Id. ib. p. 100.

Gra. O my Anthonio, I do know of those,
That therefore only are reputed wife,
For faying nothing; who, I'm very fure,

If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, Which bearing them, would call their brothers fools.] Damme thofe ears. Folio 1632. Qu. close up, or ftop? as the folio uses the word damn in a different sense, Life of King Richard 2d, act 4. P. 40.

Sc. 2. p. 105. Portia of the Count Palatine. Por. I fear be will prove the weeping philofopher, when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly fadness in his youth.] Heraclitus a philofopher of Athens, fo called; who whenever he went abroad, wept at the miseries of the world.

See ftory of Democritus, and Heraclitus. Sir Roger L'Eftrange's Fables, part 2. fab. 182. Sc. 2. p. 106.

P.

If a throfile fing, he falls ftrait a capering.] Throftle the fame with Thrush.

So in Midfummer Night's Dream, act 3. fc. 2. P. 128.

"The owfel cock, fo black of hue, "With orange-tawny bill,

"The throftle, with his note fo true, "The wren with litle quill."

So Chaucer.

"The throftle cock he made his lay, "The wood lark fitting on a spray "The fong full loud and clere;

"Sir Thopas fell in love-longing,
"And when he heard the throftle fing,
"He prick'd as he were wode."

Rime of Sir Thopas, Chaucer, p. 145. Tarfell [the male-bawk] in folio 1632, but wrong I believe.

Id. ib. What think you of the Scottish lord bis neighbour ?] "The other lord, his neighbour. Folio 1632.

Sc. 3. p. 110.
Shy.

Mark what Jacob did When Laban and himself were compromis'd, &c.] See Genefis xxx. 32, &c.

Sc. 3. p. 111. Mark you this Baffanio? The devil can cite fcripture for his purpose:] Compare Mat. iv. 6. with Pfalm xci. 12. Id. ib.

Shy. Signior Anthonio, many a time, and oft In the Ryalto you have rated me,

About my monies, and my ufances, &c.]

The Rialto is the exchange in Venice. See a defcription of it, in Tom Coryat's Crudities, p. 169, &c. Act 2. fc. 1. p. 114.

Moroch.

I tell thee, Lady, this afpect of mine

Hath fear'd the valiant.] Fear'd for made afraid. So in The Taming the Shrew, act 1. fc. 6. p. 415. "Tufh, tufh, Fear boys with bugs."

And in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2. fc. 6. Antony. "Thou canst not fear us Pompey "with thy fails."

Id. ib.

Portia.

And hedg'd me by his wit to yield myself.] I almost believe Shakespeare gave it. "And hedg'd me by his will.

Portia before had faid, act 1. fc. 2. p. 104. "So is the will of a living daughter "Curb'd with the will of a dead father."

Anon.

Sc. 2. p. 115. Enter Launcelot alone.] Enter the Clowne alone. Folio 1632.

Id. ib. Tke Jew is the very devil incarnal.] "The very devil incarnation." Folio 1632. but wrong.

Id. ib. p. 117.

Laun. Well, let his father be what he will.] What a will. Folio 1632.

Sc. 3. p. 121.

Gra. Where is your master?]

"mafter?" Folio 1632.

"Where's your

P. 122. Gra. Signior Baffanio bear me, If I do not put on a fober habit,

Talk with refpect, and fwear but now and then; Wear prayer books in my pocket, look demurely Nay more, while grace is faying, bood myne eyes Thus with my bat; and figh, and fay amen.]

Gratiano's character is here of the motley kind. In the first part he profeffes to be fomewhat of a Libertine. In the latter to be precife and puritanical: alluding to their graces at that time, which were not the shortest: as is hinted by Jasper Mayne, in his character of Mr. Scruple. City Match, a comedy, act 2. fc. 1. P. 10.

"Mr.

"Mr. Scruple was her fchoolmafter, one "that cools a feaft with his long grace, and foon"er eats a capon, than he bleffes it.

Falstaff, First Part of King Henry IVth, act 1. fc. 2. p. 102. banters Prince Henry upon the fhortnefs of his grace.

"God fave thy grace, majefty I should fay, "for grace thou wilt have none."

Prince. "What none ?"

Falft. "No by my troth, not so much as "will be prologue to an egg and butter."

Id. ib.

Thou shalt not gor

Shylock. What Jeffica mandize, as thou hast done with me.] The word gormandize is very antient, and took it's rife from a Danish King. The Danes towards the latter end of the ninth century, were defeated by King Alfred at Edendon in Wiltshire; and as an article of peace, Guthrum their King, commonly called Gurmond, fubmitted to be baptized, King Alfred being his godfather, who gave him the name of Athelftan, and took him for his adopted fon. During the ftay of the Danes in Wiltshire, they confumed their time in pro"fuseness, and belly cheer, in idleness and floth. "Infomuch, that as from their laziness in gene❝ral, we even to this day call them Lur-Danes; "fo from the licentiousness of Gurmond, and "his army in particular, we brand all luxu"rious, and profufe people, by the name of "Gurmondizers. And this luxury, and this ❝laziness are the fole monuments, the only meK 3

morials,

" morials, by which the Danes have made them"felves notorious to pofterity, by lying encamped in Wiltshire."

A Vindication of Stone-Heng reftored, by Jobn Webb Efq; p. 227.

Ben Johnson in his Sejanus, act 1. works, vol. 1. p. 320.

Sc. 5. p. 125. Shy..

"That great Gourmond, fat Apicius,” - Jeffica my girl, There is fome ill a brewing towards my reft, For I did dream of money bags to night.]

He has an image of the like fort, Winter's Tale, act 4. fc. 6.

Autolicus. "Here's one (a ballad) to a very "doleful tune, how a ufurer's wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burthen, and "how the long'd to eat adders beads and toads "carbonaded."

Mop. "Is it true, think you?"

Aut. "

"Very true, and not a month old." Dor. "Blefs me from marrying an ufurer!" Aut. "Here's the midwife's name to't, one "Mrs. Tale-porter, and five or fix honeft wives. "that were prefent; why fhould I carry lies "abroad?"

Id. ib.
Laun.

Then it

was not for nothing that my nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last, at fix a clock i'th' morning, falling out that year on Afb-Wednesday was four years in the afternoon.] Black Monday (as Mr. Peck obferves, Explanatory, and Critical Notes upon

Shake