Divesting them for bed; and then, but now,
(As if fome planet had unwitted men)
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,
In oppofition bloody.
Othello, A. 2, S. 3.

Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate
Upon your grace, God punish me

With hate in those where I expect most love!
When I have moft need to employ a friend,
And most affured that he is a friend,
Deep, hollow, treacherous and full of guile,
Be he unto me!

Richard III. A. 2, S. i.

When he frown'd, it was against the French, And not against his friends; his noble hand Did win what he did fpend, and spent not that Which his triumphant father's hand had won.

Richard II. A: 2, S. 1.
Gentle friends,

Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let's carve him as a difh fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcafe fit for hounds:
And let our hearts, as fubtle masters do,
Stir up
their fervants to an act of rage,
And after seem to chide them.

Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1.

Brutus, I do obferve you now of late :

I have not from your eyes that gentleness,
And fhew of love, as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

Julius Cæfar, A, 1, S. 2,

Let not my goods friends be griev'd ş

Among which number, Caffius, be you one) Nor conftrue any further my neglect,

Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,

Forgets the fhews of love to other men.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2.

Keep this man fafe,
Give him all kindness: I had rather have

Such men my friends, than enemies. Go on,
And fee whe'r Brutus be alive or dead 3.

Thou haft defcrib'd

Julius Cæfar, A. 5, S. 4.

A hot friend cooling: Ever note, Lucilius,
When love begins to ficken and decay,

It useth an enforced ceremony.

Julius Cafar, A. 4, S. 2.

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed of barren metal of his friend?

But lend it rather to thine enemy.

Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 3.

Albeit, I neither lend nor borrow,

By taking, nor by giving of excess,

Yet, to fupply the ripe wants of my friend,

S.3

I'll break a cuftom. Merchant of Venice, A. I,
1, S. 3,

The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
The best condition'd and unweary'd spirit
In doing courtefies ;-and one in whom

The ancient Roman honour more appears,
Than any that draws breath in Italy.

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2.

• Your worship's friend, and Launcelot, Sir. Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 2.

When

3

Go on,

And fee whe'r Brutus be alive, or dead. "Whe'r"Why fhould we not fubftitute if in lieu of this

ugly contraction?

A. B.

4 Your worship's friend, and Launcelot, Sir.] Dr. Farmer is of opinion we should read Gobbo, instead of Launcelot. It may be inferred from the name of Gobbo, that Shakespeare defigned this character to be reprefented with a hump-back. STEEVENS.

It is much more likely that Launcelot is called Gobbo from his continual

When I told you

My state was nothing, I should then have told you.
That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,

I have engag'd myself to a dear friend,
Engag'd my friend to his mere enemy,

I feed my means.

Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 2. Can you think, lords,

That any Englishman dare give me counsel ?

Or be a known friend, 'gainft his highness' pleasure, (Though he be grown fo defperate to be honest) And live a fubject?

Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 1.

I have trod a measure; I have flatter'd a lady; I have been politick with my friend, finooth with mine enemy; I have undone three taylors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.

As you like it, A. 5, S. 4.

I know, the more one fickens, the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends;-that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat fheep; and that a great caufe of the night, is the lack of the fun.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

If I be foil'd, there is but one fham'd that was never gracious; if kill'd, but one dead that is willing to be fo: I fhall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing. As you like it, A. 1, S. 2. Felleft foes,

Whose paffions and whofe plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by fome chance,

Some trick not worth an egg, fhall grów dear friends, And interjoin their iffues. Coriolanus, A. 4, S. 4.

continual prating, and for which he is reproved by his master in a fubfequent scene. A gob, in the Northern counties, is a large open mouth.

A. B.

Το

To wail friends loft,
Is not by much fo wholefome, profitable,
As to rejoice at friends but newly found.

Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 2.
Be able for thine enemy

Rather in power, than ufe; and keep thy friend
Under thine own life's key.

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1.

What need we have any friends, if we should never have need of them? they were the most needless creatures living, fhould we ne'er have ufe for them: and would most refemble fweet inftruments hung up in cafes, that keep their founds to themselves.

Timon of Athens, A. 1, S. 2. The 'friends thou haft, and their adoption try'd, Grapple them to thy foul with hoops of fteel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 31

Can't thou the confcience lack, To think I fhall lack friends? Secure thy heart; If I would broach the veffels of my love, And try the argument of hearts by borrowing, Men, and men's fortunes, could I frankly use, As I can bid thee fpeak. Timon of Athens, A. 2, S. 2.

The friends thou haft, and their adoption try'd.] I read, adaption try'd," i. e. their fuitablenefs, their fitnefs to be made friends being proved, then, &c. A, B,

your

* — Do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.] The literal fenfe is, Do not make thy palm callous, by baking every man by the band. The figurative meaning may be, Do not, by promiscuous converfation, make thy mind infenfible to the difference of characters. JOHNSON.

"Do not dull thy palm," is, I think, Do not fully thy honour, or the honour of thy houfe, by affociating with thy inferiors, or with people who are little known to thec.

A. B.

What

What viler thing upon the earth, than friends,
Who can bring nobleft minds to baseft ends!
How rarely does it meet with this time's guife,
When man was wifh'd to love his enemies :
Grant, I may ever love, and rather woo
Those that would mischief me, than those that do!
Timon of Athens, A. 4, S. 4.

Marry, fir, they praife me, and make an afs of me; now my foes tell me plainly, I am an ass: so that by my foes, fir, I profit in the knowledge of myself; and by my friends I am abused.

Twelfth Night, A. 5, S. 1.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:
For loan oft lofes both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all,-to thine ownself be true.

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 3.

Master Shallow, my lord Shallow, be what thou wilt, I am fortune's fteward. Get on thy boots; we'll ride all night :-Oh,. fweet Piftol!-Away, Bardolph.-Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and, withal, devife fomething to do thyfelf good.-Boot, boot, master Shallow; I know, the young king is fick for me. Let us take any man's horfes; the laws of England are at my commandment. Happy are they which have been my friends.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 3. Mine honest friend,

Will you take eggs

for

money 1?

Winter's Tale, A. 1, S. 2.

A fel

*Will you take eggs for money?] This feems to be a proverbial expreffion, ufed when a man fees himself wronged, and makes no refiftance. Its original, or precife meaning, I cannot find, but I believe it means, will you be a cuckold for hire? The euckow is reported to lay her eggs in another bird's neft; he

therefore