[141] Sugar-plums perfumed for sweetening the breath. [142] _i.e._ Earnest. [143] With which it was the custom to strew the floors. [144] The quarto drops the "her." [145] At the siege of Ostend, which is described in Borachio's speech. [146] Appearance. This meaning passes into that of countenance. [147] This way of description, which seems unwilling ever to leave off weaving parenthesis within parenthesis, was brought to its height by Sir Philip Sidney. He seems to have set the example to Shakespeare. Many beautiful instances may be found all over the _Arcadia_. These bountiful wits always give full measure, pressed down and overflowing.--_Charles Lamb._ [148] Play on the double meaning--clown, leathern flagon--of the word "jack." [149] With the O of one in pain. An odd and tragical application of a rule from the Latin grammar.--_Collins._ [150] Sanctified Puritan. [151] To man is to attend or escort. [152] Preserves, sweetmeats. [153] A reference to Arctic voyages. [154] In full course. A metaphor from the jousting-ground. [155] This trick of a woman, caught with a lover, to deceive her husband is frequently employed by the Italian novelists. [156] An allusion, of course, to the Straits of Gibraltar, where Hercules was supposed to have set up columns forbidding further exploration of the ocean. [157] _i.e._ Tangible, yielding impressions to the senses of another person. [158] So in _Two Noble Kinsmen_ pleurisy is used for plethora--"The pleurisy of people." [159] _i.e._ A farthing. [160] See on page 263, Sebastian's exclamation, "A rape!" near end of Act i., sc. 4. [161] "Means" are here equivalent to voices intermediate between treble and bass, as tenors. Collins adduces a passage from Lyly's _Galathea_ (Act v., sc. 3), where there is a similar play on words. [162] _i.e._ A lordship, Ital. _Signoria_; Fr. _Seigneurie_. [163] _i.e._ Bond, contract. [164] What pretty fancies you have. [165] Savin, an irritant poison, has long been in popular use to induce abortion in women. [166] Also spelt _popering_. A particular species of pear. [167] This is obscure, but it probably refers to the Italian music phrase _largo_. [168] Articles of millinery: veils and headdresses. [169] The simile is from legal documents in which one superfluous letter might nullify a deed. [170] A flatulent swelling of the abdomen. [171] Too narrowly dispute the reason of an accident favourable to myself. [172] _i.e._ Surrender myself to justice. [173] Play upon the word "bill," which meant in one sense a stout staff with an iron blade at one end, like a partizan. [174] _i.e._ Countenance. [175] _i.e._ Arrested. [176] Clear up the doubt conveyed in your question. [177] Shakespeare uses this word in two senses, as "pressing business" and "extremity." [178] _i.e._ A subject for dissection.