[152] Preserves, sweetmeats.
[153] A reference to Arctic voyages.
[154] In full course. A metaphor from the jousting-ground.
[155] This trick of a woman, caught with a lover, to deceive her husband is frequently employed by the Italian novelists.
[156] An allusion, of course, to the Straits of Gibraltar, where Hercules was supposed to have set up columns forbidding further exploration of the ocean.
[157] i.e. Tangible, yielding impressions to the senses of another person.
[158] So in Two Noble Kinsmen pleurisy is used for plethora—"The pleurisy of people."
[159] i.e. A farthing.
[160] See on page [263], Sebastian's exclamation, "A rape!" near end of Act i., sc. 4.
[161] "Means" are here equivalent to voices intermediate between treble and bass, as tenors. Collins adduces a passage from Lyly's Galathea (Act v., sc. 3), where there is a similar play on words.