[112] Lodge and other writers not unfrequently use the adjective for the substantive: thus, in "The Discontented Satyre:"—
"Blush, daies eternal lampe, to see thy lot,
Since that thy cleere with cloudy darkes is scar'd."
[113] The quarto has the passage thus—
"These peers of Rome have mark'd
A rash revenging hammer in thy brain;"
which seemed so decidedly wrong as to warrant the change that, without much violence, has been made.
[114] Guerdon is synonymous with reward. It is scarcely yet obsolete.
[115] Old copy, hammer.
[116] Vengeance.
[117] Scarce. It is found in Spenser. Robert Greene also uses it—
"It was frosty winter season,
And fair Flora's wealth was geason."