_Nor_ the false scabbard of a Princ_e's_ tough _Metal_ and three-piled darkness like the slough. Some fight might be made for 'Metal', but 'Nor' is indefensible. I am half inclined to transfer it above to l. 52 and take 'No' thence. The text, which is _1677_, is I suppose a correction. Both _1647_ texts mark 'slough' with an asterisk, and have a marginal note 'A damp in coal-pits usual'.] [Line: 57 I cannot understand what Mr. Berdan--who prints 'Fawkes'--means by saying it is not authorized by any edition, whereas his own apparatus gives 'Faux' in every one. It is a mere question of spelling. 'Three-piled darkness' equally surrounds to me his further remark that he 'adopted it as the only reading approximating sense; _treason in grain_'. The metaphor of the dark lantern cloaked is surely clear enough; and this 'in grain' is one of the innumerable passages showing the rashness of invariably interpreting 'in grain' as = 'with the grain of the cochineal insect'. Beyond all doubt it has the simple sense of _penitus_, 'inward'.] [Line: 58 bright] high _1647_, _1653_.] [Line: 59 the Warwick Castle vote] The Resolution of the Commons on May 6, 1646, that the King, after the Scots sold him, should be lodged in Warwick Castle.] [Lines: 61-2 Not in _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ and its group, but added in _1677_.] [Line: 63 _1647_, _1651_, _1653_ '_Thy_ visage'.] [Line: 67 _1677_ has the very considerable and not at once acceptable alteration of 'thatch a poet's plot'. But it may have been Cleveland.] [Line: 72 _1647_, _1651_, again give an asterisked note, 'Britanicus', showing the definite, not general, reference of 'Hue and Cry'. It seems that _Mercurius Britannicus_ did issue a 'Hue and Cry' after the King, for which the editor, Captain Audley, was put in the Gate-house till he apologized.] [Line: 75 _1651_ 'wreath', corrupted into 'wrath' in _1653_.] [Line: 76 Blount stupidly thought 'callow' to mean 'lewd or wicked', as if 'unfledged' did not ratify the usual sense.] [Line: 80 breeds] brings _1647_, _1651_.] [Line: 83 _Si quis_] The first words of a formal inquiry as to disqualifications in a candidate for orders, &c. It would apply to the Hue and Cry itself.] [Line: 85 It being a favourite Puritan trick to identify 'Royalist' with 'Papist'. 'Date' apparently in the sense of 'begin', which it usually has only as neuter.] [Line: 89 puzzling] _1677_ and its followers 'purling', with no sense.] [Line: 95 _1677_ 'The second view' and 'wipes'.] [Line: 106 Bristol] as of diamonds.] [Line: 109 coffer] cipher _1677_, &c.] [Line: 110 opes] ope _1677_.] [Line: 116 'Charles' _1677_: _1647_, _1651_, _1653,_ by a clear error 'Charles's'.]