As hotly and as nobly with thy love,
As ever in ambitious ftrength I did
Contend against thy valour. Coriolanus, A. 4, S. 5:
The compofition, that your valour and fear makes
in you, is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the
wear well.
All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1.
Mark then a bounding valour in our English;
That, being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,
Breaks out into a fecond course of mifchief,
Killing in relapse of mortality 2.

Henry V. A. 4, S. 3.

Is a virtue of a good wing.] Mr. Edwards is of opinion, that a virtue of a good wing, refers to his nimbleness in running away. The phrafe, however, is taken from falconry, as may appear from Marfton's Fawne." I love my hawk for the goodnefs of his wing, &c." Or it may be taken from drefs. So in Every Man Out of his Humour I would have mine fuch a fuit, fuch ftuff, fuch wing, &c." Mr. Tollet obferves, that a good wing, fignifies a strong wing in Lord Bacon's Natural History.

STEEVENS.

"A virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well," is nonfenfe. For "wing" we must read vigon, a fort of Spanish wool. The whole should run thus-The compofition that your valour and fear makes in you, is a vigon of good virtue, and I like the wear well.-i. e. Your valour and fear is a ftuff of good manufacture, and I like the wear well. Without fuch reading, where is the integrity of the metaphor? as Dr. Warburton would fay. A. B.

2 Killing in relapfe of mortality.] What it is to kill in relapse of mortality, I do not know. I fufpect that it should be read: Killing in reliques of mortality." That the allufion is, as Mr. Theobald thinks, exceedingly beautiful, I am afraid few readers will difcover. The valour of a pu trid body, that deftroys by the ftench, is one of the thoughts that do no great honour to the poet. JOHNSON.

"Mortality" is fickness, "relapfe" is return, and the prepofition of" is used, as is common with the writers of Shakefpeare's time, instead of by. The fenfe of the paffage is thisThe valour, or rather the power of our English is fuch, that being dead, they will yet (in return) deftroy their enemies by breeding a ficknefs-by the stench which will arife from their bodies. A. B.

VENGEANCE.

VENGEANCE.

Arife, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown, and hearted throne,
To tyrannous hate! fwell, bofom, with thy fraught,
For, 'tis of afpick's tongues! Othello, A. 3, S. 3.
Thou doft, in thy paffages of life,

Make me believe, that thou art only mark'd
For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven,
To punish my mis-treadings.

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

VICTOR Y.

Victory, with little lofs doth play

Upon the dancing banners of the French;

Who are at hand, triumphantly display'd,

To enter conquerors.

King John, A. 2, S. 2.

A victory is twice itself, when the atchiever brings

home full numbers.

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

At his nurse's tears

He whin'd and roar'd away your victory ;

That pages blufh'd at him, and men of heart

Look'd wondering each at other.

Coriolanus, A. 5, S. 5.

Methought their fouls, whofe bodies Richard murder'd, Came to my tent, and cry'd-On! victory!

I promise you, my heart is very jocund

In the remembrance of fo fair a dream.

Richard III. A. 5, S. 3.

A thoufand hearts are great within my bofom :
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George
Infpire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
Upon them! victory fits on our helms.

Richard III. A. 5, S. 3.

VILLAIN.

VILLA I N.

Villain, be fure thou prove my love a whore,
Be fure of it; give me the ocular proof;
Or, by the worth of mine eternal foul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog,
Than anfwer my wak'd wrath. Othello, A. 3, S. 3.
Which is the villain? let me fee his eyes;

That when I note another man like him,'
I may avoid him.

Much ado about nothing, A. 5, S. 1.

Write down that they hope they ferve God :and write God first; for God defend but God fhould go before fuch villains!

Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. I. When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

Much ado about nothing, A. 3, S. 3.

Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath flander'd, fcorn'd, difhonour'd my kinfwoman ? O, that I were a man !

Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1.

An evil foul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a fmiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.

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

I like not fair terms, and a villain's mind.

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

If a Jew wrong a Chriftian, what is his humility? revenge: If a Chriftian wrong a Jew, what should his fufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 1.

A rufh

A rush will be a beam

To hang thee on; or, wouldft thou drown thyfelf,
Put but a little water in a spoon,
And it shall be as all the ocean,
Enough to stifle fuch a villain up.

King John, A. 4, S. 3.

Truft not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villainy is not without fuch rheum:
And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
Like rivers of remorfe and innocency.

King John, A. 4, S. 3.
O, how this villainy

Doth fat me with the very thought of it!
Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace,
Aaron will have his foul black like his face.

Titus Andronicus, A. 3, S. 1.
Truft not the physician;

His antidotes are poifon, and he flays

More than you rob: take wealth and lives together; Do villainy, do, fince you profess to do't,

Like workmen: I'll example you with thievery.

Timon of Athens, A. 4, S. 3.

A hungry lean-fac'd villain,

A meer anatomy, a mountebank,

A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller ;
A needy, hollow-ey'd fharp-looking wretch,
A living dead man. Comedy of Errors, A. 5, S. 1.
Since I cannot prove a lover,

To entertain these fair well-fpoken days,--

I am determined to prove a villain,

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Richard III. A. 1, S. 1.

They whet me

To be reveng'd on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey;
But then I figh, and with a piece of fcripture,
Tell them---that God bids us do good for evil.

And

And thus I clothe my naked villainy

With old odd ends, ftol'n forth of holy writ. Richard III. A. i; S.

O most pernicious woman!

O villain, villain, fmiling, damned villain!
My tables, meet it is, I fet it down,

That one may fmile, and fmile, and be a villain;
At least, I am fure, it may be fo in Denmark.

3:

Hamlet, A. i, S. 5.

Am I a coward?

Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nofe? gives me the lye i' the

throat

As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
Ha! why I fhould take it: for it cannot be,
But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall
To make oppreffion bitter; or, ere this,
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this flave's offal.

Hamlet, A. 2, S. 2.

I lov'd my niece;

And she is dead, flander'd to death by villains;
That dare as well anfwer a man, indeed,

As I dare take a serpent by the tonguë.

Much ado about nothing, A. 5, S. 1.

I'll make one; an I do not, call me villain, and baffle me1.

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

Love him, feed him,

:

And baffle me.] Mr. Tollet fays, that to baffle means, to treat a perfon with the greatest ignominy imaginable; but I rather think that to baffle is, in this place, to mock, to laugh at. Befler,

Fr.

2

A. B. a made-up villain.] That is, a villain that adopts qualities