not fuch grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me life which if I can fave, fo; if not, honour comes unlook'd for, and there's an end. Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S. 3. I will intreat you, All's well that ends well, A. 3, S. 2. A jewel in a ten-times barr'd-up chest Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Richard 11. A. 1, S. 1. I am not covetous for gold; Nor care I, who doth feed upon my coft; I am the most offending foul alive. Henry V. A. 4, S. 3. If they wrong her honour, The proudest of them fhall well hear of it. Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1. Those that leave their valiant bones in France, Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills, They fhall be fam'd; for there the fun fhall greet them, And draw their honours reeking up to heaven; Henry V. A. 4, S. 3. Though we lay thofe honours on this man, Julius Cafar, A. 4, S. 1. New-inade honour doth forget men's names; 'Tis too refpective, and too fociable, King John, A. 1, S. 1. I quake, Left thou a feverous life shouldft entertain, Than a perpetual honour. Measure for Measure, A. 3, S. 1. O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not deriv'd corruptly! and that clear honour Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 9. What, fhall one of us, Julius Cæfar, A. 4, S. 3. And prove it too, against mine honour aught, Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4. 'Tis too refpective.] i. e. refpectful. STEEVENS. "Refpective" is not, in this place, respectful, but particular, too much attached to felf. A. B. HOPE. HOP E. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it Tempest, A. 3, S. 3. Hope is a lover's ftaff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1. To fet the exact wealth of all our states Henry IV. P. I, A. 4, S. 1. And Henry IV. P. 1, A. 1, S. 2. In God's name, march: True hope is fwift, and flies with fwallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Richard III. A. 5, S. 2. O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! I The very therein should we read bottom and the foul of hope.] To read the bottom and foul of hope, and the bound of fortune, though all the copies, and all the editors have received it, furely cannot be right. I can think on no other word than rifque. "therein should we risque "The very bottom, &c." JOHNSON. Change is unneceffary. "To read" is to discover. We now talk of reading a man, i. e. that we are able to discover,that we can eafily fee through his defigns. A. B. Ready, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. Richard III. A. 3, S. 4. Lord cardinal, if thou think'ft on heaven's blifs, Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 3. The ample propofition, that hope makes Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and difafters O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes favours! Never to hope again. S. 3. Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2. I will defpair, and be at enmity With cozening hope: he is a flatterer, A parafite, a keeper back of death, Who gently would diffolve the bands of life. Richard II. A. 2, S. 2. A caufe on foot Lives fo in hope, as in an early spring We fee the appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, Hope gives not fo much warrant as despair; That frofts will bite them. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 3. The miferable have no other medicine, But only hope. Mcafure for Meafure, A. 3, S. 1. I fome I fometimes do believe, and sometimes do not; HORROR. Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; King John, A. 5, S. 1. I would my horse had the speed of your tongue; And fo good a continuer. Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S. 1. Where think'ft thou he is now? Stands he, or fits he? Or does he walk? or is he on his horfe? O happy horfe to bear the weight of Antony! And burgonet of man. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 5. As thofe that fear they hope, and know they fear.] This strange nonsense should be read thus: "As thofe that fear their hap, and know their fear." i. c. As thofe that fear the iffue of a thing, when they know their fear to be well grounded. WARBURTON. The depravation of the line is evident, but I do not think the learned commentator's emendation very happy. I read thus: "As those that fear with hope, and hope with fear." JOHNSON. The author of the Revifal would read: "As thofe that fear their hope, and know their fear." Blackftone, "As those that feign they hope, and know they fear." Mufgrave, "As those that fear, then hope, and know their fear." I read, I am "As thofe that hope they fear, then know they fear." puzzled, or perplexed like to thofe perfons, who at one time form to themselves imaginary notions or fears; who then hope thofe fears are groundless, and who afterwards are convinced that they are fo. A. B. O, for |