were only the handy work of
God's assistants.]

[Footnote III.53: _Indifferently_] In a reasonable degree.]

[Footnote III.54: _Speak no more them is set down for them:_]
Shakespeare alludes to a custom of his time, when the clown, or
low comedian, as he would now be called, addressing the audience
during the play, entered into a contest of raillery and sarcasm
with such spectators as chose to engage with him.]

[Footnote III.55: _Barren spectators_] _i.e._, dull,
unapprehensive spectators.]

[Footnote III.56: _Question_] Point, topic.]

[Footnote III.57: _Cop'd withal._] Encountered with.]

[Footnote III.58: _Pregnant hinges of the knee_,] _i.e._, bowed
or bent: ready to kneel where _thrift_, that is, thriving, or
emolument may follow sycophancy.]

[Footnote III.59: _Since my dear soul_] _Dear_ is out of which
arises the liveliest interest.]

[Footnote III.60: _Whose blood and judgment_] Dr. Johnson says
that according to the doctrine of the four humours, _desire_ and
_confidence_ were seated in the blood, and judgment in the
phlegm, and the due mixture of the humours made a perfect
character.]

[Footnote III.61: _The very comment of thy soul_] The most
intense direction of every faculty.]

[Footnote III.62: _Occulted guilt do not itself unkennel_]
Stifled, secret guilt, do not develope itself.]

[Footnote III.63: _As Vulcan's stithy._] A stithy is the smith's
shop, as stith is the anvil.]

[Footnote III.64: _In censure of his seeming._] In making our
estimate of the appearance he shall put on.]

[Footnote III.65: _I have nothing with this answer; these words
are not mine._] _i.e._, they grow not out of mine: have no
relation to anything said by me.]

[Footnote III.66: _No, nor mine, now._] They are now anybody's.
Dr. Johnson observes, "a man's words, says the proverb, are his
own no longer than while he keeps them unspoken."]

[Footnote III.67: _You played once in the university, you say?_]
The practice of acting Latin plays in the universities of Oxford
and Cambridge is very ancient, and continued to near the middle
of the last century.]

[Footnote III.68: _I did enact Julius Caesar:_] A Latin play on
the subject of Caesar's death, was performed at Christ-church,
Oxford, in 1582.]

[Footnote III.69: _They stay upon your patie