[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.