Note 733 — ACT I. SCENE I.

to which himself gives aim] i.e. which himself directs: see Gifford’s note on Massinger’s Works, vol. ii. p. 28, ed. 1813, where this passage is cited, and where the difference between the expressions cry aim and give aim, both taken from archery, is accurately shewn: “he who gave aim was stationed near the butts, and pointed out, after every discharge, how wide or how short the arrow fell of the mark.”