[294] An instrument chiefly used for taking the altitude of the pole, the sun, or stars, at sea. [295] A name given to such instruments as are used for observing and determining the distances, magnitudes, and places of the heavenly bodies. [296] A term to express the points or horns of the moon, or other luminary. [297] With astrologers, is a temporary power they imagine the planets have over the life of any person. [298] The centre of the sun. A planet is said to be in _cazimi_ when it is not above 70 degrees distant from the body of the sun. [299] [Old copy, _And_.] [300] Sir Thomas Wyat, in his celebrated letter to John Poines, has a passage much in point-- "To ioyne the meane with ech extremitie, With nearest vertue ay to cloke the vice. And as to purpose likewise it shall fall To presse the vertue that it may not rise, As _dronkennesse good-felowship to call_." --_Collier._ [301] _Almuten,_ with astronomers, is the lord of a figure, or the strongest planet in a nativity. _Alchochoden_ is the giver of life or years, the planet which bears rule in the principal places of an astrological figure when a person is born; so that his life may be expected longer or shorter, according to the station, &c., of this planet. [302] "To _impe_," says Blount, "is a term most usual among falconers, and is when a feather in a hawkes wing is broken, and another piece imped or graffed on the stump of the old." "_Himp_ or _imp,_ in the British language, is _surculus_ a young graffe or twig; thence _impio_, the verb to innoculate or graff. Hence the word to _imp_ is borrowed by the English; first, surely, to graff trees, and thence translated to _imping_ feathers." See also Mr Steevens's note on "King Richard II.," act ii. sc. 1. [303] _Me_ is omitted in the two quartos.--_Collier._ [304] _To_, the sign of the infinitive, is often omitted, and the verse requires it should be expunged here.--_Pegge._ Both the quartos read as in the text.--_Reed._ [305] Mr Reed allowed this line to stand-- "Whom all intelligence _have_ drown'd this three months." The restoration of the true reading also restores the grammar of the passage.--_Collier._ [306] The same thought occurs in Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost," act iv. sc. 3-- "O me! with what strict patience have I sat, To see a king transformed _to a knot_!" [307] Mr Steevens, in his note to "King Richard III.," act v. sc. 3, observes there was anciently a particular kind of candle, called a _watch_ because, being marked out into sections, each of which was a certain portion of time in burning, it supplied the place of the more modern instrument by which we measure the hours. He also says these candles are represented with great nicety in some of the pictures of Albert Durer.