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'--G. Strype, B. 3. p. 281 says that it was 'a fair and
stately building, very commodious for that affair. ' 'It standeth
backwards, so that it hath no front towards the street, only the
gateway leading into the yard before the House, which is spacious.
It cost above ? 6000 the building. And in this place the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, the Aldermen and Justices of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex do sit, and keep his Majesty's Sessions of Oyer and
Terminer. ' It was destroyed in the Gordon Riots of 1780. --Wh-C.

=5. 7. 9 This strange! = See variants.
The change seriously injures the
metre, and the original reading should be preserved. Such absorptions
(_this_ for _this is_ or _this's_) are not uncommon. Cf. _Macbeth_ 3.
4. 17, ed. Furness, p. 165: 'yet he's good' for 'yet he is as good. '

=5. 8. 2 They had giu'n him potions. = Jonson perhaps had
in mind the trial of Anne Turner and her accomplices in the
Overbury Case of the previous year. See Introduction, p. lxxii.
For a discussion of love-philtres see Burton, _Anat. of Mel.