She conjures him by high almighty Jove, Quoth fhe, reward not hofpitality 3 She puts the period often from his place, "Throttle their practis'd accent in their fears, "You fhould not ruffle thus." STEEVENS. "What good could they pretend " STEEVENS 6 End thy ill aim, before thy fhoct be ended:] It is ma context, that the authour intended the word foot to be tal fenfe; fuit and foot being in his time pronounced alike London Prodigal, 1605: But there's the other black-browes, a fhrood gi "She hath wit at will, and fouters two or three,' Again, in The Puritan, a Comedy, 1607: "Are not thefe archers ?-what do you call them,-f "the murd'rous fhaft that's hot, He is no wood-man that doth bend bis bow, very ftrongly fupports my opinion. STEEVENS. There is no doubt that boot was one of the ideas intended veyed. It is, in my apprehenfion, equally clear, that the fu He is no wood-man, that doth bend his bow My husband is thy friend, for his fake fpare me; Thou look'ft not like deceit; do not deceive me: All which together, like a troubled ocean, In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee: Thou wrong'ft his honour, wound'ft his princely name. How will thy fhame be feeded in thine age, What tion of a lover was alfo in our authour's thoughts. Sboct (the pronunciation of the two words being granted to be the fame) fuggefts both ideas. The paffage quoted from Macbeth, in the preceding note, does not, as I conceive, prove any thing. The word hot has there its ufual fignification, and no double meaning could have been intended. MALONE. 7 Soft pity enters at an iron gate.] Meaning, I fuppofe, the gates of prifon. STEEVENS. 8 How will thy fhame be feeded in thine age, When thus thy vices bud before thy spring?] This thought is more amplified in our author's Troilus and Creffida: "-the What dar'ft thou not, when once thou art al This deed will make thee only lov'd for fear For princes are the glass, the school, the b And wilt thou be the school where Luft fhall "That hath to i.s maturity grown up What durft thou not when thou art once a king?] T reminds us of King Henry IV.th's question to his fona "When that my care could not withhold thy riots, "What wilt thou do, when riot is thy care?" S 10, be remember'd,] Bear it in your mind. So, in K. 1 66 -joy being wanting, "It doth remember me the more of forrow." MA 2 Then kings' mifdeeds cannot be hid in clay.] The mem actions of kings will remain even after their death. So, i dife of Dainty Devises, 1580: "Mine owne good father, thou art gone; thine ear with clay." Again, in Kendal's Flowers of Epigrams, 1577: "The corps clapt faft in clotted clay, "That here engrav'd doth lie." MALONE. 3 For princes are the glass, the school, the book, Where fubjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look.] So, in K P. II: "He was the mark and glass, copy and book, "That fashion'd others." Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis, Claud. Thou back'ft reproach against long-lived laud, Haft thou command? by him that gave it thee, When, pattern'd by thy fault, foul Sin may fay, Think but how vile a fpectacle it were, That from their own mifdeeds afkaunce their eyes! To thee, to thee, my heav'd-up hands appeal, Let him return, and Aattering thoughts retire: And wipe the dim mift from thy doting cyne, Have done, quoth he; my uncontrolled tide -pattern'd by thy fault,] Taking thy fault for a pattern or example. So, in the Legend of Lord Hastings, Mirrour for Magiftrates, 1587: "By this my pattern, all ye peers, beware." MALONE. 4. Not to feducing luft, thy rafh relier;] Thus the first copy. The edition of 1616 has-thy rath reply. Dr. Sewel, without authority, reads: Not to feducing luft's outrageous fire. MALONE. 5-for exil'd majefty's repeal;] For the recall of exiled majesty. So, in one of our authour's plays : 66 -if the time thrust forth "A caufe for thy repeal." MALONE. 6 Small lights are foon blown out, huge fires abide,] So, in K. Hen. VI: "A little fire is quickly trodden out," &c. STEEVENS. And And with the wind in greater fury fret 7: To their falt fovereign, with their fresh f Thou art, quoth fhe, a fea, a fovereign king So fhall these flaves be king, and thou their The cedar ftoops not to the bafe fhrub's foo So let thy thoughts, low vaffals to thy ftateNo more, quoth he, by heaven, I will not hea Yield to my love; if not, enforced hate, 7 And with the wind in greater fury fret :] So, in Th Venice: "When they are fretted with the gufts of heaven.' 8 Add to his flow, but alter not his tafte.] The octavo Add to this flow, but alter not the tafte. MALONE Thy fea within a puddle's womb is herfed,] Thus the octavo 1616, reads, unintelligibly: Thy fea within a puddle womb is berfed. Dr. Sewel, not being able to extract any meaning from this Thy fea within a puddle womb is burst, And not the puddle in thy fea difpers'd. Our authour has again ufed the verb to berfe in Hamlet: "Why thy canoniz'd bones, berfed in death, "Have burst their excrements.' MALONE. So fhall thefe flaves be kings, and thou their flave;] In we meet with a fimilar allufion: -it feem'd fhe was a queen "Over her paffion, who, most rebel-like, |