Sleep thou in rest, lo, here I close thy couch.

[Exit Maria to her bed, Andrugio drawing the curtains.

And now ye sooty coursers of the night,
Hurry your chariot into hell’s black womb.
Darkness, make flight; graves, eat your dead again:
Let’s repossess our shrouds. Why lags delay?
Mount sparkling brightness, give the world his day!    100

[Exit Andrugio.

[279] A common term for endearment.

[280] The Problemes of Aristotle, with other Philosophers and Phisitions, wherein are contayned diuers questions, with their answers, touching the estate of man’s bodie, 1595, 1597, &c.—an old chap-book.

[281] Old eds. “do.”

[282] Respectful.

[283] Violent cold.

[284] Ed. 1602 “Hymniall.”