --_Steevens._ [195] [Compare pp. 230-1.] [196] [Compare p. 206.] [197] [Compare p 206.] [198] [The author had a well-known passage in Shakespeare in his recollection when he wrote this. The edits, read-- "His hell, his habitation; nor has he Any other local place."] [199] [Edits., _men_.] [200] [_i.e._, The pox.] [201] Reed observes: "A parody on a line from 'The Spanish Tragedy'-- "'O eyes! no eyes; but fountains fraught with tears,'" on which Mr Collier writes: "If a parody be intended, it is not a very close one. The probability is, that the line is quoted by Rash from some popular poem of the day." It would be just as reasonable to call the following opening of a sonnet by Sir P. Sidney a parody upon a line in the "Spanish Tragedy"-- "O tears! no tears; but rain from beauty's skies." In fact, it was a common mode of expression at the time. Thus in "Albumazar," we have this exclamation-- "O lips! no lips; but leaves besmeared with dew." [202] See note to "Cornelia," [_v._ 225.] [203] These lines are taken from Marlowe's "Hero and Leander," 4º 1600, sig. B 3, [or Dyce's Marlowe, iii. 15.] [204] Again, in "Cynthia's Revels," act v. sc. 3: "From _stabbing of arms_, flapdragons, healths, whiffs, and all such swaggering humours, good Mercury defend us," [edit. 1816, ii. 380. This custom continued long after the writing of this play. The writer of "The Character of England" [Evelyn], 1659, p. 37, speaking of the excessive drinking then in use, adds, "Several encounters confirmed me that they were but too frequent, and that there was a sort of perfect debauchees, who style themselves Hectors; that, in their mad and unheard-of revels, _pierce their own veins, to quaff their own blood_, which some of them have drunk to that excess that they have died of the intemperance."--_Reed._ [205] Alluding to the story of Friar Bacon's brazen head.--_Collier._ [206] The colour of servants' clothes. [207] ["This is a most spirited and clever scene, and would act capitally."--_MS. note in one of the former edits._] [208] [Edits., _are_.] [209] [Edits., _and_.] [210] A Jack o' Lent was a puppet which was thrown at in _Lent_, like Shrovetide cocks. See Mr Steevens's notes on "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii. sc. 3, and act v. sc. 5. [211] The whole of this scene seems levelled at Coriat.--_Gilchrist._ [212] Opportunely.--_Steevens._