[224] [The worst wonder is.]
[225] [Compassionate.]
[226] [Not in first 4to.]
[227] The learned Constable refers, of course, to Love, who has already
been on the stage in a vizard at the back of her head: see earlier;
_Enter_ LUCRE, _and_ LOVE _with a vizard, behind_.
[228] [Old copies, _sacred_. This was Mr Collier's suggestion.]
[229] [Old copies, _ye_.]
[230] [Alluding to the "Three Ladies of London," 1584.]
[231] [Old copy, _Pompe hath_.]
[232] [Old copy, _place_.]
[233] [The bells attached to the falcon, the _impress of Pleasure_.]
[234] Referring to the chains of gold formerly worn by persons of rank
and property.
[235] Alluding to the manner in which ballad-sellers of that day used to
expose their goods, by hanging them up in the same way that the three
lords had hung up their shields.
[236] [Foolish, maudlin.]
[237] [Except.]
[238] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 265-6.]
[239] The best, and indeed what may be considered the only, account of
Tarlton the actor precedes the edition of his Jests, reprinted for the
Shakespeare Society in 1844.
[240] [Videlicet.]
[241] [Ignorant.]
[242] [Alluding to some wood engraving of Tarlton, which Simplicity had
in his basket.
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