With fiery eyes, fparkling for very wrath, -I think him better than I fay, And yet, would herein others' eyes were worfe: My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse. 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; Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2. 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, -By By this fcimitar, I would out-ftare the fterneft eyes that look, Merchant of Venice, A. 2, S. 1. That fame eye, whofe bend doth awe the world, 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: 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 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 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. Your eyes are lode-stars, and your tongue's sweet air, 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.- Of fov'reignty, of knowledge, and of reason, Lear, A. 1, S. 4. These things, indeed, you have articulated, With fome fine colour, that may please the eye Henry IV. P. 1, A. 5, S. 1. Which-like the meteors of a troubled heaven, Shall now in mutual well-befeeming ranks, 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. Danger and disobedience in thine eye; O, fir, your prefence is too bold and peremptory, Henry IV. P. 1, Á. 1, O Thou! whofe captain I account myself, S. 3° Richard III. A. 5, S. 3. I will converse with iron-witted fools, Richard III. A. 4, S. 2. We know the time, fince he was mild and affable; That all the court admir'd him for fubmiffion; 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. |