72 (return) [ plates: "i.e. pieces of silver money." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).—Old ed. "plats."]     

  

       73 (return) [ Slave: To the speeches of this Slave the old ed. prefixes "Itha." and "Ith.", confounding him with Ithamore.]     

  

       74 (return) [ Lady Vanity: So Jonson in his FOX, act ii. sc. 3.,     

     "Get you a cittern, LADY VANITY, And be a dealer with the virtuous man," &c.; 

       and in his DEVIL IS AN ASS, act i. sc. 1.,—     

     "SATAN. What Vice? PUG. Why, any:  Fraud, Or Covetousness, or LADY VANITY, Or old Iniquity."] 

  

       75 (return) [ Katharine: Old ed.       "MATER."—The name of Mathias's mother was, as we afterwards learn, Katharine.]     

  

       76 (return) [ stay: i.e. forbear, break off our conversation.]     

  

       77 (return) [ was: Qy. "was BUT"?]     

  

       78 (return) [ O, brave, master: The modern editors strike out the comma after "BRAVE", understanding that word as an epithet to "MASTER": but compare what Ithamore says to Barabas in act iv.: "That's BRAVE, MASTER," p. 165, first col.]     

  

       79 (return) [ your nose: An allusion to the large artificial nose, with which Barabas was represented on the stage. See the passage cited from W. Rowley's SEARCH FOR MONEY, 1609, in the ACCOUNT OF MARLOWE AND HIS WRITINGS.]     

  

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