with thy knife: Remember, ils, (for so he calls them,) reil: I ne'er saw woman, Es books; for without them I am, nor hath not mmand:] Milton, in his Masque at Ludlow e caught a hint from the foregoing passage: stook; ye should have snatch'd his wand, d him fast; without his rod revers'd, ward mutters of dissevering power, ot free the lady." - Steevens. Prospero says: Il to my book; ere supper time, must I perform siness appertaining." per than did ever plummet sound, n my book." ances, the sorcerer is always furnished with a certain parts of which, he is enabled to summon er dæmons or spirits he has occasion to employ. rived of his book, his power ceases. Our author erved this circumstance much insisted on, in the rato, of Boyardo, (of which, as the Rev. Mr. me, the three first Cantos were translated and 98,) and also in Harrington's translation of the 1591. From the former of these works may prove the best The passage before us. y the aid of Argalia, having bound the enchanter lamsel searcheth forthwith in his breast, there the damned booke she straightway founde, ch circles strange, and shapes of fiendes exprest: Looner she some wordes therein did sound, - opened had some damned leaves unblest, spirits of th' ayre, earth, sea, came out of hand, ing alowde, what is't you us command?" Malone. - a non-pareil: I ne'er saw woman,] The old copy Is her a non-pareil: I never saw a woman." But this 9 Will you troll the catch-] Ben Jonson uses the word in Every Man in his Humour : " If he read this with patience, I'll troul ballads." Again, in the Cobler's Prophecy, 1594: "A fellow that will troul it off with tongue. To troll a catch, I suppose, is to dismiss it trippingly from the tongue Steevens Trin. This is the tune of ou picture of No-body.1 Ste. If thou beest a man, shew thou beest a devil, take't as t Trin. O, forgive me my sins Stre. He that dies, pays all det Col. Art thou afeard?2 Ste. No, monster, 'not I. Ste. This will prove a bra Ste. That shall be by and Trin. The sound is goi ter, do our work. Ste. Lead, monster; w see this taborer:3 he lays 1 This is the tune of our catc The allusion is here to I would I could see th this sceno e tune of our catch, played by the 1 eard? 2 er, 'not I. rd; the isle is full of noises, = airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Lisand twangling instruments nine ears; and sometime voices, ad wak'd, after long sleep, eep again: and then, in dreaming, nought, would open, and shew riches on me; that, when I wak'd, prove a brave kingdom to me, where I usic for nothing. onster; we'll follow. I would, I could 3he lays it on. e of our catch, played by the picture of No-body.] me, sometimes represented on signs. Westward <, which our author appears to have read, was Trundle, in Barbican, at the signe of the No-body. s here to the print of No-body, as prefixed to comedy of "No-body and Some-body;" without I before the year 1600. Reed. Thus the old copy. To affear is an obsolete ame meaning as to affray. nannes Tale of Chaucer, v. 13,330: if was not aferde, ne affraide." rde and affraide, aide, in the time of Chaucer, there n some nice distinction, which is at present lost. uld see this taborer:] Several of the incidents, in -Ariel's mimickry of Trinculo-the tune played and Caliban's description of the twangling instru 5 By'r lakin, i, e. The diminutive only of our lady, i. e, lady Our frustrate search on land: but. I am right glad that he's Do not, for one repulse, forego That you resolv'd to effect. Will we take thoroughly. Le for, now they are oppress'd w Will not, nor cannot, use suc As when they are fresh. I sa Silemn and strange musick; le. Enter several strang quet; they dance about it, tion; and, inviting the K Alon, What harmony is Gon. Marvellous sweet Alon. Give us kind ke these? Seb. A living drollery: That there are unicorns; There is one tree, the pl Our frustrate search-] man's translation of Homer some God "Our frustrate sails A living drollery:] SL speare's time, performed dern drolls, exhibited at f mont and Fletcher's Vale "I had rather mal A living drollery, i. e. a chines, but by personag one tree, the might have been indebt B. XIII. chap. 4: "Im this kind of tree; and r is supposed to have tal Greek, 16 on land: Well, let him go. glad that he's so out of hope. pulse, forego the purpose to effect. oughly. oppress'd with travel, they not, use such vigilance, - fresh. I say, to-night: no more. e musick; and PROSPERO above, invisiveral strange Shapes, bringing in a banace about it, with gentle actions of salutaiting the King, Sc. to eat, they depart. armony is this? my good friends, hark! Lous sweet musick! s kind keepers, heavens! What were drollery: Now I will believe, unicorns; that, in Arabia ree, the phenix' throne; one phenix -search-] Frustrate for frustrated. So, in Chapn of Homer's Hymn to Apollo: ustrate sails, defeating what we will'd." Steevens. ollery:] Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakperformed by puppets only. From these our mohibited at fairs, &c. took their name. So in BeauCher's Valentinian: rather make a drollery till thirty." Steevens. lery, i. e. a drollery not represented by wooden ma✓ personages who are alive. Malone. e tree, the phœnix' throne;] For this idea, our author een indebted to Phil. Holland's Translation of Pliny, . 4: "I myself verily have heard straunge things of ree; and namely, in regard of the bird Phanix, which to have taken that name of this date tree; [called in ]; for it was assured unto me, that the said bird died ee, and revived of itselfe, as the tree sprung again." |