I.vi.122 (185,8) With tomboys, hir’d with that self-exhibition/Which your own coffers yield!] Gross strumpets, hired with the very pension which you allow your husband.

I.vi.152 (186,9) As in a Romish stew] The stews of Rome are deservedly censured by the reformed.  This is one of many instances in which Shakespeare has mingled in the manners of distant ages in this play.

II.i.2 (188,1) kiss’d the jack upon an up-cast] He is describing his fate at bowls.  The jack is the small bowl at which the others are aimed.  He who is nearest to it wins. To kiss the jack is a state of great advantage. (1773)

II.i.15 (189,2) 2 Lord.  No, my lord; nor crop the ears of them. [Aside.] This, I believe, should stand thus: 

  1 Lord.  No, my lord.
  2 Lord.  Nor crop the ears of them, [Aside.

II.i.26 (189,3) you crow, cock, with your comb on] The allusion is to a fool’s cap, which hath a comb like a cock’s.

II.i.29 (189,4) every companion] The use of companion was the same as of fellow now.  It was a word of contempt.

II.ii.12 (191,1) our Tarquin] The speaker is an Italian.

II.ii.13 (191,2) Did softly press the rushes] It was the custom in the time of our author to strew chambers with rushes, as we now cover them with carpets.  The practice is mentioned in Caius de Ephemera Britannica.

II.iii.24 (194,2) His steeds to water at those springs On chalic’d flowers that lies]

Hanmer reads,

  Each chalic’d flower supplies;

to escape a false concord:  but correctness must not be obtained by such licentious alterations.  It may be noted, that the cup of a flower is called calix, whence chalice.

II.iii.28 (195,3) With, every thing that pretty bin] is very properly restored by Hanmer, for pretty is; but he too grammatically reads,

  With all the things that pretty bin.

II.iii.102 (197,5) one of your great knowing/Should learn, being taught, forbearance] i.e.  A man who is taught forbearance should learn it.

II.iii.111 (198,7) so verbal] Is, so verbose, so full of talk.

II.iii.118-129 (199,8) The contract you pretend with that base wretch] Here Shakespeare has not preserved, with his common nicety, the uniformity of character.  The speech of Cloten is rough and harsh, but certainly not the talk of one,

  Who can’t take two from twenty, for his heart,
  And leave eighteen.—­

His argument is just and well enforced, and its prevalence is allowed throughout all civil nations:  as for rudeness, he seems not to be mach undermatched.

II.iii.124 (199,9) in self-figur’d knot] [This is nonsense.  We should read,

  —­SELF-FINGER’D knot;

WARBURTON.] But why nonsense?  A self-figured knot is a knot formed by yourself. (see 1765, VII, 301, 8)