[ [82] Here and elsewhere, for the sake of the metre, Dyce prints "Lodovico." Perhaps he is right, for the name may have been contracted into "Lod." or "Lodo." in the MS. from which the play was printed.
[ [83] Dyce compares 3 Henry VI. ii. 5:—
"These arms of mine shall be thy winding sheet; My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy supulchre."
[ [84] Cf. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 2:—
"Say that upon the altar of her beauty You sacrifice your tears."
[ [85] "Impartial" is occasionally used by old writers in the sense of "unkindly." Cf. Prologue to Peele's Arraignment of Paris:—
"Th' unpartial daughters of Necessity Bin aiders in her suit."
So in William Smith's Chloris(Sonnet 11):—
"No, it was not Nature's ornament But wingèd love's unpartial cruel wound."
[ [86] Scene: a room in Barabas' house.