bryny waves made cleane for heaven."

[73] This and the eight following lines appear to be marked for omission
in the MS.

[74] This line is scored through in the MS.

[75] This line is scored through in the MS.

[76] The words "Some faggotts ... cloathes" are scored through in the MS.

[77] "Monthes mind" = strong desire.

[78] So the MS. But I am tempted to read, at Mr. Fleay's suggestion,
"steeples."

[79] Cf. _Rudens_, ii. 1:--

"Cibum captamus e mari: sin eventus non venit,
Neque quidquam captum est piscium, salsi lautique pure,
Domum redimus clanculum, dormimus incoenati."

[80] The words "hence we may ... wretched lyfe" are scored through in
the MS.

[81] In the MS. the words "whither his frend travelled" are scored
through.

[82] In the MS. follow some words that have been cancelled:--"Only,
for ought I can perceive all to no purpose, but understand of no such
people. But what are these things that have slipt us? No countrie shall
slippe me."

[83] "Salvete, fures maritimi." _Rudens_, ii. 2.

[84] Honest.

[85] "_Trach_. Ecquem
Recalvum ac silonem senem, statutum, ventriosum,
Tortis superciliis, contracta fronte, fraudulentum,
Deorum odium atque hominum, malum, mali vitii probrique plenum,
Qui duceret mulierculas duas secum, satis venustas?

_Pisc_. Cum istiusmodi virtutibus operisque natus qui sit,
Eum quidem ad carnificem est aequius quam ad Venerem
commeare."--_Rudens_, ii. 2.

[86] See the Introduction.

[87] In the MS. follow some cancelled words:--"Il fyrst in and see her
bycause I will bee suer tis shee. Oh, _Mercury_, that I had thy winges
tyde to my heeles."

[88] "Who ever lov'd," &c.--A well-known line from Marlowe's _Hero and
Leander_.

[89] There is no stage-direction in the MS.

[90] Adulterous.--So Heywood in _The English Traveller_, iii. 1,--
"Pollute the Nuptiall bed with _Michall_ [i.e. mechal] sinne." Again
in Heywood's _Rape of Lucreece_, "Men call in witness of your _mechall_
sin."

[91] This speech is scored through in the MS.

[92] "Whytinge mopp" = young whiting. The term was often applied to a
girl. See Nares' _Glossary_.

[93] In the MS. follow two lines that have been scored through:--

"And not deteine, for feare t'bee to my cost,
Though both my kisse and all my paynes be lost."

[94] _Widgeon_ (like _woodcock_) is a term for a simpleton.

[95] In the MS. follow two l