pieces, carrying away a part of the Stocado and of the bridge. The marquesse of Roubay Vicont of Gant, Gaspar of Robles lord of Billy, and the Seignior of Torchies, brother vnto the Seignior of Bours, with many others, were presently slaine; which were torne in pieces, and dispersed abroad, both vpon the land and vpon the water."  Grimeston's GENERALL HISTORIE OF THE NETHERLANDS, p. 875, ed. 1609.] 

 

 30 (return) [ only— Qy. "alone"?  (This line is not in the later 4tos.)] 

 

 31 (return) [ vile— Old ed. "vild":  but see note ||, p. 68.—(This line is not in the later 4tos.) 

    [Note || from page 68 (The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great):]       Vile— The 8vo "Vild"; the 4to "Wild" (Both eds. a little before, have "VILE monster, born of some infernal hag", and, a few lines after, "To VILE and ignominious servitude":—the fact is, our early writers (or rather transcribers), with their usual inconsistency of spelling, give now the one form, and now the other:  compare the folio SHAKESPEARE, 1623, where we sometimes find "vild" and sometimes "VILE.")—] 

 

 32 (return) [ concise syllogisms— Old ed. "Consissylogismes."] 

 

 33 (return) [ cunning— i.e. knowing, skilful.] 

 

 34 (return) [ Agrippa— i.e. Cornelius Agrippa.] 

 

 35 (return) [ shadow— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "shadowes."] 

 

 36 (return) [ spirits— So the later 4tos.—2to 1604 "subiects."] 

 

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