[186] i.e., Shall not separate us till we die. See Gifford's note to "The Renegado."—Massinger's Works, ii. 136.
[187] Palliard is to be found in Dryden's "Hind and Panther:" palliardize is not in very common use among our old writers. Dekker, in his "Bellman of London," 1616, sig. D 2, gives a description of a Palliard. Tuck's exclamation looks as if it were quoted.
[188] In the old copy, Scarlet and Scathlock are also mentioned as entering at this juncture, but they were on the stage before.
[189] The mistake to which Warman alludes is, that Friar Tuck takes part with Robin Hood, instead of assisting the Sheriff against him.
[190] This incident, with some variations, is related in the old ballad of "Robin Hood rescuing the Widow's three sons from the Sheriff, when going to be executed." See Ritson's "Robin Hood," ii. 151.
[191] The old copy has a blank here; but whether it was so in the original MS., whether a line has dropped out by accident, or whether it was meant that Much should be suddenly interrupted by Robin Hood, must be matter of conjecture.
[192] So printed in the old copy, as if part of some poetical narrative.
[193] i.e., Gang. So written by Milton, Jonson, and many of our best authors.
[194] [Old copy, all your.]
[195] [Old copy, never wife.]