ACT II

_Enter Chorus._ This is generally put at the end of act i., but, as it refers to the future, rather than the past, it may be regarded as a prologue to act ii. There is no division of acts or scenes in the early eds.

2. _Gapes._ Rushton quotes Swinburn, _Briefe Treatise of Testaments and Last Willes_, 1590: "such personnes as do gape for greater bequests;" and again: "It is an impudent part still to gape and crie upon the testator."

3. On the repetition of _for_, cf. _A.W._ i. 2. 29: "But on us both did haggish age steal on;" _Cor._ ii. 1. 18: "In what enormity is Marcius poor in?" etc. _Fair_ = fair one; as in _M.N.D._ i. 1. 182, etc.

10. _Use._ Are accustomed. We still use the past tense of the verb in this sense, but not the present. Cf. _Temp._ ii. 1. 175: "they always use to laugh at nothing;" _T.N._ ii. 5. 104: "with which she uses to seal;" _A. and C._ ii. 5. 32: "we use To say the dead are well," etc. See also Milton, _Lycidas_, 67: "Were it not better done, as others use," etc.

14. _Extremities._ That is, extreme difficulties or dangers.