[295] [Mr Collier’s correction, the former editions reading, _Exeunt_ LORENZO _and_ LAZAROTTO _and_ HORATIO. _Manet_ JERONIMO.]
[296] It seems probable, from this and several other passages in the play, that the part of Jeronimo was performed by an actor of low stature. Decker, in two distinct scenes of his “Satiromastix,” says that Ben Jonson had supported the character of Jeronimo; but this assertion most likely applies to the “Spanish Tragedy, or the Second Part of Jeronimo,” from which he introduces a quotation.--_Collier._
[298] Exactly. So, in “Hamlet:” “_jump_ at this dead hour.”--_Steevens._ Again, in “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” act i. sc. 2 [edit. by Dyce, xi. 342]:--
“Where every seeming good’s A certain evil; where not to be even _jump_ As they are here were to be strangers, and Such things to be mere monsters.”
“Myself the while will draw the Moor apart, And bring him _jump_ where he may Cassio find.”
[300] Terms current in the universities for different portions of bread and beer.--_Steevens._ In the character of an old college butler by Dr Earle (_Microcosmographie_, 1628), it is said: “He domineers over freshmen, when they first come to the hatch, and puzzles them with strange language of _cues_ and _cees_, and some broken Latin, which he has learnt at his term.”--_Note in edit. 1825._
[302] [The old copy omits _ears_, which was suggested, in order to complete the sense, by Steevens.]
[303] To obscure day. So in “Othello,” act i. sc. 3: “You must therefore be content to _slubber_ the gloss of your new fortunes.” And again in Howard’s “Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophecies,” fol. 1620, p. 117: “Surely, for the most part so they are, as may be gathered ‘either by the colours or the garments, or the _slubbering_ of set purpose to bestow some greater grace and colour of antiquity.’”
[304] The word _cling_ is so variously used in different authors, that it is difficult to affix any precise meaning to it. Several instances are quoted by Mr Steevens, in his Note on “Macbeth,” act v. sc. 5. I imagine Horatio means, that his weapon shall _cling to him, or not leave him_, until he had gratified his revenge for his friend’s murder.
[306] In “All’s Well that ends Well,” act iii. sc. 5, one of the stage-directions is _a Tucket afar off_; and in “Henry V.,” act iv. sc. 2, the constable says--