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HOP E.

Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer. Tempeft, A. 3, S. 3.
Hope is a lover's ftaff; walk hence with that,
And manage it against despairing thoughts.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1.
-Were it good,

To fet the exact wealth of all our states
All at one caft? to fet fo rich a main
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?
It were not good: for therein should we read
bottom and the foul of hope'.

The very

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 4, S. 1.

When this loose behaviour I throw off,
And pay the debt I never promised,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falfify men's hopes.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 1, S. 2.
In God's name, march:

True hope is swift, and flies with fwallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Richard III. A. 5, S. 2.

O momentary grace of mortal men,

Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks,
Lives like a drunken failor on a mast;

I

The very

therein should we read

bottom and the foul of hope.] To read the bottom and foul of hope, and the bound of fortune, though all the copies, and all the editors have received it, furely cannot be right. I can think on no other word than rifque.

"therein should we risque

"The very bottom, &c."

JOHNSON.

Change is unneceffary. "To read" is to difcover. We now talk of reading a man, i. e. that we are able to discover,-that we can cafily fee through his defigns.

A. B.

Ready,

Ready, with every nod, to tumble down

Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

Richard III. A. 3, S. 4.

Lord cardinal, if thou think'ft on heaven's blifs,
Hold up thy hand, make fignal of thy hope.-
He dies, and makes no fign.-

Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 3.

The ample propofition, that hope makes

In all defigns begun on earth below,

Fails in the promis'd largenefs: checks and difafters
Grow in the reins of actions highest rear'd:
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the found pine, and divert his grain,
Tortive and errant from his courfe of growth.

Troilus and Creffida, A. 1, S. 3.

O, how wretched

Is that poor man, that hangs on princes favours!
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet afpect of princes, and our ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer;
Never to hope again.

Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2.

I will defpair, and be at enmity

With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,

A parafite, a keeper back of death,

Who gently would diffolve the bands of life.

Richard II. A. 2, S. 2.

A caufe on foot

Lives fo in hope, as in an early fpring

We fee the appearing buds; which, to prove fruit, Hope gives not fo much warrant as despair;

That frofts will bite them.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 3.

The miferable have no other medicine,

But only hope.

Meafure for Meafure, A. 3, S. 1.

I fome

I fometimes do believe, and fometimes do not;
As thofe that fear they hope, and know they fear *.
As you like it, A. 5, S. 4.

HORROR.

Be ftirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow

Of bragging horror.

King John, A. 5, S. 1.

HOR S E.

I would my horfe had the fpeed of your tongue;

And fo good a continuer.

Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S. 1.

Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or fits he?
Or does he walk? or is he on his horfe?

O happy horfe to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horfe! for wot'ft thou whom thou mov'st?
The demy Atlas of this earth, the arm

And burgonet of man.

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 5.

As thofe that fear they hope, and know they fear.] This strange nonsense should be read thus:

"As thofe that fear their hap, and know their fear.”

e. As thofe that fear the iffue of a thing, when they know their fear to be well grounded. WARBURTON.

The depravation of the line is evident, but I do not think the learned commentator's emendation very happy. I read thus: "As thofe that fear with hope, and hope with fear."

JOHNSON.

The author of the Revifal would read: "As those that fear their hope, and know their fear." Blackstone,

"As thofe that feign they hope, and know they fear." Mufgrave,

"As thofe that fear, then hope, and know their fear.” I read,

"As those that hope they fear, then know they fear." I am puzzled, or perplexed like to thofe perfons, who at one time form to themfelves imaginary notions or fears; who then hope thofe fears are groundlefs, and who afterwards are convinced that they are fo.

A. B.

O, for

O, for a horse with wings!-Hear'ft thou, Pisanio?
He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me
How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs
May plod it in a week, why may not I
Glide thither in a day?

Cymbeline, A. 3, S. 2.

I jeft to Oberon, and make him smile,
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And fometimes lurk I in a goffip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roafted crab.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A 2, S. 1.
Come, let me take my horse,

Who is to bear me like a thunder-bolt,
Against the bofom of the Prince of Wales:
Harry to Harry fhall, hot horse to horse-
Meet, and ne'er part, till one drop down a corfe.
Henry IV. P. 1, A. 4, S. 1.

Give me another horfe,-bind up my wounds-
Have mercy, Jefu!-Soft, I did but dream.

Richard III. A. 5, S. 3.

I think there be fix Richmonds in the field;
Five have I flain to-day, instead of him :—
A horfe! a horfe! my kingdom for a horse!
Richard III. A. 5, S. 4.

O, he's as tedious
As is a tired horfe, a railing wife;
Worfe than a smoky house :-I had rather live
With cheese and garlick, in a windmill, far;
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 3, S. 1.

O, how it yern'd my heart, when I beheld,
In London streets, that coronation day,
When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary!
That horfe, that thou fo often haft beftrid.

Richard II. A. 5, S. 5.

That's

That's a colt, indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horfe; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts, that he can fhoe him himself. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 2.

-Reformation must be fudden too,

My noble lords: for thofe, that tame wild horses,
Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle;
But stop their mouths with ftubborn bits, and fpur

em,

Till they obey the manage. Henry VIII. A. 5, S. 2.

HUMILITY.

In peace, there's nothing fo becomes a man,
As modeft ftillness, and humility:

But when the blaft of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tyger;
Stiffen the finews, fummon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage.

Henry V. A. 3, S. 1.

The lion, dying, thrufteth forth his paw,

And wounds the earth, if nothing elfe, with rage
To be o'erpower'd; and wilt thou, pupil-like,
Take thy correction mildly? kifs the rod?

And fawn on rage with base humility?

Richard II. A. 5, S. 1.

You are meek, and humble-mouth'd;
You fign your place and calling, in full seeming,
With meekness and humility: but your heart
Is cramm'd with arrogancy, fpleen, and pride.

Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4.

Who were below him

He used as creatures of another place;

And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,

Making them proud of his humility.

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 2.

I ftole

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