at outcries pluck me from my naked bed,
And chill," &c.

--[v. 54.]

[125] [Old copy points this sentence falsely, and repeats _thing_.]

[126] Old copy, _woe_.

[127] [Old copy, _birds_. Perhaps, however, the poet may have meant
_swans_.]

[128] Old copy, _sooping_.

[129] [I think this is much more likely to be an allusion to
Shakespeare, than the passage in the prologue to which Hawkins
refers.--_Ebsworth_.]

[130] [Old copy, _some_.]

[131] [There were several Greek _literati_ of this name. Amoretto's
page, personating his master, is so nicknamed by the other, who
personates Sir Raderic--unless the passage is corrupt.]

[132] [Old copy, _Irenias_.]

[133] [Old copy, _Nor_.]

[134] [Old copy, _we have_.]

[135] [Old copy, _run_. Mr Ebsworth's correction.]

[136] Old copy, _cluttish_.

[137] Old copy, _trus_.

[138] One of the old copies reads _repay'st_.

[139] Old copy, _seeling_.

[140] This play is not divided into acts.

[141] [Cadiz.]

[142] [Shear-penny.]

[143] [Extortion.]

[144] [Old copies, _waves_.]

[145] [Old copy, _fates to friend_.]

[146] [Old copy, _springold_.]

[147] [Old copy, as before, _springold_.]

[148] [Old copy, _doff off_.]

[149] [Old copy, _wat'ry_.]

[150] [Resound.]

[151] Edit. 1606 has: _Mi Fortunate, ter fortunate Venus_. The 4to of
1623 reads: _Mi Fortunatus, Fortunate Venter_.

[152] [Intend.]

[153] She means to say eloquence, and so it stands in the edition of
1623.

[154] [Robin Goodfellow.]

[155] [See p. 286.]

[156] [This must allude to some real circumstance and person.]

[157] [Attend.]

[158] [Bergen-op-Zoom.]

[159] [Old copy, _our_.]

[160] [Lap, long. See Nares, edit. 1859, _v. Lave-eared_.]

[161] [Old copy, _seas_.]

[162] [Orcus.]

[163] [Worried.]

[164] [An answer to a summons or writ. Old copy, _retourner_.]

[165] [This most rare edition was very kindly lent to me by the Rev.
J.W. Ebsworth, Moldash Vicarage, near Ashford.]

[166] [Cromwell did not die till September 3, 1658, a sufficient reason
for the absence of the allusion which Reed thought singular.]

[167] [i.e., The human body and mind. _Microcosmus_ had been used by
Davies of Hereford in the same sense in the title of a tract printed in
1603, as it was afterwards by Heylin in his "Microcosmus," 1621, and by
Earle in his "Microcosmography," 1628.]

[168] _Skene_ or _skane: gladius, Ensis brevior.--Skinner_. Dekker's
"Belman's Night Wal