weedy trophies, and herself,
Fell in the weeping brook.

_Laer._ I forbid my tears: But yet
It is our trick:[52] nature her custom holds,
Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,
The woman will be out.[53]
Adieu, my lord:
I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
But that this folly drowns it.[54]

[_Exeunt._ C.]

END OF ACT FOURTH.

Notes

Act IV

[Footnote IV.1: _Translate:_] Interpret.]

[Footnote IV.2: _In this brainish apprehension_,] Distempered,
brainsick mood.]

[Footnote IV.3: _Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But
never the offence._] When an offender is popular, the people
never consider what his crime was, but they scrutinise his
punishment.]

[Footnote IV.4: _Politick worms_] _i.e._, artful, cunning worms.]

[Footnote IV.5: _The wind at help_,] _i.e._, ready.]

[Footnote IV.6: _May'st not coldly set_] Set is to value or
estimate. "Thou may'st not _set little by it_, or _estimate it
lightly_."]

[Footnote IV.7: _Our sovereign process:_] _i.e._, our royal
design.]

[Footnote IV.8: _By letters conjuring to that effect_,] The verb
to conjure, in the sense of to supplicate, was formerly accented
on the first syllable.]

[Footnote IV.9: _Howe'er my haps_,] Chances of fortune.]

[Footnote IV.10: _His sandal shoon._] Shoon is the old plural of
shoe. The verse is descriptive of a pilgrim. While this kind of
devotion was in favour, love intrigues were carried on under that
mask.]

[Footnote IV.11: _Larded with sweet flowers_;] _i.e._, Garnished
with sweet flowers.]

[Footnote IV.12: _Heaven 'ield you._] Requite; yield you
recompence.]

[Footnote IV.13: _The owl was a baker's daughter._] This is in
reference to a story that was once prevalent among the common
people of Gloucestershire.]

[Footnote IV.14: _Conceit upon her father._] Fancies respecting
her father.]

[Footnote IV.15: _Don'd and dupp'd_] _To don_, is to _do on_, or
_put on_, as _doff_ is to _do off_, or _put off_. To _dupp_ is to
_do up_, or _lift up_ the latch.]

[Footnote IV.16: _In a riotous head_,] The tide, strongly
flowing, is said to pour in with a great _head_.]

[Footnote IV.17: _The chaste unsmirched brow of my true mother._]
_Unsmirched_ is unstained, not defiled.]

[Footnote IV.18: _Doth hedge a king_,] Th