The Jew of Malta
       (after which words the modern editors improperly retain the interrogation-point of the first folio).]     

  

       96 (return) [ Lodovico: Old ed.       "Lodowicke."]     

  

       97 (return) [ These arms of mine shall be thy sepulchre: So in Shakespeare's THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI., act ii. sc. 5, the Father says to the dead Son whom he has killed in battle,     

     "THESE ARMS OF MINE shall be thy winding-sheet; My heart, sweet boy, SHALL BE THY SEPULCHRE,"— 

       lines, let me add, not to be found in THE TRUE TRAGEDIE OF RICHARD DUKE OF YORKE, on which Shakespeare formed that play.]     

  

       98 (return) [ Katharine: Old ed.       "Katherina."]     

  

       99 (return) [ Enter ITHAMORE: The scene a room in the house of Barabas.]     

  

       100 (return) [ held in hand: i.e. kept in expectation, having their hopes flattered.]     

  

       101 (return) [ bottle-nosed: See note       |, p. 157. [i.e. note 79.]]     

  

       102 (return) [ Jaques: Old ed.       "Iaynes."]     

  

       103 (return) [ sire: Old ed. "sinne"       (which, modernised to "sin", the editors retain, among many other equally obvious errors of the old copy).]     

  


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