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[1] o che. These words introduce the question; compare II., note 10.

[2] Ma il diavolo... coda, But the Old Nick has taken a hand in the matter.

[3] da quell', like the.

[4] Corpo... Maccabei! Zounds! The Maccabei were seven brothers who, with their mother, are said to have suffered martyrdom under Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria, in 16