A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4

by Unknown

[214] Gondola.

[215] Old ed. "recover'd."

[216] "Timelesse lives taken away" = lives cut short by an untimely stroke.

[217] Old ed. "prisoned."

[218] Old ed. "playes."

[219] In As You Like It, Rosalind, speaking the Epilogue, justifies the novelty of the proceeding:—"It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue."—Flavia is the earliest example, so far as I know, of a lady-prologue.

[220] Old ed. "Endeauours."

[221] Old ed. "smile." The emendation was suggested to me by Mr. Fleay.

[222] The old ed. gives "they are monsters Graccus, they call them," assigning Graccus' speech to Acutus.

[223] Old ed. "Of."