[527] This seems to be some popular and well-understood allusion--well understood then, but now obscure enough; nor does Steevens's explanation help us much. See "Pop. Antiq. of Gr. Britain," 1870, iii. 322.
[528] An allusion to an old proverb.
[529] Old copy gives this line to Gloster.
[530] Old copy, _weak_.
[531] Halliwell says, "a squall."
[532] Fear.
[533] Old copy, _wray_.
[534] Old copy, _not thou art_.
[535] i.e., Gloster, disguised also as a hermit.
[536] Old copy, _he's_.
[537] Old copy gives as the stage-direction here merely, _Enter John_.
[538] Old copy, _Lan_.
[539] Compare "First Part of Jeronimo," vol. iv., p. 349, and the note.
[540] [Old copy, _breath_.]
[541] [Compare Courthope's "Historic Peerage," 1857, _v_. Hereford.]
[542] [In allusion to the proverb, _Threatened men live long_.]
[543] [Old copy, _William_.]
[544] Old copy, _them_.
[545] Something seems to have dropped out of the text.
[546] I do not find this phrase anywhere.
[547] Old copy, _may_.
[548] i.e., Gloster.
[549] There is an evident corruption here. Query, _Life kneels to thrones_.
[550] Old copy, _thy_.
[551] Old copy, _not_.
[552] Old copy, _is_.
[553] Old copy, _set_.
[554] i.e., _Mort de Dieu_.
[555] Old copy, _ye_.
[556] Old copy, _Sarasons_.
[557] An exclamation of doubtful meaning and origin. See a long note in Nares, edit. 1859, _v. Rivo_.
[558] Old copy, _for_.