Note 1032 — SCENE III.
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as late our graceless dames] The allusion here is probably to the execution of Sir Everard Digby, who, for his share in the gunpowder plot, was drawn, hanged, and quartered, at the west end of St. Paul’s Church, 30th January, 1606: see Stow’s Annales, p. 882, ed. 1631.