112. [Banished.] Note how the trisyllabic pronunciation is emphatically repeated in this speech; as in Romeo's in the next scene (19-50).

116. [Sour woe delights,] etc. That is, "misfortunes never come single." Cf. Ham. iv. 5. 78:—

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies,

But in battalions."

117. [Needly will.] Needs must. Needly was not coined by S., as some have supposed, being found in Piers Plowman and other early English. He uses it only here.

120. [Modern.] Trite, commonplace; the only meaning of the word in S. See A.Y.L. ii. 7. 156, Macb. iv. 3. 170, etc.

121. [Rearward.] Cf. Sonn. 90. 6:—

"Ah! do not, when my heart hath scap'd this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe"—

(that is, to attack me anew); and Much Ado, iv. 1. 128:—