[19] The 1606 ed. marks "Exit" Penelope.
[20] Here Momford retires to the back of the stage, where Clarence is waiting. The 4tos. mark "Exit." I thought the lines "Mens est," etc., were Horace's, but cannot find them. "Menternque" destroys sense and metre. An obvious correction would be "et nomen."
[21] "Falsus honos juvat, et mendax infamia terret
Quem, nisi mendosum et medicandum."
Hor. Ep. l. 16, ll. 39, 40.
[22] A card that cools a player's courage (I. Hy. VI., v. 3, 1. 83, &c.).
[23] The "Family of Love" was the name given to a fanatical sect; David George, of Delph (obiit 1556), was the founder.
[24] The reference is to the visit of the Maréchal de Biron and his suite in the autumn of 1601.
[25] 4tos. Foul.
[26] Pick-thatcht, ed. 1606.
[27] A term in card-playing; to "vie" was to cover a stake.
[28] The name of a famous bear. Cf. Epigrams by J. D.—