spero desires Ferdinand to love and marry Miranda and has
planned for it, but he is surprised at the suddenness and strength of
their love.

[423-1] As in a naval battle one ship runs alongside another, and the
sailors leap aboard.

[424-2] _Set_ means _fixed and staring_.

[424-3] _Standard_ may be read _standard-bearer_.

[424-4] Trinculo means that Caliban is too drunk to stand.

[424-5] Trinculo is always jesting, even at his own expense. He means he
is so drunk he would pick a quarrel with a constable.

[424-6] _Debosh'd_ means _debauched_.

[425-7] A _natural_ is a fool or a simpleton.

[425-8] Stephano means "You shall be hanged on the next tree."

[425-9] As Ariel is invisible, each thinks another has spoken.

[425-10] "_This thing_" is Caliban himself.

[426-11] The court fools or jesters of that day wore clothes of many
colors--were _pied_, that is, _dappled_.

[426-12] _Patch_ is another word referring to the parti-colored clothing
of the jester.

[426-13] The _quick freshes_ are the running springs of fresh water.

[426-14] _Stock-fish_ is a word used in the writings of that period to
mean some kind of a fixture, which men struck with their fists or with
cudgels in practicing boxing and fighting.

[427-15] Stephano speaks first to Caliban, then to Trinculo.

[427-16] The _weazand_ is the windpipe or throat.

[427-17] _Sot_ in this place means _fool_, not _drunkard_. Caliban
thinks Prospero's books are the source of his magic power over such
spirits as Ariel and those he commands.

[427-18] _Brave_ here means _beautiful_ or _showy_.

[428-19] This speech of Ariel's is made aside, that is, out of hearing
of the three conspirators.

[428-20] _Troll the catch_ means _sing the jolly song_.

[428-21] _While-ere_ means _awhile since_.

[428-22] "I will do anything reasonable," says Stephano.

[428-23] "What is this music I hear?"

[428-24] A common sign in those times was called the picture of Nobody.
It consisted of a head upon two legs, with arms.

[429-25] Stephano probably means, "Take a blow from my fist," and speaks
to the invisible spirit or devil that he now thinks to be near them,
because of Ariel's curious interruptions.

[429-26] _Sometime_ is again used for _sometimes_.

[430-1] _By our lady!_ was a common exclamation. A diminutive form of
this was _by our ladykin_ which was contracted into _by our lakin_.

[430-2] _Forth-rights_ are straight lines.

[430-3] _Meanders