હૈદ્ર infant, and from a loufie nurse he ftole his nature, and from a dog his looks, and from "an ape his nimbleness; he will look in your "face, and pick your pockets: rob ye the most "wife rat of a cheese paring: there where a (6 cat will go in, he will follow, his body has 66 no back bone."

Id. ib. He will lie Sir, with fuch volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.]

"Now, if any of you are given to the most "excellent art of lying, behold before you "here the masterpiece, he will out-ly him "that taught him, Monfieur Devil, offer to "fwear that he has eaten nothing in a twelve"month, when his mouth is full of meat." Prince of Tarènt.

Id. ib. p. 87.

Par. For a quart d'ecu, he will fell the fee fimple of his falvation, the inheritance of it, and cut the entail from all remainders, and a perpetual fucceffion for it perpetually.] Cardecue. Folio 1632.

Shakespeare has a thought not much unlike this. First Part of King Henry the IVth, act 1. fc. 3. Poins.

"Good morrow Sweet Hal. What "fays Monfieur Remorfe? What fays Sir John "Sack and Sugar. Jack! how agree the devil "and thou about thy foul, that thou foldest "him on Good Friday laft, for a cup of Madera, "and a cold capon's leg?"

Id. ib.

Id. ib. p. 88.

1. Lord. Good captain, will you give me a copy of that fame fonnet you writ to Diana, &c.] " CoРу of the fonnet you writ to Diana. Folio 1632.

Ib. p. 90.

All's well that end; ftill the fine's the crown, Whate'er the course the end is the renown.]

Finis coronat opus.

Act 4. fc. 8. p. 93.

Clown.

I am for the boufe

with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for pomp to enter. Some that humble themselves may: but the many will be too chill and tender and they'll be for the flowing way that leads to the broad gate, and the great fire.] Alluding to that paffage in Saint Matthew i. 13.

To this Spenfer probably alludes, Fairy Queen," book 1. canto 10. 10.

"Strange thing it is, an errant knight to fee "Here in this place, or any other wight, "That hither turns his fteps, fo few there be "That chufe the narrow path, or feek the right: "All keep the broad-high-way, and take delight

"With many rather for to go aftray

"And be partakers of their evil plight,

Than with a few to walk the righteous way. "O foolish men! why hafte you to your own

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"decay."

Act 5. fc. 5. p. 105.

Lafeu. I will buy me a fon in law in a fair, and

toll

toll for him. ] That is, I will make him fecure to my daughter. Alluding to the cuf tom of paying tolis for horses in fairs, and markets; by which I fuppofe, the property is fecured to the buyer, against the real owner, if the horse should chance to have been stolen. To this Butler alludes, Hudibras, part 2. canto 1. 693, &c.

"How fhall I anfwer hue and cry, "For a roan gilding, twelve hands high, "All fpurr'd, and fwitch'd, a lock on's hoof "A forrel mane? can I bring proof,

"Where, when, by whom, and what y' were "fold for,

"And in the open market toll'd for?"

Sc. 6. p. 109.

King.

Is this the man you speak of?

Dia. It is, my lord.] "I, my "I, my Lord. Folio 1632.

The conclufion of this play, not much unlike that, of Meafure for Meafure.

As

Twelfth Night:or what you will:

CACT I SCENE I. p. 118.

So full of shapes in fancy,

That it alone is hight fantastical.]

High fantastical. Folio 1632, Mr. Theobald, and Sir Tho. Hanmer. And this complicated piece of nonfenfe, as it has been call'd, is I believe in every edition of this play (Mr, Warburton's excepted.)

Sc. 2. p. 120.

Where like Arion on the dolphin's back,.. I far him bold acquaintance with the waves, So long as I could fee.] Arion was an excellent player upon the harp, and a lyric poet, who grow ing very rich, was defirous of returning into his own country, fays Phædrus,, that he might fhew his great riches. Having therefore embarqued in a fhip, the feamen a faithlefs, and inhuman fort of people, having a mind to throw him into the fea for the fake of his riches, he intreated them before they did it, that he might make his own funeral oration, and fing an elegy to his harp after that, when he threw himself into the fea with the most precious things that he had about him; the dolphins which came swimming to the fhip, being charm'd with the sweetness of his mufick, faved him from drowning, and one of them carried him on his back as far as Tenara, whence he

went to Periander, who being acquainted with his ftory caufed all the feamen to be hang'd in the place, where the dolphin had fet him on fhore: the dolphin died immediately after, and had a monument erected to it's memory. See Danet's Dictionary.

Mr. James Shirley, in his tragi-comedy, in-. titled, the Imposture, p. 59. humorously ban-. ters this story.

Hort. "Here's a health to the dolphin, who, "was in love with the fidler's boy of Thebes, "who carried him cross the feas on her back

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fishing, while he fung the fiege of Troy to "the tune of green-fleeves, and caught a whale "with an angling rod."

A&t 1. fc. 3. p. 122.

Sir Toby. I am fure care's an enemy to life.] Alluding to the proverbial faying, that Care will kill a cat. See Ray's Proverbs that are entire fentences.

Act 1. fc. 6. P. 128.

Clown. Marry a good banging prevents à bad. marriage.

Count Caftiglione, who was embassador from the Duke of Urbino, to King Henry the Seventh, obferves in his book, intitled, The Courtier, (fee the edition published in Italian and English. In quarto, 1727, p. 222, 223.) "That in Spain it is the custom when any one is "going to the gallows, if a common ftrumpet "will demand him for her husband, his life is fpared,"

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