104 (return) [ As: Old ed. "And."]     

  

       105 (return) [ Enter BARABAS: The scene is still within the house of Barabas; but some time is supposed to have elapsed since the preceding conference between Abigail and Friar Jacomo.]     

  

       106 (return) [ pretendeth: Equivalent to PORTENDETH; as in our author's FIRST BOOK OF LUCAN, "And which (ay me)       ever PRETENDETH ill," &c.]     

  

       107 (return) [ self: Old ed. "life"       (the compositor's eye having caught "life" in the preceding line).]     

  

       108 (return) [ 'less: Old ed.       "least."]     

  

       109 (return) [ Well said: See note *, p. 69.]     

      (note *, p. 69, The Second Part of Tamburlaine the Great:      "* Well said: Equivalent to—Well done! as appears from innumerable passages of our early writers:  see, for instances, my ed. of Beaumont and Fletcher's WORKS, vol. i. 328, vol. ii. 445, vol. viii. 254.")] 

  

       110 (return) [ the proverb says, &c.:       A proverb as old as Chaucer's time: see the SQUIERES TALE, v. 10916, ed. Tyrwhitt.]     

  

       111 (return) [ batten: i.e. fatten.]     

  

       112 (return) [ pot: Old ed. "plot."]     

  

       113 (return) [ thou shalt have broth by the eye: "Perhaps he means—thou shalt SEE how the broth that is designed for thee is made, that no mischievous ingredients enter its composition. The passage is, however, obscure." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).—"BY THE EYE" seems to be equivalent to—in abundance. Compare THE CREED of Piers Ploughman:     

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