P. 85.-500.-105. If you have any pity, grace, or manners, We should read, If you had any pity. Her. P. 86.-500.-106. Lysander, whereto tends all this? Lys. Away, you Ethiop! Dem. No, no, sir :-he will Seem to break loose; take on, as you would follow; But yet come not: You are a tame man, go! This passage appears to me to be corrupt. I would be loth to have you over-Aown with a honey Vide Newton's note on P. L. b. i. 502. Swift has the same mistake. P. 97.-509.-120. Nothing, good monsieur, but to help cavalero Cobweb to scratch. Grey is certainly right. P. 97.-510.-121. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away. I think Theobald is right. Mr. Heath's con jecture is very ingenious. t P. 98.-510.-121. Tita. Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle, Gently entwist, the female ivy so Enrings the barky fingers of the elm. I incline to think Steevens's explanation is right. P. 102.-513.-127. The. Go, one of you, find out the forester;- : Dr. Farmer seems to have forgotten that the action of the Winter's Tale is extended to more that sixteen years. P. 106.-517.-133. Her. Methinks, I see these things with parted eye; When every thing seems double. Hel. So methinks: And I have found Demetrius like a jewel, Mine own, and not mine own. I incline to believe that Malone's explanation is right. Bot. P. 108.-519.-136. Peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall sing it at her death. I agree with Mr. Steevens. P. 113.-522.-142. The. What revels are in hand? Is there no play, To ease the anguish of a torturing hour ? Call Philostrate. Philost. Here, mighty Theseus. The. Say, what abridgment have you for this evening? The passages quoted in the note do not convince me that abridgment means a dramatic performance. In this place it appears to me to mean that which shortens time. I find Mr. Henley is of the same opinion. P. 114.-523.-144. Merry and tragical? tedious and brief? A word seems to have been omitted; as snow appears to want the attribute of some quality that is opposite to its nature, such as is supposed by Mr. Upton and Sir Thomas Hanmer. I prefer Mr. Upton's word. I cannot think Mr. Mason's reading is right. P. 116.-525.-146. Our sport shall be, to take what they mistake: The defect in the metre is supplied with probability by Theobald. Ibid.-147. Noble respect takes it in might, not merit. I incline to Mr. Malone's explanation. P. 123-530.-155. Here come two noble beasts in, a moon and a lion. P. 126.-532.-159. Dem. And then came Pyramus, I do not see the necessity of Dr. Farmer's emendation. I should, however, prefer vanishes to vanished. P.131.-536.-166. Puck. Now the hungry lion roars, Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, I think Warburton's reading, behowls, is right. It reminds me of a passage in Lee's Theodosius: Lean wolves forget to howl at night's pale noon: No wakeful dogs bark at the silent moon. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Salerio. VOL. III. MALONE. Dramatis Personæ. I see no occasion for the insertion of this name. Gratiano calls the bringer of the letter his old Venetian friend, which exactly suits Salanio, who had appeared before to be the friend both of Gratiano and Lorenzo. P. 142.-5.-397. Salar. Your mind is tossing on the ocean; I rather incline to believe with Pope that argosy is from Jason's ship Argo, which being employed to fetch the golden fleece, merchantships, which brought home rich freights, were called argosies. Ibid. burghers of the flood. I approve Mr. Steevens's correction of on to of. P. 145.-7.-401. Lor. My lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio, I rather incline to give this speech to Salarino, who, with Salanio, was to be of the party to supper. |