The catchpole is beautifully described by Mr. Philips. "Behind him ftalks "Another monfter, not unlike himself, "Sullen of afpect, by the vulgar call'd "A catchpole, whofe polluted hands, the Gods "With hafte incredible, and magic charms. "Erft have endu'd, if he his ample palm "Shou'd haply on ill-fated shoulder lay "Of debtor, straight his body to the touch "Obfequious (as whilom knights are wont) "To fome inchanted castle is convey'd, "Where gates impregnable, and coercive "chains "In durance ftrict detain him, till in form "Of money, Pallas fets the captive free. Splendid Shilling. And by the author of the Tatler. "As for Tipftaff, the youngest fon, he was an honeft fellow; but his fons, and his fons. "fons, have all of them been the verieft "rogues living; 'tis this unlucky branch has "ftock'd the nation with that fwarm of law yers, attorneys, ferjeants, and bailiffs, with "which the nation is over-run. Tipftaff 6c being a feventh fon, used to cure the King's "Evil: but his rafcally defcendants are so far "from having that healing faculty, that by a "touch upon the shoulder, they give a man an "ill habit of body, that he can never come "abroad again." Tatler, no. 11. A&t Act 4. fc. 4. p. 247. Dromio fpeaking of a P. satchpole. Dro. A Hound that runs counter] When dogs hunt the game by the heel, they are faid to hunt counter. See Chambers's dictionary. Id. ib. Draws dry-foot well.] Ben Johnson has the like expreffion, Every Man in his humour, act 2. fc. 4. "Well the troth is, my old master intends "to follow my young dry foot over Moor-fields "to London this morning; now, I knowing of "this hunting match, &c." To draw dry-foot, is when the dog purfues the game by the fcent of their foot. For which the blood hound is famed. In proof Dr. Derham has given us the following remarkable inftance, (Phyfico Theology, book 4. chap. 11. p. 205.) from Mr. Boyle. "A perfon of quality— to make a tryal, whether a young blood"hound was well in ftructed, caufed one of "his fervants to walk to a town four miles off, and then to a market town three miles from "thence the dog without feeing the man he "was to purfue, followed him by the scent, to "the above mentioned places, notwithstanding "the multitude of market people, that went "along in the fame way, and of travellers that "had occafion to cross it. And when the "blood-hound came to the chief market town, "he paffed through the streets without taking "notice of any of the people there, and left "not till he had gone to the house, where the 66 man R "man he fought refted himself, and found him "in an upper room, to the wonder of those "that followed him. Boyl. determ. nat. of effluv. chap. 4. Id. ib. S. Dromio. He is refted upon the cafe.] An action upon the cafe, is a general action given for the redrefs of a wrong done any man without force, and not especially provided for by law. Sc. 8. Enter Dromio of Ephefus with a rope's end. E. Antiph. Here comes my man, I think, he brings me money, how now, Sir, have you that I fent you for? E. Dro. Here's that I warrant you, that will pay them all.] If the honeft countryman in the ifle of Axholm in Lincolnshire, where they grow little elfe but hemp, had been acquainted with Shakespeare's works, I fhould have imagined that he borrow'd his jeft from hence. At the beginning of the rebellion, in 1641, a party of the parlia ment foldiers, seeing a man fowing fomewhat, aked him what it was he was fowing, for they hoped to reap his crop ? I am fowing of hemp, gentlemen, (fays he) and I hope I have enough for you all. · Act 4. fc. 9. p. 256. E. Ant. Thou jailor, thou, I am thy prifoner, wilt thou fuffer them to make a rescue ? Refcue, Refcue, or refcous (from refcourer, recuperare) is a resistance, or refcuing of any thing, (or of a perfon arrested) and promoting an escape against law. Wood's Inftitutes of the laws of England, third edit. p. 191. Sc. 11. p. 258. They run out.] Exeunt mnes, as fast as may be, frighted. Folio 1632. A&t 5. fc. 4. p. 265. To fcotch your face and difguife you.] Scorch. Folio 1632, and more proper as they are described with firebrands just before. My mafter and his man are both broke loofe, "Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the doctor, "Whose beard they have fing'd off with brands " of fire, &c." Sc. 5. p. 266. They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean fac'd villain. A meer anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare Juggler, and a fortune-teller, In Romeo and Juliet, act 5. fc. 1. he describes his apothecary in the following manner. Romeo. I do remember an apothecary, "And hereabouts he dwells, whom late I "noted; "In tatter'd weeds, with over-whelming brows, "Culling of fimples; meagre were his looks, แ Sharp mifery had worn him to the bones, &c." Id. ib. If he were mad, he would not plead fo coldy.] Qu. Plead fo cooly. Sc. 7. p. 272. Go to a goffip's feaft, and gaude with me.] " And go with me. Edit 1632, Sir Tho. Han mer, and Mr. Theobald. The Winter's Tale. IR Thomas Hanmer was of opinion, that SIR this story was taken from Doraftus 'and Faunia, with a change of most of the main circumstances, and all the names. I am rather apt to believe, that Doraftus and Faunia is of a more modern date, and borrow'd from Shakespeare. Several things in this play feem to resemble Spenser's ftory of Melibee, Paftorella, and Sir Calidore. Act 1. fc. 1. p. 278. F. They have feem'd to be together, tho' abfent, fbook bands as over a vast.] "As over "a vaft fea." Folio 1632, and Sir Thomas Hanmer. Sc. 2. p. 284. Leontes. I have a tremor cordis on me.] A palpitation of the heart, which is an alteration of the pulse in the heart, occasion'd by a fright, or other cause that makes it felt. It oft proceeds from an extraordinary contraction of the |