[260] Eds. 1. and 3. read:—“Thats the griefe on’t Herc. [Hercules, ed. 3.] thats the griefe ont that I,” &c.
[261] Ed. 2. “O yes! O yes!”
[262] Eds. 1. and 3. “disclaim’d.”
[263] Ed. 1. “ciuill.”
[264] A spayed cat.—“Why witches are turned into cats, he [Bodin] alledgeth no reason, and therefore (to help him forth with that paraphrase) I say that witches are curst queans, and many times scratch one another or their neighbours by the faces; and therefore perchance are turned into cats. But I have put twenty of these witchmongers to silence with one question: to wit—whether a witch that can turn a woman into cat can also turn a cat into a woman.”—Scot’s Discovery of Witchcraft, book v., chap. 1.
[265] Omitted in ed. 2.
[266] So ed. 2.—Eds. 1. and 3. “see” and “seek.”
[267] “Gern” = snarl.
[268] Eds. 1. and 3. “thumbes.”
[269] Eds. 1. and 3. “miserable.”