[132] Early Greek writers held up the Scythians as models of justice and simplicity (Iliad, xiii. 6, &c.). Clearchus (apud Athen., xii. 27) accuses them of cruelty, voluptuous living, and viciousness of every kind; but, in justice to the Scythians, it should be added that in his "animadversiones" to the "Deipnosophists" (when will somebody complete and print Dyce's translation?) the learned Schweighaeuser in no measured language accuses Clearchus of wanton recklessness and gross inaccuracy.
[133] "What is the matter there? looke to the prisoners," was the first reading.
[134] The passage is bracketed in the MS.
[135] Erased in MS.
[136] Before correction the passage stood "And now, madam, being your servant and Timothy I bring you newes!" The words "Stay, stay Mr. Justice," &c., were inserted afterwards.
[137] Bracketed in MS.
[138] The reading of the MS. appears to be "a lonly."
[139] Bracketed in MS.
[140] The MS. is a folio of thirty-one leaves, written in a small clear hand: it was purchased for the National Library in 1851 from the Earl of Denbigh.
[141] In May, 1622, "by reason of sickness and indisposition of body wherewith it had pleased God to visit him, he had become incapable of fulfilling the duties and was compelled to resign."—Vid. Collier's "Hist. Eng. Dram. Lit." I. 402 (new ed.).