[Footnote 56: wake: Old ed. "walke."]
[Footnote 57: Bueno para todos mi ganado no era: Old ed. "Birn para todos,
my ganada no er."]
[Footnote 58: But stay: what star shines yonder in the east, &c.
Shakespeare, it would seem, recollected this passage, when
he wrote,--
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!"
ROMEO AND JULIET, act ii. sc. 2.]
[Footnote 59: Hermoso placer de los dineros: Old ed. "Hormoso Piarer,
de les Denirch."]
[Footnote 60: Enter Ferneze, &c.: The scene is the interior of the
Council-house.]
[Footnote 61: entreat: i.e. treat.]
[Footnote 62: vail'd not: "i.e. did not strike or lower our flags."
STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]
[Footnote 63: Turkish: Old ed. "Spanish."]
[Footnote 64: luff'd and tack'd: Old ed. "LEFT, and TOOKE."]
[Footnote 65: stated: i.e. estated, established, stationed.]
[Footnote 66: Enter OFFICERS, &c.: The scene being the market-place.]
[Footnote 67: Poor villains, such as were: Old ed. "SUCH AS poore
villaines were", &c.]
[Footnote 68: into: i.e. unto: see note , p. 15.
[note |, p. 15, The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great:
"| into: Used here (as the word was formerly often used)
for UNTO."]
[Footnote 69: city: The preceding editors have not questioned this word,
which I believe to be a misprint.]
[Footnote 70: foil'd]=filed, i.e. defiled.]
[Footnote 71: I'll have a saying to that nunnery: Compare Barnaby Barnes's
DIVILS CHARTER, 1607;
"Before I do this seruice, lie there, peece;
For I must HAUE A SAYING to those bottels. HE DRINKETH.
True stingo; stingo, by mine honour.* * *
* * * * * * * * * * * *
I must HAUE A SAYING to you, sir, I must, though you be
prouided for his Holines owne mouth; I will be bould to be
the Popes taster by his leaue." Sig. K 3.]
[Footnote 72: plates: "i.e. pieces of silver money." STEEVENS (apud
Dodsley's O. P.).--Old ed. "plats."]
[Footnote 73: Slave: To the speeches of this Slave the old ed. prefixes
"Itha." and "Ith.", confounding him with Ithamore.]
[Footnote 74: Lady Vanity: So Jonson in his FOX, act ii. sc. 3.,
"Get you a cittern, LADY VANITY,
And be a dealer with the virtuous man," &c.;
and in his DEVIL IS AN ASS, act i. sc. 1.,--
"SATAN. What Vice?
PUG. Why, any: Fraud,
Or Covetousness, or LADY VANITY,
Or old Iniquity."]
[Footnote 75: Katharine: Old ed. "MATER."--The name of Mathias's mother
was, as we afterwards learn, Katharine.]
[Footnote 76: stay: i.e. forbear, break off our conversation.]
[Footnote 77: was: Qy. "was BUT"?]
[Footnote 78: O, brave, master: The modern editors strike out the comma
after "BRAVE", understanding that word as an epithet to "MASTER":
but compare what Ithamore says to Barabas in act iv.: "That's
BRAVE, MASTER," p. 165, first col.]
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