[317] [Old copy, calamon.]
[318] [i.e., he withdraws to the back of the stage, to allow the king to confer first with Osrick, and then comes forward again.]
[319] [Old copy, Asmoroth.]
[320] [Old copy, Asmoroth.]
[321] [Old copy, bid.] Bid may be taken in the sense of invite, a meaning it often bears in old writers; but we are most likely to understand it bide or abide, the final e having been omitted, or dropped out in the press. In the next line we have quit again used for acquit.
[322] [We must suppose here that Honesty sends out some of the attendants to bring in the Coneycatcher and Farmer, who soon make their re-appearance on the stage.]