A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume Ix Part 131

[422] [Edits., _finisht_.]

[423] i.e. Measure it out. Hesperiam metire jacens.--_Virgil_.

--_Steevens_.

[424] i.e., Facility; [Greek: euergos], facilis.--_Steevens_.

[425] "Apud eosdem nasci Ctesias scribit, quam mantichoram appellat, triplici dentium ordine pectinatim coeuntium, facie et auriculis hominis, oculis glaucis, colore sanguineo, corpore leonis, cauda scorpionis modo spicula infigentem: vocis ut si misceatur fistulae et tubae concentus: velocitatis magnae, humani corporis vel praecipue appetentem."--C. Plinii "Nat. Hist." lib. viii. c. 21.

 

[426] The edit. 1611, reads--

"Do as the devil does, hate panther-mankind."--_Collier_.

[427] _All--breath_, edits. 1611 and 1629.

[428] The old copy of 1611 reads, _unto their wives_, and it has been supposed a misprint for _wines_; but this seems doubtful taking the whole pa.s.sage together, and the subsequent reference to the _children.

--Collier_.

[429] i.e., To defile. So in Churchyard's "Challenge," 1593, p. 251--

"Away foule workes, that _fil'd_ my face with blurs!"

Again, "Macbeth," act iii. sc. 1--

"If it be so, For Banquo's issue have I _fil'd_ my mind."

See also Mr Steevens's note on the last pa.s.sage.

[430] Sorry for you.

[431] [Edits., _or_, which is merely the old form of _ere_.]

[432] Mischievous, unlucky. So in "All's Well that Ends Well," act i.

sc. 5--

"A shrewd knave and an _unhappy_."

See also Mr Steevens's note on "Henry VIII.," act i. sc. 4.

[433] _I_ formerly was the mode of writing, as well as p.r.o.nouncing, this word.

[434] ["The fine effect which is produced through the foregoing scenes by the idea of the 'Enforced Marriage' hanging on them like the German notion of Fate, is destroyed by this happy ending."--_MS. note in one of the former edits_.]

[435] [Bond.]

[436] [So in the ballad of "Auld Robin Gray"--

"My mother did na speak, But she look'd me in the face," &c.

--_MS. note in one of the former edits_.]

[437] '51 edit. 1607, _letter_.

[438] _Ignes fatui_, Wills o' th' Wisp. See Mr Steevens's Note on "King Henry VIII.," act v. sc. 3.

[439] [Edits., _And these_. The emendation is conjectured.]