"For love of God that toucheth fuch matere, "Ne bring me none; and also, uncle deré, "To mine eftate have more regarde I pray, "Than to his luft; what fhould in I more fay." 66 1.Sc. iv. .Bottom. To make all split, the raging rocks And Phibbus' car fball fhine from far, "This (as Mr. Theobald obferves) was pro"bably a piece of bombaft, taken out of fome play known at that time. Yet we see he has used almoft the fame kind of metre, leaving out one of the rhimes to a good purpose, and in a very pretty manner, in Puch's Incantation, A& iii. fc. ix. It is remarkable how clofely this agrees in the jingle, with the ridiculous paffages quoted by Perfius from Manas and Attys, two wretched poems of his time, (unjustly however, as Bayle has shewn, afcribed to Nero.) Claudere fic verfum didicit; Berecynthius Attyn. Et qui ceruleum dirimebat Nerea Delphin. Sic coftam longo fubduximus Appennino. Sat. 1. 93, 94. Thus humorously hit off in Dr. Brewster's excellent translation. "Thrice happy tinkling times. "Witness the pause that rhymes, the close that "chimes, "Witness "Witness thou Attys! thou whofe lovely eyes "Cou'd even furprize the mother of the skies. "Witness the dolphin too, who cleaves the tides "And flouncing rides o'er Nereus fea-green "fides," "Witness thou likewife Hannibal divine, "Who of the long-ribb'd Appennine, didft bravely lafh the chine. And again, 99, 100, 101. "Torva mimalloneis implerunt cornua bombis, "Et raptum vitulo caput ablatura fuperbo, Baffaris, et Lyncem, manas flexura corymbis. "The Bacchanalian crew "Their wreath'd horns blew, and after Pen"theus flew, "He, fcornful calf! it is decreed muft bleed, "His mother's angry knife fhall do the deed. "His fifters joyning in the Menad band, "With ivy-arm'd hand, the fubject Lynx "command. Dr. T.. Id. ib. Bot. We will meet] in the wood, for fear of being dogg'd by company, there may we rebearse more obscenely.] I fhould have imagined that Shakefpeare wrote more obfcurely, had I--not met with the following diftinction in. Mr. Tho. Ran dolph's play, intitled, The Mufes Looking-glass. Act 4. fc. 2. Kataplectus. Obfcænum eft, quod intra scœnam agi non opportuit.. A& Act ii. fc. i. p. 107. Fairy. And I ferve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green.] Qu. Herbs? "Every herb that fips the dew. Milton's Il Penferofo. Id. ib. But they do Square, that all their elves for fear creep into acorn-cups, and bide them there.] By Square he means quarrel; as he does in one place of Titus Andronicus. Aaron to Demetrius and Chiron. A&t 2. fc. 1. "And are you fuch fools to fquare for this? Aaron in the fame scene, addreffing the fame perfons, uses the word jar. "For fhame be friend's, and joyn for that you jar. And as Shakespeare elsewhere ufesthe word square for agreement. As in Winter's Tale. Act 5. fc. 1. "O that ever I had fquared me to thy counsel. And again in Titus Andronicus, A& 3. fc. 6 Antony and Cleopatra, A&t 2. fc. I. Mr. Peck is of opinion, that Shakespeare wrote either jar, [or Sparre, as cocks do.] Explanatory and Critical notes upon Shakespeare's Plays. That all their elves for fear creep into acorn cups.] Mr. Tho. Randolph, in his Amyntas, or Im poffible Dowry, feems to have borrow'd from this paffage of Shakespeare. [See p. 6.] "The mortals, chufe a better match, go love "Some "Some fairy lady; princely Oberon "Shall ftand thy friend, and beauteous Mab "his Queen, "Give thee a maid of honour. Mopfus. "How Focaftus, "Marry a puppet, and a mote 'ith' fun, "Go look a wife in nut-fhell, woe a gnat "That's nothing but a voice? No, no, Jocaftus, "I must have flesh and blood, and will have "Theftylis; "A fig for fairies. Id. ib. Fai. Or I miftake your shape, and making quite, Or else you are that shrew'd, and knavish sprite called Robin-goodfellow.] See note upon good Puet-Robin. Hudibras, Part 3. Canto 1. p. 209. Sc. 2. Queen. Therefore the winds piping to us in vain As in revenge, bave fuck'd up from the fea Contagious fogs which falling on the land, Have every pelting river made fo proud, That they have over-born their continents.] Every petty river. Folio, 1632. The feafons alter; boary-headed frofts, An od'rous chaplet of fweet fummer's buds is, as in mockery fet.] A Chaplet for a man's chin is an uncommon expreffion, Shakespeare probably wrote, "And on old Hyem's chill, and icy crown. E Id. ib. Id. ib. The chiding autumn.] Childing autumn. Folio 1632... Id. ib. p. 112. < Ob. I do but beg a little changeling boy to be my Henchman] A Henchman was a page of bonour. 'Twas an ancient office which was diffolv'd by queen Elizabeth in the year 1565. [See Strype's Annals. Vol. 1. 1ft Edit. p. 471.] Mr. Afbmole (order of the garter p. 575) I think, gives an account of the ancient habit worn by them. Id. ib. Queen. Set your heart at reft, The fairy land buys not the child of me.] Mr. Tho. Randolph, in his Paftoral, intitled, Amyntas: or The Impoffible Dowry, p. 36. gives the following humorous defcription of fairy land. "A curious park paled round about with pick-teeth A houfe made all with mo"ther of pearle - An ivory tennis court — "A nutmeg parlour A faphyre dairy room -Chambers of agate The jacks are A ginger hall, Dr. King's defcription of Orpheus's fairy entertainment [Orpheus and Euridice Mifcellanies, p. 382.] feems to answer the fairy jack, and spit. "Quo' Nab, we here have ftrangers seldom, "But Sir, to what we have you're welcome. Madam, they feem of light digeftion, "Is it not rude to afk a queftion? "What |