V.iii.79 (278,8) great the answer be] _Answer_, as once in this play before, is _retaliation_. V.iii.87 (278,9) That gave the affront with them] That is, that turned their faces to the enemy. V.iv.1 (279,1) You shall not now be stolen, you have locks upon you;/So, graze, as you find pasture] This wit of the gaoler alludes to the custom of putting a lock on a horse's leg, when he is turned to pasture. V.iv.27 (280,3) If you will take this audit, take this life,/And cancel those cold bonds] This equivocal use of _bonds_ is another instance of our author's infelicity in pathetic speeches. V.iv.45 (281,5) That from me my Posthumus ript] The old copy reads, That from me _was_ Posthumus ript. Perhaps we should read, That from _my womb_ Posthumus ript, Came crying 'mongst his foes. V.iv.146 (284,7) 'Tis still a dream; or else such stuff, as madmen Tongue, and brain not: either both or nothing: Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such As sense cannot untie. Be what it is, The action of my life is like it] The meaning, which is too thin to be easily caught, I take to be this: _This is a dream or madness, or both--or nothing--but whether it be a speech without consciousness_, as in a dream, _or a speech unintelligible_, as in madness, be it as it is, _it is like my course of life_. We might perhaps read, Whether _both, or nothing_-- V.iv,164 (285,8) sorry that you have paid too much, and sorry that you are paid too much] _Tavern bills_, says the gaoler, _are the sadness of parting, as the procuring of mirth--you depart reeling with too much drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and_--what? _sorry that you are paid too much_. Where is the opposition? I read, _And_ merry _that you are paid_ so _much_. I take the second _paid_ to be _paid_, for _appaid, filled, satiated_. V.iv.171 (286,9) debtor and creditor] For an _accounting book_. V.iv.188 (286,1) jump the after-enquiry] That is, _venture_ at it without thought. So _Macbeth_, "We'd _jump_ the life to come." (see 1765, VII, 382, 7) V.v.9 (288,1) one that promis'd nought/But beggary and poor looks] To promise _nothing but_ poor _looks_, may be, to give no promise of courageous behaviour. V.v.88 (291,2) So feat] So ready; so dextrous in waiting. V.v.93 (291,3) His favour is familiar to me] I am acquainted with his countenance. V.v.120 (292,4) One sand another/Not more resembles. That sweet rosy lad] [W: resembles, than be th' sweet] There was no great difficulty in the line, which, when properly pointed, needs no alteration. V.v.203 (296,8) averring notes/Of chamber-hanging, pictures] Such marks of the chamber and pictures, as _averred_ or confirmed my report. V.v.220 (297,9) the temple/Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself] That is, She was not only _the temple of virtue_, but _virtue herself_. V.v.233 (297,1) these staggers] This wild and delirious perturbation. _Staggers_ is the horse's apoplexy.