altered by Theobald to 'Hopkins.' But as he was often called Henton from the monastery to which he belonged, 'there is no need to amend the text.' (Gollancz.) Cf. I. i. 221 and note.
I. ii. 151–171. These twenty lines are merely Holinshed (1587), p. 864, in blank verse.
I. ii. 164. confession's seal. Theobald's emendation of the Folio's reading Commissions seal. It comes from Holinshed, 'under the seal of confession.'
I. ii. 170. To gain. The word gain was added in the Fourth Folio to complete the meter.
I. ii. 172. You were the duke's surveyor. The accusation against Knyvet is taken from Holinshed.
I. ii. 177–186. This speech is versified Holinshed.
I. ii. 179. for him. Capell's emendation for the for this of the Folio.
I. ii. 190. Bulmer. The Folio printer transposed the letters, so that the name reads Blumer.
I. ii. 213. by day and night. An exclamation. Cf. Hamlet, I. v. 164, 'O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!'
I. iii. The third scene, which serves only as a prelude to the fourth, is typical of Fletcher's style. It has been explained by some commentators as being an attack upon the courtiers of James I. Although there is no dramatic reason for its existence, it is an expansion of one paragraph of Holinshed (1587), p. 850, and of another on p. 852. Owing to the fact that the dramatists skipped back and forth in versifying the passages from Holinshed, the chronology is hopeless. This scene was in 1519. At this time the Lord Chamberlain was Charles Somerset, Earl of Worcester, and Sir William Sands (or Sandys) had not been raised to the nobility.
I. iii. 12, 13. spavin Or springhalt. Verplanck's emendation for the Folio,
