IV.xii.29 (227,4) to the very heart of loss] To the utmost loss possible. IV.xii.45 (228,7) Let me lodge, Lichas] Sir T. Hanmer reads thus, --thy _rage_ Led thee _lodge Lichas_--and-- _Subdue_ thy _worthiest self_.-- This reading, harsh as it is, Dr. Warburton has received, after having rejected many better. The meaning is, Let me do something in my rage, becoming the successor of Hercules, IV.xiv.19 (230,2) Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false play'd my glory/Unto an enemy's triumph] [Warburton had explained and praised Shakespeare's "metaphor"] This explanation is very just, the thought did not deserve so good an annotation. IV.xiv.39 (231,3) The battery from my heart] I would read, This _battery from my heart_.-- IV.xiv.49 (232,4) Seal then, and all is done] I believe the reading is, --seel _then, and all is done_-- To _seel hawks_, is to close their eyes. The meaning will be, --_since the torch is out, Lie down, and stray no further. How all labour Marrs what it does_.--Seel _then, and all is done_. Close thine eyes _for ever, and be quiet_. IV.xiv.73 (233,5) pleach'd arms] Arms folded in each other. IV.xiv.77 (233,6) His baseness that ensued?] The poor conquered wretch that followed. IV.xiv.86 (233,7) the worship of the whole world] The _worship_, is the _dignity_, the _authority_. IV.xv.9 (237,9) O sun, Burn the great sphere thou mov'st in!--darkling stand The varying shore o' the world] She desires the sun, to _burn_ his own _orb_, the vehicle of light, and then the earth will be dark. IV.xv.19-23 (237,1) I here importune death] [Theobald had regularized the versification and had added two words] Mr. Theobald's emendation is received by the succeeding editors; but it seems not necessary that a dialogue so distressful should be nicely regular. I have therefore preserved the original reading in the text, and the emendation below. IV.xv.28 (238,2) still conclusion] Sedate determination; silent coolness of resolution. IV.xv.32 (236,3) Here's sport, indeed!] I suppose the meaning of these strange words is, _here's_ trifling, _you_ do not work _in earnest_. IV.xv.39 (239,4) Quicken with kissing] That is, _Revive by my kiss_. IV.xv.44 (239,6) That the false huswife Fortune break her wheel] This despicable line has occurred before. IV.xv.65 (240,8) The soldier's pole] He at whom the soldiers pointed, as at a pageant held high for observation. IV.xv.72 (240,9) _Char_. Peace, peace, Iras. _Cleo_. No more--but e'en a woman] [W: peace, Isis] Of this note it may be truly said, that it at least deserves to be right, nor can he, that shall question the justness of the emendation, refuse his esteem to the ingenuity and learning with which it is proposed. Hanmer had proposed another emendation, not injudiciously. He reads thus, Iras. _Royal Aegypt! empress!_ Cleo. _Peace, peace, Iras. No more but a mere woman_, &c. That is, _no more an empress, but a mere woman_.