Note 142 — ACT III. SCENE I.
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carpet knights] On these words Reed has a note of formidable length, and very little to the purpose. Carpet knights (repeatedly mentioned with great contempt by our early writers) were knights dubbed on a carpet, not on the field of battle,—on occasion of public festivities, not after a victory. See Gifford’s note on Massinger’s Works, vol. iii. p. 47. ed. 1813.