I. Snout, and Starueling] and the rab¬

ble. Qq.
4. Staru.] Flut. Qq.
6, 10, 14, &c. Thif.] Flute. Rowe ii et seq.
7. not] Om. F3F4, Rowe i.
discharging his present part ; perhaps, too, there is a wipe in these words upon some play of the poet’s time, in which a singing of this sort had been practised. — STAUN¬ TON : Theobald’s explanation is extremely plausible. From the old text no ingenuity has ever succeeded in extracting a shred of humour or even meaning.— W. A. Wright: Theobald’s conjecture is certainly ingenious, and may be right. [It is an emendatio certissima to the present Ed.]