[142] Old eds. “Miz. ”
[143] Old eds. “Cypres.”
[144] This play bears many traces of the study of Hamlet. The present passage was clearly suggested by the player’s speech, “The rugged Pyrrhus,” &c., and Hamlet’s comments thereon.
[145] Old eds. “desire.”
[146] Cf. Hamlet, i. 2:—
“The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage-tables.”
[147] Branches of rosemary were formerly used at weddings. See note on Middleton, i. 9, 10.
[148] Old eds. “Rogero.”
[149] Old eds. “Clarid.”
[150] Old eds. “Buglors, Rhimocers.”—The herb bugloss was much used for medicinal purposes. The same virtues were attributed to the rhinoceros’ horn as to the unicorn’s horn: see Topsel’s Hist. of Four-footed Beasts.
[151] Hotchpotch, farrago; a contemptuous term for an apothecary.