[Note XIII.]
II. 1. 40-55. This royal throne ... stubborn Jewry. This passage, with the exception of line 50, is quoted in England's Parnassus, p. 348 (1600), and is there attributed to M. Dr., i.e. Michael Drayton, whose England's Heroical Epistles had been published two years before. The three lines I. 1. 177-179 are also quoted at p. 113 of the same collection.
[Note XIV.]
II. 1. 254. The Folios omitted noble, in order to correct the redundant line. But Alexandrines occur too frequently in this play to admit of the supposition that they are all due to printers' or transcribers' errors. The author probably found the occasional recurrence of a six foot line no stumbling-block in the even road of his blank verse.
[Note XV.]
II. 1. 277, 278. Pope makes a bold emendation here:
'Then thus, my friends. I have from Port le Blanc,
A bay in Bretagne, had intelligence, &c.'
The first Quarto reads thus:
'Then thus, I have from le Port Blan
A Bay in Brittaine receiude intelligence, &c.'