from Hercules, by a fon of his, called Anteon: and this opinion he endeavoured to confirm, by affecting the likeness of him, both in his mien, and addrefs. .Sc. xii. p. 204. Ant. Gentle, bear me, None about Cæfar truft, but Proculeius.] Plutarch mentions his giving this piece of advice to Cleopatra juft before his death. Life of Antonius, p. 238. CYMBELINE *. A Tragedy. ACT I. SCENE V. p. 242. A ND like the tyrannous breathing of the north, Iachimo. Would I had put my estate, and my neighbours, on the approbation of what I have Spoke.] *Cymbeline, Kymbeline, or Cynobeline, was King of Great Britain, and in friendship with the Romans, at the time that our Saviour was born. See British Hiftory, by Jeffrey of Monmouth, translated by Sommes's Britannia, Aaron Thompson, book iv. chap. xi. p. 203. 3 lachimo Iachimo makes as free with his neighbour, as a gamefter did with his friend. When a dispute happened in a coffee-houfe, and his antagonist curs'd himself, if the thing was not as he affirmed: "Curfe you, (fays the other); curfe me, and my friend, that lies asleep by me, if "it was not just the reverse." 66 Sc. vii. p. 250. Queen of Pifanio, when he had given him what the imagined to be poison, Queen. -I've given him that, Which if he take, fhall quite unpeople her [Imogen] Of leigers for her fweet.] He means no more than common messengers, to keep up a correfpondence between her and Leonatus Pofthumus, her banished husband. Ledger fignifies an ordinary, refident ambassador; of which mention is frequently made by Lord Bacon, in his Hiftory of King Henry VII. Mr. Anftis obferves, (Register of the Garter, part i. p. 394.), that this kind of ambaffador was not more ancient than the year 1500: Skinner fays, that the word came from liegan, the Saxon word for lying abroad. And it is reported of a ledger ambassador at Venice, that he wrote this definition of an ambaffador, with the point of a diamond, upon a glass. "An ambaffador is an honourable spy, fent "by "by the state, to ly for the good of the com"monwealth." See a tract, intitled, Sacra Nemefis, or The Levites fcourge, p. 2. publifhed 1644, Sc. viii. p. 256. Iach. Should be make me Live like Diana's prieft, 'twixt cold beets, Romps probably fo called, from arompo, an Act ii. fc. i. p. 258, Cloten. When a gentleman is difpos'd to fwear, It is not for any ftanders by to curtail his oaths.] "To curtall his oaths." Folios 1623, and 1632. So in Shakespeare's time. Curtali, a curtando, quoniam cauda curta efficitur. See more, Curtall horfe, Minfhieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 191. Act ii. fc. i. p. 260. Second Lord speaking of Cloten, the Queen's fon. Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart, The like obfervation was made by a wag, upon a low-parted gentleman. Put him on (says he) a double buttoned coat, and I'll hold any wager, that he does not know his right hand from his left. This banter is improved by Mr. Philip Maf Senger, fenger, in his play, intitled, A very woman, or The Prince of Tarentum, published 1655. Borachio." Bring me your coufin, "The curate now, that great philofopher, "He that found out a pudding had two ends, "And let him with his Jacob's staff discover "What is the third part of three "Farthings, three halfpence being the half, Act ii. fc. iv. Cloten to one of Imogen's ladies. Sell me your good report.] Cloten's practice, is conformable to the direction which Ovid gives to a lover. Sed prius ancillam captandæ noffe puellæ Proxima conciliis dominæ fit ut illa videto, "For her good word goes far in love affairs." Mr. Dryden. Mr. Butler expreffes part of this advice with fufficient humour. Hudibras, part ii. canto i. 865, 866. << Bribe Bribe chamber-maids with love and money, "To break no roguish jefts upon ye." Sc. iv. p. 267. Imogen to Cloten. Imo. One of your great knowing Should learn (being tort) forbearance.] Being taught, folios 1623, and 1632, and I believe in all other editions. This is one of Mr. Warburton's emendations. Tort fignifies in Spenfer, the doing of wrong, or injury. 66 Dreadlefs, faid he, that fhall I foon declare, "It was complained, that thou haft done great « tort "Unto an aged woman, poor and bare, "And thrall'd her with chains of ftrong effort." Fairy Queen, book ii. canto v. 17. "Then 'gan they ranfack that fame caftle ftrong, "In which he found great ftore of hoarded * treafures, The which the tyrant gather'd had by wrong, "And tortious pow'r without weight or mea"fure." Book iv. canto ix. 12. A&t ii. fc. i. p. 279. Cloten. Britain is alfo -A world by itfelf.] The Archbishop of Canterbury, was formerly Ityled Alterius Orbis Papa. The Romans, upon the first discovery of it, took it to be a new world. |