the fecond wife's account being imprifoned, fhe was freed by Jupiter, and fled to mount Cythe ron, and there was delivered of Amphion, and his brother Zethus in a high way that had a double turning, whom the fhepherds took care of. The two brothers, when they came to age, revenged their mother's injuries upon Dirce. Amphion was reported to be fo excellent a musician, that as he play'd upon the lute which Mercury gave him, the ftones which built Thebes, followed him to the place where they fhould be laid: that is, he by his oratory wrought upon a rude people to live together peaceably in Thebes; where he was king. Ib. p. 33. Seb. Milan and Naples have More widows in them of this business' making, Than we bring men to comfort them.] A lame verfe, perhaps it fhould be read, to comfort them withal. Anon. Id. Ib. ALON. So is the dearest o'th' lofs.] So is the deer'ft o'th' lofs, in the folio edit. 1632. which fuits the measure better. Id. Ib. Gon. My Lord Sebaftian The truth you fpeak doth lack fome gentleness, it in. Edit. 1632. Ibid. It feldom vifits forrow, when it doth It is a Comforter.] For It, we probably fhould read. I Sleep Sleep feldome vifits forrow, there being a relative without an antecedent. Id. ib. Alon. Thank you, wondrous beavy] Qu. I'm wondrous heavy. Seb. What a strange drowsiness possesses them! Doth it not then our eye-lids fink?] Alluding to the trochleares, a name given to the oblique muscles of the eye, because they pull the eyes obliquely upwards or downwards, as if turned like a pully. Sc. Ib Ant. Ten confciences that ftand 'twixt me and Milan Candy'd were they] Tom Coryat [Crudities publish'd 1611 p.95.] gives the following humorous account of the city of Milan; “ Milan is "fituate in a plain, compaffed round about "with the famous river TeffinoAt first it was * but an obfcure and ignoble country village, "founded by the ancient Hetrufcans, and "after inhabited by the Infubres, whence the ter"ritory round about it was call'd Infubria, but "in continuance of time Bellovefus the fon of "Ambigatus, king of the Celta, after he had "conquer'd the country about it, amplified "this village, and made it a fair city, about "the time of Tarquinius Prifcus, the fifth king of Rome at the time of the enlarging, and " amplification by Bellovefus, there happened a very strange accident which gave occafion of દરે "the denomination. For when it was new "building, a certain wild fow, that came.. out of an old ruinous house very early in the "morning, hapned to meet fome of those "that were fet awork about the building of the city. This fow had half her body cover'd "with hard briftly hair, as other pigs are, " and the other half with a very foft, and "white wool; which portentum Bellovefus took" for a very happy and ominous token, fo that "he caused the city to be call'd Mediolanum "from the half woolled fow; what, his reason was, why he should esteem this strange spec-"tacle for fuch a lucky token, I know not, "but I conjecture it might be this: perhaps "he fuppofed the briftly hair might prefage ftrength and puiffance in his fubjects, and the "wool, plenty of neceffary means that might "tend to the cloathing of their bodies; he en"viron'd it with a wall four and twenty-foot "broad and fixty four foot high, and built-fix" gates therein: it is at leaft feven miles about, "and has ten gates in all; whereof four have "been added by fome benefactors, to the fix "that Bellovefus built." Id. ib. They'll tell the clock to any business that we fay befits the bour,] This line-was probably taken from Taffo, Canto 1. St. 12. Gia fuoï cōpogni, hor fuoi miniftri ī Guerrà. Anon: Id. ib. Alon. Heard you this ?] In folio 1632, Heard you this, Gonzalo? Gonz. Gonz. There was a noife. That's verity.] verily in folio edit. 1632, but the alteration is more proper. Sc. 2. Were I in England now as once I was, and bad but this fifh painted, not an boliday fool there but would give a piece of filver.} Not a boliday fool. fol. edit. 1632. (Sc. ibid. Stephano. I have not escaped drowning, to be afraid now of your four Legs.] To be aferd. fol. edit. 1632. Afferde, ufed in that fenfe by Chaucer, Troilus and Crefeide, lib. 2. 606. "But whan that fhe was full avifid, tho found she right nought | "of perill, who that the oughtee aferde be. "a-fere. Romaunt of the rofe, 4073". Id. ib. Cal. Thou doft me yet but little burt, &c.] This is the first speech of Caliban in profe: I am apt to believe, that every thing that Caliban fays, not only in this scene, but through the whole play, was defign'd by the author for metre, either for verfe, or Hemiftics. Certainly most of it is for this reafon it may be reduced to verfe in the following manner. "Thou do'ft me yet but little hurt, thou wilt "Anon: I know, it by thy trembleing, "Now Profpro works fo on thee.” Trembleing of three fyllables, to which the editors not attending, jumbled this into prose. Anon: Id. ib. Steph. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! Mercy! This is a devil and no monster, I will leave him, I have no long spoon. An allufion to the old proverb (Ray's proverbial fentences) "He hath need of a long fpoon that cats with the devil." The Scotch proverb. (See Ray's Scotch proverbs.] "He should have a long-hafted fpoon "that fups kail with the devil. The Scotch proverb is applied by king James the first, in his Demonologie, first book, chap. 5. works in folio, 1616. To the English proverb Chaucer alludes [Squier's Tale. 622, 623.] "Therefore behoveth him a full long fpone, "That shall ete with a Fend, thus heard I fay.' And Shakespeare ufeth the proverb, Comedy of errors, act iv. fc. iii. Id. ib. Cal. Thefe be fine things, an if they be not fprights, that's a brave god, and bears celeftial liquor, I will kneel to him.] This fpeech of Caliban's plainly confifts of two verfes, and an Hemiftic, thus. "These be fine things, and if they be not fprights, 66 "That's a brave god, and bears celeftial |