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the heart, or a thick and irritating matter that fticks in it. See Blancard's, and Quincy's Phyfical diftionaries.

Id. ib. Leontes to his fon Mamilius.

Leo. Thou want'ft a rough pafh, and the fhoots that I have, to be full like me yet they fay, we are almost as like as eggs, women fay fo, that will Jay any thing.]

Heartwell in Congreve's Old Batchelor, act 1. fc. 4. expreffes himself in a more fevere manner.

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“O the pride and joy of heart it would be "to me, to have my fon and heir resemble "fuch a Duke to have a fleering coxcomb "fcoff and cry, Mr. your fon is mighty like "his grace, has juft his fmile, and th' air of his "face then replies another methinks he "has more of the Marquis of fuch a place, "about his nofe and eyes; tho' he has my “Lord what d'ye calls mouth to a tittle-then "I to put it off as unconcern'd, come chuck "the infant under the chin, force a fmile, and 11 cry, the boy takes after his mother's rela"tions,-when the devil and fhe knows, 'tis a ompound of the whole body of nobility."

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Sc. ibid.

Moft dear'ft, my collop-Can. Thy dam-may'st be-imagination!] May't be

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center.] "Thy Folio 1632.

Looking on the lines,

Of my boys face, methoughts I did recoil

Twenty three years, and faw my felf unbreech'd.] Qu. Recall?

Id. ib. p. 285.

Leo.

Mine boneft friend,

will you take eggs for money? The meaning of which is, will you put up affronts? The French have a proverbial faying,

Aqui vender vous coquilles? i. e. Whom do you defign to affront? See Richelet's Dictionary, under the word coquille, egg-fhell.

Mamilius's anfwer plainly proves it.

Mam. No my Lord, I'll fight. Mr. Smith. Id. ib. Leo. You will? why happy man be's dole.] See it explained, The Taming of the Shrew, act 1. fc. I.

Id. ib.

Herm. If you will feek us, we are yours i'th' garden.]"If you would feek us." Folio 1632, and Sir Tho. Hanmer.

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Id. ib. Leo. -There have been, or I am much deceiv'd, cuckolds e're now.] Leontes had not so charitable an opinion of this order of men, as the good woman mentioned by Mr. Ray. "The story is well known (fays he, in his Joculatory Proverbs) of an old woman, who hearing a young fellow call his dog cuckold, fays to him, are you not afhamed to call a dog by a Chriftian's name ?"

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Sc. 3. p. 288.

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For thy conceit is foaking, will draw in more than the common blocks.] Qu. In foaking.

Sc. ibid.

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I trusted thee, Camillo,

with all the things nearest my heart.] "With "all the nearest things to my heart." Folio

1632.

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And all eyes

Ablind with the pin, and web, but, theirs.] Pin and web, is a horny induration of the membranes of the eye, not greatly unlike a cataract. Quincy.

Id. ib. Why he that wears her like his medal.] Like ber medal. Folio 1632, and Sir Thomas Hanmer.

Id. ib. Leo.

Qu, Gull'd, or trick'd?

Id. ib. Leo.

and

go rot.]

How I am gall'd.]

She lov'd thee, make't thy question, "Make that thy queftion. Fo

lio 1632, and Sir Tho Hanmer.

Id. ib. p. 292. Camillo's foliloquy,

after

King Leontes thought he had prevail'd upon him, to poifon the King of Bohemia.

Camillo

I must be the poisoner

Of good Polixenes, and my ground to do't
Is the obedience to a master; one
Who in rebellion with himself, will have
All that are his, fo too. To do this deed
Promotion follows. If I could find example
Of thousands that bad ftruck anointed Kings
And flourish'd after, I'd not do't: but fince
Nor brafs, nor ftone, nor parchment, bears not one,
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(a) Cicero, in his oration for King Deiotarus, (who was made King of Galatia, or Gallo-Græs cia by the Roman fenate, and in the famous civil war fided with Pompey, and was fummon'd i to a tryal before Cæfar) obferves, that it was a thing without example, for a King to be aro raign'd for a capital crime, and that this was the firft inftance of that kind, that was ever heard of.. Eft ita inufitatum, Regem capiti reum effe, Ut ante hoc tempus non fit auditum.

Orat. 42 pro-Rege Deiotaro.

Conradin King of Naples and Sicily, was de prived of his right by four fucceffive Popes, depofed by Clement the fourth, and his dominions tranflated upon Charles Prince of Anjou. Conradin being defeated in battle, was led cap tive to Naples, and his own people were forced by the inhuman conqueror to condemn him in

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(a) Cicero by his eloquence prevail'd with Cæfar in favour of Deiotarus: as he didat another time in favour of Labienus. Şir, William Temple, (Mifcellanea part 2. p. 235. In his effay on poetry) fpeaking of the force of eloquence, fay's, No man need more to make him acknowledge it, " than to confider Cæfar, one of the greatest, and wifest " of mortal men, come upon the tribunal full of hatred "and revenge: and with a determined refolution to con"demn Labienus, yet upon the force of Cicero's eloquence, (in an oration for his defence) begin to change counte66 nance, turn pale, shake to that degree, that the paper "he held fell out of his hand, as if he had been frighted "with words, that never was fo with blows; and at laft change all his anger into clemency, and acquit the brave criminal, inftead of condemning him."."

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a mock

a mock court of justice, where his head was order'd to be cut off; but as foon as the fentence was pronounc'd, Robert Earl of Flanders drew, his' fword, and fheath'd it in the breaft of the inhuman Judge; and as foon as the villainous executioner had given the blow, another executioner ftood ready, and immediately kill'd the wretch. teen mode

Spondani Annal. Ecclef. fub Ann. 1269. f. 7. 8. Bzovii Annal. Ecclefiaft. fub Ann. 1268. to. 13. p. 747,751. Hoffmanni Lexic. Univerfale, fub voc. Conradin. Mezeray's, and Collier's Dictionaries.

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Sc. 4. p. 295. Polix. How caught of me? Make me not fighted like the bafilifk. I've look'd on thoufands who have fped the better By my regard, but kill'd none fo.] 'Twas the vulgar notion, that the bafilifk kill'd every one it look'd upon. Pliny feems to give into this opinion. Nat. Hift. lib. 8. cap. 21. Speaking of the catoblepas, he fays;

Caput tantum prægrave egrè ferens, id dejectum femper in terram, aliàs internecio humani generis, omnibus qui oculos ejus videre, confeftim expirantibus, eadem et bafilifci ferpentis eft vis.

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See a further account of the bafilifk, Browne's Enquiry into vulgar errors, book 3. chap. 7.

Id. ib. p. 294.

Polix. As you are certainly a gentleman,

Clerk-like experienc'd.] "Thereto clerk-like "experienc'd. Folio 1632.

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