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We all stand up against the spirit of Cæfar;
And in the spirit of men there is no blood;
O, that we then could come by Cæfar's fpirit,
And not difmember Cæfar! but, alas,

Cæfar muft bleed for it! Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1.
Now fet the teeth, and ftretch the noftril wide;
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height!-On, on, you noblest English,
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!

Henry V. A. 3, S. 1, Gracious lord,

Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;
Look back unto your mighty ancestors :
Go, my dread lord, to your great grandfire's tomb,
From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit;
And your great uncle's, Edward the black prince.

Henry V. A. 1, S. 2,

Who fets me else? by heaven I'll throw at all:
I have a thousand fpirits in one breast,
To answer twenty thousand such as you,

Richard II. A. 4, S. 1.

I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,

Now, whilft your purpled hands do reek and smoke; Fulfil your pleafure. Live a thousand years,

I fhall not find myfelf fo apt to die:

No place will please me fo, no mean of death,
As, here by Cæfar, and by you cut off,
The choice and mafter fpirits of this age.

Julius Cæfar, A.

That I did love thee, Cæfar; O, 'tis true:
If then thy fpirit look upon us now,

3,

Shall it not grieve thee, dearer than thy death,
To fee thy Antony making his peace,
Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,
Most noble! in the prefence of thy corse?

S. 1.

Julius Cæfar, A. 3, S. 1.

Soul

Soul of Rome!

Brave fon, deriv'd from honourable loins!
Thou, like an exorcift, haft conjur'd up
My mortified fpirit. Now bid me run,
And I will strive with things impoffible;
Yea, get the better of them.

Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1.

What should be in that Cæfar?

Why should that name be founded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a fpirit as foon as Cæfar.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2.
He reads much;

He is a great observer, and he looks

Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays
As thou doft, Antony; he hears no mufick
Seldom he fmiles; and fmiles in fuch a fort,
As if he mock'd himself, and fcorn'd his fpirit
That could be mov'd to fmile at any thing.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2.

Nor ftony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of fpirit;
But life, being weary of thefe worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 3.

She is too difdainful;

I know, her fpirits are as coy and wild
As haggards of the rock.

Much ado about nothing, A. 3, S. 1.

Happy in this, fhe is not yet fo old
But the may learn: happier than this,
She is not bred fo dull but she can learn ;
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle fpirit

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Commits itself to yours to be directed,
As from her lord, her governor, her king.

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

A braver choice of dauntless spirits,

Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er,
Did never float upon the fwelling tide,
To do offence and scath in Christendom.

King John, A. 2, S. 1.

I hold you as a thing enfky'd, and fainted;
By your renouncement, an immortal spirit;
And to be talked with in fincerity,

As with a faint. Measure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 5.
Methinks, in thee fome bleffed fpirit doth speak;
His powerful found within an organ weak.

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

Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
(Who fhall be of as little memory,

When he is earth'd) hath here almoft perfuaded
(For he's a fpirit of perfuafion, only

1 Methinks, in thee fome bleffed fpirit doth Speak;

Profeffes

His powerful found within an organ weak.] To speak a found is a barbarism. Befide the construction is vicious with the two ablatives, in thee, and within an organ weak. The lines, therefore, fhould be read and pointed,

"Methinks in thee some bleffed spirit doth speak:
"His power full sounds within an organ weak."

WARBURTON.

If we change the order of the lines, there is no longer any difficulty.

"O powerful found within an organ weak!
"Methinks in thee fome bleffed fpirit doth speak!"

A. B.

2 For he's a fpirit of perfuafion.] Of this entangled fentence I can draw no sense from the prefent reading, and therefore imagine that the author gave it thus:

"For he, a spirit of perfuafion, only
"Profeffes to perfuade."

Of which the meaning may be either, that he alone, who is a fpirit
of perfuafion, profeffes to perfuade the king; or that, he only pro-

felles

Profeffes to perfuade) the king, his fon's alive; 'Tis as impoffible that he's undrown'd,

As he, that fleeps here, fwims. Tempeft, A. 2, S. 1.

SPLE E N.

At this match,

With swifter fpleen than powder can enforce,
The mouth of paffage fhall we fling wide ope,
And give you entrance. King John, A. 2, S. 2:

SPORT, SPORT S.

To confound fuch time,

That drums him from his fport, and fpeaks as loud
As his own ftate, and ours,-'tis to be chid

As we rate boys; who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their prefent pleasure,
And fo rebel to judgment.

Antony and Cleopatra, A. 1, S. 4. There be some sports are painful; but their labour

Delight in them fets off.

Tempest, A. 3, S. 1.

felles to perfuade, that is, without being so perfuaded himself, he makes a Jhew of perfuading the king.

"(For he's a fpirit of perfuafion, only
"Profeffes to perfuade.)"

JOHNSON.

The meaning is, that in cafes like to that of which they are Speaking, he is generally admitted, or confidered, as a spirit of perfuafion, who endeavours to perfuade of the truth of the news he brings. That fuch agreeable reports are readily liftened to. The want of the pronoun who, occafions much of the difficulty. Read,

Who profeffes to perfuade.

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A. B.

With Swifter fpleen.] Our author ufes fpleen for any violent hurry, or tumultuous fpeed. So in the Midfummer Night's Dream, he applies Spleen to the lightning. "Spleen" is anger, but the word is out of its place.

read the line thus:

"Swifter than powder can in fpleen enforce."

JOHNSON.
We must

A. B.

Never, fince the middle fummer's spring,

Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,

By paved fountain, or by rushy brook,
Or on the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whiftling wind,
But with thy brawls thou haft difturb'd our fport.
Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 2.

Let it work;

For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer
Hoift with his own petar: and it shall go hard,
But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them at the moon.

Hamlet, A. 3, S. 4.

Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,
Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Though ftanding naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport.

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

His addiction was to courfes vain :
His companions unletter'd, rude, and shallow;
His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, fports;
And never noted in him any study,

Any retirement, any fequeftration
From open haunts and popularity.

Henry V. A. I, S. I.

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Men at fome time are mafters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2.

Thou cold-blooded flave,

Haft thou not spoke like thunder on my fide?
Been fworn my foldier, bidding me depend

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