SCENE V.--7. _Love._ That is, Venus. Cf. _Temp._ iv. 1. 94:--

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"I met her deity Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son Dove-drawn with her;"

and _V. and A._ 1190:--

"Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves."

9. _Highmost._ Cf. _Sonn._ 7. 9: "But when from highmost pitch, with weary ear," etc. We still use _hindmost_, _topmost_, etc.

11. _Hours._ A dissyllable; as in iii. 1. 198.

14. _Bandy._ A metaphor from tennis. Cf. _L. L. L._ v. 2. 29: "Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd," etc. See on iii. 1. 91 below.

18. _Honey nurse._ Cf. _L. L. L._ v. 2. 530: "my fair, sweet, honey monarch;" _T. of S._ iv. 3. 52: "my honey love," etc.

22. _Them._ S. makes _news_ both singular and plural. For the latter, cf. _Much Ado_, i. 2. 4.

25. _Give me leave._ Let me alone, let me rest. See on i. 3. 7 above.

26. _Ache._ Spelt "ake" in the folio both here and in 49 below. This indicates the pronunciation of the verb. The noun was pronounced _aitch_, and the plural was a dissyllable; as in _Temp._ i. 2. 370, _T. of A._ i. 1. 257, etc.

36. _Stay the circumstance._ Wait for the particulars. Cf. _A.Y.L._ iii. 2. 221: "let me stay the growth of his beard," etc. On _circumstance_, cf. v. 3. 181 below: "without circumstance" (= without further particulars). See also _V. and A._ 844, _Ham._ v. 2. 2, etc.

38. _Simple._ Silly; as often. Cf. iii. 1. 35 below, and _simpleness_ in iii. 3. 77.

43. _Past compare._ Cf. iii. 5. 236 below: "above compare," etc.

50. _As._ As if; a common ellipsis.

51. _O' t'other._ On the other. Cf. i. 1. 44 above: "of our side."

52. _Beshrew._ A mild form of imprecation, often used playfully. Cf. iii. 5. 221, 227 below.

56-58. _Your love_, etc. Printed as prose by the Cambridge editors, Daniel, and some others.

66. _Coil._ Ado, "fuss." See _Much Ado_, iii. 3. 100, _M.N.D._ iii. 2. 339, etc.

72. _Straight at any news._ Capell explains it, "at such talk (of love and Romeo), _any_ talk of that kind." Perhaps, as Dowden suggests, the meaning is, "It is their way to redden at any surprise."