Note 447 — SCENE II.
Reading edition
God] “In the old copy there is a blank left for this word, to avoid the prophanationem nominis Dei, as T. Bastard terms it in his Epigrams.... This vice, as is well known, was, not many years afterwards, reformed in a great degree, as far as the theatre was concerned. See the statute 3. James I. chap. xxi.” Collier.