III.iii.26 (384,4) and to have his word/Of contradiction] _To have his word of contradiction_ is no more than, _he is used to contradict_; and _to have his word_, that is, _not to be opposed_. We still say of an obstinate disputant, _he will have the last word_. III.iii.29 (384,5) which looks/With us to break his neck] To _look_ is to _wait_ or _expect_. The sense I believe is, _What he has in his heart_ is waiting there _to help us to break his neck_. III.iii.57 (386,8) Rather than envy you] _Envy_ is here taken at large for _malignity_ or ill intention. III.iii.64 (386,9) season'd office] All _office established_ and _settled_ by time, and made familiar to the people by long use. III.iii.96 (387,1) has now at last] Read rather, --has _now at last_ [instead of _as now at last_]. III.iii.97 (387,2) not in the presence] _Not_ stands again for _not only_. III.iii.114 (388,3) My dear wife's estimate] I love my country beyond the rate at which I _value my dear wife_. III.iii.127 (389,4) Have the power still To banish your defenders'; till, at length, Your ignorance, (which finds not, till it feels)] _Still retain the power of banishing your defenders, till your undiscerning folly, which can foresee no consequences, leave none in the city but yourselves, who are always labouring your own destruction._ It is remarkable, that, among the political maxims of the speculative Harrington, there is one which he might have borrowed from this speech. _The people_, says he, _cannot see, but they can feel_. It is not much to the honour of the people, that they have the same character of stupidity from their enemy and their friend. Such was the power of our authour's mind, that he looked through life in all its relations private and civil. IV.i.7 (390,1) Fortune's blows,/When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves/A noble cunning] This it the ancient and authentick reading. The modern editors have, for _gentle wounded_, silently substituted _gently warded_, and Dr. Warburton has explained _gently_ by _nobly_. It is good to be sure of our authour's words before we go about to explain their meaning. The sense is, When Fortune strikes her hardest blows, to be wounded, and yet continue calm, requires a generous policy. He calls this calmness _cunning_, because it is the effect of reflection and philosophy. Perhaps the first emotions of nature are nearly uniform, and one man differs from another in the power of endurance, as he is better regulated by precept and instruction. _They bore as heroes, but they felt as men_. (see 1765, VI, 577, 9) IV.i.33 (391,3) cautelous baits and practice] By artful and false tricks, and treason. IV.ii.15 (393,6) _Sic._ Are you mankind? _Vol._ Ay, fool; Is that a shame? Note but this fool. Was not a man my father?]