[Footnote I.75: _Each man's censure_,] Sentiment, opinion.]
[Footnote I.76: _Chief in that._] _i.e._, chiefly in that.]
[Footnote I.77: _Husbandry_] _i.e._, thrift, economical
prudence.]
[Footnote I.78: _Season this in thee!_] _i.e._, infix it in such
a manner as that it may never wear out.]
[Footnote I.79: _Yourself shall keep the key of it._] Thence it
shall not be dismissed, till you think it needless to retain it.]
[Footnote I.80: _Given private time to you_;] Spent his time in
private visits to you.]
[Footnote I.81: _As so 'tis put on me_,] Suggested to, impressed
on me.]
[Footnote I.82: _Is between_] _i.e._, what has passed--what
intercourse had.]
[Footnote I.83: _Green girl, Unsifted_] _i.e._, inexperienced
girl. Unsifted means one who has not nicely _canvassed_ and
examined the peril of her situation.]
[Footnote I.84: _Woodcocks._] Witless things.]
[Footnote I.85: _Slander any leisure moment_,] _i.e._, I would
not have you so disgrace your most idle moments, as not to find
better employment for them than lord Hamlet's conversation.]
[Footnote I.86: _An eager air._] _Eager_ here means _sharp_, from
_aigre_, French.]
[Footnote I.87: _Doth wake to-night_,] _i.e._, holds a late
revel.]
[Footnote I.88: _Takes his rouse_,] _Rouse_ means drinking bout,
carousal.]
[Footnote I.89: _Questionable shape_,] To _question_, in our
author's time, signified to _converse_. Questionable, therefore,
means _capable of being conversed with._]
[Footnote I.90: _Hearsed in death_,] Deposited with the
accustomed funeral rites.]
[Footnote I.91: _Cerements_;] Those precautions usually adopted
in preparing dead bodies for sepulture.]
[Footnote I.92: _Fools of nature_] _i.e._, making sport for
nature.]
[Footnote I.93: _Disposition_] Frame of mind and body.]
[Footnote I.94: _Removed ground:_] _Removed_ for _remote_.]
[Footnote I.95: _At a pin's fee_;] _i.e._, the value of a pin.]
[Footnote I.96: _What if it tempt you toward the flood, &c._]
Malignant spirits were supposed to entice their victims into
places of gloom and peril, and exciting in them the deepest
terror.]
[Footnote I.97: _Beetles o'er his base into the sea_,] _i.e._,
projects darkly over the sea.]
[Footnote I.98: _Nemean lion's nerve._] Shakespe
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