[703.] The goodness of the gift lies in the intention of the giver.
[707. those budge doctors of the stoic fur.] Budge is defined by Dr. Murray: “Solemn in demeanor, important-looking, pompous, stiff, formal.” Cowper, in his poem Conversation, has the couplet: “The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.” A doctor of the Stoic fur is a teacher of the Stoic philosophy, who wears a gown of the fur to which his degree of doctor entitles him.
[708. fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub:] teach doctrines learned from the Cynic Diogenes, who is reputed to have lived in a tub.
[719. hutched:] stowed or laid away, as in a chest or hutch.
[721. pulse;] conceived as the simplest kind of food.
[722. frieze;] to be pronounced freeze.
[724. and yet:] and what is yet more.
[728. Who] refers back to Nature.
[734. they below:] the people of the lower world.
[737. coy.] See [Lycidas 18]. cozened. See Merchant of Venice II 9 38.