IV, ii, 84. Such whose bloods wrongs, or wrong done to _themselues_--the Q.’s regular omission of the possessive apostrophe has in this instance confused later editors in their understanding of the passage. We would write _blood’s_,--with the meaning: “Those whom wrongs to kindred or to themselves,” etc.
IV, iii, 12. _so_--there is no direct antecedent, but one is easily understandable from the general sense of what precedes; _to be so_--i. e., “as you were in thankfulness to the General.”
IV, iv, 10. _it_--another case of a pronoun with antecedent merely implied in the general sense of what precedes; _it_ = “the fact that I am not worthy the looking on, but only,” etc.
IV, iv, 30. _such defence_--i. e., “the defence of such a one.” _Such_ = qualis.
IV, iv, 70. _those fam’d matrones_--cf. Massinger in _The Virgin Martyr_, C-G. 33 a:
“You will rise up with reverence, and no more, As things unworthy of your thoughts, remember What the canonized Spartan ladies were, Which lying Greece so boasts of. Your own matrons, Your Roman dames, whose figures you yet keep As holy relics, in her history Will find a second urn: Gracchus’ Cornelia, Paulina, that in death desired to follow Her husband Seneca, nor Brutus’ Portia, That swallowed burning coals to overtake him, Though all their several worths were given to one, With this is to be mention’d.”
IV, iv, 112. _on it_--i. e., “on what you say.”
IV, iv, 156. _be_--“be” expresses more doubt than “is” after a verb of _thinking_. Cf. Abbott, S. G., § 299.
V, i, 7. _varlets_--the name given to city bailiffs or sergeants. Perhaps here, however, it is applied merely as a term of abuse.
V, i, 9. _Innes of court man_--a member of one of the four Inns of Court (The Inner Temple, The Middle Temple, Lincoln’s Inn, and Gray’s Inn), legal societies which served for the Elizabethan the function which our law-schools perform to-day. Overbury says of the Inns of Court Man, in his _Characters_: “Hee is distinguished from a scholler by a pair of silk-stockings, and a beaver hat, which make him contemn a scholler as much as a scholler doth a school-master.... He is as far behind a courtier in his fashion, as a scholler is behind him.... He laughs at every man whose band sits not well, or that hath not a faire shoo-tie, and he is ashamed to be seen in any mans company that weares not his clothes well. His very essence he placeth in his outside.... You shall never see him melancholy, but when he wants a new suit, or feares a sergeant....”