[345] [Are faulty.]
[346] [Old copy, seld.]
[347] [The printer has made havoc with the sense here, which can only be guessed at from the context. Perhaps for go we should read God, in allusion to the woman's protestations. Yet even then the passage reads but lamely.]
[348] [These may be right; but perhaps the author wrote his. By his—i.e., God's—nails, is a very common oath.]
[349] [i.e., Mete or measure out a reward to her.]
[350] [To swear by the fingers, or the ten commandments, as they were often called, was a frequent oath.]
[351] [Old copy, lamback'd.]
[352] The 4to says, between the monk and the nun.
[353] [Query, mother Bawd; or is some celebrated procuress of the time when this play was written and acted meant here?]
[354] To swear by the cross of the sword was a very common practice, and many instances are to be found in D.O.P. See also notes to "Hamlet," act i. sc. 5.