"Not Erebus itself were dim enough "To hide thee from prevention.' In King Lear, A&t IV. "Glo. Let the fuperfluous and luft dieted man "That faves your ordinance, that will not fee, "Because he does not feel, feel your power quickly." i. e. That makes a flave of your ordinance ; that makes it fubfervient to his fuperfluities and luft. Again, he uses fubftantives adjectively; or, by way of appofition. So the Greeks fay, 'Exλάδα διάλεκτον. Σκύθην οἶμον. and Homer Il. ώ. 58. Γυναϊκά τε θήσατο μαζόν. Virgil Aen. XI, 405. Amnis Aufidus, Horace Epift. I, 12. . 20. Stertinium acumen. Propertius L. 2. Eleg. 31. Femina turba. And the Apostle in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, II, 4. iv weibois ñólois, in pèrfwasible, or, inticing words. i. e. Ev widavors λólors. Shakespeare in Julius Caefar, Act I. Tyber bank. And Act V. Philippi fields. In Coriolanus, A& II. Corioli gates. In Hamlet, mufic vows, neighbour room, &c. Hence we may correct fome trifling errors, (if any errors can be called fo) ftill remaining 5 Mr. W: reads, Braves. in Shakespeare. In a Midfummer Night's dream, A& III. "Hel. Is all the counsel that we two have shar'd, "The fifters vows, the hours that we have "spent, &c." Read, The fifter vows. Again in Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. "His captains beart "Which in the scuffles of great fight hath burst "The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper." Read, His Captain heart, i. e. His warlike heart, fuch as becomes a captain. There are other places of like nature that want to be corrected, but at present they do not occur. And fometimes, the fubftantive is to be conftrued adjectively when put into the genitive cafe : or, when governing a genitive cafe. Lucret. IV, 339. 66 Quia cum propior caliginis aer "Ater init oculos prior." i. e. the air of darknefs, for the dark air. Euripides in Hippol. v. 1368. Μόχθες δ' ἄλλως τῆς εὐσεβείας Εἰς ἀνθρώπες ἐπόνησα. In vain bave I exercised towards mankind the labors of piety: i. e. pious labours. St. Luke XVIII. 6. i xgiln's •'ngilns rñs adixías, the judge of injustice, i. e. the unjuft judge. Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, p. 2. opening the cherry of her lips: i. e. her cherry lips. Ariftophanes in Plat. 268. * xevoòv dzleiλas inv. ô thou who telleft me a gold of words: i. e. golden words. Milton V, 212. "Over head the dismal bifs "Of fiery darts in flaming vollies flew, "And flying vaulted either hoft with fire." • the bifs of darts, i, e. the hiffing darts. In the first part of K. Henry IV. A&t I. "No more the thirsty entrance of this foil 7 "Shall dawb her lips with her own children's "blood." The 6 The fentence is certainly vitious (fays Dr. Bentley) "the bifs flew in vollies, and the hifs vaulted the hosts with "fire, the author may be fairly thought to have given it, over bead WITH dismal bifs "THE fiery darts in flaming vollies flew." 7 Shall trempe. So Mr. W. The very mentioning such a reading is fufficient refutation. Had this Gentleman not thought these rules abfolutely below his notice, he might have confidered perhaps, fome of the inftances here given, a little more seriously; and thence have applied them to Shakespeare; and not like an unskilful musician, perpetually have blundered on the fame ftring. ex. gr. Shakespeare. po The entrance of this foil, i. e. this thirsty and rous foil, easily to be enter'd, and gaping to re-. ceive whatever is poured into it. "Almoft to jelly with the act of fear." Haml. A& I. i. e. with fear acting and operating strongly upon them. Mr. W. "Almoft to jelly with th' effect of fear." Shakespeare. "Which done, he took the fruits of my advice.” Haml. A& II. i. e. my fruitful, or profitable, advantageous advice: my advice which turned out to her advantage. Mr. W. "Which done fee too the fruits of my advice." Shakespeare. "Good night, sweet prince; "And flights of Angels fing thee to thy reft." Haml. A& V. i. e. whilft they fly with thee to heaven fing thy requiem. Mr. W. "And flights of Angels wing thee to thy reft." Shakespeare. "I am poffefs'd with an adulterate blot, "My blood is mingled with the crime of luft." He fometimes expreffes one thing by two subftantives; which the rhetoricians call "Ev dia Juo. As Virgil. δυοῖν. "Patera libamus et auro, 8 i. e. pateris aureis. In Antony and Cleopatra, A& IV. "I hope well of to morrow, and will lead i. e. than honourable death. you Again, 8 In my former edition I brought as an inftance Spencer's, "Glitter & arms." B. 2. c. 7. ft. 42. for, glittering arms. But turning to the first edition of Spencer, I found it there printed, "glitterand arms." As in Chaucer's Plowman's tale. 2074. "In glitterande gold of gret araie. This rule too our late editor forgot to note. In Hamlet, A& I. "Who by feal'd compact, "Well ratified by law and heraldry "Did forfeit, with his life, all these his lands." i. e. By the Herald Law: jure fetiali. Cicero de Off. I, 2. Mr. W." By law of heraldry," which is the gloss, or profaic interpretation. In Othello, A&I, "As when by night and negligence the fire, "Is fpied in populous cities.". i. e. Fire occafioned by nightly negligence, &c. |