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[156] [This must allude to some real circ.u.mstance and person.]

[157] [Attend.]

[158] [Bergen-op-Zoom.]

[159] [Old copy, _our_.]

[160] [Lap, long. See Nares, edit. 1859, _v. Lave-eared_.]

[161] [Old copy, _seas_.]

[162] [Orcus.]

[163] [Worried.]

[164] [An answer to a summons or writ. Old copy, _retourner_.]

[165] [This most rare edition was very kindly lent to me by the Rev.

J.W. Ebsworth, Moldash Vicarage, near Ashford.]

[166] [Cromwell did not die till September 3, 1658, a sufficient reason for the absence of the allusion which Reed thought singular.]

[167] [i.e., The human body and mind. _Microcosmus_ had been used by Davies of Hereford in the same sense in the t.i.tle of a tract printed in 1603, as it was afterwards by Heylin in his ”Microcosmus,” 1621, and by Earle in his ”Microcosmography,” 1628.]

[168] _Skene_ or _skane: gladius, Ensis brevior.--Skinner_. Dekker's ”Belman's Night Walk,” sig. F 2: ”The b.l.o.o.d.y Tragedies of all these are onely acted by the women, who, carrying long knives or _skeanes_ under their mantles, doe thus play their parts.” Again in Warner's ”Albion's England,” 1602, p. 129--

”And Ganimaedes we are,” quoth one, ”and thou a prophet trew: And hidden _skeines_ from underneath their forged garments drew, Wherewith the tyrant and his bawds with safe escape they slew.”

--See the notes of Mr Steevens and Mr Nichols on ”Romeo and Juliet,” act ii. sc. 4.

[169] The edition of 1657 reads, _red buskins drawn with white ribband.

--Collier_.

[170] Musical terms. See notes on ”Midsummer's Night's Dream,” vol. iii.

p. 63, and ”King Richard III.” vol. vii. p. 6, edit. 1778.--_Steevens_.

[171] A metaphor drawn from music, more particularly that kind of composition called a _Ground_, with its _Divisions_. Instead of _relish_, I would propose to read _flourish_.--_S.P_.

[172] Mr Steevens supposes this to be a musical term. See note on ”Richard II.” act ii. sc. 1--

”The setting sun and music at the close.”

[173] Fr. for whistlings.--_Steevens_.

[174] i.e., Pet.i.tionary.--_Steevens_.

[175] [Altered by Mr Collier to _girls_; but _gulls_ is the reading of 1607.]

[176] _Like an ordinary page, gloves, hamper_--so the first edition; but as the two last words seem only the prompter's memoranda, they are omitted. They are also found in the last edition.--_Collier_.