Note 778 — SCENE IV.

Rumbant’s] So all the eds. and both MSS. The right reading, I have little doubt, is “Rumbold’s,” or rather “Rumold’s.”—“A great and sumptuous church was built at Mechlin to receive his [St. Rumold’s] precious relicks, which is still possessed of that treasure, and bears the name of this saint.” Butler’s Lives of the Saints, vol. vii. p. 2, sec. ed. In the title-page of his Life, 1662, written in Latin by Ward, he is termed “advocati sterilium conjugum.”