28. the martlet. See Macbeth, i. 6. 4: The temple-haunting martlet.' 29. in the weather, exposed to storms. See King John, iv. 2. 109: Pour down thy weather,'

and Cymbeline, iii. 3. 64:

Left me bare to weather.'

The word was also used in the general sense, as good weather,' ' fair weather,' &c.

32. jump with, agree with. See I Henry IV. i. 2. 78: In some sort it jumps with my humour.' The verb is used also absolutely in Twelfth Night, V. I. 259:

89. regreets, greetings. See King John, iii. 1. 241:

'Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet.'

90. commends, commendations, compliments. See Richard II. iii. 1. 38 : Tell her I send to her my kind commends.'

91. Yet I have not, I have never yet.

92. likely, promising, one whose appearance suited the message he had to deliver. In much the same sense the word occurs, 2 Henry IV. iii. 2. 273: 'They are your likeliest men.'

98. bigb-day wit. See Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 2. 69: He writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May,' and 1 Henry IV. i. 3. 49:

'With many holiday and lady terms

He question'd me.'

100. post, postman, courier. See Coriolanus, v. 6. 50:

'Your native town you enter'd like a post.'

ACT III.

Scene I.

2. It lives there unchecked, the rumour is current there uncontradicted. 3. the narrow seas, the English Channel. See ii. 8. 28. In the 'Prologue of the processe of the Libel of English policie,' published in Hakluyt's Voyages (i. p. 187, ed. 1599) we find:

And again, of Calais and Dover :

'Keepe these two Townes sure, and your Maiestee
As your tweyne eyne: so keepe the narrowe see.'

Sir John Hawkins writing to Lord Burghley, Nov. 30, 1593, sends a note of the pay for the ships serving in the Narrow Seas.' (Calendar of State Papers, 1591-1594, P. 389.)

Ib. the Goodwins, the Goodwin Sands, off the eastern coast of Kent. The name is supposed to be derived from Earl Godwin, whose property, according to tradition, was swallowed up by the sea, A.D. 1100. See King John, v. 3.

II:

'Wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands,'

and v. 5. 13 of the same play.

Compare Psalm xlvi. 9,
Ginger was a favourite

5. Compare Richard II. ii. 1. 286: eight tall ships.' 9. knapped, snapped, broke into small pieces. Prayer-book: He knappeth the spear in sunder.' condiment with old people.

24. the wings she flew withal, the boy's dress in which she made her

escape.

26. complexion, nature, disposition, temperament. Cotgrave translates the French complexion thus: The complexion, making, temper, constitution of the bodie; also, the disposition, affection, humors, or inclination of the mind.'

36. smug, neat, trim. See 1 Henry IV. iii. 1. 102: The smug and silver Trent.'

43. hindered me half a million, hindered me from gaining half a million ducats.

48. affections, when contrasted with passions,' seem to denote emotions produced through the senses by external objects. Compare iv. I. 49:

'Affection,

Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood

Of what it likes or loathes.'

Steevens quotes from Greene's Never Too Late: His heart was fuller of passions than his eyes of affections.'

Ib. fed. Supply the ellipsis Is he not.'

59. it shall go hard... The obstacles must be great indeed which shall prevent me from improving upon your teaching.

64. cannot be matched, cannot be found to match them.

70. cost, which cost: an instance of the frequent ellipsis of the relative. Ib. Frankfort. In Coryat's Crudities (p. 562, ed. 1611) we find: 'There are two things which make this citie famous ouer all Europe. The one the election of the King of the Romanes, the other the two noble fayres kept heere twise a yeare, which are called the Martes of Franckford.'

76. Why thou loss upon loss! For thou' the second folio has then,' and Mr. Lloyd proposes to read 'there!'

84. An argosy bound to Tripolis' is mentioned among Antonio's ventures, i. 3. 17.

89. where? Rowe's correction. The quartos have beere, and the folios bere, without a note of interrogation.

66

102. It was my turquoise; I had it of Leab when I was a bachelor. 'With the Germans it [the turquoise] is yet the gem appropriated to the ring, the gage d'amour" presented by the lover on the acceptance of his suit, the permanence of its colour being believed to depend on the constancy of his affection.' (King, Natural History of Gems, p. 67.) It was also supposed to look bright or pale according as its wearer was well or ill. Hence Ben Jonson in his Sejanus, i. I:

8. Portia means, And yet, since a maiden may only think and not speak her thoughts, you will not understand me, however long you stay.' 15. o'erlooked, fascinated, bewitched.

5.87:

See Merry Wives of Windsor, v.

Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.'

18. naughty, wicked. This word, now banished to the nursery, had formerly a wider meaning. See for example v. 1. 91:

'So shines a good deed in a naughty world.'

20, 21. Prove it so, Let Fortune go to hell for it, not I. If it prove that I, who am yours by affection, am not yours owing to your unlucky choice of casket, Fortune ought to suffer the penalty, not I: and yet to lose you will be hell to me.' This passage is an instance of that condensation of thought which so frequently makes Shakespeare's language obscure.

22. peize the time. Cotgrave translates the French peser, To peise, poise, weigh; to ponder, perpend, consider.' Hence to peise the time' may mean 'to weigh with deliberation each precious moment.' Steevens interprets, 'to weight the time that it may pass slowly.' Rowe, Johnson, and Dyce read 'piece the time;' and Mr. Collier's MS. corrector, 'pause the time.' Henley quotes from Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry: 'Not speaking words as they chanceably fall from the mouth, but peyzing each sillable.' The word is used in the sense of poise' in King John, ii. 1. 575:

45. Fading, vanishing, departing. The same word is used for dying.' See Tempest, i. 2. 399:

Nothing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.'

It is used also for the vanishing of the ghost in Hamlet, i. 1. 157: 'It faded on the crowing of the cock.'

49. At the coronation of English sovereigns the moment of the putting on of the crown is announced by a flourish of trumpets.

52. The musicians who were to accompany the bridegroom to the house of the bride went betimes to awaken him.

54. with much more love. Because Hercules rescued Hesione, not for love of the lady, but for the sake of the horses promised him by Laomedon. See Ovid's Metamorphoses, xi. 211-214:

'Regis quoque filia monstro

Poscitur aequoreo: quam dura ad saxa revinctam

Vindicat Alcides promissaque munera dictos

Poscit equos.'

63. fancy. The word is used as synonymous with 'love' in Twelfth Night,

i. 1. 9-14:

'O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,

so full of shapes is fancy

That it alone is high fantastical.'

See also Much Ado About Nothing, iii. 2. 31:

'Claudio. Yet, say I, he is in love.

D. Pedro. There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be the fancy that he hath to strange disguises.'

In The Shepheeard's Ode,' by Rich. Barnefielde (England's Helicon), the two are distinguished as working against each other: