trifles
'Trivial excuses (by which Lorenzo keeps him from the King)' (McIlwraith, fn l.4, p.192); 'trivial business' (Mulryne, fn l.4, p. 81) or 'vain trifling. Hieronimo's pleading is drowned out by maliciously intended court drivel.' (Bevington, fn l.4, p. 90)