[370] All amort here and in other places signifies melancholy. So in Greene's "History of Friar Bacon," 1594—
"Shall he thus all amort live malecontent."
Again, in "Wily Beguiled," 1606—
"Why, how now, Sophos, all amort? still languish in love?"
[ix. 305]. And in the "Contention between Liberality and Prodigality," 1602, the author makes an addition to this French expression not usually found in English—
"What, is there none that answers? Tout a-la-mort?"
[viii. 335.]—Collier.
[371] [Prevent. See note at p. 18 of vol. vii.]
[372] i.e., Contrive it. The word is still sometimes used in the same sense.
[373] All after the words O rare invention has been hitherto given to Throat without any notice, and although both the quartos assign it to Beard, who, as appears subsequently, had advanced the sum he mentions.—Collier.