And speaking of Alonso Carillo who was fent to prifon by order of the King of Spain, for having run into fome youthful errours; but was released next day. He obferves, that coming to court immediately upon it: Boadilla faid to him by way of raillery, "Alonso I was "mightily troubled at your misforrune, for "indeed we all thought you in a fair way to "be hang'd. I must own, replied Alonso in"ftantly, I had fome fear on that account, "but was not out of hopes, that you would “ have ask❜d me for your husband.”

And the story is well known, of a criminal, whofe life was begg'd by a female, in cafe he would marry her. Who upon viewing his intended bride when upon the cart, and ready to be turn'd off: all he faid upon the occafion, was, drive on carter.

Sc. 7. p. 130.

Clown. Now Mercury endue thee with pleaf

ing, for thou speak'ft well of fools.]

"thee with leafing." Folio 1632.

"Endue

"Endue

"thee with learning." Sir Tho. Hanmer.

A&t 2. fc. 1. p. 139.

My ftars fhine

Seb. darkly over me, the malignancy of my fate might perhaps diftemper yours.] He has an image of the fame kind, King Richard the Second, act 3. fc. 4. P. 54.

"Discharge my followers, let them hence away "From Richard's night, to Bolingbroke's fair

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day."

A&t

Act 2. fc. 2. p. 139.

Some hours before

You took me from the breach of the fea, was my fifter drown'd.]

I think Shakespeare wrote beech of the Sea, an expreffion often used by him.

K. Henry." And other times to fee "The beachy girdle of the ocean too wide "For Neptune's hips."

So in King Henry Vth, act 5. fc. 1.

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"Timon come not to me again, but say to

"Athens

"Timon has made his everlafting manfion Upon the beached verge of the falt flood." Timon of Athens, act 5. fc. 5. p. 236. See Coriolanus, act 5 sc. 3. p. 547. Cymbeline, act 1. fc. 8. p. 252.

Sc. 4. p. 145.

Malvolio. My mafters are you mad? or what are you? have you no manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers, at this time of night; do you make an aleboufe of my Lady's boufe, that you Speak out your coziers-catches, without any mitigation, or remorfe of voice?]

Mr. Peck (fee Explanatory, and Critical Notes on Shakespeare's Plays) is of opinion that Malvolio in this place, compares the ranting, roaring, and drinking of Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Ague Cheek, and Fabian, to the cofherings of the wild Irish, the manner whereof is this.

"A good company of men and women be"ing drawn together a feasting, between their

"meals,

meals, their rythmers, and harpers, enter. "tain them with fongs, chiefly in commenda"tion of theft, murder, rebellion, treafon, in"vented on purpose to ftir up their hearts to

imitate their ancestors; making repetition, "how many cows they had stolen, how many "murders they had committed, and the like. "Their manner of fitting at these feafts is this. "Stools or tables they have none; but a good "bundle of straw being strew'd about the floor,

they set themselves down, and then another

burden of ftraw is fhaked over their legs, "which ferves to fet their dishes on. In fum"mer, instead of straw they have green rushes. "And this is both table, and table cloth: "victuals they fhall have plenty; beef, mut“ton, pork, hens, rabbits, all ferv'd up in a

great wooden platter; and aqua vite they "must have good ftore of, or else it is no "feaft."

Cofier, according to Minfbiéu, Guide into Tongues, cól. 172, fignifies a botcher, fowler or tobler, from the Spanish cofer to fow.

Id. ib.

Mal. Sir Toby, I must be round with you, my Lady bid me tell you, tho' fhe barbours you as her uncle, foe's nothing allied to your diforders.] "Though the harbours you as her kinfman. Folio 1632.

Id. ib. p. 147. An affection'd afs.] Qu. affected? fo Sir Tho. Hanmer has alter'd it.

Id. ib. That cons ftate without book, and utters it by great fwaths.] "Great fwarths. Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer.

Sc. 5. p. 149.

Unftaid, and skittish in all notions elfe.] "All "motions elfe." Folio 1632.

Id. ib. Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing wavering, fooner loft and worn.] Loft and won, more proper, as Sir Tho. Hanmer has alter'd it.

Id. ib. p. 150.

The Spinsters, and the knitters in the fun;

And the free maids, that weave their thred with bones.]

Qu. Fair maids?

Id. ib. True lover never find my grave, to weep there.] Sad true lover. Folio 1632. Act 2. fc. 5. p. 151.

Clown. Now the melancholy God protect thee, And the taylor make thee a doublet of changeable taffaty,

For thy mind is a very opal.] Opal is, a precious ftone of various colours, changeable according to the different pofitions of the stone to the light, of which an account is given by (a) Pliny, and other writers.

Sc.

(a) Minimum iidemque plurimum ab iis differunt pali, Smaragdis tantum cedentes. India fola et horum eft mater. Atque ideo eis pretiofiffimam gloriam compofitores gemmarum, et maxime inenarrabilem Difficulsatem dederunt: eft enim in iis carbunculi tenuior ignis,

eft

Sc. ib. p. 152.

But 'tis that miracle, and queen of gems That nature pranks, her mind, attracts my foul.] That nature pranks her in. Folio 1632, Mr. Theobald, and Sir Tho. Hanmer. See Mr. Warburton's reafon for the alteration.

Sc. 7. p. 154.

Fab. Nay I'll come: if I lofe a fcruple of this Sport, let me be boil'd to death with melancholy.] Shakespeare probably wrote, broil'd to death. As Melancholy arifes from a black bile, which lies broiling upon the stomach.

There was only one cafe, in which boiling to death was allowable by our laws; namely, for poisoning. Which was enacted in King Henry the Eighth's reign, in the cafe of Richard Rofe a' cook, who was boil'd to death in Smithfield, the 5th of April 1531, for poisoning fixteen perfons at the Bishop of Rochester's palace, (the bishop himself narrowly escaping. See Stowe's Chronicle, publifh'd by Howes, p. 559. and Bishop Burnet's Hift. of the Reformation," vol. 1. p. 113.) The parliament then fitting,

eft amethysti fulgens purpura, eft fmaragdi virens mare, et cuncta pariter incredibili lucentiâ. Alii fummo fulgoris argumento colores pigmentorum æquavere; alii fulphuris ardentem flammam, aut etiam Ignis oleo accenfi. Magnitudo nucem avellanam æquat. Vide Plinii Natural. Hift. lib. 37. cap. 6. De opali generibus et vitiis.

Bartas joure de la fepmain, 1. 760. explain'd by his com

mentator.

And Dale's Pharmacologia, edit. 12mo. p. 99.
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