Id. ib. Steph. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! Mercy! This is a devil and no monster, I will leave him, I have no long spoon. An allufion to the old proverb (Ray's proverbial fentences) "He hath need of a long fpoon that eats with the devil.” The Scotch proverb. [See Ray's Scotch proverbs.]" He fhould have a long-hafted spoon "that fups kail with the devil. The Scotch proverb is applied by king James the first, in his Damonologie, first book, chap. 5. works in folio, 1616. To the English proverb Chaucer alludes [Squier's Tale. 622, 623.] "Therefore behoveth him a full long fpone, "That shall ete with a Fend, thus heard I say." And Shakespeare ufeth the proverb, Comedy of errors, act iv. fc. iii. Id. ib. Cal. These be fine things, an if they be not Sprights, that's a brave god, and bears celeftial li quor, I will kneel to him.] This speech of Caliban's plainly consists of two verfes, and an Hemiftic, thus. "These be fine things, and if they be not "fprights, "That's a brave god, and bears celeftial "liquor, "I will kneel to him." Sc. 2. 47. Caliban to Trinculo. Cal. Cal. I'll fhew thee every fertile inch o'the ifle and kifs thy foot.] A manifeft fneer upon the Papifts, for kiffing the Pope's pantofle, or flipper. Pope Valentine elected in the year 818, was the firft who made the whole fenate of Rome kiss his foot. [See Care's Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome, vol. 2. p. 308, from Anaftafius.] There was a remarkable affront put upon this ceremony, when Dr. Cranmer (afterwards archbishop of Canterbury) attended the pope on account of Henry the VIIIth's divorce from queen Catharine. "When he was going to make his δε fpeech, on the fudden," he was interrupted by an unmannerly fpaniel belonging to the earl of Wiltshire, one of the English embassadors; "The dog feeing the Pope holding out his "foot to be kifs'd caught in his teeth his great "toe fo that the embaffadors difdaining to "kifs, where the dog had taken an affay, let "the pope draw back his foot and fo loft that "fpecial favour that was offer'd them." [Speed's history of Great Britain, edit. 1627. P. 782.] Id. ib. I pr'ythee be my God.] A fneer upon fome of the Canonifts of the church of Rome, who call the pope a God. Dominus nofter Deus papa, is frequently their compliment, and the fame title is given him in one of the councils of Lateran, if we may credit Henry Care, [See Weekly pacquet of advice from Rome. vol. 1. P. io.] In the fixth extravagant of pope John 22d, [Weekly pacquet, &c. vol. 2. p. 195.] Cum inter, the glofs hath this horrid blafphemy; thus tranflated by him. "It were herefie that our "ford god the pope might not decree as he " does." Id. ib. Trin. By this good light, this is a very fhallow monfter I afraid of him? &c.] I afeard of him? Folio. 1632. Id. ib. Cal. I prythee let me bring thee where crabs grow, And I with my long nails will dig thee pigs nuts, Shew thee ajay's nest and fhew thee bow, Spenfer has a thought not much unlike this, when he defcribes the behaviour of the witch's fon to Floremel, with whom he was enamoured. "Oft from the foreft wildings he did bring "Whofe fides empurpled were with smiling red, "And oft young birds, which he had taught "to fing His mistress praifes, fweetly caroled; "Girlonds of flowers fometimes for her fair “ head In fine would dight; fometimes the squirrel " wild "He brought to her in bonds, as conquered To be her thrall, his fellow fervant vild, " Of "Of which fhe of him took with countenance "meek and mild. Fairy queen. Book 3. Canto 7. 17. A&t. 3. fc. I. Tri. There be fome sports are painful, but their Labour delight in them fets off.] And their labour. edit. 1632. Id. ib. For my good will is to it. And yours it is againft.] It is, feems to be an interpolation, the text probably should stand thus. "And yours against. Because the other makes the verse too long, and fpoils the uniformity of the conftruction which went before. Anon: And all the more it feeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it fhews.] Qu. Yet, or still the more. Id. ib. But I prattle Something too wildely, and my father's precepts Step. I. fwam ere I could recover the fhore, two and thirty leagues off and on.] This is upon the marvellous, and probably a fneer upon the Voyages, and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto. Who, according to his own account, fuffer'd shipwreck five times. C 4 Id. Id. ib. Step. Moon-calf, fpeak once in thy life if thou beeft a good moon-calf.] A term of reproach, as appears from Mr. Fra. Quarles's play, intitled the Virgin widow, Act. 2. p. 28. Quifquilla. Goe you weazle-fnouted, addlepated, buzzle-headed, fplatter-footed moon-calf. Sc. 2. P. 52. Cal. Lo, how he mocks me, wilt thou let him, My lord?] Here is a fyllable too much for the verse, for (as is before obferv'd) all Caliban's fpeeches are defign'd to be metre, we fhould correct I think, by striking out my be'fore lord, as Trinculo immediately repeats it. Trin. Lord quoth be? that a monfter should be fuch a natural. Anon! Ib. p. 53. Cal. I thank my noble lord, wilt thou be pleas'd to bearken once again to the fuit I made thee ?] This fpeech comes into two verses. "I thank my noble lord, wilt thou be "pleas'd To hearken once again, to th' fuit I made * thee. Anon: Id. ib. p. 53. Caliban telling Stephano, that he would make him the lord of the land, by killing Profpero, Stephano replies, Step. How now fhall this be compast ? Canft thou bring me to the party? Cal. Yea, yea, my lord, I'll yield him thee afleep, Where thou may't knock a nail into his head.] An |