[280] Late.
[281] To have on the petticoat is a phrase of very unusual occurrence, of which the sense may, without much difficulty or risk of error, be collected from the context.
[282] Ragan and the others must be supposed to be at the back of the stage, out of Esau's sight; but they come forward severally, and plead for themselves.
[283] Run.
[284] i.e., Old witch. But compare Halliwell, v. Mab.
[285] Old copy, Rebecca.
[286] A word of contempt often used in our old comedies, as we now employ chap.
[287] In the old copy this line is improperly given to Isaac.
[288] The new guise is a term often met with in old plays, but the application of it here is not very clear, although the meaning of the writer—in a way that he (Jacob) little expected—is sufficiently intelligible.
[289] In the old copy this word is improperly placed opposite the line, That all quarrel, &c.