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108 or Fates—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who spun the threads of human lives, cutting these threads short with shears when they pleased.

 rank. A pun on 'rank' meaning 'position' and its adjectival meaning of 'strong' in relation to odors.

 Be presents. A common legal phrase introduced for the sake of the pun on 'presence' in line 131.

 broken music. Chapell (Popular Music, p. 346) explains the phrase as follows: 'Some instruments such as viols, violins, flutes, etc., were made in sets of four, which when played together made a consort. If one or more of the instruments of one set were substituted for the corresponding ones of another set, the result is no longer a consort, but broken music.' A damaged wrestler groaning in pain, might, therefore, be looked upon as broken music, since neither his utterance nor himself was now a harmony.

 them. Orlando's plural includes Rosalind.

 saw judgment. I.e., 'if your eyes saw yourself in your true proportion, or your judgment were mature enough to know your own limitations.'

 wherein guilty. I.e., 'much deserving of your hard thoughts to deny, etc'

 Hercules speed. I.e., 'may Hercules be your patron.'

 suits fortune. I.e., 'whom fortune has denied favors.'

 quintain. A stout post or plank or some object mounted on such a support, set up as a mark to be tilted at (Onions). Here used figuratively.

 taller. Apparently a slip of the pen on Shakespeare's part, for afterwards Rosalind is de-