Note 598 — ACT II. SCENE I.

Fat Bishop] “He [Antonio] was of a comely personage, tall stature, gray beard, graue countenance, fair language, fluent expression, somewhat abdominous, and corpulent in his body.” Fuller’s Church History, B. x. p. 100, ed. 1655. “Allowing Spalato diligent in writing, his expression was a notorious hyperbole, when saying, In reading, meditation, and writing I am almost pined away; otherwise his fat cheeks did confute his false tongue in that expression.” Id. B. x. p. 95.