roar.] All this is wanting in the folio edition of 1632.

Sc. 4. P. 395.

Sly.

I bave no more fboes than feet, nay fometimes more feet than fhoes; or fuch shoes, as my toes look through the over leather.]

Jafper Mayne (Amorous Warre, a tragi-comedy, act 3. fc. 6. p. 42.) has an image not unlike this. Where Artops speaking of a company of foldiers, if I temember right, ufes the following words.

Artops. "This is moft rare with reference "to

to the feathers in your hats; most pilfering 66 gentlemen; which shows, that you have skir"mish'd with neighbouring poultry lately, and

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having eaten part of your conquest, wear the "rest as emblems, of wandering from the camp, and inroads on backfides. If I may 66 " ask you, where have you learnt this eloquence? I do not read, that Demofthenes de"claim'd with toes looking through leathern case"ments; or that he was fent in an embaffy "with half a stockin; or fuch decay'd caparisons, as I observe in your retinue." Act 1, fc. 3. p. 404.

Gremio of Catharina. Gremio. I fay a devil, think'st thou Hortenfio, tho' her father be very rich, any man is fo very a fool to be married to hell.]

Mr. Quarles in his play, intitled, The Virgin Widow, act 1. fc. 1. has a fimilar passage.

"Maria's

"Maria's louder tongue

"Outroars the thunder, and her flaming eyes "Outfcorches Etna, her impetuous rage "Out-devils the whole academy of hell."

And Mr. Richard Brome. In his play, intit'led, The City Wit: or The Woman wears the Breeches, act 1. fc. 1.

Jeremy. ""Tis nothing but her old disease "the tongue ague, whofe fit is now got up to "fuch a height the devil cannot lay it.

"She will out-fcold ten carted bawds, even "when she is sober; and out-chat fifteen mid"wives, tho' fourteen of them be half drunk.

George's advice to his mafter (in The Gentleman of Venice, by Mr. James Shirley, a& 5. p. 60.) was a very proper defence against the clamour of fuch a scolding wife.

George. "Mafter, look here.

"If you had but this hole to put your head in, "it would be a great prefervative to your hear ing, and keep all the noife of my dame's culverine within this fortification well lock'dup, you would think her loudest foolding a meer 66 whisper."

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Id. ib.

Hort.

Sweet Bianca? happy man be his dale.] Dole used for lot, or portion, or divifion in Chaucer. Shakespeare has the fame expreffion, First Part of King Henry IVth, a&t 2. fc. 3.

Poins.

"Stand clofe.

Fallt.

Falft. "Now, my mafters, happy man be "bis dole fay I, every man to his business. The proverb, "happy man, happy dole; "or happy man by his dole.

See Ray's Proverbial Sentences, p. 151.

Act 1. fc. 3. p. 405.

Exeunt Gremio and Hortenfio.]

"ambo." Folio 1632.

Sc. 4. p. 405.

That art to me as fecret, and as dear,

"Exeunt

As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was.] Anna fifter to Dido Queen of Carthage, was in love with Eneas. See Virgil's Eneids.

Sc. 7. P. 415.

Petruchio. Have I not in my time beard lions roar?

Have I not heard the fed puff'd up with winds?
Rage like an angry boar, chafed with fweat?
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field ?
And heav'ns artillery thunder in the skies?
Have I not in a pitched battle beard

Loud larums, neighing fteeds, and trumpets clangue?
And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, &c.]

Mr. Philip Massenger in his tragi-comedy, intit'led, The Bashful Lover, at 4. plays p. 55. has a paffage not much unlike this.

Lorenzo. "I that have pass'd my youth "Unfcorch'd with wanton fires, my fole delight "In glittering arms, my conquering fword my "mistress;

"Neighing of barbed horse, the cries and groans "Of vanquish'd foes fuing for life, my mufick;

"And

* And fhall I in the autumn of my age

"Suffer my self

"To be transform'd, and like a puling lover "With arms thus folded up, eccho, Aymes ?" And Mr. James Shirley in his tragi-comedy intit'led, The Impofture, p. 61.

Pand. "Have I in thirty battles 'gainst the Turk "Stood the dire shock, when the granadoes flew "Like atomes in the fun.

"Have kill'd twenty Bafhas, and a mussulman, "And took the Sultan's turbant prisoner; "And fhall I be affronted with a thing, "Lefs than a Lance Prefado ?".

Sc. 7. p. 417. The prefenters above speak bere. 1. Man. My Lord, you nod; you do not mind the play.

Sly. Yea, by Saint Ann, do I: a good matter furely! comes there any more of it?

Lady. My Lord, 'tis but begun.

Sly. 'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam Lady would 'twere done.] Wanting in fol. 1632. A&t 2. fc. 4. p. 424.

Pet. You lie in faith, for you are call'd plain

Kate,

And bonny Kate, and fometime Kate the curft,
But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
Kate of Kate Hall, my fuper-dainty Kate, &c.1

The author of the comedy, intitled, Wily beguiled, feems to have borrowed from this paffage of Shakespeare; tho' William the Lover treats his mistress in a more courteous and complaifant manner.

Will.

Will. "Sweet (a) Pegge, honny Pegge, fine Pegge, dainty Pegge, brave Pegge, kind "Pegge, comely Pegge, my nutting, my sweeting, my love, my dove, my hunny, my bunny, my ducke, my dear, my darling-grace me with thy pleasant eyes, &c."

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Sc. 5. p. 428.

And kifs me Kate, we will be married o' funday.] A funday. Folio 1632" We'll marry o' funday." Sir Tho. Hanmer.

Sc. 6. p. 432.

[The prefenters above, fpeak here.] Sly, Sim, when will the fool come again? Sim. Anon, my Lord.

Sly. Give fome more drink bere-where's the tapfter? here Sim, eat fome of these things. Sim. So I do, my Lord.

Sly. Here Sim, I drink to thee.] Wanting in Folio 1632.

Serv. Miftrefs, your father prays you leave books.] "Enter a Mellenger.

"Nicke. miftreffe, &c." Folio 1632.

Sc. 2. Enter Baptifta, Gremio, Tranio, Catharina, Lucentio, Bianca, and attendants.] Biancha, and others, attendants, Folio 1632. Sc. 3. p. 436.

(a) Paga a girl, a little wench. So ufed yet by the Danes. Hereof cometh our Northern name of Peg. Ver fregan, p. 250.