[355] i.e., Secretly, a very common application of the word in our old writers.
[356] [In allusion to the proverb, "Maids say nay, and take.">[
[357] Here, according to what follows, Brand steps forward and addresses Matilda. Hitherto he has spoken aside.
[358] See Mr Gilford's note on the words rouse and carouse in his Massinger, i. 239. It would perhaps be difficult, and certainly needless, to add anything to it.
[359] "Nor I to stir before I see the end,"
belongs to the queen, unquestionably, but the 4to gives it to the Abbess, who has already gone out.
[360] [Labour, pain.]
[361] The reading of the old copy is—
"Oh pity, mourning sight! age pitiless!"
Pity-moving in a common epithet, and we find it afterwards in this play used by young Bruce—