Note 179 — SCENE IV.
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Exit Louis, &c.] At p. 115, Diego tells Louis,
“as we parted, I perceiv’d
A walking thing before me,” &c.;
but I cannot help suspecting (as there was no painted moveable scenery when this drama was written: see notes, vol. ii. pp. 142, 147, and p. 29 of the present vol.), that as soon as Diego had said, “I this way,” the audience was to imagine a change in the place of action; and, perhaps, after these words, he made his exit “at one door,” and “entered presently at the other:” see note on the commencement of the 2d sc. of act v.