Alice. Mosbie, you know, who’s master of my heart,

He well may be the master of the house. 640

640

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I. i. 4. Patents; the plural is always used in A, cf. Richard II. II. i. 202; II. iii. 130.

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I. i. 14. Contrast Holinshed:—‘He, i.e. Arden, was contented to wink at her filthy disorder,’ and Wardmote Book:—‘All which things the said Ardern did well know and wilfully did permit and suffer the same.’ He was afraid to offend Lord North, ‘father-in-law unto Alice Ardern,’ whose servant Mosbie had been. This North was the father of the translator of Plutarch.

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I. i. 15. Pass; so Bullen for past, A, B, C.

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I. i. 25. Botcher, is not ‘butcher,’ but a mender of old clothes.

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I. i. 48. Jealous: spelt jelyouse, and pronounced so throughout the play.

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I. i. 60. The reference is to Ovid’s Elegy, ‘Ad Auroram ne properet.’—Amor. i. 13.

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Ad Auroram ne properet

I. i. 61. Most editions reject often. If we retain it the line is an Alexandrine. Cf. i. 153, 167, 238, 479; III. v. 73, etc.

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