Notes
[Footnote IV.1: Translate:] Interpret.
[Footnote IV.2: In this brainish apprehension,] Distempered, brainsick mood.
[Footnote IV.3: Where the offender's scourge is weigh'd, But never the offence.] When an offender is popular, the people never consider what his crime was, but they scrutinise his punishment.
[Footnote IV.4: Politick worms] i.e., artful, cunning worms.