Note 33 — SCENE III.

the midst] So the excellent ed. of 1605. Other eds. “the deadst,” which is given in Dodsley’s Old Plays, and which, as Nares (Gloss. in v.) remarks, is “but awkwardly applied to the height or meridian of feasting, which surely has nothing dead in it.” Perhaps the misprint arose from the compositor’s eye having caught the word death in the next line but two.