V, iii, 46. _compassion of_--former obsolete construction for “compassion for.” Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry VI, Part I_, IV, i, 56; “Mov’d with compassion of my country’s wreck.” V, iii, 59. _motion_--C., f. read _motion’s_,--an uncalled-for emendation, since ellipsis of _is_ was not infrequent. Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry V_, IV, i, 197: “’Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill [is] upon his own head.” V, iii, 93. _and yet the fault kept from me_--loose construction, not easily parsed, though the sense is clear. V, iii, 98. _As ... to vndergoe_--again a loose construction. It should be, properly: _That ... he would undergo_, etc. V, iii, 107-9. _like the fatall gold_, etc.--In this passage the two leaders of the Gauls known to history by the same name appear to be confounded--(1): Brennus, who sacked Rome in 390 B. C., and consented to withdraw after receiving a large ransom of gold;--and (2): Brennus, who led the irruption of the Gauls into Greece in the second century B. C., and attempted to despoil Delphi of its treasure, but did not succeed in doing so. The fact that their respective expeditions are said to have borne an immediate sequel of disaster and death for both alike, may be responsible for the dramatist’s mistake. V, iii, 131. _homicide_--formerly, as here, = _murderer_. V, iii, 139. _in way of_--in the manner of. V, iii, 144. _the hate betweene his house and mine_--cf. III, i, 416. V, iii, 166. _more presumptions_--C., f. read _mere presumptions_, which is probably correct. An alternative possibility should be noted, however: that _presumptions_ by mis-reading from the Ms. (or by the mere inversion of a _u_) may be a mis-print for presumptious (presumptuous) = _presumptive_, in which case _more_ would be retained, with the passage to mean: “You must find other proofs to strengthen these, and they must, moreover, be of a nature to give more reasonable grounds for presumption.” V, iii, 174-5.--The last two lines of Charalois’ speech are addressed to his judges; what preceded them to Novall. V, iii, 190. _bands_--the emendation _bawds_, proposed by Coxeter and followed by all subsequent editors, seems almost surely correct. “Bawd” prior to 1700 was a term applied to men as well as--and, indeed, more frequently than--to women. Cf. Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, I, iii, 130. V, iii, 190. _tooke_--where the common Elizabethan custom of dropping the _-en_ inflectional ending of the past participle rendered a confusion with the infinitive liable, the past tense of the verb was used for the participle. Cf. Abbott, S. G., § 343. V, iii, 193. _this matron_--i. e., Florimel. V, iii, 205. _in Nouall_--i. e., “in the person of Novall.” V, iii, 207. _Thy challenge now I answere_--this phrase would indicate that Romont crosses swords with Pontalier, and after a moment of fencing runs him through; instead of striking him unawares, as the modern stage direction, “_Stabs Pontalier_,” would imply.