Note 221 — NOTE ON SYMBOLS (continued 2)
Reading edition
1 Troublesome Raign, sc. xiii. 131 (s.d.), ‘There the fiue Moones appeare’. The Bastard casts up his eyes ‘to heauen’ (130) at the sight, and the moons are in ‘the skie’ (163), but the episode follows immediately after the coronation which is certainly in ‘the presence’ (81). Perhaps this is why in K. J., IV. ii. 181, the appearance of the moons is only narrated.