FOOTNOTES:
Reading edition
1 (return) [ Malfi. The presence-chamber in the palace of the Duchess.]
2 (return) [ Prevent.]
3 (return) [ The same.]
4 (return) [ The reference is to the knightly sport of riding at the ring.]
5 (return) [ At the expense of.]
6 (return) [ Rolls of lint used to dress wounds.]
7 (return) [ Surgeons.]
8 (return) [ A small horse.]
9 (return) [ Ballasted.]
10 (return) [ A lively dance.]
11 (return) [ Throws into the shade.]
12 (return) [ At the point of.]
13 (return) [ Coaches.]
14 (return) [ Spy.]
15 (return) [ Cheats.]
16 (return) [ Spy.]
17 (return) [ Malfi. Gallery in the Duchess' palace.]
18 (return) [ Lustful.]
19 (return) [ Genesis xxxi., 31-42.]
20 (return) [ The net in which he caught Venus and Mars.]
21 (return) [ Housekeepers.]
22 (return) [ Produced.]
23 (return) [ Qq. read STRANGE.]
24 (return) [ Guess.]
25 (return) [ The phrase used to indicate that accounts had been examined and found correct.]
26 (return) [ Using words of present time; i.e., "I take," not "I will take."]
27 (return) [ Knot.]
28 (return) [ More firmly.]
29 (return) [ Of difficult disposition.]
30 (return) [ Malfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.]
31 (return) [ Chief part.]
32 (return) [ Bullies (Hazlitt); lawyers (Vaughan).]
33 (return) [ Royal journey.]
34 (return) [ Turning a boat on its side for repairs.]
35 (return) [ Scabbed.]
36 (return) [ Empty.]
37 (return) [ Face-modeling (Sampson). "There's a plain statement of your practises."]
38 (return) [ Blue like those of a woman with child.]
39 (return) [ Scurf.]
40 (return) [ Person of highest influence.]
41 (return) [ Hysteria.]
42 (return) [ This year.]
43 (return) [ Clearly.]
44 (return) [ Youngster.]
45 (return) [ A hall in the same palace.]
46 (return) [ Crossness.]
47 (return) [ Always.]
48 (return) [ The meaner servants.]
49 (return) [ At once.]
50 (return) [ Cast his horoscope.]
51 (return) [ The court of the same palace.]
52 (return) [ Making an astrological calculation.]
53 (return) [ Going to the root of the matter.]
54 (return) [ Write.]
55 (return) [ i.e., on his handkerchief.]
56 (return) [ Addressing the lantern.]
57 (return) [ "The rest not considered."]
58 (return) [ A piece of news.]
59 (return) [ Cleverly contrived.]
60 (return) [ Rome. An apartment in the palace of the Cardinal.]
61 (return) [ Religious recluse.]
62 (return) [ Experienced.]
63 (return) [ Sick.]
64 (return) [ Medicinal.]
65 (return) [ Strong broth.]
66 (return) [ Another apartment in the same palace.]
67 (return) [ The mandrake was supposed to give forth shrieks when uprooted, which drove the hearer mad.]
68 (return) [ Unchaste.]
69 (return) [ Supposed to be a sign of folly.]
70 (return) [ Throw the hammer.]
71 (return) [ Boil to shreds. (Dyce.) Qq, TO BOIL.]
72 (return) [ Malfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.]
73 (return) [ Wealth.]
74 (return) [ Lampoons.]
75 (return) [ Plowshares.]
76 (return) [ Spying.]
77 (return) [ Deceptions.]
78 (return) [ Soothing.]
79 (return) [ The bed-chamber of the Duchess in the same.]
80 (return) [ Qq. read SLIGHT.]
81 (return) [ Powder of orris-root.]
82 (return) [ Wheels of craft.]
83 (return) [ Certificate that the books were found correct.]
84 (return) [ The badge of a steward.]
85 (return) [ Spies.]
86 (return) [ Lot.]
87 (return) [ For Plutus.]
88 (return) [ Quick steps.]
89 (return) [ Miss.]
90 (return) [ Remains.]
91 (return) [ Profession.]
92 (return) [ An apartment in the Cardinal's palace at Rome.]
93 (return) [ A decorated horse-cloth, used only when the court is traveling.]
94 (return) [ The first quarto has in the margin: "The Author disclaims this Ditty to be his."]
95 (return) [ Near Loretto.]
96 (return) [ Small birds.]
97 (return) [ His vizard.]
98 (return) [ Malfi. An apartment in the palace of the Duchess.]
99 (return) [ Curtain.]
100 (return) [ The wife of Brutus, who died by swallowing fire.]
101 (return) [ By artificial means.]
102 (return) [ Profession.]
103 (return) [ Spying.]
104 (return) [ Another room in the lodging of the Duchess.]
105 (return) [ Band.]
106 (return) [ Bands.]
107 (return) [ Boil.]
108 (return) [ Punning on the two senses of "dye" and "corn."]
109 (return) [ From exporting his grain.]
110 (return) [ Optical glass.]
111 (return) [ The Geneva Bible.]
112 (return) [ Petticoat.]
113 (return) [ Coach.]
114 (return) [ A warm drink containing milk, wine, etc.]
115 (return) [ Receptacle.]
116 (return) [ A drug supposed to ooze from embalmed bodies.]
117 (return) [ Curdled.]
118 (return) [ Trial.]
119 (return) [ An exclamation of impatience.]
120 (return) [ Milan. A public place.]
121 (return) [ In escheat; here, in fee.]
122 (return) [ Disbeliever.]
123 (return) [ Fraught.]
124 (return) [ A gallery in the residence of the Cardinal and Ferdinand.]
125 (return) [ A dog which worries sheep.]
126 (return) [ A fabulous serpent that killed by its glance.]
127 (return) [ Cut a caper.]
128 (return) [ Broth.]
129 (return) [ Skeletons.]
130 (return) [ So Dyce. Qq. BROUGHT.]
131 (return) [ Perfumed sweetmeats for the breath.]
132 (return) [ Smoke.]
133 (return) [ A fortification.]
134 (return) [ Milan. An apartment in the residence of the Cardinal and Ferdinand.]
135 (return) [ Reality.]
136 (return) [ Mistake.]
137 (return) [ i.e., the dead body.]
138 (return) [ Another apartment in the same.
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Transcriber's Note:
Comments on the preparation of this e-text:
All of the footnotes have been re-numbered, in the form [xxx].
A few punctuation marks have been added. These are always set off by angle brackets. Eg. [?]
The names of the characters have been spelled out in full. Eg. CARDINAL was CARD.
Leading blanks are reproduced from the printed text. Eg.:
FERDINAND. Sister, I have a suit to you. DUCHESS. To me, sir?