A&t 3. fc. 5. p. 133. Demet. So fhould the murther'd look] The murderer look. Folio. 1632. Id. ib. Dem. I'ad rather give his carcafe to my bounds] I'de rather. Folio. 1632. Sc. 7. p. 137. Than all your fiery o's and eyes of light. Qu. Orbs. Sc. 7. p. 141. Lyf. Get you gone you dwarf, You minim, of hind'ring knot-grass made.] The application of both the epithets, and fimile to Hermia, who was hanging upon him [bindering knot-grafs] may allude to it, as a low, creeping plant, and as fuch, apt to entangle the feet of thofe that walk through it, and hinder them from paffing freely. Dr. T. Schroder, Ray, and Dale afcribe to it the following qualities, "That it is drying, aftringent, and vulnerary, and good in ftopping "fluxes of all kinds; and obferve, that it grows in dry, uncultivated places, and near to highways. 66 Schroderi Pharmacop. Med. Chym. Lib. 4. p. 126. Raij Catalog. Plantar. Angliæ, p. 248. Dale's Pharamacologia, Vol. 1. p. 142, 12°.] Id. ib. Speak not of Helena, Take not her part: for if thou dost intend never fo little fhew of love to her, thou shalt aby it] Abide it in the old edition, 1632. tho' probably, aby was then used as fignifying the fame thing. See Gloffary to Spenfer. Sc. Sc. ibid. Herm. I am amaz'd and know not what to say] This line is added by Sir Tho. Hanmer, what authority he had for it I cannot tell. 'Tis not in the Folio 1632, nor in Mr. Theobald's, nor Mr. Warburton's editions. Sc. 8. p. 142. By the Athenian garments he had on.] He hath on. Folio 2632. Sc. 8. p. 143. Salt green.] Qu. Sea green. But perhaps the contraft is intended between yellow gold, and falt green." Dr. T. Lyf. Where art thou, proud Demetrius? Speak thou now.] Compare this, and the remainder of this fcene, with the ftory of Palamon and Arcite. Chaucer's Knight's Tale. 1576, &c. Sc. 10. p. 146. Puck. On the ground, fleep thou found, I'll apply to your eye, gentle lover remedy.] A friend obferves, that, the humour of Puck's fairy charm is loft, by the prefent manner of writing the verses. If they were thus ordered, (as in Mr. Warburton) "On the ground, Sleep thou found, [Sleep found. Warb.] "I'll apply "To your eye, "Gentle lover remedy. "When thou wak'ft Next, thou tak't "True "True delight "Of thy former ladies eye." They would appear to as great advantage as the Namby Pamby ftill, or the poet-laureat's encomium upon the man-mountain. For fure fairy verfes ought to be as fhort as infantine, or liliputian. [See Rablais's Works, Book 5. ch. 35.] But I rather think they should be wrote, "On the ground, fleep thou found, "I'll apply to your eye, "Gentle lover remedy, &c. Because verses with the middle rhime which were call'd leonine, or monkish verfes, feem to have been the ancient language of charms and incantations, as appears from feveral footsteps of it in Virgil's Pharmaceutria, but particularly in this line, Eclog. 8, 80. Limus ut hic durefcit, et hæc ut cera liquefcit, And there are fome traces of the fame kind in that of Theocritus which Virgil here imitates, but none, it must be own'd, fo ftrong as the example before us. Dr. T. Act 3. fc. 10. p. 146. Puck. Jack ball have fill, naught fhall go ill, The man fhall have his mare again, and all be well.] Here are two proverbs, or proverbial phrases jumbled together. "Every Jack must have his Jill. Chafcan demande fa forte Gall. It ought, fays Mr. Ray, (proverbs which are entire sentences) to to be written fill, for it seems to be a nickname for Julia, or Juliana. See letter I. "All is well, and the man hath his mare again. Ray's Proverbial Phrafes, M. Act 4. fc. 1. p. 147. Bottom. Nothing good monfieur, but to help Cavalero Cobweb to fcratch.] Without doubt it should be Cavalero Peafe blossom as for Cavalero Cobweb, he had been just dispatch'd upon a perilous adventure. Anon: Id. ib. p. 147. Bot. I must to the barber's monfieur, for methinks, I am marvellous hairy about the face.] Even Periwinkle, king Oberon's barber, must have mounted upon a ladder to fhave him. Dor. "You Jocaftus, when Oberon shaved "himself, who was his barber? Joc. "I know him very well, a little dapper youth, they call him Periwinkle. Amyntas, or The Impoffible Dowry, by Mr. Randolph. p. II. Act 4. fc. 1. p. 148. Queen. What wilt thou hear fome mufick, my fweet love? Bot. I have a reasonable good ear in mufick, let's have the tongs and the bones.] The key and tongs, and marrow-bones and clevers. The firft rural mufick, and both probably in use in Shakespeare's days: and are both much esteem'd by fome Connoifieurs in this age of greater refinement. Id. ib. p. 149. May all to Athens.] The fyntax requires, Sc. 2. p. 151. Thef. Go one of you, find out the forefter, for now our obfervation is perform'd, and fince we have the vaward of the day, my love fhall hear the mufick of my bounds.] "This mene I now by mighty Thefeus, "That for to huntin is fo defirous, "And namily at the grete bert in May, "That in his bedde ther dawith him no day "That he n'is clad, and redy for to ride, "With hunt, and horn, and houndis him be"fide. "For in his hunting hath he fuch delite, "That it is all his joy, and appetite, "To bin himself the grete hart'is bane: For after Mars, he fervith now Diane. "Clere was the day, as I have told er this, "And Thefeus with allè joy and blifs, "With his Hypolita the fayir queen, "And Emelie yclothi'd al in grene, "On hunting ben they riddin roiallie, Unto the grove that ftode ther full faft by: "In which ther was a hart, as men him told, σ Duke Thefeus the ftreightè way hath hold, "And to the laund he ridith him full right, "For thither was the hart wont t'have his "flight: "And ov'r a broke, and fo forth on his wey, "The duke woll have a courfe at him or 66 twey, "With houndis fuch, as him left to commaund, "And when the duke, was come into the laund, “ Undir F |