5 it stands
thus: "I, N, take thee, M, to my wedded wyf, to have and to holde fro
this day forwarde, for better for wors, for richer for poorer, in
sicknesse and in hele, tyl deth us _departe_."--_Collier_.

So in "Every Woman in her Humour," 1609: "And the little God of love, he
shall be her captain: sheele sewe under him _'till death us depart_, and
thereto I plight thee my troth." And Heywood, in his "Wise Woman of
Hogsdon," iii., makes Chastley also quote from the marriage ceremony:
"If every new moone a man might have a new wife, that's every year a
dozen; but this _'till death us depart_ is tedious."

[343] [Edits., _two sentinels_.]

[344] Edits., _them one_.

[345] [Edits., _lives_.]

[346] [Remind.]

[347] [Edits., _know him great_, which could only be made sense by
supposing it to mean, _knowing him rich_, and not a person to be
offended. Scarborow afterwards repudiates the idea of being
_ungrateful_.]

[348] By a misprint the three following lines have been till now given
to Harcop.--_Collier_.

[349] [Edits., _your presence_.]

[350] First edit., _even_.

[351] [Edits., _is_.]

[352] [Edits., _what_.]

[353] That is, acquainted, or informed him. So in "Every Man in his
Humour," act i. sc. 5, Bobadil says, "_Possess_ no gentleman of our
acquaintance with notice of my lodging." And again, in Beaumont and
Fletcher's "Honest Man's Fortune," act ii. sc. 1--

"Sir, I am very well _possess'd_ of it."

[354] Edits. 1629 [and 1637], _honoured_.

[355] First edit., _how_.

[356] [Edits., _they_.]

[357] The word _sir_ was inserted here as if only to spoil the measure.
--_Collier_.

[358] i.e., Amerce.--_Steevens_.

[359] [i.e., the bond.]

[360] [Edits., _pergest_, which Steevens in a note explained _goeth on_,
from Lat. _pergo_; and Nares cites the present passage for the word. I
do not believe that it was ever employed in English, though Shakespeare
uses the original Latin once. _Purgest_ is surely preferable, since
Ilford has been just giving a list of those he has undone.]

[361] [Apparently a play on the double meaning of _talent_ is intended.]

[362] [Bonds.]

[363] In a similar vein of humour, but much more exquisite, Addison,
speaking of Sir Roger de Coverley, says, "He told me some time since
that, upon his courting the perverse widow, he had disposed of an
hundred acres in a diamond ring, which he would have presented her with,
had she thought fit to accept it; and that u