has fresh grafs carried to him thither, upon which he feeds gree. dily Dr. GRAY. 136. Reftoration hang Thy medicine on my lips-] Dr. Warburton fays that Cordelia invokes the goddess of health, Hygicia, under the name of Reftoration but I believe the reader will join with me in thinking, that if Shakespeare meant any goddefs in this place, it was one of his own making; for we may fuppofe the Pantheons of that age (from whence most probably he furnished himself with his knowledge in mythology) were not fo particular as to take notice of the fecondary deities; and the Poet, had he been acquainted with her name, would certainly have called her by it. Refloration means no more than recovery perfonified. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 140. Do you not love my fifter? Edm. In honour'd love.] After this line, the quarto of 1608 continues the dialogue thus; and I fee no reason why it should be omitted. my Reg. But have you never found brother's way To the fore-fended place? Balt. That thought abufes you. Reg. I am doubtful that you have been conjun&t And befom'd with her, as far as we call hers. Baft. No, by mine honour, ma dam. omitted in all; by which means the baftard is made to deny that flatly at firft, which the poet only meant to make him evade, or return flight answers to, till he is urged fo far as to be obliged to fhelter himself under an immediate falfhood. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 145. The goujeres fhall confume them flesh and fell.] Both flesh and fkin. The first and laft of thefe fpeeches are inferted in Sir T. Hanmer's, and I believe in Theobald's and Dr. Warburton's editions; but the two intermediate ones are So Skelton's works, p. 257- "Neither flesh nor fell.” Chaucer ufeth fell and bones, for fkin and bones. "And faid that he and all his "kinne at once, "Were worthy to be brent "with fell and bone." Troilus and Creffeide, 1.91. Dr. GRAY. P. 170. In the note, for or art, read of art. P. 175. In the note, for well be him, read well be he. P. 320. the enemies caftle.] The Revifal affirms, and, I think, proves, that cafk is right. 347. Get me a ladder.] Mr. Theobald has very officiously tranfplanted this half line into the mouth of Lucius, and defires to know why the Moor, who wanted to have his child faved, should ask for a ladder. Auron very properly answers, get me a ladder, that is, hang me, but fpare my child. Could any circumstance fhew a greater defire of faving his child than the offer of himself in its room? Aaron knows he must die, and being quite careless about it, would only haften that which he fees is unavoidable at laft, to make Folios 1623, and 1632. Dr. GRAY. thou found and firm-fit earth.] A corrupt reading will fometimes direct us to find out the true one. The firft folio has it, -thou fowie and firm-fet earth, This brings us very near the right word, which was evidently meant to be, -thou fure and firm-fet earth. Mr. STEEVENS. Certainly right. not yet attained. The death of the king only could neither infute the crown to Macbeth, nor accomplish any other purpose, while his fons were yet diving, who had therefore just reason to ap. prehend they should be removed by the fame means. The defign to fix the murder on fome innocent perfon had taken effect, for it was already adjudged to have been done by the grooms, who appeared intoxicated, even after it was discovered, and during that ftate, were fuppofed, at firft, to have been guilty of its though the flight of Malcolm, and his brother, afforded Macbeth afterward a fairer pretext for laying it to their charge. M STEEVENS. P. 440. For indicet, read indiget. P. 408. Macbeth. Sleep that P. 449knits up the ravell'd fleeve of care.] To confirm the ingenious conjecture that fleeve means fleaved, filk ravelled, it is obfervable, that a poet of ShakeSpeare's age, Drayton, has alluded to it likewise, in his quest of Cynthia. "At length I on a fountain "Whose brim with pinks was, 66 Mr. LANGTON. P. 419. Shaft that's shot Hath not yet lighted-] The Shaft has not yet lighted, and though it has done mischief in its flight, we have reafon to ap prebend fill more before it has Spent its force and falls to the ground. The end for which the murder was committed, is P. 468.-bell is murky.] Lady Macbeth is acting over, in a dream, the bufinefs of the murder, and encouraging her hufband, as when awake, She, therefore, would never have faid any thing of the terrors of hell to one whose conscience she faw was too much alarmed already for her purpose. She certainly imagines herfelf here talking to Macbeth, who (the fuppofes) has juft faid, bell is murky, (i.. hell is a difmal place to go to, in confequence of fuch a deed) and repeats his words in contempt of his cowardice. Hell is murky!Fie, fie, my lord, &c. This explanation, I think, gives a fpirit to the paffage, which, for want of being underftood, has always appeared languid on the stage. Mr. STEEVENS. My puiffant liege is in the 22w16 very May-morn of his sau youth." 98 od Mr. LANGTON. 3 P.478. I pull in resolution.] Mr. Johnfon in the room of this cwould read, I pall in resolution; but there is no need of change; for Shakespeare, who made Trincalo in the Tempeft say, I will let loofe my opinion, might have written, I pull in my refolution. He had permitted his courage (like a horfe) to carry him to the brink of a precipice, where feeing his danger, he refolves to pull in that, to which he had given the rein before. で Mr. STEEVENS. P. 519. I'll potch at him fome feems to me no need of emendation. The meaning is, that fenators and plebeians are equal, when the highest tafle is beft pleafed with that which pleases the low eft. Mr. STEEVENS, way.] The Revifal reads poach, but porch, to which the objection is made, as no English word, is used in the midland counties for a rough violent push. P. 553. eft afte when the great Moft palates theirs] There P. 555. Read, What may be worn by, both divine and human, Seal, what I end withal. I think rightly. REVISAL. P. 562. Clean kam] The Welch word for crooked is kam. P. 578. My firft fon.] The Revifal reads, my fierce fon; but furely firft may ftand for first in excellence: Prima virorum. P. 601. As is the ofprey to the fif.] We find in Mich, Drayton's Poly-Olbion, Song 25, a full account of the ofprey, which fhews the juftness, and the beauty of the fimile, and confirms Theobald's correction to be right: "The ofpray oft here feen, though feldom here it "breeds, "Which over them the fish no "But, betwixt him and them, 66 "They at his pleasure lie to ** ftuff his gluttonous 66 maw." Mr. LANGTON. NOTES to the SEVENTH VOLUME. P. 27. Brutus. The genius and the mortal inftruments, · Are then in council, and the ftate of man Like to a little kingdom, Suffers then The nature of an infurrection.] Inftead of inftruments, it should, I think, I think, be inftrument, and explained thus; The genius, i. e. the foul, or fpirit, which fhould govern; and the mortal inftrument, i. e. the man, with all his bodily, that is, earthly paffions, fuch as, envy, pride, malice, and ambition, are then in council, i. e, debating upon the horrid action that is to be done, the foul and rational powers diffuading, and the mortal inflrument, man, with his bodily paffions, prompting and pushing on to the horrid deed, whereby the ftate of man, like to a little kingdom, fuffers then the nature of an infurrection, the inferior powers rifing and rebelling againft the fuperior. See this exemplified in Macbeth's foliloquy, and alfo by what King John fays, act iv. p. 453.. Nay in the body of this fleshly land, "This kingdom, this confine " of blood and breath, "Hoftility and civil tumult "reigns, "Between my confcience, and my coufin's death." Mr. SMITH. P. 122. Ant. Now by my fword.] An expreffion ufed by Shakespeare, Winter Night's Tale, act ii. fc. laft. Leontes to Antigonus. Leo." Swear by thy fword, "Thou wilt perform my bidding." See act iii. sc. ii. And in allufion to the Danish customs, Hamlet, acti. sc. ix. See Titus Andronicus, a&t iv. sc. i. Spencer obferves (in his View of the State of Ireland, Works, 12mo, 1564) from Lucian's Dialague, intitled Toxaris, "That prayers, and charms to their "fwords, making a crofs there"with on the earth, and thrust"ing the points of their blades into the ground, thinking "thereby to have better fuccefs "in the fight." To this custom Spencer alludes in other places. "So fuff'ring him to rife, he "made him fwear, "By his own fword, and the "cross thereon,<> 66 "To take Briana for his loving Fere." Fairy Queen, book 6. canto 1-53. Dr. GRAY This note, which is referred to this place by its authour, may deferve more confideration to the reader of Hamlet, where the friends of Hamlet are required to fwear upon his fword. P. 155. Cleo. Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid them to report the feature of Octavia, her years, her inclination; let them not leave out the colour of her hair.] This is a manifeftallufion to thequeftion put by Queen Elizabeth to Sir James Melvil, concerning his miftrefs... the Queen of Scots. "She de"fired to know of me what co"lour of hair was reputed beft? "And whether my Queen's hair "or her's was beft? And which "of them two was faireft? I "anfwered, The fairness of them was not their worst faults. Dr. GRAY, 66 Start forth, and cry, Your will.] Mufs, a fcramble. Soufed by Ben Johnson. See the Magnetic Lady, act iv. fc. iii. p. 44. 66 66 Bias, I keep her portion P. 260. In the note, for Don Belliarus, read Don Bellianis. P. 286. What both you Spur and flop. I think Imogen means to enquire what is that news, that intelligence, or information, you profefs to bring, and yet withhold at leaft, I think, your explanation a mistaken one, for Imogen's request fuppofes Lachimo an agent, not a patient. Mr. HAWKINS. 347. Untwine his perishing reat, &c.] The attribute of the elder in this place is perishing, that of the vine encreafing. Let therefore the ftinking elder grief T ENTWINE his root with that of the vine [patience,] and in the end patience muft out-grow grief. This I take to be the fenfe, and that therefore we fhould read ENTWINE. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 354.thy fluggish carrack.] Mr. Simpson reads, thy fluggish crare. A crare was a fmall trading veffel, called in the Latin of the middle ages, crayera. This I think is right. REVISAL. P. 355. The robin-red-breast called ruddock, by Chaucer and Spenfer. "The falfe lapwinge, all full " of trechérie, "The ftarling that the coun*fails can bewrie, "The tame ruddock, and the "coward kite." Dr. GRAY. P. 382. Or to take upon your felf,] Read, Or take upon yourSelf. REVISAL P. 444. Thou fool for a witch.] In one way of trying a witch, they used to place her upon a chair or stool, with her legs tied acrofs, that all the weight of her body might reft upon her feat; and by that means, after fome time, the circulation of the blood, in fome hours, would be much ftopt, and her fitting would be as painful as the wooden horfe. NOTES to the EIGHTH VOLUME. P. 1. Gregory. On my word, I will not carry coals.] An expreffion then in ufe, to fignify the patient bearing of injuries. Shakespeare ufes it in this fenfe, Life of King Henry V. act iii. fc. iii. p. 350. Boy."Nym and Bardolph are * {worn |