9. [A house.] According to both the poem and the novel, this was the convent to which the "barefoot brother" belonged.
16. [Infection.] A quadrisyllable. Cf, iv. 1. 41 above.
18. [Nice.] Trifling, unimportant. See on iii. 1. 157 above. For charge, cf. W.T. iv. 4. 261: "I have about me many parcels of charge."
19. [Dear.] Cf. v. 3. 32 below: "dear employment."
20. [Do much danger.] See on iii. 3. 118 above.
25. [This three hours.] The singular this is often thus used; but cf. iv. 3. 40 above: "these many hundred years;" and v. 3. 176 below: "these two days."
26. [Beshrew.] See on ii. 5. 52 above.
Scene III.—
[A Churchyard,] etc. Hunter says: "It is clear that S., or some writer whom he followed, had in mind the churchyard of Saint Mary the Old in Verona, and the monument of the Scaligers which stood in it." See the cut on p. 136, and cf. Brooke, who refers to the Italian custom of building large family tombs:—