[257] The player was expected to extemporise until off the stage.
[258] The scene between Bohan and Oberon may properly be entitled "Chorus," as such scenes appear at the end of each act with the exception of the fifth. The relationship of the three dumb shows with the play as a whole and with each other has not been explained. In many places the text is hopelessly corrupt.
[259] The entire passage is so corrupt as to be unintelligible.
[260] Manly's readjustment of a corrupt passage, based upon a suggestion by Kittredge, has been accepted.
[261] The song is not inserted. It was not necessarily composed by the author of the play.
[262] Frown.
[263] Words that describe you.
[264] Cozener's terms.
[265] Prepared, ready.
[266] What then?