181. [High top-gallant.] The top-gallant mast; figuratively for summit or climax. Steevens quotes Markham, English Arcadia, 1607: "the high top-gallant of his valour." S. uses the term only here.
183. [Quit.] Requite, reward. Cf. Ham. v. 2. 68, 280, etc.
184. [Mistress.] A trisyllable here.
188. [Two may keep counsel.] That is, keep a secret. Cf. T.A. iv. 2. 144: "Two may keep counsel when the third's away."
191. [Lord], etc. Cf. Brooke's poem:—
"A prety babe (quod she) it was when it was yong:
Lord how it could full pretely haue prated with it [its] tong."
194. [Lieve.] Often used for lief in the old eds. It is sometimes found in good writers of recent date. Mätzner quotes Sheridan: "I had as lieve be shot."
195. [Properer.] Handsomer. Cf. A.Y.L. i. 2. 129, iii. 5. 51, etc. See also Hebrews, xi. 23.