Like that self-begotten bird In th' Arabian woods embost. Which no second knows or third.
III.vi.III (87,7) [ere we case him] This is, before we strip him naked. (1773)
III.vii.9 (88,2) [to your sworn council] To your private knowledge, after having required from you an oath of secrecy.
III.vii.21 (88,9) [Now his important blood will nought deny] Important here, and elsewhere, is importunate.
IV.i.16 (90,2) [some band of strangers i' the adversary's entertainment]
That is, foreign troops in the enemy's pay.
Iv.i.44 (91,3) [the instance] The proof.
IV.ii.13 (94,5)
[No more of that!
I pr'ythee, do not strive against my vows:
I was compell'd to her]
I know not well what Bertram can mean by entreating Diana not to strive against his vows. Diana has just mentioned his wife, so that the vows seem to relate to his marriage. In this sense not Diana, but himself, strives against his vows. His vows indeed may mean vows made to Diana; but, in that case, to strive against is not properly used for to reject, nor does this sense cohere well with his first exclamation of impatience at the mention of his wife. No more of that! Perhaps we might read,
I Pr'ythee do not drive _against my vows.