That fame dew, which fometime on the buds Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 4, S. 1. When Phoebe doth behold Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 1, S. 1. I must go seek fome dew-drops here, Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 1. Of one, that lov'd not wifely, but too well; Richer than all his tribe; of one, whofe fubdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the, Arabian trees Their med'cinable gum. Othello, A. 5, S. 2. PENITENCE. By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeas'd. Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 5, S. 3. PENURY. Take the basest and most pooreft shape, That ever penury in contempt of man, Brought near to beaft: my face I'll grime with filth; Lear, A. 2, S. 3. PHOEBUS, PHE BUS. Pale primrofes, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength. Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 3. Stalls, bulks, windows, Are fmother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd PICTURE. Doft thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight Adonis, painted by a running brook; And Cytherea all in fedges hid Which feem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving fedges play with wind. Taming of the Shrew, Induct. PITY. 'Tis well known, that whiles I was protector, Pity was all the fault that was in me; 1 On flickering Phoebus' front.] Dr. Johnfon, in his Dictionary, fays this word means to flutter. Stoneyhurst, in his tranflation of the fourth book of Virgil's Eneid, defcribes Iris, "From the fky down flickering, &c." STEEVENS. To "flicker" is likewife to fleer, to look proudly. Phoebus cannot well be faid to flutter, but he certainly may be faid to fleer. Kent is laughing at Cornwal, and compares his "grand "afpect" to the proud looks of Apollo. A. B. For For I should melt at an offender's tears, And lowly words were ranfom for their fault. Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 1. I am an humble fuitor to your virtues ; For pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Timon of Athens, A. 3, S. 5. Where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there commendations go with pity, they are virtues and traitors too. All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1. That we have been familiar, Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather Than pity note how much.-Therefore, be gone. Henry VI. P. 3, A. 4, S. 8, Say-pardon, king; let pity teach thee how: Richard II. A. 5, S. 3. If ever you have look'd on better days; As you like it, A. 2, S. 7. Uncapable Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy. Merchant of Venice, A. 4, S. 1. If we fuffer (Out of our eafinefs, and childish pity To one man's honour) this contagious fickness, Henry VIII. A. 5, S. 2. O, now you weep; and, I perceive you feel But foft, but fee, or rather do not see, And wash him freth again with true-love tears. Richard II. A. 5, S. 1. I am the most unhappy woman living.- I - Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 1. and I perceive you feel The dint of pity.] Is the impreffion of pity. The word is in common ufe among our ancient writers, So in Prefton's Cambyfes : "Your grace therein may hap receive, with others, for your hafte, "The dent of death, &c." STEEVENS. Dint, with Shakespeare, and in this place, is rather force or power. Dent is undoubtedly stroke or impression. A. B. Thou Thou know'ft no law of God nor man; No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity. Richard III. A. 1, S. 2. Our very eyes Are fometimes like our judgments, blind. Good faith, Cymbeline, A. 4, S. 2. Come on, poor babe; Some powerful fpirit inftruct the kites and ravens, Winter's Tale, A. 2, S. 3. PLAYER. O, there be players, that I have seen play,—and heard others praise, and that highly,-not to fpeak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of chriftians, nor the gait of chriftian, pagan, nor man, have fo ftrutted, and bellow'd, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity fo abominably. Hamlet, A. 3, S. 2. PLEASURE, PLEASURES. Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decifion. Troilus and Creffida, A. 2, S. 2. What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again; the present pleasure, The oppofite of itself. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 2. To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, Το |