or Fates—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who spun the threads of human lives, cutting these threads short with shears when they pleased.
I. ii. 114. rank. A pun on 'rank' meaning 'position' and its adjectival meaning of 'strong' in relation to odors.
I. ii. 132. Be . . . presents. A common legal phrase introduced for the sake of the pun on 'presence' in line 131.
I. ii. 151. broken music. Chapell (Popular Music, p. 346) explains the phrase as follows: 'Some instruments such as viols, violins, flutes, etc., were made in sets of four, which when played together made a consort. If one or more of the instruments of one set were substituted for the corresponding ones of another set, the result is no longer a consort, but broken music.' A damaged wrestler groaning in pain, might, therefore, be looked upon as broken music, since neither his utterance nor himself was now a harmony.
I. ii. 179. them. Orlando's plural includes Rosalind.
I. ii. 187. saw . . . judgment. I.e., 'if your eyes saw yourself in your true proportion, or your judgment were mature enough to know your own limitations.'
I. ii. 198. wherein . . . guilty. I.e., 'much deserving of your hard thoughts to deny, etc'
I. ii. 226. Hercules . . . speed. I.e., 'may Hercules be your patron.'
I. ii. 263. suits . . . fortune. I.e., 'whom fortune has denied favors.'
I. ii. 268. quintain. A stout post or plank or some object mounted on such a support, set up as a mark to be tilted at (Onions). Here used figuratively.
I. ii. 289. taller. Apparently a slip of the pen on Shakespeare's part, for afterwards Rosalind is de-
