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J&T bafini onu ta dowd got to rottalegs A ACTII. SCENE II. P. 43 Trincule of Cabilan

TRIN. --There (in England) would this?

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monster make a man ; any strange beast there nakes a man. J i. e. In a plam, obvious fenfe, makes bis fortune. Mr. Warburton has refined so far upon this paffage, as to this paffage, as to bring in the ety mologies of monkey, man-tyger and (as he calls them) the whole tribe of Cercopithec. The ffrange beafts led him aftray fo far, as to over look the profit that was to be made of them; and whilst he was hunting his own wild fancies about them, an interpretation of a common phrase, which would have occurr'd to any school boy, escaped him. Dr. T.

A&t 3. fc. 3.

Mountaineers dewlapt like bulls.] Pliny af cribes it to the fault of the fnow-water of the Alps; though it affects only men and fows. But if that was the cafe, why fhould it appear in other animals? The inhabitants of mount Lebanon drink fnow water, as well as thofe of the Alps, yet we hear not of their being troubled with any of these fwell'd throats; and the bronchochele is endemial in other places befide Switzerland, where no fnow-water is drank, particularly in fome of our own hilly counties, as Derbyfbire, &c. Dr. T.

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Act 4. fc. 2. p. 63,

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The white, cold, virgin fnow upon my heart
Abates the ardour of my liver.] In the rude phy-
fiology of the antients, the liver was confider'd as
the great inftrument of fanguification; and made
the feat of the paffions.
Of anger

So Horace, fat. 1. ix. 66. * ..
Meum jecur urere bilis.

Quid referam quantâ ficcum jecur ardeat irâ.

Envy.

Cum tu, Lydia, Telephi

Juvenal, fat. 1.45.

Cervicem roseam, et cerea Telephi

Laudas brachia, væ meum

Fervens difficili bile tumet jecur.

Horatii carm. lib. 1. ode xiii, 1. &c.

The paffion here hinted at, which just before is call'd the fire i'th' blood.

Cum tibi flagrans amor, et libido

Sæviet circa jecur ulcerofum

Non fine queftu. Carm. lib. 1. 15.

Si torrere jecur quæris idoneum.

Carm. lib. iv. I.

Non ancilla tuum jecur ulceret ulla.

Sc. 3. p. 63.

Epift. lib. 2. 17. 72. Dr. T.

And flat meads thatch'd ftover.]

Or perhaps batch'd with ftover.A term in drawing, which fignifies fhadowing with fine ftrokes and it feems to exprefs the appearance

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of grafs cut down, or hay lying in a meadow. Stover, i. e. fodder better than thatch. The word batch'd occurs in Troilus and Creffida, act 1. fc. 5. p. 384.

And fuch again

As venerable Neftor (batch'd in filver.) Dr. T. A&t $5. fc. 5. p. 85.

Alon. This is as frangé a maze, as e'er men trod, And there is in this bufinefs more than nature Was ever conduct of.] Qu. conductor? Dr. T. Much ado about Nothing.

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Act 2. fc. 9. P. 32

Pedro. See you where Benedick bath bid himself? Claudio. Very well my Lord, the mufick ended We'll fit the kid fox with a penniworth.] ie, We will be even with the fox, now difcovered. So the word kid or kidde fignifies in Chaucer. "The fothfaftnefs that now is hid,

"Without coverture fhall be kid,

"When I undoen have this dreming."

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Romaunt of the Rofe, 2171. &c.

Perceiv'd, or fhew'd

"He kidde anon his bowe was not brokin. Troilus and Crefeide, lib. 1. 208

"With that anon fterte out daungere,

"Out of the place where he was hidde, "His malice in his cheere, was kidde.

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Romaunt of the Rofe, 2130.

The Firft Part of King Henry the Fourth.

Act 4. fc. 2. p. 173.
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This coronet was won by the valiant Prince Edward, the Black Prince, at the battle of Greffy, from King John of Bohemia, who there wore it, and whom he there flew; fince which time it has been the cognizance of our Princes. See Minhieu's Guide into the Tongues, con giá cola 571.32 noy do yo

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Alluding to Luke xiv. 28.10"For, which "of you intending to build a tower, fitteth & not down firft, and counteth the coft, whether She have fufficient to finish it& book amor 3.Act 2.fcm5p.w36.imoo ¿'tromolitik, to gni A0Glocefter. 10 M ON anpuli2 to basЛi Ab Humphrey, this dishonour of shine agezim ** Will bring thy bead anth forrow vo the ground.]* eqorɔ a'i to sno o vuoitut of sins

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