89 (return) [ thou: Old ed. "thee."]     

  

       90 (return) [ resolv'd: "i.e. satisfied." GILCHRIST (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]     

  

       91 (return) [ Enter BELLAMIRA: She appears, we may suppose, in a veranda or open portico of her house (that the scene is not the interior of the house, is proved by what follows).]     

  

       92 (return) [ Enter MATHIAS. MATHIAS. This is the place, &c.: The scene is some pert of the town, as Barabas appears "ABOVE,"—in the balcony of a house. (He stood, of course, on what was termed the upper-stage.)     

       Old ed. thus;     

     "Enter MATHIAS. 

       Math. This is the place, now Abigail shall see Whether Mathias holds her deare or no.     

      Enter Lodow. reading. 

       Math. What, dares the villain write in such base terms?     

       Lod. I did it, and reuenge it if thou dar'st."]     

  

       93 (return) [ Lodovico: Old ed.       "Lodowicke."—See note *, p. 158. (i.e. note 85.)]     

  

       94 (return) [ tall: i.e. bold, brave.]     

  

       95 (return) [ What sight is this!: i.e. What A sight is this! Our early writers often omit the article in such exclamations: compare Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR, act i. sc. 3, where Casca says,     

     "Cassius, WHAT NIGHT IS THIS!" 

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