[Footnote 9: Here ends the Fourth Act, between which and the Fifth may intervene a day or two.]
[Footnote 10: Act V. This act requires only part of a day; the funeral and the catastrophe might be on the same.]
[Footnote 11: Has this a confused connection with the fancy that salvation is getting to heaven?]
[Footnote 12: Whether this means straightway, or not crooked, I cannot tell.]
[Footnote 13: 'the coroner has settled it.']
[Footnote 14: The Clown's blunder for defendendo.]
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for heere lies the point; If I drowne my selfe wittingly, it argues an Act: and an Act hath three branches. It is an Act to doe and to performe; [Sidenote: it is to act, to doe, to performe, or all: she] argall[1] she drown'd her selfe wittingly.
Other. Nay but heare you Goodman Deluer. [Sidenote: good man deluer.]
Clown. Giue me leaue; heere lies the water; good: heere stands the man; good: If the man goe to this water and drowne himsele; it is will he nill he, he goes; marke you that? But if the water come to him and drowne him; hee drownes not himselfe. Argall, hee that is not guilty of his owne death, shortens not his owne life.