[ [226] So ed. 1612.—Ed. 1598 "thy treasure drie and made the weake."
[ [227] So modern editors.—Old eds. "hath."
[ [228] Light-armed foot soldiers, poor and undisciplined.— Compare a passage in the Contention of York and Lancaster:—
"The wild Onele, my lord, is up in arms, With troops of Irish kernes that uncontroll'd Doth plant themselves within the English pale."
[ [229] Old eds. "made."—"Road,"="Inroad."
[230] old eds. "Drave."
[ [231] Cf. 3 Henry VI. i. 1:—"Stern Faulconbridge commands the narrow seas."
[ [232] Against.
[ [233] Jeering.
[ [234] This jig (ballad) is taken with slight alteration from Fabyan's "Chronicle," ii. 169 (ed. 1559).—"The battle of Bannockburn," says Mr. Fleay, "was fought in 1314, yet is here alluded to in a scene which is made up from narratives of events which occurred between 1309 and 1311. This is a striking instance of Marlowe's carelessness in such matters."