III.ii.56 (401,3) That under covert and convenient seeming] _Convenient_
needs not be understood in any other than its usual and proper sense;
_accommodate_ to the present purpose; _suitable_ to a design.
_Convenient seeming_ is _appearance_ such as may promote his purpose to
destroy.
III.ii.53 (401,4) concealing continents] _Continent_ stands for that
which _contains_ or _incloses_.
III.ii.72 (401,(5) Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart,/
That's sorry yet for thee] Some editions read,
--_thing_ in my heart;
from which Hanmer, and Dr. Warburton after him, have made _string_, very
unnecessarily; both the copies have _part_.
III.ii.74 (402,7)
_He that has a little tiny wit,--
With heigh ho, the wind and the rain;
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day_]
I fancy that the second line of this stanza had once a termination that
rhymed with the fourth; but I can only fancy it; for both the copies
agree. It was once perhaps written,
With heigh ho, the wind and the rain _in his way_.
The meaning seems likewise to require this insertion. "He that has wit,
however small, and finds wind and rain in his way, must content himself
by thinking, that somewhere or other _it raineth every day_, and others
are therefore suffering like himself." Yet I am afraid that all this is
chimerical, for the burthen appears again in the song at the end of
_Twelfth Night_, and seems to have been an arbitrary supplement, without
any reference to the sense of the song.
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