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[31] [_i.e._, Medoro, the character so called in the "Orlando Furioso." Trotter has just called Giovanno _Orlando_, which was, by the way, a common name for any mad-brained person, and often occurs in poems and plays.]
[32] [Shaken me by the nape of the neck; from _nudder_, the nape.]
[33] [The pin of the wheel by which Antonio was to be executed.
Aurelia pretends to desire to tread it herself.]
[34] [St. James.]
[35] [_i.e._, The customary garb.]
[36] [_i.e._, An astrologer and a physician.]
[37] [Former edition, _vorke_.]
[38] [This gibberish is left much as it stands in the old copy.]
[39] [The editor of 1810 printed deliberately _sweet must seat me easie_.]
[40] [Old copy has _as plain--'tis true_.]
[41] [Here used, apparently, in the sense of something of no value, and from the context it may be surmised that _vermin_ is intended.]
[42] [Old copy, _a resurrection_.]
[43] [_i.e._, Vermin.]
[44] [Former edit., _flower_.]
[45] [He quotes a pa.s.sage from the "First Part of Hieronimo,"
1605.]
[46] [Former edit., _And_.]
[47] [_i.e._, The left remnant of thy days.]
[48] [Former edit., _unto_.]
[49] ["This strange jumble (which it seems was acted with applause) may be taken as the most singular specimen extant of the serious mock-heroic. There is nothing in "The Tailors" itself so ludicrous as the serious parts in which the tailors appear.
Nevertheless there are a few happy pa.s.sages in the play."--_MS.
note in a copy of the former edit._]
FOOTNOTES: l.u.s.t'S DOMINION or THE LACIVIOUS QUEEN.
[50] "History of English Dram. Poetry," iii. p. 97.
[51] The curtain in front of the old theatres divided in the middle, and was drawn to the sides; but it may save further explanation to add here that, "beside the princ.i.p.al curtain, they sometimes used others as subst.i.tutes for scenes."--_Malone._
[52] [Former edit., _sick, heavy, and_.]
[53] [Old copy, _I'll lay there away_.]
[54] [The Moor pretends that he meant to refer to the dead King.]
[55] [Edits., _That seeing_.]
[56] [Old copy, _Here_.]
[57] [The edits., give this speech to Balthazar, but he was not present when the arrangement with the friars was concluded.]
[58] [Bowing.]
[59] In the original this speech is given to Alvero; but it is evidently an error, as he does not enter till some time after.
[60] In the original it runs, _This music was prepar'd thine ears_. An omission was evident. I trust the right reading is restored.--_Dilke._
[61]
"And none of you will bid the winter come, To thrust his icy fingers in my maw."
--"King John," act v. sc. 7.
[62] In the original this is given to Alvero, but evidently in error.
[63] _i.e._, Unchaste.
[64] Muskets.
[65] "The mark at which an arrow is shot, which used to be painted white."--_Johnson._
[66] [An abbreviated form of _G.o.d's sonties_, which again is a corruption, though of what is rather doubtful; probably, however, of _G.o.d's saints_.]
[67] [Edits., _See_.]
[68] [Hamstring me.]
[69] _Under show of shrift_, or, in other words, as coming to hear me confess.
[70] Thirty ma.s.ses on the same account.
[71] Despatch.
[72] Strut.
[73] [Edits., give these words to Eleazar.]
[74] With force, vigour, energy, vehemence.
