[65] Some letters are cut away in the MS. Perhaps Mildew was represented with Judas-coloured (i.e. red) hair; but Raphael presently describes him as "graye and hoary," and afterwards we are told that he was bald.
[66] Search, probe.
[67] The stage-direction is not marked in the MS.
[68] Track by the scent.
[69] There is no stage-direction in the old copy.
[70] This and the next three lines are marked for omission.
[71] In this soliloquy Heywood closely follows Plautus: see Rudens, i. 3, "Hanccine ego partem capio ob pietatem praecipuam," &c.
[72] Three cancelled lines follow in the MS.:—
"So if you … any mercy for him,
Oh if there be left any mercy for him
Nowe in these bryny waves made cleane for heaven."
[73] This and the eight following lines appear to be marked for omission in the MS.