[21] "Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride a gallop. Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum.—Claudian. Il n'est orgueil qui de pauvre enrichi.—Fr. There is no pride to the enriched beggar's. Il villan nobilitado non conosce il parentado.—Ital. The villain ennobled will not own his kindred or parentage."—[Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 331.]
[22] That part of a ring in which the stone is set.—Johnson's "Dictionary."
[23] [Old copy, met]
[24] i.e., Sand it, to prevent it from blotting, while the ink was wet.—Steevens.
[25] i.e., compress, embrace her. See Mr Steevens's note on "Macbeth," act v. sc. 5.
[26] That is, no degree of relationship is sufficient to restrain the appetite of lust, scarce that of sister; they even approach to the rim or verge of what is the most prohibited.
[27] The quarto reads, lowde.
[28] The quarto reads, is good.—Steevens.
[29] [Old copy, portion.]
[30] Upon their good is the misreading of one old copy.—Collier.