"a round hole fhould be made in the earth, "and that her body fhould be put into that "hole, where fhe fhould ftand with her head "only above ground, and the earth to be put "in again unto her close round about her, fo that he might stand in the parching fun, till "the extreme hot beams thereof did kill her, in which torment fhe lived one whole day, and the night following, and almost to the "next noon, crying out lamentably whilft fhe

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was able to fpeak in her language which "horrid execution, or rather murder, was "acted near our house, where the eunuch by the "command of the king was brought very near "the place, where this poor creature was bu"ried alive, and there in her fight cut all into pieces."

Sc. 17. p. 317.

Falft.

I fuffer'd the pains of three egregious deaths.] "Three feveral deaths. Folio 1632.

Act 4. fc. 1. p. 320.

Quic. Hang bog is latin for Bacon.]

"Sir Nicholas Bacon being Judge of the "Northern Circuit, when he came to pafs fen"tence upon the malefactors, was by one of “them mightily importuned to fave his life. "When nothing he had faid would avail, he "at length defired his mercy on account of kin"dred. Prethee, faid my Lord, how came "that in? why if it please you, my Lord, your "name is Bacon, and mine is Hog, and in all

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"ages

ages Hog and Bacon are fo near kindred, that "they are not to be feparated. Ay but (replied "the Judge) You and I cannot be of kindred unlefs you be bang'd; for Hog is net Bacon, till it "be well bang'd.

Lord Bacon's Apophthegms, No. 36.

Sc. 3. p. 324..

Mrs. Page.

"'Tis old, but true, ftill fwine eats all the draugh."]" Still fow, Ray's Proverbs 2d edit. P. 206.

Sc. 9. P. 335.

Falf. Well if my wind were but long enough to Say my prayers, I would repent.] "Well if my "wind were but long enough, I would repent." Folio 1632.

Act 5. fc. 3. p. 341.
P.

Falft. Divide me like a bribe-buck, each a baunch, I will keep my fides for myself, my fhoulders for the fellow of this walk.] To the keeper the fhoulders and bumbles belong'd as a perquisite. A& 5. fc. 4. p. 342.

Eva.

Cricket, to Windfor chimneys fhalt thou leap,

Where fires thou find❜ft unrak'd, and hearths

unfwept,

There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry; Our radiant queen hates fluts, and fluttery.] "When boufe or hearth doth fluttish lie

I pinch the maids both black and blue; "And from the bed the bed cloaths I "Pull off, and lay them nak'd to view.

“Old

Old ballad of Robin Good-fellow. Peck's New Memoirs of Milton, p. 25. See more, Notes upon Hudibras part 3. canto 1. 1413.

Id. ib. p. 334.

The feveral chairs of order look you scowr, &c.] A curious description of the order of the Garter, and of Saint George's Chappel at Windfor, where they were install'd.

See Mr. Afhmole's Order of the Garter.

A& 5. fc. 6. p. 349.

Eva. Jefhu! Mafter Slender, cannot you fee, but marry boys?

Page. O, I am vext at heart; what fhall I do?] This is not in folio 1632. nor in Sir Thomas Hanmer, but added by Mr. Theobald and Mr. Warburton. I should be thankful to know by what authority? and fhould have thought that Evans the Welsh Parfon would have used Cheshu for Jehu. So in the Life of King Henry V. act 4. fc. 2. p. 528.

-Flu." So in the name of Chefbu Chrift, speak ❝ fewer.

A&t 5. fc. 7. P. 350.

Page. What remedy? Fenton, beaven give thee joy, what can't be efchew'd, must be embraced.] The Englife Proverbial faying, what can't be cured, must be endured. Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere eft nefas. Horat. 1. od. 24. 9, 20.

Measure

Meafure for Measure.

ACT I SCENE II. p. 358.

ANG. Yet give me leave, my lord,

That we may bring you fomething on the way.] It should be read; I think, Yet give us leave, my lord; or as in folio 1632. Yet give leave, my lord. fo in Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition.

Sc. 5. p. 562.

Bawd. What fhall become of thofe in the city? [boufes.]

Clown. They fhall stand for feed.]

In Sir Giles Gocfe-cap, a comedy, act 1. there is a thought not much unlike this.

Goofe-cap. "I am fure it was fome years ago ἐσ ten miles thither, and I hope it is more now. Slidd. "Do not miles grow think you, as "well as other animals ?"

Nor was that countryman more wife; who admiring the ftately building of Saint Paul's, afked, whether it was made in England, or brought from beyond-fea?

Sc. 8:
Lucio:

'Tis my familiar fin, With maids to feem the lapwing, and to jeft. Tonguie far from heart.] The modern editors have not taken in the whole of the fimilitude here they have taken notice of the likeness of a fpark's behaviour to his mistrefs, and compared it to the lapwing's hovering and flutteringflying:

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flying. But the chief of which no notice is taken, is: And to jeft. [See Ray's Proverbs.] "The lapwing cries, Tongue far from beart," moft fartheft from her neft. i. e. She is, as Shakespeare has it here,

Tongue far from heart.

"The farther fhe is from her neft, where her "heart is with her young ones, fhe is the louder, " or perhaps all tongue. Mr. Smith.

Shakespeare has an expreffion of the like kind, Comedy of Errors, act 4. fc. 3. p. 246.

Adr. "Far from her neft, the lapwing cries 66 away,

"My heart prays for him, tho' my tongue do "curfe.] We meet with the fame thought in John Lilly's comedy, intit'led, Campafpe. (First publifhed in 1591. act 2. fc. 2.) From whence Shakespeare might borrow it.

Alexander to Hepheftion.

Alex. "Timoclea ftill in thy mouth, art thou " in love?

Hepheft. "Not I.

Alex. "Not with Timoclea you mean, wherein you resemble the lapwing, who crieth moft "where her neft is not, and so to lead me from

efpying your love for Campafpe, you cry Ti"moclea."

.Sc. 8. Ifab. O, let him marry her.] In Sir Thomas Hanmer. "Let him then marry her. In folio 1632. "Let him marry her.

Sc. 2. p. 375.

Clown. Sir, fhe came in great with child, and

longing