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220 NOTES 3.5.
mild a term for such iniquity and must refer to patricide,
or rather to the wicked ambitions or designs which
prompted ('set awork') the idea of patricide. We para-
phrase: I can see now that Edg. was provoked to seek
Glo.'s death not merely by his own evil character but by
a good impulse prompted by viciousness, in itself (>'in
himself) blameworthy.
I O - I I . must...just=must feel remorse at doing
right.
letter he (Q+Camb.) F 'Letter which hee', prob.
antic, 'which' three words ahead.
13. not— (G.I.D.) F'not;' Most edd. 'not,'.
19-20. that he may...apprehension i.e. that we may
be able to lay hands on him when we want to.
21. Theob's aside, comforting see G.
22. stuff...fully =make him more likely to be sus-
pected (of being a French agent). S.D. (G.I.D.) Q,
F om.
26. dearer (Q+) F 'deere'. S.D. F 'Exeunt.',
Q 'Exit.'.
3.6

S.D. Loc. (Mai., subs.) Cap. 'A room in some of the
out-buildings of the Castle'. Entry <F 'Enter Kent,
and Gloucester.'. Q has 'Enter Gloster and Lear,
Kent, Foole, and Tom.'; and most edd. follow. Cf. 1. 5,
S.D., n.
4. have Plur. by attraction of'wits'.
5. impatience see G. S.D. (i) <F 'Exit' at 1. 3);
(
Cap. placed here, (ii) (F) Cf. head-note.
6-j. Frateretto...darkness Just after the first mention
of Frateretto in Harsnett, a fiddler comes in to provide
music in hell (and the phrases 'Stygian lake' and
'Caesar's humour' occur in the same context). Thus
was Nero suggested to Sh.; but Budd shows [R.E.S.
xi (1935), 421-9] that the idea of Nero fishing he