[259] So ed. 3.--Eds. 1. and 2. "neglecst." [260] Eds. 1. and 3. read:--"Thats the griefe on't _Herc._ [_Hercules_, ed. 3.] thats the griefe ont that I," &c. [261] Ed. 2. "O yes! O yes!" [262] Eds. 1. and 3. "disclaim'd." [263] Ed. 1. "ciuill." [264] A spayed cat.--"Why witches are turned into cats, he [Bodin] alledgeth no reason, and therefore (to help him forth with that paraphrase) I say that witches are curst queans, and many times scratch one another or their neighbours by the faces; and therefore perchance are turned into cats. But I have put twenty of these witchmongers to silence with one question: to wit--whether a witch that can turn a woman into cat can also turn a cat into a woman."--Scot's _Discovery of Witchcraft_, book v., chap. 1. [265] Omitted in ed. 2. [266] So ed. 2.--Eds. 1. and 3. "see" and "seek." [267] "Gern" = snarl. [268] Eds. 1. and 3. "thumbes." [269] Eds. 1. and 3. "miserable." [270] Quy. "'fined" (= refined)? [271] Eds. 1. and 3. "engines." [272] Eds. 1. and 3. "messenger." [273] Eds. 1. and 3. "effect." ACT V. SCENE I. _Courtyard of the Palace._ _Whilst the Act is a-playing_, HERCULES _and_ TIBERIO _enters_; TIBERIO _climbs the tree, and is received above by_ DULCIMEL, PHILOCALIA, _and a Priest_: HERCULES _stays beneath_. _Herc._ Thou mother of chaste dew, night's modest lamp, Thou by whose faint shine the blushing lovers Join glowing cheeks, and mix their trembling lips In vows well kiss'd, rise all as full of splendour As my breast is of joy! You genital, You fruitful well-mix'd heats, O, bless the sheets Of yonder chamber, that Ferrara's dukedom, The race of princely issue, be not curs'd, And ended in abhorrèd barrenness! At length kill all my fears, nor let it rest 10 Once more my tremblings that my too cold son (That ever-scorner of humaner loves) Will still contemn the sweets of marriage, Still kill[274] our hope of name in his dull coldness. Let it be lawful to make use, ye powers,[275] Of human weakness, that pursueth still What is inhibited, and most affects What is most difficult to be obtain'd: So we may learn, that nicer love's a shade-- It follows fled, pursued flies as afraid: 20 And in the end close all the various errors Of passages most truly comical In moral learning with like confidence Of him that vow'd good fortune of the scene Shall neither make him fat, or bad make lean. _Enter_ DONDOLO _laughing_. _Don._ Ha, ha, ha! _Herc._ Why dost laugh, fool, here's nobody with thee?