116 ([return])
[ Enter FERNEZE, &c.: The scene is the interior of the Council-house.]
117 ([return])
[ basso: Old ed. "Bashaws" (the printer having added an S by mistake), and in the preceding stage-direction, and in the fifth speech of this scene, "Bashaw": but in an earlier scene (see p. 148, first col.) we have "bassoes" (and see our author's TAMBURLAINE, PASSIM).
(From p. 148, this play:
"Enter FERNEZE governor of Malta, KNIGHTS, and OFFICERS;
met by CALYMATH, and BASSOES of the TURK.")]
118 ([return])
[ the resistless banks: i.e. the banks not able to resist.]
119 ([return])
[ basilisks: See note ||, p. 25.
(note ||, p. 25, The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great:)
"basilisks: Pieces of ordnance so called. They were of
immense size; see Douce's ILLUST. OF SHAKESPEARE, i. 425.">[