What trash is Rome,' What rubbish, and what offal, when it ferves So vile a thing as Cæfar? Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 3. If there be any in this affembly, any dear friend of Cæfar's, to him I fay, that Brutus' love to Cæfar was no less than his. If then that friend demand, why Brutus rose against Cæfar, this is my answer,Not that I lov'd Cæfar lefs, but that I lov'd Rome more. Had you rather Cæfar were living, and die all flaves; than that Cæfar were dead, to live all free men? Julius Cæfar, A. 3, S. 2. Thou laft of all the Romans, fare thee well! Should breed thy fellow.-Friends, I owe more tears To this dead man, than you shall see me pay. Julius Cæfar, A. 5, S. 3. Muft I back, Because that John hath made his peace with Rome? To underprop this action? King John, A. 5, S. 2. Tygers must prey; and Rome affords no prey, Titus Andronicus, A. 3, S. 1. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, The grave flood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Hamlet, A. 1, S. 1. Shall they hoift me up, And fhew me to the fhouting varlets Of cenfuring Rome? rather a ditch in Egypt Antony and Cleopatra, A. 5, S. 2. By the discovery, We shall be shorten'd in our aim; which was, To take in many towns', ere, almost, Rome Should know we were afoot. Coriolanus, A. 1, S. 2. ROS E. Say, that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain, Say, that the frown; I'll fay, fhe looks as clear And fay,-she uttereth piercing eloquence. Taming of the Shrew, A. 2, S. 1. Shall it, for shame, be spoken in these days, That men of your nobility, and power, Did 'gage them both in an unjuft behalfAs both of you, God pardon it! have done,To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke? Henry IV. P. 1, A. 1, S. 3. To take in many towns.] To take in, is here, as in many other places, to fubdue. STEEVENS. To take in, is here confidered by Mr. Steevens, I think, in too large and pofitive a fenfe. By take in the poet furely means, include in the plan of operations, that is, their plan was to make an attack on many towns, in the hope of fubduing them. A a 3 A. B. Since Since she did neglect her looking-glass, Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 4, S. 3, Hoary headed frofts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose. Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 2. Than that, which withering on the virgin-thorn, Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 1, S. I, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs muft wither :-I'll smell it on the tree. * But fince he did neglect her looking-glass, That now he is become as black as I.] What is pinching a tincture? Starved, in the third line, made the blundering editors write pinch'd in the fourth, though they might have seen that it was a tanning, fcorching, not a freezing air, that was fpoken of. For how could this latter quality in the air fo affect the whiteness of the skin as to turn it black? We fhould read, "And pitch'd the lily tincture," &c. i. e. turned the white tincture black. WARBURTON, This is no emendation. None ever heard of a face being pitched by the weather. The colour of a part pinched is livid, as it is commonly termed, black and blue. The weather may there fore be justly faid to pinch, when it produces the fame visible effect. JOHNSON. "Pinch'd" fhould be pencte, i. e. painted. Since the threw her mask away, the air hath starved the roses in her cheeks, and fo painted or changed her lily complexion, that she is now swarthy as I am. The word is found in Chaucer, and other early writers. A. B. SADNESS. S S. SADNESS. UCH a want-wit fadnefs makes of me, In footh, I know not why I am so sad; I am to learn. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1. King John, A. 4, S. 1. Methinks, your looks are fad, your chear appall'd '. Henry VI. P. 1, A. 1, S. 2. SALVATION. For a quart d'ecu he will fell the fee-fimple of his falvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the intail from all remainders, and a perpetual fucceffion for it perpetually. All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 3. SE A. Know, Iago, But that I love the gentle Defdemona, I ance. ▪ your chear appall'd.] Chear is countenance, appear STEEVENS. "Chear" is not countenance, but gaiety, cheerfulness.---" Your "chear appall'd," means, your chearfulness abated. He had already faid, "your looks are fad." A a 4 A. B. I would I would not my unhoufed free condition Othello, A. 1, S. 2, O, she is fallen Into a pit of ink! that the wide fea Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1, Suppofe, that you have seen The well-appointed king at Hampton pier What harm a wind too great might do at fea, Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1, Romeo and Juliet, A. 5, S. 3. We will not from the helm, to fit and weep; And what is Edward but a ruthless fea? Is't |