A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Vii Part 122

[427] Second edit. _you_.

[428] So second edit. First edit. _weere_.

[429] [Old edits., _carerie_.]

[430] So second edit. First edit., _shrowdly_.

[431] Second edit., _me_--wrongly, as appears from what follows.

[432] Edits., _be_.

[433] i.e., Ill-will.

[434] i.e., Satisfy, convince.

[435] Edits., _mindes_.

[436] Qy., _you, mother_?

[437] Read, for the metre, _she is_.

[438] Something has dropt out here.

[439] [Edits., _A little_.]

[440] i.e., Vile.

[441] i.e., The one.

[442] [Old copies, _yond may help that come both together_.]

[443] So second edit. First edit., _fileds_.

[444] A common, familiar contraction of _mine uncle_.

[445] Second edit., _fie_.

[446] So second edit. First edit., _brings_.

[447] i.e., _Traitor_ or _felon_.

[448] i.e., Swoon.

[449] Second edit., _fauours_.

[450] So read for the metre. Old copies, _here's_.

[451] See also Collier's "Hist. of Eng. Dramatic Poetry," i. 3.

[452] See Dyce's "Shakespeare," 1868, ii. 2.

[453] Not in the old copy.

[454] [i.e., to Tyburn.]

[455] [Old copy, _thee_.]

[456] Old copy, _well a neere_. Well-a-year is an unusual phrase, _well_ being corrupted from _wail_. "Well-a-day" in the same sense is common enough.

[457] Old copy, _otimie_, I conjecture _otomy_ for anatomy, a common form of _anatomy_.

[458] Halliwell mentions the words _pubble_ and _puble_ in different senses, and the old copy reads puble; but here the context seems to require _bubble_. He has immediately before used the term _froth_.

[459] Fear.

[460] Divisions, conflicts.

[461] Old copy, _Henry_.

[462] Old copy, _Aveney_.

[463] But see Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 23.

[464] Old copy, _where stands in_.

[465] i.e., Mary, G.o.d's mother.

[466] See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 289.

[467] Possibly in reference to a tract, so called, printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and (after him) by others.

[468] He means the stammer of Redcap, which he intends to imitate.

[469] Compare "Damon and Pithias," vol. iv., pp. 67-8.

[470] Old copy, _excepts_.

[471] He does not appear, however, to make himself visible, but stands aside, listening.

[472] Old copy, _times_. See Halliwell, v. _tine_, where the word is said to mean "the p.r.o.ng of a fork (second explanation)," thence, as in the text, a horn.

[473] [Old copy, _attempt_.]

[474] Block seems to refer jocularly to Sir Richard's long aside, under a sort of invisible cap.

[475] Old copy, _solicitie_.

[476] Old copy, _say_.