[518] Old copy, salutes he.

[519] Old copy, you for.

[520] Old copy, in.

[521] [Old copy, we.]

[522] [Old copy, we'll.]

[523] [Old copy, sighs and songs.]

[524] In this passage the phrase, to wear the yellow, seems hardly to bear the ordinary construction of, to be jealous.

[525] Old copy, pining.

[526] Old copy gives this line to the lady, i.e., the merchant's wife.

[527] This seems to be some popular and well-understood allusion—well understood then, but now obscure enough; nor does Steevens's explanation help us much. See "Pop. Antiq. of Gr. Britain," 1870, iii. 322.