Volume Vii Part 123 (1/2)

[477] Old copy, _you_.

[478] Old copy, _Richard's_.

[479] [Old copy, _us_.]

[480] Succeed.

[481] Perhaps the dance so called is meant.

[482] [Old copy, _them_.]

[483] [Old. copy, _ye spoke_.]

[484] Old copy, _rove_.

[485] i.e., From the time of the Confessor.

[486] i.e., Spain; old copy, _Gads_.

[487] A word or words left blank in the old copy.

[488] His gown.

[489] Old copy, _Levarnian_.

[490] Old copy, _It_.

[491] Old copy, _ane_.

[492] The word _search_ is here, and again a little further on used in the sense of _searchers_.

[493] Old copy, _another_; but Redcap is evidently accompanied by two a.s.sistants.

[494] This appears to stand for officers of the peace, as the _watch_ and the _search_.

[495] Old copy, _King_.

[496] A brothel.

[497] [Old copy, _age_.]

[498] [Old copy, _Fau_, for _Fauconbridge_.]

[499] [This might appear to be a corruption of _go out_, or of _G.o.d's gut (G.o.d's guts_ is an e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.i.o.n found elsewhere); but from a subsequent pa.s.sage we can but conclude that the disease so called is intended.]

[500] Old copy, _fill'd_, the compositor's eye, perhaps, having strayed to the next line.

[501] Strong. See a long note in Nares, edit. 1859, p. 606.

[502] Old copy; _here_.