Robert Greene: [Six Plays] - Robert Greene

[148] In his Francesco's Fortunes Greene satirizes "Ave Cæsar" as it occurs in Edward III., presumably by Marlowe.

[150] Confounded, dismayed.

[151] At this point the Alleyn manuscript begins.

[152] The first four of these lines are, with the exception of the last half of the first line, from the 117th stanza of the twenty-seventh Canto of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso; the other four are from the 121st stanza of the same Canto.

[153] A corrupt passage is here supplemented by words from the Alleyn manuscript.

[154] A streamer attached to a lance.

[155] See Odyssey X. 302, and following. A stock reference in Euphuism.

[156] A phrase signifying excess; probably "understanding" should be supplied.

[157] Mad.