"My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous."
Act iv. Sc. 8.
On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his
argument in Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act i. Sc. 3.:--
"Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow
their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought
stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a _black cyprus_."
--Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33.
On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is
from Donne:--
"If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not
embarred."
--_Poems_, p. 249. Ed. 4to. 1633.