[104] [Old copy, _into_.] [105] [Old copy, _shall_, and so in the next line.] [106] It is doubtful whether we ought to read _impale_ or _impall_. If the latter, it means to enfold with a _pall_; but Cleveland uses _impale_ in the same sense-- "I now _impale_ her in my arms." This, however, is rather a forced construction. [107] [Old copy, _spence_.] This may mean "the _expense_ of years that Marius hath o'erpast," or it may be an easy misprint for "space of years." Either may be right. [108] [Old copy, _mate_.] [109] [Old copy, _conservatives_.] [110] "To _bandy_ a ball" Coles defines _clava pilam torquere_; "to bandy at tennis," "Dict." 1679. See Mr Malone's note on "Lear," act i. sc. 4. [111] _Prest_ for Asia, is ready for Asia. It is almost unnecessary to multiply instances, but the following is very apposite:-- "Dispisde, disdainde, starvde, whipt and scornd, _Prest_ through dispaire myself to quell." --R. Wilson's "Cobbler's Prophecy," 1594, sig. C4. [112] Lodge and other writers not unfrequently use the adjective for the substantive: thus, in "The Discontented Satyre:"-- "Blush, daies eternal lampe, to see thy lot, Since that thy _cleere_ with cloudy _darkes_ is scar'd." [113] The quarto has the passage thus-- "These peers of Rome have mark'd A rash revenging _hammer_ in thy brain;" which seemed so decidedly wrong as to warrant the change that, without much violence, has been made. [114] _Guerdon_ is synonymous with _reward_. It is scarcely yet obsolete. [115] Old copy, _hammer_. [116] Vengeance. [117] Scarce. It is found in Spenser. Robert Greene also uses it-- "It was frosty winter season, And fair Flora's wealth was _geason_." --"Philomela," 1592. Again, we find it in the tragical comedy of "Appius and Virginia," 1575--"Let my counsel at no time lie with you _geason,_" sig. D. [vol. iv. p. 138]. [118] Open them. [119] Old copy, _what_. [120] The meaning of "would _amate_ me so," is, would daunt or confound me so. See note to "Tancred and Gismunda" [_suprâ_, p. 79], where instances are given. [121] Mr Steevens, in a note on the "Comedy of Errors," act ii. sc. 1, has collected a number of quotations to show the meaning of the word _stale_, and to them the reader is referred. In this place it signifies a false allurement, bait, or deception on the part of fortune. [122] The barbarous jargon put into the mouth of this Frenchman is given in the orthography of the old copy, since it was vain to attempt correction.