1 "To drinkin of the wel, there as the fat. Id. ib. Thef. I wonder if the lion be to speak? Demet. No wonder my lord, one lion may, when many affes do.] Alluding 'tis likely, to the following fable intitled, The Affes made Justices. [See L'Eftrange's Fables 2d part fab. 38.] “A "Doctor of Divinity, and a Justice of the Peace, "met upon the road; the former excellently "well mounted, and the other upon the merry pin it feems, and in humour to make sport "with him. Doctor, says he, your Great Maf"ter bad the humility to ride upon an ass ; and one "would have thought that an afs might have e'en " contented you too. Alafs! alafs! Sir, fays the "Doctor, the affes, they fay, are all made Juf"tices, and there are none to be gotten." 3 So Or to the ftory of Balaam's afs, which was as humorously applied by a Divine to a ftammering Lord who was no friend to the clergy, and had a mind to fet it in a ridiculous light at his table, obferving, that Balaam's afs spoke be→→→ be--because he was prie-prie-prie-ftPrieft rid, Sir, faid a valet de chambre (who ftood behind his chair) my lord would fay; No friend, replied the clergyman, Balaam could not speak himself, and fo his afs fpoke for him. Id. ib. Pyr. But what fee I, no Thibe do 1 fee, O wicked wall, through whom I fee no bliss, Curft be thy ftones for thus deceiving me.] "And every daie this wal thei would it threte, "And wifh to God, that it were doune ibete, "Thus would thei faine alas! thou wicked wal, "Through thine envie thou us lettist al." Id. ib. 49. &c. Pyramus. I fee a voice, now will I to the chink, To fpy, an I can bear my Thisbe's face.] In folio 1632. it stands thus. Pyr. "I hear a voice; now will I to the "chink "To fpy if I can fee my Thyby's face." The alteration is Mr. Warburton's, of which every reader muft judge as he thinks proper. .Sc. 2. p. 164. Demet. No remedy my lord, when walls are fo Wilful to bear without warning.] Mr. Warburton's emendation, to rear, is propably right; as as Shakespeare feems to allude to the following incident in his own time. 1 "Sir Thomas Gresham receiving the honour of, as vifit from Queen Elizabeth at Ofterley Park, (where the was magnificently entertained.) "She at her firft entrance found fault with the "court before his houfe, as being too large; "and faid, it would appear better if divided by a wall in the middle. He took the hint, and to fhew his complaifance to her majesty, "immediately fent for workmen from London, "who in the night built up the wall with such privacy, and expedition; that the next morn ing the Queen to her great furprise, found "the court, divided in the manner fhe proposed "the day before. Fuller's worthies of England. Middlesex. 177. Ward's Life of Sir Thomas Grefbam. Hiftory of Gresham College. p. 18. Id. ib. Enter Thisbe. This is old Ninus' tomb: where is my love? Lion. ob. ho. bo.] Ho, bo. not in the folio edition of 1632. Sc. 2. p. 166, Pyramus. Come tears confound; out fword and wound, the pap of Pyramus. Ay that left pap, where beart doth hop.] 'Twas the vulgar notion that the heart laid on the left fide of the thorax, or breast; to which Shakefpeare feems to allude. It is fituated in the middle of the thorax between the two lobes of the the lungs, it is of a conic figure, whose basis is the upper end, and the apex or point, is the lower end, which is turn'd a little to the left side, that the right auricle may be lower than the left. Id. ib. p. 1675 Lyf. He is dead, he is nothing. The. With the help of a furgeon, he might yet recover, and prove an ass.] I think I have heard it observed, as the opinion of a celebrated anatomift, who had a body deliver'd to him after execution, in which there appeared fome figns of life; that if he could recover him, he would prove no better than an idiot. But this will not always hold good, as appears from the remarkable story of (a) Anne Green, executed at, Oxford December 14th, 1650. "Who was hang'd by the neck near half an hour, fome "of her friends in the mean time thumping her "on the breaft, others hanging with all their "weight upon her legs, fometimes lifting her up, and then taking her down again with a “fudden jirk, thereby the fooner to dispatch "her out of her pain. After fhe was in her "coffin, being obferved to breath; a lufty fel"low ftamp'd with all his force on her breast "and ftomach, to put her out of her pain. "But by the affiftance of Doctor Petty, Dr. "Willis, Dr. Bathurst, and Dr. Clerk, fhe was again brought to life. I myself faw her ma ny years after; after that fhe had (I heard) (a) Dr. Derham's Phyfico-Theology. Third edit. p. 157. See a fuller account in Heath's Chroniele. "born divers children." The particulars of her crime, execution, and restauration, see in a little pamphlet, called News from the Dead, written, as I have been informed, by Dr. Bathurft and publish'd in 1651, with verfes upon the occafion. Sc. 3. p. 170. Puck. Now the Hungarian lion roars, and the wolf bebowls the moon.] Shakespeare has an image like this in his play, intitled, As you like it, 66 Pray no more of this, 'tis like the howling "Of Irish wolves against the moon. In both, he probably alludes to the following lines of Virgil. Et alte Per noctem refonare lupis ululantibus urbem. Georgic. lib. i. 485, 486. And Butler may allude to one, or both of them, in the following lines. "Tell me but what's the natural cause, Or why wolves raise a bubbub at ber, The |