I, i, 45. _tooke vp_--borrowed. Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry IV, Part II_, I, ii, 46: “if a man is through with them in honest taking up, they stand upon security.” I, i, 55-6. _Your sable habit, with the hat and cloak ... haue power_--the details of hat, cloak, and ribbons, interposed between subject and verb, have attracted the latter into the plural, to the violation of its agreement with its substantive. I, i, 70. _in that_--i. e., in the fact that justice had no such guards. I, i, 73-7. For the allusion to _Cerberus_ and the _sops_, cf. Virgil’s picture of Aeneas’ journey to Hades (Aeneid, VI, 417-425): “Huge Cerberus makes these realms to resound with barking from his tripple jaws, stretched at his enormous length in a den that fronts the gate. To whom the prophetess, seeing his neck now bristle with horrid snakes, flings a soporific cake of honey and medicated grain. He, in the mad rage of hunger, opening his three mouths, snatches the offered morsel, and, spread on the ground, relaxes his monstrous limbs, and is extended at vast length over all the cave. Aeneas, now that the keeper [of Hell] is buried [in sleep], seizes the passage and swift overpasses the bank of that flood whence there is no return.”--_Davidson’s trans._ I, i, 75. _fertyle headed--many headed_, _fertyle_ is used in the now obsolete sense of _abundant_. I, i, 92. _such, whose_--for the construction, cf. Shakespeare: “Such I will have, whom I am sure he knows not from the enemy.”--_All’s Well_, III, iv, 24. I, i, 99. _men religious_--the adjective is regularly placed after its noun in Eliz. Eng. when the substantive is unemphatic and the modifier not a mere epithet, but essential to the sense. See Abbott, S. G. § 419. I, i, 137-8.--The thought of these lines is undeveloped, the phrasing being broken and disconnected. It is a scornful observation on the part of Romont that whether or not Novall takes papers depends on how the matter is brought before him--and he is about to add that there is a way in which Charalois can manage to gain his point, when he breaks off with the cry, “Follow him!” _Conuayance_ = contrivance. I, i, 164. _parchment toils_--snares in the shape of documents upon parchment, such as bonds, mortgages, etc. I, i, 166. _Luxury_--used here in the modern sense,--not, as more commonly in Elizabethan times, with the meaning, _laciviousness_, _lust_. The thought of the somewhat involved period which ends with this line is, that the creditors prayed only on an occasion when they feared to lose their clutch on some rich spendthrift--on which occasion they would pray to the devil to invent some new and fantastic pleasure which would lure their victim back into the toils.