Cleopatra. Why, there’s more gold.
But, sirrah, mark, we use
To say, the dead are well.”[752]
Lastly, commentators have differed as to the meaning of the words of Julia in the “Two Gentlemen of Verona” (i. 2):
“I see you have a month’s mind to them.”
Douce says she refers to the mind or remembrance days of our popish ancestors; persons in their wills having often directed that in a month, or at some other specific time, some solemn office, as a mass or a dirge, should be performed for the repose of their souls. Thus Ray quotes a proverb: “To have a month’s mind to a thing,” and mentions the above custom. For a further and not improbable solution of this difficulty, the reader may consult Dyce’s “Glossary” (p. 277).
FOOTNOTES:
[728] Tylor’s “Primitive Culture,” 1873, vol. i. p. 145.
[729] “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1829, pp. 324-326.
[730] “Annals of Worcester,” 1845.
[731] Harland and Wilkinson’s “Lancashire Folk-Lore,” 1869, p. 268; see “English Folk-Lore,” 1878, pp. 99, 100; also “Notes and Queries,” 1st series, vol. iv. p. 133.
[732] Cf. Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” v. 595-683.