[38] The next word is illegible in the MS. We should have expected "Exeunt Fer., Man., & attendants."
[39] Vid. vol. i. 307.
[40] The schoolmen's term for the confines of hell.
[41] I have followed the punctuation of the MS., though I am tempted to read, "What to doe? pray with me?"
[42] A stage-direction for the next scene.
[43] Sc. bravadoes.
[44] The biting of the thumb is here a mark of vexation: to bite one's thumb at a person was considered an insult (Rom. and Jul., i. 1).
[45] A diminutive of "cock" (Tempest, ii. 1, &c.).
[46] The conceit is very common. Compare (one of many instances) Dekker's Match me in London, iv. 1—
"You oft call Parliaments, and there enact
Lawes good and wholesome, such as who so breake
Are hung by the purse or necke, but as the weake
And smaller flyes i'th Spiders web are tane
When great ones teare the web, and free remain."