III.ii.10 (277,1) [unexpressive] for inexpressible.
III.ii.31 (278,2) [complain of good breeding] I am in doubt whether the custom of the language in Shakespeare's time did not authorise this mode of speech, and make complain of good breeding the same with complain of the want of good breeding. In the last line of the Merchant of Venice we find that to fear the keeping is to fear the not keeping.
III.ii.39 (279,5) [Truly, then art damn'd, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side] Of this jest I do not fully comprehend the meaning.
III.ii.85 (281,1) [bawd to a bell-wether] Wether and ram had anciently the same meaning.
III.ii.135 (282,1)
[Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
That shall civil sayings show]
Civil is here used in the same sense as when we say civil wisdom or civil life, in opposition to a solitary state, or to the state of nature. This desert shall not appear unpeopled, for every tree shall teach the maxims or incidents of social life.
III.ii.149 (283,2) [Therefore heaven nature charg'd] From the picture of Apelles, or the accomplishments of Pandora.
[Greek: Aeanertu, oti pautei dlumpia
Dorou xdorau.—————-]
So before,
—————————-But thou
So perfect, and no peerless art created
Of ev'ry creature's beat. Tempest.