[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.