Perhaps some word, such as thus or low, has been lost after 'rate,' or we should read 'underrate.'


"I have a roisting challenge sent amongst."

As I have not met with the verb 'roist' anywhere else, I suspect that the poet may have written roistering, and the transcriber or printer have omitted a syllable, as in Meas. for Meas. iv. 2.


"Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld."

'Eld' is an excellent correction of Ritson's; the 4tos read elders; the folio old.


Sc. 3.

"Which short-arm'd Ignorance itself."