[For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet,
or a fool;
So were there a patch set on learning, to see
him in a school]
The meaning is, to be in a school would as ill become a _patch_,
or low fellow, as folly would become me.
IV.ii.99 (399,2) [_Vinegia. Vinegia, Chi non te vedi, ei non te
pregia_] [This reading is an emendation by Theobald] The proverb,
as I am informed, is this; _He that sees Venice little, values it
much; he that sees it much, values it little_. But I suppose Mr.
Theobald is right, for the true proverb would hot serve the
speaker's purpose.
IV.ii.156 (403,6) [colourable colours] That is specious, or fair
seeming appearances.
IV.iii.3 (403,7) [I am toiling in a pitch] Alluding to lady Rosaline's
complexion, who is through the whole play represented
as a black beauty.
IV.iii.29 (404,8) [The night of dew, that on my cheeks down flows]
I cannot think the _night of dew_ the true reading, but know not
what to offer.
IV.iii.47 (405,9) [he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers] The
punishment of perjury is to wear on the breast a paper expressing
the crime.
IV.iii.74 (406,2) [the liver-vein] The liver was anciently supposed
to be the seat of love.
IV.iii.110 (408,5) [_Air, would I might triumph so_!] Perhaps we may
better read,