[Footnote 195: Bassoes: Here and afterwards old ed. "Bashawes." See note §, p. 164. [i.e. note 117.]--Scene, outside the walls of the city.]
[Footnote 196: basilisk[s: See note , p. 25.
[note ||, p. 25, The First Part of Tamburlaine the Great: "|| basilisks: Pieces of ordnance so called. They were of immense size; see Douce's ILLUST. OF SHAKESPEARE, i. 425."]
[Footnote 197: And, toward Calabria, &c.: So the Editor of 1826.--Old ed. thus:
"And toward Calabria back'd by Sicily, Two lofty Turrets that command the Towne. WHEN Siracusian Dionisius reign'd; I wonder how it could be conquer'd thus?"]
[Footnote 198: Enter FERNEZE, &c.: Scene, a street.]
[Footnote 199: linstock: "i.e. the long match with which cannon are fired." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]
[Footnote 200: Enter, above, &c.: Scene, a hall in the Citadel, with a gallery.]
[Footnote 201: FIRST CARPENTER.: Old ed. here "Serv."; but it gives "CARP." as the prefix to the second speech after this.]
[Footnote 202: off: An interpolation perhaps.]
[Footnote 204: ascend: Old ed. "attend."]
[Footnote 205: A charge sounded within: FERNEZE cuts the cord; the floor of the gallery gives way, and BARABAS falls into a caldron placed in a pit.
Old ed. has merely "A charge, the cable cut, A Caldron discouered."]
[Footnote 206: Christian: Old ed. "Christians."]
[Footnote 208: pretended: i.e. intended.]
[Footnote 209: mediate: Old ed. "meditate."]
SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added.
FOOTNOTES: For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play.
Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given a unique identity in the form [XXX].
CHANGES TO THE TEXT: Character names were expanded. For Example, BARABAS was BARA., FERNEZE was FERN., etc.
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