88. [Did read by rote,] etc. "Consisted of phrases learned by heart, but knew nothing of the true characters of love" (Schmidt).
93. [I stand on sudden haste.] I must be in haste. Cf. the impersonal use of stand on or upon = it concerns, it is important to; as in C. of E. iv. 1. 68: "Consider how it stands upon my credit;" Rich. II. ii. 3. 138: "It stands your grace upon to do him right" (that is, it is your duty), etc. Cf. ii. 4. 34 below.
Scene IV.—
2. [To-night.] Last night. See on i. 4. 50 above.
13. [How he dares.] For the play on dare = venture, and dare = challenge, cf. 2 Hen. VI. iii. 2. 203. There is also a play on answer.
15. [A white wench's black eye.] Cf. L. L. L. iii. 1. 108:—
"A whitely wanton with a velvet brow,
And two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;"
and Rosalind's reference to the "bugle eyeballs" of Phebe in A. Y.L. iii. 5, 47, which the shepherdess recalls as a sneer: "He said mine eyes were black," etc.