Chapter XXXVI: Act V: Scene I (2)

_she_] A MS. correction _ubi sup._ Old eds. “how.”

# 360:

_lannard_] “Or laner, is a species of hawk.” Editor of
1816.

# 361:

_sin_] Old eds. “sins.”

# 362:

_stamp_] So ed. 1661. First ed. “stamps.”

# 363:

_fall_] Old eds. “full.”

# 364:

_flow_] Old eds. “flew.”

# 365:

_storm_] Ed. 1661, “storms.”

# 366:

_Sir, I am_, &c.] Qy.

“_Sir, I'm not
So poor_ in spirit _to put this injury up_?”

Six lines after, the metre is imperfect.

# 367:

_lovely_] So MS. correction in copy of the first 4to:
see note, p. 109. Old eds. “lively.”

# 368:

_sweet_] A MS. correction _ubi sup._ Old eds. “sir.”

# 369:

_here sit they_] A MS. correction _ubi sup._ First ed.
“he _sit they_.” Ed. 1661 has only “_they sit_.”

# 370:

_white_] Qy. for the metre, “whiter”? The double
comp. was common: “his _more braver_ daughter.”
Shakespeare’s _Tempest_, act ii. sc. 1.

# 371:

_it_] Old eds. “_it_ is.”

# 372:

_sometimes heard_] A MS. correction _ubi sup._,
which the editor of 1816 had anticipated. Old eds.
“_some_thing hard.”

# 373:

_friends_] Qy. “friend”?

# 374:

_First promise_, &c.] The editor of 1816 gives the
line thus:
“First, promise me [that] you will get reprieve;”
but the preceding “Despatch!” makes up the measure.

# 375:

_Madrill_] See note, p. 104.

# 376:

_Scene II. A field_] Old eds. have only “_Ex. at
one dore, Enter presently at the other_” (a
stage-direction which occurs again in _The
Changeling_]: as there was no moveable painted
scenery (see notes, vol. ii. pp. 142, 147, and pp.
29, 111, 154, of this vol.), the audience was to
suppose that, on the re-entrance of Alvarez and
Louis, the stage represented a field.

# 377:

_scurvily_] A MS. correction in copy of the first 4to:
see note, p. 109. Old eds. “securely.”

# 378:

_age_] A MS. correction _ubi sup._ Old eds. “rage;”
which the editor of 1816 altered to “rags.” Compare
_The Old Law_;

“Take hence that _pile of years_.” Vol. i. p. 31.

# 379:

_transform_] Old eds. “transforms.”

# 380:

_disgest_] Frequently used for _digest_ by our old
writers.

# 381:

_assur’d_] i. e. affianced.

# 382:

_Fran., Ped., &c._] Old eds. “_Omnes._”

# 383:

_Me thine_] For these words the editor of 1816 rashly
substituted “And me,” observing, in a note, “‘Me
thine’ is the reading of the quartos; but as Francisco
and Fernando both address Don John, the change was, I
think, necessary to make sense of the passage.”
Fernando evidently addresses Constanza, and taking her
hand, gives it to John.

# 384:

_Fran., Rod., &c._] Old eds. “_Omnes._”

# 385:

_you be_] Qy. “be you.”

# 386:

_bent knees_] Here, of course, the performers were to
kneel—perhaps, to pray, according to the old custom:
see note, vol. ii. p. 418.

# 387:

_Malta_ “Yet his [Alsemero’s] thoughts ran still on
the Wars, in which Heroick and Illustrious profession
he conceived his chiefest delight and felicity; and so
taking order for his Lands and affairs, he resolves to
see Malta, that inexpugnable Rampier of Mars, the
glory of Christendome and the terrour of Turkey, to
see if he could gain any place of command and honour
either in that Island or in their Gallies ... and so
building many Castles in the air, he comes to Alicant,
hoping to find passage there for Naples, and from
thence to ship himself upon the Neapolitan Gallies for
Malta.” Reynolds’s _Triumphs of God’s Revenge against
Murther_, p. 34, ed. 1726.—See note, p. 205.

# 388:

_buy a gale_, &c.] “It has been observed by Steevens,
in a note on _Macbeth_, act i. sc. 3, that the selling
of winds was an usual practice amongst the witches,”
&c. &c. Editor of 1816.

# 389:

_inclination to travel_] Old ed. “inclinations to
travels.”

# 390:

_There’s one_, &c.] So editor of 1816: old ed.;

“Oh there’s one above me, sir, for five dayes
past.”

# 391:

_you must stale_] “The quartos [there is but one
4to: see note, p. 205] read ‘you must _stall_,’ and
it may be understood for _forestall_; I have no
doubt, however, that the right word is restored. So
Montaigne, in the _Unnatural Combat_ of Massinger,
act iv. sc. ii.:

——‘I'll not _stale_ the jest
By my relation.’

[i. e. “render flat, deprive it of zest by previous
intimation.” Gifford _ad loc._] And many other
places.” Editor of 1816.

# 392:

_of_] Old ed. “or.”

# 393:

_What_] Old ed. “And _what_.”

# 394:

_ingredience_] Compare p. 88, 1. 14. Old ed.
“ingredian.”

# 396:

_beholding_] See note, p. 40.

# 397:

_your castle_] “He [Vermandero] being Captain of the
castle of that City [Alicant].” Reynolds’s _Triumphs
of God’s Revenge against Murther_, p. 34, ed. 1726.—
See note, p. 205.

# 398:

_promonts_] i. e. promontories.

# 399:

_iulan down_] i. e. the first tender down (Gr.
ἴουλος)—a somewhat pedantic expression. Old ed. has
“Julan;” and the editor of 1816, thinking that the
word was a dissyllable, and that it contained an
allusion to the beard of the emperor _Julian_, printed
“[the] Julan,” &c.

# 400:

_Whose death I had reveng’d_, &c. “Boyling thus in the
heat of his youthful blood, and contemplating often on
the death of his father, he [Alsemero] resolves to go
to Validolyd, and to imploy some Grandee either to the
King or the Duke of Lerma his great favourit, to
procure him a Captains place and a Company under the
Arch-Duke Albertus, who at that time made bloody Wars
against the Netherlands, thereby to draw them to
obedience: But as he began this sute, a general truce
of both sides laid aside Arms, which (by the mediation
of England and France) was shortly followed by a
peace, as a Mother by the Daughter; which was
concluded at the Hague by his Excellency of Nassaw and
Marquess Spinold, being chief Commissioners of either
party.” Reynolds’s _Triumphs of God’s Revenge against
Murther_, p. 34, ed. 1726.—See note, p. 205.

# 401:

_this_] Qy. “his.”

# 402:

_toy_] i. e. trifle.

# 403:

_Aligant_] i. e. Alicant: compare vol. iii. p. 8, and
note.

# 404:

_murderers_] The same as _murdering-pieces_: see note,
vol. iii. p. 466.

# 405:

_pelt_] i.e. skin.

# 406:

_Assure_] Old ed. “Assures.”

# 407:

_these_] Old ed. “this.”

# 408:

_Shrewd application_] “The ‘shrewd application’ meant
is, I conceive, to that perpetual jest of the age, the
cuckold’s horns; which Lollio supposes might raise
Alibius’s head above his wife’s.” Editor of 1816.

# 409:

_ward_] i. e. guard—(in fencing).

# 410:

_pluck a rose_] See Grose’s _Class. Dict. of Vulgar
Tongue_, in v. _Pluck_.

# 411:

_the_] Old ed. “his.”

# 412:

_able_] i. e. warrant, answer for.

# 413:

_what state_] “i. e. as a keeper of fools and madmen.”
Editor of 1816.

# 414:

_true_] “i. e. honest.” Editor of 1816.

# 415:

_go_] Old ed. “goes.”

# 416:

_parlous_] A corruption of _perilous_,—dangerously
shrewd.

# 417:

_we three_] “Antonio probably alludes to the old sign
of _two_ idiots' heads, with an inscription,

_We three_
Loggerheads be.” Editor of 1816.—

Perhaps the allusion is to some song.

# 418:

_crag_] i. e. neck.

# 419:

_go_] Old ed. “goes.”

# 420:

_wire_] i. e. whip.

# 421:

_parmasant_] i. e. Parmesan cheese: compare Ford’s
_Works_, vol. i. p. 148, ed. Giff.

# 422:

_plucks_] Old ed. “pluckt”

# 423:

_Garden-bull_] The allusion is to Paris Garden in
Southwark, where both bears and bulls were baited.

# 424:

_their_] So the editor of 1816. Old ed. “his.”

# 425:

_She helps_, &c.] “The reading of the quartos [there
is but one 4to: see note, p. 205]—

“She helps to get ’em for him, _in his passions_, and
how dangerous”—

not only destroys the measure, but obscures the
sense.” Editor of 1816.—See notes 241 and 244, vol.
ii. p. 134.

# 426:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 427:

_bring_] Old ed. “brings.”

# 428:

_condition_] i. e. quality.

# 429:

_prun’d yourself_] i. e. beautified yourself, improved
your looks. Birds (hawks especially) are said to
_prune_ themselves when they pick, oil, and set in
order their feathers.

# 430:

_so amorously_] i. e. so much an object of love.
Compare _Epigrams and Satyres_, by Richard Middleton,
1608;

“Longato _amorous_ in his Maias eie,” &c. P. 3.

# 431:

_amber_] i.e. ambergris.

# 432:

[_hands_] So the editor of 1816: but, perhaps, the
author considered “cure” as a dissyllable.

# 433:

_We shall try you_, &c.
...
_You are too quick, sir_] So these speeches are
arranged by

the editor of 1816: but, perhaps, the following
disposition of the lines is preferable;

“BEAT. We shall try you: O my De Flores!
DE F. How’s that?
She calls me hers already, _my_ De Flores!—
[_Aside._
You were about to sigh out somewhat, madam?
BEAT. No, was I? I forgot,—O!—
DE F. There ’tis again,
The very fellow on’t.
BEAT. You are too quick, sir.”

# 434:

_There’s no excuse_, &c.] The editor of 1816, by the
insertion of a syllable, has given a perhaps more
musical arrangement of this speech: but he did not
perceive that the conclusion of it, “beat at your
bosom,” was evidently intended to make up a line with
“Would creation.”

# 435:

[_De Flores_] So the editor of 1816.

# 436:

_In the act-time_, &c.] i. e. while the music
plays before the commencement of the act, &c. This
circumstance is taken from the “history,” where
the murder of Alonzo (there called Alfonso) is
thus narrated: “Whiles Piracquo is at dinner with
Vermandero, De Flores is providing of a bloody banquet
in the East Casemate; where of purpose he goes and
hides a naked Sword and Ponyard behind the door. Now
dinner being ended, Piracquo finds out De Flores, and
summons him of his promise; who tells him he is ready
to wait on him: so away they go from the Walls to the
Ravelins, Sconces, and Bulwarks, and from thence by a
Postern to the Ditches; and so, in again to the
Casemates, whereof they have already viewed three, and
are now going to the last, which is the Theater
whereon we shall presently see acted a mournful and
bloody Tragedy. At the descent hereof De Flores
puts off his Rapier, and leaves it behind him;
treacherously informing Piracquo that the descent is
narrow and craggy. See here the Policy and Villany of
this devillish and treacherous Miscreant. Piracquo,
not doubting nor dreaming of any Treason, follows his
example, and so casts off his Rapier: De Flores leads
the way, and he follows him; but alas! poor Gentleman,
he shall never return with his life. They enter the
Vault of the Casemate, De Flores opens the door, and
throws it back, thereby to hide his Sword and Ponyard:
he stoops and looks thorow a Port-hole, and tells him
that that Peece doth thorowly scour the Ditch.
Piracquo stoops likewise down to view it, when (O
grief to think thereon) De Flores steps for his
Weapons, and with his Ponyard stabs him thorow the
back, and swiftly redoubling blow upon blow kills him
dead at his feet, and without going farther, buries
him there, right under the ruins of an old wall,
whereof that Casemate was built.” Reynolds’s _Triumphs
of God’s Revenge against Murther_, p. 40, ed. 1726.

# 437:

_Scene II. A vault_] Old ed. has only (after the words
“Lead, I'll follow thee,”) “_Ex. at one door and enter
at the other._” See note, p. 195.

# 438:

_approve_] i.e. prove the performance of.

# 439:

_proper_] i. e. handsome.

# 440:

_proper_] See note, p. 244.

# 441:

_prophet_] Old ed. “poet.”

# 442:

_we’ll beat the bush, and kick the dog_] “The quartos
[there is but one 4to: see note, p. 205] read, 'we’ll
kick the dog, and beat the bush:' the transposition
will, I think, be approved.” Editor of 1816.

# 443:

_lycanthropi_] i. e. frenzied persons labouring under
the delusion that they are turned into wolves: see the
description in Webster’s _Duchess of Malfi—Works_,
vol. i. p. 290, and my note there.

# 444:

_walk_] Old ed. “walks.”

# 445:

_aunt? Yes, ’tis one of ’em_] See note, vol. iii. p.
16.

# 446:

_nigget_] _Nidget_, or _nigeot_—i. e. idiot.

# 447:

_bauble_] The sceptre of the licensed fool: see
Douce’s _Illust. of Shak._, vol, ii. p. 318, and
plates.

# 448:

_parlous_] See note, p. 225.

# 449:

_he_] Old ed. “she.”

# 450:

_the last couple in hell_] “The allusion here is to
the game of barley-break.” Editor of 1816.—See note,
vol. iii. p. 114.

# 451:

_Lipsius_] Is it necessary to notice that the name of
this great scholar is introduced merely for the sake
of its first syllable?

# 452:

_way_] Old ed. “wayes.”

# 453:

_statue_] Qy. “statua”?—a form which repeatedly occurs
in our old writers.

# 454:

_the ring_] Qy. “_the ring_ and the finger”?

# 455:

_golden florens_] Pieces first coined by the
Florentines: the _floren_ of Spain (according to the
Dictionaries) is 4_s._ 4-1/2_d._—Does Beatrice offer
here a paper to De Flores?

# 456:

[_slept at ease_] Supplied by the editor of 1816.

# 457:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 458:

_have_] Old ed. “has.”

# 459:

_the_] Old ed. “thy.”

# 460:

_love’s_] Old ed. “lovers.”—I suspect the author
wrote;

“I shall rest from all plagues then;
I live in pain now; that love-shooting eye.”

# 461:

_Dumb Show_] “These dumb shows are common enough in
the dramas of our poets' age.” Editor of 1816.—They
had fallen much into disrepute when the present play
was written.

# 462:

_smiling at the accident_] So old ed. The editor of
1816 gives “_smiling_ scornfully _at the_ ceremony;”
but I doubt if that be the meaning of the original
words.

# 463:

_who’s_] So editor of 1816. Old ed. “both.”

# 464:

_Secrets in Nature_] In _Antonii Mizaldi Monluciani De
Arcanis Naturæ, Libelli quatuor_, ed. tertia, 1558,
12mo, I find no passages resembling those which are
read by Beatrice.

# 465:

_slight_] i. e. artifice, contrivance.

# 466:

_incontinently_] i. e. immediately.

# 467:

_ow’d ’em not_] i. e. owned them not,—they were not
hers.

# 468:

_I'd_] Old ed. “I will.”

# 469:

_Briamata_] “_Briamata_, a fair house of his
[Vermandero’s] ten leagues from Alicant.” Reynolds’s
_Triumphs of God’s Revenge against Murther_, p. 36,
ed. 1726; see note, p. 205.

# 470:

_An_] Old ed. “One.”

# 471:

_round-pack’d_] Qy. “round-pac’d”?

# 472:

_sins and vices_] Surely the right reading is “chins
_and_ noses.”

# 473:

_'Twill_] Old ed. “I will.”

# 474:

_pretend_] i. e. offer.

# 475:

_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.

# 476:

_touch’d_] i. e. infected, stained.

# 477:

_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.

# 478:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 479:

_waning_] Old ed. “waiting.” “I am inclined to read,
Oh, heaven! is this the new or waning moon?”
Editor of
1816.

# 480:

_To the bright ... Pay the post_] Given to Lollio in
old ed.

# 481:

_Why_] Old ed. “We.”

# 482:

_Nay, the fair_, &c.] “i. e. Nay, understand my
speeches in the fair and modest sense in which they
are uttered.” Editor of 1816.

# 483:

_and_] i. e. if.

# 484:

_he_] Old ed. “she.”

# 485:

_straits_] Old ed. “streets.”

# 486:

_desire_] Qy. “desert”?

# 487:

[_off_] See p. 274.

# 488:

_true_] See note, p. 224.

# 489:

_begg’d_] See note, vol. iii. p. 16.

# 490:

_Pist_] See note, vol. ii. p. 460.

# 491:

_Push_] See note, vol. i. p. 29.

# 492:

_harsh_] Qy. “rash”?

# 493:

_of_] i. e. on: see vol. iii. p. 556, and note.

# 494:

_And_] i. e. if.

# 495:

[_I threw_] Compare ninth line preceding.

# 496:

_Briamata_] Old ed. “Bramata:” see note, p. 267.

# 497:

_Alsemero’s apartment_] So, on account of what
follows, it is necessary to mark this scene; but as
Jasperino presently says, “She meets you opportunely
from that walk,” I suspect that Middleton intended the
audience to imagine that the earlier part of the scene
did not pass where the latter part certainly does, in
Alsemero’s apartment: see notes, pp. 28, 154, 195,
242.

# 498:

_garden has shew’d_] The editor of 1816 prints “garden
[must] _have_ shew’d;” but, probably, “garden” was
used here as a trisyllable.

# 499:

_Clip_] i. e. embrace.

# 500:

_hung_] Old ed. “hang.”

# 501:

_I ne’er_, &c.] The editor of 1816 gives the passage
thus:

“I ne’er could pluck it from him; [though] my
loathing
Was prophet to the rest, _I_ ne’er believ’d
Mine honour [should] _fall_ with him, and now my
life.”

# 502:

_barley-break_] See note, vol. iii. p. 114.

# 503:

_hence_] Old ed. “thence.”

# 504:

_innocence_] A play on the word,—idiotcy.

# 505:

_All we can do_, &c.] These lines in old ed. are
printed on a page by themselves, with the prefix
_Als._, and headed _Epilogue_.

# 506:

Gifford, misled by a MS. note of Oldys on Langbaine,
says that _A Game at Chess_ “was embellished with an
engraved frontispiece, where Gondomar was introduced
_in propria persona_ in no very friendly conversation
with Loyola.” Note on B. Jonson’s _Works_, vol. v. p.
248. There is no figure of Ignatius in either of the
engraved title-pages.

# 507:

_States_] i. e. personages of high rank.

# 508:

_angle_] i. e. corner.

# 509:

_taste_] So two eds. Quarto C. “cast.”

# 510:

_Roch_] St. Roch “was honoured, especially in France
and Italy, amongst the most illustrious saints in
the fourteenth century.... Many cities have been
speedily delivered from the plague by imploring his
intercession,” &c.! Butler’s _Lives of the Saints_,
vol. viii. p. 206, sec. ed.

# 511:

_Main_] St. Main, an abbot; who appears to have been
of no great eminence. _Id._ vol. i. p. 172.

# 512:

_Petronill_] i. e. Petronilla, a holy virgin,
according to some the daughter, or, as seems to be
more generally supposed, only the spiritual daughter
of the apostle St. Peter. _Id._ vol. v. p. 439.

# 513:

_Your abbess Aldegund_] Or Aldegundes—“daughter of
Walbert of the royal blood of France,” &c. _Id._ vol.
i. p. 451.

# 514:

_Cunegund_] i. e. the Empress Cunegundes, wife of St.
Henry duke of Bavaria, afterwards king of the Romans:
she and her husband received the imperial crown at
Rome, &c. _Id._ vol. iii. p. 17.

# 515:

_the widow Marcell_] i. e. Marcella, the Roman lady
celebrated by St. Jerome. _Id._ vol. i. p. 459.—So two
eds. Quarto C. “Alarcell.”

# 516:

_parson Polycarp_] The famous bishop of Smyrna. _Id._
vol. i. p. 289.

# 517:

_Cecily_] See account of St. Cecily. _Id._ vol. xi. p.
395.

# 518:

_Ursula_] See account of “St. Ursula and her
Companions.” _Id._ vol. x. p. 463.

# 519:

_a lame soldier_] Ignatius had his leg broken by a
cannon-shot at the siege of Pampeluna, where he
displayed great valour. _Id._ vol. vii. p. 405.

# 520:

_mastery_] i. e. masterly operation (a sense of the
word common in our earliest poetry).

# 521:

_I behold_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_I_ could
_behold_.”

# 522:

_Le roc_, &c.] “In modern times,” says Strutt, “the
_roc_ is corruptedly called a _rook_, but formerly it
signified a rock or fortress, or rather, perhaps, the
keeper of the fortress.” _Sports_, &c., p. 233.

# 523:

_custode_] “A guardian, keeper.” Cotgrave in v.—Two
eds. “custodie”—better for the metre, but contrary to
the sense.

# 524:

_daughter_] So two eds. Quarto C. “daughters.”

# 525:

_Black_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 526:

_performents_] i. e. performances. So two eds. Quarto
C. “preferments.”

# 527:

_one_] So two eds. Quarto C. “me.”

# 528:

_weep_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wept.”

# 529:

_firmer_] So two eds. Quarto C. “firme.”

# 530:

_Disarms_] So two eds. Quarto C. “This-Armes.”

# 531:

_the_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 532:

_Can_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Will.”

# 533:

_Jesuitess_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Jesuite.”

# 534:

_worth_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wealth.”

# 535:

_the_] So two eds. Quarto C. “their.”

# 536:

_by_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_by_’th.”

# 537:

_important_] So both MSS. Eds. “importune” and
“importinant.”

# 538:

_Dost_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Doe you.”

# 539:

_made_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 540:

_the opening eyelids of the morn_] Adopted by Milton;

“Together both, ere the high lawns appear’d
Under _the opening eyelids of the morn_,” &c.
_Lycidas._

# 541:

_discovering_] So Bridge. MS. Eds. “disclosing.”

# 542:

_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 543:

_your night-counsels_] Two eds. and MS. Bridge, have
“yours might counsell _neerer_;” but that the reading
of Quarto C., which I have followed, is the right one,
appears from the second line of the next speech,
“Guilty of _that black time_.” MS. Lansd. differs only
from Quarto C. in having “counsell.”

# 544:

_fond_] i. e. foolish. So both MSS. Quarto C. “sound.”
Other eds. have “some sinful, some sound.”

# 545:

_Clad_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Cal’d.”

# 546:

_competitor_] So two eds. Quarto C. “competitors.”

# 547:

_fond_] See note in preceding page.

# 548:

_I_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Il’d.”

# 549:

_Have I_] So two eds. Quarto C. “I haue.”

# 550:

_of it_] So two eds. Quarto C. “of.”

# 551:

_destroy fruit_] “The leaues of Sauin boyled in Wine
and drunke ... expell the dead childe, and kill the
quick.” Gerarde’s _Herball_, p. 1378, ed. 1633.

# 552:

_resolved_] i. e. satisfied.

# 553:

_An_] So two eds. Quarto C. “And.”

# 554:

_casible_] Or _chesible_: “Fyrst do on the amys, than
the albe, than the gyrdell, than the manyple, than the
stoole, than _the chesyble_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_,
sig. E iiii. ed. 1530.

# 555:

_great_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 556:

_diviner_] So two eds. Quarto C. “diuine.”

# 557:

_have_] So two eds. Quarto C. “I _haue_.”

# 558:

_And what I've done_, &c.] “Gondomar was at this time
the Spanish Ambassador in England; a man whose
flattery was the more artful, because covered with the
appearance of frankness and sincerity; whose politics
were the more dangerous, because disguised under the
masque of mirth and pleasantry.” Hume’s _Hist. of
England_, vol. vi. p. 40, ed. 1763.

# 559:

_these_] So two eds. Quarto C. “this.”

# 560:

_guitonens_] A word of reproach, I suppose, formed
from the Spanish _guiton_, vagrant, vagabond.
Quarto C. and MS. Lansd. “Guytinens.” MS. Bridge.
“Guitenens.” Two eds. “great ones.”

# 561:

_pusills_] So Quarto C. and both MSS. Two eds.
“pupills.”—_Pusill_, written variously, _puzzel_, &c.,
meant a drab: see notes of the commentators on the
line “Pucelle or puzzel,” &c., in Shakespeare’s _Henry
VI. Part First_, act i. sc. 4.

# 562:

_the great work, the main existence_] So MS. Bridge.
Eds. “the maine worke, the great existence.”

# 563:

_fame_] So two eds. Quarto C. “name.”

# 564:

_jealious_] A trisyllable, for the metre.

# 565:

_heard_] So two eds. Quarto C. “read.”

# 566:

_gently_] So two eds. Quarto C. “lately.”

# 567:

_what have we here_] So MS. Lansd. Not in eds.

# 568:

_Strange!_ &c.] So two eds. The line not in Quarto C.

# 569:

_what_] So two eds. Quarto C. “that.”

# 570:

_Well here set down_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Well,
here I set downe.” Other eds. “Well set her downe.”

# 571:

_in_] So two eds. Quarto C. “and.”

# 572:

_much_] So two eds. Quarto C. “most.”

# 573:

_stir_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “spread.” Other eds.
“flye.”

# 574:

_never was_] So two eds. Quarto C. “was neuer.”

# 575:

_safety_] MS. Bridge. “faith.”

# 576:

_Yours_] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. Quarto C. and MS.
Lansd. “Yon’d.”

# 577:

_offerer_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Officer.” Other
eds. “offerors.”

# 578:

_thy_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 579:

_deep_] So two eds. Quarto C. “great.”

# 580:

_my love_] Qy. “_my_ loss”? MS. Lansd. “thy _loue_.”

# 581:

_make_] So both MSS. Eds. “_make_ me.”

# 582:

_But by_, &c.] So two eds. Quarto C. “_But_ thine
_Honors losse, that Act must_ arme _thee_.”

# 583:

_thou_] So MS. Bridge. Not in eds.

# 584:

_resist_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C.
“reiect.”

# 585:

_confound_] Eds. and MSS. “_confound_ noise.”

# 586:

_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 587:

_pliant_] So two eds. Quarto C. “pleasant.”

# 588:

_cautelous_] i. e. artfully cautious.

# 589:

_word_] i. e. motto: compare vol. iii. p. 537, note.

# 590:

_B. Bishop_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. Kin._”

# 591:

_hath_] To this word here and in the two following
lines Quarto C. prefixes “he;” but two eds. omit it.

# 592:

_trow?_] i. e. think you?

# 593:

_an_] So two eds. Quarto C. “one.”

# 594:

_able_] i. e. warrant, answer for.

# 595:

_me ’em_] So MS. Bridge. Quarto C. “_’em me._” In two
eds. “me” omitted.

# 596:

_all_] So two eds. and both MSS. Omitted in Quarto C.

# 597:

_in_] So two eds. Omitted in Quarto C.

# 598:

_Fat Bishop_] “He [Antonio] was of a comely personage,
tall stature, gray beard, graue countenance, fair
language, fluent expression, _somewhat abdominous, and
corpulent in his body_.” Fuller’s _Church History_, B.
x. p. 100, ed. 1655. “Allowing Spalato diligent in
writing, his expression was a notorious hyperbole,
when saying, _In reading, meditation, and writing I am
almost pined away_; otherwise his _fat cheeks_ did
confute his false tongue in that expression.” _Id._ B.
x. p. 95.

# 599:

_my books_] “He [Antonio] falls now [after receiving
his preferments in England] to perfect his Books. For
his Works were not now composed, but corrected;
not compiled, but completed; as being, though of
English birth, of Italian conception. For formerly
the Collections were made by him at Spalato, but
he durst not make them publick for fear of the
Inquisition. His Works (being three fair Folios, _De
Republica Ecclesiastica_) give ample testimony of his
sufficiency. Indeed he had a controversial head, with
a strong and clear stile, nor doth an hair hang at the
neb of his pen to blurre his writings with obscurity:
but, first understanding himself, he could make others
understand him. His writings are of great use for the
Protestant cause.” Fuller’s _Church History_, B. x. p.
95, ed. 1655.—When Bedell was at Venice (as chaplain
to Sir Henry Wotton, then ambassador there), Antonio
“discovered his secret to him, and shewed him his
ten Books _De Republica Ecclesiastica_, which he
afterwards printed at London: Bedell took the
freedom which he allowed him, and corrected many ill
applications of Texts of Scripture and Quotations of
Fathers. For that Prelate being utterly ignorant of
the Greek Tongue, could not but be guilty of many
mistakes both in the one and the other.” Burnet’s
_Life of Bedell_, p. 10, ed. 1692.

# 600:

_drink_] So two eds. Quarto C. “feede.”

# 601:

_cullis_] See note, vol. iii. p. 271.

# 602:

_master of the beds_] i. e. master of the Hospital of
the Savoy. On his first arrival in England Antonio
resided with the Archbishop of Canterbury; “and having
lived long at Lambeth House, they grew even weary of
him, for he was somewhat an unquiet man, and not of
that fair, quiet, civil carriage as would give
contentment. This he perceiving made bold to write
unto the king, desiring him that he might not live
always at another man’s table, but that he might have
some subsistence of his own: whereupon the King so
contrived it, that although the mastership of the
Savoy had been given to another, yet was it resigned
and conferred upon him.” Goodman’s _Court of King
James_, vol. i. p. 339—an interesting work, now at
press under the editorship of the Rev. J. S. Brewer.

# 603:

_shut and open_] Eds. “shuts and opens.”

# 604:

_the fistula_, &c.] Gondomar, as various writers
mention, was troubled with that disease.

# 605:

_prescrib’d_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “prouided.”

# 606:

_provided_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “inuented.”

# 607:

_what a most uncatholic jest_, &c.] “Amongst other of
his ill qualities, he [Antonio] delighted in jeering,
and would spare none who came in his way. One of his
sarcasmes he unhappily bestowed on Count Gondomar, the
Spanish Ambassador, telling him, That three turns at
Tiburne was the onely way to cure his Fistula. The
Don, highly offended hereat (pained for the present
more with this flout than his fistula) meditates
revenge, and repairs to King James. He told His
Majesty, that His charity (an errour common in good
Princes) abused His judgment, in conceiving Spalato a
true convert, who still in heart remained a Roman
Catholick. Indeed, His Majesty had a rare felicity in
discovering the falsity of Witches and forgery of such
who pretended themselves possessed: but, under favour,
was deluded with this mans false spirit, and, by His
Majesties leave, he would detect unto Him this his
hypocrisie. The King cheerfully embraced his motion,
and left him to the liberty of his own undertakings.
The Ambassadour writeth to His Catholick Majesty; He
to his Holinesse Gregory the fifteenth, that Spalato
might be pardoned, and preferred in the Church of
Rome, which was easily obtained. Letters are sent from
Rome to Count Gondomar, written by the Cardinal
Millin, to impart them to Spalato, informing him that
the Pope had forgiven and forgotten all which he had
done or written against the Catholick Religion; and
upon his return, would preferre him to the Bishoprick
of Salerno in Naples, worth twelve thousand crowns by
the year. A Cardinal’s Hat also should be bestowed
upon him. And if Spalato, with his hand subscribed to
this Letter, would renounce and disclaim what formerly
he had printed, an Apostolical Breve, with pardon,
should solemnly be sent him to Bruxels. Spalato
embraceth the motion, likes the pardon well, the
preferment better, accepts both, recants his opinions
largely, subscribes solemnly, and thanks his Holinesse
affectionately for his favour. Gondomar carries his
subscription to King James, who is glad to behold the
Hypocrite unmasked, appearing in his own colours; yet
the discovery was concealed and lay dormant some daies
in the deck [i. e. pack—of cards], which was in due
time to be awakened.” Fuller’s _Church History_, B. x.
p. 95, ed. 1655. The circumstances which led to
Antonio’s departure from England are differently
related, and without any mention of Gondomar, in
Goodman’s _Court of King James_, vol. i. p. 345.

# 608:

_balloon-ball_] i. e. a large inflated ball of
leather. The game of balloon, in which the player
strikes the ball with a flat piece of wood fastened to
the arm, is still (as Gifford observes,—note on B.
Jonson’s _Works_, vol. iii. p. 216) very common on the
continent.

# 609:

_bishop absent_] So Quarto C. and MS. Lansd. Two eds.
“bishops dead.” MS. Bridge. deficient here, and to the
end of the act.—Neither reading agrees well with what
follows: see p. 353.

# 610:

_blindness_] So two eds. Quarto C. “boldnesse.”

# 611:

_I must confess_] So two eds. and MS. Lansd. Not in
Quarto C.

# 612:

_W. Bish._] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Wh. P._”

# 613:

_Have_] Eds. “Hath” and “Has.”

# 614:

_terrors_] So two eds. Quarto C. “terrour.”

# 615:

_Quit_] Eds. “Quits.”

# 616:

_wonder_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wounds.”

# 617:

_scar’d_] So two eds. Quarto C. “seiz’d.”

# 618:

_his_] So two eds. Quarto C. “this.”

# 619:

_B. Bish._] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. Bi. P._”

# 620:

_after_] So two eds. Quarto C. “following.”

# 621:

_or_] So two eds. Quarto C. “&.”

# 622:

_quit_] i. e. acquit.

# 623:

_remove_] So two eds. Quarto C. “roome.”

# 624:

_Craft_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “Crafts.” Other eds.
“Trust” (misprint for “Lust”).

# 625:

_more unclean_] So two eds. Quarto C. “vncleaner.”

# 626:

_Vild_] See note, p. 137.

# 627:

_more_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “most.” Not in other
eds.

# 628:

_Yesterday’s_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Yesterday.”

# 629:

_Ruin_] Eds. and MS. Lansd. “_Ruin_ enough.”

# 630:

_W. King_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “_Wh. Kni._”

# 631:

_W. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Wh. Kni._”

# 632:

_W. Kg.'s Pawn_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_Wh. Q. P._”
Two eds. “_W. Kt. p._” That the White King’s Pawn is
the speaker appears from the next speech; and compare
p. 326.

# 633:

_W. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Wh. Kni._”

# 634:

_strong_] So two eds. Quarto C. “wrong.”

# 635:

_W. Kg.'s Pawn_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_W. Qu. P._”
Two eds. “_W. Kt. p._”

# 636:

_endear’d_] Two eds. “indeede.” But compare p. 325,
last line.

# 637:

_W. King_] So two eds. here and at next speech but
one. Quarto C. “_Wh. Kni._”

# 638:

_that_] So MS. Lansd. Not in eds.

# 639:

_thou left_] So two eds. and MS. Lansd. Quarto C.
“_thou_ so _left_.”

# 640:

_flight_] Meant, in archery, a long, light-feathered,
straight-flying arrow.

# 641:

_niceness_] i. e. squeamishness, scrupulousness.

# 642:

_B. King_] So two eds. and MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_Bl.
Bish._”

# 643:

_luxury_] i. e. lust.

# 644:

_diseas’d bed-rid_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “disea’d
_Bed-rid_.” Other eds. “disease-bred.”

# 645:
_master of an hospital_
. . . . . . . .
_Or dean of the poor alms-knights that wear badges_]
See note, p. 339. The poor alms-knights—i. e. the
Poor Knights of Windsor.—“About half a year after
[his appointment to the Mastership of the Savoy,
Antonio received] the deanery of Windsor; both which
preferments might amount to four hundred and thirty
pounds per annum, or thereabout.” Goodman’s _Court of
King James_, vol. i. p. 340. According to Hacket,
“these together were worth to him 800_l._ per Annum.
They brought in no less, and he would not loose a Peny
of his Due; but studied to exact more than ever by
Custom had been received by any of those Dignitaries.
Of which Sharking, his Majesty once admonished him:
Yet his Veins were not full, but he got himself
presented by the Church of Windsor to a good Benefice,
says Mr. Ri. Montagu, West Ilsly in Barkshire, where
he made a shift to read the Articles of 1562 in
English, _pro more Clericali_, and subscribed to
them.” _Life of Archb. Williams_, P. i. p. 98, ed.
1693.

# 646:

_other titles_] “Now it happened a false rumour was
spread that Tobie Matthew, Archbishop of Yorke (who
died yearly in report) was certainly deceased.
Presently posts Spalato to Theobalds; becomes an
importunate Petitioner to the King for the vacant
Archbishoprick, and is as flatly denied; the King
conceiving, He had given enough already to him if
gratefull, too much if ungratefull. Besides the King
would never bestow an Episcopal charge in England on a
forraigner, no not on His own Countrey-men; some
Scotish-men being preferred to Deanries, none to
Bishopricks. Spalato offended at this repulse (for he
had rather had Yorke than Salerno [see quotation from
Fuller, note, p. 341], as equal in wealth, higher in
dignity, neerer in place) requests His Majesty by his
Letter to grant His good leave to depart the Kingdome,
and to return into Italy.” Fuller’s _Church History_,
B. x. p. 96, ed. 1655. See also Hacket’s _Life of
Archb. Williams_, P. i. p. 98. ed. 1693.

# 647:

_skip_] So both MSS. Eds. “slip.”

# 648:

_true_] So two eds. and both MSS. Omitted in Quarto C.

# 649:
_It is but penning
Another recantation_, &c.] So two eds. and both MSS.
Quarto C. thus: “It is but penning
Two or three bitter bookes against the White-house,
And inuenting another Recantation.”

# 650:

_And let forth_, &c.] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. The
line not in Quarto C. or MS. Lansd.

# 651:

_With_] So two eds. Quarto C. “In.”

# 652:

_gallant fleet_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto
C. “pretious safe-guard.”—“By his Artifices and
Negotiations (having been time enough Ambassador in
England to gain credit with the King) he [Gondomar]
got Sir Robert Mansell (the Vice-Admirall) to go into
the Mediterranean sea, with a Fleet of Ships to fight
against the Turks at Algier, who were grown too strong
and formidable for the Spaniard (most of the King of
Spains Gallions attending the Indian Trade, as Convoys
for his Treasures, which he wanted to supply his
Armies) and he transported Ordnance and other Warlike
Provisions to furnish the Spanish Arsenalls, even
while the Armies of Spain were battering the English
in the Palatinate.” Wilson’s _Life and Reign of
James_, p. 145, ed. 1653.

# 653:

_jails fly open_, &c.] “Count Gondomar was the active
Instrument to advance this Match [of Prince Charles
with the Infanta], who so carried himself in the
twilight of jest-earnest, that with his jests he
pleased His Majesty of England, and with his earnest
he pleasured his Master of Spaine. Having found out
the length of King James’s foot, he fitted Him with so
easie a shooe, which pained Him not (no, not when he
was troubled with the gout), this cunning Don
being able to please Him in His greatest passion.
And although the Match was never effected, yet
Gondomar whilst negotiating the same, in favour to
the Catholick cause, procured of his Majesty the
enlargment of all Priests and Jesuits through the
English Dominions.... These Jesuits, when at liberty,
did not gratefully ascribe their freedome to his
Majestie’s mercy, but onely to His willingnesse to rid
and clear His gaoles over-pestered with prisoners.”
Fuller’s _Church History_, B. x. p. 100, ed. 1655. See
also Wilson’s _Life and Reign of James_, p. 145, ed.
1653.

# 654:

_there’s_] So both MSS. Eds. “their.”

# 655:

_a silenc’d muzzle_] “The Pulpits were the most bold
Opposers, but if they toucht any thing upon the
Spanish policie, or the intended Treaties (for the
Restitution of the Palatinate was included in the
Mariage before it was the Spaniards to give) their
mouthes must be stopt by Gondamar ... and (it may be)
confined, or imprisoned for it.” Wilson’s _Life and
Reign of James_, p. 151, ed. 1653.

# 656:

_angle_] i. e. corner.

# 657:

_too_] So two eds. and both MSS. Not in Quarto C.

# 658:

_state-_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 659:

_pick_] So two eds. Quarto C. “pricke.”

# 660:

_every_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 661:

_The White Bishop’s Pawn_] So two eds. and MS. Bridge.
Quarto C. and MS. Lansd., more metrically, “The
Bishops White Pawne.”

# 662:

_flight_] See note, p. 349.

# 663:

_Enough of them in all parts_] So both MSS. Not in
Quarto C. Two eds. “There’s _enough_,” &c.

# 664:

_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 665:

_that_] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”

# 666:

_fames_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. and MS. Bridge. “fame.”

# 667:

_Duke_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Piece.”

# 668:

_munificence_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Magnificence.”
Two eds. “munificency.”

# 669:

_that’s_] So two eds. Quarto C. “’tis.”

# 670:

_I've maz’d ’em_] So two eds. Quarto C. “amaz’d.”

# 671:

_ships_] So two eds. Quarto C. “ship.”

# 672:

_the fleet
In eighty-eight_] i. e. the Spanish Armada in 1588.

# 673:

_W. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Wh.
Kni._”

# 674:

_attempter_] So two eds. Quarto C. “attempt.”

# 675:

_impudent_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C.
“impudence.”

# 676:

_piece_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “price.” Two eds.
“prize.”

# 677:

_value_] i. e. equal in value.

# 678:

_This_] So two eds. Quarto C. “The.”

# 679:

_however_] So two eds. Quarto C. and both MSS. “_How_
any.”

# 680:

_W. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Wh.
Kni._”

# 681:

_stand_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “stood.” Two eds.
“stands.”

# 682:

_W. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Wh.
Kni._”

# 683:

_B. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. _“W.
Kni._”

# 684:

_beside_] So both MSS. Eds. “besides.”

# 685:

_B. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. here and at next
speech but three. Quarto C. “_B. D._”

# 686:

_Do’t_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Doe.”

# 687:

_lock_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “tooke.”

# 688:

_W. King_] MS. Lansd. “_W. Knight_”—rightly, perhaps.

# 689:

_this_] Both MSS. “their”—rightly, perhaps.

# 690:

_B. Knight_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_W.
Kni._”

# 691:

_W. King_] MS. Lansd. “_W. Knight_”—rightly, perhaps.

# 692:

_B. King_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “_Fat
B._”

# 693:

_Spalato_] So the word _Spalatro_ was generally
written.—Eds. and MSS. “Spolletta,” “Spolleta,”
“Spallato.”

# 694:

_water_] Two eds. “water-gate.”

# 695:

_of_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “to.”

# 696:

_mazzard_] i. e. head.

# 697:

_know me_] Here, perhaps, the Black Knight thrust the
White King’s Pawn into the bag on the stage: compare
the concluding scene of the play.

# 698:

_my_] So two eds. Quarto C. “many.”

# 699:

_That_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Thus.”

# 700:

_us_] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “_vs_ all.”

# 701:

_handsome_] So two eds. Quarto C. “honest.”

# 702:

_in_] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “for.”

# 703:

_person_] So two eds. Quarto C. “persons.”

# 704:

_the_] So two eds. Quarto C. “our.”

# 705:

_nor_] So two eds. Quarto C. “or.”

# 706:

_So ... prance it_] So two eds. Quarto C. “I’d ...
praunc’d.”

# 707:

_A pox on you_] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. Not in
Quarto C. MS. Lansd. omits the whole of this scene
between the Black Jesting Pawn and the other two
Pawns.

# 708:

_snapt_] So two eds. Quarto C. “scap’d.”

# 709:

_a monkey’s ordinary_] Compare Brome’s _City Wit_;
“Knavery is restoratiue to me, as spiders to monkeys.”
Sig. F V. (_Fiue New Playes_, 1653.)

# 710:

_firk_] i. e. beat.

# 711:

_Mass_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 712:

_old_] i. e. abundant: compare vol. ii. p. 538.

# 713:

_for_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 714:

_Exeunt._] Not in eds. Perhaps they went into the bag
on the stage: compare the concluding scene of the
play.

# 715:

_your_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 716:

_With stay_] So all the eds. and both MSS. The meaning
is far from clear. Qy. “Withstay”?

# 717:

_kind_] i. e. nature.

# 718:

_are_] So two eds. Quarto C. “is.”

# 719:

_passion_] i. e. sorrow, lament.

# 720:

_merely_] i. e. wholly.

# 721:

_In his gallant habit_] Not in Quarto C. nor MSS.:
found in two eds., printed as the first line of the
opening speech of the scene, thus;
“The Jesuit in his gallant habit,
_Tis he my Confessor_,” &c.

# 722:

_with_] So two eds. Quarto C. “by.”

# 723:

_feather_] So two eds. Quarto C. “father.”

# 724:

_highly_] So two eds. Quarto C. “mightie.”

# 725:

_trim_] So two eds. Quarto C. “trane.”

# 726:

_catholical_] So two eds. Quarto C. “catholicke.”

# 727:

_Suffices_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Suffice.”

# 728:

_’tis he_] In MS. Lansd. only.

# 729:

_A most regardless_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_A most_
strange _reguardles_.”

# 730:

_Merely_] i. e. wholly.

# 731:

_now_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 732:

_unclose_] Quarto C. “vncloses.” Other eds.
“incloses.”

# 733:

_Put_] Eds. “Puts.”

# 734:

_mark’d_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C.
“work’d.”

# 735:

_irrevocable_] So two eds. Quarto C. “irrecouerable.”

# 736:

_shame_] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “chance.”

# 737:

_be man_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_be_ both _man_.”

# 738:

_grieves_] So two eds. Quarto C. “giues.”

# 739:

_marry_] So two eds. Quarto C. “be married.”

# 740:

_a' life_] i. e. as my life—exceedingly. So two eds.
Quarto C. has the more unusual form “of _life_.”

# 741:

_a foul flaw_, &c.] See note, p. 339.

# 742:

_treacher_] i. e. deceiver, cozener, cheater.

# 743:

_gull’d_] i. e. swallowed.

# 744:

_rear_] i. e. under-dressed.

# 745:

_poach’d_] So two eds. (where the line in other
respects is different). Quarto C. “pouch’d.”

# 746:

_Unjointed_, &c.] So two eds. The line not in Quarto
C.

# 747:

_stares_] i. e. starlings.

# 748:

_lightly_] So two eds. Quarto C. “titelie.”

# 749:

_three_] So two eds. Quarto C. “thee.”

# 750:

_turn_] So two eds. Quarto C. “turned.”

# 751:

_chares_] i. e. works, jobs.

# 752:

_learn’d_] So two eds. Quarto C. “and _learn’d_.”

# 753:

_murderers_] See note, p. 218.

# 754:

_breast_] So both MSS. Eds. “best.”

# 755:

_the jails_, &c.] See note, p. 355.

# 756:

_into_] So two eds. Quarto C. “in.”

# 757:

_Mass_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 758:

_or_] So two eds. Quarto C. “and.”

# 759:

_and_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 760:

_sums_] So two eds. Quarto C. “sinnes.”

# 761:

_thousand_] So two eds. Quarto C. “thousands.”

# 762:

_doctor Lopez_, &c.] Lopez, domestic physician to
Queen Elizabeth, was executed for having accepted
a bribe from Spain to destroy her. Taylor, the
water-poet, in the 13th stanza (or sonnet) of _The
Churches Deliuerances_, tells, in his own homely
and facetious manner, the story of Lopez, p. 145—
_Workes_, 1630. Dekker introduces him actually
making an attempt on the queen’s life, in the
following passage of _The Whore of Babylon_, 1607:

“TITANIA. Is Lupus here, our Doctor?
LUPUS. Gratious Lady.
TITANIA. You haue a lucky hand since you were ours,
It quickens our tast well; fill vs of that
You last did minister: a draught, no more,
And giue it fire, euen Doctor how thou wilt.
LUPUS. I made a new extraction, you shall neuer
Rellish the like.
TITANIA. Why, shall that be my last?
LUPUS. Oh my deere Mistres!
TITANIA. Go, go, I dare sware thou lou’st my very
heart.
. . . . . . . .
TITANIA. Sure ’tis too hot.
FIDELI. Oh roague!
TITANIA. Set it to coole.
FIDELI. Hell and damnation, Diuels.
FLORIMELL. What’s that?
FIDELI. The damned’st treason! Dog, you whorsen dog;
O blessed mayd: let not the toad come neere her:
What’s this? If’t be his brewing, touch it not,
For ’tis a drench to kill the strongest Deuill
That’s Druncke all day with brimstone: come sucke,
Weezell,
Sucke your owne teat, you—pray.
Thou art preseru’d.
TITANIA. From what? From whome?
FIDELI. Looke to that Glister-pipe:
One crowne doe’s serue thy tourne, but heere’s a
theefe,
That must haue 50000 crownes to steale
Thy life: Here ’tis in blacke and white—thy life.
Sirra thou Vrinall, Tynoco, Gama,
Andrada, and Ibarra, names of Diuels,
Or names to fetch vp Diuels: thou knowest these
Scar-crowes.
LUPUS. Oh mee! O mercy, mercy! I confesse.
FIDELI. Well sayd, thou shalt be hang’d then.
TITANIA. Haue we for this _Shee reades the
letter._
Heap’d fauours on thee? _Enter Gard._
FIDELI. Heape halters on him: call the Guard: out
polecat:
He smels, thy conscience stincks Doctor, goe purge
Thy soule, for ’tis diseas’d. Away with Lupus.
OMNES. Away with him: foh.
LUPUS. Here my tale but out.
FIDELI. Ther’s too much out already.
LUPUS. Oh me accursed! and most miserable.
_Exit with Guard._”
Sigs. G 4, H.

In the above passage the old ed. has, by a misprint,
“_Ropus_” instead of “_Lupus_:” when he appears in an
earlier scene he is called “_Lupus_,” which a marginal
note explains to mean “Lopes.” Sig. F.

# 763:

_estate_] So two eds. Quarto C. “state.”

# 764:

_B. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. Kni._”

# 765:

_Bishop_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Bishops.”

# 766:

_snapt_] So two eds. Quarto C. “snatch’d.”

# 767:

_next_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “at _next_.”

# 768:

_her night-attire ... his night-habit_] So MS. Lansd.
only.

# 769:

_virtue’s_] So two eds. Quarto C. “vertue.”

# 770:

_prevent_] i. e. anticipate.

# 771:

_eighty-eight_] i. e. 1588—the year of the Spanish
armada.

# 772:

_glittering’st_] So both MSS. Eds. “glittering.”

# 773:

_sit_] Eds. “sits.”

# 774:

_face_] So two eds. Quarto C. “falce.”

# 775:

_your_] So two eds. Quarto C. “you.”

# 776:

_sire_] So both MSS. Eds. “sir” and “sice.”

# 777:

_could_] Two eds. “would:” but see the third line
following.

# 778:

_Rumbant’s_] So all the eds. and both MSS. The right
reading, I have little doubt, is “_Rumbold’s_,” or
rather “_Rumold’s_.”—“A great and sumptuous church was
built at Mechlin to receive his [St. Rumold’s]
precious relicks, which is still possessed of that
treasure, and bears the name of this saint.” Butler’s
_Lives of the Saints_, vol. vii. p. 2, sec. ed. In the
title-page of his _Life_, 1662, written in Latin by
Ward, he is termed “advocati sterilium conjugum.”

# 779:

_hose_] i. e. breeches.

# 780:

_deliverance_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “deliuer” and
“deliuerer.”

# 781:

_luxury_] i. e. lust.

# 782:

_O_] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.

# 783:

_live_] Eds. “liues.”

# 784:

_were never_] So two eds. Quarto C. “neuer were.”

# 785:

_strong_] So two eds. Quarto C. “good.”

# 786:

_Loud music_] So MS. Bridge. only.

# 787:

_in his litter_, &c.] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.—“As
he [Gondomar] was carried in his Litter or bottomless
Chair (the easiest seat for his Fistula),” &c.
Wilson’s _Life and Reign of James_, p. 146, ed. 1653.

# 788:

_concise oration_] So both MSS. Quarto C. “course
_oration_.” Other eds. “consecration.”

# 789:

_triumphantis_] Eds. and MSS. “triumphanti.”

# 790:

_snapt_] So two eds. Quarto C. “snap.”

# 791:

_Hautboys again_] So MS. Bridge. only.

# 792:

_him_] i. e. the White Knight.

# 793:

_Enter Black King ... Latin oration_] So two eds.
Quarto C. has only “_Enter Bl. K. Q. D. K. and Wh.
Kni. and D._”

# 794:

_fix_] So two eds. Quarto C. “fixed.”

# 795:

_W. Duke. Th' erroneous relish_] So two eds. Not in
Quarto C.

# 796:

_the fair_] So both MSS. Eds. “thee _the faire_.”

# 797:

_approve_] i. e. prove.

# 798:

_B. King_] So two eds. Quarto C. “_Bl. K. P._”

# 799:

_more_] So two eds. Quarto C. “most.”

# 800:

_much has wrong’d_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “ill hath (and
“has”) vs’d.”

# 801:

_judgments_] So two eds. Quarto C. “judgement.”

# 802:

_when_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “if.”

# 803:

_cast_] So two eds. Quarto C. “last.”

# 804:

_by_] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “aside.”

# 805:

_You’ll_] So MSS. Eds. “Youl’d.”

# 806:

_luxury_] i. e. lust, incontinence.

# 807:

_cunning_] So two eds. Quarto C. “cunnings.”

# 808:

_Thou_] Eds. and both MSS. “That.”

# 809:

_some_] So two eds. Quarto C. “a.”

# 810:

_ears_] So two eds. Quarto C. “eare.”

# 811:

_W. Queen_] So both MSS. Eds. “_W. Q. P._”

# 812:

_cockatrice_] A cant term for a harlot.

# 813:

_Death_] So two eds. Quarto C. “How.”

# 814:

_royal_] So two eds. Quarto C. “noble.”

# 815:

_Ebusus_] Quarto C. and both MSS. “Eleusis.” Two eds.
“Ebusis.”—“Circa Ebusum [i. e. Ivica] salpa.” Plin.
_Hist. Nat._ l. ix. c. 18. t. i. p. 511, ed. Hard.
1723.

# 816:

_frank’d_] i. e. stuft, crammed. (A _frank_ meant a
place to fatten hogs and other animals in).

# 817:

_far and sapa_] The remainder of the line is an
explanation of these words; yet it may be necessary to
add that _cocted_ is boiled.

# 818:

_Epicurean_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Epicidean.”

# 819:

_Orata_] Eds. and both MSS. “Crata.”—Sergius was so
called from the fish _orata_ or _aurata_: see Macr.
(_Sat._ l. ii. c. xi. p. 361, ed. 1670), Pliny,
Festus, &c.—Middleton, perhaps, intended only one of
the names—“Sergius” or “Orata”—to stand in the line.

# 820:

_his successor Julian_] Did Middleton confound Didius
Julianus (who purchased the empire on the murder of
Pertinax,) with Julian the apostate?

# 821:

_often_] So both MSS. Eds. “after.”

# 822:

_triumphs_] i. e. public shows.

# 823:

_the hogs which Scaliger cites_] An allusion, perhaps,
to the following passage: “Pinguescit autem longe
magis sus: adeoque pinguescit, ut pene totus immobilis
reddatur. Neque enim fabulosum est, in eorum clunibus
excavare sibi mures foveas; non equidem ut nidificent,
sed ut saginentur.” J. C. Scaliger _De Subtilitate ad
Cardanum, Exer._. cxcix. 2. p. 610, ed. 1634.

# 824:

_needle_] i. e. nestle.

# 825:

_Cyrene’s governor_] i. e. Magas: see Athenæus, l.
xii. c. 12, t. iv. p. 544, ed. Schw.

# 826:

_Sanctius_] So two eds. Quarto C. “Sauetius.”—Wanley
states that Sanctius, “by the advice of Garsia King
of Navarre, made peace with Miramoline King of
Corduba, went over to him, was honourably receiv’d,
and in his Court was cured by an herb prescribed by
the Physicians of that King.” _Wonders_, &c., p. 47,
ed. 1678. See also Grimeston’s (translation of
Turquet’s) _Historie of Spaine_, p. 205, ed. 1612.

# 827:

_stunk_] So both MSS. Eds. “strucke” and “stung.”

# 828:

_sure_] So both MSS. Eds. “sir.”

# 829:

_kid, cabrito, calf, and tons_] “Kid” and
“_cabrito_,”—the latter a Spanish word—are, I believe,
synonymous; _tons_ means, perhaps, tunny-fish.

# 830:

_frank’d_] See note, p. 401.

# 831:

_resolv’d_] i. e. satisfied.