e as to the Lungs? Who does me this?
Ha? Why I should take it: for it cannot be,
[Sidenote: Hah, s'wounds I]
But I am Pigeon-Liuer'd, and lacke Gall[11]
To make Oppression bitter, or ere this,
[Sidenote: 104] I should haue fatted all the Region Kites
[Sidenote: should a fatted]
With this Slaues Offall, bloudy: a Bawdy villaine,
[Sidenote: bloody, baudy]
Remorselesse,[12] Treacherous, Letcherous, kindles[13] villaine!
Oh Vengeance![14]
Who? What an Asse am I? I sure, this is most braue,
[Sidenote: Why what an Asse am I, this]
That I, the Sonne of the Deere murthered, [Sidenote: a deere]
Prompted to my Reuenge by Heauen, and Hell,
Must (like a Whore) vnpacke my heart with words,
And fall a Cursing like a very Drab,[15]
A Scullion? Fye vpon't: Foh. About my Braine.[16]
[Sidenote: a stallyon, | braines; hum,]

[Footnote 1: Here follows in 1st _Q_.

What would he do and if he had my losse?
His father murdred, and a Crowne bereft him,
[Sidenote: 174] He would turne all his teares to droppes of blood,
Amaze the standers by with his laments,

&c. &c.]

[Footnote 2: Speaking of the Player, he uses the player-word.]

[Footnote 3: _make pale_--appal.]

[Footnote 4: _the innocent_.]

[Footnote 5: _Mettle_ is spirit--rather in the sense of _animal-spirit_:
_mettlesome_--spirited, _as a horse_.]

[Footnote 6: '_unpossessed by_ my cause'.]

[Footnote 7: _personality, proper person_.]

[Footnote 8: _undoing, destruction_--from French _defaire_.]

[Footnote 9: In this mood he no more understands, and altogether doubts
himself, as he has previously come to doubt the world.]

[Footnote 10: _1st Q_. 'or twites my nose.']

[Footnote 11: It was supposed that pigeons had no gall--I presume from
their livers not tasting bitter like those of perhaps most birds.]

[Footnote 12: _pitiless_.]

[Footnote 13: _unnatural_.]

[Footnote 14: This line is not in the _Quarto_.]

[Footnote 15: Here in _Q._ the line runs on to include _Foh_. The next
line ends with _heard_.]

[Footnote 16: _Point thus_: 'About! my brain.' He apostrophizes his
brain, telling it to set to work.]

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I haue heard, that guilty Creatures sitting at a Play,
Haue by the very cunning of the Scoene,[1]
Bene strook