[276] Old eds. “they now be false.”
[277] Exclamation of impatience.
[278] Old form of colonel.
[279] Old eds. “rarietie.” (The form rariety—which would here be unmetrical—is sometimes found. Cf. Heywood’s Golden Age, act iii.:—
“Then to our palace
Pass on in state: let all rarieties
Shower down from heaven a largess.”)
[280] For “my potent” the editor of 1820 reads “omnipotent.”
[281] Not unfrequently we find a plural verb following a singular subject.
[282] Ed. 1631 “sect” (a common form of “sex”).
[283] Old ed. “eyes.”
[284] Cf. Jul. Cæs. ii. 2:—
“Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.”