"Stay, passenger, and wail the best of kings.
"this little stone a great king's heart doth hold,
"Who rul'd the fickle French and Polacks bold:
"So frail are even the highest earthly things,
"Go, passenger, and wail the hap of kings." (rev. 1776, I, 174,3)
I.i.65 (149,2) and just at this dead hour] The old reading is, jump at this same hour; same is a kind of correlative to jump; just is in the oldest folio. The correction was probably made by the author.
I.i.68 (149,4) gross and scope] General thoughts, and tendency at large. (1773)
I.i.93 (151,7) And carriage of the articles design'd] Carriage, is import; design'd, is formed, drawn up between them.
I.i.96 (151,8) Of unimproved mettle hot and full] Full of unimproved mettle, is full of spirit not regulated or guided by knowledge or experience.
I.i.100 (151,1) That hath a stomach in't] Stomach, in the time of our author, was used for constancy, resolution.