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olour_] Black--night-like.] [Footnote I.34: _Vailed lids_] Cast down.] [Footnote I.35: _Which passeth show_;] _i.e._, "external manners of lament."] [Footnote I.36: _Trappings_] _Trappings_ are "furnishings."] [Footnote I.37: _That father lost, lost his_;] "That lost father (of your father, _i.e._, your grandfather), or father so lost, lost his.]" [Footnote I.38: _Do obsequious sorrow:_] Follow with becoming and ceremonious observance the memory of the deceased.] [Footnote I.39: _But to persever_] This word was anciently accented on the second syllable.] [Footnote I.40: _Obstinate condolement_,] Ceaseless and unremitted expression of grief.] [Footnote I.41: _Incorrect to Heaven._] Contumacious towards Heaven.] [Footnote I.42: _Unprevailing_] Fruitless, unprofitable.] [Footnote I.43: _Sits smiling to my heart:_] _To_ is _at_: gladdens my heart.] [Footnote I.44: _In grace whereof_,] _i.e._, respectful regard or honour of which.] [Footnote I.45: _No jocund health, that Denmark drinks to-day_,] Dr. Johnson remarks, that the king's intemperance is very strongly impressed; everything that happens to him gives him occasion to drink. The Danes were supposed to be hard drinkers.] [Footnote I.46: _Resolve itself_] _To resolve_ is an old word signifying _to dissolve_.] [Footnote I.47: _His canon_] _i.e._, his rule or law]. [Footnote I.48: _The uses of this world!_] _i.e._, the habitudes and usages of life.] [Footnote I.49: _Merely._] Wholly--entirely.] [Footnote I.50: _Hyperion to a satyr:_] An allusion to the exquisite beauty of Apollo, compared with the deformity of a satyr; that satyr, perhaps, being Pan, the brother of Apollo. Our great poet is here guilty of a false quantity, by calling Hyperi'on, Hype'rion, a mistake not unusual among our English poets.] [Footnote I.51: _Might not beteem_] _i.e._, might not allow, permit.] [Footnote I.52: _I'll change that name with you._] _i.e._, do not call yourself my _servant_, you are my _friend_; so I shall call you, and so I would have you call me.] [Footnote I.53: _In faith._] Faithfully, in pure and simple verity.] [Footnote I.54: _But what make you_] What is your object? What are you doing?] [Footnote I.55: _What, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
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