CLOUD. Those things feem fmall, and undistinguishable, Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 4, S. 1. Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish; A forked mountain, or blue promontory CLO W N. —— The roynish clown, at whom so oft Your grace was wont to laugh, is alfo miffing. As you like it, A. 2, S. 2. COMFORT. If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be moft happy; for, I fear, Othello, A. 2, S. 1. Every wretch, pining and pale before, Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks: A largefs univerfal, like the fun, His liberal eye doth give to every one, Thawing cold fear. Henry V. A. 4, Chorus. Brother, men Can counfel, and give comfort to that grief vy. Much ado about nothing, A. 5, S. 1. I. The roynish clown.] Roynish, from rogneux, Fr. mangy, four STEEVENS. Mr. Steevens has mistaken the fenfe. To royne, is to bite. "Roynish," in this place, is confequently fatirical carping. RONGER, MORDRE (Medire, reprendre, cenfurer avec malignité.) Dia. A. B. Give not me counsel; Nor let no comforter delight mine ear, But fuch a one whofe wrongs do fuit with mine. What fay you now? What comfort have we now? That bids me be of comfort any more. None of you will bid the winter come, To thruft his icy fingers in my maw; Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their courfe The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady? I have more charity. Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 1. O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believ❜st Measure for Meafure, A. 5, S. 1. How more unfortunate than all living women Conftrains them weep, and shake with fear and forrow, The fon, the husband, and the father tearing And And often, to our comfort, fhall we find Than is the full-wing'd eagle. Cymbeline, A. 3, S. 3. Is the defire that's glorious: bleffed be those, Cymbeline, A. 1, S. 7. COMMENDATION. This commendation I can afford her; that were fhe other than she is, the were unhandsome; and being no other but as fhe is, I do not like her. Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S. 1. COMPANY, COMPANIONS. I. He draweth out the thread of his verbofity finer than the staple of his argument. I abhor fuch phanatical phantasms, fuch unfociable and point-devise companions. Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 1. - Proclaim it, Weftmoreland, through my hoft, That he, which hath no ftomach to this fight, Let him depart; his paffport fhall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company, That fears his fellowship to die with us. Henry V. A. 4, S. 3. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest; So will I those that kept me company. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 5. I have forfworn his company hourly, any time this two and twenty years, the rogue's company. and yet I am bewitch'd with If the rafcal have not given E 2 me me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hang'd; it could not be else. Henry IV. P. 1, A. 2, S. 2. There's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins, tack'd together, and thrown over the fhoulders like a herald's coat without fleeves; and the fhirt, to fay the truth, ftolen from my hoft of Saint Alban's, or the rednofe inn-keeper of Daintry. But that's all one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge. Henry IV. P. I, A. 4, S. 2 Some four or five attend him; All, if you will; for I myself am beft, When least in company. Twelfth Night, A, 1, S. 4. COMPETENCY. For aught I fee, they are as fick, that furfeit with too much, as they that ftarve with nothing: it is no mean happiness, therefore, to be feated in the mean; fuperfluity comes fooner by white hairs, but com petency lives longer. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 2. COMPLEXIO N. Call us ten times frail; For we are as foft as our complexions are, And credulous to falfe prints. Meafure for Measure, A. 2, S. 4 CONFERENCE. I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the fartheft inch of Afia; bring you the length of Prefter John's foot; fetch you a hair of the great Cham's I for I myself am beft, When leaft in company.] "Nunquam minus folus quam cum folus.”. A. B. beard; beard; do you any embaffage to the Pigmies, rather than hold three words conference with this harpy. Much ado about nothing, A. 2, S. 1. CONSCIENCE, CONSCIENCES. That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candy'd be they, Is fickly'd o'er with the pale caft of thought; Richard III. A. 5, S. 3. My confcience hath a thousand feveral tongues, Richard III. A. 5, S. 3. What stronger breaft-plate than a heart untainted? Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 2. Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation; and in my confcience, my confcience is but a kind I great pith and moment.] Thus the folio. The quartos read, of great pitch. STEEVENS, Pitch feems to be the better reading. The allufion is to the pitching, or throwing the bar; a manly exercife, ufual in country villages. REMARKS. "Enterprizes of great pith and moment," is, enterprizes of great matter and moment. Pith is unquestionably the true read ing. A. B. |