[55] That is, proceed no further.
[56] i.e., Of nature.
[57] Acquaint her with my resolution. To resolve, however, was sometimes used for convince, or satisfy. It may therefore mean, convince her of the propriety of my command. So in Middleton's "More Dissemblers besides Women," act i. sc. 3—
"The blessing of perfection to your thoughts, lady,
For I'm resolv'd they are good ones."
Reed is right in his first explanation; it is so used in Chapman's
"May Day," act i. sc. 1.
"Tell her such a man will resolve her naming me."
—"Anc. Dram.," vol. vi. p. 6.—Gilchrist.
[A few lines further on in the text, however,] resolve has the same meaning as dissolve; and so in Lyly's "Euphues and his England," p. 38: "I could be content to resolve myselfe into teares to rid thee of trouble."
Marlowe, as quoted in "England's Parnassus," 1600, p. 480 [see Dyce's
"Marlowe," iii., 301], uses it in the same way—
"No molten Christall but a Richer mine,
Euen natures rarest alchumie ran there,
Diamonds resolu'd, and substance more diuine.
Through whose bright gliding current might appeare
A thousand naked Nymphes, whose yuorie shine,
Enameling the bankes, made them more deare
Then euer was that glorious Pallas gate.
Where the day-shining sunne in triumph sate."