V, ii, 40. _made no hornes at me_--to “make horns” at any one was the common method of taunting one with having horns,--i. e., with being a cuckold.
V, ii, 51. _made vp with_--set with the expression of.
V, iii, 8.--Charmi’s speech is addressed to Charalois, as is that of Du Croy which follows it.
V, iii, 18 ff.--M., f. insert _when_ after _that_ of l. 18. This is probably the correct reading. It would be possible, however, to let the line stand without alteration, if the _that_ of l. 20 be taken as coordinate with the _that_ of l. 18, introducing a second clause depending on _am sorry_ (instead of correlative with _so_ to introduce a result-clause). With this reading, _left_ (l. 22) would be taken as an ellipsis for _being left_; with the emended reading, for _was left_. Though the construction is in doubt, the sense is easy.
V, iii, 22. _vndermine_--an object, _it_, is understood,--i. e., _the building of my life_.
V, iii, 34. _her--its_ was rare in Elizabethan usage. Cf. Abbott, S. G., §§ 228, 229.
V, iii, 46. _compassion of_--former obsolete construction for “compassion for.” Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry VI, Part I_, IV, i, 56; “Mov’d with compassion of my country’s wreck.”
V, iii, 59. _motion_--C., f. read _motion’s_,--an uncalled-for emendation, since ellipsis of _is_ was not infrequent. Cf. Shakespeare, _Henry V_, IV, i, 197: “’Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill [is] upon his own head.”
V, iii, 93. _and yet the fault kept from me_--loose construction, not easily parsed, though the sense is clear.
V, iii, 98. _As ... to vndergoe_--again a loose construction. It should be, properly: _That ... he would undergo_, etc.
V, iii, 107-9. _like the fatall gold_, etc.--In this passage the two leaders of the Gauls known to history by the same name appear to be confounded--(1): Brennus, who sacked Rome in 390 B. C., and consented to withdraw after receiving a large ransom of gold;--and (2): Brennus, who led the irruption of the Gauls into Greece in the second century B. C., and attempted to despoil Delphi of its treasure, but did not succeed in doing so. The fact that their respective expeditions are said to have borne an immediate sequel of disaster and death for both alike, may be responsible for the dramatist’s mistake.
