The text adopted for Webster's two tragedies is that of Dyce's edition. His arrangement of scenes has been followed, except in the case of the _Vittoria Corombona_, which Dyce left undivided. The notes, too, are in the main extracted from the same source. With reference to Cyril Tourneur's plays, the text of _The Atheist's Tragedy_ has been modernised from Mr. Churton Collins's edition; that of _The Revenger's Tragedy_ is based upon the modernised version in Hazlitt's edition of Dodsley, collated throughout with Mr. Collins's text. Students of the English drama owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Churton Collins for his scholarly issue of the complete works of Tourneur. [5] Martial, xiii. 2. [6] Martial, iv. 87. [7] Martial, xiii. 2. [8] Horace, _Epod._ iii. [9] _Epist._ i. 7. [10] Valerius Maximus, Lib. iii. 7. [11] Martial, x. 2. [12] Requite. [13] Violently dashed. [14] Different kinds of mummy were formerly used in medicine. "Mummie is become merchandise," says Sir Thomas Browne, "Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams." _Urn-Burial._ [15] Open-work embroidery. [16] A sounding (but not a flourish) of trumpets or other wind instruments. [17] Coach. Fr. _Carrosse_. [18] _i.e._ More feathers were not dislodged from the helmets of the combatants at the great tilting-match.--_Steevens_. [19] Housings. [20] It is hardly possible to mark with any certainty the stage-business of this play. Though Brachiano, who has just withdrawn into a "closet," appears again when Flamineo calls him (_See_ p. 15), it would seem that the audience were to _imagine_ that a change of scene took place here to another apartment, as Flamineo says (p. 13): "Sister, my lord attends you in the banqueting-house."--_Dyce._ [21] Quarrel. [22] _i.e._ Allow an adversary to aim in order to draw him on to continue playing. [23] The jack at bowls. [24] Leash. [25] A measuring instrument. [26] Vended. [27] A mark of good-will. [28] The lowest menials who rode in the vehicles which carried the domestic utensils from mansion to mansion. [29] Flamineo's speeches are half-asides. [30] Magnet. [31] State journey. [32] A prized antidote. "Andrea Racci, a physician of Florence, affirms the pound of 16 ounces to have been sold in the apothecaries' shops for 1,536 crowns, when the same weight of gold was only worth 148 crowns."--Chambers's _Dict._, quoted by Dyce. [33] Haply, peradventure. [34] Danish. [35] See _Hamlet_, Act v. sc. 2. "This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head." [36] Polander. [37] Virgil, _Æn._ i. 26. [38] Antimony. [39] Read perhaps "lethal." [40] _i.e._ The motto. [41] Ovid, _Metam._ iii. 466. [42] Horse. [43] Given in charge. [44] Resident. [45] Shoes of leather. [46] Poulterer.