"The gracious mark o' the
land."]

[Footnote III.37: _Glass of fashion_] Speculum
consuetudinis.--CICERO.

[Footnote III.38: _The mould of form_,] The cast, in which is
shaped the only perfect form.

[Footnote III.39: _Musick vows_,] Musical, mellifluous.

[Footnote III.40: _Be round with him_;] _i.e._, plain with
him--without reserve.

[Footnote III.41: _If she find him not_,] Make him not out.

[Footnote III.42: _As lief_] As willingly.]

[Footnote III.43: _Thus_;] _i.e._, thrown out thus.]

[Footnote III.44: _Robustious perrywig-pated fellow_] This is a
ridicule on the quantity of false hair worn in Shakespeare's
time, for wigs were not in common use till the reign of Charles
the Second. _Robustious_ means making an extravagant show of
passion.]

[Footnote III.45: _The ears of the groundlings_,] The meaner
people appear to have occupied the pit of the theatre (which had
neither floor nor benches in Shakespeare's time), as they now sit
in the upper gallery.]

[Footnote III.46: _O'er-doing Termagant_;] The Crusaders, and
those who celebrated them, confounded Mahometans with Pagans, and
supposed Mahomet, or Mahound, to be one of their deities, and
Tervagant or Termagant, another. This imaginary personage was
introduced into our old plays and moralities, and represented as
of a most violent character, so that a ranting actor might always
appear to advantage in it. The word is now used for a scolding
woman.]

[Footnote III.47: _It out-herods Herod:_] In all the old
moralities and mysteries this personage was always represented as
a tyrant of a very violent temper, using the most exaggerated
language. Hence the expression.]

[Footnote III.48: _The very age and body of the time its form and
pressure._] _i.e._, to delineate exactly the manners of the age,
and the particular humours of the day--_pressure_ signifying
resemblance, as in a print.]

[Footnote III.49: _Come tardy off_,] Without spirit or animation;
heavily, sleepily done.]

[Footnote III.50: _The censure of which one_] _i.e._, the censure
of one of which.]

[Footnote III.51: _Your allowance_,] In your approbation.]

[Footnote III.52: _Not to speak it profanely_,] _i.e._,
_irreverently_, in allusion to Hamlet's supposition that God had
not made such men, but that they