LINENOTES:

_Thunder . . . Tamyra_. A has: _Intrat umbra Comolet to the Countesse, wrapt in a canapie._

1-6 _Up . . . not study_. Omitted in A, which has instead:--

Revive those stupid thoughts, and sit not thus, Gathering the horrors of your servants slaughter (So urg'd by your hand, and so imminent) Into an idle fancie; but devise.

9 _revenged_. A, engaged.

14 _t'have_. A; B, have.

15-22 _It is . . . opens_. Omitted in A, which has instead:--

_Umb._ Tis the just curse of our abus'd creation, Which wee must suffer heere, and scape heereafter: He hath the great mind that submits to all He sees inevitable; he the small That carps at earth, and her foundation shaker, And rather than himselfe, will mend his maker.

16 _Your . . . friend_. In B ends preceding line.

_Enter . . . above_. A omits.

30 _To_. Some copies of B have T.

33-36 _If I . . . and ready_. A omits.

41 _Why . . . villains_? A omits.

_Enter . . . dore_. A omits.

_all but the first_. A omits.

53 Qq punctuate wrongly:--_Where is that angry Earle my lord? Come forth._

_all the murtherers_. A, others.

_D'Ambois . . . downe_. A omits.

_Pistolls shot within._ Inserted before 72 in B; A omits.

90-93 _And if . . . groomes_. A omits.

_She offers to help him._ Inserted before 95 in B. A omits.

119 _Now_. A, And.

135 _in_. A, gainst.

136 _drifts of_. A, endless.

146 _struck_. Emend. ed.; Qq, stuck.

_Moritur_. A omits.

147-153 _Farewell . . . humanity_. These lines are placed by A at the close of the Scene, and are preceded by three lines which B omits:--

My terrors are strook inward, and no more My pennance will allow they shall enforce Earthly afflictions but upon my selfe.

147 _reliques_. A, relicts.

149 _Joine flames with Hercules_. So in A; B, Jove flames with her rules.

151 _chrystall_. A, continent.

154 _Son . . . soule_. Before this line B has _Frier_.

155 _Rues . . . heaven_. After this line A inserts:--

Since thy revengefull spirit hath rejected The charitie it commands, and the remission To serve and worship the blind rage of bloud.

163 _kneeling_. A, sitting.

173 _No place . . . compriseth_. After this line A inserts:--

My soule more scruple breeds than my bloud sinne, Vertue imposeth more than any stepdame.

186-187 _Come . . . plaints_. A omits.

192 [_are_]. Added by Dilke; Qq omit.

196 _enterd_. A; B, enterr'd.

201 _a_. A omits.

EPILOGUE

With many hands you have seene D'Ambois slaine; Yet by your grace he may revive againe, And every day grow stronger in his skill To please, as we presume he is in will.

The best deserving actors of the time 5 Had their ascents, and by degrees did clime To their full height, a place to studie due.

To make him tread in their path lies in you; Hee'le not forget his makers, but still prove His thankfulnesse, as you encrease your love. 10

_FINIS._

LINENOTES:

_Epilogue_ Not found in A.