IV.v.175 (297,2) There's rosemary, that'll far rememberance. Pray you, love, remember. And there's pansies, that's for thoughts] There is probably some mythology in the choice of these herbs, but I cannot explain it. _Pansies_ is for _thoughts_, because of its name, _Pensees_; but _rosemary_ indicates _remembrance_, except that it is an ever-green, and carried at funerals, I have not discovered. IV.v.214 (300,7) No trophy, sword, nor batchment] It was the custom, in the times of our author, to hang a sword over the grave of a knight. IV.v.218 (300,8) And where the offence is, let the great axe fall] [W: tax] _Fall_ corresponds better to _axe_. IV.vi.26 (301,9) _for the bore of the matter_] The _bore_ is the calibier of a gun, or the capacity of the barrel. _The matter_ (says Hamlet) _would carry the heavier words_. IV.vii.18 (302,1) the general gender] The _common race_ of the people. IV.vii.19 (302,2) dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces] This simile is neither very seasonable in the deep interest of this conversation, nor very accurately applied. If the _spring_ had changed base metals to gold, the thought had been more proper. IV.vii.27 (302,3) if praises may go back again] If I may praise what has been, but is now to be found no more. IV.vii.77 (304,5) Of the unworthiest siege] Of the lowest rank. _Siege_, for _seat, place_. IV.vii.82 (304,6) Importing health and graveness] [W: wealth] _Importing_ here may be, not _inferring_ by logical consequence, but _producing_ by physical effect. A young man regards show in his dress, an old man, _health_. IV.vii.90 (305,7) I, in forgery of shapes and tricks/Come short of what he did] I could not contrive so many proofs of dexterity as he could perform. IV.vii.98 (305,8) in your defence] That is, _in the science of_ defence. IV.vii.101 (305,9) The scrimers] The _fencers_. IV.vii.112 (305,1) love is begun by time] This is obscure. The meaning may be, _love_ is not innate in us, and co-essential to our nature, but begins at a certain time from some external cause, and being always subject to the operations of time, suffers change and diminution. (1773) IV.vii.113 (300,2) in passages of proof] In transactions of daily experience. IV.vii.123 (306,4) And then this _should_ is like a spendthrift sigh/ That hurts by easing] [W: sign] This conjecture is so ingenious, that it can hardly be opposed, but with the same reluctance as the bow is drawn against a hero, whose virtues the archer holds in veneration. Here may be applied what Voltaire writes to the empress: _Le genereux Francois-- Te combat & t'admire._ Yet this emendation, however specious, is mistaken. The original reading is, not a _spendthrift's_ sigh, but a _spendthrift_ sigh; a _sigh_ that makes an unnecessary waste of the vital flame. It is a notion very prevalent, that _sighs_ impair the strength, and wear out the animal powers.