olour_] Black--night-like.]
[Footnote I.34: _Vailed lids_] Cast down.]
[Footnote I.35: _Which passeth show_;] _i.e._, "external manners
of lament."]
[Footnote I.36: _Trappings_] _Trappings_ are "furnishings."]
[Footnote I.37: _That father lost, lost his_;] "That lost father
(of your father, _i.e._, your grandfather), or father so lost,
lost his.]"
[Footnote I.38: _Do obsequious sorrow:_] Follow with becoming and
ceremonious observance the memory of the deceased.]
[Footnote I.39: _But to persever_] This word was anciently
accented on the second syllable.]
[Footnote I.40: _Obstinate condolement_,] Ceaseless and
unremitted expression of grief.]
[Footnote I.41: _Incorrect to Heaven._] Contumacious towards
Heaven.]
[Footnote I.42: _Unprevailing_] Fruitless, unprofitable.]
[Footnote I.43: _Sits smiling to my heart:_] _To_ is _at_:
gladdens my heart.]
[Footnote I.44: _In grace whereof_,] _i.e._, respectful regard or
honour of which.]
[Footnote I.45: _No jocund health, that Denmark drinks to-day_,]
Dr. Johnson remarks, that the king's intemperance is very
strongly impressed; everything that happens to him gives him
occasion to drink. The Danes were supposed to be hard drinkers.]
[Footnote I.46: _Resolve itself_] _To resolve_ is an old word
signifying _to dissolve_.]
[Footnote I.47: _His canon_] _i.e._, his rule or law].
[Footnote I.48: _The uses of this world!_] _i.e._, the habitudes
and usages of life.]
[Footnote I.49: _Merely._] Wholly--entirely.]
[Footnote I.50: _Hyperion to a satyr:_] An allusion to the
exquisite beauty of Apollo, compared with the deformity of a
satyr; that satyr, perhaps, being Pan, the brother of Apollo. Our
great poet is here guilty of a false quantity, by calling
Hyperi'on, Hype'rion, a mistake not unusual among our English
poets.]
[Footnote I.51: _Might not beteem_] _i.e._, might not allow,
permit.]
[Footnote I.52: _I'll change that name with you._] _i.e._, do not
call yourself my _servant_, you are my _friend_; so I shall call
you, and so I would have you call me.]
[Footnote I.53: _In faith._] Faithfully, in pure and simple
verity.]
[Footnote I.54: _But what make you_] What is your object? What
are you doing?]
[Footnote I.55: _What, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
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