hat is, he can
never be improved by culture or education.

[445-49] _Cankers_ means _rusts_, or here, _eats into itself_.

[445-50] It is not known whether _line_ refers to a clothesline or to a
line tree. Only Shakespeare himself could tell us to a certainty.

[446-51] _Play'd the Jack with us._ "Led us astray as a Jack-o'-lantern
might."

[446-52] _To hoodwink this mischance_ means _to make it forgotten_ or
_overlooked_.

[446-53] In Hudson's Shakespeare this is explained as an allusion to the
old ballad entitled "Take thy old Cloak about thee." The following
stanza is quoted:

"_King Stephen_ was a worthy _peer_,
His breeches cost him but a crown:
He held them sixpence all too dear.
Therefore he called the tailor lown."

[447-54] A _frippery_ was a shop where old clothes were sold. Trinculo
has found the clothing Ariel hung upon the line.

[447-55] _Under the line._ We can imagine that Stephano has pulled the
leather jerkin or coat from the line. When he says _under the line_, he
thinks of that as an expression sailors use when they are near the
equinoctial line or equator, where the heat is intense, so strong as to
take the hair or fur off the coat and make it a _bald jerkin_.

[447-56] _By line and level_, that is, as architects build, by
plumb line and level. Trinculo picks up the word _line_ and makes a new
pun on it.

[448-57] A _pass_ is a _thrust_; _pate_ is _head_. _Pass of pate_ is a
_thrust_ or _sally of wit_.

[448-58] _Lime_ is a sticky substance used to catch birds.

[448-59] _Barnacles_ here means _barnacle-geese,_ a kind of geese
supposed by the superstitious to be produced when certain barnacles or
shell-fish fell into the sea water.

[449-60] _Pard_ is a contraction for _leopard_; _cat-o'-mountain_ may be
another name for wild-cat, though wild-cats are not spotted. Probably
the term is loosely used to mean any spotted animal of the cat tribes.

[450-1] _Goes upright with his carriage_ means, _goes erectly under his
burden_, that is, there is time enough to accomplish what Prospero
wishes to do.

[450-2] That is, "In the grove of line-trees which protects your cell
from the weather."

[450-3] _Till your release_ means _till you release them_.

[451-4] In this place _all_ has the sense of _quite_; _relish_ means
_feel_; _passion_ has the sense of _suffering_. The meaning of the
clause is, that feel suffering quite as sharply as they.

[451-5] _Neptune_, the name