· One down that's in my Plume.] One dowle, Edit. 1632. Baily fays, Dowle is a feather, or rather the fingle particles of the downe, and in proof refers to Shakespeare, I fuppofe to this paffage, in the old editions. Id. ib. " Gonz. All three of them are defp'rate, their great guilt like Poifon given to work a great time after, now 'gins to bite the fpirits.] The Italians and Spaniards are famous for mixing of poifons, which work by flow degrees: and kill at a certain distance of time: He may here poffibly allude to Squier's confpiracy against queen Elizabeth, in the year 1598, to fave himfelf from being burnt in the Inquifition for a Heretick, "He was easily induced to turn Papift, " and afterwards to attempt any wicked act for "the Catholick caufe. His ghoftly father taught "him, that it would be a very meritorious act "to destroy the Queen and the earl of Effex; "and fent him into England with a peculiar poyfon, to anoint the pummel of the queen's "faddle, and the chair where the earl of Effex "fhould fit, which he exactly perform'd, but "neither of them took effect." Echard's Hiftory of England, Vol. 1. p. 889. A&t. 4. fc. 1. Profpero to Ferdinand. Pro. Then as my gift and thine own acquifition worthily purchas'd, take my daughter.] Then as my guest, Fol. edit. 1632. P. 60. The name of Profper, it did bafe my trespass.] I should chuse to read Profpero, as he is every where called except by Caliban. Anon: A&t. 4. fc. 2. And thy broom groves, Whofe fhadow the difmiffed Batchelor loves Being lafs-lorn.] Undone by a lafs. In that fense Chaucer ufes the word lorn. “And I am lorn, withoutin remedy. Squier's Tale, 649. "Lorde Phabus caft thy merciable eye, "One wretched Aurelius, which am but lorne. Frankelyn's Tale, 2582. So Spenfer ufes the word. See Gloffary. See likewife Hearne's Gloffary to Peter Langtoft's Chronicle. Milton gives the epithet of love-lorn to the nightingale. Sweet echo, fweeteft-nymph that livest unseen, By flow Meander's margent green, And in the violet embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn nightingale, Nightly to thee her fad fong mourneth well, &c. Milton's Poems upon feveral occafions, P. 218. 4th Edit Sc. 3. p. 63. Iris. Thy turfy mountains.] Turfy feems to be an odd epithet to a mountain why might not the poet give it tufty mountains, to which flat flat meads is rightly oppos'd in the next line? Anon. Id. ib. Thy banks with pioned, and tulip'd brims] Twilled brims. Edit. fol. 1632, Sc. 5. Cal. Pray tread foftly, that the blind mole may not bear a foot fall:] The mole though it is defective in fight, has that defect probably made up, by a quickness of hearing. Dr. Derbam (Phyfico-Theology, Book 4. ch. 3.) gives the following curious account of the Mole's ear. "Moles have no protuberant ear, "but only a round hole between the neck and "fhoulder; which fituation of it, together " with the thick fhort fur that covers it, is a "fufficient defenfive against any external an noyances. The meatus auditorius is long, round, and cartilaginous, reaching to the "under part of the fkull. Round the infide "runs a little ridge, refembling two threads "of a skrew: at the bottom thereof is a pretty "inlet, leading to the drum, made on the one "fide with the aforefaid cochleous ridge, and on the other with a fmall cartilage. I ob"ferved there was cerumen in the meatus. "As to the inner ear, it is fomewhat fingu"lar, and different from that of other quadrupeds. There are three fmall bones only (all hollow) by which the drum (to "ufe the old appellation) or the membrana tympani (as others call it) acts upon the auditory nerve. The firft is the malleus which 46 3 "hath thath two proceffes nearly of equal length; "the longer of which is braced to the mem"brana tympani, the fhorter to the fide of the "drum, or os petrofum; the back part of it re"fembles the head and stalk of a small mush room, fuch as are pickled. On the back of "the malleus lies the next fmall bone, which may be call'd incus, long and without any "procefs, having fomewhat the form of the "fhort fcoop, wherewith water-men throw water out of their wherries. To the end of this, the third and last small bone. is tacked by a very tender brace. This little bone bears "the office of the tapes, but is only forked "without any bafe: one of these forks is at ແ one feneftra, or foramen, the other at an"other; in which feneftra I apprehend the "forks are tack'd to the auditory nerve. "Thefe feneftra (equivalent to the feneftra "ovalis, and rotunda in others) are the inlets "into the cochlea, and canales femicirculares, "in which the auditory nerve lieth. The femi"circular canals lie at a diftance from the “drum, and are not lodged (as in other ani"mals) in a strong, thick body of bone, but 66 are thruft out within the fkull, making an antrum, with an handsome arch leading into it, into which part of the brain enters. "One leg of the malleus being fastened to "the membrana tympani, and the incus to the "back of the malleus, and the top of that to the ་ top of the ftapes, and the forks and the branD ་ "ches ches of the tapes to the auditory nerve; "obferv'd that whenever I moved the membrane, all the little bones were at the fame time moved; and confequently the auditory nerve thereby affected alfo. "I hope the reader (says Dr. Derham) will "excufe me in being fo particular in this organ, "only of the mole, a defpifed creature, but વહે as notable an example of God's work, as it's, life is different from all other quadrupeds, for which reafon it partly is, that I have enlarg. "ed on this part differing from that of others; " and which no body that I know of, hath "taken much notice of." Id. ib. A noife of hunters beard: Enter diverse Spirits in fhape of dogs and bounds bunting them about, Profpero and Ariel fetting them on.] ShakeSpeare might have in view" Arthur's Chace, which many believe to be in France, and "think that it is a kennel of black dogs, follow'd by unknown huntfmen, with an exceeding great found of horns, as if it was a very "hunting of fome wild beaft." See Treatife of Spectres, tranflated from the French of Peter de Loier, and publish'd in 4to, 1605. p. 11. A&t v. fc. ii. p. 75. Prof. Ye elves of bills, &c.] Spenfer derives elves from the fabulous ftory of the man that Prometheus made, and at the fame time gives, an account whence the word fairy is derived. "The |