[ [116] I am tempted to arrange the verse thus:—
"O happy hour, Wherein I shall convert an infidel, And bring his gold into our treasury!"
[ [117] Scene: a balcony of Bellamira's house.
[ [118] The verse read by criminals to entitle them to "benefit of clergy." The first words of the 51st Psalm were commonly chosen.
[ [119] Sermon. Cf. Richard III. iii. 2:—
"I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart; I am in debt for your last exercise."
[ [120] I.e., a pair of mustachios.
[ [121] The contemptuous expression "Turk of tenpence" is found in Dekker's Satiromastix, &c.
[ [122] In old ed. these words are printed as part of the text. I have followed Dyce in printing them as a stage-direction.
[ [123] So the old ed.—Dyce and Cunningham read "cunning;" but the expression "running banquet" (akin to our "hasty meal") occurs in Henry VIII. i. 4, l. 13.