ootnote III.112: _Lay home to him:_] Pointedly and closely
charge him.]

[Footnote III.113: _Pranks too broad_] Open and bold.]

[Footnote III.114: _I'll 'sconce me even here._] 'Sconce and
ensconce are constantly used figuratively for _hide._ In "The
Merry Wives of Windsor," Falstaff says, "I will _ensconce_ me
behind the arras."]

[Footnote III.115: _By the rood_,] _i.e._, the cross or
crucifix.]

[Footnote III.116: _How now! a rat?_] This is an expression
borrowed from the History of Hamblet.]

[Footnote III.117: _Have not braz'd it so_,] _i.e._, soldered
with brass.]

[Footnote III.118: _Proof and bulwark against sense._] Against
all feeling.]

[Footnote III.119: _Takes off the rose From the fair forehead of
an innocent love, And sets a blister there_;] _i.e._, takes the
clear tint from the brow of unspotted, untainted innocence. "True
or honest as the skin between one's brows" was a proverbial
expression, and is frequently used by Shakespeare.]

[Footnote III.120: _As from the body of contraction plucks The
very soul_;] Annihilates the very principle of contracts.
Contraction for marriage contract.]

[Footnote III.121: _The counterfeit presentment_] _i.e._, picture
or mimic representation.]

[Footnote III.122: _Hyperion's curls_;] Hyperion is used by
Spenser with the same error in quantity.]

[Footnote III.123: _A station like the herald Mercury_] Station
is attitude--act of standing.]

[Footnote III.124:

_Like a mildew'd ear_,
_Blasting his wholesome brother._]

This alludes to Pharaoh's dream, in the 41st chapter of Genesis.]

[Footnote III.125: _Batten on this moor?_] Batten is to feed
rankly.]

[Footnote III.126: _Hey-day in the blood_] This expression is
occasionally used by old authors.]

[Footnote III.127: _Thou canst mutine_] _i.e._, rebel.]

[Footnote III.128: _As will not leave their tinct._] So dyed _in
grain_, that they will not relinquish or lose their tinct--are
not to be discharged. In a sense not very dissimilar he presently
says,

"Then what I have to do
Will _want true colour_."]

[Footnote III.129: _An enseamed bed._] _i.e._, greasy bed of
grossly fed indulgence.]

[Footnote III.130: _A vice of kings_;] _i.e._, a low mimick of
kings. The vice was the fool of the old morali