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[64] [Draweth.]
[65] _Raught_ is the ancient preterite of the word _reach_. It is
frequently used by Spenser, Shakespeare, and other ancient writers.
[66] [Old copy, _where her_.]
[67] [Reward.]
[68] Alluding to the vulture that gnawed the liver of Titius. In "Ferrex
and Porrex," act ii. sc. 1, is this line--
"Or cruell gripe to gnaw my groaning hart."
--_Reed_. The allusion is rather to the vulture of Prometheus.
--Steevens.
[69] _Vipeream inspirans animam_. The image is from Virgil. Rowe
likewise adopts it in his "Ambitious Stepmother"--
"And send a _snake_ to every vulgar breast."--_Steevens_.
[70] i.e., The wretch. The word _miser_ was anciently used without
comprehending any idea of avarice. See note on "King Henry VI, Part I.,"
edit. of Shakespeare, 1778, vol. vi. p. 279.--_Steevens_.
[71] "A _stoop_, or _stowp_; a post fastened in the earth, from the
Latin _stupa_."--Ray's "North Country Words," p. 58, edit. 1742.
[72] Not that she is careful or anxious about, or regrets the loss of
this life. So in Milton's "Paradise Lost," Bk. ix. line 171--
"Revenge at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils;
Let it; _I reck not_, so it light well aim'd.
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