TYRAN T. Why fhould Cæfar be a tyrant then? Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf, But that he fees, the Romans are but sheep: He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. Julius Cafar, A. 1, S. 3. It is excellent To have a giant's ftrength; but it is tyrannous, Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2. Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 2. Ah me, I fee the ruin of my house! The tyger now hath feiz'd the gentle hind; Upon the innocent and awless throne. Richard III. A. 2, S. 4 Richard except, those whom we fight against Richard III. A. 5, S. 3. I'll not call you tyrant, But this moft cruel ufage of your queen (Not able to produce more accufation Than your own weak-hing'd fancy) fomething fa vours Of tyranny. Winter's Tale, A. 2, S. 3. O thou tyrant! Do not repent these things; for they are heavier Than Than all thy woes can ftir: therefore betake thee A plague upon the tyrant that I ferve! Tempeft, A. 2, S. 2, U. UNION. WE grew together, Like to a double cherry, feeming parted; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries molded on one stem. い Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2. UNKINDNESS. Beloved Regan, Thy fister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied I can fcarce fpeak to thee. Lear, A. 2, S. 4. U S E. As furfeit is the father of much faft, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Measure for Measure, A. 1, S. 3. VALOUR. V. VALOU R. Na falfe quarrel there is no true valour. IN I never knew yet, but rebuke and check was the reward of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? Have I, in my poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? I have [peeded hither with the very extremeft inch of poffibility. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4, S. 3. Then the vital commoners, and inland petty fpirits, mufter me all to their captain, the heart; who, great and puff'd up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour comes of therris. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4, S. 3. You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy Henry VI. P. 1, S. I. A. S. 2. 3, The deeds of Coriolanus Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held, Coriolanus, A. 2, S. 2. What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, When When he might spurn him with his foot away? Henry VI. P. 3, A. 1, S. 4. There is not work enough for all our hands; That our French gallants shall to-day draw out, The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them. Henry V. A. 4, S. 2. The better part of valour is-discretion: in the which better part, I have faved my life. S. 4. She did fhew favour to the youth in your fight, only to exafperate you, to awake your dormouse valour; to put fire in your heart, and brimstone in liver you should then have accofted her. your Twelfth Night, A. 3, S. 2. We are beaftly; fubtle as the fox, for prey; Is, to be frighted out of fear and in that mood, The dove will peck the eftridge; and I see still, A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart: when valour preys on reasor. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 3, S. 11. So full of valour that they fmote the air For breathing in their faces. Tempest, A. 4, S. 1. Here I clip The anvil of my fword; and do contest 5. As hotly and as nobly with thy love, Mark then a bounding valour in our English; Henry V. A. 4, S. 3. Is a virtue of a good wing.] Mr. Edwards is of opinion, that a virtue of a good wing, refers to his nimbleness in running away. The phrafe, however, is taken from falconry, as may appear from Marfton's Fawne." I love my hawk for the good"nefs of his wing, &c." Or it may be, taken from drefs. So in Every Man Out of his Humour I would have mine fuch a "fuit, fuch fuff, fuch wing, &c." Mr. Tollet obferves, hat a good wing, fignifies a strong wing in Lord Bacon's Natural Hiftory. STEEVENS. "A virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well," is nonfenfe. For "wing" we must read aigon, a fort of Spanish wool. The whole fhould run thus-The compofition that your valour and fear makes in you, is a vigon of good virtue, and I like the wear well.-i. e. Your valour and fear is a stuff of good manufacture, and I like the wear well. Without such reading, where is the integrity of the metaphor? as Dr. Warburton would fay. A. B. 2 Killing in relapfe of mortality.] What it is to kill in relapse of mortality, I do not know. I fufpect that it fhould be read: "Killing in reliques of mortality." That the allufion is, as Mr. Theobald thinks, exceedingly beautiful, I am afraid few readers will difcover. The valour of a putrid body, that destroys by the stench, is one of the thoughts that do no great honour to the poet. JOHNSON. "Mortality" is fickness, "relapfe" is return, and the prepofition "of" is ufed, as is common with the writers of Shakefpeare's time, instead of by. The fenfe of the paffage is thisThe valour, or rather the power of our English is fuch, that being dead, they will yet (in return) destroy their enemies by breeding a fickness-by the stench which will arife from their bo dies. A. B. VENGEANCE. |