[19] Old ed. "_Iew._ Doe so; Farewell, Zaareth," &c. Dyce is doubtless right in considering that "doe so" is a stage direction (= _Exeunt Merchants_), which has crept into the text. [20] A misquotation from Terence's _Andria_, iv. 1. 12, "Proximus sum egomet mihi." [21] Scene: the Senate-house. [22] Old ed. "governours." [23] Old ed. "governours." [24] Convert. The word occurs in _As You Like It_, _King John_, &c. [25] Old ed. "governours." [26] In the 4to. this line is given to the Officer. [27] Probably we should read--"You, ne'er possessed," etc. [28] Dyce proposed "redress." [29] Portuguese gold coins. [30] Steevens (on _2 Henry IV._ ii. 4, l. 42) quotes several passages where "sect" is used for "sex." [31] The passage is no doubt corrupt. Cunningham reads "unforeseen," and explains the meaning to be "a steady consistent piece of acting is better than having to put on the hypocrite at a moment's warning." [32] Old ed. "Enter three Fryars and two Nuns." [33] Old ed. "1 Nun." [34] Can this word be right? Qu. "cloisters"? [35] Old ed. "_Nun._" [36] _I.e._, sometime. [37] Dyce reads "forgive," perhaps rightly. [38] Here the old ed. gives "+" (to indicate the notch in the plank under which the treasure was concealed). [39] I have added the second "go" for the sake of the metre. [40] Scene: before Barabas' house. [41] Collier notices that ll. 1, 2, are found (with slight variation) in Guilpin's _Skialetheia_, 1598. Cf. Peele's _David and Bethsabe_:-- "Like as the fatal raven, that in his voice Carries the dreadful summons of our death." [42] Cf. _Dido_, iii. 3:-- "Who would not undergo all kind of toil To be well stored with such a _winter's tale_." The words "in my _wealth_" have little meaning; I suspect that we should read "in my _youth_." [43] Cf. _Hamlet_, i. 1:-- "Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death, Speak of it." [44] Old ed. "walke." [45] Old ed. "Birn para todos, my ganada no er." I have adopted Dyce's reading. [46] Dyce thinks that Shakespeare recollected this passage when he wrote:-- "But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun." [47] Cf. _Job_ xli. 18:--"By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the _eyelids of the morning_." So Sophocles in the _Antigone_ speaks of the sun as ~hameras blepharon~. The reader will remember the line in _Lycidas_:-- "Under the opening _eyelids of the morn_." [48] "Perhaps what is meant here is an exclamation on the beautiful appearance of money, Hermoso parecer de los dinos, but it is questionable whether this would be good Spanish."--_Collier._ Dyce gives "Hermoso Placer." [49] Scene: the Senate-house. [50] _I.e._, did not lower our sails. Cf. _1 Tamburlaine_, i. 2, l. 193. [51] Old ed. "Spanish." [52] Old ed. "left and tooke." The correction was made by Dyce.