[48] The _seat_ means _the situation_. See, in Dr Johnson’s Dictionary, instances of it from Raleigh, Hayward, Bacon, and B. Jonson.--_N._ So Duncan, in “Macbeth,” says-- “This castle hath a pleasant _seat_.” [49] This quotation is given as follows in both the old copies-- “_Dic mihi musa virum captæ post tempora Trojæ, Multorum homines mores qui vidit et urbes._” Query--Was it meant by the author that Damon should misquote?--_Collier._ [Surely not.] [50] _This is he_, &c., first edition. [51] _i.e._, Plentiful suppers, luxurious couches, and the king’s purse full of gold at command. [In the original this is printed so as to be absolute nonsense.] Aristippus was not intended for a blunderer.--_S._ [52] _Tyoe_, first edition. [53] A cant term for be silent; _mum_ and _budget_ are the words made use of by Slender and Ann Page in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” [54] [To make up his plunder or prize-money. From the old French _bouge_.] [55] The first edition reads-- “I wyll lay _one mouth_ for you to Dionysius,” &c., which was altered in the second edition as it stands in the text.--_Collier._ [56] A proverbial expression, of which it is difficult to give a satisfactory explanation, though the meaning of it is sufficiently obvious. A gentleman, who formerly wrote in _The Gentleman’s Magazine_ under a feigned name, supposes the word _cat_ should be changed to _cate_; “an old word for a _cake_ or other _aumalette_, which being usually _fried_, and consequently _turn’d in the pan_, does therefore very aptly express the changing of sides in politics or religion, or, as we otherwise say, _the turning one’s coat_. _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1754, p. 66. Another writer, however, gives the following [very absurd] explanation of it:-- “_Capitan_, to turn _capitan_, from a people called _Catipani_, in _Calabria_ and _Apulia_, who got an ill name by reason of their perfidy; very falsely by us called _Cat in pan_.”--_Ibid._ p. 172. [57] _Should_, second edition. [58] _Commodity_ is interest. So in the former part of this play, p. 198-- “They would honour friendship, and not _for commodity_.” and see “King John,” act ii., sc. 2-- “_Commodity_, the bias of the world.” [59] [A rare word in this sense; for it appears to stand for _blab_.] [60] [Original reads _tunes_. The emendation was first suggested by Mr Collier.]