"And now instead of bullets wrapt in fire."
[ [55] Scene: the market-place.
[ [56] The modern editors give "Poor villains, such as," &c.; but the reading of the 4to. is quite intelligible.
[ [57] Cf. Shylock's "Still have I borne it with a patient shrug."
[ [58] Dyce quotes from Barnabe Barnes' Divils Charter, 1607, "For I must have a saying to those bottels."
[ [59] Pieces of silver. Cf. Ant. and Cleo.:—
"Realms and islands were As plates dropt from his pocket."
[ [60] Old ed. "Itha."
[ [61] A cant word still in use.
[ [62] Old ed. "Ith."