[138] [Former edits., active.]

[139] [Former edits., it shows.]

[140] [Edits., Majesty's hand. The emendation was suggested by Collier.]

[141] There seems no reason for omitting these explanatory matters, which save a reference to the Dramatis Personæ.—Collier.

[142] [Former edits., gardens.]

[143] An ornament for the neck, a collar-band, or kind of ruff. Fr. Rabat.

[144] [Allusively to the enormously high headdress worn by ladies.]

[145] [Old copy, a.]

[146] This proverb is also quoted in "The Bloody Banquet," by T.D., 1639, which Mr Malone [wrongly] gives to R. Davenport—

Clown. O, always the weakest goes to the wall.