That is, they are trained up in the _cave, where their thoughts_ in hitting the _bow_, or arch of their habitation, _hit the roofs of palaces_. In other words, though their condition is low, their thoughts are high. The sentence is at last, as THEOBALD remarks, abrupt, but perhaps no less suitable to Shakespeare. I know not whether Dr. WARBURTON's conjecture be not better than mine. III.iii.101 (223,2) I stole these babes] Shakespeare seems to intend Belarius for a good character, yet he makes him forget the injury which he has done to the young princes, whom he has robbed of a kingdom only to rob their father of heirs.--The latter part of this soliloquy is very inartificial, there being no particular reason why Belarius should now tell to himself what he could not know better by telling it. III.iv.15 (224,2) drug-damn'd Italy] This is another allusion to Italian poisons. III.iv.39 (225,4) Kings, queens, and states] Persons of highest rank. III.iv.52 (225,6) Some jay of Italy,/Whose mother was her painting] _Some jay of Italy_, made by art the creature, not of nature, but of painting. In this sense _painting_ may be not improperly termed her _mother_. (see 1765, VII, 325, 9) III.iv.63 (226,7) So thou, Posthumus,/Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men] HANMER reads, --lay the _level_-- without any necessity. III.iv.97 (228,1) That now thou tir'st on] A hawk is said to _tire_ upon that which he pecks; from _tirer_, French. III.iv.104 (228,2) I'll wake mine eye-balls blind first. _Imo._ Wherefore then] This is the old reading. The modern editions for _wake_ read _break_, and supply the deficient syllable by _ah_, wherefore. I read, I'll wake mine eye-balls _out_ first, or, _blind_, first. III.iv.111 (228,3) To be unbent] To have thy bow unbent, alluding to a hunter. III.iv.146 (229,4) Now, if you could wear a mind Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise That, which, to appear itself, must not yet be, But by self-danger] To wear a dark mind, is to carry a mind impenetrable to the search of others. _Darkness_ applied to the _mind_ is _secrecy_, applied to the _fortune_ is _obscurity_. The next lines are obscure. _You must_, says Pisanio, _disguise that_ greatness, _which, to appear_ hereafter _in its proper form_, cannot yet appear without great _danger to itself_. (see 1765, VII, 329, 6) III.iv.149 (230,5) full of view] With opportunities of examining your affairs with your own eyes. III.iv.155 (230,6) Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,/I would adventure] I read, _Through_ peril-- _I would for such means adventure_ through _peril of my modesty_; I would risque every thing but real dishonour. III.iv.162 (230,7) nay, you must Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek; Exposing it (but, oh, the harder heart! Alack, no remedy)] I think it very natural to reflect in this distress on the cruelty of Posthumus. Dr. WARBURTON proposes to read, --the harder _hap_!--