Note 558 — ACT I. SCENE I.

And what I've done, &c.] “Gondomar was at this time the Spanish Ambassador in England; a man whose flattery was the more artful, because covered with the appearance of frankness and sincerity; whose politics were the more dangerous, because disguised under the masque of mirth and pleasantry.” Hume’s Hist. of England, vol. vi. p. 40, ed. 1763.