Volume II Part 80 (2/2)

[259] Scene: neighbourhood of Borrowbridge.

[260] Braggard challenges.

[261] Fr. haut.

[262] Old eds ”the.”

[263] So ed. 1612.--Ed. 1598 ”come.”

[264] Cunningham and Mr. Fleay silently print ”more.”

[265] Ed. 1598 ”heres is.”--Ed. 1612, 1622, ”heres.”

[266] So ed. 1622.--Eds. 1598, 1612, ”roote.”

[267] So ed. 1612.--Ed. 1598 ”leave.”

[268] Schemes.

[269] So ed. 1612.--Ed. 1589 ”It is.”

[270] Rule.

[271] Old eds. ”leuied.”

[272] Old eds. ”claps close.”

[273] Scene: London, near the Tower.

[274] Scene: Paris.

[275] So eds. 1598, 1622.--Ed. 1612 ”goe.”

[276] Mr. Fleay reads ”please,” supposing that the letters _th_ are repeated from the next word.

[277] Dyce's correction ”on” seems to be quite unnecessary.

[278] Dyce needlessly reads ”part.”

[279] Equipped to meet our foes.

[280] Earned.

[281] An allusion to the game of _Prisoner's Base_. To ”bid a base” is for a player to run into the centre and challenge one of the opposite party to pursue.

[282] Scene: the royal palace, London.

[283] Old eds. ”_Matr._” and ”_Matreuis._”--The elder Spencer is a _muta persona_. Mr. Fleay, who ousts him altogether from this scene, observes ”There is no hint of Old Spencer being on the stage after the third act,”--strangely forgetting that he is introduced in the fifth scene of the present act.

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