To trip the course of law, and blunt the sword Question your royal thoughts, make the cafe yours, Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 2. If I were mad, I fhould forget my fon; King John, A. 3, S. 4. I am not mad ;-this hair I tear is mine; King John, A. 3, What doft thou mean by shaking of thy head? S. 4. King John, A. 3, S. I. Oh, time's extremity! Haft thou fo track'd and splitted my poor tongue, Comedy of Errors, A. 5, S. 1. All my followers to the eager foe Turn back, and fly, like ships before the wind, Henry VI. P. 3, A. 1, S. 4. 1 Where Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers? There thou mak'ft me fad, and mak'st me fin, A fon, who is the theme of Honour's tongue; Of my young Harry. Henry IV. P. 1, A. 1, S. 1. Might I a fon and daughter now have look'd on, Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 1. I will buy me a fon-in-law in a fair, and toll for I'll none of him '. this. All's well that ends well, A. 5, S. 3. I will buy me a fon-in-law in a fair, and toule for this. I'll none of him.] Thus the first folio. The fecond reads, "I will buy me a fon-in law in a fair, and toule him for "this." The reading of the first copy feems to mean this: I'll buy me a new fon-in-law, and toll the bell for this, i. e. look upon him as a dead man. The fecond reading, as Dr. Percy fuggefts, may imply; I'll buy me a fon-in-law as they buy a horfe in a fair; and toul him, i. e. enter him on the toul, or tell book, to prove I came honestly by him. STEEVENS. The commentators have totally mistaken the meaning of toule. We must read and point thus: "I'll buy me a fon-in-law in a fair: a toule. For this, I'll none of him." A toule, or tole, is a toy. The word is found in Chaucer. Lafeu fays, he will go to a fair, and buy a toy, a puppet for a fon-in-law; he will have nothing to do with Bertram. A. B. I Priam's Priam's fix-gated city (Dardan, and Thymbria, Ilias, Chetas, Troyan, And Antenoridas) with maffy ftaples, And correfponfive and fulfilling bolts, 'Sperrs up the fons of Troy. Prol. Troilus and Creffida. SORROW. Wifely, good fir, weigh Our forrow with our comfort. If hearty forrow Be a fufficient ranfom for offence, I tender it. Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 5, S. 3. When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man from him, it fhews to man the tailors of the earth; comforting therein, that when old robes are worn out, there are members to make new, and, indeed, the tears live in an onion 2, that should water this forrow. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 2. Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd A faint-like forrow: Do, as the heavens have done; forget your evil I Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 1. ・fulfilling bolts.] To fulfil, in this place, means to fill till there be no room for more. In this fense it is now obsolete.. STEEVENS. "Fulfilling" cannot, in this place, have the fenfe that Mr. Steevens has annexed to it," fulfilling bolts" muft here fignify, bolts that anfer the end for which they were made: bolts that A. B. fit their fockets well; bolts that render us fecure. 2 The tears that live in an onion.] So in the Noble Saldier,"So much water as you might squeeze out of an onion had been STEEVENS. "enough," &c. So much water as you might squeeze, &c. is not, I think, the precife and definite meaning of the tears that live in an onion. I conceive the sense of the paffage to be this," the tears fhould "be forced tears which are to water this forrow.” fay, fuch tears as an onion is apt to occafion. That is to A. B. Patience Patience and Sorrow strove Who fhould exprefs her goodlieft. You have seen From which even here I flip my wearied head, Farewell, York's wife,-and queen of fad mifchance. Richard III. A. 4, S. 4. Sorrow breaks feafons, and repofing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night. Richard III. A. 1, S. 4. Remember this another day, When he shall split thy very heart with forrow, I Richard III. A. 1, S. 3. her fmiles and tears Were like a better day.] It is plain we should read—“ a "wetter May," i. e. a spring season wetter than ordinary. WARBURTON. A better day is the best day, and the beft day is a day moft favourable to the productions of the earth-fuch are the days in which there is a due mixture of rain and funfhine. We should read, 66 the better day." The fenfe is then fufficiently clear. STEEVENS. "You have feen, fays the gentleman, funshine and rain at " once? Cordelia's fmiles and tears were like the better day," .. like to that day in which sunshine prevails over rain. A. B. Thy Thy heart is big; get thee apart and weep. And made no deeper wounds?-Oh, flattering glass, Thou doft beguile me.. Richard II. A. 4, S. 1. Be fad, good brothers, For, to speak truth, it very well becomes you; Sorrow fo royally in you appears, That I will deeply put the fashion on, Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 2. - I found the prince in the next room, Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks; With fuch a deep demeanour in great forrow, That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife With gentle eye-drops. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4, S. 4. S.4 'Tis all men's office to speak patience To thofe that wring under the load of forrow; To be fo moral, when he shall endure The like himself. Much ado about nothing, A. 5, S. 1. Shorten my days thou can'ft with fullen forrow, |