Note 302 — ACT V.
Reading edition
Mr Malone was usually very accurate in his quotations; but in this line he made a singular mistake (edition of Shakespeare, 1821, iii. 108), where, referring to the play, he cites thus:—
"Well done, Balthazar, hang up the tilt"—instead of "hang up the title." He thus lost a material passage, to show that of old a board was hung up on the stage with the title and scene of the piece—
"Hang up the title; Our scene is Rhodes."
So also in "Wily Beguil'd" 1606—
"Prologue. How now, my honest rogue, what play shall we have here to-night?
Player. Sir, you may look upon the title.
Prologue. What, 'Spectrum' once again?"
The title of "Spectrum" is afterwards removed by the sleight of hand of a juggler, and "Wily Beguil'd" substituted for it.—Collier.