While others fish, with craft, for great opinion,
I, with great truth, catch mere simplicity.]
The meaning, I think, is, _while others_, by their art, gain high
estimation, I, by honesty, obtain a plain simple approbation.
IV.iv.109 (103,6) the moral of my wit/Is, _plain and true_] That is, the
_governing principle of my understanding_; but I rather think we should
read,
--the _motto_ of my wit
Is, plain and true,--
IV.iv.114 (103,7) possess thee what she is] I will _make thee fully
understand_. This sense of the word _possess_ is frequent in our author.
IV.iv.134 (104,9) I'll answer to my list] This, I think, is right,
though both the old copies read _lust_.
IV.v.8 (105,1) bias cheek] Swelling out like the bias of a bowl.
IV.v.37 (106,3) I'll make my match to live./The kiss you take is better
than you give] I will make such _bargains_ as I may live by, _such as
may bring me profit_, therefore will not take a worse kiss than I give.
IV.v.48 (107,4) Why, beg then] For the sake of rhime we should read,
Why beg _two_.
If you think kisses worth begging, beg more than one.
IV.v.52 (107,5) Never's my day, and then a kiss of you] I once gave both
these lines to Cressida. She bids Ulysses beg a kiss; he asks that he
may have it,