PAGE =148=, l. 81. _O Elephant or Ape_, See Introductory Note to _Satyres_. l. 89. _I whispered let'us go._ I have, following the example of _1633_ in other cases, indicated the slurring of 'let'us' or 'let's', which is necessary metrically if we are to read the full 'whispered' which _1669_ first contracts to 'whisperd'. _Q_ shows that 'let's' is the right contraction. Donne's use of colloquial slurrings must be constantly kept in view when reading especially his satires. They are not always indicated in the editions: but note l. 52: I shut my chamber doore, and come, lets goe. PAGE =149=, ll. 100-4. My punctuation of these lines is a slight modification of that indicated by _W_ and _JC_, which give the proper division of the speeches. The use of inverted commas would make this clearer, but Chambers' division seems to me (if I understand it) to give the whole speech, from 'But to me' to 'So is the Pox', to Donne's companion, which is to deprive Donne of his closing repartee. The Grolier Club editor avoids this, but makes 'Why he hath travelled long?' a part of Donne's speech beginning 'Our dull comedians want him'. I divide the speeches thus:-- _Donne._ Why stoop'st thou so? _Companion._ Why? he hath travail'd. _Donne._ Long? _Companion._ No: but to me (_Donne interpolates_ 'which understand none') he doth seem to be Perfect French and Italian. _Donne._ So is the Pox. The brackets round 'which understand none' I have taken from _Q_. I had thought of inserting them before I came on this MS. Of course brackets in old editions are often used where commas would be sufficient, and one can build nothing on their insertion here in one MS. But it seems to me that these words have no point unless regarded as a sarcastic comment interpolated by Donne, perhaps _sotto voce_. 'To you, who understand neither French nor Italian, he may seem perfect French and Italian--but to no one else.' Probably an eclectic attire was the only evidence of travel observable in the person in question. 'How oddly is he suited!' says Portia of her English wooer; 'I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour everywhere.' Brackets are thus used by Jonson to indicate a remark interjected _sotto voce_. See the quotation from the _Poetaster_ in the note on _The Message_ (II. p. 37). Modern editors substitute for the brackets the direction 'Aside', which is not in the Folio (1616). PAGE =149=. SATYRE II. ll. 1-4. It will be seen that _H51_ gives two alternative versions of these lines. The version of the printed text is that of the majority of the MSS. PAGE =150=, ll. 15-16. _As in some Organ, &c._ Chambers prints these lines with a comma after 'move', connecting them with what follows about love-poetry. Clearly they belong to what has been said about dramatic poets. It is Marlowe and his fellows who are the bellows which set the actor-puppets in motion.