Wherein thou art lefs happy being fear'd,

Than they in fearing.

CHALLENGE.

Henry V. A. 4, S. 1.

I never in my life

Did hear a challenge urg'd more modeftly,
Unless a brother should a brother dare
To gentle exercife and proof of arms.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5. S. 2.

CHARITY.

O father abbot,

An old man broken with the ftorms of ftate,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity!

Henry VIII. A. 4, S. 2,

You speak not like yourfelf; who ever yet

Have stood to charity, and difplay'd the effects
Of difpofition gentle, and of wisdom

O'er-topping woman's power.

I have no fpleen against you; nor injustice

For your, or any.

Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4.

He hath a tear for pity, and a hand,

Open as day for melting charity;

Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd he's flint:
As humorous as winter, and as fudden

I

bumerous as winter.] That is, changeable as the weather of a winter's day. JOHNSON. A winter's day has generally too decided a character to admit Dr. Johnfon's interpretation without fome licence a licence, however, which our author has perhaps taken. MALONE.

The meaning of the word "humorous," in this place, has not been properly explained. It does not here fignify changeable, but on the contrary fixed, obftinate. A humorous man, may mean a man wedded to his opinion; or whofe opinions or notions are rigid and fevere. When we now fay, he will have his humour, we mean, he is an obftinate man,

A. B.
As

As flaws congealed in the fpring of day.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 4,

From low farms,

'Poor pelting villages, fheep-cotes and mills,

S. 4.

Sometime with lunatic bans, fometime with prayers,

Inforce their charity.

CHAR M.

Lear, A. 2. S. 3.

Your charm fo ftrongly works 'em,

1 Poor pelting villages.] Pelting is ufed by Shakespeare in the fenfe of beggarly: I fuppofe from pelt, a skin. WARBURTON. Pelting is, I believe, only an accidental depravation of petty. Skakespeare uses it in the Midfummer Night's Dream, of Small JOHNSON. Beaumont and Fletcher often use the word in the fame fenfe as Shakespeare. So in King and no King:

brooks.

"This pelting, prating peace is good for nothing."
"To learn the pelting law.".

Spanish Curate,

Midfummer Night's Dream," Every pelting river."

Measure for Measure,

Troilus and Creffida,

"Every pelting petty officer."
"We have had pelting wars fince

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you refus'd

"The Grecian caufe."

From the first of the two last instances, it appears not to be a corruption of petty, which is used the next word to it, but feems to be the fame as paltry; and if it comes from pelt, a skin, as Dr. Warburton fays, the poets have furnished villages, peace, law, rivers, officers of juftice and war, out of one wardrobe.

STEEVENS.

"Pelting" should in this place be "palting," which fignifies paltry, trifling: "Pelting" is fuming, fretful. Pelting and palting, or paltring, are frequently confounded and mistaken for each other. But I will endeavour to fhew, from the above quoted pas fages, the different fignifications of the words.

"This pelting, prating peace." It should be palting, meaning, this trifling, prating peace, &c.

"To learn the pelting law." Here too it fhould be palting, or paltring. To palter, is fometimes to shift, to dodge. The propriety of the epithet, therefore, when applied to law, is easily feen. "Every pelting river." Palting, i. e. paltry. "Every pelting petty officer, i. e. noify, turbulent.

"We have had pelting wars," &c. i. e. fuming, angry wars. &c.

A. B. That

That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

All the charms

Tempeft, A. 5, S. 1.

Tempest, A. 1, S. 2.

Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!

The charm diffolves apace;

And as the morning fteals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, fo their rifing fenfes
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.

My high charms work,

Tempest, A. 5, S. 1.

Tempest, A. 3, S. 3.

And thefe, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their diftractions.

I pray you all, tell me what they deserve,
That do confpire my death with devilish plots
Of damned witchcraft; and that have prevail'd
Upon my body with their hellish charms?

Richard III. A. 3, S. 4.

CHASTITY.

He hath bought a pair of caft lips of Diana: a nun of winter's fifterhood kiffes not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 4.

She's not forward, but modeft as the dove;

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;

For patience she will prove a fecond Griffel;
And Roman Lucrece for her chastity.

Taming of the Shrew, A. 2, S. 1.

My chastity's the jewel of our houfe,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors;
Which were the greateft obloquy i' the world

In me to lofe. All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 2.
Out on thy feeming! I will write against it:

You

You seem to me as Dian in her orb;

As chafte as is the bud ere it be blown.

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

O ill-ftarr'd wench!

I.

Pale as thy fmock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my foul from heaven,
And fiends will fnatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl,
Even like thy chastity.
Othello, A. 5, S. 2.

CHILD, CHILDREN.

He hath play'd on this prologue, like a child on a recorder; a found, but not in government.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 5, S. 1.

It is a gallant child; one that, indeed, phyficks the fubject, makes old hearts frefh; they, that went on crutches ere he was born, defire yet their life to fee him a man. Winter's Tale, A. 1, S. 1.

He makes a July's day fhort as December;
And, with his varying childness, cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.

Winter's Tale, A. 1, S. 2.

If ever he have child, abortive be it,
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,
Whofe ugly and unnatural aspect

May fright the hopeful mother at the view
And that be heir to his unhappiness!

Richard III. A. 1, S. 2.

You have no children, butchers! if you had,

The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse; But, if you ever chance to have a child,

Look in his youth to have him fo cut off,

As, deathfmen! you have rid this fweet young prince.

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 5, S. 5.

Some fay, that ravens fofter forlorn children,
The whilft their own birds famifh in their nefts:
O, be to me, though thy hard heart fay no,

Nothing

Nothing fo kind, but fomething pitiful!

Titus, A. 2, S. 3.

By being feldom feen, I could not ftir,
But, like a comet, I was wonder'd at:
That men could tell their children, This is he;
Others would fay, where? which is Bolingbroke?
Henry IV. P. 1, A. 3, S. 2.

And as our vineyards, fallows, meads, and hedges,
Defective in their natures, grow to wildness;
Even fo our houses, and ourselves, and children,
Have loft, or do not learn, for want of time,
The sciences that should become our country.

Henry V. A. 5, S. 2.

Bring me a father, that fo lov'd his child,
Whofe joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,
And bid him fpeak of patience.

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

Glofter's fhew

Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile
With forrow fnares relenting paffengers;
Or as the fnake, roll'd on a flowering bank,
With fhining checker'd flough, doth fting a child,
That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent.

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

Offer'd by a child to an old man ; which is wit-old. Love's Labour Loft, A. 5, S. 1.

CHOICE.

If there were a fympathy in choice,

War, death, or sickness did lay fiege to it;

Making it moinentary as a found,

Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 1, S. 1.

1 Offer'd by a child to an old man, which is wit-old.] An equivoque. "Wit-old" may mean, either old in wit, or according to the found, wittol, a contented cuckold.

A. B.

CLOUD.