" And let Sebastian wake!" FJohnson.

The old reading is sufficiently explicable. Claribel (says he) keep where thou art, and allow Sebastian time to awaken those senses, by the help of which he may perceive the advantage which now presents itself. Steevens.

4 A chough-] Is a bird of the jack-daw kind. So, in Macbeth, Act III. sc. iv:

Tie did supplant your brother P

And, look, how well my garme
Wuch feater than before: My L
Were then my fellows, now th
Sed. But, for your conscien

Ant. Ay, sir; where lies th
Twould put me to my slipper
This deity in my bosom: twe
That stand 'twixt me and Mi

And melt, ere they molest!5
No better than the earth he
If he were that, which now
With this obedient steel, th
Can lay to bed for ever:7

5 And melt, ere they molest Would melt, ere they n ie. Twenty consciences, such though they were congealed, we prevent the execution of n Let twenty consciences be ere they molest me, or

prev

If the interpretation of Jo tainly as intelligible as or; in this interpretation. It a preted, than My conscience fore it molests me; which I would read "Candy'd then has spirit and propr tonio, they might be hot smallest trouble. Edinb

No better than the ea at Pomp "No worthier th

1 If he were that, wh With this obedient Can lay to bed, &c "If he were t "Whom I, W "Can lay to The words " that evidently a gloss,

ell my garments sit upon me; before: My brother's servants lows, now they are my men.

our conscience

where lies that? if it were a kybe, to my slipper; But I feel not bosom: twenty consciences,

t me and Milan, candied be they, ney molest!5 Here lies your brother,

The earth he lies upon,

which now he's like; whom I,

ent steel, three inches of it,

for ever:7 whiles you, doing thus,

e they molest!] I had rather read

elt, ere they molest.

ciences, such as stand between me and my hopes, congealed, would melt before they could molest me, xecution of my purposes. Johnson.

onsciences be first congealed, and then dissolved, me, or prevent me from executing my purposes. Malone.

retation of Johnson and Malone is just, and is cergible as or; but I can see no reasonable meaning tation. It amounts to nothing more, as thus interLy conscience must melt and become softer than it is, beme; which is an insipidity unworthy of the Poet. "Candy'd be they, or melt;" and the expression t and propriety. Had I twenty consciences, says Anight be hot or cold for me; they should not give me the le. Edinburgh Magazine, Nov. 1786. Steevens.

than the earth he lies upon,] So, in Julius Cæsar:
- at Pompey's basis lies along,
worthier than the dust." Steevens.

re that, which now he's like; whom I,

s obedient steel, three inches of it,

to bed, &c.] The old copy reads

he were that which now he's like, that's dead; Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,

-" that's dead" (as Dr. Farmer observes to me) are a gloss, or marginal note, which had found its way into Such a supplement is useless to the speaker's meanOne of the verses becomes redundant by its insertion.

ou here do snoring lie,

d conspiracy

3 time doth take :

fe you keep a care,
ff slumber, and beware:
wake! Awake!

s both be sudden.

1 angels, preserve the king!

ssage. "As it stands, says he, at present, Le sees your danger, and will therefore save -e would read" That these his friends are has, I think, arisen from the omission of a author, I believe, wrote

nd sends me forth,

s projects dies, to keep them living." forth, to keep his projects alive, which else , by the murder of his friend, Gonzalo. -The the life and death of a project appears to me e's manner. So, in Much Ado about Nothing: nat, to be the death of this marriage?"-The to a verb in the singular number, is to be met ry page of the first folio. So, to confine myfore us, edit. 1623:

ones akes."

this hour

my mercy all my enemies."

s runs down his beard-."

ares these roarers for the name of king." non language of the time; and ought to be cored, it generally has been in the modern editions by changing the number of the verb. Thus, in cance we should read-For else his projects die,

ed Dr. Johnson's amendment. Ariel, finding that equally solicitous for the preservation of Alonso ery naturally styles them both his friends, without he guilt of the former. Toward the success of ign, their lives were alike necessary.

says, that "By them are meant Sebastian and Antooject of Prospero, which depended upon Ariel's live, may be seen, Act III."

Ariel, however, sufficiently points out which were e objects of his protection. He cannot be supposed eference to what happens in the last scene of the

- drawn?] Having your swords drawn. So, in Romeo and Juliet: "What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?" Johnson.

4 That's verity: 'Best stand upon our guard;] The old copy reads

"That's verily: 'Tis best we stand upon our guard." Mr. Pope very properly changed verily to verity: and as the verse would be too long by a foot, if the words 'tis and we were retained, I have discarded them in favour of an elliptical phrase, which occurs in our ancient comedies, as well as in our author's Cymbeline, Act III. sc. iii:

"'Best draw my sword;"

Enter CALIBAN, with a bu

A noise of thunder

Cal. All the infections, that th m bogs, fens, flats, on Prosp inch-meal a disease! His spi pet I needs must curse. E ght me with urchin shows, Airlead me, like a fire-brand, t of my way, unless he bid r every trifle are they set u metime like apes, that moe And after, bite me; then, lik tumbling in my bare-foot er pricks at my foot-fall wound with adders, wh Do hiss me into madness;—

Enter T

dere comes a spirit of his = for bringing wood in slow Perchance, he will not mi Trin. Here's neither bu Weather at all, and anoth ing i' the wind: yond's

-that moe, &c.] i. e. sion of the Psalms:

Again, in the Mystery of C making "And make them t Again, in Sidney's Arcadia "Ape great thing "The instrument So, in Nashe's Apologie body at home but an ape and mows at him." M

Their pricks-i