333 in Shakespeare. In a Midfummer Night's dream, A& III. "Hel. Is all the counfel that we two have fhar'd, "The fifters vows, the hours that we have fpent, &c." 66 Read, The fifter vows. Again in Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. "His captains heart "Which in the fcuffles of great fight hath burft "The buckles on his breaft, reneges all temper." Read, His Captain beart, i. e. His warlike heart, fuch as becomès a captain. There are other places of like nature that want to be corrected, but at prefent they do not occur. And fometimes, the fubftantive is to be construed adjectively when put into the genitive cafe : or, when governing a genitive cafe. Lucret. IV, 339. "Quia cum propior caliginis aer "Ater init oculos prior.". i. e. the air of darkness, for the dark air. Euripides in Hippol. . 1368. Μόχθος δ' ἄλλως τῆς εὐσεβείας Εἰς ἀνθρώπες ἐπόνησα. In vain have I exercised towards mankind the labors of piety: i. e. pious labours. St. Luke XVIII. 6. • upitn's • ugilùs rñs adixías, the judge of injustice, i. e. the unjuft judge. Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, p. 2. opening the cherry of her lips: i. e. her cherry lips. Ariftophanes in Plat. 268. * xevoòv ázleiλas inv. ô thou who telleft me a gold of words: i. e. golden words. Milton V, 212. "Over head the difmal bifs Of fiery darts in flaming vollies flew, "And flying vaulted either hoft with fire." the bifs of darts, i. e. the hiffing darts. In the firft part of K. Henry IV. A&t I. "No more the thirsty entrance of this foil "Shall dawb her lips with her own children's "blood." The 6 The fentence is certainly vitious (fays Dr. Bentley) "the hifs flew in vollies, and the hifs vaulted the hofts with "fire, the author may be fairly thought to have given it, over head WITH difmal hiss "THE fiery darts in flaming vollies flew." 7 Shall trempe. So Mr. W. The very mentioning fuch a reading is fufficient refutation. Had this Gentleman not thought these rules abfolutely below his notice, he might have confidered perhaps, some of the instances here given, little more seriously; and thence have applied them to Shakespeare; and not like an unskilful musician, perpetually have blundered on the same string, ex. gr. ¿ a Shakespeare. The entrance of this foil, i. e. this thirsty and porous foil, eafily to be enter'd, and gaping to receive whatever is poured into it.' "Almost to jelly with the act of fear." Haml. A&t I. with fear acting and operating ftrongly upon them. Mr. W. "Almost to jelly with th' effect of fear." Shakespeare. "Which done, fhe took the fruits of my advice." Haml. A& II. i. e. my fruitful, or profitable, advantageous advice: my advice which turned out to her advantage. Mr. W. "Which done fee too the fruits of my advice." Shakespeare. "Good night, fweet prince; "And flights of Angels fing thee to thy reft." Haml. A& V. i. e. whilft they fly with thee to heaven fing thy requiem. Mr. W. "And flights of Angels wing thee to thy reft." Shakespeare. "I'am poffefs'd with an adulterate blot, "My blood is mingled with the crime of luft." 1 He fometimes expreffes one thing by two fubftantives; which the rhetoricians call "Ev dia Juo. As Virgil, "Patera libamus et auro, i. e. pateris aureis. In Antony and Cleopatra, A& IV. "I hope well of to morrow," and will lead you "Where rather I'll expect victorious life "Than death and bonour." i. e. than honourable death. Again, 8 In my former edition I brought as an inftance Spencer's, "Glitter & arms.' ." B. 2. c. 7. ft. 42. for, glittering arms. But turning to the first edition of Spencer, I found it there printed, "glitterand arms." As in Chaucer's Plowman's tale. 2074. "In glitterande gold of gret araie. This rule too our late editor forgot to note. In Hamlet, A& I. "Who by feal'd compact, "Well ratified by law and heraldry "Did forfeit, with his life, all these his lands." i. e. By the Herald Law: jure fetiali. Cicero de Off. I, 2. Mr. W. " By law of heraldry," which is the glofs, or profaic interpretation. In Othello, A& I,.. "As when by night and negligence the fire, "Is fpied in populous cities." i. e. Fire occafioned by nightly negligence, &c. Again, he uses adjectives adverbially. So Vir gil. "Magnumque fluentem Nilum. Sole re❝cens orto. Se matutinus agebat. Arduus infurgens, &c." And Homer Il. B'. 147. Ως δ' ὅτε κινήσει ζέφυρος βαθὺ λήϊον ἐλθὼν And Milton, VII, 305. "All but within those banks where rivers now "Stream, and perpetual draw their humid train." In Troilus and Creffida, A&t V. "Go into Troy, and fay there, Hector's dead; In "Make Wells and Niobes of the maids and wives." i. e. Will make them like Niobe all tears, as he expresses it in Hamlet. Mr. W. reads, Make welling Niobes, &c. i. e. he explains this figure & dia dvo, but instead of placing it in his note he has very unhappily printed it as Shakespeare's reading. I will here explain a passage in Milton. I, 367. "Till wandring o'er the earth "Thro' God's high sufferance for the trial of man, "Glory of him that made them, to transform "Oft to the image of a brute, &c." under a corporeal By falfities and lyes, i. e. by falfe Idols, representation, belying the true God. The poet plainly alludes to Rom. I, 21, &c. "When they knew God, they "glorified |