[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto:—
; the Scrimures[13] of their nation He swore had neither motion, guard nor eye, If you opposd them;]
[Footnote 1: I think the can of the Quarto is the true word.]
[Footnote 2: —in his horsemanship.]
[Footnote 3: There is no mistake in the order 'had he beene'; the transposition is equivalent to if: 'as if he had been unbodied with, and shared half the nature of the brave beast.'
These two lines, from As to thought, must be taken parenthetically; or else there must be supposed a dash after Beast, and a fresh start made.
'But he (as if Centaur-like he had been one piece with the horse) was no more moved than one with the going of his own legs:'
'it seemed, as he borrowed the horse's body, so he lent the horse his mind:'—Sir Philip Sidney. Arcadia, B. ii. p. 115.]
[Footnote 4: '—surpassed, I thought.']
[Footnote 5: 'in invention of.']