The Jew of Malta
       121 (return) [ convers'd with me: She alludes to her conversation with Jacomo, p. 162, sec. col.     

      (p. 162, second column, this play:      "ABIGAIL. Welcome, grave friar.—Ithamore, be gone. Exit ITHAMORE. Know, holy sir, I am bold to solicit thee. FRIAR JACOMO. Wherein?")] 

  

       122 (return) [ envied: i.e. hated.]     

  

       123 (return) [ practice: i.e. artful contrivance, stratagem.]     

  

       124 (return) [ crucified a child: A crime with which the Jews were often charged. "Tovey, in his ANGLIA JUDAICA, has given the several instances which are upon record of these charges against the Jews; which he observes they were never accused of, but at such times as the king was manifestly in great want of money." REED       (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]     

  

       125 (return) [ Enter BARABAS, &c.:       Scene a street.]     

  

       126 (return) [ to: Which the Editor of 1826 deliberately altered to "like," means—compared to, in comparison of.]     

  

       127 (return) [ Cazzo: Old ed. "catho."—See Florio's WORLDE OF WORDES (Ital. and Engl. Dict.) ed. 1598, in v.—"A petty oath, a cant exclamation, generally expressive, among the Italian populace, who have it constantly in their mouth, of defiance or contempt."       Gifford's note on Jonson's WORKS, ii. 48.]     

  

       128 (return) [ nose: See note |, p. 157. [i.e. note 79.]]     

  

       129 (return) [ inmate: Old ed.       "inmates."]     


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