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music was cut out of the prompt-book, which may
account for the displacement of the entry.
31. Did challenge (F) Q, (+Camb.) 'Had chal-
lenged'.
32. warring (Q) F 'iarring'—perh. a misreading
(Sisson).
33-6. To stand.. .helm P From Q; F om.
33. dread-bolted Theob.'s hyphen.
35. lightning? To (Theob., subs.) Q'lightning to \
35-6. To watch...helm Alluding to the most
hazardous & exposed mil. duty of Sh.'s day. See G.
'perdu', 'watch', 'thin'—all quibbles, thin helm=bare
or bald head; cf. M.N.D. 2. 1. 109, 'old Hiems' thin
and icy crown', watch...perdu!— (Warb., subs.) Q
'watch poore Per du,\
36. helm? Mine (<Q 2) Q r 'helme mine'.
enemy's (Pope+Camb.) F 'enemies', Q 'Iniurious*
(?misreading of'enimies'), Cap., Rid. 'insurer's'.
38-40. wast thou fain...straw Cf. Introd. p. xxi.
39. rogues i.e. vagabonds. Cf. 'roguish', 3. 7. 103.
40. short sc. giving no warmth. 42. <z//=en.-
tirely.
43. sp.-hdg. <£>; F 'Gen.'.
46-8. I...lead. 'Lear thinks he is in hell; ...the
torments of the wheel of fire' being 'traditional in the
med. legends and visions of Hell and Purgatory',
derived from the New Test. Apocrypha (Muir <H.W.
Crundell). Cf. Introd. p. xxii.
47. that=so that.
49. when (Q 2) Q, F 'where'. Q 2 was read by
Camb. and most 19 c. edd. exc. Coll. & Schmidt, while
Dyce (Remarks (1844), p. 231) found F 'all but non-
sense', to wh. Coll. replied: 'It may appear to others no
greater nonsense to ask a spirit " Where did you die?"
than " When did you die ?". He is, as Cord, says,'' Still,
still, far wide!". G.I.D. (1949) quoting this, restored F