That is, _nature_ brings _like qualities_ and dispositions _to meet_ through any _distance_ that _fortune_ may have set between them; she _joins_ them and makes them _kiss like things born together._ The next lines I read with Hammer. _Impossible be strange attempts to those That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose What_ ha'n't _been, cannot be._ _New_ attempts seen impossible to those who estimate their _labour_ or _enterprises_ by sense, and believe that nothing can be but what they see before them. I.ii.32 (17,3) [He had the wit, which I can well observe To-day in our young lords, but they may jest, Till their own scorn return to them; unnoted, Ere they can hide their levity in honour] I believe _honour_ is not _dignity of birth or rank,_ but _acquired reputation: Your father_, says the king, _had the same airy flights of satirical wit-with the young lords of the present time, but they do not what he did_, hide their unnoted _levity_ in honour, _cover petty faults with great merit._ This is an excellent observation. Jocose follies, and slight offences, are only allowed by mankind in him that overpowers them by great qualities. I.ii.36 (18,4) [So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, His equal had awak'd them] [W: no contempt or] The original edition reads the first line thus, _So like a courtier, contempt_ nor _bitterness._ The sense is the same. _Nor_ was used without reduplication. So in _Measure for Measure,_ _More_ nor _less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing._ The old text needs to be explained. He was so like a courtier, that there was in _his dignity of manner nothing contemptuous,_ and I.ii.41 (19, 5) [His tongue obey'd his hand] We should read, _His tongue obeyed_ the _hand._ That is, the _hand_ of _his honour's clock,_ shewing _the true minute when exceptions bad him speak._ I.ii.44 (19, 7) [Making then proud of his humility, In their poor praise he humbled] [W: proud; and his] Every man has seen the _mean_ too often _proud_ of the _humility_ of the great, and perhaps the great may sometimes be _humbled in the praises_ of the mean, of those who commend them without conviction or discernment: this, however is not so common; the _mean_ are found more frequently than the _great._ I.ii.50 (19, 8) [So in approof lives not his epitaph, As in your royal speech] [W: _Epitaph_ for character.] I should wish to read, _Approof_ so lives not _in his_ epitaph, _As in your royal speech._ _Approof_ is _approbation._ If I should allow Dr. _Warburton's_ interpretation of _Epitaph,_ which is more than can be reasonably expected, I can yet find no sense in the present reading. I.ii.61 (20, 9) [_whose judgments are meer fathers of their garments_] Who have no other use of their faculties, than to invent new modes of dress.