[59] In first edition and Isham "Knowing" and MS. G.
[60] Foolish. G.
[61] Dyce's text is 'he': but 'to' is often in Davies' time printed for 'too.' Isham 'Which perceiuing.' G.
[62] Isham 'scarphes.' G.
[63] Isham 'false brayes.' In this place I have restored the reading 'false-brayes' of the 1st edition and of the MS, rejecting 'false-baits' of 2nd and 3rd editions. There is no such word in military engineering or fortification; but there is 'fausse-braye ' or 'false-braye.' There is a not very intelligible description in Bailey's Dictionary. G.
[64] With this passage compare the following lines:
"See Captaine Martio he i' th' 'Renounce me' band,
That in the middle region doth stand
Wo' th' reputation steele! Faith, lets remoue
Into his ranke (of such discourse you loue):
Hee'l tell of basilisks, trenches, retires,
Of pallizadoes, parapets, frontires,
Of caluerins, and baricadoes too.
What to bee harquebazerd, to lie in perdue," &c.
Fitzgeoffrey's Notes from Black-Friars' Sig. E 7, a portion of the volume entitled Certain Elegies, &c., ed. 1620. See our Memorial-Introduction for an impudent appropriation of this epigram. G.
[65] MS. "forginge." D. Isham 'foorching.' G.
[66] Other editions and MS. "Withernams": Isham 'whither names.' G.