[Footnote 30: Turk has: So the Editor of 1826.--Old ed. "Turkes haue": but see what follows.] [Footnote 31: Ego mihimet sum semper proximus: The words of Terence are "Proximus sum egomet mihi." ANDRIA, iv. 1. 12.] [Footnote 32: Exit: The scene is now supposed to be changed to the interior of the Council-house.] [Footnote 33: bassoes: i.e. bashaws.] [Footnote 34: governor: Old ed. "Gouernours" here, and several times after in this scene.] [Footnote 35: CALYMATH. Stand all aside, &c.: "The Governor and the Maltese knights here consult apart, while Calymath gives these directions." COLLIER (apud Dodsley's O. P.).] [Footnote 36: happily: i.e. haply.] [Footnote 37: Officer: Old ed. "Reader."] [Footnote 38: denies: i.e. refuses.] [Footnote 39: convertite: "i.e. convert, as in Shakespeare's KING JOHN, act v. sc. 1." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).] [Footnote 40: Then we'll take, &c.: In the old ed. this line forms a portion of the preceding speech.] [Footnote 41: ecstasy: Equivalent here to--violent emotion. "The word was anciently used to signify some degree of alienation of mind." COLLIER (apud Dodsley's O. P.).] [Footnote 42: Exeunt three Jews: On their departure, the scene is supposed to be changed to a street near the house of Barabas.] [Footnote 43: reduce: If the right reading, is equivalent to--repair. But qy. "redress"?] [Footnote 44: fond: "i.e. foolish." REED (apud Dodsley's O. P.).] [Footnote 45: portagues: Portuguese gold coins, so called.] [Footnote 46: sect: "i.e. sex. SECT and SEX were, in our ancient dramatic writers, used synonymously." REED (apud Dodsley's O. P.).] [Footnote 47: Enter FRIAR JACOMO, &c.: Old ed. "Enter three Fryars and two Nuns:" but assuredly only TWO Friars figure in this play.] [Footnote 48: Abb.: In the old ed. the prefix to this speech is "1 Nun," and to the next speech but one "Nun." That both speeches belong to the Abbess is quite evident.] [Footnote 49: Sometimes: Equivalent here (as frequently in our early writers) to--Sometime.] [Footnote 50: forgive me--: Old ed. "GIUE me--"] [Footnote 51: thus: After this word the old ed. has "†",--to signify, perhaps, the motion which Barabas was to make here with his hand.] [Footnote 52: forget not: Qy. "forget IT not"] [Footnote 53: Enter BARABAS, with a light: The scene is now before the house of Barabas, which has been turned into a nunnery.] [Footnote 54: Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak Mr. Collier (HIST. OF ENG. DRAM. POET. iii. 136) remarks that these lines are cited (with some variation, and from memory, as the present play was not printed till 1633) in an epigram on T. Deloney, in Guilpin's SKIALETHEIA OR THE SHADOWE OF TRUTH, 1598,-- "LIKE TO THE FATALL OMINOUS RAVEN, WHICH TOLLS THE SICK MAN'S DIRGE WITHIN HIS HOLLOW BEAKE, So every paper-clothed post in Poules To thee, Deloney, mourningly doth speake," &c.] [Footnote 55: of: i.e. on.]