[172] With these words R. Roister evidently retires.—Cooper.
[173] Encourage him. So in the epistle to Gabriel Harvey, prefixed to Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar": "The Right Worshipfull Maister Philip Sidney is a speciall favourer and maintainer of all kinde of learning."—Cooper.
[174] The exit and re-entry are not marked.—Cooper.
[175] [It seems probable that this prayer at the end was intended for Queen Elizabeth, not for her predecessor. The original prayer, if there was one, on the first presentation of the comedy, may have been suppressed in favour of one to suit the new circumstances.]
[176] Ancient interludes frequently ended with a prayer, which it was the custom of the players to deliver kneeling.—Cooper.
[177] These are the songs referred to in the body of the Comedy.
[178] A pet or darling wife.—Cooper.
[179] [Query, Sir John, i.e., the priest, to say the requiem. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," p. 414.]
[180] ["So out went the candle, and we were left darkling," "King Lear," i. 4; Dyce's 2d edit. vii. 269.]
[181] ["Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute," iii., 130.]