"My tears, my prayers, my pity-moving moans."
[362] [Old copy, wrath.]
[363] This servant entered probably just before Oxford's question, but his entrance is not marked.
[364] To pash, signifies to crush or dash to pieces. So in the "Virgin Martyr," act ii. sc. 2—
"With Jove's artillery, shot down at once,
To pash your gods in pieces."
See Mr Gifford's note upon this passage, and Reed's note on the same word in "Troilus and Cressida," act ii. sc. 3.
[365] The 4^o has it—
"May an example of it, honest friends;"
but make is certainly the true reading.
[366] Bannings are cursings. Hundreds of examples might be added to those collected by Steevens in a note to "King Lear," act ii. sc. 3. It is a singular coincidence that ban, signifying a curse, and ban, a public notice of marriage, should have the same origin.