A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4

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[165] Equivalent, as frequently, to a dissyllable.

[166] Exclamations.

[167] Vile.

[168] Not marked in the old ed.

[169] Old ed. "fate."

[170] Old ed. "brought."

[171] Old ed. "wood."—"Anno 35 Reginae (Eliz.) … A License to William Aber, To Sow Six Hundred Acres of Ground with Oade … A Patent to Valentise Harris, To Sow Six Hundred Acres of Ground with Woade."—Townshend's Historical Collections, 1680, p. 245.

[172] See my remarks in the Introduction.

[173] So the old ed. The metrical harshness may be avoided by reading "And by this sword and crownet have resign'd" (or "And by this coronet and sword resign").

[174] Owns.