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SHAKESPEARE, &c.

VOL. I.

The TEMPEST.

ACTI. SCENE I. p. 3.

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Tempestuous noife of Thunder and Lightning beard.

Enter a Shipman, and a Boatfwain.]

The indefinite article a before Shipman and Boatfwain fhould be ftruck out, as the fcene is on fhipboard, and but one officer of a ship under each of these denominations. He might probably write The Mafter, &c. which feems to be confirmed by what follows.

* Ariel,

Profpero. "To the king's fhip invifible as thou art, "There fhalt thou find the mariners asleep "Under the hatches, the mafter and boatswain

And again,

"Enter Ariel with the master and boat-fwain,

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amazedly following." Act v. p. 84. Anon. A&t. i. fc. i. p. 4.

Id. Ib. p. 4.

Boats. When the fea is hence what care thefe roarers for the name of king? To cabin, filence, trouble us not.

Gonz. I have great comfort from this fellow; methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him, his complexion is perfect gallows.]

Alluding to the proverbial faying,

"He who is born to be hang'd, will never be

"drown'd."

Shakespeare has the like image.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Acti. fc. ii. p. 180. "Pro. Go go, begone to fave your ship from "wreck, which cannot perish having thee on σε board, being deftined to a drier death on "thore."

Friar John applies this proverb to Panurge Rabelais's works. Book iv. chap. 24.

The proverb is reverfed in Jasper Mayne's tragi-comedy, intitled, The Amorous Warre. A&t ii. fc. ii.

"They that are born under a watry planet "to be drown'd, fhall ne'er die in their beds. Gonz. Good: yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

An Allufion probably to a Saying of Julius Cafar.

In his dangerous paffage towards Brundufium,

in a veffel of twelve oars, (in which he appeared in the Habit of a Slave, and was not known either by the Pilot, or Ship's Crew.) when betwixt the violence of the tide, and the Refiftance of the waves against it, the river Anius was fo rough, so uneven, and dangerous, that the Pilot could not make good his Paffage, but ordered his failors to tack about, Cæfar difcovered himself, and taking the pilot by the hand, (who was furprized to see him there) faid, Go on boldly, my friend, and fear nothing, thou carrieft Cæfar, and his fortune along with thee. Which encouraged the mariners to use their utmost ftrength, in order to force their way down the river. But when it was to no purpose, the vesfel taking in much water, Cæfar finding himself in fo much danger in the mouth of the river, permitted the mafter, though much against his will, to turn back.

See Plutarch's Life of Julius Cæfar. P. 5. A Cry within. Enter Sebastian, Anthonio, and Gonzalo.

Boats. They are louder than the weather, or our office. Yet again? What do you bere? Shall we give o'er and drown? Have you a mind to fink? Seb. A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blafphemous, uncharitable dog.

Boats. Work you then.

Ant. Hang Cur, hang; you whorefon, infolent noife-maker, we are lefs afraid to be drown'd than thou art.]

This language was unbecoming Sebaftian, and

Anthonio, even in the utmost danger, tho' very ufual with the common failors, take the following inftance in proof. In a MS. journal (which I have in my cuftody) of the Rev. Mr. Richard Allyn, then fellow of Corpus Chrifti College in Oxford, and chaplain to his Majefty's fhip the Centurion, in the year 1692, there is the following description of a ftorm whilft he was on board. "The 21st of April 1692 at eight at night, we weighed, and stood off, S. S. E. until 12, about which time it began to "blow a meer fret of wind, at W. S. W. and we lay by under a main fail reeved, ex

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pecting that would have been blown away "from the yard.In fhort, the weather was "fo bad, that the whole fhip's company de"clared, they thought they had never seen the like, and that it was impoffible for it to be worfe-During this dreadful season, I quietly kept my bed, though very wet by reason of the water that came into my fcuttle.

"The behaviour of our pugs at that time. was not a little unaccountable: fome few of "them would pray, but more of them cursed "and fwore louder than the wind and weather. "I cannot forbear telling one inftance of this

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nature, that is in the ftory which was told me the next morning, of George the Caul"ker, and old Robin Anderfon: Poor George "being very apprehenfive of his being a fin

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ner, and now in great danger of his life, fell down upon his marrow-bones, and be