[105] Old eds. “Chekle-roule.”
[106] “Cog a die” = load a die.
[107] Dilke compares Richard III. (v. 3):—
“Who saw the sun to-day?
Rat. Not I, my lord.
Rich. Then he disdains to shine.”
[108] Omitted in ed. 1.
[109] Variations in music.
[110] The sentiment is from Seneca’s Thyestes, l. 925:—
“Magis unde cadas
Quam quo refert.”
[111] “The situation of Andrugio and Lucio resembles that of Lear and Kent, in that King’s distresses. Andrugio, like Lear, manifests a kind of royal impatience, a turbulent greatness, an affected resignation. The enemies which he enters lists to combat, ‘Despair, and mighty Grief, and sharp Impatience;’ and the Forces (‘Cornets of Horse,’ &c.) which he brings to vanquish them, are in the boldest style of allegory. They are such a ‘race of mourners’ as ‘the infection of sorrows loud’ in the intellect might beget on ‘some pregnant cloud’ in the imagination.”—Charles Lamb.
SCENE II.