[404-45] “If you heed me.”
[404-46] Antonio means, “Which if you do, you shall be three times as great as you are now.”
[405-47] By I am standing water, Sebastian means that he is like the ocean standing between tides, ready to ebb or flow. That is, he is ready to accept suggestions from Antonio.
[405-48] Antonio says in effect, “The more you ridicule the purpose I suggest, the more you welcome it.”
[405-49] Ebbing men, that is, men whose fortunes are at a low ebb.
[405-50] Matter means something of great importance.
[405-51] “It is difficult or painful for you to say what you think.” While both have about the same idea in their minds, neither is quite willing to speak of it openly. It is too cruel and murderous a thought.
[405-52] Francisco.
[405-53] That is, “this lord who remembers little of the favors done him, and will be remembered no better.”
[405-54] Earth’d means buried.