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'evil spirits', while the collator may well have misread
'spurres' as 'spirits' in the playhouse copy and so mis-
corrected the Q (see G.I.D.'s 1949 ed. p. 173). Muir
follows F on the ground that Sh. often links 'potent'
with 'spirit' elsewh., and Sisson (11, 232) agrees.
Furn. compares 'pregnant spurs' with 'pregnant
hinges' (Ham. 3. 2. 59).
77. 0strange (F) Q(+Camb.) 'Strong', strange^
unnatural, monstrous; with quibble on sense 'not be-
longing to me'. Cf. 'I never got [=begot] him' in 1.78
[1949 ed. pp. 138-9].
78. said'he? (F) Qom. I..Mm.(Q) Fom. Prob.
F comp. took collator's addition as a substitution. S.D.
F 'Tucket within.', after 'seek it' (1. 77). We place as
MaL 79. toiy(Q) F'wher'.
80. /0rAr=seaports. 85. S.D. (F).
87. strange news (Q) F 'strangenesse' (prob; mis-
reading).
90. it's (F) £> (+Camb.) 'is'.
95. tended (F) Q 'tends'. The '-ed' is elided after
2
the first'd'. Cf. Abbott §47 -
100. th'expense and waste (<F)=the power of
wastefully spending; Hendiadys; Qcorr. (+Camb.) 'the
wast and spoyle'; uncorr. 'these—and wast'. Cf. Greg,
Variants, pp. 15 5-6. revenue Accented'revenues'.
106. It was (F) Q (+Camb.) 'twas'.
111-12. Make...please, i.e. Plan his capture in your
own way, and 'make what use you like of my authority
and resources for that purpose' (Muir).
114. ours i.e. one of our retinue.
116. seize on Cf. 1. 1. 251, and G.
118. you? (Q,F) Most edd. (<Rowe) read 'you—'.
Adding her elaborate rhetoric to Corn.'s simple query,
Reg. indicates that he is second fiddle; but we need not
suppose that she interrupts him.
119. dark-eyed Quibble on the eye of a needle.