47 ([return])
[ Enter FRIAR JACOMO, &c.: Old ed. "Enter three Fryars and two Nuns:" but assuredly only TWO Friars figure in this play.]
48 ([return])
[ Abb.: In the old ed. the prefix to this speech is "1 Nun," and to the next speech but one "Nun." That both speeches belong to the Abbess is quite evident.]
49 ([return])
[ Sometimes: Equivalent here (as frequently in our early writers) to—Sometime.]
50 ([return])
[ forgive me—: Old ed. "GIUE me—">[
51 ([return])
[ thus: After this word the old ed. has "|",—to signify, perhaps, the motion which Barabas was to make here with his hand.]