I.iii.78 (28,1) The specialty of rule] The particular rights of supreme
authority.
I.iii.81 (29,2) When that the general is not like the hive] The meaning
is, _When the general is not_ to the army _like the hive_ to the bees,
the repository of the stock of every individual, that to which each
particular resorts with whatever be has collected for the good of the
whole, _what honey is expected_? what hope of advantage? The sense is
clear, the expression is confused.
I.iii.101 (30,5) Oh, when degree is shak'd] I would read,
--So when degree is shak'd. (see 1765, VII, 431, 5)
I.iii.103 (30,6) The enterprize] Perhaps we should read,
_Then_ enterprize is sick!--
I.iii.104 (30,7) brotherhoods in cities] Corporations, companies,
_confraternities_.
I.iii.128 (31,8) That by a pace goes backward] That goes backward _step
by step_.
I.iii.128 (31,9) with a purpose/It hath to climb] With a design in each
man to aggrandize himself, by slighting his immediate superior.
I.iii.134 (31,1) bloodless emulation] An emulation not vigorous and
active, but malignant and sluggish.
I.iii.152 (31,2) Thy topless deputation] _Topless_ is that has nothing
_topping_ or _overtopping_ it; supreme; sovereign.
I.iii.167 (32,3) as near as the extremest ends/Of parallels] The
parallels to which the allusion seems to be made are the parallels on a
map. As like as East to West.
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