--_tender well my hounds_: Brach--Merriman--_the poor cur is imboat._ Induction.i.64 (351,8) [And when he says he is,--say that he dreams] [steevens:he's poor,--say] If any thing should be inserted, it may be done thus, "And when he says he's _Sly_, say that he dreams." The likeness in writing of _Sly_ and _say_ produced the omission.(1773) Induction.i.67 (352,9) [It will be pastime excellent, If it be husbanded with modesty] By _modesty_ is meant _moderation_, without suffering our merriment to break into an excess. Induction.i.82 (352,1) [to accept our duty] It was in those times the custom of players to travel in companies, and offer their service at great houses. Induction.i.101 (353,4) [property] in the language of a playhouse, is every implement necessary to the exhibition. Induction.i.125 (355,7) [To rain a shower of commanded toars, An onion will do well for such a shift] It is not unlikely that the _onion_ was an expedient used by the actors of interludes. Induction.ii.89 (359,8) [Leet] As the _Court leet_. or courts of the manor. I.i.9 (362,2) [ingenious studies] I rather think it was written ingenuous studies, but of this and a thousand such observations there is little certainty. I.i.18 (363,4) [Virtue, and that part of philosophy Will I apply] Sir Thomas Hammer, and after him Dr. Warburton, read to virtues but formerly ply and apply were indifferently used, as to ply or apply his studies. I.i.78 (365,7) [A pretty peat!] Peat or pet is a word of endearment from petit, little, as if it meant pretty little thing. I.i.85 (365,8) [will you be so strange?] That is, so odd, so different from others in your conduct. I.i.97 (366,9) [cunning men] Cunning had not yet lost its original signification of knowing, learned, as nay be observed in the translations of the Bible. I.i.167 (368,2) [Redime te captum quasi queas minimi] Our author had this line from Lilly, which I mention, that it may not be brought as an argument of his learning. I.i.208 (369,3) [port] Pert, is figure, show, appearance. I.ii.52 (372,5) [Where small experience grows. But, in a few] Why this should seem nonsense, I cannot perceive. In few words it means the same as in short. I.ii.68 (373,6) [As wealth is burthen of my wooing dance] The burthen of a dance is an expression which I have never heard; the burthen of his wooing song had been more proper. I.ii.72 (373,8) [Affection's edge in me] Surely the sense of the present reading is too obvious to be missed or mistaken. Petruchio says, that, if a girl has money enough, no bad qualities of mind or body will remove affection's edge; i.e. hinder him from liking her. I.ii.112 (375,1) [an' he begin once, he'll rail--In his rope-tricks] This is obscure. Sir Thomas Hammer reads, he'll rail in his rhetorick; I'll tell you, &c. Rhetorick agrees very well with figure in the succeeding part of the speech, yet I am inclined to believe that rope-tricks is the true word.