[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?