We should perhaps read 'bauble-vessel,' as in Tr. and Cr. i. 3.


"Then he's a rogue and a passy-measures panyn."

The 2nd folio, which is generally followed, reads pavin, which is a dance, and so could hardly be used of a man.


"First told me thou wast mad. Then cam'st in smiling,

And in such forms which here were presuppos'd

Upon thee in the letter."

For 'Then' I read 'Thou.' (Introd. p. [68].) Theobald read 'cam'st thou.' In the next line we should probably read as for 'which.'