Volume Vi Part 107 (2/2)

[38] [There is a proverb: ”The devil is good when he is pleased.”]

[39] [Tenor.]

[40] The priest is made to speak what the author seems to have taken for the Scotish dialect.

[41] [The writer should have written _requhair_, if anything of the kind; but his Scotish is deplorably imperfect.]

[42] The usual style in which priests and clergymen were anciently addressed. Instances are too numerous to require citation.

[43] [St. Rock.]

[44] [This pa.s.sage was unknown to Brand and his editors.]

[45] Quiet.

[46] [f.a.got.]

[47] [i.e., Tyranny, who disguises his ident.i.ty, and goes under the name of _Zeal_.]

[48] [This word, to complete the metre, was suggested by Mr Collier.]

[49] Tyranny had made his _exit_, in order to bring back with him Sensual Suggestion: here he returns, but his re-entrance is not noted.

Sensual Suggestion follows him, but not immediately, and what he first says was perhaps off the stage, and out of sight of the audience; for Hypocrisy, five speeches afterwards, informs the Cardinal that Sensual Suggestion is coming.

[50] i.e., Convicted of heresy. This use of the verb ”to convince” was not unusual at a considerably later date: thus in Beaumont and Fletcher's ”Lover's Progress,” act v. sc. 3, edit. Dyce--

”You bring no witness here that may convince you,” &c.

It was also often employed as synonymous with ”to overcome.” See Shakespeare, ii. 377; vi. 49, &e., edit. Collier.

[51] [Old copy, _former_.]

[52] [Old copy, _demeanour_.]

[53] [Old copy, _myne_.]

[54] [Old copy, _line_.]

[55] [3, in the old copy.]

[56] [This and the next line but one have occurred before at the close of the speech of Spirit.]

[57] [Old copy, _me_.]

[58] [a.s.sure.]

[59] [Old copy, _his_.]

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