Sc. 12. Slender. I'll make a shaft or a bolt ont: d'flid, 'tis but venturing.] Alluding to the proverb, the fool's bolt is foon fhot. Ib. fc. 13. Slender. Truly for my own part, I would little or nothing with you; your father and my uncle have made motions, if it be my luck, fo; if not, happy man be's dole! they can tell you how things go better than I can; you may ask your fa ther, here he comes.] Honest Ben in Congreve's Love for Love, act 3. fc. 7. courts Mifs Prue in the fame Laconic (but more humorous) way. "Look you forfooth, Ben. "I am as it were bound for the land of matri mony, 'tis a voyage d'ye fee that was none "of my feeking; I was commanded by fa "ther; and if you like of it, perhaps I may ❝fteer into your harbour. How fay you, mif"trefs? the short of the thing is, that if you "like me, and I like you, we may chance to fwing in a Hammock together.". Ib. fc. 14. p. 313. . Anne. Alas! I had rather be fet quick i'th' earth.] Alluding to what is practised now and then in the Mogol's country. Sir Tho. Roe in his Voyage to the East Indies. Published with the Travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, p. 461. tells us, "That the Mogol upon a time found one "of his fuperannuated women and one of his "cunuchs kiffing one another; and for this very "thing the king prefently gave command that ❝ a round "a round hole fhould be made in the earth, "and that her body fhould be put into that "hole, where the fhould ftand with her head only above ground, and the earth to be put "in again unto her clofe round about her, fo "that the might stand in the parching fun, till "the extreme hot beams thereof did kill her, in which torment fhe lived one whole day, "and the night following, and almost to the next noon, crying out lamentably whilft fhe "was able to speak in her language which "horrid execution, or rather murder, was "acted near our house, where the eunuch by the "command of the king was brought very near "the place, where this poor creature was bu"ried alive, and there in her fight cut all into " pieces." Sc. 17. p. 317. Falft. I fuffer'd the pains of three egregious deaths.] "Three feveral deaths. Folio 1632. A& 4. fc. I. p. 320. Quic. Hang bog is latin for Bacon.] "Sir Nicholas Bacon being Judge of the "Northern Circuit, when he came to pass fen"tence upon the malefactors, was by one of "them mightily importuned to fave his life. "When nothing he had faid would avail, he "at length defired his mercy on account of kin"dred. Prethee, faid my Lord, how came "that in? why if it please you, my Lord, your "name is Bacon, and mine is Hog, and in all 2 66 ages ages Hog and Baton are fo near kindred, that "they are not to be separated. Ay but (replied "the Judge) You and I cannot be of kindred un less you be bang'd; for Hog is not Bacon, till it "be well bang'd. Lord Bacon's Apophthegms, No. 36, .Sc. 3. p. 324. } Mrs. Page. "'Tis old, but true, fill faine eats all the "draugh."]" Still fow, Ray's Proverbs 2d edit P. 206 Sc. 9. p. 335. Falf. Well if wry wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.] “Well if my "wind were but long enough, I would repent." Folio 1632. A& 5. fc. 3. P.. 341. Falft. Divide me like a bribe-buck, each baunch, I will keep my fides for myself, my fboulders for the fellow of this walk.] To the keeper the fboulders and bumbles belong'd as a perquifite. Cricket, 10 Windfor chimneys fhalt thou leap, Where fires thou find't unrak'd, and bearths unswept, There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry ; Our radiant queen bates fluts, and fluttery.] "When boufe or hearth doth fluttish lie I pinch the maids both black and blue; And from the bed the bed cloaths I “Pull off and lay them nak'd to view. "Old Old ballad of Robin Good-fellow. Peck's New Memoirs of Milton, p. 25. See more, Notes upon Hudibras part 3. canto 1. 1413. Id. ib. p. 334. The feveral chairs of order look you fcowr, &c.] A curious description of the order of the Garter, and of Saint George's Chappel at Windfor, where they were inftall'd. See Mr. Afbmole's Order of the Garter. A& 5. fc. 6. p. 349. Eva. Jefhu! Mafter Slender, cannot you fee, but marry boys? Page. O, I am vext at heart; what fhall I do?] This is not in folio 1632. nor in Sir Thomas Hanmer, but added by Mr. Theobald and Mr. Warburton. I should be thankful to know by what authority? and should have thought that Evans the Welsh Parson would have used Cheshu for Jefbu. So in the Life of King Henry V. act 4. fc. 2. p. 528. Flu." So in the name of Chefbu Chrift, fpeak Page. What remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee jey, what can't be efchew'd, must be embraced.] The English Proverbial faying, what can't be cured, must be endured. Levius fit patientia quicquid corrigere eft nefas. Horat. 1. od. 24. 9, 20. Measure Meafure for Measure. ACT I. SCENE II. p. 358: 'NG. Yet give me leave, my lord, ANG. That we may bring you fomething on the way.} It should be read; I think, Yet give us leave, my lord; or as in folio 1632. Yet give leave, my lord. fo in Sir Thomas Hanmer's edition. Sc. 5. p. 562. Bawd. What ball become of those in the city? [boufes.] "Clown. They fhall stand for feed.] In Sir Giles Goofe-cap, a comedy, act 1. there is a thought not much unlike this. ર Goofe-cap. "I am fure it was fome years ago ten miles thither, and I hope it is more now. Slidd. "Do not miles grow think you, as "well as other animals ?" Nor was that countryman more wife, who admiring the ftately building of Saint Paul's, afked, whether it was made in England, of brought from beyond-fea? Sc. 8: 'Tis my familiar fin, With maids to feem the lapwing, and to jeft. Tongue far from heart:] The modern editors have not taken in the whole of the fimilitude here they have taken notice of the likeness of a fpark's behaviour to his mistress, and compared it to the lapwing's hovering and flutteringflying I |