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Line 264. Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,] Worth signifies any kind of worthiness, and among others that of high descent. The king means that he is sorry the prince's choice is not in other respects as worthy of him as in beauty. JOHNSON.

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-with clipping her :] i. e. embracing her. -hud he himself eternity,] Eternity means only immortality, or that part of eternity which is to come; so we talk of eternal renown and eternal infamy. Immortality may subsist without divinity, and therefore the meaning only is, that if Julio could always continue his labours, he would minick nature. JOHNSON.

Line 463. -franklins say it,] Franklin is a freeholder, or yeoman, a man above a villain, but not a gentleman.

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JOHNSON.

-tall fellow of thy hands,] Tall, in that time,
JOHNSON.

Iwas the word used for stout.
Line 533. O patience;] That is, stay a while, be not so

eager.

JOHNSON.

562. The fixture of her eye has motion in't,] The meaning is, that her eye, though fixed, as in an earnest gaze, has motion in it. EDWARDS.

Line 644. You precious winners all;] You who by this discovery have gained what you desired may join in festivity, in which I, who have lost what never can be recovered, can have no part. JOHNSON.

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London. Published by Thomas Teog. N. Cheapside, June 24.1813.

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