I.i.90 (278,9) A thousand moral paintings I can shew] Shakespeare seems to intend in this dialogue to express some competition between the two great arts of imitation. Whatever the poet declares himself to have shewn, the painter thinks he could have shewn better. (1773) I.i.107 (279,1) 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,/But to support him after] This thought is better expressed by Dr. Madden in his elegy on archbishop Boulter. --_He thought it mean Only to help the poor to beg again._ I.i.129 (280,2) Therefore he will be, Timon] I rather think an emendation necessary, and read, _Therefore_ well be him, _Timon. His honesty rewards him in itself._ That is, _If he in honest_, bene fit illi, _I wish him the proper happiness of an honest man, but his honesty gives him no claim to my daughter_. The first transcriber probably wrote _will be him_, which the next, not understanding, changed to, _he will be_. (1773) I.i.149 (281,3) never may That state, or fortune, fall into my keeping, Which is not ow'd to you!] The meaning is, let me never henceforth consider any thing that I possess, but as _owed_ or _due_ to you; held for your service, and at your disposal. I.i.159 (281,4) pencil'd figures are/Even such as they give out] Pictures have no hypocrisy; they are what they profess to be. I.i.165 (282,5) unclew me quite] To _unclew_, is to _unwind_ a ball of thread. To _unclew_ a man, is to draw out the whole mass of his fortunes. I.i.171 (282,5) Are prized by their masters] Are rated according to the, esteem in which their possessor is held. I.i.178 (282,8) _Tim._ Good-morrow to thee, gentle Apemantua! _Apam._ 'Till I be gentle, stay for thy good-morrow. When thou art Timon's dog, and these knaves honest,--] [Warburton conjectured a line lost and added one of his own making] I think my punctuation may clear the passage without any greater effort. I.i.180 (283,9) Then thou art Timon's dog] When thou hast gotten a better character, and instead of being Timon, as thou art, shalt be changed to Timon's dog, and become more worth; of kindness and salutation. (1773) I.i.241 (284,9) That I had no angry wit to be a lord] [W: so hungry a wit] The meaning may be, I should hate myself for _patiently enduring to be a lord_. This is ill enough expressed. Perhaps some happy change may set it right. I have tried, and can do nothing, yet I cannot heartily concur with Dr. Warburton. I.i.259 (286,2) The strain of man's bred out/Into baboon and monkey] Man is exhausted and degenerated; his _strain_ or lineage is worn down into monkey. I.ii.12 (288,5) If our betters play at that game, we must not dare To imitate them. Faults that are rich, are fair]