we's love!--why, why did I delay?
O, gentlemen, pray for me! I have been
Lifted in heavenly air--and suddenly
The arm that placed me, and with strength sustain'd me,
Is snatch'd up, starward: I can neither follow,
Nor can I touch the gross earth any more!
Pray for me, gentlemen!--but breathe no blessings--
Let not a blessing sweeten your dread prayers--
I wish no blessings--nor could bear their weight;
For I am left, I know not where or how:
But, pray for me--my soul is buried here.

(_Sinks down upon the body._)

MIDDLETON.

"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo's laurel bough!"

(_Solemn music._)

Dark Curtain.

FOOTNOTES:

[685] The inverted iron horns or tubes, a few of which still remain on
lamp-posts and gates, were formerly used as extinguishers to the torches
which were thrust into them.

INDEX TO THE NOTES.

affects, iii. 60
again, ii. 161
a-good, ii. 49
air of life, ii. 217
Albertus, i. 220.
Alcides' post, i. 105
a-life, iii. 175
Alleyn, Edward, ii. 6
Almain rutters, i. 112
amorous, i. 121
Antwerp, blockade of, i. 217
aphorisms, i. 213
appointed, ii. 190
approve, iii. 263
Aquarius, iii. 279
_Arden of Feversham_, quoted, ii. 89
argins, i. 149
Ariosto, incident taken from, i. 177
artier, i. 45
axes, iii. 255
azur'd, i. 276

bable, iii. 299
Badgeth, i. 115
baiting, iii. 99
ballace, ii. 335
bandy, ii. 125
Banks' horse, iii. 232
Barabas' nose, ii. 47
basilisks, i. 67
bassoes, i. 48
bastones, i. 57
bevers, i. 246
bezzling, iii. 247
bid a base, ii. 191
bill, i. 213
bird-bolt, iii. 96
blazing star, iii. 225
block, iii. 226
blubbered, i. 85
bombards, ii. 105
border, iii. 129
boss, i. 62
Boulogne, taking of, iii. 224
Bourne, Vincent, his _Cantatrices_, iii. 238
bousing-glass, iii. 247
brave, i. 21
braves, ii. 175
Brest, expedition against, iii. 239
Britainy, ii. 10
bugs, i. 164
bullets wrapt in fire, ii. 40
burn, iii. 234
by, ii. 14

Cadiz, expedition against, iii. 48
carbonadoes, i. 79
case, i. 246
cast, ii. 165
Catullus imitated, iii. 89
catzery, ii. 89
cavaliero, i. 141
cazzo, ii. 75
centronel, ii. 328
champion, i. 32
channel (collar-bone), i. 125
channel (gutter), ii. 127
cleapt