1 Am … now? prose ed. (printed on a separate line in Q)

2 but only horns Said to grow on cuckolds’ foreheads.

3 riot in revel in, derive disorderly pleasure from

8 great pregnant; the metaphor was commonly used of someone hatching a revenge plot (compare Othello, I.iii.395–6).

10 deck clothe

15–16 time… recalled Proverbial (Tilley, T. 332).

18 states senior government figures, dignitaries

22–3 prose ed. (Let… backe, / Thinke … Cuckoldry Q)

24 aspire wish for