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Shall beare the Oliue freely Warburton: That is, shall spring up everywhere spontaneously and without culture.—M. Mason: To ‘bear’ does not mean to produce, but to carry; and the meaning is, that the world shall then enjoy the blessings of peace, of which olive-branches were the emblem. The success of Augustus could not so change the nature of things as to make the olive-tree grow without culture in all climates, but it shut the gates of the temple of Janus. This explanation is supported by the following lines from 2 Hen. IV: IV, iv, 87, where Westmoreland says, ‘There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd, But peace puts forth her olive every where.’
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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