654. there’s] So both MSS. Eds. “their.”
655. a silenc’d muzzle] “The Pulpits were the most bold Opposers, but if they toucht any thing upon the Spanish policie, or the intended Treaties (for the Restitution of the Palatinate was included in the Mariage before it was the Spaniards to give) their mouthes must be stopt by Gondamar ... and (it may be) confined, or imprisoned for it.” Wilson’s Life and Reign of James, p. 151, ed. 1653.
656. angle] i. e. corner.
657. too] So two eds. and both MSS. Not in Quarto C.
658. state-] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
659. pick] So two eds. Quarto C. “pricke.”
660. every] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
661. The White Bishop’s Pawn] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. Quarto C. and MS. Lansd., more metrically, “The Bishops White Pawne.”
663. Enough of them in all parts] So both MSS. Not in Quarto C. Two eds. “There’s enough,” &c.
664. that] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
665. that] So two eds. Quarto C. “the.”
666. fames] So MS. Lansd. Eds. and MS. Bridge. “fame.”
667. Duke] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Piece.”
668. munificence] So both MSS. Quarto C. “Magnificence.” Two eds. “munificency.”
669. that’s] So two eds. Quarto C. “’tis.”
670. I've maz’d ’em] So two eds. Quarto C. “amaz’d.”
671. ships] So two eds. Quarto C. “ship.”
672.
673. W. King] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Wh. Kni.”
674. attempter] So two eds. Quarto C. “attempt.”
675. impudent] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “impudence.”
676. piece] So both MSS. Quarto C. “price.” Two eds. “prize.”
677. value] i. e. equal in value.
678. This] So two eds. Quarto C. “The.”
679. however] So two eds. Quarto C. and both MSS. “How any.”
680. W. King] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Wh. Kni.”
681. stand] So both MSS. Quarto C. “stood.” Two eds. “stands.”
682. W. King] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Wh. Kni.”
683. B. King] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “W. Kni.”
684. beside] So both MSS. Eds. “besides.”
685. B. King] So two eds. and both MSS. here and at next speech but three. Quarto C. “B. D.”
686. Do’t] So two eds. Quarto C. “Doe.”
687. lock] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “tooke.”
688. W. King] MS. Lansd. “W. Knight”—rightly, perhaps.
689. this] Both MSS. “their”—rightly, perhaps.
690. B. Knight] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “W. Kni.”
691. W. King] MS. Lansd. “W. Knight”—rightly, perhaps.
692. B. King] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “Fat B.”
693. Spalato] So the word Spalatro was generally written.—Eds. and MSS. “Spolletta,” “Spolleta,” “Spallato.”
694. water] Two eds. “water-gate.”
695. of] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “to.”
696. mazzard] i. e. head.
697. know me] Here, perhaps, the Black Knight thrust the White King’s Pawn into the bag on the stage: compare the concluding scene of the play.
698. my] So two eds. Quarto C. “many.”
699. That] So two eds. Quarto C. “Thus.”
700. us] So MS. Lansd. Quarto C. “vs all.”
701. handsome] So two eds. Quarto C. “honest.”
702. in] So MS. Lansd. Eds. “for.”
703. person] So two eds. Quarto C. “persons.”
704. the] So two eds. Quarto C. “our.”
705. nor] So two eds. Quarto C. “or.”
706. So ... prance it] So two eds. Quarto C. “I’d ... praunc’d.”
707. A pox on you] So two eds. and MS. Bridge. Not in Quarto C. MS. Lansd. omits the whole of this scene between the Black Jesting Pawn and the other two Pawns.
708. snapt] So two eds. Quarto C. “scap’d.”
709. a monkey’s ordinary] Compare Brome’s City Wit; “Knavery is restoratiue to me, as spiders to monkeys.” Sig. F V. (Fiue New Playes, 1653.)
710. firk] i. e. beat.
711. Mass] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
712. old] i. e. abundant: compare vol. ii. p. 538.
713. for] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
714. Exeunt.] Not in eds. Perhaps they went into the bag on the stage: compare the concluding scene of the play.
715. your] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
716. With stay] So all the eds. and both MSS. The meaning is far from clear. Qy. “Withstay”?
717. kind] i. e. nature.
718. are] So two eds. Quarto C. “is.”
719. passion] i. e. sorrow, lament.
720. merely] i. e. wholly.
721. In his gallant habit] Not in Quarto C. nor MSS.: found in two eds., printed as the first line of the opening speech of the scene, thus;
722. with] So two eds. Quarto C. “by.”
723. feather] So two eds. Quarto C. “father.”
724. highly] So two eds. Quarto C. “mightie.”
725. trim] So two eds. Quarto C. “trane.”
726. catholical] So two eds. Quarto C. “catholicke.”
727. Suffices] So two eds. Quarto C. “Suffice.”
728. ’tis he] In MS. Lansd. only.
729. A most regardless] So two eds. Quarto C. “A most strange reguardles.”
730. Merely] i. e. wholly.
731. now] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
732. unclose] Quarto C. “vncloses.” Other eds. “incloses.”
733. Put] Eds. “Puts.”
734. mark’d] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “work’d.”
735. irrevocable] So two eds. Quarto C. “irrecouerable.”
736. shame] So two eds. and both MSS. Quarto C. “chance.”
737. be man] So two eds. Quarto C. “be both man.”
738. grieves] So two eds. Quarto C. “giues.”
739. marry] So two eds. Quarto C. “be married.”
740. a' life] i. e. as my life—exceedingly. So two eds. Quarto C. has the more unusual form “of life.”
742. treacher] i. e. deceiver, cozener, cheater.
743. gull’d] i. e. swallowed.
744. rear] i. e. under-dressed.
745. poach’d] So two eds. (where the line in other respects is different). Quarto C. “pouch’d.”
746. Unjointed, &c.] So two eds. The line not in Quarto C.
747. stares] i. e. starlings.
748. lightly] So two eds. Quarto C. “titelie.”
749. three] So two eds. Quarto C. “thee.”
750. turn] So two eds. Quarto C. “turned.”
751. chares] i. e. works, jobs.
752. learn’d] So two eds. Quarto C. “and learn’d.”
754. breast] So both MSS. Eds. “best.”
756. into] So two eds. Quarto C. “in.”
757. Mass] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
758. or] So two eds. Quarto C. “and.”
759. and] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
760. sums] So two eds. Quarto C. “sinnes.”
761. thousand] So two eds. Quarto C. “thousands.”
762. doctor Lopez, &c.] Lopez, domestic physician to Queen Elizabeth, was executed for having accepted a bribe from Spain to destroy her. Taylor, the water-poet, in the 13th stanza (or sonnet) of The Churches Deliuerances, tells, in his own homely and facetious manner, the story of Lopez, p. 145—Workes, 1630. Dekker introduces him actually making an attempt on the queen’s life, in the following passage of The Whore of Babylon, 1607:
In the above passage the old ed. has, by a misprint, “Ropus” instead of “Lupus:” when he appears in an earlier scene he is called “Lupus,” which a marginal note explains to mean “Lopes.” Sig. F.
763. estate] So two eds. Quarto C. “state.”
764. B. King] So two eds. Quarto C. “Bl. Kni.”
765. Bishop] So two eds. Quarto C. “Bishops.”
766. snapt] So two eds. Quarto C. “snatch’d.”
767. next] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “at next.”
768. her night-attire ... his night-habit] So MS. Lansd. only.
769. virtue’s] So two eds. Quarto C. “vertue.”
770. prevent] i. e. anticipate.
771. eighty-eight] i. e. 1588—the year of the Spanish armada.
772. glittering’st] So both MSS. Eds. “glittering.”
773. sit] Eds. “sits.”
774. face] So two eds. Quarto C. “falce.”
775. your] So two eds. Quarto C. “you.”
776. sire] So both MSS. Eds. “sir” and “sice.”
777. could] Two eds. “would:” but see the third line following.
778. Rumbant’s] So all the eds. and both MSS. The right reading, I have little doubt, is “Rumbold’s,” or rather “Rumold’s.”—“A great and sumptuous church was built at Mechlin to receive his [St. Rumold’s] precious relicks, which is still possessed of that treasure, and bears the name of this saint.” Butler’s Lives of the Saints, vol. vii. p. 2, sec. ed. In the title-page of his Life, 1662, written in Latin by Ward, he is termed “advocati sterilium conjugum.”
779. hose] i. e. breeches.
780. deliverance] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “deliuer” and “deliuerer.”
781. luxury] i. e. lust.
782. O] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
783. live] Eds. “liues.”
784. were never] So two eds. Quarto C. “neuer were.”
785. strong] So two eds. Quarto C. “good.”
786. Loud music] So MS. Bridge. only.
787. in his litter, &c.] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.—“As he [Gondomar] was carried in his Litter or bottomless Chair (the easiest seat for his Fistula),” &c. Wilson’s Life and Reign of James, p. 146, ed. 1653.
788. concise oration] So both MSS. Quarto C. “course oration.” Other eds. “consecration.”
789. triumphantis] Eds. and MSS. “triumphanti.”
790. snapt] So two eds. Quarto C. “snap.”
791. Hautboys again] So MS. Bridge. only.
792. him] i. e. the White Knight.
793. Enter Black King ... Latin oration] So two eds. Quarto C. has only “Enter Bl. K. Q. D. K. and Wh. Kni. and D.”
794. fix] So two eds. Quarto C. “fixed.”
795. W. Duke. Th' erroneous relish] So two eds. Not in Quarto C.
796. the fair] So both MSS. Eds. “thee the faire.”
797. approve] i. e. prove.
798. B. King] So two eds. Quarto C. “Bl. K. P.”
799. more] So two eds. Quarto C. “most.”
800. much has wrong’d] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “ill hath (and “has”) vs’d.”
801. judgments] So two eds. Quarto C. “judgement.”
802. when] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “if.”
803. cast] So two eds. Quarto C. “last.”
804. by] So MS. Bridge. Eds. “aside.”
805. You’ll] So MSS. Eds. “Youl’d.”
806. luxury] i. e. lust, incontinence.
807. cunning] So two eds. Quarto C. “cunnings.”
808. Thou] Eds. and both MSS. “That.”
809. some] So two eds. Quarto C. “a.”
810. ears] So two eds. Quarto C. “eare.”
811. W. Queen] So both MSS. Eds. “W. Q. P.”
812. cockatrice] A cant term for a harlot.
813. Death] So two eds. Quarto C. “How.”
814. royal] So two eds. Quarto C. “noble.”
815. Ebusus] Quarto C. and both MSS. “Eleusis.” Two eds. “Ebusis.”—“Circa Ebusum [i. e. Ivica] salpa.” Plin. Hist. Nat. l. ix. c. 18. t. i. p. 511, ed. Hard. 1723.
816. frank’d] i. e. stuft, crammed. (A frank meant a place to fatten hogs and other animals in).