Note 1021 — SCENE III.
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bedfellow] It was formerly common for men (even those of the highest rank) to sleep together; and the custom was still prevalent in the time of Cromwell: see the notes of Steevens and Malone on Shakespeare’s Henry V. act ii. sc. 2; and Clarendon’s Hist. of the Rebellion, vol. vii. p. 34, ed. 1826.