[257] Old form of “bankrupt.”

[258] Ed. 1602 “most false.”

[259] Old form of digest.

[260] Flaws, cracks.

[261] Cf. Spanish Tragedy, v. 1:—

“Give me a stately-written tragedy,
Tragœdia Cothurnata, fitting kings.”

[262]Rapienda rebus,” &c., is the true reading. The quotation is from Seneca’s Agamemnon, l. 154.

ACT III.

SCENE I.

A dumb show. The cornets sounding for the Act.