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- 1 66 Notes [Act II
recreant knight by hacking off his spurs ; and Clarke thinks that
the meaning may be " Your companion knights would hack you
from them ; and thus you would not improve your degree of rank."
52. We burn daylight. We waste time ; as is evident from the
other instance of the expression in R. and J. i. 4. 43 : —
" Mercutio. Come, we burn daylight, ho !
Romeo. Nay, that 's not so.
Mercutio. I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
55. Men's liking. That is, their bodily condition. Cf. i Hen.
IV. iii. 3. 6 : "I '11 repent, while I am in some liking " (that is,
while I have some flesh). See also Job, xxxix. 4 : "Their young
ones are in good liking." In Baret's Alvearie we find, " If one be
in better plight of bodie, or better liking. Si qua habitior paulo,
pugilem esse aiunt. Ter."
60. Hundredth Psalm. The folios have " hundred Psalms."
61. Green Sleeves was a popular song of a very free sort. It is
mentioned again in v. 5. 20 below.
66. Melted him in his o-ivn grease. Steevens quotes Chaucer,
C. T. 6069 : " That in his owen grese I made him frie."
76. Press. " Used ambiguously, for a press to print, and a press
to squeeze" (Johnson).
79. Turtles. That is, turtle-doves ; the emblem of chaste and
faithful love. Cf. iii. 3. 43 below.
84. Honesty. Chastity ; as in 99, ii. 2. 74, 235 below. Cf. the
adjective in i. 4. 139 above, and 163, ii. 2. 223, iv. 2. 104, etc., below.
86. Strain. Natural disposition or tendency. Cf. iii. 3. 188
below : " all of the same strain." There, however, it may be
figuratively = stock, race ; as in /. C. v. i. 59 : " the noblest of
thy strain," etc. In all these we see the common idea of some-
thing native, natural, or innate.
87. Boarded me. Cf. Much Ado, ii. i. 149 : "I would he had
boarded me ; " Ham. ii. 2. 170 : "I '11 board him presently," etc.
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