=283=, 61-3. =y'have a brother to . . . on him.= Louis de Lorraine, youngest brother of the Duke of Guise, became Archbishop of Rheims in 1574, and Cardinal in 1578. =286=, 33-4. =the sword . . . life.= Cf. _Bussy D'Ambois_, V, iv, 114-118. =286=, 41-2. =Hee will lie . . . shee cryes.= This habit of the lapwing gave the bird an evil reputation as a symbol of deceitfulness. Cf. _Measure for Measure_, I, iv, 32. Though 'tis my familiar sin With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest, Tongue far from heart. For a sarcastic hit at a different trick of the lapwing, cf. _Hamlet_, V, ii, 174. =289=, 85. =[Enter Renel, the Countess, and] Charlotte above.= The addition of the bracketed words is necessary, as the Q gives no indication of the entrance of these two characters. They appear with Charlotte "above," i. e. in a gallery at the back of the stage. When Charlotte, enraged at Clermont's slowness in dispatching Montsurry, "gets downe" (l. 87), they remain in the gallery unobserved. =291=, 125-7. =That the Shatillions ghost . . . death.= Gaspar de Chatillon, better known as Admiral de Coligny, the champion of the Huguenot party, was murdered during "the Massacre of St. Bartholomew," on Aug. 24, 1572, at the instigation of the Duke of Guise. =293=, 161. =I . . . descend.= Renel and the Countess have overheard from the gallery (cf. note on l. 85) Clermont's speech, and Renel, realising that it foreshadows suicide, descends in the hope of preventing this. But, as he has to lead his blind companion, his progress is slow, and when they "enter" the main stage (l. 203), it is too late. APPENDIX A DE LA MORT PITOYABLE DU VALEUREUX LYSIS Under this title, in the 17th of the series of tales founded on fact which he calls _Les Histoires Tragiques de Nostre Temps_, François de Rosset relates in 1615 the story of Bussy's death. In the Preface to the volume he declares: "Ce ne sont pas des contes de l'Antiquité fabuleuse . . . Ce sont des histoires autant veritables que tristes et funestes. Les noms de la pluspart des personnages sont seulement desguisez en ce Théatre, à fin de n'affliger pas tant les familles de ceux qui en ont donné le suject, puis qu'elles en sont assez affligées." We thus find that the outlines of the story of "Lysis" tally with what we know about Bussy from other sources, and Rosset not improbably preserves details omitted by the historians of the period.