[444-39] _I thank ye_ is spoken to Ferdinand and Miranda, and is Prospero's reply to their good wishes. [444-40] _Meet with_ means _oppose_ or _counteract_. [444-41] _For breathing_ means _because it breathed_. In the next line, _for kissing_ means _because it kissed_. [444-42] _Unback'd_ means _unridden_. [444-43] _Advanced_ means _raised_. [445-44] The pool was mantled, or covered over, with filth. [445-45] For _that_ read _so that_ or _insomuch that_. [445-46] _Stale_ means _bait_. It was a term used by hunters for a bait that would lure birds. [445-47] Caliban. [445-48] _Nurture_ can never stick on his _nature_: that is, he can never be improved by culture or education. [445-49] _Cankers_ means _rusts_, or here, _eats into itself_. [445-50] It is not known whether _line_ refers to a clothesline or to a line tree. Only Shakespeare himself could tell us to a certainty. [446-51] _Play'd the Jack with us._ "Led us astray as a Jack-o'-lantern might." [446-52] _To hoodwink this mischance_ means _to make it forgotten_ or _overlooked_. [446-53] In Hudson's Shakespeare this is explained as an allusion to the old ballad entitled "Take thy old Cloak about thee." The following stanza is quoted: "_King Stephen_ was a worthy _peer_, His breeches cost him but a crown: He held them sixpence all too dear. Therefore he called the tailor lown." [447-54] A _frippery_ was a shop where old clothes were sold. Trinculo has found the clothing Ariel hung upon the line. [447-55] _Under the line._ We can imagine that Stephano has pulled the leather jerkin or coat from the line. When he says _under the line_, he thinks of that as an expression sailors use when they are near the equinoctial line or equator, where the heat is intense, so strong as to take the hair or fur off the coat and make it a _bald jerkin_. [447-56] _By line and level_, that is, as architects build, by plumb line and level. Trinculo picks up the word _line_ and makes a new pun on it. [448-57] A _pass_ is a _thrust_; _pate_ is _head_. _Pass of pate_ is a _thrust_ or _sally of wit_. [448-58] _Lime_ is a sticky substance used to catch birds. [448-59] _Barnacles_ here means _barnacle-geese,_ a kind of geese supposed by the superstitious to be produced when certain barnacles or shell-fish fell into the sea water. [449-60] _Pard_ is a contraction for _leopard_; _cat-o'-mountain_ may be another name for wild-cat, though wild-cats are not spotted. Probably the term is loosely used to mean any spotted animal of the cat tribes. [450-1] _Goes upright with his carriage_ means, _goes erectly under his burden_, that is, there is time enough to accomplish what Prospero wishes to do. [450-2] That is, "In the grove of line-trees which protects your cell from the weather." [450-3] _Till your release_ means _till you release them_.