[323] So ed. 1598.--Eds. 1612, 1622, "down."

[324] Ovid _Metam._ vi. 195.

[325] The scene shifts to Westminster.

[326] Old eds. "Bishop."

[327] Scene: Berkeley Castle.

[328] _I.e._, the dungeon full of mire and puddle. But perhaps we should read "lock."

[329] A curtain is drawn and the king is discovered in the dungeon.

[330] Business.

[331] So eds. 1598, 1612.--Ed. 1622 "tottered."

[332] The feather-bed mentioned in l. 32. "It was no doubt thrust upon the stage from the wing after the exit of Gurney and Matrevis."--_Dyce._

[333] Old eds. "That _and_ even."

[334] Mr. Fleay would read "fau"t" (_i.e._ fault), comparing _Richard III._ ii. 1, 104:--"His _fault_ was thought."

[335] So ed. 1598.--Omitted in eds. 1612, 1622.

[336] So eds. 1598, 1612, ("eies-lids").--Ed. 1622 "eye lids."

[337] Eds. 1598, 1612, "O let me not die, yet stay, O stay a while." Ed.

1622 "O let me not die yet! O stay a while" (and so Dyce). Mr. Fleay prints:--

"Oh!

Let me not die yet; stay, oh stay a while."

[338] Scene: the royal palace, London.

[339] So ed. 1598.--Omitted in eds. 1612, 1622.

[340] The old eds. repeat "I."

[341] The prefix in the old eds. is "_Lords._"

[342] So ed. 1598.--Eds. 1612, 1622, "_How now_, my Lord?" (which is perhaps the right reading).

[343] Old eds. "_Lords._"

[344] Omitted in eds. 1612, 1622.

[345] Old eds. "_Lords._"

[346] So ed. 1598.--Eds. 1612, 1622, "the."

[347] Old eds. "_Lords._"

FOOTNOTES FOR: "THE Ma.s.sACRE AT PARIS"

[348] In the old copy there is no division into scenes. Scene: an apartment in the Louvre.

[349] Untimely.

[350] Scene: an apartment in a house near the Louvre.

[351] "About noone, when he [the Admiral] was in returning home from the Counsell, with a greate companie of n.o.blemen and gentlemen, beholde a harquebuzier out of a window of a house neere adjoyning shot the Admiral with two bullets of lead through both the arms.... The name of him that shot was very diligently kept secret. Some, saye it was Manrevet, which in the third Civill War traitorously slew his Captaine, Monsieur de Mony, a most valiant and n.o.ble gentleman, and straightway fled into the enemie"s campe. Some say it was Bondot, one of the archers of the king"s guard."--_The Three Partes of Commentaries containing the whole and perfect discourse of the Civill Wars of France, &c._ 1574 (Book x.).

[352] Crowns.

[353] This word occurs in _3 Henry VI._, v. 1, and _t.i.tus Andronicus_, v. 3; also in Shakespeare"s _Sonnets_ and _Rape of Lucrece_.

[354] Dwell. (In this sense the word "keep" is still used at Cambridge.)

[355] Old ed. "Nauarre, Nauarre."

[356] So old ed.--Dyce reads, "That those which do behold them."

[357] Scene: a street.

[358] Cunningham arranges ll. 34-5 thus:

"We are betrayed! come, my lords, and let us Go tell the king of this."

[359] Scene: an apartment in the Louvre.

[360] So Dyce.--Old ed. "suspected."

[361] Beset.

[362] Old ed. "humble."

[363] Not marked in old ed.

[364] Old ed. "Enter the Admirall in his bed," a stage-direction meaning that a bed containing the Admiral should be thrust upon the stage. Cf. a stage-direction in Heywood"s _Golden Age_;--"_Enter the foure old Beldams, drawing out Danae"s bed, she in it._"

[365] Dyce reads "his."

[366] Scene: a street.

[367] Commencement. Dyce quotes from Heywood"s _Four Prentises of London_:--