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That turnes their Countenances Malone: That is, renders their aspect sour. This allusion to the acescence of milk occurs again in Timon, ‘Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, It turns in less than two nights?’ [III, i, 57].— Steevens: I believe nothing more is meant than changes their countenances. So in Cymbeline, ‘Change you, madam? The worthy Leonatus is in safety,’ [I, vi, 12].

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