he Muses, &c., who are not
present.]

[72] [Old copy, _Den_.]

[73] [Alluding to the blindness of puppies.]

[74] [Man.]

[75] [Old copy, _skibbered_.]

[76] [i.e., my very mate.]

[77] [In old copy this line is given to Phantasma.]

[78] [i.e., _face_. Old copy, _race_.]

[79] [Rent or distracted. A play is intended on the double meaning of
the word.]

[80] [So in the old copy, being an abbreviation, _rhythmi causa_, of
Philomusus.]

[81] [Old copy, _Mossy_; but in the margin is printed _Most like_, as if
it was an afterthought, and the correction had been stamped in.]

[82] [Old copy, _playing_.]

[83] _No_ omitted.

[84] [This is the old mythological tradition inverted.]

[85] The bishop's examining chaplain, so called from apposer. In a will
of James I.'s reign, the curate of a parish is to appose the children of
a charity-school. The term _poser_ is still retained in the schools at
[St Paul's,] Winchester and Eton. Two Fellows are annually deputed by
the Society of New College in Oxford and King's College in Cambridge to
appose or try the abilities of the boys who are to be sped to the
fellowships that shall become vacant in the ensuing year.

[86] [The old copy gives this to the next act and scene; but Amoretto
seems to offer the remark in immediate allusion to what has just passed.
After all, the alteration is not very vital, as, although a new act and
scene are marked, Academico and Amoretto probably remain on the stage.]

[87] Good.

[88] [Old copy, _caches_. A _rache_ is a dog that hunts by scent wild
beasts, birds, and even fishes; the female is called a _brache_.]

[89] [See Halliwell's "Dictionary," i. 115.]

[90] [He refers to Amoretto himself.]

[91] [Halliwell, in his "Dictionary," _v. rheum (s.)_, defines it to
mean _spleen, caprice_. He does not cite it as a verb. I suppose the
sense here to be _ruminating_.]

[92] Old copy, _ravished_.

[93] [A play on _personage_ and _parsonage_, which were formerly
interchangeable terms, as both had originally one signification.]

[94] [Queen Elizabeth was born September 7, 1533; not her birthday,
therefore, but her accession (17th November 1558), at the death of her
sister Mary, is referred to by Immerito and Sir Raderic. Elizabeth died
March 24, 1602-3. Inasmuch as there is this special reference in "The
Return from Parnassus" to the Queen's day, and not to King James's day,
we have a certain evidence that the play was written by or