Yet with thy lanthorne light her home:
Then looke into the town and tell, [15]
If no such Tradesmen there doe dwell.
NOTES
[[Dramatis personae].] Charalois—the name Charalois is a corruption of Charolais, the Count of Charolais being the hereditary title of the heir-apparent of the Duchy of Burgundy, for whom the county of Charolais, an arrière-fief of Burgundy, was reserved as an appanage. This domain had been purchased by Philip the Bold for his son, John the Fearless.
[I, i, 4]. argue me of—obsolete construction: “accuse me of.” Cf. Ray, Disc. II, v, 213: “Erroneously argues Hubert Thomas ... of a mistake.”
[I, i, 7]. dispence with—give special exemption from. Cf. [I, ii, 87].
[I, i, 33]. This such—This for this is is a common Elizabethan construction. Cf. “O this the poison of deep grief”—Hamlet, IV, v, 76; “This a good block”—Lear, IV, vi, 187.
[I, i, 45]. tooke vp—borrowed. Cf. Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, I, ii, 46: “if a man is through with them in honest taking up, they stand upon security.”