Note 655 — ACT III. SCENE I.
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a silenc’d muzzle] “The Pulpits were the most bold Opposers, but if they toucht any thing upon the Spanish policie, or the intended Treaties (for the Restitution of the Palatinate was included in the Mariage before it was the Spaniards to give) their mouthes must be stopt by Gondamar ... and (it may be) confined, or imprisoned for it.” Wilson’s Life and Reign of James, p. 151, ed. 1653.