SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE WORDS "CAPTIOUS" AND "INTENIBLE."

In the following passage of *All's Well that Ends Well*, Act i. Sc. 3., where Helena is confessing to Bertram's mother, the Countess, her love for him, these two words occur in an unusual sense, if not in a sense peculiar to the great poet:— "I love your son:— My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love: Be not offended, for it hurts not him, That he is lov'd of me: I follow him not By any token of presumptuous suit; Nor would I have him till I do deserve him: Yet never know how that desert may be. I know I love in vain; strive against hope; Yet, in this *captious and intenible* sieve I sti…