Qua. I come, hot bloods. Those that their state would swell,
Must bear a counter-face. The devil and hell
Confound them all! That’s all my prayers exact:
So ends our chat;—sound music for the act!
[Exeunt.
[454] i.e., Pedant.—See p. [373].
[455] Cicero, Off. i. 22, 77.
[456] Chaucer has tretable in the sense of tractable, well-disposed; but that sense does not suit the present passage.
[457] Handkerchief.
[458] Shortened form of “prithee.”
[459] See note, vol. i. p. 114.
[460] Dilke refers to Fletcher’s Beggars’ Bush, iv. 3:—
“Fourth Merchant. Or if you want fine sugar, ’tis but sending.
Goswin. No, I can send to Barbary.”
[461] “She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.”—Merry Wives, i. 1.