"That, if there the woman is not beaten

once a week, fhe will not be good, and "therefore they look for it weekly; and the "women fay, if their hufbands did not beat them, they should not love them."

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See more Lady's Answer to the knight in Hudibras. Note upon verfes 379, 389.

Your wrongs do fet a fcandal on my fex; We cannot fight for love, as men may do, We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo.] I remember a few lines written not many years ago by a celebrated beauty, complaining of this hardship upon the fair fex.

"Cuftom alas! does partial prove

"Nor gives us even measure,
"A pain it is for maids to love,
"And 'tis for men a pleasure :

They freely can their thoughts explain, "But ours muft burn within,

"We have got tongues and

"And truth from us is fin

eyes in vain,

"Then equal laws let juftice find, "Nor either fex opprefs;

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More freedom give to womankind,
And give to mankind less.

Sc. 4.

Ob.

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where Oxlip, and the nodding violet grows,

O'er canopied with luscious woodbine.]

E 4

« Quite

"Quite over canopied with luscious wood"bine." Fol. 1632. and in Sir Thomas Han

mer.

Id. ib. There the fnake throws her enamell'd skin.] This may allude to Virgil, Æneid. 2. 471. &c. Qualis ubi in lucem Coluber mala gramina paftus, &c.

"So fhines, renew'd in youth, the crested Snake

"Who flept the winter in a thorny brake, "And cafting off his skin, when spring returns "Now looks aloft, and with new glory burns.

Dryden. See likewife Georgic. Lib. 3. 438, 439. And Lucretius de Rerum Naturâ. Lib. 613, 614.

3.

And among our modern poets. Spenfer's Fairy Queen. Book 4. Canto 3. St. 29.

Befides the opinions of the ancient and modern poets, with regard to the fnake's cafting his fkin, there are other authorities in proof of the fact. The celebrated Kircher visited a cave near the village of Saffe about eight miles from the city of Bracciano in Italy [Vulgo la grotta delli ferpi, famed for the cure of the leprofie, and feveral other diftempers on account of the number of fnakes that lodge in it.] "He found it

warm, and every way answer to the descrip"tion of it by doctor Olaus Wormius: He faw "their--holes, heard a murmuring, hiffing noise “in them, but although he miss'd seeing the ferpents

ferpents (it not being the feafon of their creeping out) yet he faw great numbers of "their exuvia, or fluffs, and an elm growing "hard by, laden with them."

See Dr. Derham's Phyfico-Theology. 4th Edit. p. 400. And Dr. Mead's Mechanical account of Poyfons, 2d Edit. p. 4.

Sc. 5. p. 119.

Queen. Come now, a roundel, and a fairy fong.] From round comes roundel, and from roundel roundelet. The firft the form of the figure, the second the dance in the figure, the laft the fong or tune to the dance. Anon.

"And fong in all the roundell luftily. Chaucer's Knight's Tale. 1531.

The dance call'd Roundelay by fome of our English poets.

Lauranda, "My Amarillis knows by fidelity, "How often we have sported on the lawnes, “And danced a roundelay to Focaftus' pipe. Amyntas, or The Improbable Dowry, by Tho. Randolph. Act 1. fc. 2. p. 5.

Sc. 6. Two bofoms interchained with an oath.] Interchanged. Fol. edit. 1632.

A&t. 3. fc. 1,

Snowt. By'r Laken a parlous fear.] By our ladykin, or little lady, as Ifakins is a corruption of by my faith. These kind of oaths are laugh'd at, in the first part of Henry the fourth, A& 3. fc. 3. Where Hotspur tells lady Percy, upon her faying in good footh, "You fwear like a com“fit maker's wife, and give fuch farcenet

"furety for your oaths, as if you never walk'd "farther than Finsbury."..

"Swear me Kate like a lady as thou art, "A good mouth-filling oath, and leave in foath, "And fuch protests of pepper-ginger-bread "To velvet guards, and funday citizens, Dr. T. The word parlous ufed at this time in the north parts of England, for perillous.

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Id. ib. —— And for more better assurance.] So in the Tempest, I am more better.

Sc. ib.

Bot.

There is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your living lion] Farquhar in his Beaux Stratagem, I think, puts the like blunder into Boniface's mouth:

As for fif we have but little, this being an inland country; but for wild-fowl, I have a couple of the finest tame rabbits. [or fomething to the fame purpose.]

A& 3.

fc. 1. p. 126.

Bottom. A kalendar, a kalendar, look into the almanack.

The account given by Verstegan of the origihal of the word almanack, [See Reftitution of decay'd Intelligence, Antwerp Edition. p. 58.] is as follows." The Saxons used to engrave upon

certain squared sticks, about a foot in length,

or fhorter or longer as they pleased, the "courfes of the moons of the whole year; "whereby they could always certainly tell when "the new moons, full moons, and changes "should happen; as alfo their festival days:

"and

"and fuch a carved ftick they call'd an Al"mon-aght, that is to fay, Al-moon-beed, to "wit the regard or obfervations of the moons, " and thence is derived the name of almanac." Id. ib. Or let him hold his fingers thus, And through the cranny fhall Pyramus and Thibe whisper] Through that cranny. Fol. edit. 1632. fc. 2. p. 127.

A&t 3.

Quince. He goes but to fee a noife that he beard, and is to come again.] In the Twelfth Night, Act 2. fc. 2. he has an expreffion much to the fame purpose.. "To hear by the nose, it "is dulcet in contagion."

Butler probably had one or both these paffages in view, when he wrote the two following lines. "As Roficrucian vertuofos,

"Can fee with ears, and hear with noses.” Hudibras. Book 3. Canto 3, 15. Id. ib. The clowns exeunt.] "The clowns all exeunt. Folio. 1632.

A& 3. fc. 2. p. 129.

Queen. What angel wakes me from my flowry

bed? [waking] Bot. The finch, the Sparrow, and the lark,

The plain-fong cuckow gray.]

[fings]

See the fable intitled, The afs made a judge of mufick. L'Eftrange's Fables. Part 1. Fab. 304. Id. ib.

Bot. Methinks miftreffe, you should have but little reafon for that.] Maiftreffe folio 1632. and fo I believe it stands every where in that edition