copy's
“not eterne—In them nature's,”
MACBETH, iii. 2. 38.
Explained by Johnson,“The copy, the lease, by which
they hold their lives from nature, has its time of termination limited;” and
Ritson adds that “the allusion is to an estate for lives held
by copy of court-roll.”
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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