The catchpole is beautifully described by Mr. Philips. "Behind him talks "Another monster, not unlike himself, "Sullen of afpect, by the vulgar call'd "A catchpole, whofe polluted hands, the Gods "With hafte incredible, and magic charms "Erft have endu'd, if he his ample palm. "Shou'd haply on ill-fated fhoulder lay "Of debtor, ftraight his body to the touch "Obfequious (as whilom knights are wont) "To fome inchanted caftle is convey'd, "Where gates impregnable, and coercive ❝ chains "In durance ftrict detain him, till in form "Of money, Pallas fets the captive free. Splendid Shilling. And by the author of the Tatler. "As for Tipftaff, the youngest fon, he was << an honest fellow; but his fons, and his fons "fons, have all of them been the veriest rogues living; 'tis this unlucky branch has "ftock'd the nation with that fwarm of lawyers, attorneys, ferjeants, and bailiffs, with "which the nation is over-run. →→→→ Tipfaff being a feventh fon, ufed to cure the King's "Evil: but his rafcally defcendants are so far "from having that healing faculty, that by a "touch upon the fhoulder, they give a man an "ill habit of body, that he can never come "abroad again." Tatler, no. 11. A& Act 4. fc. 4. p. 247. Dromio fpeiking of a 'catchpole. # Dro. A Hound that runs counter] When dogs hunt the game by the heel, they are faid to hunt counter. See Chambers's dictionary. * Id. ib. Draws dry-foot well.] Ben Johnson has the like expreffion, Every Man in his humour, act 2. fc. 4. "Well the troth is, my old mafter intends "to follow my young dry foot over Moor-fields "to London this morning; now, I knowing of "this hunting match, &c." To draw dry-foot, is when the dog pursues the game by the fcent of their foot. For which the blood hound is famed. In proof Dr. Derbam has given us the following remarkable inftance, (Phyfico Theology, book 4. chap. 11. p. 205.) from Mr. Boyle. "A perfon of quality"to make a tryal, whether a young blood"hound was well in ftructed, caufed one of "his fervants to walk to a town four miles off, .6 and then to a market town three miles from "thence the dog without feeing the man he "was to purfue, followed him by the fcent, to "the above mentioned places, notwithstanding "the multitude of market people, that went " along in the fame way, and of travellers that "had occafion to crofs it. And when the "blood-hound came to the chief market town, "he paffed through the streets without taking "notice of any of the people there, and left "not till he had gone to the houfe, where the man he fought refted himself, and found him "in an upper room, to the wonder of thofe "that followed him. Boyl. determ. nat. of effluv. chap. 4. Id. ib. S. Dromio. He is refted upon the cafe.] An action upon the cafe, is a general › action given for the redrefs of a wrong done any man without force, and not especially pro vided for by law. Sc. 8. Enter Dromio of Ephesus with`a rope's end. E. Antiph. Here comes my man, I think, he brings me money, how now, Sir, have you that 1 fent you for? E. Dro. Here's that I warrant you, that will pay them all.] If the honest countryman in the isle of Axholm in Lincolnshire, where they grow little elfe but hemp, had been acquainted with Shakespeare's works, I fhould have imagined that he borrow'd his jeft from hence. At the beginning of the rebellion in 1641, a party of the parlia ment foldiers, feeing a man fowing fomewhat, aked him what it was he was fowing, for they hoped to reap his crop? I am fowing of hemp, gentlemen, (fays he) and I hope I have enough for you all. Act 4. fc. 9. p. 256. Thou jailor, thou, I am thy prifoner, wilt thou fuffer them to make rescue ? Rescue, Refcue, for me bou from retoures, recuperare, is a reffitance, or recuing of any thing, or of a perion arrested, and promoting an efcape againft law. Wood's Infiture: of the laws of England, third edit p. 191. Sc. 11. p. 255. The run out. Exeunt om nes, as fat as may be, frighted. Folio 15g2. Acta. fc. 4. p. 255. To jutte your face and direct you tard. Folio 16:2, and more proper as they are deIcribed with Exbrands fuff before. “ My mater and human are both backe Toole, "Beaten the maid e-row, and bound the dofter, "Whose beard they have lingid of win bro “of fre, Go" Sc. 5. p. 256. A meer anatery, & L A thread-bare Jagger, era a fortune-teler, In Romeo and Juliet, 15 q. ft. 1. he de fcribes his apothecary in the following winter, Romeo. I do remember an apulberaT, "And hereabouts he dwells, rom the 1 "noted; "In tatter'd weeds, with over-whelming broms, Culling of fimples; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones, & Id. ib. If he were mad, he would not plead fo coldy.] Qu. Plead fo cooly. Sc. 7. P. 272. Go to a goffip's feast, and gaude with me.] "And with me. go Edit 1632, Sir Tho. Han mer, and Mr. Theobald. SIR The Winter's Tale. 1 IR Thomas Hanmer was of opinion, that this story was taken from Doraftus and Faunia, with a change of most of the main circumstances, and all the names. I am rather apt to believe, that Doraftus and Faunia is of a more modern date, and borrow'd.. from Shakespeare. Several things in this play feem to resemble Spenser's ftory of Melibee, Paftorella, and Sir. Calidore. A&t 1. fc. 1. p. 278. F. They have feem'd to be together, tho' ab fent, fbook bands as over a vast.] "As over a vaft fea." Folio 1632, and Sir Thomas Hanmer. Sc. 2. p. 284. Leontes. I have a tremor cordis on me.] A palpitation of the heart, which is an alteration of the pulfe in the heart, occafion'd by a fright, or other cause that makes it felt. It oft proceeds from an extraordinary contraction of the |