[ [417] Dyce reads "'A takes" (i.e. "He takes"); but the omission of a personal pronoun, where the sense is plain, occurs not unfrequently.

[ [418] Scene: a room in the royal palace at Blois.

[ [419] Cf. 2 Tamburlaine iv. 3:—"Mounted his shining chariot" (for "mounted in").

[ [420] Dyce conjectures that Guise must have seen himself in a mirror as he uttered these words.

[ [421] Set.

[ [422] Order.

[ [423] Scene: the interior of a prison at Blois.

[ [424] Scene: a room in Dumaine's house, at Paris.

[ [425] Old ed. "His life and all," &c.

[ [426] Scene: Saint-Cloud.