Note 387 — ACT I. SCENE I.

Malta “Yet his [Alsemero’s] thoughts ran still on the Wars, in which Heroick and Illustrious profession he conceived his chiefest delight and felicity; and so taking order for his Lands and affairs, he resolves to see Malta, that inexpugnable Rampier of Mars, the glory of Christendome and the terrour of Turkey, to see if he could gain any place of command and honour either in that Island or in their Gallies ... and so building many Castles in the air, he comes to Alicant, hoping to find passage there for Naples, and from thence to ship himself upon the Neapolitan Gallies for Malta.” Reynolds’s Triumphs of God’s Revenge against Murther, p. 34, ed. 1726.—See note, p. 205.