III, i, 352. _So I not heard them_--Abbott explains this construction, not uncommon in the Elizabethan period, as an omission of the auxiliary verb “do” (S. G. § 305). But here the main verb is _heard_, whereas, according to his explanation, grammar would require _hear_. May not the construction be better taken as a simple, though to our ears cumbrous, inversion of, _So I heard them not_? III, i, 366. _cause_--affair, business--so also in III, i, 377. III, i, 388. _Calenture_--a disease incident to sailors within the tropics; a burning fever. III, i, 428-9. _flegme ... choller_--in the old physiologies the predominance of the “humour, phlegm,” was held to cause constitutional indolence or apathy,--the predominance of “choler” to cause irascibility. III, i, 432. _’em_--grammatical precision would require _him_, as is substituted in M., f. In Field’s rapid, loose style, however, a change of construction in mid-sentence is not improbable, and the Q. reading may very well reproduce accurately what he wrote. III, i, 441. _thou curious impertinent_--the epithet is from _The Curious Impertinent_ of Cervantes, a story imbedded in _Don Quixote, Part I_. III, i, 463. _I not accuse_--cf. note on l. 354. III, i, 467. _Ere liue--Ere I should live_ is required in full by strict grammar, but Field’s verse is frequently elliptical. Gifford’s emendation to _lived_ for the sake of grammatical regularity, which is followed by all later editors, is unwarranted. III, i, 467. _mens marginall fingers_--the figure is an allusion to the ancient custom of placing an index hand in the margin of books, to direct the reader’s attention to a striking passage. So does Romont picture men’s fingers pointing to the story of Charalois as a noteworthy and lamentable thing. Cf. IV, i, 56. III, i, 469-470. _An Emperour put away his wife for touching Another man._--The source of this allusion is not apparent. Can it be a perversion in the mind of Field of the story of Caesar’s divorce of his wife, to which Massinger has already referred above (l. 148)? IV, i, 3. _a flaxe_--the flax wick of a lamp or candle. IV, i, 3. _a red headed womans chamber_--Since early times red-haired individuals have been supposed to emit an emanation having a powerful sexually exciting influence. In the Romance countries, France and Italy, this belief is universally diffused.--Iwan Block: _The Sexual Life of our Time_--transl. by Eden Paul--p. 622. Cf. also Gabrielle D’Annunzio: _Il Piacere_, p. 90: “‘Have you noticed the armpits of Madame Chrysoloras? Look!’” “The Duke di Beffi indicated a dancer, who had upon her brow, white as a marble of Luni, a firebrand of red tresses, like a priestess of Alma Tadema. Her bodice was fastened on the shoulders by mere ribbons, and there were revealed beneath the armpits two luxuriant tufts of red hair. “Bomminaco began to discourse upon the peculiar odour which red-haired women have.”