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his mutilation of the side notes on the ground that they were not from the hand of Jonson. Evidence has already been adduced to show that they were at any rate printed with his sanction. I am, however, inclined to believe with Gifford that they were written by another hand. Gi...
there is a possible allusion to the Infanta Maria, for whose marriage with Prince Charles secret negotiations were being carried on at this time. We learn that Commissioners wer...
9. ACT V.=5. 1. 28 Tyborne.= This celebrated gallows stood, it is believed, on the site of Connaught Place. It derived the name from a brook in the neighborhood (see Minsheu, Stow, etc.).
4. Part 1, p. 55.=1. 1. 56 the top of Pauls-steeple.= As Gifford points out, Iniquity is boasting of an impossible feat. St. Paul’s steeple had been destroyed by fire in 1561, and was not yet re...
6. ACT II.=2. 1. 1 Sir, money’s a whore=, etc. Coleridge, _Notes_, p. 280. emends: ‘Money, sir, money’s a’, &c. Cunningham, on the other hand, thinks that ‘the 9-syllable arrangement is q...
7. ACT III.=3. 1. 8 Innes of Court.= ‘The four Inns of Court, Gray’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, the Inner, and the Middle Temple, have alone the right of admitting persons to practise as barriste...
8. ACT IV=4. 1. 1 referring to Commissioners.= In the lists of patents we frequently read of commissions specially appointed for examination of the patent under consideration. The King’s...
3. ACT I.=1. 1. 1 Hoh, hoh=, etc. ‘Whalley is right in saying that this is the conventional way for the devil to make his appearance in the old morality-plays. Gifford objects on the gro...
5. Act IV. Sc. 1, I find: “_Fit._ Let’s _ieere_ a little. _Pen._ Ieere?It is so spelt regularly throughout _The Staple of News_, but in _Ev. Man in_ 1. 2 (fol. 1616), we find: ‘Such petulant, geering gamsters that can spare No ... subject from thei...
1. Act 3. 5. 78 (middle of line). He considered himself justified inhis mutilation of the side notes on the ground that they were not from the hand of Jonson. Evidence has already been adduced to show that they were at any rate printed with his...