[83] "Salvete, fures maritimi." Rudens, ii. 2.
[84] Honest.
[85] "Trach. Ecquem
Recalvum ac silonem senem, statutum, ventriosum,
Tortis superciliis, contracta fronte, fraudulentum,
Deorum odium atque hominum, malum, mali vitii probrique plenum,
Qui duceret mulierculas duas secum, satis venustas?
Pisc. Cum istiusmodi virtutibus operisque natus qui sit, Eum quidem ad carnificem est aequius quam ad Venerem commeare."—Rudens, ii. 2.
[86] See the Introduction.
[87] In the MS. follow some cancelled words:—"Il fyrst in and see her bycause I will bee suer tis shee. Oh, Mercury, that I had thy winges tyde to my heeles."
[88] "Who ever lov'd," &c.—A well-known line from Marlowe's Hero and Leander.
[89] There is no stage-direction in the MS.
[90] Adulterous.—So Heywood in The English Traveller, iii. 1,— "Pollute the Nuptiall bed with Michall [i.e. mechal] sinne." Again in Heywood's Rape of Lucreece, "Men call in witness of your mechall sin."
[91] This speech is scored through in the MS.