[Footnote 183: trench: A doubtful reading.--Old ed. "Truce."--"Query 'sluice'? 'TRUCE' seems unintelligible." COLLIER (apud Dodsley's O. P.).--The Rev. J. Mitford proposes "turret" or "tower."] [Footnote 184: channels: i.e. kennels.] [Footnote 185: Enter CALYMATH, &c.: Scene, an open place in the city.] [Footnote 186: vail: i.e. lower, stoop.] [Footnote 187: To kept: i.e. To have kept.] [Footnote 188: Entreat: i.e. Treat.] [Footnote 189: Bassoes: Here old ed. "Bashawes." See note §, p. 164. [Footnote i.e. note 117.]] [Footnote 190: Thus hast thou gotten, &c.: A change of scene is supposed here--to the Citadel, the residence of Barabas as governor.] [Footnote 191: Whenas: i.e. When. [Footnote 192: Within here: The usual exclamation is "Within THERE!" but compare THE HOGGE HATH LOST HIS PEARLE (by R. Tailor), 1614; "What, ho! within HERE!" Sig. E 2.] [Footnote 193: sith: i.e. since.] [Footnote 194: cast: i.e. plot, contrive.] [Footnote 195: Bassoes: Here and afterwards old ed. "Bashawes." See note §, p. 164. [i.e. note 117.]--Scene, outside the walls of the city.] [Footnote 196: basilisk[s: See note ‡, p. 25. [note ||, p. 25, The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great: "|| basilisks: Pieces of ordnance so called. They were of immense size; see Douce's ILLUST. OF SHAKESPEARE, i. 425."] [Footnote 197: And, toward Calabria, &c.: So the Editor of 1826.--Old ed. thus: "And toward Calabria back'd by Sicily, Two lofty Turrets that command the Towne. WHEN Siracusian Dionisius reign'd; I wonder how it could be conquer'd thus?"] [Footnote 198: Enter FERNEZE, &c.: Scene, a street.] [Footnote 199: linstock: "i.e. the long match with which cannon are fired." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).] [Footnote 200: Enter, above, &c.: Scene, a hall in the Citadel, with a gallery.] [Footnote 201: FIRST CARPENTER.: Old ed. here "Serv."; but it gives "CARP." as the prefix to the second speech after this.] [Footnote 202: off: An interpolation perhaps.] [Footnote 203: sun: Old ed. "summe."] [Footnote 204: ascend: Old ed. "attend."] [Footnote 205: A charge sounded within: FERNEZE cuts the cord; the floor of the gallery gives way, and BARABAS falls into a caldron placed in a pit. Enter KNIGHTS and MARTIN DEL BOSCO Old ed. has merely "A charge, the cable cut, A Caldron discouered."] [Footnote 206: Christian: Old ed. "Christians."] [Footnote 207: train: i.e. stratagem.] [Footnote 208: pretended: i.e. intended.] [Footnote 209: mediate: Old ed. "meditate."] [Footnote 210: all: Old ed. "call."] SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. FOOTNOTES: For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play. Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given a unique identity in the form [XXX].