Note 43 — Chapter VIII · EXPERIMENT
Reading edition
The transition of meaning is beautifully visible in the following passage from The Merry Wives of Windsor:
Mistress Quickly: “I never knew a woman so dote upon a man: surely, I think you have charms, la; yes, in truth.”
Falstaff: “Not I, I assure thee: setting the attraction of my good parts aside, I have no other charms.”