[173] [Edits., errors.]

[174] [A play on the double meaning of the word.]

[175] [The speaker refers, as we shall presently see, to the newly-feigned dumbness of Philocles.]

[176] [Edits. read—

"I should think strangely, had we strange things on earth.
But wonders now," &c.]

[177] The quartos, day-net, we should read dare net. Surrey, in "Henry VIII," act iii. sc. 3, says: "And dare us with his cap-like larks." See Blome's "Gentleman's Recreation."—Pegge. [See also Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," v. Dare.]

[178] [Edits., my.]

[179] [Edits., nerves.]


ACTUS III., SCÆNA 1.