[255] "The exclamation of those who repent what they have rashly done."--_Dyce._ [256] Here and throughout iii. II, the 4tos give "Mat" and "Matreuis" for "Arundel." The mistake arose, as Dyce pointed out, by the parts of Arundel and Matrevis having been taken by the same actor. [257] Scene: the open country (near Warwick?). [258] The meaning is surely "ghost, spirit," not, as Mr. Fleay interprets, "representative, plenipotentiary." [259] Scene: neighbourhood of Borrowbridge. [260] Braggard challenges. [261] Fr. haut. [262] Old eds "the." [263] So ed. 1612.--Ed. 1598 "come." [264] Cunningham and Mr. Fleay silently print "more." [265] Ed. 1598 "heres is."--Ed. 1612, 1622, "heres." [266] So ed. 1622.--Eds. 1598, 1612, "roote." [267] So ed. 1612.--Ed. 1598 "leave." [268] Schemes. [269] So ed. 1612.--Ed. 1589 "It is." [270] Rule. [271] Old eds. "leuied." [272] Old eds. "claps close." [273] Scene: London, near the Tower. [274] Scene: Paris. [275] So eds. 1598, 1622.--Ed. 1612 "goe." [276] Mr. Fleay reads "please," supposing that the letters _th_ are repeated from the next word. [277] Dyce's correction "on" seems to be quite unnecessary. [278] Dyce needlessly reads "part." [279] Equipped to meet our foes. [280] Earned. [281] An allusion to the game of _Prisoner's Base_. To "bid a base" is for a player to run into the centre and challenge one of the opposite party to pursue. [282] Scene: the royal palace, London. [283] Old eds. "_Matr._" and "_Matreuis._"--The elder Spencer is a _muta persona_. Mr. Fleay, who ousts him altogether from this scene, observes "There is no hint of Old Spencer being on the stage after the third act,"--strangely forgetting that he is introduced in the fifth scene of the present act. [284] Old eds. "_Matr._" [285] So ed. 1598.--Eds. 1612, 1622, "not long ago." [286] Old eds. "Isabell." [287] Cf. _Romeo and Juliet_, iii. 2:--"Gallop apace you fiery-footed steeds," &c. [288] Scene: the neighbourhood of Harwich. [289] Kennel. [290] Scene: the neighbourhood of Bristol. [291] So ed. 1622.--Eds. 1598, 1612, "successfulls." [292] As in l. 21 Kent determined to "dissemble," I have not changed the prefix of the old eds. Dyce gives the words to _Y. Mor._ Mr. Fleay prints-- "_Kent._ This, Edward, is the ruin, &c. [_To the Prince._" [293] Scene: the Abbey of Neath, Glamorganshire. [294] So ed. 1598.--Omitted in ed. 1612. (Ed. 1622 "thy.") [295] So eds. 1598, 1612.--Ed. 1622 "_with_ sore" (and so Dyce.) [296] So eds. 1612, 1622.--Ed. 1598 "open." [297] Seneca _Thyestes_, 613. [298] Old form of "yearns." [299] So old eds. The repetition of "and these" in the next line is certainly suspicious. Dyce proposed "For friends hath _hapless_ Edward none but these, And these must die," &c. Mr. Fleay's suggestion that "these and these" are "the 'hags' and 'Spencer and Baldock,'" seems very questionable. [300] Mr. Fleay prints this speech as verse: