^K' ifi'if 2833 H19 r. « o Q ^'2 CORNELL cA^-O^; UiNIVERSITY H \^ LIBRARY Selected notes upon Shakespeare's comedy 3 1924 013 142 314 ^ DATE DUE MAY^ 76 MY $' Jf|f'f""WI!! ^^^^SSPwE^i T!01^ 'An ^■fnrrr 9"WBf __^jj^^ A .-•ii*****'*?*' Mi^ i CAVLORO PBINTCDINO.S.A The original of tliis bool< is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013142314 THE TEMPEST. SELECTED NOTES UPON SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST. BY J. O. HALLIWELL, F.R.S. LON DON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. V" ., i U:UC. 1868. V 'K' H 1^ t/^ CHISWICK press: — PRINTEO BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. . ,>nn, /^^ PREFACE. Raving abandoned the critical and phi- lological study of the text of Shake- speare in favour of a more exclusive attention to the Biography of the Poet, and the history of the early English stage, I was perplexed what course to adopt respecting a large quantity of new materials belonging to the former class, which had accumulated by old- book reading since the completion of my large edition of the Works of the Great Dramatist. It seemed a pity to destroy them without examina- tion, and equally so to allow them to remain alto- gether useless. If the advice of friends had been solicited, the dilemma of honest John Bunyan would doubtlessly have been encountered, — Some said, John, print them ; others said, Not so ; Some said. They might do good ; others said, No. 6 Preface. Under the impression, however, that a collection of extracts, illustrative of Shakespeare's language and allusions, taken from old English books, is never without some value, I have decided to print a selec- tion from my materials on each play separately. Upon some of the dramas there will be but a small contribution, but it is trusted that there will be hardly a volume in the series, however diminutive, which will not offer information of some little use to a future editor. No. II, Tregunter Road, South Kensington, London. 3 January^ 1868. I SELECTED NOTES. *,* The paginal references are adapted to the variorum edition of iZii, ed. Malone. 19. Good, speak to the mariners. AM not sure, after all, that good stands here for good friend. Val. You had a Son late of this house. Broo. And do not you infer by that he 's dead.' Good, do not mock me, sir. Val. If this be gold. He lives and sent it to you ; forty peaces ? The Damoiselle or the New Ordinary, 1653. No privilege can free us from this prison ; No tears, no prayers, can redeem from hence A captiv'd soul ; make use of what you see : 8 Notes upon Let this affrighting spectacle of death Teach you to nourish life. Ero. Good ; hear him : this is a rare soldier. The Widoii^s Tears. 19. Fall to 't yarely. The maister cries, In with the sayles ; others cry, Downe with the mast ; some againe, to lighten their barke of her burthen, the more yarly to rise with the seas, beginne to throw overboord all whatsoever comes to hand. History of Euordanus, Prince of Denmark, 1605. Yare, as, Be yare at the helm! that is, be quick, ready, and expeditious at the helm. Gentleman's Dictionary, 1705. 20. If room enough. The curious parallel from Pericles should be con- tinued. The Second Sailor says, "But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss the moon, I care not." — Pericles, p. 108. Blowe till you burst, roar, rend the earth in sunder. — Sylvester's Du Bartas. The Tempest. 9 20. Play the men. Againe, when the souldiours of Rome \\z.Aplaide the men, in the overthrowe of Cataline, was it not a fault in Cicero to shew such arrogancie in his speeches, to take upon him more effect than ten men in armour? — Breton's Will of Wit, 1599. Whereof Bassianus being aduertised, and per- ceiuing he should haue battell, maketh readie for the same, gluing the best exhortation he could vnto his people to plaie the men : but forsomuch as the most part of his armie were Britains, all his words nothing auailed. — Holinshed's Chronicles. Belike, because he cannot play the man. Yet would be awde, he keepes his filthy revell, Stalking and roaring like to Job's great devill. Skialetheia, or a Shadowe of Truth, 1598. When I give you a wincke, shake off your chaines, and let us plaie the men, and make havocke amongst them, drive them out of the house and maintaine possession by force of armes, till the king hath made a redresse of your abuses. Euphues Golden Legacie. B lo Notes upon With sharpe confronts, each one doth play the man. — Babels Balm, 1624. Ped. Heere comes the Bird that I must ceaze vpon : Now Pedringano, or neuer, play the man. The Spanish Tragedie. In both incounters remained many Indians slain and wounded, and of the Spaniards some were hurt, but none killed, who gave most hearty thankes unto God for their delivery from so great a multi- tude as were foure score thousand against one thou- sand onely of Indians and Spaniards joyned to- gether. The Indians of Zempoallan and Zaclotan did play the valiant men that day, wherefore Cortez honoured them with hearty thankes. Gage's New Surv^ of the West Indias, 1648. Insomuch, that Sancho is forc'd to appeal to the Don ; who, finding that his Squire had plaid the man so notoriously, was more ready to make a Knight of him, then an honest man, and dignifie him more then justifie him ; which both were equally in his power. Gaytoris Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, 1654. Fran. O Guzman ! Hadst thou but play'd the The Tempest. \ i Man when I had flung down and disarm'd my An- tagonist, we had gotten Immortal Fame ; but now thou art lost in Infamy : Thy Sword taken from thee, by him who had only the Scabbard to do it with ! — Guzman, 1693. 20. Where is the Master, Boson ? So printed in ed. 1623. "The 6oson, he his cabin tooke to keepe." — Breton's Pilgrimage to Paradise, 1592. Bozon occurs in a song as lately as 17 16, in the Musical Miscellany. Con. You must know my Devil scorns to be com- manded with canting mountebank words, he is a Sea-faring kind of Divel, that comes when his boson whistles ; stand fast. — Lacy's Dumb Lady, 1672. The unusual form, boatsen, occurs in Davenant's Poems on Several Occasions, ed. 1673, p. 294. 2 1 . The peace of the present. That is, of the present time. Common. " The description of that great City, as it was in former times, and also at this present!' Gag^s New Survey of the West Indias, 1648. 12 Notes upon 21. I have great comfort, &c. This speech is extracted by Cotgrave in his Eng- lish Treasury of Wit and Language, 1655, with several unauthorized alterations, e.g., " I have great comfort from this fellow in this danger . . . mark about him . . . doth little help us." ,22. Blasphemous.- The term blasphemous was not always used in its modern sense. According to' a letter, dated 1604, Stone, a fool, " was well whipped in Bridewell for a blasphemous speech that there went sixty fools into Spaine besides my lord Admiral and his two sons." 22. r II warrant h,im from drowning. There was entered on the books of the Stationers' Company^ 17 June, 1656, a ballad called, " Hee that's borne to bee hang'd shall never bee drowned, or a true Relation of many exploits done by Rich- ard Hannum." No, no, by Saint Adauras, for thou shalt be hanged once. He tkats borne to be hangd shall neuer be drownde. Ah great sheepe ! The Tempest. 13 Fearest thou ihanging? Thou shalt be buried, which is more honourable, the ayre or the earth ? Eliof s Fruits for the French, 1593. "He that is borne to be hanged shall never be drowned," proverb in Camden's Remaines, ed. 1629, p. 266. Qui a k pendre n'a pas k noyer : Prov. Hee thats borne to be hanged needs feare no drowning. Cotgrave, in v. Noyer. 22. Set her two courses. Up with a course or two, and take (tack) about, boyes. — Two Noble Kinsmen, 1634, p. 42. 23. We are merely cheated. O, madam, y'are deceiv'd, meerely deceiv'd. The True Tragedy of Herod and Antipater, 1622. I am as happy In my friend's good, as if 't wprjC merely mine. The Honest Man's Fortune. 24. Long heath. This old reading is, I am persuaded, the correct one, although it is not generally accepted. " There 14 Notes upon is in this countrey two kindes of heath, one which beareth his flowers alongst the stems, and is called long heath; the other bearing his flowers in tutteis or tufts at the tops of the branches, the which is called small heath." Lyte's ed. of the New Herball of Dodoens, 1586. 27. Lie there my art. So Corax, in the Lover's Melancholy, 1629, throwing off his gown, says, — "There lies my gravity." Now by yon heav'n That blushes at my scarlet robes ; I'll doff This womanish attire of godly peace. And cry. Lie there. Lord Cardirlal of Guise. The Duke of Guise. 28. Obey, and be attentive. I would here insert a stage-direction, — They sit down. This would explain Prospero's subsequent words, p. 39, — " Now I arise," when he gets up, leav- ing Miranda to repose. 28. Out three years old. Albertus Magnus saith that Sparrowes liue, Scarce three yeares out {w& needes beleeue him must) ^-- The Tempest. \ 5 And for the same this naturall reason giues, Because so oft they doe the act of Lust. The Scourge of Folly, by J. Davies, 1611. 29. Abysm. First I tell you, that the cause that I am brought and put in the abisfne or swallow of pensiuenesse and sighes that is this day come vnto me, is by beholding of you. — The Histories of Troye, 161 7. 29. A piece of virtue. I sawe one Lasse farre comelier than the rest, A peerlesse/^^^^, an heart-delighting gyrle. An heauenly Nymph, what shall I say I saw. An haplesse faire, a sweet vnlukie Dame, I saw her, and I know not whether Fate, Or Cupids stroke this rare euent did cause. Sabi^s Fishermans Tale, iS9S- 29. ' And princess. What I aime at in it, I confesse hath most re- spect to my selfe ; that I might out of my owne Schoole take a lesson, and should serve me for my whole Pilgrimage : and if I should wander from 1 6 Notes upon these rests, that my, owne Items might set me in Heavens direct -way againe. Feltham's Resolves, 1635. Note the licentious use of the word and in this extract. 30. — To think 0' the teen that I have turn' d you to. A similar line occurs in the Third Part of Henry the Sixth, v. 5, — " And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to." 30. As at that time. The as is here redundant in a vernacular phrase formerly common. See a long and able note, in the Studies on the Tempest of the Shakspere Society of Philadelphia, p. 66, by Mr. G. Allen, who cites from the Collect, "arid as at this time to be born of a pure Vii-gin." In the Booke of Common Praier, 1559, it is, "and this day to be born of a pure Virgin." 30. To trash for over-topping. When a hound is too fleet and runs a-head, the huntsman, in order to retard his speed, and make him run on a level with the rest of the pack, puts The Te?npest. 17 a collar round his neck loaded with lead ; this is called to trash a hound. — Dr. Cuming, 1784. When a dog overruns the rest of the pack, the huntsman generally ties a rope about his neck, which he suffers him to trail till he begins to tire ; this is called trashing the dog. I have Mr. Rockett's authority for this interpretation, and cannot there- fore doubt it. — MS. note, circa 1 790. 32. And the bettering of my mind. And yet under the leave of your better judge- ment, I must needes say thus much, my deare cosin, that I find not myselfe wholie to be condemned, be- cause I do not with continuall vehemency folow those knowledges which you call the bettering of my mind. — Sydne^s Arcadia, 1598. 32. Who having, unto truth, by telling of it. The pronoun it refers to lie, as Steevens has well explained. A similar construction occurs in All's Well that Ends Well, p. 335, where see Mason's note. 35. Wench. A term formerly synonymous with girl. 1 8 Notes upon Neither can a boye before he haue accomplished 14 yeares of age, nor a wench before shee haue ac- complished 1 2 make a Testament ad pias causas : Neither is the testament good, made by the boye or wench before the said ages, although the same should bee made by the auctority or consent of the Tutor. — Swinburn's Treatise of Willes, 161 1. 35. That wrings mine eyes to 't. To 't, that is, to crying. This is an idiom of no very unusual occurrence. 36. In few. In few, the warres are full of woes. Warner's Albions England, 1592. 36. Instinctively have quit it. The word have is altered very indistinctly, but apparently to had, in a copy of fol. ed. 1623, which formerly belonged to the Earl of Inchiquin, and is corrected in a nearly coeval hand. 40. Than other princes can. Notwithstanding the reading of ed. 1623, prin- cesse, my ear refuses to admit other than the text The Tempest. 19 above given. Heir occurs in Love's Labour's Lost, for heiress, zx^i. prince may be put iox princess. The Latin princeps stands for either. Since writing this, I observe that Mr. Grant White gives examples of prince used iox princess. 42. Now in the waist. It was too late, for already it did embrace and devour from the sterne to the waste of the ship ; and by and by, it had burned off the mast. Sydney's Arcadia. 42. And burn in many places. So Castor, and Pollux, are to Saylers knowne. By these their Ruine, or safetie is showen. This Comet sometime lighteth on the Mast, Thence flyeth to the Sayl's and Tacklings in hast ; Skipping heere and there without certaine byding, The matter's vnctuous, and must needs be glyding : And if it appeare before the storme beginne, It foretels the perrils that the Ship is In. Then they call it the starre of Helena, Hell's Furie, Deaths messenger, fierce Megara ; They waile and wring their wofull hands for greife. They looke for death expecting no reliefe. Sir p. Sydney's Ourania, by N. B. 20 Notes upon Among certayne simple and ignoraunt people, it is accounted for a myracle that, in certaine tem- pests on the sea, the marriners see certeyne shining and bright fyres which, with great superstition> they kneele downe unto, and pray unto, affirming that it is Santelmo that appeareth unto them ; and not contenteth heerewith, some sweare that they have seene drops of greene wax fal downe. Other affirme that this wax is of such heat that, if it fall from the toppe of the shippe, it doDth melt the rosen and pitche of the hatches of the shyppe, with such other foolysh imaginations. The A rte of Navigation, 1 596. 42. On the top-mast. Of these sublunary devils — Psellus makes six kinds ; fiery, aeriall, terrestriall, watery, and sub- terranean devils, besides those faieries, satyres, nymphes, &c. Fiery spirits or divells are such as commonly worke by blazing starres, fire-drakes, and counterfeit sunnes and moones, and sit • on ships' masts, &c. Aeriall spirits or divells are such as keep quarter most part in the aire, cause many tempests, thunder and lightnings, tfeare oakes, fire steeples, houses, strike men and beasts, make it raine stones, &c.^— Burton's Anatomie of Melancholie. The Tempest. 21 In Eden's translation of the Arte of Navigation, 1 596, it is said that the fire seen in tempests " taketh hold sometime on the shroudes, and sometimes on the toppe, and sometime also in the poupe or in the foreshippe." 44. With hair up-staring. After this the gates of the inchaunted garden flew open, whereat incontinently came foorth Or- mondine the magician, with his haire staring on his head, his eyes sparkling, his cheekes blushing, his hands quivering, his legs trembling, and all the rest of his body distempered, as though legions of spirits had incompast him about. — Johnson's Famous His- tory of the Seven Champions of Christendome, 1608. Es Peluzamidnto, standing of the haire staring upright. — Percivalis Spanish Dictionarie, 1599. It is always observed among Country-Men, that a Hog never thrives when his Hair stares arid looks rugged like a Bear; therefore observe this Rule once a month, and you shall have the best Hogs in the Country. — The Art of Husbandry, 1 67 5 . 44. And all the devils are here. While I was earnestly barkening (as I said) to hear the women, minding nothing els, the greatest 22 Notes upon bell in St. Botolph steeple, which is hard by, was tolled for some rich lady that then lay in passing, the sound therof came with such a rumble into mine ear, that I thought all the devils in hell had broken loose, and were come about me, and was so afraid therwith that when I felt the foxtail under my feet (which through fear I had forgot) I deemed it had been the devil indeed ; and therfore I cried as loud as ever I could, " The devil, the devil ! " Beware of the Cat, 1584. Damaetas that saw her run away in Zelmanes vpper rayment, and judging her to be so, thought certainely all the spirits in hell were come to play a Tragedy in these woods, such strange change he saw euery way. — Sydney s Arcadia. The tempest is now ended. that it is faire weather againe. Truly it hath lightned and thundred lustily. 1 beleeue that all the Diuels are vnchained to day, or that the good Ladie Proserpina is trauelling of childbirth. Beleeue that all the fine hundred thousand hundred millions of Diuels dance the morrice. Eliot's Fruits for the French, 1 593. The Tempest. 23 Their mantle darke the grisly shadowes spred, Stained with spots of deepest sanguine hew, Warme drops of blood, on earthes blacke visage shed, Supplide the place of pure and pretious dew. The moone and stars for feare of sprites were fled. The shriking gobblings each where howling flew. The Furies roare, the ghosts and Fairies yell. The earth was fild with deuils, and emptie hell. Godfrey of Bulloigne, by E. Fairefax, 1600. Buz. The third and last time was for half a pint of sack upon his wedding night, of later memory ; and I shall nere forget it, that riotous wedding night ; when Hell broke loose, and all the devils danced at our house, which made my Master mad, whose raving made my mistriss run away, whose running away was the cause of my turning away. O me, poor masterless wretch that I am. Brome' s English Moor, 1659. And when they sawe the kings Barge comming, they began to showte, and made suche a crie as Mall the Deuills in hell had bene among them. And they had brought with them Sir John Motton, to the en- tent that if the King had not come, they would haue 24 Notes upon hewen hym all to pieces, and so they promysed hym. — Grafton's Chronicle. ' ' ' ''■"' ^ . In an odd angle of the isle. "In the most fortunate angle of the world," Gamp of Chess. The Latin angulus. The very expression used by Shakespeare occurs in a romance poem of the fifteenth century, pre- served in the Porkington Manuscript, — The yle of Brettayne i-cleppyde ys, Betwyne Skotlond and Ynglonde i-wys. In story I wryte aryjte ; Wallys ys ane angulle of that yle ; At Cardyfe sojornde the kynge a whylle. With mony a gentyll kny3te. 44. The still-vex^ d Bermoothes. So spelled in ed. 1623. In the Devils Law-Case, 1623, we have another form, Barmotho. If it be but of a posy given the King of Fraunce by his nursci or that a fisherman, say ling by the Barmoothes, saw a fire at singing of a hog. Two Wise Men and all the rest Fooles, 1619. The Tempest. 25 Rio. Now I sincke. And as I diue and drowne, Thus by degrees, He plucke thee to the bottome. They fall. V. Lio. Amaine for England, See, see, Enter Reignald. The Spaniard now strikes Saile. Reig. So must you all. 1 Gall. Whence is your ship, from the Ber- moothes f Reig-. Worse, I thinke from Hell : We are all Lost, Split, Shipwrackt, and vndone, This place is a meere quick-sands. 2 Gall. So we feared. Heywood's English Traveller, 1633. 45- The mariners all under hatches stow'd. At last they of the gallies entred, and bestowed the mariners under hatches, and then went to rifle the ship. — The Cobler of Canterburie, 1608. Who suncke the Turkish gallies in the Straights, but Malefort 1 who rescu'd the French Merchants, when they were boorded, and stowed under hatches by the Pirats of Argiers. The Unnatural Combat. D 26 Notes upon 48. Sir, in Argier. Numidias mightie plaines they coasted then, Where wandring shepherds vs'd their flockes to feed, Then Bugia and Argier e, th' infamous den Of Pirates false, Oran they left with speed. All Tingitan they swiftly ouer-ren. Where Elephants and angrie Lyons breed. Godfrey of Bulloigne, by Fair ef ax, 1600. My onely sonne is now slave in Argeire, and but ten yeares of age, and like to be lost for ever with- out God's great mercy and the King's clemencie. Duntoris True four nail of the Sally Fleet, 1637. 5 1. We cannot miss him. They (bees) are so profitable, bringing unto man both honey and wax ; each so wholesome that we all desire it, both so necessary that we cannot miss them. — Lily's Euphues. 52. As wicked dew. The king kest water on the stane, The storme rase ful sone onane With wikked weders, kene and calde, Als it was byfore-hand talde. The Romance of Ywain and Gawain. The Tempest. 2"] 53. That vast of night A like expression occurs in the 1603 edition of Hamlet, — " In the dead vast and middle of the night," the later eds. having waste. 59. Foot it feat ly. There Sackvyldes Sonettes sweetely sauste. And featly fyned bee ; There Norton's ditties do delight. There Yelverton's doo flee. Seneca's Tragedie of Thyestes, by Heywood, 1 560, pref Some, like an ape, will featly mumpe and mow. When drinke hath much deformd his formall face. And some will reele when as hee cannot goe, And some will runne and ride the wild-goose chase. Hornby s Scourge of Drunkennesse, 161 8. Adjancd: m. ee : f. Fitted, apted, adapted, adiusted, ordered; trimmed, decked, /^«^/f placed, handsomely ioyned, suteably matched together. — Cotgrave. 59. Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo. "Cry cockadidle-dowe," ed. 1623. Compare the following lines in Aristippus, 1630, — 28 Notes upon 1 Schol. What ailes thou, thou musing man ? Diddle diddle dooe. 2 Schol. Quench thy sorrowes in a Canne. Diddle diddle dooe. 60.' This music crept by me upon the waters. A musick sweete, that through our eares shall creepe By secret arte, and lull a man asleepe. Churchyard's Worthines of Wales, 1587. 60. Full fathom five thy father lies. In the copy of this song in Wilson's CheerfuU Ayres or Ballads, 1660, the concluding lines are thus printed, — Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell. Hark' now I heare them Ding Dong- Bell t)ing Dong Ding Dong Bell. 60., Those, are pearls, that were his eyes. ■ The diamond is to thee but dimmed glasse ; Gold is but drosse, pearles are but fishes eies. Breton's Pilgrimage to Paradise, 1 592. 61. Ding-dong,, bell. . .;^ „ , t. There is a funereal song of, ding, ding, ding. The Tempest. 29 dong bell, the burden of which is this, in Playford's Catch that Catch Can, 1667,— Then for his sake, some order let us take, that we may ring his knell ; Ding, dong, ding, ding, ding, dong bell ; Ding, ding ding, ding, dong bell. A song in the play of Swetnam the wonian-hater, 1620, has the burden of, — ding, dong, ding, dong, dong, &c. 63. If you be maid or no. Ba. Who is that?, , A prettie gentlewoman ! save you mistresse. What is your name I pray ? Vio. I am cal'd Violante. Bar. Are you amaide? Vio. I should be sorrie else. Shirley s Gamester, 1637. I've seen a m.aid, sir ; but, if that I have judge- ment, no such wonder. — The Great Duke of Florence. 6'j,. He' s gentky and not fearful Now must Endimion make the world acquainted, With Serpents, and wormes which Flora painted 30 Notes upon Vpon the face of Tellus Mansion Where nature shewes her deepe inuention. The fearefull Crocadil, and Scorpion, The flying Dragon from the Dungeon Of Nessus springing : the poyzoned viper. Sir P Sydney s Ourania. 68. My foot my tutor. I am now in very good case, that he which was my servant but the other day will now be my master; this it is for a woman to make her foote her head. The day hath beene when I might have gone forth when I would, and come in againe when it had pleased me, without controlement ; and now I must bee subject to every Jackes checke. The Historie of Jacke of Newberie, 1633. As the husband was called the head of the wife, a child might not unaptly be termed the foot of a parent. 71. Some merchant, and the merchant. The word is here used in two senses, both for a vessel and its owner. This is a kind of what may be called a jingle-quibble in which Shakespeare delights. The Tempest. 31 A young lady contracted to a noble gentleman, as the lady last mentioned and your highness were, being hindered by their jarring parents, stole from her home, and was conveyed like a ship-boy in a merchant, from the country where she lived. The Lover's Melancholy. 71. He's winding up the watch of his wit. For that hath bene done by Zelmane, but not as I feared, to my ruine, but to my preseruation. But when he had once named Zelmane, that name was as good as a pully, to make the clocke of his praises run on in such sort, that (Philanax found) was more exquisite then the onely admiration of vertue breedeth : which his faithfuU heart inwardly re- pining at, made him shrinke away as soone as he could, to go about the other matters of importance, which Basilius had enjoyned vnto him. Sydney's Arcadia. His imagination is never idle, it keeps his mind in a continuall motion, as the poise the clocke : he winds up his thoughts often, and as often unwinds them ; Penelopes web thrives faster. Sir T. Overbury's Characters. 2,2 Notes upon 79. Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none. Ritson, in his Cursory Criticisms, 1792, p. 33, proposes to read, to complete the metre, " Bourn, limit, bound of land," &c. I do not believe that any addition is absolutely necessary, but, if it be, I should be inclined to propose to insert the word meadow after tilth. 80. Allfoizon. Whew ! he comes upon me with " a superfantial substance and the foison of the earth," that I know not what he means. — ^Peelds Old Wives Tale, 1595. 82. Go sleep and hear us. A very obscure speech. Gonzalo asks, them to laugh him to -sleep, for he is very drowsy. Antonio replies, — ^go to sleep and hear us, laugh, the sound of which laughter, /rom , a little distance, would sooth the drowsy counsellor into slumber. An- tonio's speech, by the common idiom of inversion, is equivalent to, — " Hear us, and go sleep." 83. If heed me. " Doe heare, brother .'" Widdowes Teares, 161 2, for, — "T>Q you hear, brother .>" The Tempest. 33 How little do you guess what I'm to say ; I'm not to ask you how like Farce or Play : For you must know, I've other Business now ; It is to tell ye, Sparks, how we like you. The Cheats of Scapin, 1677. 90. As a cat laps That is, quietly. 92. Now, good angels, preserve tite king ! This line is given to Gonzalo, and the next to Alonso, in ed. 1623, an arrangement which Mr. Staunton was the first to observe was inaccurate. Mr. Dyce makes one speech of the two, giving both to Gonzalo, with several explanatory stage-direc- tions. I would venture to suggest that this line should be assigned to Ariel, the next speech to Gonzalo, and the following one to Alonso. 93. By inch-meal a disease. It is not auoided, but by droppe meale, and with great and intollerable paine, so that oftentimes the excrements of the wombe are auoyded together with the Vrin. — Margarita Chyrurgica, 1610. E 34 Notes upon 95. TJiey will not give a doit. Which picture is adorned round about with the armes of the principall families of Holland. Be- sides, for a farther testimony of this matter they vse to stampe the figure of a maide vpon one of their, coynes that is called a Doit, whereof eight goe to a Stiuer, and ten Stiuers do make our English shilling. — Cory at" s Crudities, 161 1. 96. Under his gaberdine. The party was clad in a rich cloth of siluer doublet, and ouer it a Cfl^^ri^/w^of greene Veluet.set thicke with Buttons and Loopes of siluer, suteable, hauing on the top of his right shoulder sloping, a faire Belt studded and embroidered with Gold, two curiously wrought Petronels hanging at it, his Breeches were suteable, Damaske, his Stocking, shooe and garter, white. Plumes of feathers white and greene : all which so set out his gracefuU per- sonage, that Gerardo, forgetting his troubles, was now wholly fixt vpon the gallant obiect. Gerardo, the Unfortunate Spaniard, 1622. I was shortly after taken prisoner by the Wallons of Vnreue, where I was most miserably imprisoned The Tempest. 35 and hardly dealt withall, for that they tooke my hose and doublet from me, leauing me nothing but a stincking sheepes skin about me, and the wooU on it, and my cloke, of the which I made a long gabberdine with sleeues, like an olde popish priest. Clifford's Schoole of Horsemanship, 1585. Cdpa de dgua, a fishermans cloake or gaberdine with a hood behinde in the necke. — Percivale's Dic- tionarie in Spanish and English, 1 599. Caban : m. A gabardine, or cloake of felt. Cotgrave. Gabardine, a kind of rough Cassock, like an Irish mantle. — Phillips' New World of Words, 1671. 97. Do you put tricks upon us with savages f Saluages, ed. 1623. The form is not unusual. Had they been your Contemporaries, they (Whom all men did, and Salvages obey, And rocks and trees) with all their study ne're Could pen one line worth your attentive ear. Cokain's Poems, 1658. 36 Notes upon 98. He's a present for any emperor. Ros. Can speake ; De e e e e — Feren. ' Tis a present for an Emperor : What an excellent instrument were this to purchase a sute, or a monopoly from the Dukes care ? Love's Sacrifice, 1633. 98. That ever trod on neat's leather. There lives a Duke in Andaluzia, Grandees they call them, (if I right doe say) Who had two sons, the eldest of great hopes. The yonger, such as those they call crack-ropes ; A wicked Lord, as e'r wore Spanish leather, Gawdy as Sun-shine, light as any. feather. And divelish handsome, set out too with clothes. With which he takes fools eyes, their ears with oaths. Gayton's Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, 1654. So long goes the potte to the water, at length it comes home broken ; I know you are as good a man as euer drew sword, or as was ere girt in a girdle, or as ere went on neats leather, or as one shall see vpon a summers day, or as ere lookt man in the face The Two Angrie Women of Abington, 1599. The Tempest. 3*7 99. Which will give language to you, cat. With braggot, that can teach a cat to speake. Taylor's Drinke and Welcome, 1637. With good chear enough to furnish every old room. And old liquor able to make a cat speak, and man dumb, Like an old coutrier, &c. The Old and Young Courtier. 99. Come, — Amen ! There is no good reason for suspecting this, the old, reading ; but the word amen is altered to againe in early manuscript in a copy of the second folio, 1632, which was sold by one Sarah Jones in 1649, the MS. notes apparently having been written previously to the latter date. Who live but, as it were, to say Amen To others' labours which supply your wants. La Dance Machabre or DeatJis Dtiell, by W. C, n. d. Young Lo : What thinke you, gentlemen, by all this revenew in drinke i" — Cap. I am all for drinke. — TraveU. I am dry till it be so. — Poet He that will 38 Notes upon not cry Amen to this, let him live sober, seeme wise, and dye o' th' corum. The Scornfull Ladie, 1639. 100. The siege of this moon-calf. The Pelican doth let himselfe bloud, and draweth the very bloud from his body, for to heale his young ones beeing hurt with Serpents. The Storkes (as all naturals confesse) haue taught Potecaries the vse of Glisters, putting mosse in their siege when they finde themselues bound. — Theatrum Mundi, 1581. In a little book, A Direction for the Health of Magistrates, 1574, is a chapter entitled, "of purga- tion by siege or other wise." In an Excellent Treatise teaching howe to cure the French-Pockes, 1590, p. 24, is a chapter "of curing the pockes by seege, with laxative medi- cines." This sware the prison smelt of lice. Of urine, and of seige, and mice. Wil BagnaVs Ghost, by E. Gay ton, 1655. The term moon-calf is not here used in its literal signification, but for a stupid fellow,, a term of con- The Tempest. 39 tempt. So, in Brome's New Academy, 1658, — "he has spoke against her aunt, her moon-calf sonne." loi. When time was. He was a servant to my lord, when time was. State Papers, 1627. 102. I could find in my heart. We should now say, "I could find it'va. my heart," but the text is correct. " I could cry, I confesse, but that I can't find in my hart to be such a foole." Marriages of the Arts. 104. Ban, Ban, Ca — Caliban. There is a song in the Tragedy of Locrine, with the burden, — " Dan, dan, dan, dan — Dan diddle dan." Crip, Frap, Ler, Brong, Gualif, Guendir, words vttered in excesse of ioy, and which haue no signi- fication, as we say in English, Falantidodire, film, flam, tan. — Florio's New World of Words, 161 1. 105. Most poor matters point to rich ends. But how are we falne to talke of this fellow ; and 40 Notes upon yet, indeede, if you were sometimes with me to marke him, while Dametas reades his rusticke lec- ture unto him, to see all the while with what a grace, which seemes to set a crowne upon his base estate, he can descend to those poore matters, certainly you would. — Sir P. Sydney's Arcadia, 1598. 105. As odious. That is, it would be as odious as it would be heavy, did not my mistress make my labours pleasures. The insertion of 'tis, although supported by the high authority of Mr. Dyce, is inconsistent with the con- text, and would make Ferdinand in the same breath say that his labours were both odious and pleasant. 1 06. And makes my labours pleasures. Blest be the name wherewith my mistres named is ; whose wounds are salves, whose yokes please more than pleasure doth. — Sydney's Arcadia, 1598. 106. When I do it. The pronoun it refers to labours, and numerous examples might be cited of that pronoun being applied to a preceding plural substantive. The Tempest. 41 Bor. It cannot choose, sir, Till your own eyes behold it ; but that it is so. And that by this means the too-haughty soldier Has been so cramm'd and fed he cares not for you. Believe me, or let me perish : let your eyes, As you observe the house, but where I point it Make stay, and take a view, and then you have found it. The Loyal Subject. 109. Besides yourself , to like of. As the Couetous man would not like of those seruants and hirelings, who by their negligence and careleslesse haue suffered his houses to fall to ruine, and haue left his lands and vineyards vntilled, neither would he be pleased with that man or maid-seruant in his house, which serueth him to no purpose. Cawdray's Treasurie or Store-house of Similies, 1600. And so well did Peachey like of Sir John, that he vowed he should not be his man, but his fellow. Deloneys Second Part of the Gentle Craft, 1 598. Compare a song in the Passionate Pilgrim, 1599, — " That liked of her master." F 42 Notes upon III. A thousand! thousand! Wife. Farewell, Valentius. Val. A thousand take with thee ! The Knave in Graine new Vampt, 4to. 1640. 113. Thou deboshed fish thou. Ad. I hope he's far enough if his man be trusty : This was a strange misfortune ; I must not know it. Val. T\vsX most debosKd knight : come down sweet sister. My spotlesse Sister ; now, pray thanke these Gentle- men, They have deserv'd both truly, nobly of ye. The Knight of Malta. If he decease before you, no honest man will have you, unlesse some of your deboshed companions, more for lucre then for love, who will never trust you, knowing you false to your former husband : and then, perchance, you would wish you had beene more constant to your first betrothed, and lesse confident to every cogging companion ; but it will bee then too late. — The Man in the Moone telling Strange Fortunes, 1609. The Tempest. 43 To debosh, corrupt, make lewd, vitiate. G. Des- bauch^r, diet, a Des priu. et bauche, i. coria, orum, i. an euen rew, order, ranke, or laine of stones or bricke in building, one lying so equally with the other according to rule, that there is no disorder, and Desbauchi est extra ordinem positus, out of ranke and order, and Enfant DesbaucliJ, adolescens perditus, et dissolutus, a swaggering cavaleering young man, or one that runneth out of order. Ang. Debosht. — Minsheu. Most commonly some knaue or debosht fellow lurch the fooles their sons as cunningly after their fathers discease as they did others only to make their sonnes Gentlemen, who at last may as miser- ably die in the Hole for want of sustenance as some of his fathers debtors haue done before him. The Compters Commonwealth. Deboist, Chamberlain's Jocabella, or a Cabinet of Conceits, 1640. Debasht, Davenant's Wits, ed. 1673, p. 171. Debaush'd, Brome's New Academy, 1658. The form deboshed is found in hundreds of old books. In the City Politiques, 1683, a wild fellow is termed " a great debosh!' 44 Notes upon 1 1 6. A pied ninny. Foure things are a fooles chiefe loves, a bawble and a bell, a coxecombe and a pide coate. Breton's Good and Badde, 1616. 116. ^ Wd/ make a stock-fish of thee. Asello proximus, in our English proverbe, beaten like a stockfish. Withals' Dictionarie, ed. 1608, p. 37. Here swimmes the pearch, the cuttle, and the stocke-fish, That with a wooden staffe is often beaten. Chester's Loves Martyr, or Rosalins Complaint, 1601. 1 17. He's but a sot. For this cause Galen said that among the Scy- thians there was one onely Philosopher called Anacharsis, but in Athens many : and that among the Abderites euery one was a true sot, or a naturall foole, and so on the contrary that there were but few in Athens. — The Passenger of Benvenuto, 161 2. The Tempest. 45 1 19. Will you troll the catch. Greek is pronounced wrong, Vnlesse you trole it o'r the tongue. Gay tori s Notes upon Don Quixot, 1654. Is not this fine, I trowe, to see the gambolds, To heare the liggs, obserue the friskes, b'enchanted With the rare discord of bells, pipes and tabors. Hotchpotch of Scotch and Irish twingle twangles, Like to so many Queresters of Bedlam, Trow ling a catch? Per kin War beck, 1634. 119. You taught me but while-ere. Each shepheard that was wont to feed his flocks Upon these fertile meads, was wont whilere To pay the tribute of his primest lambs. Rhocbn and Iris, a Pastor all, 163 1. So comes it now to Florimell by tourne, After long sorrowes suffered whyleare, In which captiu'd she many moneths did mourne, To tast of ioy, and to wont pleasures to retourne. The V. Booke of the Faerie Queene, 1596. A prime, whileare, but now, but euen now. Cotgrave. 46 Notes upon 119. Played by the picture of No-body. A picture " cutt in wood " of " Nobody," is men- tioned in a list of popular engravings licensed to Francis Leach in 1655-6, MS. Stat. Reg. It shall be thus ; now you have scene his shape, Let him be straight imprinted to the life ; His picture shall be set on every stall, And proclamation made, that he that takes him Shall have a hundred pounds of Sombody. Nobody and Somebody, with the Historic of Elydure, n. d. 121. Her^ s a maze trod. The scene of this play is an uninhabited island. Are we to suppose that Prospero, Miranda, or Cali- ban, had amused themselves in this way .' 124. Praise in departing. We which perswade, haue great cause to thanke her, that she will harken vnto vs, as she also will thanke vs, if ^^ praise at the parting. Mulcaster's Positions, 1 5 8 1 . Is my good will not onely rejected without cause. The Tempest. 47 but also disdained without colour ? I, but Philau- tus, praise at thy parting ; if shee had not liked thee, she would never have answered thee. Euphues and his England. Strife. I promise you, I have a great losse then, How like ye now this last overthwarting ? It is an old saying, praise at the parting. I think I have made the CuUion to wring. Tom Tyler and his Wife, ed. 1661. The earliest example I have yet met with occurs in the Towneley Mysteries, p. 320. 125. Dew-lapp'd like bulls. When I came to Aigubelle I saw the effect of the common drinking of snow water in Sauoy. For there I saw many men and women haue exceeding great bunches or swellings in their throates, such as we call in latin strumas, as bigge as the two fistes of a man, through the drinking of snow water, yea some of their bunches are almost as great as an ordinary foote-ball with vs in England. These swellings are much to be seene amongst these Sauoyards, neyther are all the Pedemontanes free from them. — Coryats Crudities, 161 1. 48 Notes upon 125. Whose heads stood in their breasts f Some countries there are where men are born headless, with eyes and mouths in their breasts. Florio's Montaigne. 127. The sea hath caused to belch up. For then I viewd his body fall and sowse Into the fomie maine. O, then I saw That which me thinks I see ! It was the duke, Whom straight the nicer stomackt sea Belcht up. But then Marston's Malcontent, ed. 1604. 127. Dowle. Young dowloj the Beard; Lanugine, spunt amento della.barba ; Poilfolet; B090 de barva. Howell's Vocabulary, 1659. The First dowles upon the Chin; La lanugine, 6 la prima barba ; Le poil folet du menton, oil la pre- miere barbe ; El bogo, la primera barva. — Ibid. His Band is Starch'd with Grease, french-russet cleare ; His Beard for want of Combing, full of mange : The Tempest. 49 His Hat (though blacke) lookes Hke a medley Hat; For, black's the Ground which sparingly appeares, Then heer's a Dowle ; and there a Dabb of fat, Which as vnhansome hangs about his Eares. Davies's Scourge of FoUy, 1611. 1 29. With mockes and mowes. So* printed in ed. 1623, and compare the follow- ing lines in Fulbecke's Parallele or Conference, 1 601, — Thinges must be recompenced with thinges, buffets with blowes : And wordes with wordes, and taunts with mockes, and mowes. Compare the Faerie Queene, b. vi., — And otherwhiles with hitter mockes and mowes He would him scorne, that to his gentle mynd Was much more grievous then the others blowes. — 132. A thread of mine own life. Third, ed. 1623. " You take from me a great part of myself," Antony and Cleopatra. " I have a kind of self resides in yoii," Troilus and Cressida. On the other h^.viA, thrid iox thread v/diS very com- G 50 Notes upon mon, and, occasionally, third. "A thrid of flax," Feast for Wormes. An instance of it occurs in the Arminian Priest's Last Petition, by Thomas Harbie, 1642. Whose day, because it was much nearer then Eronaes, and that he well found she had twisted her life upon the same threed with his, he determined first to get him out of prison. Sydney's Arcadia, 1598. 133. That I boast her off. Of, ed. 1623. Compare the following spellings in the Phoenix, 1607, — As well as Subjects, therefore to my comfort, And your succesfull hopes I haue a Sonne Whome I dare boast of; — Luf. Whome we all do boast off, A Prince elder in vertues then in yeares. 134, No sweet aspersion. The aspersion of a little cool water upon her face recalled her spirits from that amorous traunce. Nature's Paradox, 1652. The Tempest. 51 135. Bring the rabble. Dr. Johnson explains rabble here, " the crew of meaner spirits ;" but perhaps hardly necessarily. Shakespeare uses the word elsewhere, merely in the sense of a small party or company. See the Merry Wives of Windsor, p. 140. Levins, in his Manipulus Vocabulorum, 1570, has, " a rable, rewe, series!' Mr. Wheatley correctly ex- plains the word, a train. 135. Ay, with a twink. Alas, he liveth not ! it is too true, That with these eyes, of him a peerless prince, Son to a king, and in the flower of youth. Even with a twink a senseless stock I saw. Ferrex and Porrex. 136. Ceres. Ceres is introduced into several masques. " Ceres enters representing summer, and sings ; afte/ her enters five reapers, having sickles in the one hand, and ripe corne in the other," Argument of the Pas- toral! of Florimene, 1635. It appears, from p. 149, that, in the original per- 52 Notes upon formance of the Tempest, the parts of Ariel and Ceres were presented by the same actor. 1 36. ThatcJid with stover. , The word stover seems to have been Httle under- stood some thirty years after Shakespeare's death, for the word is altered to clover in a copy of the second folio, 1632, in a handwriting attributed to the year 1649. 137. Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims. In some parts of the North, a reed is called a twill. The reed may therefore be here alluded to, certain kinds of it, the wild reed of Shakespeare's time, begin to blossom at the end of April (old style). The word twilled is altered to twisted in an early hand-writing in a copy of the second folio, 1632, which was sold by one Sarah Jones m the year 1649. 146. Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. All this stately and pageant-like pomp shall vanish away and come to nothing, as though it had never been. — Sutton's Dixe Mori. ' The Tempest. 53 147. Leave not a rack behind. Perhaps the following quotation is the most favourable one yet pointed out as regards this reading. Oure life shal passe away as the trace of a cloude, and com to naught as the mist that is driven awaye with the beames of the sunhe, and put down with the heat therof — The Boke of Wysedome, Cranmer's Bible, ed. 1562. 147. Such stuff as dreams are made on. Phoe. I wonder how this fellow keepes out madnes ? What stuffe his braines, are made on? The Phoenix^, 4to. Lond. 1607. 148. Is rounded with a sleep. The Tyrant with all pi;ide and spleene abounding Admits him, in the presence of his Peeres, Legions of armed mep his person rounding. Heywood's Troia.Britanica, 1609. There is one thing which may adde to our value of it : that it is appropriate unto Man alone. For surely, Beasts have not hope at all ; they are onely 54 Notes upon capable of the present ; whereas Man,"apprehending future things, hath this given him, for the sustenta- tion of his drooping Soule. Who would live rounded with calamities, did not smiling^Hope cheere him, with expectation of deliverance ? Feltham's Resolves, ed. 1635. 151. /' the filthy mantled pool. And all his body mantled in filthy mire, Like a stearne boare soild in the summer time. RodomontKs Inf email, by Gervase Markham, 1598. 151. For stale to catch these thieves. The birde that striketh at every stale cannot long escape the snare. — The Mirrour of Modestie, 1584, I came to warne her as a friend, and counsell her as a kinsman, that she might take heede of the traine, least she were taken in the trap, that she might not strike at the stale, least she were can- vased in the nettes. — Mamillia, the Second Part of the Triumph of Pallas, 1593. Birding-perches, whereupon the stale is set. — Withals' Dictionarie, ed. 1608, p. 127. Vertue may now and then be set forth to the show, The Tempest. 55 but it is but as a staale to draw into the net of villany. — RicKs My Ladies Looking Glasse, i6i6. Brische. A bush made of lime twigs, and a stale hung at it to draw birds vnto it. — Cotgrave. I S 3- We know what belongs to a frippery. Yes, and more ; do you not remember what tasks you were wont to put me to, and expences ? when I bestow'd on you gowns and petticoats, and you in exchange, gave me bracelets and shoe-ties ? how you fool'd me sometimes, and set me to pin pleats in your Ruff, two hours together, and made a wait- ing frippery of me ? how you rack'd my brain, to compose verses for you, a thing I could never abide ? nay, in my conscience, and I had not took courage, you had brought me to spin, and beat me with your slippers. — The Antiquary. Fripperia, the place where old clothes sellers dwel, a fripperie. — Florid s War Ide of Wordes, iSg8. To spin is most my trade, or else to wash. To sell old fripery stuffe or such like trash. Markhanis Famous Whore or Noble Curtizan, 1609. Unto a kinde of fripperers it must be vented. 56 Notes upon which be certaine marchants of old wares going up and downe to buy lists, ends of cloath, and old clo^kes.^—HuUofi's Discovery of q London Monster, called the Black? Dogg of Newgate, n. d. In fine, he is onely a wit at the second hand, or a. frippery oi it) ]nst as Long Lane is compar'd unto Cheapside, and rather a channel of other wits then a fountain of his own. — • Flecknoe's Enigmatical Qharacters, 1665. In a MS. of the seventeenth century,' consisting of short pieces collected perhaps - chiefly fropi printed books, in a list of " nicknames of several! countryes," Ireland is called " a frippery of bankrupts," a de- scription which, however' suitable at a particular period, seems very inappropriate to modern ears. A brokeing brother of Bethlehem, with all ' his frippery about him. Sir Antony Love or the Rambling Lady, 1698:. Ne'air to the place where frippery-women stand, With stays, ccjats, suits and breeches second-hand. A Vade-Mecum for Malt-Worms, c. 1720. 154. Let it alone. Let's along, Theobald. "Let's along, weele to the towne," Hans Beer-pot, His Invisible Comedie, 1618. The Tempest. 57 See another example of let's along m the Winter's Tale, p. 417. 1 54. Now is the jerkin under the line. Buy a jack-line or a hair-line, cries some ; Another with news-books and almanacks does come. London Cries in. Money Masters all Things, 1698. 159- That relish all as sharply passion as they. Mr. Dyce correctly follows the third folio in omitting a pause after sJiarply. The meaning is, that relish passion quite as much as they do ; or, possibly, that relish all passion as sharply as they do- Let him afford all the assistances and relievings in his power, but without intermingling himselfe in the others woe ; as angels that doe us good, but have no passion for us. Digby's Observations upon the Religio Medici, 1648. 159. Ye elves of hills. And thou, oh aire, windes, mouhtaines, rivers and lakes, and eche God of the woddes, and of the secrete night, by whose helpe I have heretofore made H 58 Notes upon the runnyng streames to recule, inforcing them to returne to their springs, and things running to become firm, and things firme to become running, and that hast also given power to my verses to drye up the Seas, that I at my pleasure might search the bottom therof, and to make the cloudie times cleare and (at my will) to fill the cleare heavens with obscure cloudes, to make the winds to ceasse, and to turne as it seemed me best : breaking therwith the harde jaws of the fearefuU dragons, making also the standing woddes to move, and the hault mountaines to tremble, and to returne to their dead bodies out of the lake Stix those their shadowes, and alive to come forth of their Sepultures ; and sometimes thee, O Moone, to drawe to thy perfect roundness ; makyng also the cleare face of the Sune many times to become pale, be ye all present, and aide me with your helpe. Philocopo of Bocace, old translation. 1 6 1 . The green-sour ringlets. " Green soure fruits " are mentioned in the Her- meticall Banquet drest by a Spagiricall Cook, 1652. 161. Midnight mushrooms. Mushrumps, ed. 1623. The same form of the The Tempest. 59 word, the word being used in another sense, occurs in Shirley's Imposture, 1652, f. 63. Gerard uses the form mushrums. See his Herball, ed. 1597, p. 1386. 1 63. / will pay thy graces home. Aere meo me lacessis, thou geuest me scoffe for scoffe : or as we saie, thou paiest me home. E Notes Dictionarie, 1 548. 163. Didst thou, Alonso. We have here a little example of careless print- ing in ed. 1623, which reads did. Nevertheless, the MS. had didst, that fact clearly appearing from the catch-word. 164. There I couch when owls do cry. The full-stop after couch, which is seen in the Variorum, seems undoubtedly erroneous. There is none in ed. 1623, neither is there any in the copy of the song in Wilson's Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads, 1660. Dr. Wilson's music to this song is also given, with the same words, in the Musical Companion, 1667. 6o Notes upon 165. After summer, merrily. Val. Gentlemen you have spoken long, and levill, I beseech you take breath a while and here me ; you imagine now, by the twirling of your strings, that J am at the last, as also that my friends are flowne like Swallowes after Summer. Wit witfwut Money. 167. Or ^er your pulse twice beat. Take an Arrow, and hold it in Flame, for the space of ten pulses; And when it conimeth forth, you shall finde those Parts of the Arrow, which were on the Outsides of the Flame, more burned, blacked, and turned almost into a Coale ; whereas that in the Middest of the Flame, will bee, as if the Fire had scarce touched it. Bacon's Naturall History, td. i6'^i. 173. That have chalk' d forth the way. He drawes the drawer, and he chalkes the way. He smooths the path that makes the world to stray. The Curtaine-Drawer of the World, by W. Parkes, 161 2. The Tempest. 6i 174. Is tight and y are. A new-rigg'd pinnace that put of from Corinth, ■ And is arriv'd amongeus, tite andyare. Massinger's Beleeve as you Liste, 1631, MS. According to the Gentleman's Dictionary, 1705, "yare is sometimes used by seamen for bright! as, to keep his arms yare, that is, to keep them clean and bright." 174. My tricksy spirit! Nimfarsi, ' to trim, to smug, to trixie, to decke or spruce himselfe up as a nimphe, or as one that would alwaies court his mistresse. Florid s Worlde of Wordes, 1598. " The ladies all came rushing out, — with all their tricksie trayne," Piatt's Pleasures of Poetrie, 1572. "There birds on bowes do chirpe and sing — ^with sweetely sounding voice, — whose tricksie tunes and heavenly noise — ^will greatly thee rejoice." — Ibid. Pargoletta, quaint, prettie, nimble, daintie, trixie, tender, small, little. Florid s Worlde of Wordes, 1 598. 62 Notes upon The Tempest. 175. All clapp'd under hatches. And as for the poore passengers, and common souldiers, who are transported, and blindly clapt vp vnder the hatches in these wandring shippes, he hath, to amuse them, added in his false Card many bastard windes, painted out in guilded, and flourished lines ; namely, our owne, and others merits, Inuocation of Saints, religious worship of Images. A Sermon preached in the Mercer's Chapel, 161 7. I ^^. Which shall be shortly single. I greatly doubt the correctness of the ordinary text in a comma being placed after shortly. See ed. 1623. The word single may be used in a some- what peculiar sense. FINIS. FIFTY COPIES PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. i I #^1