"clining posture; but that about a week af"terwards, another shock reftored it to it's for' mer, and perpendicular fituation."

Act 2. fc. 1. p. 17.

Beatr.

curft cow short borns.]

For it is faid, God fends a

Dat Deus immiti cornua curta bovi.

i. 4. Providence fo difpofes, that they who have will, want power, or means to hurt. See Ray's Proverbs, edit. 1678. p. 118. Id. ib. p. 18. Beatr.

He that is more

than a youth, is not for me, and be that is less than a man, I am not for him; therefore I will even take fixpence in earnest of the bear-herd, and lead bis apes into hell.] i. e. I will die an old maid. Alluding to the proverb. "Old maids lead

apes in hell.

See Ray's Proverbial Obfervaons referring to love, edit. 1678. p. 60.

He uses the fame expreffion, The Taming of the Shrew, act 2. fc. 1.

"She is your treasure, fhe must have a husband, "I muft dance barefoot on her wedding day, "And for your love to her, lead apes in belt.

Elpidia in the Seidge, or Love's Convert by Mr. Cartwright, act 4. fc. 5. alters the proverb. "I've wash'd my face in mercury water for a year and upwards, lain in old gloves ftill, worn my pomatum'd masks all night, each "morning rang'd every hair in it's due rank "and pofture, laid red amongst the white, writ

"o'er

o'er, my face, and fet it forth in a most fair edition kept mufk plumbs continually in my mouth, yet have not had one bite at all thefe baits, but a poor fingle-foled, thin, meagre footman; one that I could fee through. I think I fhall be faved by my virginity, whether I will or no, and lead an ape in heaven.

Sc. 2. P. 19.

Pedro. Lady, will you walk with your friend.] Walk about, &c. Folio 1632.

Act 2. fc. 4. p. 24. Benedick of Beatrice.

Ben. If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, fhe would infect to the north ftar.]. Slicer speaking of Jean Potlack [In The Ordinary, a comedy, by W. Cartwright, act 1. sc. 2. p. 67.] fays,

Slicer. "Her breath would rout an army "fooner than a cannon.

Hearfay. "It would lay a devil, fooner than "all Trithemius's charms."

Id. ib. She would have made Hercules have

turn'd fpit; yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. Come, talk not of ber,

you shall find ber the infernal Ate in good apparrel.] The merchant in the prologue to his tale in Chaucer, thus defcribes his wife,

"I have a wife, the worft that mayin be "For though the fende coupled to her were "She wold him overmatch I dare well fwere.'

Sc. 5. p. 25.

Bene. Will your grace command me any fervice to the world's end?

I will bring you the length of Prefter John's foot; fetch you a hair, of the great Cham's beard.] i. e. I will undertake the most difficult task, rather than have any conversation with Beatrice. Alluding to the difficulty of access to either of those monarchs, but more particularly to the former. To which Mr. Butler alludes, Lady's answer to the Knight, 277,

&c.

"While like the mighty Prefter John, "Whose person none dares look upon, "But is preferv'd in clofe difguife

"From being made cheap to vulgar eyes." Medico in Mr. Tho. Randolph's Ariftippus, or Jovial Philofopher, p. 22. treats Prefter John with great freedom.

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Medico. I have one razor, that was fent "from A-faith, I cannot think on's name, "a great emperour; he that I did the great "cure on, you have heard on't I am fure; I "fetch'd his head from China, after it had been "there a fortnight buried, and set it on his "fhoulders again; and made him as lively as "ever I saw him in my life; and yet d'ye see, "I could not think on's name, oh I have it "now, Prefter John a pox on't. — I might "have had his daughter, if I had not been a "fool, and lived like a prince all the days of

my life, and perhaps inherited his crown after his death."

Mr. William Cartwright in his Tragi-Comedy, intit'led, The Siedge: or Love's Convert, act 4.

fe. 6, has a thought not much unlike this of Shakespeare.

Philoftratus. I'd thought you would have "bid me take the Parthian King by the beard; "or draw an eye-tooth from the jaw royal of "the Perfian Monarch.

Act 2. fc. 8. p. 31.

Bene. And her hair fhall be of what colour pleafe God.] Not tincturing it either black or yellow, or painting it of any other colour, which was customary in fome parts of the world. [See Doctor Bulwar's Artificial Changeling, p. 64, &c.]

A& 3. fc.

fc. 1. p. 42.

Urfu. She's limed I warrant you, we have caught her madam.] "She's tane I warrant you. Folio 1632. and Sir Tho. Hanmer...........

.Sc. 2. p. 44.

(a) Or in the shape of two countries at once, 'a German from the face downward all flops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet.] This was taken from the edition of 1600, by Mr. Pope; wanting in folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Han mer's edition of 1747, in octavo.

(a) Mr. Richard Broom in his play, intitled, The City Wit, or The Woman wears the Breeches, at 4. fc. r. defcribes Mr. Rafflit in the following humorous manner.

"Oh he's an abfolute fpirit. He has an English face, "a French tongue, a Spanish heart, an Irish head, a Wel leg, a Scotch beard, and a Dutch buttock.

3. fc. 2. p. 45.

A&t Claudio fpeaking to Don Pedro of one, who was in love with Benedick, though fhe knew his ill conditions. The prince replies.

She shall be buried with her face upwards.] And fo is every one who dies a natural death. Qu. whether Shakespeare did not write, with her face downwards?

Sc. 3. p. 46.

Claudio. If there be any impediment, I pray you to difcover it.] Alluding to the bans of marriage. "If any of you know any cause, or just impe"diment, why these two persons should not be

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join'd together in holy matrimony? ye are to "declare it."

Act 4. fc. 4. p. 69.

Changes to a prison.

Enter Dogberry Verges, Borachio, Conrade,

the town clerk and fexton in gowns.]

"Enter the conftables, Borachio, and the Folio 1632.

"town clerke in gownes."

A&t 5. fc. 1. p. 73.

Leon.

-

Give not me counsel,

Nor let no comforter delight mine ear.[

"Nor let no comfort elfe delight myne ear."

Folio 1632.

Sc. 2. p. 75.

Leon. Canft thou fo doffe me? thou haft killd my child?] "Canft thou fo daffe me. Folio 1632, Sir Thomas Hanmer, and Mr. Theobald. Daffe is used for a daftard, or coward, or a fool, in Chaucer's Reve's Tale, 400, &c.

2

"And