(note |||, p. 13, The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great:)
"In fair, &c.: Here "FAIR" is to be considered as a
dissyllable: compare, in the Fourth act of our author's
JEW OF MALTA,
"I'll feast you, lodge you, give you FAIR words,
And, after that," &c.">[
138 ([return])
[ shall be done: Here a change of scene is supposed, to the interior of Barabas's house.]
139 ([return])
[ Friar, awake: Here, most probably, Barabas drew a curtain, and discovered the sleeping Friar.]
140 ([return])
[ have: Old ed. "saue.">[
141 ([return])
[ What time o' night is't now, sweet Ithamore?
ITHAMORE. Towards one: Might be adduced, among other
passages, to shew that the modern editors are right when they
print in Shakespeare's KING JOHN. act iii. sc. 3,
"If the midnight bell
Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,
Sound ONE into the drowsy ear of NIGHT," &c.]