[295] [Mr Collier’s correction, the former editions reading, Exeunt Lorenzo and Lazarotto and Horatio. Manet Jeronimo.]
[296] It seems probable, from this and several other passages in the play, that the part of Jeronimo was performed by an actor of low stature. Decker, in two distinct scenes of his “Satiromastix,” says that Ben Jonson had supported the character of Jeronimo; but this assertion most likely applies to the “Spanish Tragedy, or the Second Part of Jeronimo,” from which he introduces a quotation.—Collier.
[297] [Old copy] reads full.
[298] Exactly. So, in “Hamlet:” “jump at this dead hour.”—Steevens. Again, in “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” act i. sc. 2 [edit. by Dyce, xi. 342]:—
“Where every seeming good’s
A certain evil; where not to be even jump
As they are here were to be strangers, and
Such things to be mere monsters.”
And in “Othello,” act ii. sc. 3:—
“Myself the while will draw the Moor apart,