Id. Ib. - Hag-feed, bence! Fetch us in Fewel, and be quick, (thou wert best) To anfwer other bufinefs] Thou'rt beft, fol. edit. 1632. Sc. v. Fer. Where should this mufick be? It founds no more; and fure it waits upon Some God o'th' ifland, fitting on a bank, Weeping against the king my father's wreck.] Weeping agdine. Folio edit. 1632. Id. Ib. This mufick crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my paffion With it's fweet air.] With it's fweet byre. Edit. 1632. Sir T. Hanmer uses ayres instead of air, in the fixth scene. Sc. vi. Mira. Be of comfort, My father's of a better nature Sir, Than be appears by Speech.] Qu. By's fpeech, for by his. Act 2. fc. T. Gon. Dolour comes to him indeed, you have Spoken truer than you propofed] than you purpofed, folio edit. 1632. Id. Ib. Ant. His word is more than the miraculous barp. Seb. He hath rais'd the wall and boufes too.] Alluding to the ftory of Amphion, the son of Jupiter and Antiope daughter of Nitteus, who being divorced from her husband King Lycas, Jove got her with child; wherefore upon Dirce the the fecond wife's account being imprisoned, fhe was freed by Jupiter, and fled to mount Cytheron, and there was delivered of Amphion, and his brother Zetbus in a high way that had a double turning, whom the fhepherds took care of. The two brothers, when they came to age, revenged their mother's injuries upon Dirce. Amphion was reported to be fo excellent a musician, that as he play'd upon the lute which Mercury gave him, the ftones which built Thebes, followed him to the place where they fhould be laid: that is, he by his oratory wrought upon a rude people to live together peaceably in Thebes; where he was king. Ib. p. 33. Seb. Milan and Naples have More widows in them of this business' making, Than we bring men to comfort them.] A lame verfe, perhaps it fhould be read, to comfort them withal. Anon. Id. Ib. ALON. So is the deareft o'th' lofs.] So is the deer'ft o'th' lofs, in the folio edit. 1632. which fuits the measure better. Id. Ib.. Gon. My Lord Sebaftian The truth you speak doth lack fome gentleness, And th' time you speak it in] And time to speak it in. Edit. 1632. Ibid. It feldom vifits forrow, when it doth It is a Comforter.] For It, we probably should read I Sleep Sleep feldome vifits forrow, there being a relative without an antecedent. Id. ib. Alon. Thank you, wondrous beavy] Qu. I'm wondrous heavy. Seb. What a strange drowsiness poffeffes them! Seb. Why Doth it not then our eye-lids fink?] Alluding to the trochleares, a name given to the oblique muscles of the eye, because they pull the eyes obliquely upwards or downwards, as if turned like a pully. Sc. Ib. Ant. Ten confciences that ftand 'twixt me and Milan Candy'd were they] Tom Coryat [Crudities publish'd 1611 p.95.] gives the following humorous account of the city of Milan; " Milan is "fituate in a plain, compaffed round about "with the famous river Teffino-At first it was but an obfcure and ignoble country village, founded by the ancient Hetrufcans, and "after inhabited by the Infubres, whence the ter "ritory round about it was call'd Infubria, but "in continuance of time Bellovefus the fon of "Ambigatus, king of the Celta, after he had "conquer'd the country about it, amplified "this village, and made it a fair city, about "the time of Tarquinius Prifcus, the fifth king "of Rome: at the time of the enlarging, and "amplification by Bellovefus, there happened a 36 very strange accident which gave occafion of C "the "the denomination. For when it was new པ་ building, a certain wild fow, that came "out of an old ruinous houfe very early in the "morning, hapned to meet fome of thofe "that were fet awork about the building of "the city. This fow had half her body cover'd "with hard briftly hair, as other pigs are, " and the other half with a very soft, and "white wool; which portentum Bellovefus took "for a very happy and ominous token, so that "he caused the city to be call'd Mediolanum "from the half woolled fow; what his reason was, why he should esteem this strange spec"tacle for fuch a lucky token, I know not, "but I conjecture it might be this: perhaps "he fuppofed the briftly hair might prefage "ftrength and puiffance in his fubjects, and the "wool, plenty of neceffary means that might " tend to the cloathing of their bodies; he en“viron'd it with a wall four and twenty foot "broad and fixty four foot high, and built fix 66. gates therein it is at leaft feven miles about, " and has ten gates in all; whereof four have ❝ been added by fome benefactors, to the fix that Bellovefus built." Id. ib. They'll tell the clock to any business that we fay befits the hour,] This line was probably taken from Taffo, Canto 1. St. 12. Gia fuoi copogni, hor fuoi miniftri ī Guerra. 10 Anon: Id. ib. Alon. Heard you this?] In folio 1632, Heard you this, Gonzalo? Gonz. Gonz. There was a noife. That's verity.] verily in folio edit. 1632, but the alteration is more proper. Sc. 2. Were I in England now as once 1 was, and had but this fifh painted, not an boliday fool there but would give a piece of filver.] Not a boliday fool. fol. edit. 1632. Sc. ibid. Stephano. I have not escaped drowning, to be afraid now of your four Legs.] To be aferd. fol. edit. 1632. Afferde, used in that fenfe by Chaucer, Troilus and Crefeide, lib. 2. 606. "But whan that she 66 was full avifid, tho found fhe right nought "of perill, who that the oughtee aferde be. a-fere. Romaunt of the rofe, 4073". Id. ib. Cal. Thou do'ft me yet but little burt, &c.] This is the first speech of Caliban in prose : I am apt to believe, that every thing that Caliban fays, not only in this fcene, but through the whole play, was defign'd by the author for metre, either for verfe, or Hemiftics. Certainly most of it is for this reafon it may be reduced to verse in the following manner. : "Thou do'st me yet but little hurt, thou wilt "Anon: I know, it by thy trembleing, I "Now Profpro works fo on thee." Trembleing of three fyllables, to which the editors not attending, jumbled this into profe. Anon: |