"The day approacheth of ther "returning, "That everich should a hun“dred knights bring, "The battaile to darrien, as I you told." Chaucer. Skelton ufes the word in the fame fenfe. Speaking of the duke of Albany, Works, p. 83. 66 66 Thou durft not felde de 66 rayne, "Nor a battayle. mayntaine, "With our stronge Cap66 tayne. "For you ran home agayne." Dr. GRAY. P. 107. Ay, Clifford, bedlam, and ambitious humour, Makes bim oppofe himself against the king.] The word bedlam not ufed in the reign of king Henry VI. nor was Bethlehem hofpital (vulgarly called Bedlam) converted into a house, or hospital, for lunatics, till the reign of king Henry VIII. who gave it to the city of London for that purpose. Dr. GRAY. Callat, a lewd woman, a drab, perhaps fo called from the French calote, which was a fort of headdrefs, worn by country girls. See Glaffery to Urry's Chaucer. ade A cold old knave cuckolde "himfelf winying "And of calot of lewd de"menyng." Chaucer's Prologue to the Remedy of Love, 308. So Skelton, in his Elinour Ramming, Works, p. 133. "Then Elinour faid, ye cal"lettes, "I fhall break your palettes." And again, p. 136. 1 972 35 "She was a cumlye callet." Gammar. -Bears.} The Ne P. 107. P. 143. Vengeance on "thofe callets, whofe confcience "is fo large." Gammar Gurton's Needle, act iii. fc. iii. Old Plays, published 1744, vol. i. P. 154. A cart for a callet." Id. ib. Why the callet you told me ** of here, "I have tane difguis'd.' Ben Johnson's Volpene, act iv. fc. iii. Dr. GRAY P. 204. Meed.] This word fignifies merit, both as a verb and a fubftantive; that it is used as 'a verb, is clear from the following foolish couplet, which fre "And feide, that if ye done member to have read. 56 us both to dien." Thus Chau er; Deem if I me. d' A fpecimen of verfes that read 3 P. 253. Queen Margaret to quis, you are malapert; invent, and it fuggefts a new idea, and fuch a one as the text feems to warrant. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 335- Whom now two tender bedfellows.] Read rather, too tender. REVISAL. J P. 356. Sound drums and trumpets, boldly, chearfully, God, and St. George, &c.] St. George was the common cry of the English foldiers, when they is Scarce current.] ShakeSpeare may either allude to the late creation of the marquis of Dorfet, or to the inftitution of the title of marquis here in Eng-charged the enemy. land, as a fpecial dignity; which was no older than Richard II. Robert Vere, earl of Oxford, was the first, who, as a diftinct dignity, received the title of marquis, ft December, anno попо Ricardi Secundi. See Afmole's Hiftory of the Order of the Garter, p. 456. P. 320. Because that like a jack thou keep ft the ftroke between thy begging and my meditation.] An image like those at St. Dunfan's church in Fleet-ftreet, and at the market-houfes of feveral towns in this kingdom, was ufually called a jack of the clockboufe. See Cowley's Difcourfe, on the Government of Oliver Cromwel, Richard resembles Buckingham to one of these automatons, and bids him not fufpend the ftroke. on the clock bell, but ftrike, that the hour may be paft, and himfelf be at liberty to pursue his meditations. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 324. Pufellow is a word Mr. HAWKINS. yet in ufe. P. 331. demife.] I think it fhould be devife; but not in the fenfe you fuppofe. Dewife, as a mode of conveyance, is appropriated to wills, but take it as a fynomine, to imagine, contrive, or 86 The au thor of the old Arte of Warre, cited above, printed in the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, formally enjoins the ufe of this cry among his military laws. 84. Item, that all fouldiers entring into battaile, affault, "fkirmish, or other faction of armes, fhall have for their common cry and word, St. "George, St. George, forward, or upon them, St. George, whereby the fouldier is much "comforted, and the enemy "difmaid by calling to minde "the antient valour of England, "which with that name has fo "often been victorious: and "therefore, he that upon any 66 finifier zeule, all maliciously "omit fo fortunate a name, shall "be feverely punished for his ob"ftinate erroneous heart, and perverse mind." p. 47. 66 Mr. WARTON. P. 357. This and St. George to boor, is to help;] As I conceive not over and above. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 368. The life and death of king Richard the Third.] Tueoldest known edition of this tra gedy is printed for Andrew Wife, 1597, but Harrington, in his Kk 4 Apologie of Poetrie, written 1590. and prefixed to the tranflation of Ariono, fays, that a tragedy of Richard the Third had been acted at Cambridge. His words are, "For tragedies, to omit other famous tragedies, that which was played at St. John's in Cambridge, of Richard the Third, wou'd move, I think, "Phalaris the tyrant, and ter"rifie all tyrannous minded men, &c." He moft probably means Shakespeare's; and if fo, we may argue, that there is fome more antient edition of this play than what I have mentioned; at least this fhews us how early Shakespeare's play appear ed: or if fome other Richard the 66 P. 386, I am the badowy, &c.] There may another explana tion be given fomewhat harsh, but the belt that occurs to me. I am the shadow of poor Bucking ham, he figure even skis infant it puts on, whofe port and dignity is affumed by this cardie nal that overclouds and oppreffes me, and who gains my place, by darkening my clear fun. 9d1 gd P. 421 Sennet was an inftrument of mufick, as appears from other places of this authour, but of what kind I know not. vesain GAS CTRLLEN me. NOTES to the SIXTH VOLUME. → P. 18. For the plague of cuftom, we may read by a very eafy change, the place of cuftom. The place which cuftom, and only custom, not nature, hath allotted J. SIMPSON, Efq; P. 18. Thou, nature, art my goddess;] Dr. Warburton (for the fake of introducing an oftentatious note) fays, that Shakespeare has made his baftard an Atheift; when it is very plain that Edmund only speaks of na❤ ture in oppofition to cuflom, and not (as he fuppofes) to the exiftence of a God.. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 41. Like an engine wrench'd my frame of nature.] Mr. Edwards conjectures that an engine is the rack. He is right. To been informed (as it thould feem) of the exprefs number without. What! fifty of my followers at nota clap? This renders all change needlefs, and away, away, being reftored, prevents the repetition of go, go, my people; which, as the text now ftands, concludes both that and the foregoing fpeech. Go nerid with great art avoids to mention the limited number, and leaves him to be informed of it by accident, which she knew would be the cafe as foon as he left her prefence. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 62. He wears cruel garters.] I believe a quibble was here intended. Crewel fignifies worsted, of which stockings, garters, night caps, &c. are made, and is used in that fenfe in Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady, act ii. "For who that had but half "his wits about him, "Would commit the counsel "of a ferious fin "To fuch a crewel night-cap." Mr. STEEVENS. P.92. Mice and rats and fuch Small deare Have been my food for Seven long year-] Warburton, inftead of deare, propofes geare; but Fhave discovered that these two lines are taken from an old black letter'd romance of St. Beyvys of *Hampton, 4to. printed for William Copland, in which occurs this paffage, ftated within ratts, Mr. PERCY. La P. 102. By the kind Gods.-] Dr. Warburton is of opinion that` Shakifpeare, by the kind Gods, means the dii hospitales. I agree with him, that the Poet &c. never 1 makes his people fwear at random," nor has he done fo here; though I cannot believe he received any affistance from mythology, to furnish out a proper oath for Glofter. People always addrefs the Gods as they would have them fhew themfelves at that time in their favour; and he accordingly calls those kind Gods, whom he would wifh to find fo in this inftance. Our own liturgy will fufficiently evince the truth of this fuppofition. Mr. STEEVENS. P. tro. As flies to wanton boys, are we to th' Gods; They kill us for their sport.-] It may not be unentertaining to the reader to have an opportunity of feeing how differently this idea has been expreffed by three great poets of different ages. Dii nos quafi pilas homines ha bent. Plaut. Captiv. Prol. L. 22. Ludit in bumanis divina potentia rebus. Ovid. Lib. 4. de Ponto Eleg. 3. you take this note My lord is dead; Edmund and And more convenient is he for Than for your lady's; you may gather more. If you do find him, pray you give him this; And when your mistress bears thus much from you, I pray defire ber call her wif dom to her.] This paffage, by a word's being left out and a word mifplaced, and a full stop put where there should be but a comma, comma, has led all our editors into a very great mistake; as will, I hope, appear, when we proceed a little further in the fame play. The emendation is as follows: "Therefore I do advise you, pray j. e. this anfwer by word of mouth. The editors, not fo regardful of confiftency as they ought to have been, ran away with the thought, that Regan delivered a letter to the steward; whereas the only defired him to give, or deliver fo much by word of mouth. And by this means another blunder, as egregious as the former, and arifing out of it, presents itself to view in the fame act, fc. ix. P. 121. "And give the letters, which "May be my friends." Reads the letter. Obferve, that here is but one letter produced and read, which is Goneril's. Had there been one of Regan's too, the audience no doubt fhould have heard it as well as Goneril's. But it is plain, from what is amended and explained above, that the steward Dr. GRAY. P. 128. or the ftall'd horfe Goes to't with a more riotous appetite.] Soy'd horse in all the other editions I believe, and it is a term now used for a horse that has been fed long with hay and corn in the ftable, and in fpring a The like expreffion, Twelfth Night, at iii. fc. iv. vol. iii. T P. 168. Sir Tody. 66 Challenge me the Duke's youth, to fight with him “hurt him in eleven places; my niece fhall take note of it. owhas |