Quite over canopied with lufcious wood"bine." Fol. 1632. and in Sir Thomas Han mer. Id. ib. There the fnake throws ber enamell'd skin.] This may allude to Virgil, Æneid. 2.471. &c. Qualis ubi in lucem Coluber mala gramina paftus, &c. "So fhines, renew'd in youth, the crafted Snake No Who flept the winter in a thorny brake, "¡And cafting off his skin, when spring returns "Now looks aloft, and with new glory burns. Dryden. See likewife Georgic. Lib. 3. 438, 439. And Lucretius de Rerum Naturâ. Lib. 3. 613, 614. And among our modern poets. Spenfer's Fairy Queen. Book 4. Canto 3. St. 29. Besides the opinions of the ancient and modern poets, with regard to the fnake's cafting his skin, there are other authorities in proof of the fact. The celebrated Kircher vifited a cave near the village of Saffe about eight miles from the city of Bracciano in Italy [Vulgo la grotta delli ferpi, famed for the cure of the leprofie, and several other distempers on account of the number of fnakes that lodge in it.]" He found it "warm, and every way anfwer to the defcrip❝tion of it by doctor Olaus Wormius: He faw "their--holes, heard a murmuring, hiffing noise “in them, but although he mifs'd seeing the "ferpents ferpents (it hot being the feafon of their creeping out) yet he faw great numbers of "their exuvia, or fluffs, and an elm growing "hard by, laden with them." See Dr. Derham's Phyfico-Theology. 4th Edit.. p. 400. And Dr. Mead's Mechanical account of Poyfons, 2d Edit. p. 4. Sc. 5. p. 119. Queen. Come now, a roundel, and a fairy Song.] From round comes roundel, and from roundel roundelet. The firft the form of the figure, the fecond the dance in the figure, the laft the fong or tune to the dance. Anon. 1 "And fong in all the roundell luftily. Chaucer's Knight's Tale. 1531. The dance call'd Roundelay by fome of our English poets. Lauranda, "My Amarillis knows by fidelity, "How often we have fported on the lawnes, "And danced a roundelay to Jocaftus' pipe. Amyntas, or The Improbable Dowry, by Tho. Randolph. Act 1. fc. 2. p. 5. -Sc. 6. Two bofoms interchained with an oath.] Interchanged. Fol. edit. 1632. A&t. 3. fc. 15 Snowt. By'r Laken a parlous fear.] By our ladykin, or little lady, as Ifakins is a corruption of by my faith. Thefe kind of oaths are laugh'd at, in the first part fc. 3. Where Hotspur faying in good footh, fit maker's wife, and urth, A& 3. upon her "furety for your oaths, as if you never walk'd farther than Finfbury." "Swear me Kate like a lady as thou art, "A good mouth-filling oath, and leave in footh, "And fuch protests of pepper-ginger-bread "To velvet guards, and funday citizens, Dr. T. The word parlous used at this time in the north parts of England, for perillous. - Id. ib. And for more better affurance.] So in the Tempest. I am more better. Sc. ib. Bot. There is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your living lion] Farquhar in his Beaux Stratagem, I think, puts the like blunder into Boniface's mouth : As for fifh we have but little, this being an inland country; but for wild-fowl, I have a couple of the finest tame rabbits. [or fomething to the fame purpose.] A& 3. fc. 1. p. 126. Bottem. A kalendar, a kalendar, look into the almanack. The account given by Verftegan of the original of the word almanack, [See Reftitution of decay'd Intelligence, Antwerp Edition. p. 58.] is as follows." The Saxons used to engrave upon "certain fquared sticks, about a foot in length, "or fhorter or longer as they pleased, the "courfes of the moons of the whole year; "whereby they could always certainly tell when "the new moons, full moons, and changes "fhould happen; as also their festival days : " and " and fuch a carved ftick they call'd an Al"mon-aght, that is to fay, Al-moon-beed, to "wit the regard or obfervations of the moons, "and thence is derived the name of almanac." Id. ib. Or let him bold his fingers thus, And through the cranny fhall Pyramus and Thisbe whisper] Through that cranny. Fol, edit. 1632. Act 3. fc. 2. p. 127. Quince. He goes but to fee a noife that he heard, and is to come again.] In the Twelfth Night, Act 2. fc. 2. he has an expreffion much to the fame purpose." To hear by the nose, it "is dulcet in contagion." " Butler probably had one or both these paffages in view, when he wrote the two following lines. "As Roficrucian vêrtuofos, "Can fee with ears, and hear with noses." Hudibras. Book 3. Canto 3, 15: Id. ib. The clowns exeunt.]" The clowns all exeunt. Folio. 1632. Act 3. fc. 2. p. 129. Queen. What angel wakes me from my flowry bed? [waking] Bot. The finch, the Sparrow, and the lark, The plain-fong cuckow gray.] [fings] See the fable intitled, The afs made a judge of mufick. L'Eftrange's Fables. Part 1. Fab. 304. Id. ib. Bot. Methinks mistre little reafon for that.] Mai fo I believe it stands every hould have but 622 and which was the way of writing in Shakespeare's time, Chaucer long before him, ufes maiftris for miftrefs. "The hert within my woful breft you * dredith, "And loveth fo fore, that ye bin verily, t Sobre, demure Diane Here are but three fairys that falute Bottom, nor does he addrefs himself to more, though four had entred before whom the queen had call'd by name, and commanded to do their curtefies. In fhort, I cannot tell what is become of monfieur Moth, unless he be prudently walk'd off, for fear of Cavalero Cobweb: for we hear no more of him either here, or in the next act, where the queen, Bottom, and fairies are introduced again. Anon. Sc. 4. p. 131. A crew of patches] I fhould have imagined that Shakespeare wrote, a crew of wretches, had he not used the word patch in the fame fenfe, Tempest, A&t 3. fc. 2. p. 53. where Caliban fpeaking of Trinculo, fays, Cal. What a py'd ninny's this? thou Scur vy patch, Ide beseech thy greatness give him. blows. A&t |