[141] In the left-hand margin of the MS. is written "_Fry: Jo:
nod_."--i.e., Friar John totters from the blow. Beneath "nod" is the
word "arras," which has been scored through.
[142] i.e., I have't.
[143] The exclamation of old Hieronimo's ghost in Kyd's _Spanish
Tragedy_. Cf. Induction to _Warning for Fair Women_:--
"Then, too, a filthy whining ghost
Lapt in some foul sheet, or a leather pilch,
Comes screaming like a pig half stick'd,
And cries, _Vindicta_!--Revenge, Revenge!"
[144] "_Bases_, s.pl.--A kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from
the middle to about the knees, or lower, worn by knights on
horseback."--_Nares_.
[145] In the right-hand margin is written "_Fact: Gibson_"--Gibson being
the name of the actor who took the Factor's part.
[146] Not marked in the MS.
[147] _Quart d'ecu_--a fourth part of a crown.
[148] A quibble on the _aurum potabile_ of the old pharmacists.
--F.G. Fleay.
[149] In the MS. is a marginal note, "_Stagekeepers as a guard_."
[150] Sarleboyes' speeches are scored through in the MS.
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