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upon, and I'll comb your head with it to "some purpose: and let me be call'd to an ac"count about it, when I give up my office. "I don't care, I'll clear my felf by faying, I "did the world good fervice, in ridding it of

a bad phyfician, the plague of a common"wealth. Body of me! let me eat, or let "them take their government again for an "office that will not afford a man his vic"tuals, is not worth two horse beans.".

Sc. 7. p. 456.

Here take away the difh.]

"Take away this dish. Folio 1632.

Sc. 8. p. 457.

Haberdasher. Here is the cap your worship did befpeak.

Petr. Why, this was moulded on a porringer, &c.] He has the like image, King Henry VIII,

"There was a haberdasher's wife of fmall "wit, near him, that rail'd upon me, till her pink'd porringer fell off her head

Sc. 8. p. 458.

Pet. O mercy, heav'n, What masking stuff is this?] "Oh mercy, God, &c. Folio 1632. Id. ib.

Tay. You bid me make it orderly and well, According to the fashion of the time.]

fashion and the time." Folio 1632. Act. 4. fc. 8. p. 459. ·

Petruchio to the taylor.

Petruchio. O most monstrous arrogance!

Thou lyeft thou thread, thou thimble,

"The

Thou

Thou yard, three quarters, half yard, quarter,

nail,

Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket thou.]

Ben Johnson has an image like this, Cynthia's Revels, act 5. fc. 4.

Mercury to the tayler.

"Is it fo, Sir, you impudent poultron? "You flave, you lift, you shred you.”

Sc. 10. p. 463.

Bapt. Not in my houfe Lucentio, For you know, Pitchers have ears; and I have many fervants.] "Little pitchers have ears."

Ce que l'enfant oit au fouyer, eft bien toft cogneu jufques au Monftier." That which the "child hears by the fire, is often known as far 66 as Monftier a town in Savoy. So it seems that "they have long tongues, as well as wide ears, " and therefore (as Juvenal well faid) Maxima debetur puero reverentia." Ray's Proverbial Sentences, p. 169.

Sc. 13. p. 467.

Vincentiq. Fair Sir, and you my merry mistress That with your strange encounter, much amaz’d me. My name is call'd Vincentio, my dwelling Pifas And bound I am to Padua, there to vifit.

A fon of mine, which long I have not feen.
Pet. What is his name?

Vin.. Lucentio, gentle Sir:

Pet. Happily met, the happier for thy fon,
And now by law, as well as reverend age,
I may entitle thee my loving father:

The

The fifter of my wife, this gentlewoman,
Thy fon by this bath married.]

Shakespeare in this place carries his degrees of affinity much too high. Biancha by marrying Lucentio was Vincentio's daughter in law, but Vincentio bore no relation either to Petruchio or Catharina. The kindred of the hufband are not of affinity to the kindred of the wife. The affinity is terminated in the husband himself from the wife's kindred, and in the wife her felf from her hufband's kindred. See Dr. Wood's new Inftitute of the Imperial, or Civil Law, book 1. chap. 2. p. 119. fourth edition 1730.

A&t 6. fc. 4. P. 473.

Widow. He that is giddy, thinks the world turns round.] This may be a fneer upon Copernicus's fyftem of philofophy, which was established long before Shakespeare's time. See Chambers's dictionary.

Act 5. fc. 4. p. 475.

Cath. To wound thy Lord, thy King, thy Go

vernour,

It blots thy beauty, as froft bites the meads, Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds fhake fair buds.] Q. Confounds thy frame?

Sc. 5. p. 478.

Cath. I am afhamed that women are so simple, To offer war, where they should kneel for peace, Or feek for rule, fupremacy, and fway, When they are bound to ferve, love, and obey.

The

The woman in the office of matrimony, promises the man "To obey, and ferve him, love, "honour, and keep him, in fickness and in "health."

Id. ib. p. 479.

Enter two fervants bearing Sly in his own apparrel, &c.] Not in folio 1632.

All's well that ends well.

ACT I. SCENE III. p. 11.

HEL. You go fo much backward when you

fight.

Parolles. That's for advantage.

Hel. So is running away when fear propofes Jafety; but the compofition that your valour and fear makes in you is a virtue of a good wing and I like the wear well.] Mr. Warburton alters it to a good ming. Shakespeare probably alludes to the perfon, who was tried by a court martial for cowardice; and pleaded for himself, "That he "did not run away for fear of the enemy, but "only to try, how long a paultry carcase might "laft, with good looking to."

L'Eftrange's Fables, part 2. fab. 59. Jasper Mayne ftudent of Christ Church, in his tragi-comedy, intitled, the Amorous War, has a thought fomething like this. [A& 3. sc. 5. P. 26.]

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"pleatly ragg'd and torn as yours are, but for courage and looks, I do perceive a kind of quiet, yet understood confpiracy among them "how not to fight; and can observe a speaking, fly combination, pafs between face and "face how to escape. Their marches are di"vided between a certain provident care to fly, "and fear of hanging."

Sc. 5. p. 13. I Lord. His love and wisdom, approv'd so to your Majesty, may plead for ample credence.] Ampleft credence. Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer:

Sc. 5. p. 15.

King. I after him, do after him, wish too, (Since I nor wax, nor honey, can bring home) I quickly were diffolved from my hight,

To give fome labourer room.] Labourers. Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer.

Sc. 6. Clown. No madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, tho' many of the rich are damn`d.] See Mark x. 15. Luke xviii. 25.

Sc. 6. p. 17.

Clo. I have been, madam, a wicked creature.-And indeed 1 do marry that I may repent.] The clown abounds in proverbs. In a few lines before, he faid, "He "needs must go that the devil drives.". And here that proverb is alluded to, Marry in haft and repent at leisure. See Ray's Proverbial Obfervations referring to love, p. 56.

Sc. ibid. Clown. I am out of friends, madam.] "Out a friends." Folio 1632.