I.iv.73 (183,1) deprive your sovereignty] I believe _deprive_ in this place signifies simply to _take away_. I.iv.77 (184,4) confin'd to fast in fires] I am rather inclined to read, _confin'd to_ lasting _fires_, to fires _unremitted_ and _unconsumed_. The change is slight. I.v.30 (186,7) As meditation or the thoughts of love] The comment [Warburton's] on the word _meditation_ is so ingenious, that I hope it is just. I.v.77 (188,6) Unhonsel'd, disappointed, unaneal'd] This is a very difficult line. I think Theobald's objection to the sense of _unaneal'd_, for _notified by the bell_, must be owned to be very strong. I have not yet by my enquiry satisfied myself. Hanmer's explication of _unaneal'd_ by _unprepar'd_, because to _anneal_ metals, is to _prepare_ them in manufacture, is too general and vague; there is no resemblance between any funeral ceremony and the practice of _annealing_ metals. _Disappointed_ is the same as _unappointed_, and may be properly explained _unprepared_; a man well furnished with things necessary for any enterprize, was said to be well _appointed_. I.v.80 (190,7) Oh, horrible! oh, horrible! most horrible!] It was ingeniously hinted to me by a very learned lady, that this line seems to belong to Hamlet, in whose mouth it is a proper and natural exclamation; and who, according to the practice of the stage, may be supposed to interrupt so long a speech. (1773) I.v.154 (193,5) Swear by my sword] [Here the poet has preserved the manners of the ancient Danes, with whom it was _religion_ to swear upon their swords. WARBURTON.] I was once inclinable to this opinion, which is likewise well defended by Mr. Upton; but Mr. Garrick produced me a passage, I think, in _Brantoms_, from which it appeared, that it was common to swear upon the sword, that is, upon the cross which the old swords always had upon the hilt. II.i.25 (197,8) drinking, fencing, swearing] I suppose, by _fencing_ is meant a too diligent frequentation of the fencing-school, a resort of violent and lawless young men. II.i.46 (197,4) _Good Sir_, or so, or _friend_, or _gentleman_] [W: sire] I know not that _sire_ was ever a general word of compliment, as distinct from _sir_; nor do I conceive why any alteration should be made. It is a common mode of colloquial language to use, _or so_, as a slight intimation of more of the same, or a like kind, that might be mentioned. We might read, but we need not, _Good sir_, forsooth, _or friend, or gentleman_. _Forsooth_, a term of which I do not well know the original meaning, was used to men as well as to women. II.i.71 (198,5) Observe his inclination in yourself] HANMER reads, _e'en_ yourself, and is followed by Dr. Warburton; but perhaps _in_ yourself means, _in your own person_, not by spies. II.i.112 (200,7) I had not quoted him] To _quote_ is, I believe, to _reckon_, to take an account of, to take the _quotient_ or result of a computation. II.i.114 (201,8)