I read,

--but _we're not_ wise,

Or else _we_ love not; to be wise and love,

Exceeds man's might;--

Cressida, in return to the praise given by Troilus to her wisdom,

replies, "That lovers are never wise; that it is beyond the power of man

to bring love and wisdom to an union."

III.ii.173 (74,8) Might be affronted with the match] I wish "my

integrity might be met and matched with such equality and force of pure

unmingled love."

III.ii.184 (75,2) As true as steel, as plantage to the moon] _Plantage_

is not, I believe, a general term, but the herb which we now call

_plantain_, in Latin, _plantago_, which was, I suppose, imagined to be

under the peculiar influence of the moon.

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