[226] “Luxurious twines”—lustful embraces.

[227] Old eds. “maine.”

[228] So ed. 1602.—Ed. 1633, “swounded.”

[229] The metrical harshness might be removed by reading “A father dead, a wife dishonour’d.”

[230] Affections, feelings.

[231] Old eds. “and let’s sit.”

[232] Saucy fellow.

[233] “‘Grumean de sang, a clot or clutter of congealed blood,’ Cotgrave. Cluttered blood, ‘Holinshed, Hist. Engl. p. 74.’”—Halliwell.

[234] There seems to be an allusion to old Hieronymo’s frantic behaviour in The Spanish Tragedy.

[235] Well-balanced.