[Footnote 181: foil] The old eds. "soil."] [Footnote 182: gat] So the 8vo.--The 4to "got."] [Footnote 183: pilling] i.e. plundering.] [Footnote 184: British] So the 4to.--The 8vo "brightest."] [Footnote 185: martial] So the 8vo.--The 4to "materiall."] [Footnote 186: Awake, ye men of Memphis!] These words are put into the mouth of Judas, in Fletcher's BONDUCA, at the commencement of act ii.; and in Fletcher's WIT WITHOUT MONEY, act v. sc. 2. we find "thou man of Memphis."] [Footnote 187: basilisks] Pieces of ordnance so called. They were of immense size; see Douce's ILLUST. OF SHAKESPEARE, i. 425.] [Footnote 188: monstrous] To be read as a trisyllable.] [Footnote 189: Or ever-drizzling] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Or drisling."] [Footnote 190: should] So the 4to.--The 8vo "shal."] [Footnote 191: he devil] So the 8vo.--The 4to "he THE deuill."] [Footnote 192: Arabian king] Scil. Alcidamus: see p. 10, l. 9, sec. col. (Page 10, Second Column, Line 9, This Play: "Where her betrothed lord, Alcidamus,")] [Footnote 193: it] So the 4to.--Omitted in the 8vo.] [Footnote 194: it should] So the 4to.--The 8vo "should it."] [Footnote 195: this] So the 8vo.--The 4to "it."] [Footnote 196: into] So the 4to.--The 8vo "vnto."] [Footnote 197: heart] So the 4to.--The 8vo "soul."] [Footnote 198: stoop] Qy. "stoop, STOOP"?] [Footnote 199: your] Old eds. "their."--Compare the tenth line of the speech.] [Footnote 200: to] So the 8vo.--The 4to "on."] [Footnote 201: brent] i.e. burnt. So the 8vo.--The 4to "burnt."] [Footnote 202: kings] So the 8vo.--The 4to "king."] [Footnote 203: from] So the 4to.--The 8vo "in."] [Footnote 204: then, for you] So the 4to.--The 8vo "for you then."] [Footnote 205: stark nak'd] Compare (among many passages which might be cited from our early poets),-- "rather on Nilus' mud Lay me STARK NAK'D, and let the water-flies Blow me into abhorring!" Shakespeare's ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, act v. sc. 2. (where the modern editors print "naked.")] [Footnote 206: dignities] So the 8vo.--The 4to "dignitie."] [Footnote 207: whiles] So the 8vo.--The 4to "while."] [Footnote 208: shalt] So the 4to.--The 8vo "shal."] [Footnote 209: grace] Olds eds. "grac'd."] [Footnote 210: stature] So the 8vo.--The 4to "statue:" but again, in the SECOND PART of this play, act ii. sc. 4, we have, according to the 8vo-- "And here will I set up her STATURE." and, among many passages that might be cited from our early authors, compare the following; "The STATURES huge, of Porphyrie and costlier matters made." Warner's ALBIONS ENGLAND, p. 303. ed. 1596. "By them shal Isis STATURE gently stand." Chapman's BLIND BEGGER OF ALEXANDRIA, 1598, sig. A 3. "Was not Anubis with his long nose of gold preferred before Neptune, whose STATURE was but brasse?" Lyly's MIDAS, sig. A 2. ed. 1592.] [Footnote 211: bird] i.e. the ibis.] [Footnote 212: are] Old eds. "is."]