[450] A corruption of Fr. allons. Cf. Nashe’s Have with you to Saffron—“Alloune, alloune, let us march!” (Works, ed. Grosart, iii. 163.)
[451] See Dyce’s Shakesp. Glossary.
[452] A bacchanalian exclamation.
[453] Ed. 2. “helpeth.”
SCENE II.
A School-room.
Enter a schoolmaster, draws the curtains behind, with Battus, Nous, Slip, Nathaniel, and Holofernes Pippo, schoolboys, sitting, with books in their hands.
All. Salve, magister!
Ped.[454] Salvete pueri, estote salvi, vos salvere exopto vobis salutem, Batte, mi fili, mi Batte!
Bat. Quid vis?