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 CURSORY NOTES 
 
 ON 
 
 VARIOUS PASSAGES IN THE TEXT OF 
 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, 
 
 AS EDITED 1ST THE 
 
 REV. ALEXANDER DYCE; 
 
 AND ON HIS 
 
 FEW NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE," 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 " Primo rerum aspectu, cum investigandae veritatis copia non est, falli 
 possumus, et fallimur, idque a natura sua genus habet huraanum : ast ubi 
 temporis ope mentis ille primus conatus deferbuit, et rationis lumine res 
 discuti ccepta innotuit, humana id monstrat conditio, ut errorem, quem ipsi 
 evitavimus, posteris ut eviteut, ne nobis ipsi injurii esse velimus, propona 
 mus." " Ilabui quod verum esse pronuntiarem ; habui, quo falsitatem, 
 sed breviter et pro temporis opportunitate depellerem." — Leonis Allatii 
 
 Animadv. in Autia. Etrusc. Fragmenta ab Ingiiiramio edita 1640, 
 
 4to. 
 
 " In delectu notarum, banc rationem sequebar, ut quae alibi essent 
 obvia, fere transilirem. Id profitendum jam nunc fuit, ne quis bic quaereret, 
 quae interpretum eruditissimorum passim extantia satis scripta declararent. 
 Nee tamen nova me omnia glorior afferre; bene meum agi putaturus, si 
 vel pauca protulisse judicer, quae boc serum Spicilegium, post uberrimas 
 aliorum messes, non usquequaque infelix probent." — Petki Possini, 
 s. 1, Prexb. Spicilegium Evangelicum, p. 1, ed. 1712. 
 
 The notes, though few in number, which are here pre- 
 sented to the reader, will form the best proof of the estima- 
 tion in which Mr. Dyce's edition of Beaumont and Fletcher 
 is held by me. I have emulated the diligence, though I 
 might not possess the learning, of the editor ; and have 
 examined the entire work with that care that is due to the 
 high reputation of the critic, as well as to the great and varied 
 excellence of the authors, whom he has so curiously and 
 successfully illustrated.* Indeed Mr. Dyce has favoured us 
 with an edition, so rich in all the required learning, as much 
 to surpass any previous attempts of the same kind on the 
 same text. He has collected in one view all the variety of 
 
 * "After all, Beaumont and Fletcher are but an inferior sort of Sliakespeares 
 and Sidneys." — C. Lamb. 
 
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 readings which the different editions have afforded ; and he 
 has much assisted the reader by his judgment and know- 
 ledge in the selection of those which have the most claim 
 to be adopted ; which arc most congenial to the spirit of 
 the authors, and suitable to the language of the times.* 
 By his intimate acquaintance with the dramatic vocabu- 
 lary of our early stage he has preserved readings which 
 former editors had rejected, and explained what they had 
 misunderstood ; and he has often thrown light, altogether 
 new, on those idiomatic turns and forms of expression which 
 gradually appear to arise, and to be willingly admitted, 
 before the full establishment of grammatical construction, 
 and which constitute a peculiar and characteristic feature of 
 every language;! which are not to be examined with 
 philosophical analysis, nor subjected to grammatical restric- 
 tion, but received at once on the authority of usage and 
 prescription. Mr. Dyce has also shown much judgment in 
 his decisions on the conflicting claims of conjectures made 
 to improve a text, left inaccurate by the negligence of the 
 
 * Mr. Seward's paraphrastic versions and supplements are inadmissible, as being 
 mere guesses at the truth, and also as generally wanting in poetic spirit and feeling; 
 he has indeed attempted what genius itself could not successfully accomplish — 
 " Facile excidisse aliquid intelligitur. Ingenii vero solertia non sufficit ad locos 
 restituendos, inquibus ne constat quidem, dequd re agatur." " Horuni verborum," 
 says a learned editor of an ancient poet, "quid verum sit, explorari vix potest, nam 
 facile quidem est ad dicendum quid poeta scribere potuerit, sed quid scripserit, 
 per quam difficile. Quamobrem, nescire nos quid poeta spectaverit, fateri, quam 
 \ anis hariolationibus indukrere maluimus." 
 
 f The following observation of a great master of language and criticism, on the 
 subject on which we are treating, is worthy of attention : — " Non, cum priinum 
 fingerentur homines, Analogia demissa ccelo formam loquendi dedit ; sed inventa 
 est, postquam loquebantur, et notatum in sermone, quid quomodo caderet. Itaque 
 non ratione nititur sed exemplo ; nee lex est loquendi, sed observatio, ut ipsam 
 analogiam nulla res alia fecerit, quam consuetudo." — Vide Quinctil. Inst. Orat. 
 lib. i, c. vi. To this, let me add the authority of an acute Greek grammarian : — 
 " Ad eos qui in omnibus verbis regulas et similitudines quserunt : non oportet 
 (inquit magister) in omnibus rebus queerere canones firmos, et typos certos. Nam 
 primis inventa sunt ab homiuibus vocabula propter necessitatem mutui colloquii : 
 Postea, ars superveniens qutedam potuit in ordinem redigere et in similitudinein 
 quondam reducere, sed qua? non potuit, tiaaiv i<p' ije ilxov ovviiQiiac, in ea quam 
 liabuere, reliqv.it consuetudine." — Vide Choerobosc. in op. tvooq tovc tv naai, &c. 
 To apply these observations to the present subject in particular, let us use the 
 words of a French critic : — " Q.uoique dans les questions de philosophic on ne 
 doive pas tant avoif d'egard a l'autorite de ceux qui parlent, qu'aux raisons que 
 Ton apporte, cc n'est pas de meme, lorsqu'il s'agit des langues. Commes elles 
 sont fondes sur V us age, et que cet usage s'est etabli, avant qu'on parlat de 
 grammaire, ou d'analogie ; on ne peut presque pas douter qu'on n'ait corrige mal 
 a propos bien des passages des anciens, et qu'on ne soit trompe dans une infinite 
 des recherches touchant l'antiquite, pour n'avoir pas assez pcns<5 a cette maxime."
 
 writer, or mutilated by the ignorance and haste of the 
 transcriber or printer; and in those passages where the 
 words admitted a doubtful interpretation, the reader will 
 find no safer guide than in the cautious and careful direction 
 of one,* to whom the peculiar genius of the writers has been 
 more fully unveiled. In short, all the assistance that could 
 be afforded by variety of research, and familiar acquaintance 
 with the subject, will here be found ; and he who peruses 
 the annotations to these volumes with the careful attention 
 they deserve, will close his labours with that increased 
 knowledge which will facilitate his progress when he enters 
 the general field of dramatic literature ; and with the convic- 
 tion that the editor is in every way equal to the importance 
 of the undertaking, — that he possesses many of the qualities 
 said to be found wanting in one of his predecessors, but 
 which are considered necessary for the successful accom- 
 plishment of his task — " the vigour of imagination to make 
 a poet, and the strength of judgment to make a critic." 
 
 It may then be reasonably asked, If such is the superior 
 excellence of this edition — if such is its fulness of informa- 
 tion, and accuracy of remark — whence arises the necessity of 
 these supplemental observations, and where are the defi- 
 
 * Time, which Napoleon was used to say was the best answerer of letters, 
 will also so act in criticism, as to spare the necessity of numerous conjectures, as it 
 does in surgery, to save the patient from many needless operations. 
 MtXAwv t larpbg, rfj voer^t SiSovg xpovov, 
 'lunar' 7/077 paWov, i] rcfidju XP° a - 
 To what extent " the Pruritus Emendandi" can go,-may be seen in an emendation 
 by Warburton to a line in Henry VI : —   
 
 " That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death." 
 " Shakespeare (says Warburton) wrote — 
 
 " draws a sword, i' W presence 'ts death." 
 
 " This reading," says a brother of the same craft, " cati't be right, because it can't be 
 pronounced ! '" 
 
 Tho most extraordinary typographical error in the text of one of our poetse 
 majores, is surely that of " Cerberus" for " Erebus" in the U Allegro of Milton, not 
 only because it was not corrected by the author, but passed on through each suc- 
 cessive edition to the present time. A professor of poetry, an historian, and editor 
 of poets, however says, " That Milton had a right to marry Midnight to whom he 
 pleased." Certainly; but why select Cerberus — a husband with four legs and 
 three heads and throats, chained to a post for life in the entrance of hell, and of a 
 most disagreeable colour, temper, and disposition ? Midnight, like a Moravian sister, 
 never could have been permitted to see (if Midnight can sec) her husband before the 
 marriage was settled and arranged by the poet. In this case — 
 
 " the funeral baked meats 
 
 Would cohlh furnish out the marriage tables."
 
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 ciencies that provoke still further inquiry in the investigation 
 of truth ? To this I am led to reply, from my partial expe- 
 rience in this branch of literature, that no edition of a great 
 author, who lived whether in ancient or modern days, long 
 anterior to the times in which his works call for illustration, 
 can be satisfactorily formed, except through the united 
 labours of successive commentators. Certainly such is the 
 case in ancient literature — that what has passed through the 
 hands of Scaliger may be improved by Bentley, and yet • 
 leave an ample harvest to succeeding critics ;* and the same 
 cause acts on the works of our earlier writers, requiring the 
 same means of elucidation as those still further removed 
 from us : customs have been forgotten, manners altered, 
 language become obsolete or capriciously changed, and even 
 the very forms in which they have been transmitted to us by 
 the press,f are disfigured by such extraordinary corruptions 
 as to form a new source of difficulty, that can never be 
 entirely overcome. Every one, therefore, who is capable of 
 labouring in this field is called upon for his assistance. Some 
 necessary information may be added by him to the general 
 store : some difficulty that had escaped others may in a happy 
 moment, and when the inspiring genius is favourable, be 
 
 * The particular allusion here is to " Manilius" which poet was edited by 
 Jos. J. Scaliger, subsequently by Richard Bentley — the two greatest scholars who 
 ever appeared ; and yet the ablest and most successful critic on the same poet, 
 gleaning in the field they had passed over, is one of a far less glorious name — 
 Adrian Ileringa. — Vide Observ. Select. Critic. 8vo, 1749. 
 
 + In the play of Timon the following passage occurs — 
 
 " Go bid all your friends again — 
 
 Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius, all : 
 I '11 once more feast the rascals." 
 
 The first folio (1623) has— 
 
 " Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius, UJlorxa, all," 
 which last amorphous and unseemly word, Malone has retained in the text! 
 and Steevens says, "it is, however, a name unacknowledged by Athens or Rome!! 
 What is it then ? In my opinion, the writer in the prompter's copy was puzzled, 
 as usually they are in proper names, especially ancient ones ; not being certain of 
 the spelling, he placed in the margin (a common custom) the letters of which he 
 was doubtful ; — whether Lucullus should be spelt with two 11 — whether " Sempro- 
 nius" should be " Sempornius" — and whether " xa" should be used for "se." — This 
 careful memorandum of the writer, the compositor, absolutely bewildered by the 
 mass of learning before him, took in the lump as he found it, and carried into the 
 text. We do not know what the modern editors have written on the subject, but 
 Messrs. Malone and Steevens have not added " a sprig of laurell" by this note to 
 their general reputation.
 
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 removed ; he may bring a mind furnished with new 
 materials, enlarged with wider associations, and animated 
 with warmer feelings to his work of love.* Doubtless we 
 have been, in this department of dramatic literature, much 
 indebted to the industry and skill even of inferior work- 
 men ; and the names of Theobald and Hanmer are permitted 
 to divide the glory of erecting the monument that has been 
 raised to the memory of Shakspeare from his own works, 
 together with the more illustrious ones of Warburton and 
 Johnson. 
 
 Eic S' avnp ov iravQ' bpa.f 
 
 * " He," says a late lamented writer, " who understands Shakespeare, must 
 admire and love him ; and unless we admire and love him, we cannot possibly 
 understand him." — The writer: Charles Julius Hare. 
 
 t The reader will perhaps allow me to give two restorations, which I have 
 attempted of passages utterly corrupt in the text of Shirley, after Mr. Gilford's 
 hand had been tried on them. 
 
 1. THE GRATEFUL SERVANT. 
 
 Astella. You may lead me with gossamer, or the least thread 
 
 The industrious spider weaves. 
 
 Jacotno. Whimseyes, caribit soes. 
 
 Gilford's Note. — " Jac. Whimseys. Caribit soes." Perhaps we have some 
 vulgar exclamation, miserably disjointed at the press — if not, the ambitious Jacomo 
 is far above my comprehension. The publisher of the second edition has exchanged 
 one piece of hopeless nonsense for another, and gives the passage thus : — 
 
 Whimseyes our ibit soes. 
 
 Note by the present Writer. — The publisher of the second edition has, instead of 
 exchanging nonsense for nonsense, given us a variation, which has enabled us to 
 follow the track up to the true reading, which, without it, would have been impos- 
 sible. 
 
 Ed. 1. Whimseys ! caribit soes. 
 
 Ed. 2. Whimseyes ! our ibit soes. 
 
 True reading. Whimsys ! or idiotcies ! 
 
 .lucomo is ridiculing the fine, affected, and exaggerated language and phrases of 
 .\ stclla and Lodovick. 
 
 2. THE GAMESTER. 
 
 Hazard. We have enough of the tribe. I am sorry I cannot 
 
 Furnish her expedition with a pair 
 
 Of your garters. 
 Wilding. I of Athens grown. 
 
 For tins Gifford gives the following extraordinary alteration : — 
 
 Hazard. I am sorry I cannot 
 
 Furnish her expedition with a pear-tree 
 
 Of your garden. 
 Wilding. Ay, of Athens growth. 
 
 Adding the note — " I have endeavoured to mako these lines intelligible at least.
 
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 There is a popular story of this kind, which is alluded to by Timon. It was a 
 wife, however, aud not a mistress, who was furnished with a year-tree for her 
 luiiruey." Had Malono ventured on such an alteration, how severe would have 
 been the castigation ! The passage, however, is easily brought right, the corruption 
 being in the two last words. 
 
 Hazard. I am sorry I cannot 
 
 Furnish her expedition with a pair 
 
 Of your garters. 
 Wilding. Ay — of your own garters, 
 
 I know thou art more charitable. 
 
 The words, " Athens groivn" being "your oivn garters" the words mangled, and 
 letters transposed. Put the words in order thus j ^wnAthens 6 ^ S and *' W ' 1J 
 be seen at once. Corruptions equal to these are not uncommon in the old and 
 wretched editions of this excellent though neglected dramatist, regarding whom we 
 also are much indebted to the present editor, whose hand is always open, when an 
 aged broken-down playwright begs for assistance. Had the present edition appeared 
 a few years since, the following sentence would assuredly not have been written : — 
 " I cannot read Beaumont and Fletcher but in folio. The octavo editions are 
 painful' to look at. I have no sympathy with them." So wrote Charles Lamb; 
 who would have spoken of Mr. Dyce l in other words than he did of Mr. Malone — 
 as one who was not content with covering Shakespeare's text with a mass of dull 
 prose, but he must also whitewash that old and venerable face, and bribe the Strat- 
 ford sexton to let him cover that immortal head — " cheek, eye, and eyebrow — with 
 
 a coat of white paint." "By [ ]," says the counterpart of The Enraged 
 
 Musician, " if I had been a justice of the peace for "Warwickshire, I would have 
 clapt both commentator and sexton fast in the stocks, for a pair of meddling, 
 sacrilegious varlets." 
 
 1 The public has a debt of gratitude to pay to this gentleman, independent of 
 that which they owe to him as a Sospitator Poetarum Scenicorum : — few are ignorant 
 of that rare store of literature which he has collected on his shelves, which has 
 supplied him with the means of enriching his editions with such copious and 
 various learning. Provident of the future, as careful of the present, he has secured 
 this treasure, by a wise disposition, frombeing lost to posterity : and so let us express 
 ourselves in words that record a similar act of magnanimity by an equally eminent 
 scholar of a former age : — " Non verendum est (thus writes David Euhnken con- 
 cerning the noble legacy of the library of Tiberius Hemsterhuis), ne talis thesaurus 
 in dominos literarum rudes incidat, aut dissipatus pereat. Nam inusitata libe- 
 ralitate totum ilium Thesaurum, Bibliothecse publicse Leidensi (scr. Oxoniensi) 
 post fata sua, donare const ituit ; jam nunc fidem suam omnibus ita astringens, ut 
 hsec publica voluntatis declaratio, testamenti vim habere possit." — Vide JElogium 
 Hemsterhusii a D. Euhnkenio. Let us hope that the University may long be kept 
 out of the learned treasure thus munificently bequeathed.
 
 CURSORY NOTE^, 
 
 " Conjectural criticism has always something to abate its confidence. If we 
 suppose all corrupt that is inaccurate, there will be no end of emendation." — 
 Johnson. 
 
 " In conjectural criticism the perfection of the art consists, in producing a given 
 effect with the least possible force." — Tybwhitt. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 THE WOMAN-HATER. 
 P. 30. Before his slain wife gave him that offence. 
 
 As no allusion has been previously made to his (Gondarino's) 
 wife having been slain, the commentators have altered the 
 word to "late ;" — and to " lain," in the sense of " buried." 
 Indeed the word " slain wife," for murdered, sounds 
 strange, and seems scarcely idiomatic. "Late" is a mere 
 conjectural substitute, and " lain " I think speaks for itself. 
 My reading would be — 
 
 Before his stain d wife gave him that offence, 
 
 in the ordinary sense of " dishonoured, disgraced" — and 
 in the stain is the offence. — Virg.JEn. x, v. 851, "Macu- 
 lavi criinine nomen." 
 
 THIERRY AND THEODORET. 
 
 P. 182. " May you starve, and fear of the gallows (which is a gentle 
 consumption to it) only prevent it." 
 
 " Prevent " is a conjecture of Mason's, with which the editor 
 is not quite satisfied, the old editions having " prefer it." 
 Seward printed, " preserve you from it," and in a note, 
 " defer it." I propose reading, " only prefer to it," moving 
 the word " to t" from its present place, to follow "prefer," 
 as Mason's reading of " consumption to \" for "compared 
 to it," is not readily to be accepted.
 
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 PH1LA.STEK, 
 
 P. 210, Till they saw Philaster ride through the streets pleas d, and 
 without a guard, at which they threw their hats and their arms from 
 them. 
 
 The editor very reasonably asks, " Can the true reading be 
 release!,?" I had conjectured, " Without a guard and 
 pleas d at which, they threw their hats from them." Thus 
 making any alteration of the words of the text unnecessary. 
 
 P. 246. And so high and glowing, that other kingdoms far and foreign. 
 
 This line, as the editor calls it, " of formidable proportions," 
 was curtailed and thus rendered by Theobald — 
 
 So high and glowing, that kingdoms far and foreign, 
 
 and I think, very judiciously ; for "and" is quite unneces- 
 sary, and so also is " other." The editor however refers for 
 authority to a verse in The Woman Hater, p. 40, of similarly 
 disproportionate length: — 
 
 Heaven, if my sins be ripe, grown to a head, 
 
 And must attend your vengeance, I beg not to divert my fate, 
 
 Only to reprieve awhile thy punishment. 
 
 However, I think this may be set right, by considering 
 " grown to a head" as a various reading, or marginal 
 explanation, of " ripe," and reading — 
 
 Heaven, if my sins be ripe, and must attend 
 Your vengeance, I beg not to divert my fate, &c. 
 
 Mistakes often occur from the printer copying from the 
 
 manuscript all the materials and alterations of a line, of 
 
 which the reading is not definitively finished, and not 
 
 separating the final improvement, or the first, from the 
 
 second thoughts. 
 
 P. 259. — Oh my fortune ! 
 
 Then 'tis no idle jealousy, &c. 
 
 If " Oh ! my fortune" is to be replaced, 1 should recom- 
 mend as its substitute, not " Oh ! my misfortune ! ' but 
 "Oh! misfortune!" as less colloquial, and common, and 
 therefore more poetical. 
 
 P. 264. What are the hounds before, and all the woodmen ? 
 
 The editor's note — " Woodmen, foresters." Now, properly 
 speaking, a woodman is a hunter, and a woodward is a 
 forester, or keeper of the woods, who has no connection
 
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 with the chase. "He," says Bishop Sanderson, in his 
 
 sermon, " that would be a skilful woodman, will exercise 
 
 himself first by shooting at a dead mark." See vol. ii, 
 p. 32, note. 
 
 P. 292. Battid in new brave ballads. 
 
 Theobald printed "grav'dj" but the editor has judiciously 
 preferred Heath's conjecture, " bawl'd" if only for the alli- 
 teration — "Sung in sonnets, bawl'd in ballads;" and 
 alliteration is one form of wit, however slight, as — " Thou 
 art the honeycomb of honesty ; the garland of good will, &c." 
 — .Ford's Broken Heart, act iv, sc. 2. 
 
 P. 296. And let a man-of-war, an argosy, 
 
 Hull, &c. 
 
 Theobald's explanation of " hull" — " when a vessel floats 
 or rides idle to and fro upon the water" — quite agrees with 
 the meaning in Paradise Lost, lib. xi, ver. 840 — 
 
 " He looked and saw the ark hull on the flood, 
 Which now abated," &c. 
 " The ark no more now floats, but sure on ground." 
 
 It is a word used by Sandys in the Psalms, and Massinger 
 in A Very Woman, 1655, 8vo, act v, sc. 1st: 
 
 " Becalm'd and hulVd so up and down twelve hours." 
 
 THE MAID'S TEAGEDY. 
 P. 336. "Commanding ^Eolus." 
 
 I must consider this as a marginal direction, and not as 
 a part of the text. 
 
 P. 338. -Vnd leav'st their losses open to the day. 
 
 The editor has with judgment, instead of " blushes," 
 retained " losses " in the text ; the nature of which seems 
 explained in the next stanza. 
 
 P. 38*6. He has undone thine honour, poison'd thy virtue, 
 And of a lovely rose left thee a canker. 
 
 The editor explains " canker " as " a wild dog-rose ;" but 
 surely a garden-rose diseased and blighted does not become 
 a wild dog-rose. Its true meaning is explained at p. 408 
 as a wormy disease : — 
 
 1 was once fair; 
 Once I was lovely, when blooming ripe, 
 More chastely sweet, till thou, i\\ou foul canker I 
 Stir not ! didst poison me.
 
 The text of Shakespeare will afford authorities, as — 
 
 " iSome to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds." 
 
 Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii, sc. 3. 
 " In the sweetest bud the eating canker dwells." 
 
 Two Gentlemen of Verona, act i, sc. 1 . 
 " Hath not thy rose a canker ?" 
 
 1 Henri/ IV, act ii, sc. 4. 
 "The canker galls the infants of the spring." 
 
 Hamlet, act i, sc. 8. 
 
 Dr. Richardson indeed says, that " In Devonshire trie dog- 
 rose is called the canker-mse ;" but if so, doubtless it took 
 that provincial name from its being, as it is, very subject to 
 a disease from an insect that infests it, and destroys the bud. 
 
 P. 422. Oh! Heaven. 
 
 Weber unnecessarily altered this to " Oh ! God !" following- 
 two other quartos. These, and similar words connected 
 with religious subjects and scriptural expressions, were 
 often expunged by the Licenser,* and the blank space 
 filled up ad libitum by the compositor. See examples, 
 vol. ii, p. 153; v, 141 ; ix, 232; x, 300; xi, 319.f 
 
 VOL. II. 
 
 THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS. 
 
 N. Field's verses, p. 7 — 
 
 But let Art look in Truth ; she, like a mirror, 
 Reflects her comfort. 
 
 Editor's note. — " The three latest quartos have ' consort.' 
 The meaning of the passage is far from clear ;" — but the 
 writer, N. Field, praises the play for an elegant propriety 
 of diction, including a moral purpose in its plot. This, he 
 says, the ignorant will not understand ; but let Art look into 
 Nature, and she will, as a faithful glass, reflect the true fea- 
 
 * This practice was not unknown among the ancients. In Claudian, De Con- 
 sulatu Honor. Aug. v. 96, " Oh ! nimium dilecte Deo cui militat alto JEolus," 
 some of the old copyists, not bearing the mention of a pagan god to a Christian 
 prince, erased Mollis and supplied its place by Mther, &c. 
 
 t A statute (3rd of James I) laid a penalty for the profane use of the name of 
 God in stage plays, &c. " This statute," Mr. Steevens says, " was necessary; for 
 not only the ancient moralities, but the plays (those of Chapman in particular) 
 abounded in the most wanton repetitions of a name which never ought to be men- 
 tioned in such an irreverent manner on the stage." The poetry of the Drama at 
 all times, must confess to this gudt : its object being to give a supposed spirit to 
 the sentiment and expression.
 
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 tures of her consort, and Art and Nature (Truth being another 
 name for Nature), being united, form the excellence of the 
 dramatic invention, which mere opinions cannot injure. 
 
 !t I heard 
 
 The sweetest and most ravishing contention 
 That Art and Nature ever were at strife in." 
 
 Vide Ford's Lover's Melancholy, i, sc. 1 , 
 
 V. 48. Thenot's speech—" This is the cabin," &c. and 
 editor's note, p. 49, p. I conceive that the whole of this 
 speech is addressed to the moon, whom he personifies as the 
 sister of Apollo, though calling her a " blessed star ;" nor, 
 indeed, could the language in which she is represented as 
 infusing into the breasts of mortals a soul more valuable 
 than the gift of reason itself (that separates man from the 
 lower creatures), be applicable to a mere woman — the shep- 
 herdess Clorin. 
 
 P. 77.   This spring of thine, 
 
 Let it of nothing taste but earth 
 
 And salt conceived in its birth. 
 
 The editor says, "I have restored these lines, though I must 
 confess I do not understand them." — Marini, addressing 
 the river god, prays that nothing injurious or unwholesome 
 may infect the purity of his waters — no poisonous animals, 
 as the newt (eft) and toad ; no veins of nitre or brim- 
 stone spoyle their taste ; but that they may have only the 
 natural flavour of the earth from which they rise, and what 
 he calls the salts that are native to them ; by which the 
 muriates and sulphates, which are found in some propor- 
 tions in all waters, are intended, and which go under the 
 general name of salts, forming by their relative quantities, 
 hard or soft water. These make component parts of all 
 waters ; but not so brimstone or nitre, and mineral sub- 
 stances, which are/oj-eu/n to them, and destroy their purity 
 and salubrity.* 
 
 P. 106. Like thunder 'gainst the bay. 
 
 The editor's note — " Bay is here used for laurel." No ! 
 the bay-tree is emphatically the laurel, and it is in the bay 
 (/. c. the true laurel) that the quality here mentioned by 
 
 * The soil must be renew'd, which often wash'd, 
 
 Loses its treasure of salubrious salts. — CowrEE's Task, book iii.
 
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 * 
 
 the poets is supposed to exist — Laurus nobilis, the laurel 
 of the ancients. The plant that we now in England call the 
 laurel, is a. pr units or cerasus — the Lauro cerasus, or cherry- 
 laurel ; it was unknown to the ancients, and was only 
 introduced into Europe in 1576, and indeed it is not men- 
 tioned in Gerard's Herbal so late as 1597, so that it has 
 not been known much above 250 years. The bay* and 
 laurel seem used for the same tree in Ford's The Sun's 
 Darling, act ii, sc. 1, p. 353, ed. Weber. 
 
 P. 117. To cherish him whose many pains and sweat 
 Hath given increase, and added to the downs, 
 Sort all your shepherds from the lazy clowns 
 That feed their heifers on the budded broom, &c. 
 
 A distinction is here made between the shepherd-farmer, 
 who has stubbed up the thorns, furze, shrubby wood, &c. 
 on the wild lands, recovered them from the waste, and con- 
 verted them into good pasture for the flocks ; and the "lazy 
 clown," who is contented to lie down in idleness, merely 
 accompanying his heifers and cattle to feed and wander at 
 will among the broom and heath, in their natural, uncul- 
 tivated, and much less productive state. This is a picture 
 that preserves its truth to the present day. 
 
 P. 120. " Rack." A sea fog, which in cold evenings 
 in spring, succeeding hot days, and accompanied with an 
 east wind, rolls over to the land, reaching some miles inland, 
 is provincially called " a roke." — Stiff. Gloss. MS. 
 
 KNIGHT OF THE BUKNING PESTLE. 
 P. 191. And in a tub that 's heated smoking hot. 
 
 Editor's Note — " The process of sweating patients afflicted 
 with the venereal disease, is often mentioned in our old 
 plays, &c. w T ith a variety of jocular allusions." A view of 
 such a patient in his tub, looking very wretched and peni- 
 tent, warning off some bona robas, w r ho have come to visit 
 
 * The Lauro cerasus, or common laurel, is too tender to bear the climate of 
 Germany, and does not thrive well even at Paris. The Laurus nobilis, or bay- 
 tree, is still more teuder, and will not succeed if planted much north of London. 
 The late severe winter (1855) has probably destroyed half of those that were in 
 England — except in the southern counties. In my garden all, even of thirty years' 
 growth, were killed.
 
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 him in his affliction, is to be seen as a frontispiece to Ran 
 dolph's Cornelianum Dolium, 1636, 12mo. In my copy, in 
 an antique hand, is written — 
 
 Young man, take warning by my fate, 
 To lead a chaste and virtuous life ; 
 All wanton peats' allurements hate, 
 And cleave unto thy wedded wife ; 
 To Cicely, Susan, or to Kate. 
 So may you 'scape the bitter ills 
 Of Esculapius' searching pills." 
 
 KING AND NO KING. 
 
 P. 314. I say you palter : the must three times together 
 
 I wear as sharp steel as another man, 
 And my fox bites as deep : musted, my dear brother, 
 Put to the case again. 
 
 The editor says — " Musted may perhaps be right, but I 
 have felt strongly inclined to alter it to must, as the early 
 possessor of the first 4to. has done." I consider it to be a 
 corruption of "must be," the b reversed would form cl 
 See the preceding dialogue — "This must be granted." 
 " Still the must — give me the must," &c. This change of 
 the letter is very common, and is just now before me — 
 " Use elephants and har bed horses " for barbed. Fide 
 Ford's Perkin Warbech, act iv, sc. 4. 
 
 CUPID'S REVENGE. 
 
 P. 362. Wore their own faces (though they wore gay clothes), 
 Without surveying. 
 
 I think that the text may be right. "Wore their own 
 faces," without looking at them in the glass, though they 
 still wore gay clothes ; an allowable gratification, which 
 painting the face with false colour was not. 
 
 P. 366. !< Who kneel." 
 
 I can see no necessity for believing, with the modern 
 editors, that a line has dropt out, seeing the sense is perfect. 
 
 P. 379. Leuc. Fare thee well, 
 
 Mine own good Bacha, I will make all haste. 
 Bacha. Just as you are a dozen, I esteem you — 
 No more. 
 
 Mason would read " donor," whose " tamencss is shocking" 
 
 to Mr. Weber. I would read " doter" (dotard), as used by
 
 16 
 
 Shakespeare (v. Index), and explained by the dictionaries — 
 a man fondly and weakly in love, as Leucippus was. 
 
 " I may be cozened, but sure, if 1 can, 
 I'll have no doting, but a doing man." 
 
 F. Hayman's Quod/ibets, p. 29. 
 
 P. 407. Oh ! good gods ! 
 
 What qualities thus pass by us, without reverence. 
 
 The word " qualities" is a guess of Sympson's, as " virtues" 
 is of Seward, and " faculties" of the editor : the original 
 word being " frailties." Though not believing that " quali- 
 ties" is the poet's own word, I think the editor has chosen 
 for the best. " Faculties" does not seem to agree so well 
 with the phrase " pass by us." If " frailties" is to be 
 retained, it can only be, by supposing the speech unfinished, 
 and abruptly stopped by Leon. 
 
 P. 407. Bacha. Done with ! Oh, good gods ! &c. 
 
 The editor says — "Altered by the editors of 1778 and Weber 
 to ' Done with him /' but previously the 4to. ed. 1635, had 
 given 'Done with himf" which indeed is the true reading. 
 P. 393. Your whore you shall never 
 
 I would make this a broken speech. In the next line read — 
 A little left to keep me warm and honest, 
 
 omitting the first "me" after "left," which is quite unne- 
 cessary: "me" occurs five times in five lines, and in this 
 place belongs not to the poet, but to the printer. 
 
 THE TRIUMPH OF HONOUR. 
 
 P. 490. 'Tis to murder 
 
 The fame of living men, which great ones do 
 Their studies strangle, &c. 
 
 See the long note and the various interpretations of the 
 commentators. I would read, " Their studies strang/w?^," 
 by which their reputation and fame are injured or destroyed. 
 P. 493. "Eaglet [ ]." The editor judiciously fills 
 
 up this extraordinary blank with the word " talons," but is 
 in doubt as to the cause of the omission, which certainly is 
 not clear, as the sense could not demand a word either im- 
 proper or obscure. I think it might be by a blunder of the 
 compositor, who, having wrongly joined the t to " eagle," to 
 make "eaglet," had only a mutilated word, "r//w/.<?," which
 
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 he declined inserting. " Eagle talons " is the reading I 
 should adopt. 
 
 " When I was about thy years, Hall, I was an 
 Eagles talon in the waist." — Vide Henry IV, act ii, sc. 4. 
 
 The contrast which Nicodemus makes between his own 
 power and the insignificance of Cornelius, is diminished 
 unnecessarily by the diminutive, eaglet (a young eagle). 
 But perhaps the poet's word was " unces " (claws), which 
 the printer, not understanding, omitted, thinking it could not 
 be right. It is a word however authorised by Hey wood. 
 What if the word was written talents, as not unusually it 
 was, and the printer did not understand it ? See Mr. Dyce's 
 Marlowe's Tamburlaine, act ii, sc. 7, p. 51, " with greedy 
 talents" and his reference to Love's Labour Lost, act iv, 
 sc. 2, " If a talent be a clatv." 
 
 VOL. IV 
 
 WIT WITHOUT MONEY. 
 
 P. 119. March off amain, within an inch oifurcug, 
 Turn me o' the toe, like a weathercock. 
 
 Other editions, as second 4to and folio, read "fircug;" 
 Theobald, " firelock ;" Weber, " firecock ;" " but the right 
 reading," says the editor, " remains yet to be ascertained ;" 
 — which may be, in my opinion," fire-plug." In the pre- 
 ceding line, should not " then " be " there," i. e. in your 
 understandings ? 
 
 P. 139. Let Mims * be angry at their St. Bel-swagger. 
 
 The conjectures and authorities cited in the note leave this 
 singular expression still unexplained. " Belswagger " I 
 believe to be the same as " Belly-swagger," and that to be 
 identical with " swag-bellied," as in Othello, act. ii, sc. 3 — 
 "Your swag-bellied Hollander;" or in Brown's Vulgar Errors 
 (given by Dr. Richardson), " his swaggg and prominent 
 belly." The addition of Saint in this passage, and the 
 mention of church-buckets and engines in the one quoted 
 from Dryden, would lead us to suppose, that it was an 
 allusion to a braggart or bully connected with the church, 
 whether as parson or beadle, or in some other place of 
 
 * John Ileywood the dramatist was born and lived at North Mims, which 
 thereby has become a spot of classical interest. 
 
 2
 
 18 
 
 authority ; and l)oth passages seem to infer that it was a 
 woman's riot. " The suds and dish-water " of this passage, 
 and "the wife," calling out in Dryden's Spanish Friar, act v.: 
 
 " You are a charitable Belswagger. My wife cried out, 'Fire ! fire !' and 
 you brought out your church-buckets," &c. 
 
 P. 177. Run you into questions, 
 
 Who built the Thames ? 
 
 If the reading of this passage be right, I should conceive 
 that it alluded to the banks of the Thames being (unlike 
 some other rivers flowing through cities, as the Seine at Paris, 
 and the Tiber, which have open quays) closely covered with 
 buildings to the water's edge, as it appears to have been 
 from very early times. 
 
 " Here to the Thames-ward, all along the strand 
 The stately houses of the nobles stand." — Dubartas, iii, 2. 
 
 THE WIDOW. 
 P. 318. A scornful gom. 
 
 The editor, I think correctly, says, " This cannot be the right 
 reading." — I believe it to be a mere printer's corruption of 
 " a scornful wo?n-an."* See in a speech, a little previous, 
 p. 317, "Fran. You. play a scornful woman/" again, "Learn 
 you to play a woman not so scornfully " again, " Thou 
 art too good to be a woman long — Do not find fault with 
 this, for fear I prove too scornful!' On the unusual word 
 gom, as signifying a man, see the editor's note.f 
 
 VOL. V. 
 
 P. 140. Had it been 
 
 To any of a higher strain than you, sir, 
 
 The well-known, well-approved, and loy'd Miranda, &c. 
 
 I had not thought on't. 
 
 I do not feel sure that "higher strain" is not the true 
 reading, taken in the sense authorised by the dictionaries, 
 of an arrogant, haughty temperament ; but when Sympson 
 speaks of the "even temper and disposition of Miranda" 
 he forgets his language to Mountferrat, 
 
 Thou best, thou best, Mountferrat, thou best basely, &c. 
 
 * Of all our early dramatic poets, none have suffered such mangling by the 
 printer as Beaumont and Fletcher." — Hallam's History of Literature, vol. iii, 
 p. 5SG ; but qucere Marlowe and Shirley ? 
 
 t "Raro occurrentibus verbis abstinendum est; quod ssepe accidit, ut talia 
 melioribus Ubris inspectis, vitiosa reperiantur" — a rule strictly to be regarded.
 
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 and Mountferrat's speech to him, 
 
 I have forgiven and forgot your rashness, &c. 
 
 "High " is given by lexicographers in the sense of "proud, 
 violent, and arrogant" — one of " high heart." 
 
 P. 186. A dog stav'd. 
 
 A strange and awkward expression. I should be inclined 
 to read — 
 
 Thou art a dog — I will make thee swear — a starvd, mangy, cur dog, 
 
 omitting the repetition of " dog " a second time. 
 
 Thus I had written ; — but the remembrance of a passage 
 in 1 Samuel xvii, 43, has made me retain the original text — 
 
 "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?" 
 P. 248. "Like two sailing cedars." 
 
 This expression occurs again in Lovers Progress, act i, sc. 1, 
 but I do not know in what other place or author ; and I 
 am in doubt whether it means (1); — that the overspreading 
 boughs and expanded umbrage of the cedar resemble the 
 sails of ships ; (2) — or whether it is used in the sense in 
 which the ancient poetsused th.e"pinus"a,s being the material 
 of which ships were built in the countries of the East, and in 
 Judsea in old times, as among the Romans, they were con- 
 structed of fir and pine : thus, " cava pinus" and "pontica 
 piiius" were used for the ship. "Like to the cedar in the 
 loftie sea," is a line in the old play, John a Kent and John 
 a Cumber, p. 16 ; but it throws little light on the passage, 
 and perhaps should be read, " Like to the loftie cedar in 
 the sea." 
 
 VALENTINIAN. 
 
 P. 270. Max. I danger! 
 
 I willing to do anything ! I die ! 
 
 The old editions have "dig ;" "die" was introduced in 1778, 
 in which reading I quite agree, with the slight change — 
 
 I 'm willing to do any thing ; ay, die ! 
 
 To " dig" does not at all suit the disordered and tem- 
 pestuous state of Maximus, nor the furious and deep 
 revenge he meditated. See his previous speech, p. 269, 
 " Truly spoken !" &c.
 
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 QUEEN OE CORINTH. 
 
 P. 400. Perhaps (for the editor thinks the defective 
 metre should be supplied,) we should read 
 
 I am oer^oyd, my lord ; indeed I know not 
 What to reply, 
 
 which would not disturb the established text by introducing 
 so — " I am so overjoyed," nor require oerjoyd to be altered 
 to overjoy d. 
 
 P. 404. Last line, read — 
 
 If I speak 
 
 Too much, though I confess it, I speak well. 
 
 The metre is thus improved, and "confess" is more gene- 
 rally used actively. The old reading — " though I confess 
 I speak well." 
 
 P. 415. These stick like comets, blaze eternally, 
 
 read " strike like comets." " These blazing starres dread- 
 full to be seene." — " There no planets strike." — Hamlet, 
 act i, sc. 1. 
 
 P. 431. What! Monsieur Onos ! the very pump of travelling ! — 
 
 See Woman Pleased, vol. vii, p. 70 : — 
 
 " This is the bravest Capitano Pompo ; 
 But I shall pump you anon, sir." 
 
 A learned friend has conjectured "pumpion," from vol. ix, 
 Rule a Wife — 
 
 " Oh ! here 's another pumpion, let him loose," 
 he means Cacofogo. 
 
 P. 449. Your honour 's no whit less, your chastity 
 No whit impaired, for fair Merione 
 Is more a virgin yet than all her sex. 
 
 Here Agenor's speech should end; and the succeeding 
 very pathetic exclamation belongs to Merione — "Alas ! 'tis 
 done ! ' The word, too, in which it is expressed, is the 
 one appropriate to the deed alluded to, as — 
 
 " I would have told you in what case I was, 
 But you must needs be doing." 
 
 Ford's 'Tis Pity, $v. i, 18, ed. Weber.
 
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 VOL. VI. 
 
 THE MAD LOVER. 
 
 P. 134. Beaten about the ears with bawling sheepskins, 
 
 Cut to the soul/0; 1 summer ; here an arm lost, &c. 
 
 Weber's note is a piece of sheer absurdity. Theobald * 
 reads " Cut to the soul for honor." My reading is 
 
 Cut to the soul for summer -sjwrt. 
 
 See a few lines further — 
 
 dead there, 
 And all this sport for cheese and chines of dog's flesh. 
 
 P. 166. Get thee to school again and talk of turnips. 
 
 Seward, always ready at a random conjecture, proposes 
 "turn-spits" most unadvisedly. Schoolboys talk of turnips, 
 as used at games of play. Anne Page says : — 
 
 "I had rather be set quick in the earth and bowled to death with turnips." 
 
 Vide Merry Wives of Windsor, act iii, s. 4. 
 
 A passage from a writer of the present day will illustrate 
 
 and confirm the text : — 
 
 "After a nephew has children of his own, lives at a distance, and finds 
 occasion to talk much of oxen and turnips, he ceases to be an object of any 
 very profound interest." — De Quin cy ! 's Autobiog. Sketches, vol. ii, p. 314. 
 
 But it may be asked why turnips are mentioned rather 
 than any other vegetable ? because they were rare at that 
 time, and lately introduced, in the same manner us potatoes 
 are alluded to in Shakespeare. A well-informed writer, in 
 a late work called Table Traits, tells us that " Turnips are 
 so comparatively new to some parts of England, that their 
 introduction into the northern counties is hardly a century 
 old." Amherst, of Merchant Tailors', the well-known 
 satirical writer, declared he was expelled the university, 
 " because he loved foreign turnips and Presbyterian 
 bishops." Lord Townshend is well known as having been 
 
 * Speaking of Theobald as a critic, Dr. Johnson (in Othello) says, "Theobald 
 trifles, as is usual." Malone's accusation against him, that "Mr. Theobald seems 
 to think that any word may be substituted for another, if thereby sense may be 
 obtained;" this is hardly just towards one who has done much service to the 
 dramatic pages : he had better left him to tin- playful malice of Pope. See the note 
 on Henri/ l\ \>. I 11, cd. var. We have known when Mr. Maloue has substituted 
 one word for another, without obtaining the sense.
 
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 influential in introducing them, to the great improvement 
 of cultivation in Norfolk : hence Pope's line — 
 
 " All Townsliend's turnips." 
 
 Lindsay, Bishop of Kildare, used to say, " If I know 
 anything, it is the management of turnips?' 
 
 I may add that the long note on potatoes, in the 15th 
 volume of the Variorum Shakspeare, signed Collins (i. e. 
 G. Steevens), needs some slight correction. . . . Whenever 
 this plant is mentioned by Shakespeare, the Convolvulus 
 batates, or sweet potato, is to be understood, not the /Solatium 
 tuberosum, or the one now in common use. The former was 
 a favourite dish, and in high repute in France, some years 
 previous to the introduction of the other. Tradescant * 
 mentioned its becoming rotten in his garden at Lambeth as 
 soon as winter approached, which identifies the more tender 
 plant. Perhaps the best account of it is in Loudon's 
 Encyclop. of Plants, p. 624. The sweet potato is now occa- 
 sionally imported to England as a curiosity, and may be seen 
 in the shops of the superior fruiterers and salesmen. 
 
 VOL. VII. 
 THE CHANCES. 
 
 P. 248. Whose hard heart never 
 
 Slew those rewarders — (second folio). 
 
 Seward conjectured, 
 
 Whose hard heart never slew 
 Those ill rewarded. . . 
 
 But there is nothing in this conjecture to compensate its 
 deviation from the printed text. I am inclined to read — 
 
 Whose hard heart never slew 
 Those his regarders. 
 
 Not only are the letters g and us often changed in the 
 printing, but " regarders " is a word used in subjects 
 connected with love, as the present : — 
 
 " For it sit every man to have 
 Regarde to love, and to his might." — Goweb, C. A. 
 
 * I am grateful to certain inhabitants of Lambeth, for having lately renewed 
 with much ta9te and care the decayed monument of this early and illustrious 
 botanist, "acer et optimus investigator natwrce" in their churchyard. It is a 
 monument that I, as a Kt)iroTvpavvog, piously visit during my annual sojourns in 
 London.
 
 23 
 
 " And as she shall me prove, 
 So bid her me regarde, 
 And render love for love, 
 
 Which is a just rewarde."— Wyatt. 
 
 " He should advaunced bee to high regarde, 
 Said they, and have our ladie's love for his rewarde." — Spenser. 
 
 Reward and regard are so often and so closely joined in 
 these and other passages, that they may easily be confused 
 by such printers as were used in these dramatic pieces, 
 and where there was probably no reader or corrector of the 
 press.* 
 
 MONSIEUR THOMAS. 
 
 P. 377. Extreme strange — should thus boldly 
 
 Bud in your sight unto your son. 
 
 See a long and not satisfactory note of the commentators 
 on the word " bud." The editor more judiciously prints 
 his conjecture and, not doubting the other word to be a 
 corruption, in which I agree, believing the b produced by 
 the preceding word " boldly " to have been in the printer's 
 heedless and hasty eye, which caught up its initial letter. 
 
 THE ISLAND PRINCESS. 
 
 P. 444. Capt. Up, soldiers, up ! and deal like men. 
 Oitiz. More water, 
 
 More water, all is consumed else. 
 Capt. All is gone 
 
 Unless you undertake it straight ; your wealth too, 
 
 That must preserve and pay your labour bravely. 
 
 Up, up, away ! 
 
 The editor writes : — " Mason says no amendment is ne- 
 cessary. . . . Weber gave another arrangement. I have 
 tried a third, but none is satisfactory. The passage seems 
 to be corrupted." This corruption, in my judgment, 
 extends only to a single letter. The captain is urging the 
 lower kind of citizens to exert themselves to extinguish the 
 fire. " All," he says, " will be consumed and gone, unless 
 
 * What mistakes even careful printers will make we may learn from the 
 authority of an editor who paid great attention to typography. " In three late 
 proof sheets," says Mr. G>. Steevens in a note on Othello, " a couple of the most 
 accurate compositors in general had substituted palace and less and catch, instead 
 of tragedy, more, and ensnare." — Vol. xix, p. 402.
 
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 you give immediate assistance, and with all other, our 
 wealth (not "your"), which is to preserve you and pay 
 your labour liberally, will be destroyed." — See the Go- 
 vernor's speech, a little before, where he uses the same 
 incitement to them to work. 
 
 Good worthy citizens, 
 
 Follow me all, and all your powers give to me ! 
 
 / will reward you all. 
 
 Freedom and wealth to Mm that helps. Follow, oh follow ! 
 
 Fling wine or any thing. I'll see it recompensed, &c. 
 
 They are now urged in the strongest manner, by being 
 told that this wealth, which is held out as furnishing their 
 reward, is also in equal danger of being destroyed. 
 So read : — 
 
 Capt. All is gone. — 
 
 "Unless you undertake it straight. Our wealth too, 
 That must preserve and pay your labour bravely ; — 
 Up, up, away !" 
 
 P. 501. Read— 
 
 She 'd have laid hands on her own life. 
 
 I do not see that anything is lost, as the editors of 1778 
 assert. Both the folios read " have " the editor adopts 
 Mason's correction, " had." 
 
 VOL. VIII. 
 THE WILD-GOOSE CHASE. 
 P. 123. Altho' it be a weighty ceremony. 
 
 Although, as is said in the note (for the old editions read 
 "witty"), that wit and wisdom were, in the language of those 
 days, synonymous terms, so that any number of examples 
 might be quoted (Reed, in his note, saying too cautiously, 
 " other examples might be produced "), yet it cannot with 
 any propriety be introduced into this place ; and the editor 
 accordingly has printed as I conceive the poet wrote : the 
 two words, from their similarity in sound and in spelling, 
 being easily confounded. In Marlowe's Tamburlaine, act ii, 
 sc. 4, " Tamb. Are you the witty King of Persia?" for 
 
 "toise."
 
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 THE PROPHETESS. 
 P. 257. Sith that thou art dishonest, false of faith. 
 
 The first folio, " sigh," and so the modern editions; but with 
 great disregard to the poetical sense, which is deeply 
 injured, and overlooking the cause of the typographical 
 error. — " Sith," for since, " sithe " for sigh, and then 
 " sigh." Though I do not see " sithe" for sigh in Richard- 
 son's Dictionary, it is a legitimate word, and invariably used 
 in the Eastern Counties dialect, where " sigh " is seldom 
 heard. See J. Hawes's Temple of Glas, iiii -. — 
 
 " Then young folkes cryed and often sythed." 
 
 See the Knave in Grain, p. 22 : — 
 
 " Like another rousing sigMh, 
 Would well split me, gay and blithe." 
 
 the old ed. 1640 wrongly has sigh. 
 
 " Sigh " (says Dr. Nares in his Elements of Orthoepy, 
 p. 106) "is by some persons pronounced as if written with 
 ' th,' a pronunciation which our theatres have adopted." 
 " Spenser has written it sythe, and rhymed it to blythv, 
 which differs from the theatrical mode only in giving the 
 soft sound to th, instead of the hard." See Spenser's Colin 
 Clout, line 23, v. p. 106; and Tyrwhitt's Glossary on 
 Chaucer, voc. Sighte ; Todd's Spenser, vol. vii, 43, &c. &c. 
 
 THE SEA VOYAGE. 
 
 P. 302. Constrained us to sea, to save our lives, 
 Our horses and our riches, 
 With all we had, our kinsmen and our jewels, 
 In hope to find some place free from such robbers, 
 Where a mighty storm severed our barks, that where 
 My wife, my daughter, and my noble ladies 
 That went with her, virgins and loving souls, 
 To scape these pirates. 
 
 The editor says, " There is some gross corruption here, 
 Qy. should the second tvhere be bore?" 
 
 It appears that Sympson, at Seward's suggestion, omitted 
 " where," and made some alterations in the next two 
 speeches. This was quite unnecessary. Read — 
 
 "When a mighty storm severed our barks, whereat 
 My wife," &c.
 
 26 
 
 " Whereat " is changed into " that where," which is all 
 the error ; and the first " where " has replaced " when," — 
 the original reading. See "when" for "where" in Marlowe's 
 Jew of Malta, act v, p. 340, ed. Dyce. 
 
 VOL. IX. 
 BEGGAK'S BUSH. 
 P. 24. "An eye of tame pheasants" (editor's note). 
 " Phasianorum fcetura." — Cole's Dictionary. A?i eye of 
 pheasants is a corruption of a nidc, or nest, of pheasants. 
 
 LOVE'S CURE. 
 P. 131. Thou art a proper man, if thy beard were not red. 
 
 It is observed in the note to this passage that Judas 
 Iscariot was painted with a red beard ; it might have been 
 added, with red hair also. See vol. v, p. 201 ; vol. viii, 
 p. 318.* And this may perhaps be the reason of the tree 
 called the Judas Tree, the " Cercis siliquastrum" being so 
 named, for it is distinguished by its red blossom, which, 
 coming out in profusion before the leaves are open, have a 
 brilliant and remarkable appearance. The tree is common 
 in Italy, South of Europe, and Judaea. When it is in bloom 
 and lit up by the rays of the setting sun, as often seen in 
 our garden, this last month [of June], it is most beautiful, 
 and its bright red flowers attract immediate attention and 
 admiration. This will be mentioned again. 
 
 MAID IN THE MILL. 
 P. 246. Mother or "mauther," a young girl or maid. 
 
 It is quite true, as stated in the note, that " mauther " is 
 commonly used in the Eastern Counties for a country girl ; 
 only "is" should be changed for "was" for it is a word, 
 seldom now heard, and only in the contracted and 
 familiar form of maw. The old Saxon and provincial 
 words have been dispossessed of their long dominion by 
 the late parochial schools, and the last quarter of a century 
 
 * On this subject I may observe, that the Italian painters never (so far as 
 I know, unless perhaps the later, as Carlo Dolce, &c.) give the Virgin Mary the 
 colour or complexion of the Eastern countries, but rather that of a fair Saxon 
 beauty. See Raphael as an example. Did they consider that there was less purity, 
 less of chaste and delicate modesty, in the dark eye, the rich brow, and the redun- 
 dant tresses of the South ? Among the Spanish school the case is quite different.
 
 27 
 
 has made a great difference, in the language of the " 'country 
 cloivn." The children now do not understand certain 
 words used by their parents, and the cottage has become 
 so refined as to borrow from the French, to express what the 
 homelier Saxon used to signify ; no young female, among 
 the poorest of the peasantry, would think of pronouncing the 
 words "shift" or "smock," which was good Saxon enough 
 for the maternal tongue, and they go to the Franks for 
 a substitute. Sweat is also beginning to make way for 
 perspiration. Tusser's Husbandry will give the best idea 
 what the language of East Anglia was in his time, and up 
 to the commencement of the present century.* 
 
 RULE A WIFE, &c. 
 P. 467. Thy maid shall be thy mistress, thou the maid, 
 
 And all those servile labours that she reached at. 
 * * * * 
 
 And go through cheerfully or else sleep empty, &c. 
 
 The editor says, there is not the smallest doubt but that 
 
 a line is wanting ; and he has accordingly marked its place 
 
 with asterisks. I would however read — 
 
 Thy maid shall be thy mistress, thou the maid, 
 And all those servile labours that she reached at 
 Shall go through cheerfully, or else sleep empty. 
 
 The printer's eye in the last line caught the "And" which 
 begins the line previous — a very common mistake. 
 
 VOL. X. 
 THE FAIR MAID OF THE INN. 
 
 P. 31. violating 
 
 So continued and so sacred a friendship. 
 
 This verse would be much improved by reading — 
 
 " A friendship so continued and so sacred." 
 P. 54. 
 
 After the Duke's speech — 
 
 No interruptions ! Lady ; on- — 
 
 * On the subject of provincial words. — "Slop" is a word often used by the 
 dramatists for the loose Dutchman's trousers, then much worn. It is now retained 
 in the Eastern counties, but with a change of meaning, for the round frock worn 
 by country labourers. When I was chaplain to the sheriff at the assizes at Bury 
 St. Edmunds, at an important trial for an act of felony, where the life of the 
 criminal was in great danger, Lord Ellenborough in his charge, not understanding 
 the word slop as part of the dress, mistook it for jlap (of the breeches), and was 
 set right by Mr. Capel Lloft, a provincial counsel in court, and the only legal person 
 present who understood it.
 
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 to Mariana, who is entering on her story, the first folio has 
 
 inserted the words in italics. 
 
 Mariana. However! 
 Baptista. Afaulkner's sonne. 
 Mariana. Mistake not. 
 
 With these last words of Mariana the text goes on again * 
 
 Speaking of the two short speeches marked in italics, the 
 
 editor says : " They are manifestly out of place here, nor do 
 
 they suit any subsequent part of this scene." Yet, turning to 
 
 p. 57, I think there is a place where Baptista's speech may 
 
 come in not only with propriety but even with advantage. 
 
 For the first words, "How ever," of Mariana, I have nothing 
 
 to observe, but that "henceforth ever" occurs a little further 
 
 on : then for Baptista's — " a falkoner s son" 
 
 Duke. — "Go not yet — 
 
 A sudden tempest that might shake a rock, 
 
 Yet he stands firm against it. Much it moves me. — 
 
 He not Alberto's son, and she a widow — 
 
 And she a widow ! — Lords, your ear." 
 
 Now why the words " And she a widow " should be re- 
 peated I do not see, as the repetition adds nothing to the 
 sense or to the poetical expression. I would read — 
 
 " He not Alberto's son, — a falconer's sou, — 
 And she a widow. — 
 
 The three circumstances to be remarked are thus brought 
 together: 1, he was not Alberto's son; 2, he was a 
 falconer's son ; 3, she was a widow. Csesario's being the 
 son of a falconer is too important a part of the confession, 
 not to be enumerated here. 
 
 — My falconer'' s wife was brought a-bed 
 Of this Cfesario ; him I owned for mine, 
 Presented him unto a joyful father. 
 Duke. Can you prove this true ? 
 
 Thus, I think these words, now out of place, may be 
 accounted for, and arranged. 
 
 * At page 53, there is a line in Mariana's speech which seems to want correc- 
 tion : — 
 
 Yet let my griefs have vent ; yet the clearness, &c. 
 Nor is Mason's note on "If strict opinion cancel shame" at all satisfactory. 
 There is much in the speech most strangely and faultily expressed, and not to be 
 easily comprehended. " The style of Beaumont and Fletcher," says a critic of 
 taste and knowledge, " is elliptical and not very perspicuous : they use words in 
 peevdiar senses," &c. — See Haliam's History of Literature, vol. hi, p. 587.
 
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 P. 60. Perhaps it would be better to retain " then" as 
 the editor has done, in Mariana's speech, and read — 
 
 "And if all fail, I will learn then to conquer, &c." 
 
 P. 95. The following passage has occasioned much 
 doubt and perplexity. Mariana had openly denied that she 
 was the mother of Caesario, and disclaimed him : — 
 
 It was not hate, 
 
 But fond indulgence in me, to preserve 
 Cesario's threatened life, ia open court 
 That forced me to disclaim him, choosing rather 
 To rob him of his birthright and his honour, 
 Than suffer him to run the hazard of 
 Enraged Baptista's fury. 
 
 This falsehood being believed, that Ccssario was not her 
 son, and as the duke had sentenced her to marry him, she 
 being the supposed widow of the now deceased Alberto ; — to 
 escape the unnatural and incestuous marriage, she invented 
 this difficult and dangerous plan of evasion to which she 
 now alludes, first mentioning her daughter Clarissa's inno- 
 cent and consequently happy marriage, which was to be 
 celebrated that day, and comparing it with her own -. — 
 
 — To me, 
 That am environed with black guilt and horror, 
 It does appear a funeral. Though promising much 
 In the conception ...... 
 
 Were hard to manage ..... 
 
 But sad in the event. 
 
 It is the opinion of the commentators that a line or 
 more is lost, and various are the conjectures to supply it. 
 Seward's long and complicated amendment, as it is called, 
 is very tame and prosaic, his accustomed fault. I would 
 read, only changing the place of one word (though). — 
 
 " It does appear a funeral, promising much 
 In the conception (though 'twere hard to manage), 
 But sad in the event." — 
 
 P. 184. " Darnez." This word, generally obsolete, is 
 preserved in the provincial glossary of the East Anglians, 
 and signifies the very thick hedging gloves of labourers, 
 formed of strong materials to resist thorns ; probably once 
 made of some foreign material. It is still in common and 
 constant use. — Suff. Gloss. M.
 
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 THE ELDER BROTHER. 
 
 P. 237. Enter Charles from his study, with a book in 
 his hand. 
 
 Charles. What a noise is in this house. My head is broken : 
 Within a parenthesis — in every corner, 
 As if the earth were shaken with some strange colic. 
 
 — Come near 
 And lay thine ear down — hear'st no noise ? 
 
 Here is one of the strangest corruptions that occur in 
 the text of these plays, and which has occasioned much 
 alarm and consternation among the commentators. 
 
 Charles is a timid, retired scholar, who has gone to his 
 book and studies (in the last scene), saying — 
 
 Let me have no noise, nor nothing to disturb me — 
 I am to find a secret. 
 
 In the mean time, great preparation is making below for 
 his brother's wedding. Brisac says — 
 
 Wait on your master, for I know he wants you, 
 And keep him in his study, that the noise 
 Do not molest him. — 
 
 Charles, utterly ignorant of what is going forward, 
 hearing various noises, but knowing nothing of the cause, 
 nor whence they proceed, comes forward and says — 
 
 What a noise is in the house — my head is broken 
 With unapparent noises ! 
 
 The printer having divided the words wrongly, as — 
 
 Within a parenthesis, ") 
 With inapparent noises : ) 
 
 although Charles heard the noises, yet whence they came 
 was not apparent, as he was in the upper part of the house, 
 and nothing ivas visible. This is clear, for he says to Andrew, 
 
 Lay thine ear down — hear'st no noise ? * 
 
 * When I first considered the corruptions apparent in these lines, and the 
 useless attempts to set them right by any conjecture, I saw they must all fail, 
 while the words "Within a parenthesis" were retained as a portion of the text, and 
 I concluded that they formed a marginal direction ; that the words " My head is 
 broken" were to be understood as spoken sotta voce (aside), or in an under-tone, and 
 were not to be brought into the regular text, which was therefore to run thus : — 
 
 " What a noise is in this house, — in every corner, 
 As if the earth were shaken, &c. ; " 
 
 or, at full length, with the stage direction, —
 
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 THE NICE VALOUR, 
 P. 333. Go not so diffusedly, 
 
 beautifully used by Milton, Sam. Agon. v. 118. 
 
 Chorus. See how he lies at random, carelessly diffused, 
 With languish'd head unpropp'd, 
 As one past hope, abandoned, &c; — 
 
 where the commentator points to Euripides' Heraclid. v. 75. 
 
 — 'iSeTt rbv ykpovra 
 
 flCtWoV C7TI 7TtS(jJ 
 
 Xvfxtvov. — 
 
 P. 358. — Away, receptacle 
 
 Of luxury and dishonour ! most unfortunate 
 To make thyself but lucky to thy spoiler — 
 After thy sex's manner ! — 
 
 Seward, who is indefatigable in guessing, proposes 
 " lucky." Mason says, " he has entirely overlooked the 
 word ' but ' before ' lucky,' which must be attended to." 
 
 I propose (the second brother is addressing the lady) — 
 
 — " away, receptacle 
 Of luxury and dishonour ! most unfortunate 
 To make thyself unlucky to thy spoiler, 
 After thy sex's manner," — 
 
 the lady's reflection on the result of such connections 
 being — 
 
 " In midst of mirth comes ruin," &c. &c. 
 
 P. 408. A passage somewhat perplexed in its structure 
 and difficult of explanation : — 
 
 Your brother is a royal gentleman, 
 Full of himself, honour, and honesty ; 
 
 " What a noise is in this house ! {my head is broken /) 
 Within a parenthesis. 
 
 — in every corner, 
 As if the earth were shaken," &c. 
 
 Mr. Dyee says, " 'Within a parenthesis' cannot be omitted without injury to the 
 metre" which words I should so far alter as to say, it cannot be omitted without 
 injury to the sense, as it tells us that " My head is broken" is not to form part of 
 the regular text, but is a privately spoken interstitial observation. Now read 
 the whole : — 
 
 What a noise is in this house! (my head is broken.*) 
 
 — in every corner, 
 As if the earth were shaken with some strange colic. 
 
 * "Within a parenthesis," i.e. not to form part of the text. 
 See the word "parenthesis," hi Webster's 'Northward Jloe,' vol. hi, p. 242, 
 ed. Dyee ; Dayc's Laiv Tricks, 1600 ; sig. D 4, in another sense.
 
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 And take heed, sir, how Nature bent to goodness 
 
 (So straight a cedar*) to himself, uprightness 
 
 Being wrested from his true life, prove not dangerous. 
 
 The difficulty seems most to exist in the fourth line — 
 
 So straight a cedar to himself, uprightness, 
 
 and how to adapt it to the rest of the speech. 
 
 The old editions thus : — 
 
 And take heed, sir, how Nature bent to goodnesse 
 (So straight a cedar to himselfe) uprightnesse, 
 Be wrested from its true life, prove not dangerous. 
 
 On these lines Mr. Seward has made no less than five 
 amendments — only one of which Mr. Mason thinks to be 
 necessary. Heath's MS. notes also contain an alteration, 
 that must be put aside without hesitation. The passage 
 may have been originally ill expressed or materially injured 
 by some means, probably by the transcriber or printer's 
 negligence ; and no conjecture can recover the true and 
 exact reading of the author. 
 
 We must keep in mind, that both Sophia, the mother of 
 the royal brethren, and Aubrey, their kinsman, the speakers, 
 at the present time, are not mistrustful of Hollo, and do 
 not partake in Otto's suspicion and fears of his brother's 
 evil designs, and are trying to persuade him that they are 
 groundless : — thus then I would read their language : — 
 
 Your brother is a royal gentleman, 
 
 Full of himself — honour aud honesty ; 
 
 And take heed, sir, how (Nature bent to goodness, 
 
 So straight a cedar to herself) uprightness, 
 
 Being wrested from his true use, prove not dangerous. 
 
 The meaning, — " Take heed, sir, how Nature having 
 bent f to goodness" his disposition ("straight as a cedar") — 
 " this uprightness" being by you " wrested from its true 
 
 * It is curious, and shows how strong is the habit of taking words for and in 
 place of the things signified by them, that, frequent as is the allusion to the 
 "cedar-tree" by our old poets, probably not one of them had ever seen one; and, 
 the trees not being introduced into England till 1670, are not to be found figured 
 in the plates of our old Herbals. The poets borrowed their allusions to them from 
 the Old Testament : hence their mistakes in calling them " lofty," which they are not 
 in growth, but are, if the word is applied, as meant, to situation; as growing on the 
 lofty heights of Lebanon ; nor is the epithet straight appropriate or characteristic. 
 The word cedar, when used by American writers, whether poets or travellers, of 
 a tree of their own country, means a very different one. 
 
 t Nature bent ; i. e. having bent.
 
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 use, prove not dangerous. — I have retained himself; 
 attentive to Mr. Mason's admonition, that " the right of 
 personifying virtues and passions has been assumed by 
 all dramatic writers, and by some more frequently than 
 by Shakespeare." — The word straight is used in a similar 
 manner a little before — 
 
 Soph. Now I am straight, my lords, and young again. 
 
 Compare Ecclesiasticus, cap. iv, v. 12 : 
 
 " He himself stood ... as a young cedar in Libanus. 
 he behaved himself uprightly." 
 
 See also the Device of Mortimer, in Marlowe's Edward 
 the Second (p. 201, ed. Dyce) — 
 
 " A lofty eedar tree fair flourishing," &c. 
 
 Again, King Edward says — 
 
 " I am that cedar, shake me not too much." 
 
 P. 209. BLOODY BROTHER. 
 
 The tale of Sinon, when he took upon him 
 To ruin Troy. 
 
 The tale of " Sinon " forms a favourite allusion in our 
 older poets. See Peele's Works {Edward I) vol. i, p. 1 28 (a 
 corrupt passage); vol. ii, p. 188, "false Sinon had betrappcd 
 in his snares ;" p. 287, she-sinnow, where, with the editor, 
 "Sinon" or "Sinner" should be read; Marlowe's Dido, 
 vol. ii, p. 353; ed. 1826,* " Sinon's Perjury." Fletcher's 
 Pilgrim, vol. viii, p. 85 ; Braithwaite's Nature's Embassie, 
 p. 94 ; Sit 'b till Sinon, &c. 
 
 P. 415. The following passage is corrupt in the text, or, 
 if not, most obscure and ill expressed. In the course of 
 
 * Marlowe's "Works, 1826 ; an edition often wronglv attributed to Mr. Dyce, who 
 was then only primtBVO Jlore juventes. His edition -of the Dramatist, in 1850, is 
 much to be commended. Wo would inform him that the words which puzzled him- 
 self and the learned Mr. Crossley, " qvod tumeraris, in Dr. Faustus (vol. ii, p. 18) 
 should be read "quib>. nwneratis;" i.e., the names of the infernal deities invoked, 
 
 3
 
 3 1 : 
 
 five lines, adding one a little previous and one following, 
 the word " all" is repeated no less than seven times ! 
 
 Matilda. — tis justice still, 
 
 For goodness' sake to encounter ill with ill. 
 
 Otto. Past all doubt, 
 
 For all the sacred priviledgc* of night, 
 This is no time for us to slfeep or rest in. 
 Who knows not all thingVfioly are prevented 
 With ends of all impiety? — all but 
 Lust, gain, ambition. 
 
 Otto is fearful of the designs of his " bloody brother " 
 Rollo against him. His sister Matilda advises him to meet 
 "mines of treason with counter-mines," to which his speech, 
 as given above, is the answer. V'Night/' he says, " has the 
 sacred priviledge of security ; but in our present and 
 peculiar case it is no time now^/or us to take sleep and 
 rest." Then come the lines-j- *£- 
 
 Who knows not all things holy are prevented 
 With ends of all impiety ? — all but 
 Lust, gain, ambition. — 
 
 The argument being, that things or places, however holy 
 and sacred (as night is), are used to impious and wicked 
 purposes by the evil passions of mankind ; and then he 
 mentions three of the strongest and fiercest of them. I 
 would, with no more change than in such a passage is allow- 
 able, in order to restore the sense, read — 
 
 " Who knows not all things holy are perverted 
 To the ends of all impiety? — ''hove all, 
 Lust, gain, ambition." 
 
 " Perverted " is Seward's reading, followed by his para- 
 phrase of the author's lines. " 'bove all " for " all but " is 
 the only alteration I have made.* 
 
 * The commentators on Beaumont and Fletcher (with the exception of the present 
 editor) are far too lavish in loose conjectural alterations of the text of the authors, 
 and consequently must hear with the title of " Volatici et ventosi homines," as given 
 to persons of their class ; — a passage in that most learned prelate's (Bishop Horsley) 
 translation of Hosea — which has been with justice called "admirable for its de- 
 ference to the authority of MSS., and distrust of conjectural criticism " — is well 
 worth the deep attention of all who take on themselves the character of critics, and 
 the office of editors of works, where the integrity of the text has been injured, or 
 the structure of the language is peculiar, affected, and anomalous. See also 
 Prof. Wyttenbach's Life of D. Ruhnken, pp. 33-40.
 
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 VOL. XL 
 THE NIGHT WALKER. 
 
 P. 135. Nurse (speakiug of an old man married). 
 
 " Would he had been hanged when he first saw her, 
 ' Termaaant: " 
 Lady. What an angry quean is this ! — &c. 
 
 I can make nothing of this term, if it is to belong to the 
 nurse's speech in the text, and to be used of a man, as it 
 anciently was occasionally ; vide A King and no King, vol. ii, 
 p. 306. " This would make a saint swear like a soldier, and 
 a soldier like a termagant!' But "termagant" is also used 
 of a female, and in the sense of " angry quean." I consider 
 it to be only a marginal variation of that term, as if she 
 said, " What a termagant is this !" Nares says, " the word 
 has subsided into the signification of a scolding woman." 
 Hear what a learned Master of the Art says on the subject 
 of marginal readings : — 
 
 " Perhaps you think it an affected and absurd idea, that a marginal note 
 can ever creep into the text ; yet I hope you are not so ignorant as not to 
 know that this has actually happened not merely in hundreds or thousands, 
 but in millions of places." — Poeson's Letters to Travis, p. 150. 
 
 LOVE'S PILGRIMAGE. 
 P. 230. With a Zardina and Zant oil. 
 
 The editor might with benefit have omitted Sympson's 
 note, in which he tells us that a sardine and an anchovy are 
 the same fish ! ! The catalogues of the Italian warehouses 
 would instruct him better. One is the "Clupca Sardinia" 
 of Cuvier, the other the "Clupea Encracicolus." The 
 ■sordine is preserved and eaten with oil, which is alluded 
 to by the poet. 
 
 TWO NOBLE KINSMEN. 
 
 P. 332. The crow, the slanderous cuckoo, nor 
 
 The boding raven, nor chough hoar. 
 
 So in Mr. Dyce's edition; but "chough hoar" is 
 Mr. Sympson's correction, to make the couplet rhyme, the
 
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 original reading being " chough hee." But this is a most 
 rash conjecture, and cannot stand, being opposed to the 
 truth. The chough has a shining black plumage, like the 
 raven and crow. In the old editions it stands thus : — 
 
 " The crow, the slanderous cuckoe, nor 
 The boding raven, nor chough hee." 
 
 I would observe that the chough is a daw, and that 
 " chough " and " daw ' : are convertible terms. — 1, Corvus 
 monedula ; 2, Corvus graculus. See Higgins's Nomen- 
 clator, p. 59, ' A chough or daw " Milbourne on Dryden's 
 Virgil, p. 51, "The chough or daw;" Cotgrave, Chouchctte, 
 " the chough, daw." These words were therefore easily 
 interchanged, and the true reading appears to-be — 
 
 " The crow, the slanderous cuckoo, nor 
 The boding raven, chough, nor daw." 
 
 It is impossible to account for corruptions of a text ; 
 but, as the first line in the old edition stood thus — 
 
 " The crow, the slanderous cuckoe," 
 
 an ignoraut printer might endeavour at a rhyme by 
 
 " The boding raven, nor chough hee." 
 
 However, the learned critic, Mr. Sympson, should have 
 remembered — 
 
 "Nip'as inter aves, avis est, quse plurima turres, 
 Antiquas sedes, celsaque fana colit," &c. 
 
 The dress of the chough * is the same as the daw, with 
 the exception of his legs, which are of a bright orange ; 
 and they are both, in fact, of the same colour as the 
 reverend editor's is, or should be, because, like him, he 
 is, for the same twofold purpose, 
 
 " A great frequenter of the church, 
 Where, bishop-like, he finds a perch, 
 And dormitory too." 
 
 P. 336. Theseus. It is true, 
 
 And I will give you comfort 
 
 To give your dead lords graves 
 
 Sec a note on the " Chough," in the Yariorum Shakespeare, vol. xvii, p. 257, n. 3.
 
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 As Mr. Dyce says both sense and measure are some- 
 what deficient and some words are wanting ; I think they 
 may be thus supplied by referring to the speeches of the 
 two Queens, whom Theseus is addressing : — 
 
 " And I will give you comfort in your beds, 
 To give your dead lords graves, who yet have none," 
 
 Ut Queen. — think, dear Duke, think 
 
 What beds our slain kings have \ 
 
 Ind Queen. — What griefs our beds, 
 
 That our dead lords have none ! 
 
 1st Queen. — our lords 
 
 Lie blist'ring 'fore the visitating sun. 
 
 P. 351. Theseus. Since I have known fight's fury, friends' behests, 
 Love's provocations, zeal in a mistress' task ; 
 Desire of liberty, a fever, madness, 
 'T hath set a mark which Nature could not reach to 
 Without some imposition, sickness in will, 
 Or wrestling strength in reason.* 
 
 Mr. Dyce has omitted giving the various explanations of 
 the latter part of this speech, by the commentators, as not 
 being satisfactory to him ; and, not possessing any modern 
 edition of these Dramatists, I am ignorant of them. My own 
 interpretation of a somewhat obscure and difficult passage 
 is as follows. — The enthusiastic admiration felt and ex- 
 pressed by Theseus of the courage and character of the 
 two Theban brothers in arms, Arcite and Palsemon, is of the 
 highest kind, and his feelings of anxiety for them, their 
 safety and recovery, is expressed in terms of corresponding 
 emphasis and force. 
 
 — " their lives concern us 
 Much more than Thebes is worth." — 
 
 — " Minister 
 What man to man may do, for our sake more." 
 
 " But forty thousand-fold, we had rather have them, 
 Prisoners to us than death." 
 
 Again : — "For our love 
 
 And just Apollo's mercy all our best, 
 Their best skill tender." — 
 
 * We give the text from the editor's reading, which, on the whole, may be 
 considered judicious, for no one can say what was the authentic and original 
 
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 Now, observing that Theseus had just beheld these 
 heroic brethren for the first time in the heat of the battle, 
 the thoughtful tenderness and strong affection here shown, 
 is as unexpected as uncommon ; though we were prepared 
 by his previous address to the queens, for a kind, religious 
 feeling and affectionate disposition, 
 
 — As we are men, 
 Thus should we do — being sensually subdued, 
 We lose our human title — good cheer, ladies, &c. 
 
 This and such as this is not the ordinary characteristic of 
 the hero, nor the language of a monarch just flushed with 
 victory, and hot from the field of battle. But the attach- 
 ment to the wounded prisoners is also as remarkable for the 
 suddenness of its growth, as for the impatient and eager 
 manner in which it is expressed. "Bear them speedily from 
 our air to them unkind" is added to the other commands ; 
 and then the speaker breaks off into a meditative reflec- 
 tion, which forms the passage that has occasioned so much 
 difficulty : — 
 
 Since I have known fight's fury, friends' behests, 
 
 Love's provocations, zeal, a mistress' task, 
 
 Desire of liberty, a fever, madness ; 
 
 [It] hath set a mark, which Nature could not reach to 
 
 Without some imposition, sickness in will, 
 
 Or wrestling strength in reason. 
 
 I presume that the speaker felt conscious of the singular 
 emotions he had so strongly and vividly expressed in favour 
 of the prisoners, yet assuredly without any reasons that 
 would appear adequate to others, or justify the language he 
 had used ; they were the feelings of a moment, bursting 
 forth in the impressive energy of a full-grown passion ; 
 and in his consciousness of the fact, he is led to refer the 
 excitement, to the peculiar condition of his mind, weakened 
 by the injuries it had received from what he had suffered 
 in the various trials and temptations of his life — whether 
 from internal passion, or from outward circumstances, 
 which had impaired the power of his will and the strength 
 of his reason. It is the affecting picture of one conscious 
 of his infirmity, and reflecting on the melancholy nature 
 of its causes and effects. In the sudden violence of his
 
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 attachments, in the eagerness of his commands, in the 
 rapid transition of his thoughts, in the emphasis of his 
 language, he is aware of a deviation from the ordinary 
 action of a sound, temperate, and equal mind ; he says, 
 
 — " Pray for me, your soldier, 
 Troubled I am."— 
 
 He thus confesses his weakness, and feels that the moral 
 balance of the affections had been disturbed, and the 
 powers of nature oppressed and injured by the force of the 
 various conflicts to which they had been unequally exposed. 
 It is indeed a speech that, in its reflective and philosophical 
 sentiments, bears the impress of Hamlet's character, and 
 marks similar to those of Shakespeare's hand.* At least 
 the varied and beautiful groundwork here laid might have 
 been heightened into a character of noble lights and 
 shadows in the future scenes by the hand of a Master ; 
 but is subsequently so faded and lost sight of, that we may 
 be inclined to believe the remainder of the play to have 
 fallen into the hands of an inferior artist, who had not power 
 to sustain the original conception ; certainly a composition 
 offering stronger contrasts of excellence and weakness, of 
 natural powers and artificial effect, can perhaps seldom be 
 found. And now let me conclude with a general observa- 
 tion on the text of our authors as given by a critic of 
 learning and judgment : — " Of all our early dramatic poets, 
 none have suffered such mangling by the printer as 
 Beaumont and Fletcher. Their style is generally elliptical, 
 and not very perspicuous ; words are used in peculiar senses, 
 and there seems an attempt at pointed expression in which 
 its meaning has deserted them. But after every effort to 
 comprehend their language, it is continually so remote from 
 all possibility of bearing a rational sense, that we can only 
 have recourse to one hypothesis — that of an extensive and 
 irresponsible corruption of the text." — Hallam's History 
 of Literal tire, vol. hi, p. 587. 
 
 * In this play, concerning the authorship of which, there is so much variety of 
 opinion, I certainly am inclined to agree with Mr. Ilnllam in seeing imitations of 
 Shakespeare, rather than such resemblances as denote his powerful stamp.
 
 to 
 
 A FEW NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE," 
 
 BY THE REV. A. DYCE. 
 
 " At last it was agreed on all sides, to refer the matter to the decision of Shake- 
 speare, who delivered his sentiments as follows : — ' Faith, gentlemen, it is so long 
 since I wrote that line, that I hare forgot the meaning.' " 
 
 " He was then interrogated concerning some other ambiguous passages in hi;j 
 works ; but he declined any satisfactory answer, saying, 'If Mr. Theobald had not 
 wrote about it sufficiently, there were three or four more new editions of his plays 
 coming out, which he hoped would satisfy every one.' " — Fielding's Journey from 
 this World to the Next, chap. viii. 
 
 P. 12. The Merry Wives of Windsor, act i, s. 3 : — 
 " She discourses, she carves." 
 
 To Mr. Hunter is the praise justly due of pointing out 
 the more accurate and precise meaning of the word carve, 
 as distinguished from the more common one in present use ; 
 yet I can hardly agree with him when he says, " It is a 
 quite different word." To me it certainly appears to be 
 the same word derived from the same source (kerven, to 
 cut up), but used with a secondary meaning. In all the 
 instances in which it is quoted by Mr. Hunter and Mr. Dyce 
 it has reference to the table, which indeed Mr. Dyce allows. 
 I consider that the meaning of the word is transferred from 
 the dish carved and offered by the gentleman to the lady, 
 to the compliment or civility with which it was accompanied 
 when presented. This secondary or subservient meaning 
 took place of the original according to the ordinary custom 
 of language, and at length superseded it ; and a salutation 
 or mark of civility, offered without the accompanying viand, 
 at length assumed the same signification as it originally 
 possessed, when it only formed the graceful mode of pre- 
 senting it. The words of compliment and courtly address * 
 
 * 
 
 "To love's sweet life this is the courtly carving" — Marlowe's Hero and 
 Leander, third Sestiad.
 
 4i 
 
 became the leading features of carving, while the former 
 disappeared before it. A person may pay a compliment 
 as he hands the dish, but he may often wish to pay the airy 
 compliment without the substantial companion of it being 
 present. I am more satisfied with accepting the word in 
 an altered meaning, easily and naturally to be explained, 
 than by presuming one altogether different. 
 
 P. 58. " Judas was hanged on an elder!' Mr. Dyce has 
 given from Pulci {Morg. Mag. cxxv, st. 77) the belief that 
 he selected the Carob-tree. 
 
 " Era di sopra a la fonte un carubbio, 
 L'arbor, si dice, ove s'irapicco Guida." 
 
 This I have not met with elsewhere. The carob-tree of 
 Italy and the south of Europe is the Ceratonia siliqua, or 
 St. John's Bread Tree, called in the modern Greek Sv\otce pa Ta, 
 the Ktpartia of St. Luke, cap. xv, 16.* The fruit is used 
 chiefly to feed the horses and mules. A large importation 
 of this fruit to Odessa is carried on, amounting to 80,000 
 rubles for this purpose ; and Denon informs us that in the 
 bay called La Ponzalla, vessels come to load with carob-beans, 
 which are brought in such quantities to this part of the 
 island (Sicily), that we saw piles of them on the shore like 
 heaps of coal (p. 297). The tree however, as I have men- 
 tioned, that has obtained the unenviable celebrity of being 
 selected by the traitor is the Judas Tree (Cercis siliquas- 
 trum), kovtIottio. novicXia, probably being a corruption of 
 "the tree of Judaa." Gerard says in his Herbal, 142.8, 
 ' This is thought to be the tree on which Judas hanged 
 himself, and not upon the elder-tree, as is commonly said!' 
 See A Woman Killed with Kindnesse, 1017, T. Hey wood : 
 
 — " pray, pray, lest I live to see 
 Thee, Judas-Mke, hanged on an elder-tree." 
 
 See Mr. Dyce's note in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, act iv. 
 
 ' The hat he wore, Judas left under the elder-tree on which 
 
 he hang'd himself." P. 320, Mr. D. mentions an old 
 
 ' I know but of a single specimen of the carob-tree in the open ground in 
 England, viz. in the garden of Lord Mount Edgcumbe at Plymouth. It is 
 however trained against a wall.
 
 [ft 
 
 acquaintance of his, a great traveller, who had seen the 
 very tree ! 
 
 P. 91. "Cowslips tall"* This, in spite of the MS. 
 correction of Mr. Collier's volume, is a very appropriate 
 epithet of the cowslip. It is an upright-growing flower, 
 and tall compared to its common companions of the field — 
 the daisy, primrose, violet, &c. ; besides, there is a wild 
 variety called the oxlip, which is of remarkable strength 
 and height. Mr. Dyce's note is quite to the purpose, 
 and I will add an example of this very distinguishing 
 epithet being given to it, in an elegant and well-known 
 little poem — 
 
 " Where cowslips clad in mantle meek, 
 Nod their tall heads to breezes weak." 
 
 Ode on the Approach of Summer (T. Wabton). 
 
 P. 70. Taming of the Shrew, act iv, sc. 2 : — 
 
 — I spied 
 An ancient angel coming down the hill. 
 
 The MS. corrector in Mr. Collier's folio reads ambler, 
 a word sounding most ludicrously to our ears, as appa- 
 rently it does to Mr. Dyce's. It is not in this manner that 
 the text of our author is to be corrected, by looking out for 
 a word of no very distant resemblance ; for the true read- 
 ing may be very unlike the corrupt one, and the source of 
 error have no connection with the similitude of sounds and 
 letters. That the word " angel " is wrong I fully believe, 
 for I can give no proper sense to it. Secondly, the words 
 of the text, commencing consecutively in the same letters, 
 are very suspicious : — "An ancient angel" — certainly a rare 
 combination of letters — looking like a mistake of a hurried 
 compositor. I think the word is gentleman, or " gentle," 
 used for gentleman. And when in act v, sc. 1, I read, 
 " Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman" I am more 
 confirmed in my supposition. In Hamlet, act v, sc. 11, 
 there is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners ; and in Love's 
 Labour Lost, act iv, sc. 2, "Gentles are at their game," 
 
 * The cowslip, oxlip, and primrose, are the same flower, easily convertible into 
 one another by sowing the seed, varied by circumstances of soil, &c.
 
 43 
 
 Theobald would read " Engle," the letters that compose 
 this are close to mine. Mr. Dyce's note on the passage 
 should be read and duly considered. — "JSuum cuique, et 
 nobis nostrum relinquimus judicium" 
 
 P. 107. Troilus and Cressida.] Where could Mr. Collier * 
 have learned that a falcon meant a female hawk ? " The 
 falcon as the Tercel," &c. — Act hi, sc. 2.-J- 
 
 The falcon is a genus of birds, containing a considerable 
 variety of species. 
 
 P. 134. Hamlet?^ Mr. Dyce remarks that in Garrick's 
 time the cock crowed in Hamlet. It is said in the life of one 
 of the actors, I think of George Cooke, that on one occasion 
 not fewer than six cocks were collected in order to summon 
 the spirit to his diurnal residence, lest one cock, like one 
 single clock, might not keep time exactly, when the matter 
 was of importance. 
 
 ROMEO AND JULIET. 
 
 Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, 
 Towards Phcebus' lodging : such a waggoner 
 As Phaeton would whip you to the west, 
 And bring in cloudy Night immediately. 
 Spread thy close curtain, love- performing Night, 
 That runawayes eyes may winke, and Romeo 
 Leape to these annes, untalked of and unseen. 
 
 Romeo and Juliet, act iii, sc. 2. 
 
 It is not my intention to make any remarks on the 
 various conjectures of the commentators on this much- 
 disputed passage, further than by observing, that each 
 conjecture I believe to be supported by the single vote of its 
 parent — the person who brings it forward. Amid such 
 diversity of opinion, the ground may be considered to be 
 quite open for any fresh adventurer ; and perhaps my pur- 
 pose may be more favourably received, or at least less rcluc- 
 
 * In mentioning Mr. Collier's name, we beg to express our grateful recollection, 
 in the only way we now can, of the important services he has rendered to our 
 dramatic literature and our early poetry. 
 
 t We believe Couins to be the latest poet who has introduced the Tercel into 
 poetry, the language of falconry having died away. — " By whom the TarsoVs eyes 
 were made."
 
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 tantly viewed, when it is seen, that I have declined the 
 ambition of proposing any new reading, and have confined 
 myself entirely to the establishment of the old* — the object, 
 in fact, being to restore to the Poet the genuine coin that 
 has been taken out of his hands, and whose place has been 
 supplied with baser metal from other mints. 
 
 There is an older poem, called, The Tragicall History of 
 Eomeus and Juliet, printed in 1562, and reprinted by 
 Malone in his edition of Shakespeare. That this poem 
 would throw some light on the language of the play, if 
 known to Shakespeare, was most probable ; I therefore 
 read it carefully, and with particular attention to those 
 expressions mutually made use of in the earlier poem and 
 in the later play. Such verbal coincidences as were ex- 
 pected, appeared ; and it became clear that our great 
 Dramatist had that poem before him during the compo- 
 sition of his romantic fiction. I have made some little 
 division of the subject into its different parts, such as the 
 nature of it admitted, the quotations being chiefly confined 
 to the very incident related in the play which forms the 
 subject of inquiry. 
 
 POEM. 
 
 1. When Phoebus from our hemisphere in western wave doe sinke. 
 
 2. The hastiness of Phoebus' steeds in great dispyte they blame. 
 
 3. As oft in summer-tide, when clouds do dimme the sunne, 
 And straight again in clearest skye his restless steeds do runne. 
 
 4. The golden-crested Phoebus bosteth him in skye. 
 
 5. When thou ne lookest wide, ne closely dost thou winke. 
 
 6. The golden sun art gone to lodge him in the west. 
 
 Now, compare the expressions marked in italics in the quo- 
 tations with those in the passage placed at the head of this 
 
 article, as — 1. Fiery-footed steeds. 
 
 2. Phoebus' lodging. 
 
 3. Whip you to the west. 
 
 4. Eyes may winke,f 
 
 and we shall arrive at the conclusion, that the author of the 
 
 * "It is not the business of an editor to new-write his author's works. " — Malone. 
 
 t Shakespeare uses the word loinking with an unusual application in the 
 following passage : — 
 
 " Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates" 
 
 King John, act ii, sc. 1.
 
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 play had the poem before him, and made use of some 
 remarkable expressions in it. Again — 
 
 POEM. 
 
 1. Young Romeo climbs fair Juliet's bower at night. 
 
 2. So light he wox, he leaped the toall, and then lie spyde his wyfe. 
 
 3. And from the window's top down had he leaped scarce, 
 
 But she with arms outstretched wide, so hard did him embrace. 
 
 4. And by her long and slender arms a great while then she hung. 
 
 Now, see the play — 
 
 1. When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend. 
 
 2. Leap to these arms untalked of and unseen. 
 
 Again — 
 
 POEM. 
 
 1. But black-faced Night with Winter rough, ah ! beaten over sore. 
 
 2. But when on earth the Night her mantle black hath spread. 
 3. if they the heavens might gyde, 
 
 Black shade of Night, and double dark should straight all over byde. 
 
 Compare the play — 
 
 1. And bring in cloudy Night. 
 
 2. Come, civill Night, 
 
 Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. 
 
 3. With thy blacke mantle. 
 
 4. Come, loving, black-brow'd Night. 
 
 Again- 
 
 POEM. 
 
 1. Of corde I will bespeak a ladder by that time, 
 
 By which this night, while other sleepe, I will your window dim />. 
 
 2. And for the time to come, let be our busy care, 
 So wisely to direct our love as no wight else beware. 
 
 • 
 
 Now for the play — 
 
 And bring thee cordes made like a tackling staire, 
 Must be my convoy in the secret night. 
 
 2. I must another way 
 
 To fetch a ladder, by the which you, love, 
 Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is darke. 
 
 3. Leape to these arms, untalked of and unseen. 
 
 The quotations thus made will be sufficient to show the 
 close attention paid by the author of the play, both to the
 
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 substance of the story and language of the old poem, 
 through this particular portion of the drama ; for the 
 remainder, not coming within the present purpose, has not 
 been examined and collated with the same scrupulous and 
 verbal minuteness. 
 
 The crux criticorum in this passage is in the word 
 " runaway," in the sixth line ; which, being considered to 
 be a corrupted reading, has been rejected, and many words 
 by conjecture substituted by ingenious persons,* much 
 pleased and satisfied with their separate offspring, and not 
 wanting in due parental affection to recommend them to 
 public favour. From all such persons I am however 
 obliged to differ, as I consider "runaway" to be the true, 
 authentic, and original expression of Shakespeare ; and that 
 by him it is here used in the sense of Cupid or Love. 
 
 Now, there are two things which Juliet stands in need 
 of, to secure the success of her amorous projects and adven- 
 tures, i. e. that night should come, and that Cupid should 
 be blind ; or, in other words, that the deeds of love should 
 be hidden in darkness from the eyes and observation of the 
 world. In a line that follows, she says, what is explanatory 
 of the former one : — 
 
 If Love be blind, 
 
 It best agrees with Night. 
 
 Now, what says the elder poem ? 
 
 Contented both, and yet uncontented still, 
 
 Till NiffJd and Venus' child give leave this wedding to fulfil. 
 
 Thus the success of Juliet's designs depended on the junc- 
 tion of Night and Cupid in the poem as well as in the 
 ^})lay. But then comes the question, Why is Love or 
 Cupid called Runaioay ? Now, Love is the "Epwg SpaireTt] S 
 of the Greek poets : and what is the interpretation of 
 Spcnrerrig in the dictionaries ? — Runmvay. Again, he is the 
 " amor fuf/itivus" of the Latin poets. How is that word 
 
 * I am more and more convinced of the truth of an observation made by a 
 first-rate critic and scholar of the last age. — " Pauci sunt, qui de bonis correc- 
 tionibus bene judicare possint." Nor is it a less rare gift, " spuria discemere 
 a germanis."
 
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 explained ? — Runaway. What is Cotgrave's translation of 
 fugitive ? — Again, Runaway. It is the usual word. 
 
 " When Cupid with his smacking whip issueth forth to runne* 
 
 It must also be observed, that it was necessary that the 
 term should be varied, as Love is mentioned not less than 
 eight times in this passage ; and had he been designated 
 here by his name, Ciqiid, that mythological term, joined to 
 Phoebus and Phaeton, would have given it an unnaturally 
 stiff and learned air. It must be especial/?/ observed, that 
 this speech is made by Juliet in a very excited and elevated 
 state of mind, absorbed entirely with the hopes of possessing 
 Romeo, and of gratifying her youthful and impetuous pas- 
 sion for him. Full of impatient feelings, of rapid transitions 
 of hope and fear, hope of enjoyment and fear of discovery, 
 strongly excited desires, gay voluptuous thoughts, leading 
 to wild extravagant fancies, she takes up with the first 
 image and expression that presented itself most forcibly, till, 
 in the picture of " cutting Romeo into little stars," her fancy 
 loses itself in its own hurried combinations, and gives unre- 
 strained scope and license to its wanderings. Under these 
 circumstances, it seems to me the very characteristic word 
 which gives its effect to the whole passage, and is most apt 
 and beautiful in its wild expression of gaiety, which is em- 
 blematic of the state of her mind, approaching, as she then 
 believes, to the consummation of all her desires ; and at 
 length, in the ardency of youth, only mentioning her doubts 
 and fears one moment, in order to forget them the next. 
 
 It is perhaps unnecessary to say, that the word "runaway" 
 is used elsewhere by Shakespeare, in the Merchant of Venice, 
 and in the Midsummer Night 's Dream. I have somewhere 
 read, that a passage has been discovered in some poems, in 
 which Cupid is called Runaioay. This is well ; but I do 
 not feel in want of any additional support, to convince me 
 that it is the very identical word demanded — that it sheds 
 
 * " Only our love hath no decay, 
 
 Running, it never runs from us away" — Donne. 
 " Yet, shepherd, what is love, I pray ? 
 It is a tiling will soon away." 
 
 Vide England's Helicon, p. 90.
 
 1.8 
 
 a pleasing and gay light, which colours the whole passage 
 with its proper hue — that no word could be substituted 
 for it, without deeply impairing the poetical truth ; and 
 lastly, that Shakespeare himself placed it there. 
 
 It may also be observed that this interpretation preserves 
 the authentic reading of the text — Runaway es, whereas many 
 of the conjectural readings render it necessary to alter it to 
 Runaway, a license not without sufficient cause to be admitted. 
 I therefore, so far as my influence extends, cannot agree 
 to this word being removed, for the substitution of any 
 other that has been suggested, or for any reason hitherto 
 alleged. 
 
 1. It is a word much more commonly in use in Shake- 
 speare's days than in ours. 
 
 2. It is a familiar, playful, fanciful name, suited to 
 moments, as these, of pleasing excitement, hurried thought, 
 and joy. 
 
 3. It is the English translation of fugitivus, by which 
 Cupid is as well known, as Jupiter by the title of " The 
 Thunderer," Neptune " The Trident Bearer," Diana " The 
 Huntress," &c. — the " epitheton perpetuum" standing for 
 the " nomen." 
 
 4. It is an epithet applied to him (fuyitivo) by the 
 Italian poets, and this is an Italian story. 
 
 5. It is used as an emblem, in which his history and 
 habits and nature are described. 
 
 6. Lastly, it is the word established in the text of all 
 the old editions. 
 
 And now it is time that I should take my hand from 
 the subject, on which I may appear rather unexpectedly to 
 have entered, and leave the further investigation to those 
 who are pursuing, I believe with success, the honourable 
 task of preparing for public use a more pure and perfect 
 text of our great Dramatic Author, accompanied with 
 correct and appropriate illustrations, than was ever pre- 
 viously composed. Time has confirmed the necessity of 
 explaining our older poets by means brought from the age 
 in which they lived ; by exploring obscure channels of
 
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 research, by illustrating remote allusions, and explaining 
 language long antiquated and disused. In undertaking 
 so arduous a task, no little courage is required to meet 
 the expectations that will be raised, and much patience 
 in bringing the labour required to its due fulfilment. 
 No one can successfully attempt to achieve it who has not 
 previously collected ample materials, and has his treasure 
 of learning in reserve, and who, by frequent and practical 
 acquaintance with his author, cannot readily apply them. 
 When difficulties occur, sometimes there will be a demand 
 for the faculty of judgment, and the slow process of 
 logical reasoning ; and sometimes errors will be detected, 
 and disappear before the sudden and rapid flight of acute- 
 ness and ingenuity. Sometimes a successful emendation 
 will arise with an easy and spontaneous birth, and some- 
 times it will be the slow result of subtle thought or laborious 
 calculation. Much may be done by a curious happiness 
 of conjecture,* and much by extent of erudition. To form 
 a Critic, a union of rare and valuable qualities is required. 
 To the gifts of nature must be added the results of study, 
 and each will be imperfect without the assistance of the 
 other ; the result of this necessary combination will be 
 to enable the possessor to avoid those rocks on which so 
 many reputations have been shipwrecked — a temerity and 
 love of change on the one side, and a timid and super- 
 stitious adherence to error on the other. " Eruditio quae 
 ut parum, aut nihil sine ingenio ; sic sine eruditione, ne 
 perspicassimum quidem ingenium quicquam effecerit." 
 
 It may probably happen, that when (for example) the 
 expected edition by Mr. Dyce appears, some who have been 
 accustomed to the bolder proposals and frequent alterations 
 of the former commentators, may slightly regard the changes 
 made by a gentler and more careful hand, and consider 
 that little has been gained when so little seems to appear ; 
 but this apparent defect would be the certain sign of a 
 
 * Such i3 the dyxivoia, required by the Greek writers on the subject — "rem acu 
 tangere," of the Lutins. " Bed hoc fingere est, inquit 6 St7va ; — Immo totum hoc 
 entices negotiom eat fingere : modo ita Sat, ul ne a verisimilitudine aberrel j" but 
 when texts are corrupt, a little experience will teach the critic: to he content with 
 •n>/trovemen/, when- complete restitution is unattainable. " Locus corruptus quem 
 nisi sanituti restituere, morbi tamen parte levare poterimus " 
 
 1
 
 50 
 
 skilful and happy application of the true principles of the 
 art. "In summa artis intcntione" (such is the sound and 
 acute observation of Pliny when speaking of Protagoras) 
 " minor erat fertilitas." 
 
 We may now look back with something like wonder at 
 the manner in which the older editors approached their 
 voluntary task, apparently without any preparation or re- 
 flection on that proper system to be pursued which could 
 alone be successful : — when Pope altered what he did not 
 approve — when Warburton called on his ready invention, 
 his discursive erudition, and his ingenious fancy, to supply 
 the place of patient investigation and inquiry — and when 
 Steevens forced his own unauthorized system of versifica- 
 tion into a theory, to be maintained at the costly sacrifice 
 of his author's genuine reading ; nor can any one, deeply 
 jealous of the integrity of Shakespeare's text, be led to 
 approve the strange deviations from the original which 
 have been made by some later editors, in opposition to the 
 earlier authorities, and to the just laws of sound criticism.* 
 Prom want of sufficient preparation for a task which de- 
 manded long previous studies, chiefly arise, I believe, 
 those rash and inconsiderate innovations, and this delusive 
 and dangerous plan of supplying the want of knowledge by 
 unsupported assertion and a confident boldness of conjec- 
 ture ; and we trust that the system (if such it can be 
 called) so utterly destructive of truth, and so unworthy of 
 all acknowledged talent and finished learning, has altogether 
 passed away. "We had indeed," to use another's language, 
 " much to learn, much to obliterate, and much to mend." 
 
 Prom any such future deviation from all that could 
 inspire confidence or increase sound instruction we are now, 
 I believe, quite safe. It is of the utmost importance that 
 we should, whether by separate or combined efforts, possess 
 as perfect an edition of our greatest Poet as by any means 
 or appliances we can command. It is the noblest subject 
 any commentator could desire ; for it will call out at once all 
 a scholar's learning, all a critic's acuteness, and all a poet's 
 
 * " Satius est ulcus intactum relinquere, cui raederi non possis ; multum in Ms 
 rebus, valet tempus."
 
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 genius. Here Philology may exhaust her stores of erudition ; 
 and here Philosophy may be induced awhile to leave the 
 severity of the schools, to preside over the mimic repre- 
 sentations of Truth, and to clothe the august lessons of 
 Wisdom, with the brightest hues of imaginative decoration. 
 The names of Jonson and Fletcher, and of others scarcely 
 of lesser fame, are pre-eminently great — sufficient to stand 
 at the head of any drama of any country, and to render it 
 illustrious. In variety of character, in richness of inven- 
 tion, and wisdom of reflection, even the muse of the Athenian 
 stage must retire before them. Irreparable would indeed 
 be the loss of their writings to our literature and language ; 
 but when compared to Shakespeare they shrink into a 
 narrower compass, and seem comparatively wanting in the 
 treasures of imaginative wealth (which in him seem in- 
 exhaustible), and weak in that inventive and creative power 
 by which he has formed an imperishable world of his own.* 
 There is that in Shakespeare's mind that thus appears to 
 separate itself from all others. He seems alone to have 
 ascended into the highest sphere of intellectual life; — to- 
 have surveyed, as from an eminence never reached before, 
 the entire framework of human society — the whole internal 
 structure of the moral universe ; to have penetrated into the 
 deepest recesses of the human heart, and to have commanded 
 the boundless prospect of the thoughts, the passions, and 
 the affections of mankind. There is however one view 
 more of this mighty mind which, without disrespect, may 
 be mentioned as bringing with it an interest altogether of 
 a different kind: — it is when disengaging himself from the 
 attraction of fiction, and quitting that world of ideal beauty 
 in which he chiefly delighted to dwell, he addresses us in 
 his own person, and unfolds the secret memorials of private 
 life. Far above all local interests, all written records, all 
 
 * "Thinking as 1 do," says Mr. Dyce, "that Shakespeare is unlike the other 
 dramatists of Elizabeth ami James's age; (hat his method of conceiving and ivork- 
 ing out character (to say nothing of his diction) is peculiarly his own — I deny the 
 truth of a passage in Hazlitt's Lectures on the Dramatists of the Age of Elizabeth: 
 — 'He towered above his fellows, in shape and gesture proudly eminent ; but he 
 was one of a race of giants, the tallest, the strongest, the mosi graceful and beau- 
 tiful of them, but it was a common and noble //rood.'" P. 12, ed. IS lo. We hope 
 that this opinion, here casually given, will be more fully expanded and illustrated 
 in the forthcoming edition of our great Poet's works.
 
 historic documents (though these are not to be willingly 
 disbelieved or disregarded), is that wonderful disclosure of 
 himself made, as it were, confidentially to us in a separate 
 portion of his poetry, which I never can read without feel- 
 ings of deep and painful emotion, for it is the picture of 
 one by his own hand self-accused, confessing that he has 
 been unfaithful to himself and to the guardianship of that 
 matchless treasure entrusted to his care. It is the lan- 
 guage of him (if I rightly interpret it) who has awakened 
 but too late to the conviction, that much of the noble gifts 
 bestowed on him by Nature he has permitted to be pro- 
 faned by worldly and worthless hands, and that he has endan- 
 gered at once the purity and independence of the noblest 
 of created minds. Well indeed might a writer who has 
 done justice to Shakespeare's genius, and never mentioned 
 his name without feelings of deep respect, while tracing his 
 narrative through this portion of the poet's history, which 
 contains a voice from the profound depths of the afflicted 
 spirit, exclaim, "There was a time in Shakespeare's life when 
 that mighty heart was ill at ease."* This combination of 
 anxious thought, mental suffering, and intellectual power, 
 has always been to me a portion of our poet's history more 
 deeply attractive and affecting than any ideal representa- 
 tions could be ; and therefore what are called his Sonnets, 
 in my estimation, are wanting neither in poetical beauty 
 nor depth of feeling, nor moral grandeur and dignity. f 
 
 And now, lest I should be wanting in due respect to my 
 readers, in leaving them with only this very imperfect 
 testimony of my own opinion, on a subject worthy of the 
 greatest minds, I will lay before them a few other records 
 of those who, having themselves received the full meed of 
 
 * Of B. Jonson I have only room now to say, that had he not bequeathed to us that 
 memorable page in which he has delighted to express his admiration of one who. 
 he believed, had no superior, and scarcely knowing who could claim a second place 
 beside him — on whom he had gazed with admiration in his meridian splendour, and 
 followed with eyes of love and veneration in the darkness of his late decline — we 
 should have wanted a most impressive and affecting picture of the grateful attach- 
 ment of one great mind to another still greater than itself, expressed in that pure 
 and native eloquence, that as it comes from, so it goes directly to, the heart. Our 
 historic gallery possesses nothing superior to the passage in which Jonson speaks 
 of the illustrious Bacon in his closing days of adversity. The lines are few, but it 
 is a noble subject treated by a masterly hand. 
 
 t See on this subject .Mr. Wordsworth's Supplement to the Preface to his Poems, 
 vol. i, p. ;>:il .
 
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 praise — some in life and some m death — are worthy of all 
 attention and belief, when they bestowed it on others. 
 " Laudari a laudato viro," is the highest reward that man 
 can receive ; for it enables him with justice to praise 
 himself. 
 
 OF SHAKESPEARE, 
 
 Dryden says : " He was the man of all modern and 
 perhaps ancient poets, who had the largest and most com- 
 prehensive soul." 
 
 Coleridge has applied to him the epithet of fiv P i6vov S , or 
 thousand-souled, and speaks of his oceanic mind. — Table 
 Talk, vol. ii, p. 361. 
 
 Goethe says : " I regard Shakespeare as a being of a 
 superior nature." 
 
 Dr. Chalmers : " I look on Shakespeare as an intellectual 
 miracle. I dare say Shakespeare was the greatest man 
 that ever lived." 
 
 Mr. Hallam declares : " The name of Shakespeare is the 
 greatest in literature — it is the greatest in all literature. 
 No man comes near to him in the creative power of his 
 mind. Compare him with Homer — the tragedians of Greece, 
 the poets of Italy; Plautus, Cervantes, Moliere ; Addison, 
 Le Sage, Fielding, Richardson, and Scott — the romances 
 of the later or older schools — 'One man has far more than 
 surpassed them all."* 
 
 Lastly, Mr. W. S. Lanclor (who is to be placed among 
 the foremost writers of the present day, in genius as in 
 learning) says well : — " A great poet represents a great 
 portion of the human race. Nature delegated to Shake- 
 speare the interests and direction of the whole. 
 
 # Mr. Wordsworth lias made this observation, that Lord Bacon, in his 
 multifarious writings, nowhere quotes or allude- to Shakespeare; and that the 
 learned Hakewill (a third edition of whose book bears the date of 1636), writing to 
 refute the error "touching Nature's perpetual decay," cites triumphantly the 
 nanus of Ariosto, Tasso, Bartas, and Spenser, as instances that poetic genius had 
 not degenerated, but he makes no mention of Shakespeare ; on which I have to 
 observe, thai I do not believe thai the public theatres on the Bankside were much 
 resorted to by the statesmen and senators of that age; that only some of his plays 
 were printed, and these very imperfectly, and in a manner very different from 
 the beautiful editions of Spenser; and that in his lifetime there was no collection 
 of his works. No douW the lives of many of the early dramatists (such as thoso 
 of Peele, Green, Nash, Middleton, &c.) served to keep them in greai poverty and 
 iirity, and did much injury to their reputation, so as to lower the character 
 "!' the w hole 'i' .'in,., ic ti.H. : n. i \
 
 •I 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 "H ydjO twp \6ywp Kpiffig,7ro\\i)g scr-i irtipag rtXevralov iiriy'twiffia. — LONGINUS. 
 
 P. 18. " Cedar."] In Elegy, xiv, p. 13G, Marlowe places the cedar 
 
 of Lebanon on Mount Ida — the Mountain of Pines — without arguing as 
 
 to the propriety of the location : — 
 
 " Such as in hilly Ida's watery plains, 
 The cedar tall, spoil'd of his bark, retains."* 
 
 P. 26. "So continued."] In perusing Marlowe's plays, it may be seen 
 that several lines would be rendered more euphonious by a slight trans- 
 position of the words, without any other alteration ; but such must be 
 cautiously made, and no general rule seems established, nor has received 
 Mr. Pyce's authority, while the habitual carelessness of the early printers 
 might seem to permit its application, ex. gr. in Tamburlaine, vol. i, 
 
 p. 167. 
 
 " Raise mounts, batter, intrench, and undermine," 
 
 might be read — 
 
 " Batter, intrench, raise mounts, and undermine. 1 ' 
 
 In Dido, Queen of Carthage, p. 277 : —   
 
 When suddenly gloomy Orion rose, 
 read — 
 
 When suddenly Orion gloomy rose. 
 
 In Edward the Second, vol. ii, p. 252 : — 
 
 "Come Spenser, come Baldock, come sit down by me," 
 dele the second " come." 
 
 " Come Spenser, Baldock, come sit down by me." 
 
 I am, however, aware that the authors were often careless in these 
 matters as well as the printers. 
 
 In the same page, it would not only improve the metre, but the force of 
 expression, to make a slight alteration. 
 
 * Of late years another variety of cedar has been discovered on the Himalaya 
 Mountains of India, and a third in Northern Africa, on the Hills of Taunus.
 
 55 
 
 Bald. — to pine in fear 
 
 Of Mortimer and his confederates. 
 Edw. " Mortimer ! who talks of Mortimer ? " 
 
 read- 
 
 " Of Mortimer ! who talks of Mortimer ?" 
 
 Ho! young man ! saw you as you came ? 
 " IIo ! young man ! saw you as you hither came ?" 
 
 P 373 
 
 rend — 
 
 P. 272. 
 
 " Oh ! level all your looks upon these daring men." 
 
 dele " oh " and " all." 
 
 "Level your looks upon these daring men."' 
 
 Vol. i, p, 115. 
 
 Then, after all these solemn exequies, 
 
 We will our celebrated rites of marriage solemnize. 
 
 There are several marks of corrupt reading here — 1, " celebrated rites ;" 
 
 2, "solemn" and "solemnize;" 3, the redundant metre of the second 
 
 line. Read — 
 
 " We will our rites of marriage celebrate." 
 
 In vol. ii, p. 306, Dido, Queen of Cartilage, I should prefer, 
 "And headless carcases pil'd up in heaps," 
 
 to 
 
 " Headless carcases piled up in heaps." 
 
 P. 23. " Parenthesis.] This is an assumed name of Jusliniano, in 
 W ebster's TFestward Ho. 
 
 P. 29. " C r «apparent, ^apparent."] The syllables un and in are often 
 interchanged. So ^fortunate and wafortunate in Marlowe's Edward the 
 Second, vol. ii, p. 248 ; into and ?mto, p. 416. 
 
 P. 30. So straight a cedar.] See Marlowe's Hero and Leander, vol. iii, 
 
 p. 6. 
 
 "Her body was as straight as Circe's wand." 
 
 And, now that I am come to the conclusion of my slender labours, 
 \. may say these few words in explanation, or perhaps apology, for having 
 undertaken them : that, having been in certain instances consulted by the 
 editor on some passages in which the reading was doubtful, I was inclined, 
 partly from a natural curiosity, as the lover of nature is loath to leave the
 
 56 
 
 scenes of beauty lie has admired, and partly out of my great respect for 
 him, to continue my perusal of the work on which he was employed, 
 keeping the same object in view. My services indeed, have been but 
 slight, but every man must act according to the measure of his own strength; 
 and no doubt but there are many who, like myself, would feel it to be a 
 sufficient reward of their industry to be permitted to remove a few of 
 those injuries and imperfections which by time and neglect may have 
 gathered round some of the finest productions of genius. Yet when 
 [ reflected how little I could contribute, in comparison with what others 
 who preceded me had effected, I was not seldom reminded of an 
 apologue that proceeded from the fancy of some ancient fabulist, and 
 applied it to my own case. In an assembly of the birds, it was proposed 
 to offer a prize to whichsoever of them was able to soar to the loftiest 
 elevation. The eagle's bold and powerful pinions speedily bore him far 
 above all his competitors, and as he arrived at the summit of his flight, 
 the palm of victory seemed already in his possession ; when suddenly 
 a wren, who had nestled in concealment beneath his wing, darted out, 
 flew a few yards higher, and from weak and unjust judges carried off the 
 prize. And now, if there remains any other point that may be thought 
 to require explanation, let that be given in the words of a writer who at 
 once expresses my feelings and his own : — 
 
 " Nil minus egit Wyttenbachius, quam ut supra amicum mum sapere 
 velle videretur. Qui hoc suspicantur, aut ignorantia labuntur aut 
 malevolentia ducuntur. . . Ignorant utriusque viri mores, veritatis 
 studium, mutuam consuetudinem ; ignorant Socraticam rationem, Atti- 
 eamque venustatem, huic Scriptionis generi debitam. Malevolentiae 
 autem summae est conari amicos ab amicis abalienare ; si quidem 
 verissime dicitur, maximas esse divitias, bonos amicos habere. Censori 
 quidem non major cum animi benevolentia, quam cum ingenii elegantia 
 communio est." 
 
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 PEDIGREES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OE HERT- 
 
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 TfSSAY ON THE ARCHEOLOGY OF OUR POPULAR 
 
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 W. Fulwood's Enemy of Idlenessc. 
 
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 5 Russia under Peter the Great. 
 
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 introductions and notes; and, when necessary, with glossaries and indexes. 
 
 Although each work will form a distinct publication, the series will be 
 issued uniformly, in foolscap octavo, and the price will be so moderate 
 (from 3s. to 6s. a volume) as to bring them within the reach of all who 
 take any interest in the study of our older literature. 
 
 The following works are already in the press, or in preparation ; several 
 others are in contemplation, and the Publisher will gladly receive any 
 further suggestions. 
 
 The Dramatic and Poetical Works of John Marston. Now first collected, and 
 
 edited by J. O. Halliwell. 3 vols. 
 Tlie Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Edited by Thomas Wright ; a new 
 
 edition, revised, with additions to the Notes and Glossary. 2 vols. 
 Increase Mather's Remarkable Providences of the Earlier Days of American 
 
 Colonization. With Introductory Preface by George Offor. 
 John Selden's Table Talk. A new and improved Edition, by S. W. Singer. 
 The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthomden. Edited by 
 
 W. B. TurnbuU: 
 The Journal of a Barrister of the name of Manningham,/o?' the years 1600, 1601, 
 
 and 1602 ; containing Anecdotes of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Marston, Spenser, 
 
 Sir W. Raleigh, Sir John Davys, 8fc. Edited from the MS. in the British 
 
 Museum, by Thomas Wright. 
 The Rev. Joseph Spence's Anecdotes of Books and Men, about the time of Pope 
 
 and Swift. A new Edition by S. W. Singer. 
 The Prose Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, including the Translation of Boethius, 
 
 //a; Testament of Love, and the Treatise on the Astrolabe. Edited by T. Wright. 
 King James's Treatise on Demondlogy. With Notes. 
 George Wither' s Hymns and Songs of the Church. 
 The Poems, Letters, and Plays of Sir J ohn Suckling. q » * 
 Thomas Carew's Poems and Masque. A *i 1 
 
 The Miscellanies of John Aubrey, F.E.S. 
 
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