[287] Nobles.
[288] I.e., there has been no question asked about him.
[289] Affections.
[290] Old eds. “by.”
[291] Old form of digest.
[292] Old eds. “Come hither (ficto).” The bracketed word is, I suppose, a direction to the actor; Piero is to talk in an affected voice to Antonio,—treat him as a simpleton.
[293] Nobles.
[294] “The word siddow is of very unusual occurrence in early English, but it is preserved in the provincial dialect of the West of England. In Gloucestershire peas which become pulpy soft by boiling are then said to be siddow.”—Halliwell.
[295] Large galleon.
[296] “Unnookt simplicity” (if the reading is right) must mean “simplicity in which no guile is hidden.”