[161] [Old copy, seas.]
[162] [Orcus.]
[163] [Worried.]
[164] [An answer to a summons or writ. Old copy, retourner.]
[165] [This most rare edition was very kindly lent to me by the Rev. J.W. Ebsworth, Moldash Vicarage, near Ashford.]
[166] [Cromwell did not die till September 3, 1658, a sufficient reason for the absence of the allusion which Reed thought singular.]
[167] [i.e., The human body and mind. Microcosmus had been used by Davies of Hereford in the same sense in the title of a tract printed in 1603, as it was afterwards by Heylin in his "Microcosmus," 1621, and by Earle in his "Microcosmography," 1628.]
[168] Skene or skane: gladius, Ensis brevior.—Skinner. Dekker's "Belman's Night Walk," sig. F 2: "The bloody Tragedies of all these are onely acted by the women, who, carrying long knives or skeanes under their mantles, doe thus play their parts." Again in Warner's "Albion's England," 1602, p. 129—
"And Ganimaedes we are," quoth one, "and thou a prophet trew:
And hidden skeines from underneath their forged garments drew,
Wherewith the tyrant and his bawds with safe escape they slew."
—See the notes of Mr Steevens and Mr Nichols on "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 4.