[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.