[173] Wife.—See Middleton, iv. 62, vii. 212.

[174] This must be a misprint.—Should we read “royal”?

[175] “Who’s this?”—omitted in eds. 1. and 3.

[176] “Lord”—omitted in eds. 1. and 3.

[177] Richard III., i. 1. l. 32: “Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous.”

[178] Cf. 1 Henry IV., ii. 4:—“For though the camomile the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth the more it is wasted the sooner it wears.” The comparison was very common.

[179] See Ovid’s Metamorphoses, lib. ix.

[180] So ed. 3.—Eds. 1. and 2. “Iouiald.”

[181] “Now—now—now”—omitted in ed. 2.

[182] Eds. 1. and 3. “Ye.”