[V, i, 102]. pantofle—slipper; here used figuratively for: the shoe-maker’s profession.
[V, ii, 27]. a barbarous Sythian—Cf. Purchas’ Pilgrimage (ed. 1613, p. 333): “They [The Scythians] cut off the noses of men, and imprinted pictures in the flesh of women, whom they overcame: and generally their customes of warre were bloudie: what man soever the Scythian first taketh, he drinketh his bloud: he offereth to the King all the heads of the men he hath slaine in battell: otherwise he may not share in the spoile: the skinnes of their crownes flaid off, they hang at their horse bridles: their skinnes they use to flay for napkins and other uses, and some for cloathing.... These customes were generall to the Scythians of Europe and Asia (for which cause Scytharum facinora patrare, grew into a proverbe of immane crueltie, and their Land was justly called Barbarous).”
[V, ii, 40]. made no hornes at me—to “make horns” at any one was the common method of taunting one with having horns,—i. e., with being a cuckold.
[V, ii, 51]. made vp with—set with the expression of.
[V, ii, 102]. by pieces—in part.
[V, iii, 8].—Charmi’s speech is addressed to Charalois, as is that of Du Croy which follows it.
[V, iii, 18] ff.—M., f. insert when after that of l. 18. This is probably the correct reading. It would be possible, however, to let the line stand without alteration, if the that of [l. 20] be taken as coordinate with the that of l. 18, introducing a second clause depending on am sorry (instead of correlative with so to introduce a result-clause). With this reading, left ([l. 22]) would be taken as an ellipsis for being left; with the emended reading, for was left. Though the construction is in doubt, the sense is easy.
[V, iii, 22]. vndermine—an object, it, is understood,—i. e., the building of my life.
[V, iii, 34]. her—its was rare in Elizabethan usage. Cf. Abbott, S. G., §§ 228, 229.
[V, iii, 46]. compassion of—former obsolete construction for “compassion for.” Cf. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, IV, i, 56; “Mov’d with compassion of my country’s wreck.”