"Is nought but bitterness." i. e. of the time which I fhall defpife and hate : or rather, which will caufe me to be despised; my daughter having run away with a black moor. In K. Richard II. Act II. Why have they dar'd to march So many miles upon her peaceful bofom, Frighting her pale-fac'd villages with war, And oftentation of defpifed arms. i. e. of arms despifing the places they march through; or the laws of England. RULE VI. In his ule of verbs there is sometimes to be underfood intention, willingness, and defire. The Greek language has many instances fully to our purpose. Euripides in Jo. . 1326. Ἤκεσας ὡς μ ̓ ἔκλεινεν. Audivifti quomodo me interfecit. i. e. interficere voluit. Euripides in Andromache. y. 810. Η καθάνῃ, ΚΤΕΙΝΟΥΣΑ τὰς εἰ χρὴ θανεῖν. 2 See the note in the foregoing page. Aut Aut moriatur, QUÒD VOLUERIT OCCIDERE ques non oportebat mori, In Hamlet, A& III, "Try what repentance can: what can it not? "Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? i. e. cannot willingly and from the heart repent; in oppofition to a forc'd and feigned, and halfway refolution of repentance. In Measure for Measure, Act III. "Reason thus with life "If I do love thee, I do love a thing "That none but fools would keep." I i. e. would be defirous and eager to keep. Befide the auxiliary verb, would, claims here fuch an interpretation. In the fame manner Milton IV. 175. "The undergrowth 2 "Of fhrubs, and tangling bufhes, had perplex'd « All path of man, or beast, that pass'd that "way." 66 1 They print, would reck. 2 "Here our poet's attention was wanting. There was no MAN yet to endeavour to pass that way, &c." Dr. Bentley. N. B. Many of the paffages which I have above cited from Milton, tho' not taken notice of in the notes, have been altered or misunderstood. i. e. that should now or hereafter endeavour to pass that way. RULE VII. He often adds to adjectives in their compara, tive and superlative degrees, the figns marking the degrees. In King Lear, A& II. Corn. "Thefe kind of knaves I know, which " in this plainness "Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends "Than twenty filly, &c." In Henry VIII. A& I. "There is no English soul "More ftronger to direct you than yourself." Nor is this kind of pleonafm unusual among the Latins and Grecians. Virgil in Ciris. 66 Quis magis optato queat effe beatior aevo?” "Ita mollior fum magis, quàm ullus cinaedus." Euripides in Hecuba, . 377. Θανών δ ̓ ἂν εἴη ΜΑΛΛΟΝ ΕΥΤΥΧΕΣΤΕΡΟΣ Η ζῶν. RULE He frequently omits the auxiliary verb, am, is, are ec. and likewife feveral particles, as to, that, a, as et. In Macbeth, A&t I. "King. Is execution done on Cawdor yet? "Or not those in commiffion yet return'd ?" i. e. Or are not, &c. In Hamlet, A& III. "But 'tis not fo above, "There is no fhuffling, there the action lies "In his true nature; and we ourselves compelled "Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults "To give in evidence." In Macbeth, A& IV. "Malc. I'm young, but fomething "You may difcern of him through me and " wisdom "To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb, "T'appease an angry God." i. e. and 'tis wildom." The particle that is omitted, in Macbeth, A& II. 1 You may see something to your advantage by betraying me. Mr. Theobald reads, instead of discern, deserve. "Go "Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready "She ftrike upon the bell." * A omitted, in King Lear, A&t III. "Be fimple anfwerer, for we know the truth.' i. e. Be a simple anfwerer: answer directly. To, the fign of the infinitive mood, omitted, in Macbeth, A& III. "I am in blood "Stept in fo far, that should I wade no more, "Returning were as tedious as go o'er." i. e. as to ga o'er. To, the fign of the dative cafe, omitted, in Julius Caefar, A& IV. "And now, Octavius, "Liften great things." As omitted, in like manner as the Latins omit ut and the Greeks ws. Shakefpeare in Cymbeline, Act V. "Forthwith they flie "Chickens, the way which they ftoop'd eagles." 2 A is omitted in Chaucer frequently: as in Troilus and Crefeide. L. IV. . 1645. - Men rede, "That love is thing aie full of bufie drede." "Res eft folliciti plena timoris amor.” So |