See also Mr Steevens's note on "Romeo and Juliet," act i. sc. 5.
[341] This sentiment, and many others in the course of the play, are borrowed: it is a translation from a very well known passage in Tacitus: solitudinem faciunt, &c.—Collier.
[342] i.e., Poignard, sword. So in "The Return from Parnassus"—
"Strikes his poynado at a button's breadth."
[343] Alluding to Spenser's celebrated poem.—Steevens.
[344] See note to "Albumazar," [xi. 346.]
[345] The Tower of London, said to have been built by Julius Cæsar.
[346] [The winter solstice.]
[347] The 4o has it—
"The sea with rivers' water doth
The plants and flowers dainty."