II.iii.26 (413,9) And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?] The voice may _sound_ an _alarm_ more properly than the _eye_ can _sound_ a _parley_. II.iii.46 (413,1) I have drunk but one cap to-night, and that was carefully qualified too] Slily mixed with water. II.iii.59 (414,2) The very elements; As quarrelsome as the as the _discordia semina rerum_; as quick in opposition as fire and water. II.iii.64 (414,3) If consequence do but approve my dream] [T: my deer] This reading is followed by the succeeding editions. I rather read, _If consequence do but approve my scheme_. But why should _dream_ be rejected? Every scheme subsisting only in the imagination may be termed a _dream_. II.iii.93-99 (416,6) _King Stephen was a worthy peer_] These stanzas are taken from an old song, which the reader will find recovered and preserved in a curious work lately printed, intitled, _Relicks of Ancient Poetry_, consisting of old heroic ballands, songs, &c. 3 vols. 12. II.iii.95 (416,7) _lown_] Sorry fellow, paltry wretch. II.iii.135 (417,8) He'll watch the horologe a double set] If he have no drink, he'll keep awake while the clock strikes two rounds, or four and twenty hours. Chaucer uses the ward _horologe_ in more places than one. "Well skirer was his crowing in his loge "Than is a clock or abbey _horologe_."] The bracketed part of Johnson's note is taken verbatim from Zacbary Gray, _Critical ... Notes on Shakespeare_, 1754, II, 316.] (see 1765, VIII, 374, 6) (rev. 1778, I, 503, 9) II.iii.145 (418,9) ingraft infirmity; An infirmity _rooted, settled_ in his constitution. II.iii.175 (419,3) it frights the isle/From her propriety] From her regular and _proper state_. II.iii.180 (419,4) In quarter] In their quarters; at their lodging. II.iii.194 (420,5) you unlace your reputation thus] Slacken, or _loosen_. Put in danger of dropping; or perhaps strip of its ornaments. II.iii.195 (420,6) spend your rich opinion] Throw away and squander a reputation as valuable as yours. II.iii.202 (420,7) self-charity] Care of one's self. II.iii.211 (421,9) he that is approv'd in this offence] He that is convicted by proof, of having been engaged in this offence. II.iii.274 (423,1) cast in his mood] Ejected in his anger. II.iii.343 (425,4) this advice is free] This counsel has an appearance of honest openness, of frank good-will. II.iii.348 (425,5) free elements] Liberal, bountiful, as the elements, out of which all things are produced. II.iii.355 (425,6) to this parallel course] i.e. a course level, and even with his design. II.iii.363 (425,8) That she repeals him] That is, recalls him. II.iii.382 (426,1) Though ether things grew fair against the sun, Yet fruits, that blossom first, will first be ripe]