what make we
  Abroad, why then the women are more valiant
  That stay at home;
  If bearing carry it, than is the ass
  More captain than the lion, and the felon
  Loaden with irons, wiser than the judge,
  If wisdom, &c.

III.v.54 (336,8) sin’s extreamest gust] Gust is here in its common sense; the utmost degree of appetite for sin.

III.v.55 (336,9) by mercy, ’tis most just] [By mercy is meant equity.  WARBURTON] Mercy is not put for equity.  If such explanation be allowed, what can be difficult?  The meaning is, I call mercy herself to witness, that defensive violence is just.

III.v.68 (338,2) a sworn rioter] A sworn rioter is a man who practises riot, as if he had by an oath made it his duty.

III.v.80 (337,3) your reverend ages love/Security] He charges them obliquely with being usurers.

III.v.96 (337,5) Do you dare our anger?/’Tis in few words, but spacious in effect] This reading may pass, but perhaps the author wrote,

              our anger?
  ’Tis few in words, but spacious in effect.

III.v.114 (338,7)

I’ll cheer up
My discontented troops, and play for hearts. 
’Tis honour with most hands to be at odds]

[Warburton had substituted “hands” for “lands”] I think hands is very properly substituted for lands.  In the foregoing line, for, lay for hearts, I would read, play for hearts.

III.vi.4 (339,7) Upon that were my thoughts tiring] A hawk, I think, is said to tire, when she amuses herself with pecking a pheasant’s wing, or any thing that puts her in mind of prey.  To tire upon a thing, is therefore, to be idly employed upon it.

III.vi.100 (342,9) Is your perfection] Your perfection, is the highest of your excellence.

III.vi.101 (342,1) and spangled you with flatteries] [W:  with your] The present reading is right.

III.vi.106 (342,2) time-flies] Flies of a season.

III.vi. 107 (342,5) minute-jacks!] Hanmer thinks it means Jack-a-lantern, which shines and disappears in an instant.  What it was I know not; but it was something of quick motion, mentioned in Richard III.

III.vi.108 (342,4) the infinite malady] Every kind of disease incident to man and beast.

IV.i.19 (344,6)

  Degrees, observances, customs and laws,
  Decline to your confounding contraries,
  And yet confusion live!]

Hanmer reads, let confusion; but the meaning may be, though by such confusion all things seem to hasten to dissolution, yet let not dissolution come, but the miseries of confusion continue.

IV.ii (345,1) Enter Flavius] Nothing contributes more to the exaltation of Timon’s character than the zeal and fidelity of his servants.  Nothing but real virtue can be honoured by domesticks; nothing but impartial kindness can gain affection from dependants.