_And. Nunquam potest non esse._ _Lu._ Patience, my lord, may bring your ills some end. _And._ What patience, friend, can ruin'd hopes attend? Come, let me die like old Andrugio, Worthy my birth. O, blood-true-honour'd graves Are far more blessèd than base life of slaves. [_Exeunt._ [136] A correspondent of _Notes and Queries_ (1st ser., vol. ix. p. 513) points out that Erasmus has the same simile:--"Anima quæ moderatur utrumque corpus animantis improprie dicitur anima cum revera sint animæ reliquiæ, non aliter quam odor rosarum manet in manu etiam rosa sublata."--_Colloq._, Leyden ed., i. 694. [137] Old ed. "Holds." [138] These ravings are unintelligible. [139] The stage-direction in the old eds. is "_Enter Andrugio, Lucio, Cole, and Norwood._" I suppose that Cole and Norwood are the names of the actors who personated Andrugio and Lucio. [140] "Give me assay" = taste it before I drink. The _assayer_ in courts and baronial halls was the officer who tasted the dishes before the banquet in order to make sure that no poison was concealed. [141] Old eds. "_made open_ the glibbery ice," which modern editors absurdly retain. The word "glibbery" has been already noticed (note 3, p. 22). [142] Cf. _Julius Cæsar_, i. 2 (text of First Folio):--"And then he offered it the third time; hee put it the third time by, and still as hee refus'd it the rabblement _howted_ and clapp'd their chopt hands." In that passage the first three folios give _howted_ and the fourth _houted_; but modern editors reject the word and read either _hooted_ or _shouted_. The present passage of Marston affords strong warrant for restoring the reading of the folios. _Hout_ is clearly an onomatopoeic word, like _hoit_:--He sings and _hoits_ and revels among his drunken companions," (_Knight of the Burning Pestle_). [143] Old eds. "last" (and so modern editors). [144] Old eds. "_misereri_." [145] Antonio is concealed behind a bush. [146] So ed. 1633.--Ed. 1602 "on." [147] Old eds. "_suamisce_."--Dilke reads "_smarisce_." [148] Old eds. "_Murono_." [149] Old eds. "_pol._" [150] So Dilke. Old eds. "_Bassiammi_." [151] Old eds. "_Che in sua neggia in quello_," &c. [152] Old eds. repeat the word "kissing." [153] "In good sadness" = seriously. [154] "Tweer" (or "twire") = peep, pry. [155] "The 'Dun Cow' is, we all know, intimately connected with the celebrated Guy, Earl of Warwick, and I believe his 'kettle' is one of the pretended relics still shown there. From the text I conjecture that the dun cow with the kettle on her head was in the time of Marston a well-known sign."--_Dilke._ [156] Omitted in ed. 1602. [157] Old eds. "_Ant._" [158] Old eds. "_And._"