[42], [57-58]. his retiring . . . aspiring: his retirement to a position of inferiority will satisfy my aspirations.
[43], [70-71]. Wise wives . . . friend. Tamyra ironically keeps up the metaphor of the "two strings" in [l. 66], and plays upon the double senses of "firm" and "loose" in archery and morals.
[44], [95]. as good cheap as it: literally, on as advantageous terms as; hence, with as little effort as, as readily as.
[45], [108-10]. Whose there . . . quality. Cf. All Fools, ii, 1, p. 67 (Phelps).
While I sit like a well-taught writing-woman
Turning her eyes upon some work or picture,
Read in a book, or take a feigned nap,
While her kind lady takes one to her lap.
[45], [117]. oportunities: importunities, which Dilke wished to substitute. But "opportunity" was used in this sense. Cf. Mer. Wiv. Wind. iii, 4, 20-2.
"Yet seeke my Fathers love, still seeke it, sir;
If opportunity and humblest suite
Cannot attain it, why then harke you hither."
[45], [121-122]. as to their pardons . . . Parliaments. The meaning appears to be: as the exceptions they make, after Parliaments have ceased to sit, are to the pardons they have granted.