[32] "In ages and countries where mechanical ingenuity has but few outlets it exhausts itself in the constructions of bits, each more peculiar in form or more torturing in effect than that which has preceded it. I have seen collections of these instruments of torments, and among them some of which Marlowe's curious adjective would have been highly descriptive. It may be, however, that the word is 'ring-led,' in which shape it would mean guided by the ring on each side like a snaffle."—Cunningham.
[33] Some eds. give "so faire and kind." Cf. Othello, iv. 2—
"O thou wind
Who art so lovely-fair and smell'st so sweet."
[34] Ed. 1613 and later eds. "upstarting."
[35] Fetched
[36] Some eds. give "shallow."
[37] In the old eds. this line and the next stood after l. 300. The transposition was made by Singer in the edition of 1821.
[38] Old eds.—"then ... displaid," and in the next line "laid."
[39] Old eds. "heare" and "haire."