et.

[402-37] _Adventure_ here means _put in peril_.

[402-38] Ariel is at work again, and in carrying out the plans of
Prospero, he causes some to fall asleep that the others may plot.

[402-39] _Omit_ here means _neglect_. Sebastian suggests that it will be
better for Alonso to go to sleep while he can. He has reasons for
wishing the King asleep.

[403-40] Alonso grows more sleepy under Ariel's influence, and in these
words alludes to what Sebastian has just said--"It is a wondrous heavy
offer of sleep."

[404-41] _They_ refers to the other men.

[404-42] Probably we must understand Antonio to mean, "What might you
be!" In this way Antonio begins to tempt Sebastian, whom he finds ready
to listen.

[404-43] _Speaks_ means _proclaims_.

[404-44] Antonio says in effect, "You close your eyes when you are
awake. You are blind to your opportunity."

[404-45] "If _you_ heed me."

[404-46] Antonio means, "Which if you do, you shall be three times as
great as you are now."

[405-47] By _I am standing water_, Sebastian means that he is like the
ocean standing between tides, ready to ebb or flow. That is, he is ready
to accept suggestions from Antonio.

[405-48] Antonio says in effect, "The more you ridicule the purpose I
suggest, the more you welcome it."

[405-49] _Ebbing men_, that is, _men whose fortunes are at a low ebb_.

[405-50] _Matter_ means _something of great importance_.

[405-51] "It is difficult or painful for you to say what you think."
While both have about the same idea in their minds, neither is quite
willing to speak of it openly. It is too cruel and murderous a thought.

[405-52] Francisco.

[405-53] That is, "this lord who remembers little of the favors done
him, and will be remembered no better."

[405-54] _Earth'd_ means _buried_.

[406-55] A _wink_ here means _the least distance_.

[406-56] It is difficult to say just what _But doubt discovery there_
means. Antonio says, "But out of your certainty that Ferdinand is
drowned, you have a great hope, a hope so high that ambition cannot see
anything greater."

[406-57] This means _ten leagues farther away than a man can travel in
his life_.

[406-58] _Can have no note_ means _can receive no word_.

[406-59] This clause means _unless the sun carried the mail_.

[406-60] _Though some were cast up again._

[406-61] This sentence means, _you and I can manage what is to come_.

[407-62] "_Measure us back_," etc., means the same as