[339] Compare "Taming of the Shrew," ii. 1.—Halliwell.

[340] Never in the original copy.—Halliwell.

[341] Compare "The Merchant of Venice," i. 3.—Halliwell.

[342] Drunkards.

[343] "Upstart unthrifts" (Richard II.)—Halliwell.

[344] Compare "Taming of the Shrew," i. 2: "O this woodcock, what an ass it is!"—Halliwell.

[345] [Rather, perhaps, dulsum, i.e., sweet.]

[346] This confirms in some measure a reading in the "Taming of the Shrew"—"Or so devote to Aristotle's Ethics."—Halliwell. [See Dyce's 2d edit. iii. 114, and the note.]

[347] "Begnaw with the bots" (Taming of the Shrew).—Halliwell.

[348] Owing to whom.