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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 10

Note 343 — ACTUS I, SCÆNA 1.

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Perhaps we ought to read Now he returns, and not Now he retires; but both the old copies are uniform in favour of retires.—Collier. [Retire may be right, as it is justifiable to interpret it in its original sense of draw back, in which it is almost equivalent to return.]

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