Note 67 — ACT III.
Reading edition
“Only a few ... than we do here.”—This is one of the passages that gave offence and procured the author’s imprisonment. It is found only in a few copies. Englishmen were disgusted at the favours lavished by James on the needy Scots who swarmed southwards “with pride and hungry hopes completely arm’d.” See Jesse’s Court of England under the Stuarts, ed. 1855, i. 52-3.