203. [Mark-man.] The 3d and 4th folios have "marks-man." S. uses the word nowhere else.
206. [Dian's wit.] Her way of thinking, her sentiments. S. has many allusions to Diana's chastity, and also to her connection with the moon.
207. [Proof.] Used technically of armour. Cf. Rich. II. i. 3. 73: "Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers;" Ham. ii. 2. 512: "Mars's armour forg'd for proof eterne," etc.
209. [The siege,] etc. Cf. V. and A. 423:—
"Remove your siege from my unyielding heart;
To love's alarm it will not ope the gate."
See also R. of L. 221, A.W. iii. 7. 18, Cymb. iii. 4. 137, etc.
213. [That when she dies,] etc. "She is rich in beauty, and only poor in being subject to the lot of humanity, that her store, or riches, can be destroyed by death, who shall, by the same blow, put an end to beauty" (Johnson); or, as Mason puts it, "she is poor because she leaves no part of her store behind her." Her store may mean "beauty's store," as Dowden suggests. Cf. V. and A. 1019: "For he, being dead, with him is beauty slain."
215. [In that sparing makes huge waste.] Cf. Sonn. 1. 12: "And, tender churl, makes waste in niggarding."
216. [Starv'd.] The early eds. (except the 4th folio) have "sterv'd," the old form of the word, found in several other passages in the folio (M. of V. iv. 1. 138, Cor. iv. 2. 51, etc.) and rhyming with deserve in Cor. ii. 3. 120. Cf. Spenser, F.Q. iv. 1. 4:—