"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." The correction was made by the editor of 1826. [152] Scene: a street. [153] The stick that held the gunner's match. [154] Scene: the hall of the Governor's house. Barabas is in the gallery. [155] Old ed. "Serv." [156] Old ed. "summe." [157] Dyce reads "ascend." [158] The stage-direction in old ed. is "A charge, the cable cut. A caldron discovered." In Scene 4 the Governor had directed the Knights and Del Bosco to issue out at the discharge of the culverin. [159] Cunningham's correction for the old eds. "fate." [160] Intended. [161] Old ed. "meditate." [162] Old ed. "call." FOOTNOTES FOR: "EDWARD THE SECOND" [163] Scene: a street in London. [164] So 4tos.--Dyce gives "lie;" but "die" may perhaps be interpreted as "swoon." [165] Cf. Day's _Parliament of Bees_:-- "Yet if you meet a tart antagonist, Or discontented rugged satirist, That slights your errant or his art that penned it, Cry _Tanti!_" So in the Prologue to Day's _Isle of Gulls_:-- "Detraction he scorns, honours the best: _Tanti_ for hate, thus low for all the rest." [166] So Dyce.--4tos. "fanne." [167] Mr. Tancock quotes from Pliny's _Natural History_:--"Hystrici longiores aculei et cum intendit cutem missiles. Ora urgentium figit canum et paulo longius jaculatur." [168] So the 4tos.--Dyce reads "sylvan." [169] The name of a rustic dance. [170] So the 4tos.--Dyce reads "shall." [171] The 4tos. read, "My lord, here comes the king and the nobles." Dyce gives, "Here comes my lord the king and the nobles." Mr. Fleay arranges the passage thus:-- "Here comes my lord The king and th' nobles from the parliament. I'll stand aside." [172] Equivalent to a dissyllable. [173] Cf. _3 Henry VI._ v. 6, "_aspiring_ blood of Lancaster." [174] I have kept the form found in ed. 1598, as a trisyllable is here required. [175] Dyce's correction "leave" seems unnecessary. Warwick is speaking ironically. [176] Dyce altered "Gaveston" to "Lancaster;" but the language is ironical. [177] Fight, contend. The word is borrowed from the game of tennis. [178] Ed. 1598, "mourned _for_ Hercules." Eds. 1612, 1622, "mourned _for of_ Hercules"--and so Dyce. [179] Rule. Cf. _1 Tamburlaine_, i. 1, l. 119. [180] Kennel, gutter. Cf._Jew of Malta_, v. 1, l. 91. [181] Dyce proposed to read "Prut prut!" others suppose that the bishop is playing on the word "convey," which was a cant term for "steal." Cf. _Richard II._ iv. 1, l. 113:-- "_Bol._ Go, some of you, convey him to the Tower. _King._ O good! convey! conveyers are you all." [182] So eds. 1612, 1622.--Ed. 1598 omits "best." [183] Scene: Westminster. [184] Untimely. [185] Are angry at him. We have the word again later in the play-- "I know, my lord, many will _stomach_ me."