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ACT II. SCENE II. p. 43. Trinculo of Cabilan.

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There (in England) would this monfter make a man; any strange beaft there makes a man.] i. e. In a plain, obvious fense, makes his fortune. Mr. Warburton has refined fo far upon this paffage, as to bring in the etymologies of monkey, man-tyger and (as he calls them) the whole tribe of Cereopitheci. The strange beasts led him aftray fo far, as to overlook the profit that was to be made of them; and whilst he was hunting his own wild fancies about them, an interpretation of a common phrase, which would have occurr'd to any school boy, escaped him. Dr. T.

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Act 3. fc. 3.

Mountaineers dewlapt like bulls.] Pliny af cribes it to the fault of the fnow-water of the Alps; though it affects only men and fows. But if that was the cafe, why should it appear in other animals? The inhabitants of mount Lebanon drink fnow water, as well as those of the Alps, yet we hear not of their being troubled with any of thefe fwell'd throats; and the bronchochele is endemial in other places befide Switzerland, where no fnow-water is drank, particularly in fome of our own hilly counties, as Derbyfbire, &c. Dr. T.

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Fer. I warrant you Sir,

The white, cold, virgin fnow upon my heart Abates the ardour of my liver.] In the rude phyfiology of the antients, the liver was confider'd as the great instrument of fanguification; and made the feat of the paffions.

Of anger.

So Horace, fat. 1. ix. 66.

Meum jecur urere bilis.

Quid referam quantâ ficcum jecur ardeat irâ.

Envy.

Cum tu, Lydia, Telephi

Juvenal, fat. 1. 45.

Červicem rofeam, et cerea Telephi

Laudas brachia, væ meum

Fervens difficili bile tumet jecur.

Horatii carm. lib. 1. ode xiii. 1. &c.

The paffion here hinted at, which just before is call'd the fire i'th' blood.

Cum tibi flagrans amor, et libido

Sæviet circa jecur ulcerofum

Non fine queftu. Carm. lib. 1. 15,

Si torrere jecur quæris idoneum.

Carm. lib. iv. I.

Non ancilla tuum jecur ulceret ulla.

Sc. 3. p. 63.

Epift. lib. 2. 17. 72. Dr. T.

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And flat meads thatch'd ftover.]

Or perhaps batch'd with ftover.-A term in drawing, which fignifies fhadowing with fine ftrokes and it seems to exprefs the appearance

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of grafs cut down, or hay lying in a meadow. Stover, i. e. fodder better than thatch. The word batch'd occurs in Troilus and Creffida, act 1. fc. 5. p. 384.

"And fuch again

"As venerable Neftor (batch'd in filver.) Dr. F. A&

Act 5. fc. 5. p. 85.

Alon. This is as ftrange a maze, as e'er men trod, And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of.] Qu. conductor? Dr. T. Much ado about Nothing.

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Pedro. See you where Benedick bath hid himself? Claudio. Very well my Lord, the mufick ended, We'll fit the kid fox with a penniworth.] i. e. We will be even with the fox, now difcovered. So the word kid or kidde fignifies in Chaucer. "The fothfastness that now is hid "Without coverture fhall be kid.

“When I undoen have this dreming."

Romaunt of the Rofe, 2171. &c. Perceiv'd, or fhew'd.

"He kidde anon his bowe was not brokin." Troilus and Crefeide, lib, 1. 208

"With that anon fterte out daungere, "Out of the place where he was hidde, "His malice in his cheere was kidde."

Romaunt of the Rofe, 2130.

The Firft Part of King Henry the Fourth.

Act. 4. fc. 2. p. 173..

Hotspur.

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And bis comrades? &c.

Vernon. All furnifb'd, all in arms,

All plumed like eftriches.] i. e. All dreffed like the Prince himself. The oftrich feather being the cognizance of the Prince of Wales, commonly call'd the Prince's arms which is a coronet, beautified with three oftrich feathers; and infcribed Ich Dieu.

This coronet was won by the valiant Prince Edward, the Black Prince, at the battle of Crefly, from King John of Bohemia, who there wore it, and whom he there flew; fince which time it has been the cognizance of our Princes. See Minfhieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 512.

col. 571.

The Second Part of King Henry IV.
Act 1. fc. 6. p. 222.

Bardolph.

When we mean to build,

We first furvey the plot, then draw the model,

And when we fee the figure of the house,

Then must we rate the cost of the erection.]
Alluding to Luke xiv. 28.

"For, which

"of you intending to build a tower, fitteth

66 not down first, and counteth the coft, whether "he have fufficient to finifh it? &c."

Act 2. fc. 5. p. 236.

Glocefter.

Ab Humphrey, this dishonour of thine age, Will bring thy head with forrow to the ground.]

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An allufion to Genefis xxviii. 38. "If "mischief befall him by the way, in the which ye go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs "with forrow to the grave."

The Life of King Henry V.

Act. 4. fc. 2. p. 382.

The organs though defunct, and dead before, Break up their drowsy grave, and newly move With cafted flough, and fresh legerity.]

Sir Thomas Hanmer has alter'd it to celerity, but legerity was used in the fame fenfe, in ShakeSpeare's time.

So, in Ben Jonfon's play, intitled, Every Man out of his Humour, act 2. fc. I..

Sogliardo. Nay look you Sir, there's nere a gentleman in the country has the like humours for the bobby horfe as I have, I have "the method for threeding of the needle, and all

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Sog."I the legeiritie for that, and the "wigh-hie, and the daggers in the nose, and "the travels of the eye from finger to finger, " &c."

Used in the fame fenfe in Romant of Romants, tome second, chap, 42. p. 164. Where speaking of Alcidamant's combating the monster in the island of Silvana, the author fays, "He took "his lance, and making head to the monster, "which followed him with incredible celerity, "he ran it fo furiously into one of it's chops.

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