Note 168 — ACT V. SCENE I.

the Bear at the Bridge-foot in heaven] If Steevens had recollected this passage, he would not have proposed to alter the following one in The Puritan by reading “in the even” for “in heaven,”—“Ay, by yon Bear at Bridge-foot in heaven, shalt thou.” Malone’s Supp. to Shakespeare, vol. ii. p. 559.—The Bear was a well-known tavern—according to Steevens (ibid.), “at the foot of London bridge.” Gifford says, in a note on Shirley’s Lady of Pleasure, where this expression occurs (Works, vol. iv. p. 72), that “the bridge meant was in Shirley’s time called the Strand-bridge.”