Note 656 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
give fire too suddenly to the Roaring Meg of my desires] A metaphor drawn from the celebrated gun, which Churchyard thus mentions in his Siege of Edenbrough Castell;
“With thondryng noyes was shot of roeryng Meg,
And throw the thickst she thompt orethawrt the waies,” &c.
fol. 94—Chippes, ed. 1575.