IV.iii.44 (352,8) Thou'rt quick] Thou hast life and motion in thee. IV.iii.64 (353,9) I will not kiss thee] This alludes to an opinion in former times, generally prevalent, that the venereal infection transmitted to another, left the infecter free. I will not, says Timon, take the rot from thy lips by kissing thee. IV.iii.72 (353,1) _Tim._ Promise me friendship, but perform none. If Thou wilt not promise, the Gods plague thee, for Thou art a man; if thou dost perform, confound thee, For thou art a man!] That is, however thou may'st act, since thou art man, hated man, I wish thee evil. IV.iii.82 (354,2) Be a whore still! They love thee not that use thee; Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust: Make use of thy salt hours] There is here a slight transposition. I would read, --_They love thee not that use thee, Leaving with thee their lust; give them diseases; Make use of thy salt hours; season the slaves For tubs and baths_;-- IV.iii.115 (356,6) milk-paps,/That through the window-bars bore at mens' eyes] [W: window-lawn] The reading is more probably, --_window-bar_,-- The virgin that shews her bosom through the lattice of her chamber. IV.iii.119 (356,8) exhaust their mercy] For _exhaust_, sir T. Hanmer, and after him Dr. Warburton, read _extort_; but _exhaust_ here signifies literally to _draw forth_. IV.iii.120 (356,7) Think it a bastard, whom the oracle Hath doubtfully prunounc'd thy throat shall cut] An allusion to the tale of OEdipus. IV.iii.134 (357,8) And to make whores a bawd] [W: make whole] The old edition reads, _And to make whores a bawd._ That is, _enough to make a whore leave whoring, and a bawd leave making whores_. IV.iii.139 (357,9) I'll trust to your conditions] You need not swear to continue whores, I will trust to your inclinations. IV.iii.140 (358,1) Yet may your pains, six months,/Be quite contrary] The explanation [Warburton's] is ingenious, but I think it very remote, and would willingly bring the author and his readers to meet on easier terms. We may read, --_Yet may your pains six months Be quite_ contraried.-- Timon is wishing ill to mankind, but is afraid lest the whores should imagine that he wishes well to them; to obviate which he lets them know, that he imprecates upon them influence enough to plague others, and disappointments enough to plague themselves. He wishes that they may do all possible mischief, and yet take _pains six months_ of the year in vain. In this sense there is a connection of this line with the next. Finding _your pains contraried_, try new expedients, _thatch your thin roofs_, and _paint_. To _contrary_ is on old verb. Latymer relates, that when he went to court, he was advised not to _contrary_ the king. IV.iii.153 (359,3) mens' spurring] Hanmer reads _sparring_, properly enough, if there be any ancient example of the word. IV.iii.158 (359,5)