We all stand up against the spirit of Cæfar; Cæfar muft bleed for it! Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1. Henry V. A. 3, S. 1, Gracious lord, Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag; Henry V. A. 1, S. 2, Who fets me else? by heaven I'll throw at all: Richard II. A. 4, S. 1. I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard, Now, whilft your purpled hands do reek and smoke; Fulfil your pleafure. Live a thousand years, I fhall not find myfelf fo apt to die: No place will please me fo, no mean of death, Julius Cæfar, A. That I did love thee, Cæfar; O, 'tis true: 3, Shall it not grieve thee, dearer than thy death, S. 1. Julius Cæfar, A. 3, S. 1. Soul Soul of Rome! Brave fon, deriv'd from honourable loins! Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1. What should be in that Cæfar? Why should that name be founded more than yours? Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2. He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2. Nor ftony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 3. She is too difdainful; I know, her fpirits are as coy and wild Much ado about nothing, A. 3, S. 1. Happy in this, fhe is not yet fo old Commits Commits itself to yours to be directed, Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2. A braver choice of dauntless spirits, Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, King John, A. 2, S. 1. I hold you as a thing enfky'd, and fainted; As with a faint. Measure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 5. All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. I, Although this lord of weak remembrance, this, When he is earth'd) hath here almoft perfuaded 1 Methinks, in thee fome bleffed fpirit doth Speak; Profeffes His powerful found within an organ weak.] To speak a found is a barbarism. Befide the construction is vicious with the two ablatives, in thee, and within an organ weak. The lines, therefore, fhould be read and pointed, "Methinks in thee some bleffed spirit doth speak: WARBURTON. If we change the order of the lines, there is no longer any difficulty. "O powerful found within an organ weak! A. B. 2 For he's a fpirit of perfuafion.] Of this entangled fentence I can draw no sense from the prefent reading, and therefore imagine that the author gave it thus: "For he, a spirit of perfuafion, only Of which the meaning may be either, that he alone, who is a fpirit felles Profeffes to perfuade) the king, his fon's alive; 'Tis as impoffible that he's undrown'd, As he, that fleeps here, fwims. Tempeft, A. 2, S. 1. SPLE E N. At this match, With swifter fpleen than powder can enforce, SPORT, SPORT S. To confound fuch time, That drums him from his fport, and fpeaks as loud As we rate boys; who, being mature in knowledge, Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 4. There be some sports are painful; but their labour Delight in them fets off. Tempest, A. 3, S. 1. felles to perfuade, that is, without being so perfuaded himself, he makes a Jhew of perfuading the king. "(For he's a fpirit of perfuafion, only JOHNSON. The meaning is, that in cafes like to that of which they are Speaking, he is generally admitted, or confidered, as a spirit of perfuafion, who endeavours to perfuade of the truth of the news he brings. That fuch agreeable reports are readily liftened to. The want of the pronoun who, occafions much of the difficulty. Read, Who profeffes to perfuade. A. B. With Swifter fpleen.] Our author ufes fpleen for any violent hurry, or tumultuous fpeed. So in the Midfummer Night's Dream, he applies Spleen to the lightning. "Spleen" is anger, but the word is out of its place. read the line thus: "Swifter than powder can in fpleen enforce." JOHNSON. A. B. Never, fince the middle fummer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain, or by rushy brook, Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4. Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from, Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 2. His addiction was to courfes vain : Any retirement, any fequeftration Henry V. A. I, S. I. Men at fome time are mafters of their fates: Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2. Thou cold-blooded flave, Haft thou not spoke like thunder on my fide? Upon |