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1. 5. Terms. Restricting conditions,' 'responsibilities.'

1. 11. Singular and peculiar. 'Single and belonging to itself alone.'

1. 12. Armour of the mind. 'Defensive expedients.'

1. 15. Cease. 'Surcease,'' death'; taking a verb of kindred meaning like "blow is struck," "life is lived." Cf. "die the death."

1. 33. Of vantage. Probably 'from an advantageous place.'

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1. 39. Though my inclination be as strong as my purpose or (1. 40) intent.'

1. 41. Double business. Not twofold task,' but 'task requiring at the same time two businesses, or forms of action.'

1. 51. Past.

'Irrevocable.'

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1. 56. Ambition. Accomplishment of ambition.'

1. 73. Pat.

'Conveniently,'' with advantage.'

1. 75. Would. 'Would like to be,' as in personification ;

'should.'

1. 79. Hire and salary. A thing one might be hired and salaried, in the King's interest, to do.'

1. 80. Full of bread. Not in an ascetic, but a self-indulgent frame of mind.'

1. 83. Circumstance. Point of view.'

1. 12. Question. Talk,' but used of course with punning reference (1. 11) to "answer.

1. 14. Rood. 'Crucifix.'

1. 38. Proof. Perhaps impenetrableness,' rather than 'impenetrable,' on account of the noun following.

1. 42. Rose. Idealizing,' 'transfiguration.'

1. 44. Blister. 'Condition produced by removing the skin.' Cf. Comedy of Errors, II., ii., 138.

1. 46. Contraction. 'Contract-making,' 'making of marriage contracts.'

1. 48. Doth glow. That is, 'with indignation.'

1. 52. Index. 'Preface,' 'prologue.' The index was often placed at the beginning of the volume.

1. 58. Station. Attitude,' 'posture.'

1. 65. Wholesome. Passive, again, as in ii., 249, 311; 'healthy,' 'normal.'

1. 69. Hey-day. Properly 'high-day,' 'time of highest spirits and vigor.'

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1. 72. Motion. Inclination.'

1. 74. Ecstasy. Cf. II., i., 102.

1. 77. Hoodman-blind.

'Blind-man's-buff.'

1. 79. Sans. The French sans, 'without.'

1. 88. Panders will. 'Panders to desire.'

1. 90. Grained. 'Dyed in grain.'

1. 91. Leave their tinct.

'Part with their color.'

1. 92. Enseamed. 'Filthy,' 'nauseating.'

1. 98. Vice of kings. A Vice, or buffoon of the old moralities, trying to play king.

1. 99. Cutpurse. Not 'pick-pocket,' since purses were generally worn in plain sight. The cutpurse cut them from the girdle or other part of the dress to which they were attached. Cf. W. Tale, IV., iv., 622.

1. 102. Of shreds and patches. In reference to the dress of the Vice, which was generally the motley of a fool.

1. 107. Laps'd. 'Derelict'; in "time," because the deed is not yet done; and in "passion," because there is no eager, overmastering disposition, such as he supposes the Ghost would have considered worthy, to do the deed.

1. 112. Amazement. 'Perplexity and fright.'

1. 120. Alarm. Italian all' arme, 'to arms!'

1. 121. Excrements. 'Hair'; nails and feathers were likewise so called.

1. 122. An. Cf. I., v., 19.

1. 123. Distemper. Cf. III., ii., 291.

1. 127. Capable. Susceptive,' 'impressionable.'

1. 135. The Ghost enters (1. 102), according to the quarto of 1603, which is apparently (see Introduction) good authority in such matters, "in his night gowne," or dressing gown.

1. 138. Ecstasy. Cf. II., i., 102.

1. 144. Gambol. Skip,' 'leap with childish alacrity.'

1. 152. My virtue.

'The exactions of my virtue.'

1. 153. Pursy. Corpulent,' 'self-indulgent.'

1. 164. Frock or livery. Suggested probably by the other meaning of "habits."

1. 174. This. This victim.'

1. 175. Their. Refers to heaven, which is sometimes plural.