37 ([return])
[ Officer: Old ed. "Reader.">[
38 ([return])
[ denies: i.e. refuses.]
39 ([return])
[ convertite: "i.e. convert, as in Shakespeare's KING JOHN, act v. sc. 1." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]
40 ([return])
[ Then we'll take, &c.: In the old ed. this line forms a portion of the preceding speech.]
41 ([return])
[ ecstasy: Equivalent here to—violent emotion. "The word was anciently used to signify some degree of alienation of mind." COLLIER (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]