Uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unaufpicious altars My foul the faithfull'ft offerings hath breath'd out, That e'er devotion tender'd! Twelfth Night, A. 5, S. 1. The foul and body rive not more at parting, Than greatness going off. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 4, S. 11. Even as I was then, is Percy now. -- Henry IV. P. 1, A. 3, S. 2. O my gentle Hubert, We owe thee much; within this wall of flesh And with advantage means to pay thy love. King John, A. 3, S. 3. We have with special foul Elected him our abfence to fupply, Lent him our terror, drest him with our love; And given his deputation all the organs Of our own power. Measure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 1. Sheba was never More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue, Than this pure foul fhall be: all princely graces Shall ftill be doubled on her: truth fhall nurfe her, She fhall be lov'd, and fear'd. Henry VIII. A. 5, S. 4. It is the cause, it is the caufe, my foul,- Nor fcar that whiter fkin of hers than fnow, Othello, A. 5, S. 2. And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham, Go with me, like good angels, to my end; Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 1、 Ten thousand French have ta'en the facrament, I Upon no Chriftian foul but English Talbot. Henry VI. P. 1, A. 4, S. 2. SPEECH. Rude am I in my speech, And little blefs'd with the fet phrase of peace; Othello, A. 1, S. 3. But, I do fee, you are mov'd; I am to pray you, not to ftrain my speech To rive their dangerous artillery.] I do not understand the phrafe to rive artillery; perhaps it might be to drive; we fay to drive a blow, and to drive at a man, when we mean to exprefs furious affault. JOHNSON. Rive their artillery, feems to mean, charge their artillery fo much as to endanger their bursting. TOLLET. "To rive" is properly to break; and to break has fometimes the fenfe of to open. "Rive their artillery on the enemy" is, break their artillery on the enemy. The expreffion is equivalent to the modern oneopen the artillery. A. B. Το To groffer iffues, nor to larger reach, Othello, A. 3, S. 3. There was speech in their dumbnefs, language in their very gefture; they look'd as they had heard of a world ranfom'd, or one deftroy'd; a notable paffion of wonder appear'd in them: but the wifeft beholder, that knew no more but feeing, could not fay, if the importance were joy or forrow. Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 2. Speak the fpeech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lieve the town-crier fpoke my lines. Nor do not faw the air too much with your hand, thus; but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempeft, and (as I may fay) whirlwind of your paffion, you must acquire and be get a temperance, that may give it smoothness. Hamlet, A. 3, S. 2. His speech was like a tangled chain; nothing impaired, but all difordered. Midsummer Night's Dream, A. 5, S. 1. SPIRIT, SPIRITS. I do applaud thy fpirit, Valentine, And think thee worthy of an emprefs' love. Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 5, S. 3. My spirits obey; and Time Goes upright with his carriage. Tempest, A. 5, S. 1. If thou doft play with him at any game, Thou art fure to lofe; and, of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds; thy luftre thickens When he shines by: I fay again, thy fpirit Is all afraid to govern thee near him; But, he away, 'tis noble. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 2, S. 2. Hence Some, to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds ; Midsummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 3, That in crofs-ways and floods have burial, Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2, I am thy father's fpirit; Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4. Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night; Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, I have heard, The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Hamlet, A. 1, S. I, Angels and minifters of grace defend us!-- Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blafts from hell, Thou com'ft in fuch a queftionable fhape, That I will speak to thee. Hamlet, A. 1, S. 4. My father's fpirit in arms! all is not well; I doubt fome foul play: would the night were come; Till Till then fit ftill, my foul: foul deeds will rife (Though all the earth o'erwhelm them) to men's eyes. Hamlet, A. 1, S. 2. The spirit that I have seen, May be a devil: and the devil hath power Abuses me to damn me. Hamlet, A. 2, S. 2. Let me not live, After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger fpirits, whofe apprehenfive fenfes All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 2. * Whofe haughty fpirit, winged with defire, Will coaft my crown, and, like an empty eagle, Tire on the flesh of me, and of my fon! Henry VI. P. 3, A. 1, S. 1. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine iffues. Meafure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 1. Oh Julius Cæfar, thou art mighty yet! Thy fpirit walks abroad, and turns our fwords In our own proper entrails. Julius Cæfar, A. 5, S. 3. 1 Whofe haughty Spirit, winged with defire, Read coaft, i. e. hover over it. WARBURTON. The word which Dr. Warburton would introduce, appears to violate the metaphor, nor is to coaft ufed as a term in falconry. We may however maintain the integrity of the figure, by inferting the word cote. To cote is to come up with, to overtake. STEEVENS. "Cote" may perhaps be right. To cote, however, is not to come up with, to overtake, but to mark, to notice. Henry's meaning is, that the Duke of York would keep his eye at all times on the crown: that he would never lofe fight of it. A. B. We |