The Jew of Malta
       80 (return) [ Ure: i.e. use, practice.]     

  

       81 (return) [ a-good: "i.e. in good earnest. Tout de bon." REED (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]     

  

       82 (return) [ Enter LODOWICK: A change of scene supposed here,—to the outside of Barabas's house.]     

  

       83 (return) [ vow love to him: Old ed.       "vow TO LOUE him": but compare, in Barabas's next speech but one, "And she VOWS LOVE TO HIM," &c.]     

  

       84 (return) [ made sure: i.e. affianced.]     

  

       85 (return) [ Ludovico: Old ed.       "Lodowicke."—In act iii. we have,     

     "I fear she knows—'tis so—of my device In Don Mathias' and LODOVICO'S deaths."  p. 162, sec. col.] 

  

       86 (return) [ happily: i.e. haply.]     

  

       87 (return) [ unsoil'd: "Perhaps we ought to read 'unfoil'd', consistently with what Barabas said of her before under the figure of a jewel—     

       'The diamond that I talk of NE'ER WAS FOIL'D'." COLLIER (apud Dodsley's O. P.). But see that passage, p. 155, sec. col., and note ||. [i.e. note 70.]] 

  

       88 (return) [ cross: i.e. piece of money (many coins being marked with a cross on one side).]     

  


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