nes are quoted,
was first given to the press.

[e] Hall's VIRGID. Lib. I. Sat. iii., ed. 1602.

[f] See Heywood's Prol. to our author's JEW OF MALTA,
p. 142 of the present volume.[See the Project
Gutenberg E-Text of 'The Jew of Malta.' "]

[Footnote 4: censures] i.e. judgments, opinions.]

[Footnote 5: Afric] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Affrica."]

[Footnote 6: their] Old eds. "his."]

[Footnote 7: through] So the 4to.--The 8vo "thorough."]

[Footnote 8: incivil] i.e. barbarous.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "vnciuill."]

[Footnote 9: incontinent] i.e. forthwith, immediately.]

[Footnote 10: chiefest] So the 8vo.--The 4to "chiefe."]

[Footnote 11: rout] i.e. crew.]

[Footnote 12: press] So the 8vo.--The 4to "prease."]

[Footnote 13: you] So the 8vo.--0mitted in the 4to.]

[Footnote 14: all] So the 4to.--0mitted in the 8vo.]

[Footnote 15: mated] i.e. confounded.]

[Footnote 16: pass not] i.e. care not.]

[Footnote 17: regiment] i.e. rule, government.]

[Footnote 18: resolve] i.e. dissolve.--So the 8vo.--The 4to "dissolue."]

[Footnote 19: ships] So the 4to.--The 8vo "shippe."]

[Footnote 20: Pass] So the 8vo.--The 4to "Hast."]

[Footnote 21: you] So the 8vo.--The 4to "they."]

[Footnote 22: Ceneus] Here both the old eds. "Conerus."]

[Footnote 23: states] i.e. noblemen, persons of rank.]

[Footnote 24: their] So the 8vo.--The 4to "the."]

[Footnote 25: and Persia] So the 8vo.--The 4to "and OF Persia."]

[Footnote 26: ever-raging] So the 8vo.--The 4to "RIUER raging."]

[Footnote 27: ALL] So the 4to.--Omitted in the 8vo.]

[Footnote 28: And Jove may, &c.] i.e. And may Jove, &c. This collocation
of words is sometimes found in later writers: so in the Prologue
to Fletcher's WOMAN'S PRIZE,--"WHICH this may PROVE!"]

[Footnote 29: knew] So the 8vo.--The 4to "knowe."]

[Footnote 30: lords] So the 4to.--The 8vo "Lord."]

[Footnote 31: injury] This verb frequently occurs in our early writers.
"Then haue you INIURIED manie." Lyly's ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE,
sig. D 4, ed. 1591. It would seem to have fallen into disuse
soon after the commencement of the 17th century: in Heywood's
WOMAN KILLED WITH KINDNESS, 1607, we find,

"You INJURY that good man, and wrong me too."
Sig. F 2.

but in ed. 1617 "injury" is altered to "iniure."]

[Footnote 32: ALL] So the 4to.--0mitted in the 8vo.]

[Footnote 33: Who, travelling, &c.] The halting metre shews that there