[promotion;
And, having that, do choak their service up
Even with the having]
Even with the _promotion_ gained by service is service extinguished.
II.iv.33 (261,4) [If thou remember'st not the slightest folly] I am
inclined to believe that from this passage Suckling took the hint
of his song.
_Honest lover, whosoever,
If in all thy love there ever
Were one wav'ring thought, thy flame
Were not even, still the same.
Know this
Thou lov'st amiss,
And to love true
Thou must begin again and love anew_, &c. (rev. 1778, III,297,4)
II.iv.48 (262,5) [batlet] The instrument with which washers beat
their coarse cloaths.
II.iv.51 (262,6) [two cods] For _cods_ it would be more like sense to
read _peas_, which having the shape of pearls, resembled the common
presents of lovers.
II.iv.55 (262,7) [so is all nature in love, mortal in folly] This
expression I do not well understand. In the middle counties,
_mortal_, from _mort_, a great quantity, is used as a particle of
amplification; as _mortal tall, mortal little_. Of this sense I
believe Shakespeare takes advantage to produce one of his darling
equivocations. Thus the meaning will be, _so is all nature in
love_ abounding _in folly_.
II.iv.87 (263,8) [And in my voice most welcome shall ye be] _In my
voice_, as far as I have a voice or vote, as far as I have power
to bid you welcome.
II.v.56 (265,2) [Duc ad me] For _ducdame_ sir T. Hammer, very acutely
and judiciously, reads _duc ad me_. That is, _bring him to me_.
II.v.63 (266,3) [the first-born of Egypt] A proverbial expression
for high-born persons. (1773)
II.vii.13 (267,4) [A motley fool!--a miserable world.'] [W: miserable
varlet] I see no need of changing _fool_ to _varlet_, nor, if a change
were necessary, can I guess how it should certainly be known that
_varlet_ is the true word. _A miserable world_ is a parenthetical
exclamation, frequent among melancholy men, and natural to Jaques at the
sight of a fool, or at the hearing of reflections on the fragility of
life.
II.vii.44 (268,5) [only suit] _Suit_ means _petition_. I believe, not
_dress_.