[262] It is very obvious that Much begins his answer at "Cry ye mercy, Master King," but his name is omitted in the old 4to.
[263] The old copy adds here Exeunt, and a new scene is marked; but this is a mistake, as Robin Hood just afterwards converses with the Prior, Sir Doncaster, and Warman, without any new entrance on their part. They retire to the back of the stage.
[264] Warman is not mentioned, but we find him on the stage just afterwards, and he probably enters with Robin Hood. The entrance of Friar Tuck is also omitted.
[265] i.e., Winding his horn.
[266] The 4to, reads "Pity of mind, thine," &c.
[267] See the last scene of the first part of this play.
[268] The 4to merely reads exit.
[269] "And yet more medicinal is it than that Moly
That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave."
—Milton's "Comus."
There are several kinds of moly, and one of them distinguished among horticulturists as Homer's moly. Sir T. Brown thus quaintly renders two lines in the "Odyssey" relating to it—
"The gods it Moly call whose root to dig away
Is dangerous unto man, but gods they all things may."