[Footnote 99: Enter ITHAMORE: The scene a room in the house of Barabas.] [Footnote 100: held in hand: i.e. kept in expectation, having their hopes flattered.] [Footnote 101: bottle-nosed: See note †, p. 157. [i.e. note 79.]] [Footnote 102: Jaques: Old ed. "Iaynes."] [Footnote 103: sire: Old ed. "sinne" (which, modernised to "sin", the editors retain, among many other equally obvious errors of the old copy).] [Footnote 104: As: Old ed. "And."] [Footnote 105: Enter BARABAS: The scene is still within the house of Barabas; but some time is supposed to have elapsed since the preceding conference between Abigail and Friar Jacomo.] [Footnote 106: pretendeth: Equivalent to PORTENDETH; as in our author's FIRST BOOK OF LUCAN, "And which (ay me) ever PRETENDETH ill," &c.] [Footnote 107: self: Old ed. "life" (the compositor's eye having caught "life" in the preceding line).] [Footnote 108: 'less: Old ed. "least."] [Footnote 109: Well said: See note *, p. 69.] (note *, p. 69, The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great: "* Well said: Equivalent to--Well done! as appears from innumerable passages of our early writers: see, for instances, my ed. of Beaumont and Fletcher's WORKS, vol. i. 328, vol. ii. 445, vol. viii. 254.")] [Footnote 110: the proverb says, &c.: A proverb as old as Chaucer's time: see the SQUIERES TALE, v. 10916, ed. Tyrwhitt.] [Footnote 111: batten: i.e. fatten.] [Footnote 112: pot: Old ed. "plot."] [Footnote 113: thou shalt have broth by the eye: "Perhaps he means--thou shalt SEE how the broth that is designed for thee is made, that no mischievous ingredients enter its composition. The passage is, however, obscure." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).--"BY THE EYE" seems to be equivalent to--in abundance. Compare THE CREED of Piers Ploughman: "Grey grete-heded quenes With gold BY THE EIGHEN." v. 167, ed. Wright (who has no note on the expression): and Beaumont and Fletcher's KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE, act ii. sc. 2; "here's money and gold BY TH' EYE, my boy." In Fletcher's BEGGARS' BUSH, act iii. sc. 1, we find, "Come, English beer, hostess, English beer BY THE BELLY!"] [Footnote 114: In few: i.e. in a few words, in short.] [Footnote 115: hebon: i.e. ebony, which was formerly supposed to be a deadly poison.] [Footnote 116: Enter FERNEZE, &c.: The scene is the interior of the Council-house.] [Footnote 117: basso: Old ed. "Bashaws" (the printer having added an S by mistake), and in the preceding stage-direction, and in the fifth speech of this scene, "Bashaw": but in an earlier scene (see p. 148, first col.) we have "bassoes" (and see our author's TAMBURLAINE, PASSIM). (From p. 148, this play: "Enter FERNEZE governor of Malta, KNIGHTS, and OFFICERS; met by CALYMATH, and BASSOES of the TURK.")] [Footnote 118: the resistless banks: i.e. the banks not able to resist.] [Footnote 119: basilisks: See note ||, p. 25.