To be guided by truth, and defended from wrong.
[228] [Like “King Darius’ doleful strain,” in allusion to the old interlude on that subject.]
[229] [The play was licenced to John Allde in 1569-70. See Collier’s “Extracts,” i. 205. As that printer continued in business till 1584, and the earliest dated piece with the younger Allde’s name bears the same date, “Cambyses” may have been republished about 1585; but it does not seem to have been licenced.]
[230] Shakespeare’s Clowns are genuine successors of the old Vice; and, as an editor of that poet has well observed, Punch still exhibits the entire character.
[231] [One of them is printed by Collier.]
[232] [Might not this incident have suggested to Shakespeare the leading one in “Measure for Measure”?]
[233] [This incident was no doubt suggested by a well-known passage in the earlier play of “Thersites.”]
[234] Here is evidently a line omitted, which it is impossible to supply by conjecture.
[235] [Old copy, the.]
[236] [Old copy, of.]