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. chap. xvii._ BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _The Honest Man's Fortune, act ii. sc. 2._ MIDDLETON: _A Mad World, etc._

[54-1] For "mirth," White reads _shews_; Singer, _shows_.

[56-1] Musical as is Apollo's lute.--MILTON: _Comus, line 78._

[57-1] Maidens withering on the stalk.--WORDSWORTH: _Personal Talk, stanza 1._

[57-2] "Ever I could read,"--Dyce, Knight, Singer, and White.

[57-3] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58-1] Act ii. sc. 2 in Singer and Knight.

[58-2] See Chapman, page 36.

[58-3] Trew as steele.--CHAUCER: _Troilus and Cresseide,