IV, i, 138. _a Consort_--“In the author’s age, the taverns were infested with itinerant bands of musicians, each of which (jointly and individually) was called a noise or _consort_: these were sometimes invited to play for the company, but seem more frequently to have thrust themselves, unasked, into it, with an offer of their services: their intrusion was usually prefaced with, ‘By your leave, gentlemen, will you hear any music?’”--Gifford. IV, i, 145. _of_--formerly sometimes substituted, as here, for _on_ in colloquial usage. So also _on_ for _of_, as in l. 148. Cf. also l. 182. IV, i, 197-8. _’tis Fairies treasure Which but reueal’d brings on the blabbers ruine._--To confide in any one about a fairy’s gift rendered it void, according to popular tradition, and drew down the fairy giver’s anger. In instance, see John Aubrey’s _Remains_ (Reprinted in _Publications of the Folk-Lore Society_, vol. IV, p. 102): “Not far from Sir Bennet Hoskyns, there was a labouring man, that rose up early every day to go to worke; who for a good while many dayes together found a nine-pence in the way that he went. His wife wondering how he came by so much money, was afraid he gott it not honestlye; at last he told her, and afterwards he never found any more.” There are numerous literary allusions to this superstition: e. g., Shakespeare, _The Winter’s Tale_, III, iii, 127, ff.: “This is fairy gold, boy; and ’twill prove so. Up with’t, keep it close.... We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires nothing but secrecy.” And Field himself in _Woman is a Weathercock_, I, i: “I see you labour with some serious thing, And think (like fairy’s treasure) to reveal it, Will cause it vanish.” IV, i, 210-1. _louers periury_, etc.--that Jove laughed at and overlooked lovers’ perjuries was a familiar proverb. Cf. Massinger, _The Parliament of Love_, C-G. 192 a: “Jupiter and Venus smile At lovers’ perjuries;” and Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_, II, ii, 92: “at lovers’ perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.” The saying goes back to Ovid’s _Art of Love_, book I;--as Marlowe has translated it: “For Jove himself sits in the azure skies, And laughs below at lovers’ perjuries.” IV, ii, 71. _On all aduantage take thy life_--i. e., “Taking every advantage of you, kill you.” IV, ii, 84. Such whose bloods wrongs, or wrong done to _themselues_--the Q.’s regular omission of the possessive apostrophe has in this instance confused later editors in their understanding of the passage. We would write _blood’s_,--with the meaning: “Those whom wrongs to kindred or to themselves,” etc. IV, iii, 12. _so_--there is no direct antecedent, but one is easily understandable from the general sense of what precedes; _to be so_--i. e., “as you were in thankfulness to the General.” IV, iv, 10. _it_--another case of a pronoun with antecedent merely implied in the general sense of what precedes; _it_ = “the fact that I am not worthy the looking on, but only,” etc.