[8] [It is difficult to appropriate these initials, unless they belong to Robert Wild.] [9] [The author of "Nocturnal Lucubrations," 1637, the "Swaggering Damsel," 1640, &c.] [10] [Thomas Jordan, the well-known poet and pageant-writer.] [11] [John Gough, author of the "Strange Discovery," 1640.] [12] [Possibly Edward Benlowes.] [13] [The author of these wretched lines was the well-known pageant-writer.] [14] [The writer of these lines does not seem to be otherwise known.] [15] [This writer is not otherwise known.] [16] [Editor of "A. B. D." printed (with old copy) _commandy the all_.] [17] [Evadne alludes, of course, to the old nurse.] [18] [The editor of the "A. B. D." printed _atticke_.] [19] [Probably an intentional corruption (with old copy).] [20] [Former edit., _confess_.] [21] [_Her._--Old copy and "A. B. D."] [22] [Former edit., _their_.] [23] [He alludes to the helmets or casquets of Fulgentio, Alerzo, and Pandolpho, plumed with ostrich feathers.] [24] [He evidently leaves the stage, yet his _Exit_ is not marked.] [25] [Former edit., _our_.] [26] [Former edit., _Assended_.] [27] [Former edit., prints this passage thus-- "See, how he strugles, as if some visions Had assum'd a shape fuller of horrour Than his troubled thoughts."] [28] [Former edit., _strangling_.] [29] [_i.e., Cum suis._] [30] [_Slick_ is not obsolete in the sense of smooth, _clean_; it appears to be identical with _sleek_, and in the present place carries the meaning of softness.] [31] [_i.e._, Medoro, the character so called in the "Orlando Furioso." Trotter has just called Giovanno _Orlando_, which was, by the way, a common name for any mad-brained person, and often occurs in poems and plays.] [32] [Shaken me by the nape of the neck; from _nudder_, the nape.] [33] [The pin of the wheel by which Antonio was to be executed. Aurelia pretends to desire to tread it herself.] [34] [St. James.] [35] [_i.e._, The customary garb.] [36] [_i.e._, An astrologer and a physician.] [37] [Former edition, _vorke_.] [38] [This gibberish is left much as it stands in the old copy.] [39] [The editor of 1810 printed deliberately _sweet must seat me easie_.] [40] [Old copy has _as plain--'tis true_.] [41] [Here used, apparently, in the sense of something of no value, and from the context it may be surmised that _vermin_ is intended.] [42] [Old copy, _a resurrection_.] [43] [_i.e._, Vermin.] [44] [Former edit., _flower_.] [45] [He quotes a passage from the "First Part of Hieronimo," 1605.] [46] [Former edit., _And_.] [47] [_i.e._, The left remnant of thy days.] [48] [Former edit., _unto_.] [49] ["This strange jumble (which it seems was acted with applause) may be taken as the most singular specimen extant of the serious mock-heroic. There is nothing in "The Tailors" itself so ludicrous as the serious parts in which the tailors appear. Nevertheless there are a few happy passages in the play."--_MS. note in a copy of the former edit._]