NOTE XVI.

[III. 5. 10–21.] In the first Quarto this passage stands as follows:

And both are ready in their offices

To grace my stratagems. Enter Maior.

Glo. Here comes the Maior.

Buc. Let me alone to entertaine him. Lo: Maior,

Glo. Looke to the drawbridge there.

Buc. The reason we have sent for you.

Glo. Catesby ouerlooke the wals.

Buck. Harke, I heare a drumme.

Glo. Looke backe, defend thee, here are enemies.

Buc. God and our innocence defend vs. Enter Catesby with Hast. head.

Glo. O, O, be quiet, it is Catesby.

In the last line Q₃ has G, O, be quiet, &c. Instead of lines 12–14, But what......Lord mayor, Theobald read with the Quartos.