lightened part of the audience. Our author has again alluded to it in the Two Gentlemen of Verona.-The "dead shepherd," Marlowe, was killed in a brothel, in 1593. Two editions of Hero and Leander, I believe, had been published before the year 1600; it being entered in the Stationers' Books, Sept. 28, 1593, and again in 1597. 66 (50) the constant red, and mingled damask]" Constant red" is uniform red. Mingled damask" is the silk of that name, in which, by a various direction of the threads, many lighter shades of the same colour are exhibited. STEEVENS. "The devil a Puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but," &c. Tw. N. II. 3. Maria. ACT IV. (1) it is the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness] It is the diversified consideration or view of my travels, in which process my frequent reflection, and continued interest that I take, wraps me in a most whimsical sadness. In his Apology for Smectymnuus, Milton says of his own ear for numbers, that it was "rather nice and humorous in what was tolerable, than patient to read every drawling versifier." Warton's Milton, 8vo. 1785, p. 207. Here it may be rendered exceptious:" and we have the humorous Duke, in I. 2. and II. 3. (2) swam in a gondola] That is, been at Venice, the seat at that time of all licentiousness; where the young English gentlemen wasted their fortunes, debased their morals, and sometimes lost their religion. The fashion of travelling, which prevailed very much in our author's time, was considered by the wiser men as one of the principal causes of corrupt manners. It was, therefore, gravely censured by Ascham, in his Schoolmaster, and by Bishop Hall, in his Quo Vadis; and is here, and in other passages, ridiculed by Shakespeare. JOHNSON. (3) better leer] Cast of countenance. Of a better feature, complexion, or colour, than you. So, in P. Holland's Pliny, B. XXXI. c. ii. P. 403 : "In some places there is no other thing bred or growing, but brown and duskish, insomuch as not only the cattel is all of that lere, but also the corn on the ground," &c. The word seems to be derived from the Saxon Hleare, facies, frons, vultus. So Tit. Andron. IV. 2. "Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer." TOLLET. In the notes on the Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. IV. p. 320, lere is supposed to mean skin. So, in Isumbras MSS. Cott. Cal. II. fol. 129: "His lady is white as whales bone, "So fair as blosme on tre." STEEVENS. (4) and when you were gravelled for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss] Thus also in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, edit. 1632, p. 511; "-and when he hath pumped his wittes dry, and can say no more, kissing and colling are never out of season." STEEVENS. (5) more new-fangled than an ape] Neither fangle, which occurs in Cymb. "Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment "Nobler than that it covers," V. 4. Posth. nor this compound, are to be met with in our early dictionaries, though it is found in every writer of the age of Elizabeth and James. Johnson, following Skinner, derives the noun from fengan, Sax. to attempt, and interprets it, "silly attempt, trifling scheme;" and this word "new-fashioned, dressed out in new decorations." Mr. Todd, in his note on Milton's Vacat. Exerc. v. 19, 20, quotes the description of a Fantastick in Barnabe Rych's Faults and nothing but Faults, 4to. 1606: "I beleeve he hath rob'd a jackanapes of his jesture: mark but his countenance, see how he mops and how he mows, and how he straines his lookes. All the apes, that have been in the parrish garden these twentie yeares, would not come nigh him for all maner of compliments." VII. 64. And in his Spenser, II. 127, he adds from the Cobler's Prophecie, 1594: "Niceness is Venus's maide, and new-fungle is her man." F. Q. I. IV. 25. See" May's new-fangled shows," L. L. L. I. 1. Bir. (6) I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain] The allusion is to the cross in Cheapside; the religious images, with which it was ornamented, being defaced, (as we learn from Stowe,) in 1596: "There was then set up, a curious wrought tabernacle of gray marble, and in the same an alabaster image of Diana, and water conveyed from the Thames, prilling from her naked breast." Stowe, in Cheap Ward. Statues, and particularly that of Diana, with water conveyed through them to give them the appearance of weeping figures, were anciently a frequent ornament of fountains. Now could I cry "Like any image in a fountain, which "Runs lamentations." City Match, III. 3. And in Drayton's Rosamond's Epistle to Henry II.: "Here in the garden, wrought by curious hands, WHALLEY. See "weather-bitten conduit," Wint. T. V. 2. 3 Gent. (7) I will laugh like a hyen] The bark of the hyena was anciently supposed to resemble a loud laugh. So, in Webster's Duchess of Malfy, 1623: Again, in The Cobler's Prophecy, 1594: "You laugh hyena-like, weep like a crocodile." STEEVENS. (8) Wit, whither wilt] In a sermon preached by Tho. Adams, at Paul's Cross, Mar. 7, 1611, we have: "Vis consilii expers mole ruit sua, power without pollicy is like a peece without powder: many a pope sings that common ballad of hell: Ingenio perii qui miser ipse meo: "Wit, whither wilt thou? woe is me! 4to. 1514, Edit. 3, p. 39. This, the third edition of this notable discourse, is full of scrap quotation, alliteration, antithesis, and play upon words; and in this last particular, by a most extravagant instance fully exemplifies his own doctrine, and that of our text. He says of theeves." Their church is the highway: there they pray (not to God, but) on men." lb. p. 37. (9) You shall never take her without her answer] See Chaucer's Merchantes Tale, ver. 10,138-10,149: "Now by my modre Ceres soule I swere, "That though they ben in any gilt ytake, "For lack of answere non of us shall dien. "Al had ye seen a thing with bothe youre eyen, "Yet shul we so visage it hardely, "And wepe and swere and chiden subtilly, "That ye shul ben as lewed as ben gees." TYRWHITT. (10) time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let time try] "And that old common arbitrator, Time, "Will one day end it." Tr. and Cr. STEEVENS. (11) -to her own nest] So, in Lodge's Rosalynde: And "I pray you (quoth Aliena) if your own robes were off, what metal are you made of, that you are so satyricall against women? Is it not a foule bird defiles her owne nest?”* STEEVENS. (12) I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come] "Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there 66 Weep our sad bosoms empty." Macb. STEEVENS. (13) His leather skin and horns to wear] "What news, Forrester? Hast thou wounded some deere, and lost him in the fall? Care not, man, for so small a losse; thy fees was but the skinne, the shoulders, and the horns." Lodge's Rosalinde, 1592. STEEVENS. (14) Take thou no scorn, to wear the horn] In King John in two parts, 1591, we find "But let the foolish Frenchman take no scorn "If Philip front him with an English horn." MALONE. And in the old comedy of Grim the Collier of Croydon : Unless your great infernal majesty "Do solemnly proclaim, no devil shall scorn To take scorn occurs in I. H. VI. IV. 4. "And take foul scorn, to fawn on him by sending." STEEVENS. We find "Thinke discourtesie," Prol, to Sir John Harrington's Metam. of Ajax, 1596. (15) Patience herself would startle at this letter, And play the swaggerer ;] "This would make mercy swear, and play the tyrant.” (16) a tame snake] i. e. spiritless. M. for M. STEEVENS. "If those silie poore soules had taken up armour against his majesties power, they might justly be called rebels; but, alas! they were silie poore snakes, utterly unarmed." Tobacco tortured, 4to. 1616, p. 156. D 66 "And still the poorest, miserable snakes." (17) -purlieus of this forest] Purlieu, says Manwood's Treatise on the Forest Laws, c. xx. "Is a certaine territorie of ground adjoyning unto the forest, meared and bounded with unmoveable marks, meeres, and boundaries: which territories of ground was also forest, and afterwards disaforested againe by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forest from the old." Reed. Purlieus are the outskirts or borders. The derivation of the word, which our other dictionaries had not before given, appears in Mr. Todd. " Pur Fr. clear, exempt, and lieu, a place." "In H. III.'s time the charta de Foresta was established; so that there was much land disafforested, which hath been called pourlieus ever since." Howell's Letters, IV. 16. (18) The rank of osiers] Row. "Short be the rank of pearles, circling her tongue." Wit's Interpreter, 8vo. 1571, p. 226. (19) bestows himself, like, &c.] i. e. carries, shows. Mr. Steevens instances II H. IV. "How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen." (20) this bloody napkin] "A napkin or handkerchiefe, wherewith wee wipe away the sweate. Alv. 1580. : Sudarium." Baret's Mr. Steevens cites Ray, that a pocket handkerchief is so called about Sheffield, in Yorkshire and Greene's Never too Late, 1616: "I can wet one of my new lockram napkins with weeping." Napery, indeed, signifies linen in general in Decker's Honest Whore, 1635 : pr'ythee put me into wholesome napery.” And in Chapman's May-Day, 1611: "Besides your munition of manchet napery plates." Naperia, Ital. STE EVENS. (21) Under an oak, &c.] The passage stands thus in Lodge's novel: "Saladyne, wearie with wandring up and downe, and hungry with long fasting, finding a little cave by the side of at thicket, eating such fruite as the forrest did affoord, and contenting himself with such drinke as nature had provided, and thirst made delicate, after his repast he fell into a dead sleepe. As thus he lay, a hungry lyon came hunting downe the edge of |