[172] See my remarks in the Introduction.

[173] So the old ed.  The metrical harshness may be avoided by reading “And by this sword and crownet have resign’d” (or “And by this coronet and sword resign").

[174] Owns.

[175] Old ed.  “Gorges.”—­I suppose there is an allusion, which must not be taken too literally, to the story of Candaules and Gyges (see Herodotus, lib. i. 8).

[176] This is the unintelligible reading of the old ed.—­“This action, sure, breeds” &c., would be hardly satisfactory.

[177] Lucian tells a story of a youth who fell in love with Praxiteles’ statue of Aphrodite:  see Imagines, Sec. 4.  He tells the story more elaborately in his Amores.

[178] Concert.

[179] Old ed. “denie.”

[180] Before this line the old ed. gives the prefix “Val.”  Perhaps a speech of Montano has dropped out.

[181] Old ed. “although no a kin.”

[182] Old ed. “light fall soft.”  Probably the poet originally wrote “light,” and afterwards wrote “fall” above as a correction (or “light” may have been caught by the printer’s eye from the next line).

[183] Doorkeeper was a common term for a pander.

[184] Skin.

[185] Old ed. “crowne.”—­My correction restores the sense and gives a tolerable rhyme to “heare.”  Cf. p. 262.

    “And in this Chaire, prepared for a Duke,
    Sit, my bright Dutchesse.”

[186] Old ed. “Exit.”

[187] Old ed. “have her honour.”

[188] In the Parliament of 1601 Sir Walter Raleigh and others vigorously denounced the exportation of ordnance.  See Townshend’s Historical Collections, 1680, pp. 291-5.

[189] “Letters of Mart” = letters of marque.

[190] Old ed. “now.”

[191] Old ed. “when.” ("Then” = than.)

[192] Old ed. “good.”

[193] Old ed. “this dissemblance.”

[194] See note [50].

[195] Old ed. “esteem’d.”

[196] “Open ... palpable ... grosse ... mountaine.”  The writer had surely in his mind Prince Hal’s words to Falstaff:—­“These lies are like their father that begets them:  gross as a mountain, open, palpable.”

[197] Old ed.  “Of Lenos mathrens.”  I have no doubt that my correction restores the true reading.  Cf. above “Panders and Parasites sit in the places,” &c.

[198] Quy. “On, friends, to warre”?  Perhaps something has dropped out—­“Urge all our friends to warre.”

[199] Old ed. “dishonour’d.”

[200] Not marked in old ed.

[201] This speech is not very intelligible, but I can only mend it by violent changes.

[202] Old ed. “payes all.”

[203] Old ed. “of this spatious play.”

[204] Crack.

[205] Old ed. “sould.”

[206] Old ed. “are.”