Your sex are so, such false dissemblers all."
—Thomas Otway's Orphan, A. ii.
Milton applies it to a woman, but Otway to the men.'—Newton.
[760, 761]. not to reject the penitent: an obvious allusion to Milton's forgiveness of his first wife, after her two years' abandonment of him.
[803]. That made for me: helped my purpose (i.e. to keep you from leaving me as you did her at Timna).
[842]. Or: Keightley suspects that 'or' should be 'and' here, as 'or' does not connect well with what precedes.
[868]. respects: considerations; 'there's the respect that makes calamity of so long life.'—Hamlet, III. i. 68, 69.
[906]. peals: peals of words. See l. [235].
[932, 933]. trains, gins, toils: these words all express modes of entrapping any one or anything.
[934]. thy fair enchanted cup: an allusion to Circe and the Sirens.