[121] Old ed. “Enter Quicksilver, Sir Petronel, &c.”
[122] There was entered in the Stationers’ Books, on 7th November 1576, “A woeful Ballad made by Mr. George Mannynton, an houre before he suffered at Cambridge-castell.” The ballad is printed in Ritson’s Ancient Songs and Ballads (ed. 1877), pp. 188-191. It begins:—
“I wayle in woe, I plundge in payne,
With sorrowing sobbes I do complayne,
With wallowing waves I wishe to dye,
I languish sore here as I lye,” &c.
[123] “The black ox trod o’ my foot”—a proverbial expression, meaning “trouble came upon me.”
[124] Proposition.
[125] The colour of (1) jealousy, (2) Security’s prison-dress.
EPILOGUS.
[Qu.] Stay, sir, I perceive the multitude are gather’d together to view our coming out at the Counter. See if the streets and the Fronts of the Houses be not thick with people, and the windows fill’d with ladies as on the solemn day of the pageant!
O may you find in this our pageant here
The same contentment which you came to seek,
And as that show but draws you once a year 220
May this attract you hither once a week.
[Exeunt omnes.
THE
INSATIATE COUNTESS.
The Insatiate Countesse. A Tragedie: Acted at White-Fryers. Written By Iohn Marston. London: Printed by T. S. for Thomas Archer, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head-Pallace, neere the Royall-Exchange. 1613. 4to.