Second Clown. The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
Act V., Scene I, lines 46-50.
[Page 72.] Footnote. "The Spanish Tragedy." A play by Thomas Kyd (1557?-1595?), from which Lamb quoted largely in his Specimens, 1808. This line is in Act III., in Hieronimo's instructions to the painter: "And then at last, sir, starting, behold a man hanging, and tott'ring, and tott'ring, as you know the wind will wave a man...."
[Page 72,] line 3. That scene in "Measure for Measure."
Pompey. Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged, Master Barnardine!
Abhorson. What, ho, Barnardine!
Bar. [Within.] A pox o' your throats! Who makes that noise there? What are you?
Pom. Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so good, sir, to rise and be put to death.
Bar. [Within.] Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.