[111] As previously Antonio has been told that he must attend the Duchess "in the gallery," it would seem that the audience were to imagine a change of scene had taken place (_i.e._, at the exit of Ferdinand).--_Dyce._ [112] _The Two Faithful Friends, the pleasant History of Alexander and Lodwicke, who were so like one another, that none could know them asunder; wherein is declared how Lodwicke married the Princesse of Hungaria, in Alexander's name, and how each night he layd a naked sword betweene him and the Princesse, because he would not wrong his friend,_ is reprinted from the Pepys collection in Evans's _Old Ballads_. There was also a play written by Martin Slaughter, called _Alexander and Lodowick.--Dyce._ [113] A cant term for the insolent bloods and vapourers of the time--_Dyce._ [114] Another cant term. [115] State journey. [116] A leperous eruption. [117] Buy new housings for his beast. [118] Hysterics. [119] Rascal. [120] The lowest class of menials. [121] Strong broths. The old receipt-books recommend "pieces of gold" among the ingredients.--_Dyce._ [122] Compare Shakespeare: "And shrieks, like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals hearing them run mad." _Romeo and Juliet_, A. iv. s. 3. [123] Query "rapture." [124] Substance or property. [125] _i.e._ Foolish. [126] Orris. [127] Plutus. [128] "The vexed Bermoothes" was the island of Bermuda. [129] Francis I., who surrendered to Lannoy at the battle of Pavia. [130] Plan. [131] Camp. [132] Trimmed. [133] Dyce suggests that here the audience had to imagine a change of scene--to the lodging of the Duchess, who is confined to certain apartments in her own palace. [134] Curtain. [135] Band. [136] Coach. [137] "She has lived among horrors till she is become 'native and endowed unto that element.' She speaks the dialect of despair, her tongue has a smatch of Tartarus and the souls in bale. What are 'Luke's iron crown,' the brazen bull of Perillus, Procrustes' bed, to the waxen images which counterfeit death, to the wild masque of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bell-man, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees! To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit; this only a Webster can do. Writers of an inferior genius may 'upon horror's head horrors accumulate,' but they cannot do this. They mistake quantity for quality, they 'terrify babes with painted devils,' but they know not how a soul is capable of being moved; their terrors want dignity, their affrightments are without decorum."--C. Lamb, _Spec. of Eng. Dram. Poets._ [138] This was a common superstition of the time. [139] Fraught. [140] Skeletons.