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628 1. 15, metaphysical, supernatural.

630 1. 3, n' occasion, ne, i. e. no occasion.

637 1. 2, charm, song. 'The verb to charm was used in the sense sounds, whether by voice or instruments, NARES' Gloss. s. v. Comp. SPENSER, Shep.

of to utter musical
from ciarma, Ital.'
Cal. Oct. v. 1181:

Here we our slender pipes may safely charm.

640 1. 13, abated, cast down, depressed.

642 1. 7, hearse, see note, § 13, 1. 1, part 1.

645 from Cæsar and Pompey, a tragedy, 1631. 646 delighted, i. q. delighted in, delighting. 647 from Albertus Wallenstein, 1634.

664 from Edward the First, 1593: 1. 17, flig, fledged.

665 from The Prophetess, Act iv. sc. 5.

668 from Philip Van Artevelde, Part I. Act iv. sc. 2. 669 from The Mourning Bride, Act ii. sc. 1.

671 from Flowers, p. 31.

684 1. 11, garnered up, treasured up: 1. 15, turn thy complexion there, at such an object do thou, patience, thyself change colour.

690 from The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act ii. sc. 1.

691 from The Gentleman Usher.

716 from The Deformed Transformed, Act i. sc. 1. 725 from The Bashful Lover, Act i. sc. 2.

728 from Tancred and Sigismunda, Act i. sc. 4.

731 1. 8, capable, capacious: 1. 15, execution, employment, exercise: 1. 17, shall be in me remorse, obedience to your command shall be the feeling continually preying upon my mind.

732 1. 5, entrance, surface.

741 1. 8, wreak, revenge: 1. 9, maims of shame, disgraceful diminutions of territory.

742 1. 8, I clip the anvil of my sword, i. e. Coriolanus, because he had laid as many heavy blows upon him as a smith strikes on his anvil.

747 1. 12, the cue for passion, i. e. the hint or prompt word for passion. 750 1. 9, it yearns, it grieves, vexes.

752 1. 2, sith, since.

754 from The Maid's Tragedy, Act i. sc. 1.

758 from Tyrannic Love, Act iv. sc. 2.

759 from The Mourning Bride, Act iii. sc. 2.

761 1. 2, his, its: 1. 11, censure, opinion.

762 1. 4, deedless in his tongue, no trumpeter of his own actions : 1. 11, subscribes, yields: 1. 18, translate him, explain his character.

765 from The Tragedy of Nero.

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770 1. 3, merit, reward.

771 1. 7, repairs, refreshes : 1. 12, hide their levity in honour, cover their petty faults with great merit.

772 1. 15, mere fathers of their garments, who have only judgment enough to invent new fashions of dress.

779 from Coelum Britannicum, a masque at Whitehall, Feb. 1633. 783 from The Triumph of Time.

787 1. 21, cordevan, Spanish leather.

789 1. 8, play the touch, act the touchstone. 792 from Sardanapalus, Act i. sc. 2,

795 from the Comedy of all Fools.

799 1. 17, Athenaus, Lib. xiv. p. 632 α: ̓Αριστόξενος ἐν τοῖς συμμίκτοις συμποτικοῖς ‘ὅμοιον (φησί) ποιοῦμεν Ποσειδωνιάταις τοῖς ἐν τῷ Τυρσηνικῷ κόλπῳ κατοικοῦσιν, οἷς συνέβη τὰ μὲν ἐξ ἀρχῆς Ελλησιν οὖσιν ἐκβεβαρβαρῶσθαι Τυρρηνοῖς ἢ Ρωμαίοις γεγονόσι, καὶ τήν τε φωνὴν μεταβεβληκέναι τά τε λοιπὰ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτ των, ἄγειν τε μίαν τινὰ αὐτοὺς τῶν ἑορτῶν τῶν ̔Ελληνικῶν ἔτι καὶ νῦν, ἐν ᾗ συνιόντες ἀναμιμνήσκονται τῶν ἀρχαίων ἐκείνων ὀνο μάτων τε καὶ νομίμων, καὶ ἀπολοφυρόμενοι πρὸς ἀλλήλους καὶ ἀποδακρύσαντες ἀπέρχονται.

805 from The Faithful Friends, Act iv. sc. 1.

806 from All for Love, Act iii. sc. I. Comp. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 2.

807 from Antonio and Mellida,

808 from Philaster, Act iv. sc. 4.

809 1. 6, artificial, ingenious, artful. This pathetic complaint has been compared by Gibbon to Gregory of Nazianzen's beautiful lines on the loss of his friendship with Basil:

πόνοι κοίνοι λόγων

ὁμόστεγός τε καὶ ξυνέστιος βίος,

νοῦς εἰς ἓν ἀμφοῖν...

διεσκέδασται πάντα κἄρριπται χάμαι,

αὖραι φέρουσι τὰς παλαίας ἐλπίδας.

'Shakespeare,' remarks the Historian, 'had never read the poem of Gregory Nazianzen, he was ignorant of the Greek language; but his mother-tongue, the language of nature, is the same in Cappadocia and Britain.

810 from Palamon and Arcite, Book i. 1. 55. 811 1. 19, gruff, flat on the face.

813 1. 15, tend the savage strangeness he puts on, attend upon the brutish distant rudeness he assumes: l. 17, underwrite, submit to: cf. King Lear, Act iii. sc. 2: you owe me no subscription: in an observing kind, in an attentive manner.

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815 1. 17, foison, abundance.

816 1. 3, gives, fetters: 1. 10, amate, daunt, confound: 1. 18, apaid,

content.

817 1. 2, to, in addition to: I. 15, filed, defiled.

818 from The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. 1: 1. 14, enormous, irregular: 1. 18, plurisy, i. e. superabundance.

819 from The Nice Valour, Act v. sc. 2: 1. 10, punctual, punctilious: 1. 13, nicely, scrupulously, precisely.

820 from The Tragedie of Sophonisba.

821 from The Emperor of the East, Act ii. sc. I.

822 from The Prophetess, Act i. sc. 3.

826 from Lara, Canto ii. 25.

829 from All for Love, Act i. sc. I.

833 from The Emperor of the East, Act v. sc. 2.

834 from The Prophetess, Act iii. sc. 1.

835 from The Loyal Subject, Act iv. sc. 7.

842 from The Purple Island, Canto ix. 1. 5, hearse, see note on § 13, PART I.

S46 1. 4, amate, confound, daunt: 1. 12, stales, decoys.

847 from The Picture, Act ii. sc. 2.

854 from The Bondman, Act i. sc. 3.

855 Heli a priest acquaints Mustapha with the intentions of his Father towards him, and counsels him to seek safety in the destruction of Rossa and her faction. Mustapha refuses to save his life at the expense of the public peace; and being sent for by his father obeys the mandate to his destruction.

858 from James the Fourth.

869 from The Bloody Brother, Act iv. sc. 1.

901 from The Heir, 1651, Act iii. sc. 1.

902 from Women Pleased, Act v. sc. I.

909 from Antonio and Mellida: 1. 20, chaune, open wide. 910 1. 18, braide, start or motion of the head.

911 1. 3, cheer, face.

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915 1. 3, your fair, your beauty; see note, PART II. § 106, 1. 3. 929 1. 3, tho, then, i. e. as Tóre is sometimes used to signify of old: 1. 7, Phorcys' imp, i.e. offspring, sc. Medusa: trick, neat, elegant: 1. 11, raught, ravished: 1. 15, tooting, poring, eagerly. gazing: 1. 16, vade, i. q. fade: 1. 22, moe, more. 931 1. 5, line, i. q. linden, commonly called 'lime.' 932 1. 6, umbered, shadowed.

940 from A King and no King, Act i. sc. 1.

941 from The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act v. sc. I, thy rare green eye;

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941 green eyes were considered as peculiarly beautiful; comp. Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. sc. 5:

an eagle, Madam,

hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye.

944 1. 15, retires, retreats: 1. 16, frontiers, forts built on the frontier: 1. 17, basilisks, a species of ordnance: 1. 19, 'currents, occur

rences.

945 1. 3, the general, the community: 1. 10, remorse, pity: 1. 24, as his kind, like those of his nature.

947 from The Borderers, Act iii.

948 from The New Inn, Act iv. sc. 3.

949 1. 20, unvalued, invaluable.

952 from Appius and Virginia, Act i. sc. 1.

955 from The Sea-voyage, Act i. sc. 3.

957 1. 27, your workings in a second body, your acts executed by

your representative.

958 from The Brazen Age, 1613.

962 from Remorse, Act i. sc. 2.

972 from Edwin the Fair, Act iii. sc. 1.

973 from The Laws of Candy, Act i. sc. 2.

1142 from Threnodia Augustalis, a poem sacred to the memory of King Charles II.

1150 from The Virgin Widow, a comedy by F. QUArles, 1649.

1152 from The Broken Heart, Act v. sc. 3.

1153 from Women Pleased, Act iv. sc. 3.

1162 from Ionica, p. 65.

1172 from The Devil's Law-Case, Act v. sc. 5.

1285 from The Arraignment of Paris, Act i. sc. 3: 1. 1, bravery, finery: 1. 10, burgen, i. q. burgeon.

1286 1. 3, reluctant, i. e. struggling through: 1. 18, total kind, i. e. whole race: see note on § 616: 1. 38, hosting, mustering of troops.

1288 1. 14, griding, cutting.

1289 1. 6, thirling, thrilling, i. e. shaking, vibrating: 1. 18, discoloured, i. e. variegated.

1291 1. 13, lilled forth, lolled out: 1. 15, gnarre, snarl, growl: 1. 22, lin, stop, intermit.

1302 1. 6, tooting, prying, looking about: 1. 7, yvie todde, thick tuft or bush of ivy: 1. 13, tho, then: thicke, thicket: 1. 14, quicke, living creature: 1. 19, swayne, boy: 1. 22, hent, took hold of: 1. 31, wimble and wight, nimble and quick.

1305 The story is as follows: Dar-thula, the daughter of Colla, with whom Cairbar, the usurper, was in love, resided in Selama a

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1305 castle in Ulster; she saw, fell in love and fled with Nathos; but they were driven back by a storm upon the coast of Ulster, where Cairbar was encamped with his army, waiting for Fingal, who meditated an expedition into Ireland to re-establish the Scottish race of kings on the throne of that kingdom. The three brothers of Nathos, sons of Usnoth, lord of Etha, being slain, Darthula killed herself upon the body of her beloved Nathos. Nathos signifies 'youthful'; Ailthos, 'exquisite beauty'; Ardan, 'pride'; Darthula, 'a woman with fine eyes'.

1310 The voice of Cona, i. e. Ossian, the son of Fingal.

1337 from Rokeby, Canto iv. II.

1338 from The Lady of the Lake, iv. 1.

1439 from Women Pleased, Act iii. sc. 2: 1. 1, battened, fattened : 1. 4, pilchers, pilchards: 1. 7, bearing, solid, substantial.

1445 1. 2, cogging, coaxing, cheating.

1453 1. 12, zanie, ape.

1455 1. 2, reek, i. զ.

rick.

1468 from Cynthia's Revels, Act iii. sc. 2: 1. 1, dor, beetle, chaffer,

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