FOOTNOTES:

[162] [Edits., whole.]

[163] i.e., Puppet-shows.

[164] [Alluding to his jealousy.]

[165] [Old copy, collect.]

[166] [Edits., I am. He kisses her.]

[167] The edition of 1608 reads toward, which may be right. The edition of 1633 reads coward; but probably covert is the correct word.—Collier.

[168] [Edits., death of, which is assuredly nonsense.]

[169] The metre, and sense also, would be improved could any warrant be found for reading, This kiss shall leave, &c.—Collier.

[170] [The sun, the eye of the world.]

[171] [In reference to the saying that maidens always say nay.]

[172] Bird in the first edit., showing how the word was then pronounced.—Collier.

[173] [Edits., errors.]

[174] [A play on the double meaning of the word.]

[175] [The speaker refers, as we shall presently see, to the newly-feigned dumbness of Philocles.]

[176] [Edits. read—

"I should think strangely, had we strange things on earth.
But wonders now," &c.]

[177] The quartos, day-net, we should read dare net. Surrey, in "Henry VIII," act iii. sc. 3, says: "And dare us with his cap-like larks." See Blome's "Gentleman's Recreation."—Pegge. [See also Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," v. Dare.]

[178] [Edits., my.]

[179] [Edits., nerves.]