Note 658 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
Le’ me see,
I’ll send him a whole musket-charge of gunpowder, &c. &c.]
So in The Honest Lawyer. Acted by the Qveenes Maiesties Servants. Written by S. S. 1616. 4to.;
“Valentine. What is’t Sir, that my Art cannot extend to?
Gripe. The stone, the stone: I am pittifully grip’d with the stone....
Valentine. ...
Let’s see. Me thinks a little Gun-powder
Should haue some strange relation to this fit.
I haue seene Gun-powder oft driue out stones
From Forts and Castle-walls,” &c. Sig. F 2.
Concerning this passage, see my remark, p. 340.