Chapter II: Published in 1589

III-IV

Both were published in _Poemes Lyrick and Pastorall_ (1605?) and _Poemes_ (1619). As to the first:--l. 6. _Caux_ (‘commonlie called Kidcaux,’ says Holinshed) was the district north-east of the mouth of the Seine.

l. 83. _bilbos._ Swords, from Bilbao.

92. _ding._ To belabour with blows.

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The first is from John of Gaunt’s dying speech (_King Richard II._, Act ii. sc. 1). _King Richard II._ was probably written early in 1593. It was published anonymously in 1597. The second is from _King John_, Act v. sc. 7. 1594 is the date assigned to Shakespeare’s _King John_, which was first printed in the First Folio (1623). These and the two succeeding numbers follow the text of ‘The Globe Edition’ of Shakespeare’s Works. I am indebted to the publishers of that edition, Messrs. Macmillan & Co., and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford, for kindly extending to readers of this volume the benefits of the scientific labours of Dr. W. G. Clark and Mr. W. A. Wright.