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P. 171, 1. 33. 34.

from his all- obeying breath I hear

The doom of Egypt.] Doom is declared rather by an all-commanding, than an all-obeying breath. I suppose we ought to read:

all-obeyed breath, JOHNSON.

All-obeying breath is, in Shakspeare's language, breath which all obey. Obeying for obeyed. So, inexpressive for inexpressible, delighted for delighting, &c. MALONE.

Give me grace-] Grant

JOHNSON.

P. 172, 1. 2. me the favour. P. 172, l. 12 plete, and perfect.

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P. 172, 1. 19. — a muss, Ji. e. a scramble,

POPE P. 175, 1, 10.—one that looks on feeders? | One that waits at the table while,, others hers are eating.

JOHNSON.

A feeder, or an eater, was anciently the term of reproach for a servant, STEEVENS.

I incline to think Dr. Johnson's interpretation of this passage the true one. MALONE..

P. 173, 1. 24. Luxuriously means wantonly.r STEEVANS,

P. 173, 1. 32.

This is from Palm Basan, so is God's the hill of Basan."

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The idea a of the horned herd was caught from Psalm xxii. 12. Many oxen are come about me: fat bulls of Basan close me in no every side.

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P. 175, 1, 15. modern emendation,

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P. 175, 1. 24. I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breath'd, Jed tony means to say, that he will be treble-hearted, and treble-breath'd, as well as treble-sinew'd. 3. MALONE. P. 175, 1. 25. 26. for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, Nice, for delicate, courtly, flowing in peace. WARBURTON.

Nice rather seems to be, just fit for my purpose, agreeable to my wis to my wish. So we vulgarly say of any thing that is done better than was expected, it is nice. JOHNSON.

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this, Antony sent a challenge to Caesar, to fight him hand to hand, and received for answer, that he might find several other ways to end his life. UrtON.

I think this emendation deserves to be received, It bad, before Mr. Upton's book appeared, been made by Sir T. IIanmer. JOHNSON.

Most indisputably this is the sense of Plutarch, and given so in the modern trauslations; but Shakspeare was misled by the ambiguity of the old one: "Antonius sent again to challenge Caesar to fight him: Caesar answered, that he had many other ways to die, than so. FARMER.

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P. 177, 1. 4. Make boot of

tage of. JoHNSON.

P. 177, 1. 28.

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Take all. Let the survivor

take all. No composition, victory or death. JOHNSON. P. 178, 1. 6-8. 'Tis one of those odd tricks, which sorrow shoots

Trick is

Out of the mind.]. I know not what obscurity the editors find in this passage. here used in the sense in which it is uttered every day by every month, elegant and vulgar: yet Sir T. Hanmer changes it to freaks, and Dr. Warburton in his rage of Gallicism, to traits. Jonsson. 1. 178, 1. 24. 25. -- you shall not see me more; or if,

A mangled shadow:] Or if you see me mo you will see me a mangled shadow, only the external form of what I was. JOHNSON.

P. 178, I. 51. -- yield you i, e. reward you. STEEVENS.

P. 178, last but one 1. And I am onioney'd I have my eyes as full of tears as if they had been fretted by onions.

JOHNSON.

P. 179

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P. 179, first 1. Ho, ho, ho!]. e. stop, or desist.

Mr. Tyrwhitt in a note on ver. 2535, of the Cauterbury Tales doubts whether this interjection was used except to command a cessation of fighting. The succeeding quotations, however, will, while they illustrate an obscurity in Shakspeare, prove that he was by no means so confined in its meaning. Gawin Douglas translates- Hele num, farique vetat Saturnia Juno," (Aeneid L. 3. v. 380.).

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"Forbiddis Helenus to speik it,' and erys ho." In the Glossary to the folio edition of this Trans¬ lation, Edinb. 1710, it is said that " Ilo is an Interjection, commanding to desist or leave off." It occurs again in Langham's Letter concerning Queen Elizabeth's entertainment at Killingworth Častle, 1575, 12mo. p. 61, cited in The Reliques of Antient Poetry. Heer was no ho in devout drinkyng." HOLT WHITE.

P. 179, 1.10.death and honour. ] That is, an honourable death. UPTON.

P. 180, 1. 5. [Musick of hautboys under the stage. This circumstance (as I collect from Mr. Warton) might have been suggested to Shakspeare by some of the machineries in Masques., Holin shed, describing a very curious device or spectacle presented before Queen Elizabeth, insists partieularly on the secret or misterious inusick of some fictitious Nymphs," which, he adds', surely had been a noble hearing, and the more melodious for the varietie [novelty] therefore, because it should come secretlie and strangelie out of the earth," Vol. III. f. 1297. STEVENS,

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