66. [O'er-perch.] Used by S. nowhere else.
69. [Let.] Hindrance; as in R. of L. 330, 646, and Hen. V. v. 2. 65. Cf. the verb in Ham. i. 4. 85, etc.
78. [Prorogued.] Delayed; as in iv. 1. 48 below. On wanting of, cf. v. 1. 40 below: "Culling of simples."
83. [As that vast shore,] etc. Possibly suggested, as some have thought, by the voyages of Drake and other explorers to America about the time when S. was writing.
84. [Adventure.] Venture, try the chance. Cf. Cymb. iii. 4. 156:—
"O for such means!
Though peril to my modesty, not death on 't,
I would adventure."
89. [Farewell compliment!] Away with formality! The early eds. have "complement" or "complements," as in ii. 4. 19 below and elsewhere.
93. [At lovers' perjuries,] etc. Douce remarks that S. found this in Ovid's Art of Love—perhaps in Marlowe's translation:—