Chapter CV: Act III: SCENE 2. Page 329

CRES. ... For to be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

If this be Shakspeare's, he got it from Taverner's translation of _Publius Syrus_, at the end of _Catonis disticha_, 1553, 12mo, where it stands thus, "To be in love and to be wyse is scarce graunted to God. It is not one man's propertie both to love and also to be of a sounde mynde."

SCENE 2. Page 333.

PAN. ... let all pitiful _goers-between_ be call'd to the world's
end after my name, call them all _Pandars_.

Although the above is, no doubt, the real etymology of the word _pandar_, the original use of it does not rest with Shakspeare. An earlier instance occurs in Gabriel Harvey's _Pierce's supererogation_, 1593, 4to, in which "the pandars stew" is mentioned. All other derivations must be rejected, because the term occurs in no language but our own. Nashe, in his _Have with you to Saffron Walden_, has most extravagantly deduced it from _Pandora_; and he adds that Sir Philip Sidney fetches it from Plautus. In Sir Philip's _Defence of poesie_, the author, speaking of Terence's _Gnatho_ and Chaucer's _Pandar_, says, "we now use their names to signifie their trades."

SCENE 3. Page 338.

CAL. ... But this Antenor
I know is such a _wrest_ in their affairs.

If a former explanation should be thought to stand in need of further authority, the following may suffice.

In _A treatise between trouth and information_, by W. Cornishe, printed among the works of Skelton, are these lines:

"A harpe geveth sounde as it is sette,
The harper may _wrest_ it untunablye;
A harper with his _wrest_ may tune the harpe wrong,
Mystunyng of an instrument shal hurt a true songe."

The same instrument was used for tuning other stringed instruments, as appears from the same poem:

"The claricord hath a tunely kynde,
As the wyre is _wrested_ hye and lowe;
So it turnyth to the players mynde,
For as it is _wrested_ so must it nedes showe,
Any instrument mystunyd shall hurt a trew song,
Yet blame not the claricord the _wrester_ doth wrong."

Again,

"With golden strings such harmonie
His harpe so sweet did _wrest_;
That he reliev'd his phrenesie
Whom wicked sprites possest."

Archb. Parker's _Psalter_, sign. B. 1. b.

In King James's edict against combats, &c., p. 45, is this passage, "this small instrument the tongue being kept in tune by the _wrest_ of awe," &c.

And in Swetnam's _Arraignment of women_, 1615, 4to, "They are always tempering their wits, as fidlers do their strings, who _wrest_ them so high, that many times they stretch them beyond time, tune, and reason."

ACT IV.

SCENE 5. Page 383.

ULYSS. ... set them down
For sluttish spoils of opportunity,
And _daughters of the game_.

This expression seems borrowed from the _maister of the game_, the ancient title of the king's game-keeper. There was also a treatise on hunting, so called, which Shakspeare had often read of, or might perhaps have seen.