[75] [The text has been changed here, with what degree of success the reader has to determine. In the former editions it stood thus—
"Through my face
Apparelled with this field of gravity,
The neglected roughness of a soldier's dart."
Perhaps this passage was intended as an aside.]
[76] The 4o has Enter Bloodhound, Ear-lack with letters, Sim, and Moll. But as there is no business nor speech for Ear-lack during the whole scene, I have expunged his name.
[77] [An allusion to the proverb, "He has a cloak for every rain"—i.e., an expedient for every turn of fortune.]
[78] Mr Reed altered hose to coat without any warrant whatever.—Collier.
[79] A parody of that Latin saying, Periissem nisi periissem.—Pegge.
[80] i.e., The story-book with that name, [first printed in 1481. The abridged and modernised version was probably the one with which Moll was familiar. The earliest edition of this yet discovered is dated 1620.]—Steevens.
[81] [A play on the name of] a dance, [which is constantly mentioned in old plays.]
[82] [Old copy, legg'd.]