IN King Lear, A& III.

"Edg. Child Rowland to the dark tower "came."

The following note is printed in the late edition at Oxford." The fables of fuch a turn as that from "which thefe lines are quoted being generally taken "from books of Spanish chivalry, it is probable the "word ftood bere Infante Orlando, for which the tranflator ignorantly put child Rowland: where"as Infante meant a prince, one of the King's fons."

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And this, in the later edition at London, "the old times of chivalry, the noble youth who "were candidates for knighthood, during the fea

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fon of their probation, were called infans, var"lets, Damoyfels, Bacheliers. The most noble "of the youth particularly, infans. Here a story " is told, in fome old Ballad of the famous bero

and giant killer Roland, before he was knighted, "who is, therefore, called Infans; which the bal"lad-maker tranflated, Child Rowland."

Witbout impeaching the ignorance of this Balladmaker (who perhaps had as much learning as fome critics) I always thought infant and child were convertible terms: at least the learned Spencer thought fo, who calls ARTHEGAL, the bold child.

B. 5. c. 8. ft. 32. And old Chaucer in the Coke's tale of Gamelyn. 225. thought fo likewife.

Then faid the chyld, young Gamelyn.

Taffo Speaking of Rinaldo fays, Il nobil garzon ; which Fairfax translates, B. xvi. ft. 34. The noble infant and Spencer Speaking of Prince Arthur, B. 2. c. 8. ft. 56.] To whom the infant thus. It follows therefore as I faid above, that infant and child, are convertible terms.

IN King Lear, A& IV.

" 'Tis wonder, that thy life and wits, at once, "Had not concluded ALL. He wakes; Speak

" to him.

"Had not concluded ALL-] All what? we should "read and point it thus,

"Had not concluded-AH!

"An exclamation on perceiving her father wake." Mr. W.

This exclamation may be more pertinently applied to this impertinent criticism. ALL is altogether, wholly; ALL, λws: and fo frequently used by our old poets. Spencer, B. I. C. 5. ft. 15.

"Not all fo fatisfide, with greedy eye
" He fought all round about.”

i. e. not altogether, not quite fo well fatisfied he Jought all round about, av öμsnov Cóila, as Menelaus in Homer [Il. y'. 449.] being in like circumftances with the Fairy Knight. Again, c. 8. ft. 46.

"Ne fpared they to strip her naked ALL."

i.e. quite naked. In allufion to Revelation. xvii, 16. " Thefe fhall hate the whore [DUESSA,] and "fhall make her defolate [fee ft. 50.] and NAKED." All is used by our old poets in the fame kind of pleonafm, (if there are any pleonasms at all, which I doubt of,) as II ANTA is used by Homer, and OMNIA by Lucretius.

Χρυσῆ δὲ τήσας ἔφερεν δέκα ΠΑΝΤΑ τάλαντα. 11. w. 232.

i.e. ten talents in all, altogether.

"Una dies infefta tibi tot praemia vitae.”

IN Macbeth, A&t III.

"If 'tis fo,

III, 911.

"For Banquo's ifjue have I fil'd my mind. "We should read, 'FIL'D my mind. i.e. defiled." Mr. W.

I am afraid I led Mr. W. into this mistake: who has taken more notice of my obfervations than he is pleafed

pleafed to acknowledge. See B. III. Rule XIV where 'tis obferved that Shakespeare shortens words by ftriking off the first fyllable, which is no unusual thing in our language: among the inftances there given I mentioned file for defile; which in this Second edition I have blotted out. It feems

that Mr. W. thought to file meant only to polish. But the fame word may have two different fignifications, and be derived (tho Spelt the fame) from two different originals. ex. gr. to FILE, to polish: Anglo-S. feolan, limâ prolire. to FILE, to defile: Anglo-S, afylan, fylan, contaminare. how near to the Greek, Qauros, Qauλórns? and hence FOUL, FILTH, &c. Thus the word is used by Fairfax, B. V. ft. 18.

"It FIL'D his heart with malice, ftrife and "bate?"

And by Phaer in his verfion of Virgil, En. III, 41. Jam parce sepulto.

“Abfayne my grave To FILE.' Douglas in his Scotifh tranflation, En. III, 227. "And with thare laithlie twich all thing FYLE thay.”

And this word I would restore to Chaucer in the Romaunt of the Rofe, . 4750. [Urry's edit. p. 248.]

"And newe fruit filled [r. filed] with winter

VI.

Being in fome doubt where to turn myself next, Milton feems to call upon me to take his cause in hand again: whom I find misunderstood in a note on a paffage in All's Well that ends Well, A&t I.

"In his bright radiance and collateral light
Muft I be comforted, not in his fphere.

"Collateral for reflected. i. e. In the radiance "of his reflected light; not in his sphere, or direct light. MILTON ufes the word, in the fame fenfe, "Speaking of the fon.

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Of high collateral glory. B. 10. . 86."
Mr. W.

Now 'tis plain that collateral in Milton conftantly is used in the fame fenfe as the etymology claims; [Collaterales, funt proprie quafi lateribus confidentes,] i. e. thofe that fit together, as it were fide by fide, focially. Thus in Paradife loft, VIII. 426.

"But man by number is to manifeft "His fingle imperfection, and beget "Like of his like, bis image multiply'd: "In unity defective; which requires "Collateral love, and dearest amity." Collateral love, i. e. focial, or, as it were, fide by fide; for fo be fays in B. IV, 485.

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