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"Each corporal agent to this terrible feat." M. MASON. The word genius in our author's time, meant either a good angel or a familiar evil spirit, and is so defined by Bullokar in his English Expositor, 1616. MALONE.

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Suidas maketh a difference between phantasna and phantasia, saying that phantasma is an imagination, or appearance, or sight of a thing which is not, as are those sightes whiche men in their sleepe do thinke they see: but that phantasia is the seeing of that only which is in very deeds. Lavaterus, 1572. HENDERSON.ớc Ji P. 24, 1. 24. your brother Cassius sius married Junia, Brutus' sister. STEEVENS. Pa5/first 1. any mark of favour,]Any distinction of countenance. JOHNSON. 91 ST904 P25, k. 19, — if thou path, thy native semwortom sblance on,] If thou walk in thy true form of JoHNSON. AMA Hede wor P. 26, 1.46. If not the face of men,Dre Warburton would read fate of men; but his elaborate emandationis if thinkerroneous. The face of men is, the countenance, the regar, the ' esteem of the publick; in other terms honours and reputation or the face of men may mean the dejected look of the people. JOHNSON.

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I cannot reconcile myself to Johnson's explanation of this passage, but believe we should read

elfinots the faiths of men. &c. baxiy glozs cooandol of gaibrocos M. MASON. P16, 1,621. Till each man drop by lottery.}" Perhaps the poet alluded to the custom of decima tion, i. e. the selection by lot of every? tenth soldier, in a general mutiny for punishment. 88

STEEVENS.

P. 26, 1. 28. And will not palter?] And will not fly from his engagements. MALONE.

P. 26, 1, 31. Cautelous is here cautious, sometimes insidious. STEEVENS.

P. 26, last 1. but one. The even virtue of Your entreprize,} The calm,, equable, temperate spirit that actuates us. AMALONE!

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P. 27, 1. 12.8-. opinion, i. e. character mi STEEVENS

P. 27, last 1. Envy is here, as almost always in Shakspeare's plays, malice. MALONE.

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P. 28, 1, 24. take thought,] That is, turn melancholy, JOHNSON.

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The precise meaning of take thought may bec learned from the following passage in St. Matthew, where the verb peqquraw, which signifies to ant ticipate, or forebode evil, is so rendered: "Take no thought for the morrow; for the mor¬ row shall take thought for the things of itself; sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” A

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Feld 11 Put To sist basi bhow HENLEY 28, 1, 26. Company is here used sin sa “dison reputable sense. See a note on the word compas nion, Act, IV. HENLEY Moulding edt la mosies P, 28, last l. & P. ng, 11.50 Quite from the 4023wali slemain opinion he held oncet Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies?} Main opinion, is nothing more than leading, fixed, predominant opinion: JOHNSON.

Main opinion, according to Johnson's explanation, is sense; but mean opinion would be a more natural expression planabis,»I believe, what Shakspeare wrote. M. Mason.Isa sili

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Fantasy was in our author's time commonlyoz used for imagination, and is so explained in

Cawdry's Alphabetical Table of hard words, 8yo, 100% It signified both the imaginative power; and the thing imagined."

Ceremonies means omens or signs deduced from sacrifices, of other ceremonial rites, Bois-tq P. 29, 1. 8, 9. That unicorns may be betray'd

with trees,

And bears with glasses, elephants with holes"} Unicorns are said to have been taken by one who, running behind a tree, eluded the violent push the animal was making at him, so that his horn spent its force on the trunk, aud stuck fast, detaining the beast till he was despatched by the

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Bears are reported to have been surprized by means of a mirror, which they would gaze on, affording their pursuers an opportunity of taking the surer aim. This circumstance, I think, b mentioned by Claudian. Elephants were seifu ced into pitfalls, lightly covered with "hördles and turf, on which a proper bait to tempt themy was exposed. See Pliny's Nat. Hist. BVHIS STEEVENS.

P. 29 1. 22. go along by him: That

is, by his house. Make that your way home.

MALONE!

P. 29, 1. 32. Let not our looks put on our purposes; Let not our faces put on, that is, wear or show our designs.

P. 30, 1. 30.

JOHNSON

on your conditionysosom your temper; the disposition of your mind. & i

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allusion to the place in which the barlers of Sinkspeare's age resided. STEVENS

P. 32, 1. 3. A woman well-reputed; Cato's daughter. By the expression well-reputed, she refers to the estimation in which she was held, as being the wife of Brutus, whilst the addition of Cato's daughter, implies that she might be expected to inherit the patriotic virtues of her father. It is with propriety therefore, that she immediately asks,

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HENLEY. P. 32, 1. 18. All the charactery &c.] i. é, all that is character'd on, &c. STEEVENS. P. 32, 121, who's that, knocks?] i. who is that, who knocks? Our poet always prefers the familiar language of conversation to grammatical nicety, Four of his editors, however, have endeavoured to destroy this peculiarity, by reading who's there that knocks? and a fifth has, who's that, that knocks? MALON

P. 33, 1. 3. 4. Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjur'd up

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My mortified spirit.] Here, and in all other places where the word occurs in Shakspeare, to exorcise means to raise spirits, not to lay them; and I believe he is singular in his acceptation of it. M. MASON.

P. I never paid a ceremonious or superstitious regard to prodigies or omens. STEEVENS.

34, 1. 9. I never stood on ceremonies,

P. 34, 1. 18. The noise of battle hurtled in the air, To hurtle is, I suppose, to clash, or move with violence and noise. STEVENS. ›

VOL. XV.

To hurtle originally signified to push violently; and as in such an action a loud noise was frequently made, it afterwards seems to have been used in the sense of to clash, MALONE.

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Will come," when it will come. This is a sentence derived from the stoical doctrine o destination, and is therefore improper in the mouth of Caesar. JoHNSON, MUGDET.

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says 2 Decius, all for reliques, as to a

Prince, for honours. JOHNSON.

I believe tinctures has no relation to heraldry, but means merely handkerchiefs, or tinged with blood. Bulfokar in

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