IV.i.382 (198,8) [I am content] The terms proposed have been misunderstood. Antonio declares, that as the duke quits one half of the forfeiture, he is likewise content to abate his claim, and desires not the property but the _use_ or produce only of the half, and that only for the Jew's life, unless we read, as perhaps is right, _upon_ my _death._ V.i.63 (204,3) [Such harmony is in immortal souls] [W: sounds] This passage is obscure. _Immortal sounds_ is a harsh combination of words, yet Milton uses a parallel expression: _Spiritus & rapidos qui circinat igneus orbes, Nunc quoque sidereis intercinit ipse choreia_ Immortale melos, _& inenarrabile curmen._ It is proper to exhibit the lines as they stand in the copies of the first, second, third, and fourth editions, without any variation, for a change has been silently made, by Rowe, and adopted by all the succeeding editors. _Such harmony is in immortal souls, But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grosly close_ in it, _we cannot hear it._ That the third is corrupt must be allowed, but it gives reason to suspect that the original was, _Doth grosly close_ it in. Yet I know not whether from this any thing better can be produced than the received reading. Perhaps _harmony_ is _the power of perceiving harmony_, as afterwards, _Musick in the soul_ is the quality of being _moved with concord of sweet sounds_. This will somewhat explain the old copies, but the sentence is still imperfect; which might be completed by reading, _Such harmony is in_ th' _immortal_ soul, _But while this muddy vesture of decay Doth grosly close_ it in, _we cannot hear it._ (1773) V.i.66 (205,4) [wake Diana with a hymn] Diana is the moon, who is in the next scene represented as sleeping. V.i.99 (207,6) [Nothing is good, I see, without respect] Not absolutely good, but relatively, good as it is modified by circumstances. V.i.129 (208,7) [Let me give light] There is scarcely any word with which Shakespeare delights to trifle as with _light_, in its various significations. V.i.203 (210,2) [What man is there so much unreasonable, If you had pleas'd to have defended it With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty To urge the thing held as a ceremony?] This is a very licentious expression. The sense is, _What man could have so little modesty_ or _wanted modesty so much_, as to urge the demand of a thing kept on an account in some sort religious. (see 1785, 1,476,7) V.i.249 (212,4) [I once did lend my body for his wealth] For his advantage; to obtain his happiness. _Wealth_ was, at that time, the term opposite to _adversity_, or _calamity_.