Note 330 — ACT V.
Reading edition
Old eds. “Like Missermis cheating of the brack.” The editor of 1820 reads “Like Missermis cheating of the brach,” and to the word brach appends a note, “i.e., the bitch;” but who was Missermis and what the bitch? Every reader of Herodotus (and every reader of Matthew Arnold) will remember how Mycerinus cheated the oracle by turning the day into the night. Six thousand years ago the torches flared in Mycerinus’ palace; and I saw his bones this afternoon at Bloomsbury!