In imitation of whom our poet in Coriolanus, A& I.

"As if I lov'd my little should be dieted "In praises fauc'd with lies."

Again, he makes verbs of fubftantives. As, to bench, to voice, to paper, to progress, to stage, to eftate, to helm, &c. To fcale, i. e. to weigh and examine: In Coriolanus, A& I.

"Men. I will venture

"3 To fcale it a little more."

i. e. to confider it, to examine it.

In Cymbeline, A& I.

"Fach. He furnaces

"The thick fighs from him."

i. e. His fighs come from him as thick as fire and fmoke from a furnace.

In Julius Cæfar, A&t II.

"For if thou* path, thy native semblance on,

if the reader thinks proper, he may turn to the following in Paradife loft. B. II, 97. and 278. B. IV. 927. B. VI. 78. B. VII. 368. B. XI. 4.

3 They have printed, To ftale it.

4 In the elegant edition printed at Oxford 'tis altered into, "If thou march :" i, e. the glofs or interpretation has removed the more difficult word, which often happens to be the cafe.

"Not

3

"Not Erebus itself were dim enough "To hide thee from prevention."

In King Lear, A& IV.

"Glo. Let the fuperfluous and luft dieted man "That faves your ordinance, that will not fee, "Because he does not feel, feel your power "quickly."

i. e. That makes a flave of your ordinance; that makes it fubfervient to his fuperfluities and luft.

Again, he ufes fubftantives adjectively; or, by way of appofition. So the Greeks fay, 'Exλάδα διάλεκτον. Σκύθην οἶμον. and Homer Il. ώ. 58. Γυναῖκά τε θήσατο μαζίν. Virgil Aen. XI, 405. Amnis Aufidus. Horace Epist. I, 12. y. 20. Stertinium acumen. Propertius L. 2. Eleg.

31. Femina turba.

And the Apostle in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, II, 4. év weidots aófois, in perfwafible, or, inἐν ticing words. i. e. i wilavois ófois. Shakespeare in Julius Caefar, Act I. Tyber bank. And Act V. Philippi fields. In Coriolanus, Act II. Corioli gates. In Hamlet, music vows, neighbour room, &c. Hence we may correct fome trifling errors, (if any errors can be called fo) ftill remaining 5 Mr. W. reads, Braves.

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333

in Shakespeare. In a Midfummer Night's dream, A& III.

Hel. Is all the counsel that we two have fhar'd, "The fifters vows, the hours that we have fpent, &c."

Read, The fifter vows.

Again in Antony and Cleopatra, A& I. "His captains heart

"Which in the fcuffles of great fight hath burst "The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper."

Read, His Captain heart, 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 conftrued 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. y. 1368.

Μόχθος δ' ἄλλως τῆς εὐσεβείας

Εἰς ἀνθρώπες ἐπόνησα.

In vain have I exercifed towards mankind the labors of piety: i. e. pious labours. St. Luke XVIII. 6.

• ugiln's

• xgiln's Tñs adixías, the judge of injuftice, 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 ázleiaas iπwν. ô thou who telleft me a gold of words: i. e. golden words. Milton V, 212.

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"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& 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 bifs flew in vollies, and the hifs vaulted the hosts with "fire, the author may be fairly thought to have given it, over head WITH difmal hifs

"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, fome of the inftances here given, little more ferioufly; and thence have applied them to Shakespeare; and not like an unskilful musician, perpetually have blundered on the same string, ex. gr.

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Shakespeare.

The entrance of this foil, i. e. this thirsty and porous foil, easily to be enter'd, and gaping to receive whatever is poured into it.'

Shakespeare.

"Whilft they diftill'd

"Almost to jelly with the act of fear." Haml. Act I. i. e, with fear acting and operating strongly upon them. Mr. W.

"Almost to jelly with th' effect of fear."

Shakespeare.

"Which done, he 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

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Shakespeare.

advice."

"Good night, sweet 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."