And again, 1182, &c. "But natheless he gladdid him in this, "He thought he misacomptid had his daie, "And faied, I understande have all amis, "For thilke night I laft Crefeide faie "She faied I fhall bin here, if that I maie, σε "Ere that the mone, o my dere hertè fwete "The lion paffe out of this Ariete. "For which fhe maie yet hold all her behest, "And on the morrowe to the yate he went, "And up and doune by weft and eke by eft, "Upon the wallis made he many a went. Id. ib. p. 178. Lorenzo. Therefore the Poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, ftones, and floods, From these fine images, Mr. Congreve probably borrowed thefe lines in his Mourning Bride, act 1. fc. I. Almeria. Mufick has charms to footh a "favage breast, "To foften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. "I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd "And as with living fouls have been inform'd "By magick numbers, and persuasive sound. "What then am I, am I more fenfeless grown "Than trees, or flint?" Dr. Dr. Mead (in his book intit'led, A mechanical account of poisons, effay 2d of the bite of the Tarantula, p. 77. 2d edit.) has given the following remarkable account of the effect of mufick, in the cure of diftempers. "Nor are we to wonder at the oddnefs of "this method and practice; for mufick, altho' "it be now a-days applied to quite different "purposes, was antiently made ufe of for the "removing of many; and thofe too, fome of "the moft difficult and obftinate diseases. "For this, we have a famous testimony in "Galen himself, who tells us, that Efculapius "used to recover thofe, in whom violent mo"tions of the mind, had induced a hot tempe"rament of body, by melody, and fongs: Pindar "mentions the fame thing; and indeed from hence not only the notion, but the very name "of charming feems to have taken it's origin. "Athenæus relates, that Theophraftus in his book "of Enthufiafm, fays, ifchiadic pains are cured by the Phrygian harmony, this fort of mufick was upon a pipe, and the most vehement, " and brisk, of all the antients knew; fo that "indeed, it was used to raise those that heard it to downright fury and madness; and fuch "we have obferved to be required to the ve"nom of the Tarantula." Love's Labours loft. ACT 1. SCENE I. p. 192. AND every godfather can give a name.] Alluding to the practice in baptifm, in his own time, when probably the godfather might give the name, as the rubrick then gave no direction who fhould do it. "Then the priest shall take the child in his "hands and ask the name. And naming the "child fhall dip it in the water, fo it be dif creetly and warily done." See rubrick, in King Edward the fixth's firft book, review in 1552. Queen Elizabeth's review, and King James's. In the laft review of 1662, the rubrick was altered in the following manner. "Then the priest fhall take the child into his hands, and fhall fay to the godfathers and "godmothers, Name this Child." And then naming it after them, &c. Id. ib. p. 193. Biron. At Chriftmafs 1 no more defire a rofe, Than wish a fnow in May's new-fangled shows.] Qu. new-fpangled ? Sc. 2. p. 197. But fo fo.] Mr. Warburton fays this is a quibble restored by the Oxford Editor, but from whence? 'tis but fo. Folio 1632. Sc. 3. p. 200. Enter Armado and Moth.] "Enter Armado a Braggart and Moth his page. Folio 1632. . C And bow Sc. 3. p. 201. Motb. eafie it is to put years to the word three, and ftudy three years in two words, the dancing borse will tell you.] Banks's borse which plaid many remarkable pranks. Sir Walter Raleigh (Hif tory of the World, first part, 178.) fays, "if "Banks had lived in elder times, he would "have shamed all the inchanters in the world: "for whofoever was most famous among them, "could never mafter, or inftruct any beast, as "he did his horfe." And Sir Kenelm Digby, (A Treatife of bodies, chap. 38. p. 393.) observes, "That this horfe would reftore a glove to "the due owner, after his mafter had whisper'd "the man's name in his ear; would tell the just number of pence in any piece of silver "coin, newly fhew'd him by his master; and "even obey presently his command, in dif"charging himself of his excrements, whenfo"ever he bade him." And in the fame chapter, he says, "That he "has been told that at the duke of Florence's marriage, there was a dance of horses, by " which they kept exact time to musick. The means used of bringing them to it, is faid to "have been, by tying, and hampering their "legs in fuch a fort, that they could lift them 66 up but in a determinate way, and then fet66 ting them upon a pavement that was heated "underneath fo hot, that they could not en "dure to stand still, while fuch musical airs (6 were "were plaid to them as fitted their motion : "all which being often repeated, the horses took "an habit, that in hearing those airs they would " lift up their legs in that fashion; and so danc'd to the tune they had been taught." 66 Math. Mafter will you win your love with a French brawl?] Mafter, not in folio 1632. A brawle a kind of dance. Dict. de G. Branfle. See Minfbien's Guide into Tongues, col. 93. See Brawls mentioned with other dances, note, All's well that ends well, act 2. fc. 2. Moth. A meffage well fympathiz'd; a horse to be ambassadour for an afs.] Ben Johnson in his Explorata, or Difcoveries, in banter of Hearfay News, fays, "That an elephant 1630, came hither ambaffadour from the Great Mo"gull, who could both write and read, and was every day allowed twelve caft of bread, twen 66 ty quarts of Canary fack, befides nuts and "almonds the citizens wives fent him that he "had a Spanish boy to his interpreter; and his "chief negotiation was to conferr, or practice "with Archy, the principal fool of state, about ftealing hence Windfor-Caftle, and carrying it away upon his back if he can." 66 66 Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goofe that you bought, and be ended the market.] The English Proverb, three women and a goose make a market. This |