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164 NOTES 1.4.
in life is to make money 'breed'. Cf. Shylock at
M.F. 1. 3. 93.
119. Have...slowest Hoard your goods.
120. Speak...knowest Be reserved. Cf. Tilley,
A 202. 121. ozoest=ownest.
122. Ride.. .goest Presumably to save shoe leather.
See G. 'go'.
123. Learn...trowest Cf. Tilley, A 202, 'Believe
not all you hear.'
124. Set...throzaest 'Don't stake all at a single
throw' (<Muir). Cf. 1 H. IF, 4.1. 46-7, 'To set...
All at one cast.
126. keep-in-a-door Cf. M.F. 2. 5. 52-4: 'Shut
doors after you | Fast bind, fast find, | A proverb never
stale in thrifty mind.'
127-8. thou...more...score Not just 'nonsense'
(Muir) or 'nothing' (Kent) but=You'll make a score
(of money) grow to more than 'two tens' (through
usury). See 11. 131-2.
130-1. 'tis like...for't Cf. Tilley, L 125, 'A
lawyer will not plead but for a fee'. Thus 'an unfeed
lawyer' utters no 'breath*.
131-2. Can...nuncle?—as the wise man can by
making more than 'two tens' out of a 'score', you is
emphatic, use—interest.
133-4. nothing...nothing Cf. 1. 1. 89, n. and
Introd. p. xxxix.
135-6. S.D. (Rowe) Q, Fom. so much...to i.e.he
must expect nothing now, having given the land away,
but before he did so the rent was as much 'something out
of nothing' as the money-lender's interest. A little
lesson in pol. economy.
137. bitter^sarcastic; but in 11. 139, 145 it=piti-
able, grievously afflicted; see G.
138. my boy see 1. 116, n.
139. one (F) Q (+Camb.) 'foole\