[434] ["The fine effect which is produced through the foregoing scenes by the idea of the ‘Enforced Marriage’ hanging on them like the German notion of Fate, is destroyed by this happy ending.”—­MS. note in one of the former edits.]

[435] [Bond.]

[436] [So in the ballad of “Auld Robin Gray”—­

    “My mother did na speak,
    But she look’d me in the face,” &c.

—­MS. note in one of the former edits.]

[437] ’51 edit. 1607, letter.

[438] Ignes fatui, Wills o’ th’ Wisp.  See Mr Steevens’s Note on “King Henry VIII.,” act v. sc. 3.

[439] [Edits., And these.  The emendation is conjectured.]