Florio translates (514):—
No Pigeons hen, or paire, or what worse name
You list, makes with hir Snow-white cock such game,
With biting bill to catch when she is kist,
As many-minded women when they list.
Is not this the character of Ophelia, as described by Shakspere—the
virgin inclining to voluptuousness in Goethe's view?
79: Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5. In Eastward Hoe, Marston, Chapman, and Jonson make capital out of this word, and use it as a sneer against Hamlet and Ophelia. We shall return to this point later on.
80: Florio, 617.
81: Act iv. sc. 5.
82: Laertes, act i. sc. 3:—
For nature crescent does not grow alone
In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,
The inward service of the mind and soul
Grows wide withal.
Montaigne, II. 12; Florio, 319:
The mind is with the body bred we do behold,
It jointly growes with it, it waxeth old.—Lucr. xliii. 450.