[38] It should be remembered that the scene divisions are not made by Greene.
[39] In Elizabethan writers this term is used in both genders to express general relationship. Here it means cousin.
[40] Strive, contend.
[41] Upbraid.
[42] Same as "vile."
[43] Resent.
[44] In the use of the descending throne, trap-door, property tomb, balcony and curtain, as well as in plastic use of scenes (pp. [42] and [248]) Greene illustrates the best practice of his time.
[45] Advise.
[46] Here clearly a change of scene is supposed. Between the two scenes the Quarto has only this stage direction to Fausta: "Make as though you were a-going out, Medea meet her and say." As some time is supposed to elapse between the two scenes they are here differentiated. Such is not the case in George-a-Greene ([p. 439]) in which the action goes right on in two settings.
[47] Prepared.