With fiery eyes, fparkling for very wrath,
And bloody fteel grafp'd in their ireful hands,
Are at our backs. Henry VI. P. 3, A. 2, S. 5.

-I think him better than I fay,

And yet, would herein others' eyes were worfe:
Far from her neft the lapwing cries away;

My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.
Comedy of Errors, A. 4, S. 2.

Alack! there lies more peril in thine eye,

Than twenty of their fwords.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 2, S. 2.

Some strange commotion

Is in his brain: he bites his lip and ftarts;
Stops on a fudden, looks upon the ground,
Then lays his finger on his temple; straight,
Springs out into faft gait; then, ftops again,
Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts
His eyes against the moon.

Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2.
What means that hand upon that breast of thine?
Why holds thine eye the lamentable rheum,
Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?

King John, A. 3, S. 1, Command these fretting waters from your eyes With a light heart.

Measure for Meafure, A. 4, S. 3. Let me not hold my tongue; let me not, Hubert! Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue, So I may keep mine eyes; O, spare mine eyes; Though to no ufe, but ftill to look on you!

K. John, A. 4, S. I,

A fearful eye thou haft; where is that blood,
That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?
So foul a fky clears not without a storm;
Pour down thy weather. King John, A. 4, S. 2.

-By

By this fcimitar,

I would out-ftare the fterneft eyes that look,
Out-brave the heart moft daring on the earth,
Pluck the young fucking cubs from the fhe-bear,
Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady.

Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 1.

That fame eye, whofe bend doth awe the world,
Did lose his luftre; I did hear him groan;
Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans
Mark him, and write his fpeeches in their books,
Alas! it cry'd, give me fome drink, Titinius,
As a fick girl.

Julius Cæfar, A. 1, S. 2.

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

I wish mine eyes

Would with themfelves fhut up my thoughts.

Tempeft, A. 2, S. 1.

Never gaz'd the moon

Upon the water, as he'll stand and read,

As 'twere my daughter's eyes.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 3.

Tempeft, A. 1, S. 2.

And fay what thou feeft yond'.

I would have broke mine eye-ftrings, crack'd them,

but

To look upon him, till the diminution.

Of space had pointed him fharp as my needle:
Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from

2 Pretty peat! Peat, or pet, is a word of endearment, from petit, little,-as if it meant pretty little thing.

JOHNSON. "Pretty peat," is pretty lamb. A pet lamb is a lamb brought up in the houfe,

A. B.

The

The smallness of a gnat to air; and then
Have turn'd mine eye, and wept.

Mine eyes

Cymbeline, A. 1, S. 40

Were not in fault, for fhe was beautiful;

Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her feeming; it had been · vicious,

To have miftrufted her." Cymbeline, A. 5. S.

-Like a cloistress, fhe will veiled walk,

And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine.

O, when my eyes did fee Olivia first,

5.

Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 1.

Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 1.

Methought, the purg'd the air of peftilence.

Methinks, I feel this youth's perfections,

With an invisible and subtle stealth,

To creep in at my eyes.

Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 5.
Oh, happy fair!

Your eyes are lode-stars, and your tongue's sweet air,
More tuneable than lark to fhepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 1, S. 1.

Alas! how is't with you?

That you do bend your eye on vacancy,

And with the incorporal air do hold difcourfe?

Hamlet, A. 3, S.

4.

Come, fir page,

Look on me, with your welkin eye; fweet villain!

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

Why

2

Welkin eye.] Blue eye; an eye of the fame colour

with the welkin, or sky.

JOHNSON. "A wel

Why this is not Lear:

Does Lear walk thus? Speak thus? Where are

his eyes?

Either his notion weakens, or his difcernings

Are lethargy'd.-Ha! waking?-'tis not fo.-
Who is it that can tell me who I am? Lear's fhadow,
I would learn that; for by the marks

Of fov'reignty, of knowledge, and of reason,
I should be falfe perfuaded I had daughters.—
Your name, fair gentlewoman?

Lear, A. 1, S. 4.

These things, indeed, you have articulated,
Proclaim'd at market-croffes, read in churches;
To face the garment of rebellion

With fome fine colour, that may please the eye
Of fickle changelings, and poor difcontents.

Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S. 1.
Thofe oppofed eyes,

Which-like the meteors of a troubled heaven,
All of one nature, of one fubftance bred,
Did lately meet in the inteftine shock,
And furious close of civil butchery,

Shall now in mutual well-befeeming ranks,
March all one way.

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

Tell me, fweet lord, what is't that takes from thee Thy ftomach, pleasure, and thy golden fleep? Why doft thou bend thine eyes upon the earth, And ftart fo often when thou fitt'ft alone?

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

He was but as the cuckow is in June,

Heard, not regarded; feen, but with fuch eyes, As fick and blunted with community,

Afford no extraordinary gaze,

"A welkin eye" is a rolling eye, or as Leontes would infinuate, a wanton.eye, and fuch as he fuppofes Hermione's to be. Welkin comes from yelcan, Saxon, to roll about.

A. B.

Such

Such as is bent on fun-like majefty,

When it shines feldom in admiring eyes.

Henry IV. P. 1. A. 3, S. 2.
I do fee

Danger and disobedience in thine eye;

O, fir, your prefence is too bold and peremptory,
And majefty might never yet endure
The moody frontier of a servant brow.

Henry IV. P. 1, Á. 1,

O Thou! whofe captain I account myself,
Look on my forces with a gracious eye;
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,
That they may crush down with a heavy fall
The ufurping helmets of our adverfaries!
Make us thy minifters of chastisement,
That we may praise thee in thy victory!

S. 3°

Richard III. A. 5, S. 3.

I will converse with iron-witted fools,
And unrefpected boys; none are for me,
That look into me with confiderate eyes.

Richard III. A. 4, S. 2.

We know the time, fince he was mild and affable;
And, if we did but glance a far-off look,
Immediately he was upon his knee,

That all the court admir'd him for fubmiffion;
But meet him now, and be it in the morn,
When every one will give the time of day,
He knits his brow, and fhews an angry eye.

Henry VI. P. 2. A. 3, S. 1. A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and funken, which you have not.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

* A blue eye. i. e. a blueness about the eyes.

STEEVENS. "A blue eye." But why a blue eye? I believe we should réad "a flu eye."-Flu-fuifh, in the northern counties, is wa tery, weak, tender. "A flu eye" will therefore mean an eye filled with tears. Fluer, French, to flow or run.

I 2

A. B. FACE.