1, says--
"I, though with face mask'd, could not scape the _hem_."
[274] Old ed. "let."
[275] Old form of _pish_.
[276] _Guard_ = fringe. The coats of Fools were _guarded_.
[277] "Till death us _de_part"--so the form stood in the
marriage-service; now modernised to "do part."
[278] Quean.
[279] Not marked in old ed.
[280] Not marked in old ed.
[281] I have added the bracketed words; the sense requires them.
[282] A musical term.--"The running a simple strain into a great variety
of shorter notes to the same modulation."--_Nares_.
[283] Not marked in old ed.
[284] Old ed. "Ye faith."
[285] Old ed. "valley."
[286] Old ed. "_Flau_."
[287] Old ed. "_Tul_."
[288] "Fortune, my foe, why doest thou frown on me?" is the first line
of an old ballad.
[289] Not marked in old ed.
[290] Old ed. "Tis."
[291] "Unreadie" = undressed.
[292] To the christening.
[293] There is no stage-direction in the old ed.
[294] Old ed. "foole."
[295] "Duns the mouse"--a proverbial expression. See Dyce's _Shakespeare
Glossary_.
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