Leak'd is our bark; And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck, Timon of Athens, A. 4, S. 2. Say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion How fearful Timon of Athens, A. 5, S. 2. And dizzy 'tis, to caft one's eyes fo low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Shew scarce fo grofs as beetles : The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for fight: the murmuring furge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard fo high. Lear, A. 4, S. 6. So dry he was for fway, with the king of Naples To give him annual tribute, do him homage. Tempest, A. 1, S. 2. 1 So dry he was for fway.] i. e. So thirsty. The expreffion, I am told, is not uncommon in the midland counties. STEEVENS. “Dry" is very inelegant. I fuppofe we should read dree, i. e. forrowing. A. B. T-A'L E. T. TALE. BY Y your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole courfe of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic, (For fuch proceeding I am charg'd withal) I won his daughter with. Othello, A. 1, S. 3. Oh, but they say, the tongues of dying men Though Richard my life's counfel would not hear, Richard II. A. 2, S. 1. In winter's tedious nights, fit by the fire Richard II. A. 5, S. 1. He hears merry tales, and smiles not: I fear, he will prove the weeping philofopher when he grows old, being fo full of unmannerly fadness in his youth. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 2. It is not fo; thou haft mis-fpoke, mis-heard; King John, A. 3, S. 1. There's nothing in this world can make me joy Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. King John, A. 3, S. 4. Aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; Love's Labour Loft, A. 2, S. 1. I thank him that he cuts me from my tale, Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S. 2. But that I am forbid To tell the fecrets of my prifon-house, I could a tale unfold, whofe lightest word Hamlet, A. 1, S. 5. The wifeft aunt, telling the faddeft tale, Sometime for three-foot ftool mistaketh me. Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 1. The wifeft aunt.] Aunt is procurefs. STEEVENS. The author of the REMARKS fays, "this conjecture is much too wanton and injurious to the word aunt, which, in this place at least, certainly means no other than an innocent old woman.' REED. "Aunt"-this word fhould be written aunct-abbreviation of auncient. It means an old perfon, man or woman. A. B. TALKER. TALKER. Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear1 Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1. TE A R S. If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4, S. 4. 'Twas on a fummer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii. Julius Cæfar, A. 3, S. 2. You men of Angiers, open wide your gates, And let young Arthur, duke of Bretagne, in; Who, by the hand of France, this day hath made Much work for tears in many an English mother. King John, A. 2, S. 2. - Look, the good man weeps! He's honest, on mine honour. God's bleft mother! I fwear, he is true-hearted; and a foul None better in my kingdom.-Get you gone, I'll grow a talker for this gear.] Gear appears to me to have no meaning here. I would therefore read, MALONE. "I'll grow a talker for this year." "Gear" fhould, in this place, be written gere, i, e. a jest. Anthonio fays, "a good jeft; I fhall become a talker," A. B. And do as I have bid you. He has strangled Henry VIII. A. 5, S. 1. S. 4. I am about to weep; but, thinking that Titus Andronicus, A. 3, S. 1. Oh, turn thy edged sword another way; 3, S. 3. Oh, train me not, fweet mermaid, with thy note, Comedy of Errors, A. 3, S. 2. Her fighs will make a battery in his breast; And frame my face to all occafions. 3, Henry VI. P. 3, A. 3, S. 2. You are more inhuman, more inexorable,-- O, ten times more,---than tygers of Hyrcania. See, |