"The last that ere I took her leave at court."

I read 'last time' and e'er for 'ere.' Rowe read e'er she; but the text is right.

"And that even here thou takest

As from my death-bed, my last living leave."—Rich. II. 5.

"He needs not our mistrust."—Macb. iii. 3.


"I bade her if her fortunes ever stood," etc.

The proper word would seem to be told, not 'bade'; but bid was used in the sense of tell or say, as in "bid farewell," etc.

"And bade me if I had a friend that lov'd her;