46 (return) [ sect: "i.e. sex. SECT and SEX were, in our ancient dramatic writers, used synonymously." REED (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]     

  

       47 (return) [ Enter FRIAR JACOMO, &c.:       Old ed. "Enter three Fryars and two Nuns:" but assuredly only TWO Friars figure in this play.]     

  

       48 (return) [ Abb.: In the old ed. the prefix to this speech is "1 Nun," and to the next speech but one "Nun."       That both speeches belong to the Abbess is quite evident.]     

  

       49 (return) [ Sometimes: Equivalent here (as frequently in our early writers) to—Sometime.]     

  

       50 (return) [ forgive me—: Old ed. "GIUE me—"]     

  

       51 (return) [ thus: After this word the old ed. has "|",—to signify, perhaps, the motion which Barabas was to make here with his hand.]     

  

       52 (return) [ forget not: Qy. "forget IT not"]     

  

       53 (return) [ Enter BARABAS, with a light: The scene is now before the house of Barabas, which has been turned into a nunnery.]     

  

       54 (return) [ Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak Mr. Collier (HIST. OF ENG. DRAM. POET. iii. 136) remarks that these lines are cited (with some variation, and from memory, as the present play was not printed till 1633) in an epigram on T. Deloney, in Guilpin's SKIALETHEIA OR THE SHADOWE OF TRUTH, 1598,—     

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