Urge them, while their fouls Are capable of this ambition; Left zeal, now melted, by the windy breath Cool and congeal again to what it was. King John, A. 2, S. 2. Love, and meeknefs, lord, Become a churchman better than ambition ; But reverence to your calling makes me modeft. Henry VIII. A. 5, S. 2. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition; Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2. AMIT Y. Madam, although I speak it in your presence, Of god-like amity. Merchant of Venice, 4. 3, S. 4. To climb fteep hills, Requires flow pace at firft: Anger is like A full-hot horfe; who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Henry VIII. A. 1, S. 1. Anger's my meat; I fup upon myself, And fo fhall ftarve with feeding-Come, let's go : In anger, Juno-like. Coriolanus, A. 4, S. 2. It engenders choler, planteth anger; And better 'twere, that both of us did fast,Since, of ourselves, ourfelves are cholerick,— 4 -- Than Than feed it with fuch over-roasted flesh. Taming of the Shrew, A. 4, S. 2. O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, ANGLING. Lear, A. 2, S. 4. The pleasant'ft angling is to fee the fish Much ado about nothing, A. 3, S. 1. ANSWER. The answer is as ready as a borrow'd cap. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 2, S. 2. APPLAUSE. O, thou fond many! with what loud applause Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 3. ↑ The answer is as ready as a borrow'd cap.] But how is a borrow'd cap fo ready? read a borrower's cap, and then there is fome humour in it; for a man that goes to borrow money is of all others the most complaifant; his cap is always at hand. WARBURTON. Perhaps the old reading, a borrow'd cap, might be right. Falftaff's followers, when they ftole any thing, called it a purchase. A borrowed cap might be a stolen one; which is fufficiently ready, being, as Falstaff fays, to be found on every hedge. MALONE. Perhaps we fhould read, as ready as borrow'd crap. Crap, in vulgar language, is money. The expreffion is fuch as may well be expected from Poins. The meaning will be, that borrowed money, as it is eafily gotten, fo it is frequently fquandered with little thought; or, according to the proverb, "lightly come, lightly go." A. B. No No man is the lord of any thing, Though in and of him there is much confifting) Troilus and Creffida, A. 3, S. 3. ARRO W. I go, I go; look, how I go; Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2. In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, The felf-fame way, with more advised watch, To shoot another arrow that felf way Which you did fhoot the first, I do not doubt, Or bring your latter hazard back again. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1. ART. Graves, at my command, Have wak'd their fleepers; op'd and let them forth By my fo potent art. Tempest, A. 5, S. 1. I muft Tempeft, A. 4, S. i. Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some vanity of mine art I would I had beftow'd that time in the tongues, that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-bating; O, had I but followed the arts! Twelfth Night, A. 1. S. 3. Navarre Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Love's Labour Loft, A. 1, S. 1. AT TEM P T. The quality and hair of our attempt I Henry IV. P. 1, A. 4, S. 1. AUTHORITY. So please thee to return with us, And of our Athens (thine and ours) to take The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with abfolute power 2, and thy good name Live with authority. Timon of Athens, A. 5, S. 2. I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him The quality and hair of our attempt.] The hair feems to be the complexion, the character. The metaphor appears harsh to us, but perhaps was familiar in our author's time. We still say fomething is against the hair, or against the grain, that is, against the natural tendency. JOHNSON. I am not fatisfied with this interpretation, and therefore read, "The quality and aire of our attempt." An aire, or airy, is the neft of a bird of prey: which nefts are always built on the tops of the loftieft trees. The sense of the paffage is, our attempt being great and towering, &c. A. B. 2 Allow'd with abfolute power.] This is neither English nor fenfe. We fhould read, "Hallow'd with abfolute power." i. e. thy power fhall be held facred. For abfolute power being an attribute of the gods, the ancients thought that he, who held in fociety, was become facred, and his perfon inviolable. On this account the Romans called the tribunitial power of the Emperors, facrofanéta poteftas. WARBURTON. Allowed is licenfed, privileged, uncontrolled. So of a buffoon, in Love's Labour Loft, it is faid, that he is allowed, that is, at liberty to fay what he will, a privileged fcoffer. JOHNSON. "Allow'd with abfolute power," is, abfolute power shall be allowed or granted thee. What can poffibly be clearer ? A. B. a lord. with any convenience, an he were double and double All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 3. My authority bears a credent bulk, That no particular fcandal once can touch, Meafure for Meafure, A. 4, S. ·Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That fkins the vice o' the top. 4. Meafure for Meafure, A. 2, S. 2. A S looks the mother on her lovely babe, Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds, Henry VI. P. 1, A. 3, S. 3. Is this the fcourge of France? Is this the Talbot, fo much fear'd abroad, That with his name the mothers ftill their babes? Henry VI. P. 1, A. 2, S. 3. In thy fight to die, what were it elfe, But like a pleasant flumber in thy lap? Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 2. Spare not the babe, Whofe dimpled fmiles from fools exhauft their mercy; Think it a bastard, whom the oracle Hath |