rmerly far more
numerous. A waxen figure of the deceased, dressed in the habit worn
whilst living, was, in the case of any royal or notable personage,
very frequently carried as part of the torchlight funeral procession
and, after the obsequies, left over the grave to serve as a kind of
temporary monument.

+ACT III: Scene iii+

p. 366 _drink up the Sun._ i.e. carouse till dawn.

+ACT IV: Scene iii+

p. 379 _a Back like an Elephant--'twill bear a Castle._ Dr. Aldis
Wright, in his notes on _Twelfth Night_, draws attention to the fact
that the celebrated 'Elephant and Castle,' at Newington, in the south
suburbs of London, can be traced back to the middle of the seventeenth
century.

p. 380 _Old Queen Gwiniver._ For 'Queen Gwiniver' applied as a term of
abuse to an old woman cf. Dekker's _Satiromastix, or, The Untrussing
of the Humorous Poet_ (4to 1602), III, i, where Tucca rallying
Mistress Miniver cries: 'Now, now, mother Bunch, how dost thou? what,
dost frowne, Queen Gwyniver, dost wrinckle?' The reference is, of
course, to Arthur's queen.

+ACT V: Scene iii+

p. 390 _Ha! what do I see?_ cf. The incident in _The Plain Dealer_,
IV, ii, of which there are obvious reminiscences here. Olivia, making
love to Fidelia, who is dressed as a boy, is surprised by Vernish.
Olivia runs out, and he discovering the supposed lad to be a woman
proceeds to turn the tables on his spouse.

+ACT V: Scene iv+

p. 394 _this Tour._ cf. 'your false Towers', _The False Count_, I, ii
(Vol. III, p. 116), and note on that passage (p. 480).

p. 394 _Fontange._ A 'fontange' was a bow of ribbons, so called from
the celebrated Madame de Fontanges. Her hair coming down during a
hunting-party at Vincennes, she tied it up hastily with one of her
garters. Louis XIV, whose mistress she was, so admired the result that
he begged her to continue to wear her hair in the same way. This set
the fashion, which soon spread into England and long remained popular.
cf. Shadwell's _Bury Fair_ (1689), II, ii: '_Milliner._ What d'ye
lack, Ladies? fine Mazarine hoods, fontanges, girdles, sable tippets?'

p. 394 _Coventry-Blue._ A kind of blue thread manufactured at Coventry
and formerly much used for embroidery, &c. cf. Greene's _James IV_
(1592), IV, iii, where Slipper ordering a doublet cries: 'Edge me the
sleeves with Coventry blue.' Ben Jonson, _Gipsies Metamorph._ (1621),
speaks