No man is the lord of any thing, (Though in and of him there is much confifting) Troilus and Creffida, A. 3, S. 3. ARROW. I go, I go; look, how I go; Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2. In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, The felf-fame way, with more advised watch, To shoot another arrow that felf way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to find both, Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1. fo potent art. ART. Graves, at my command, Have wak'd their fleepers; op'd and let them forth By my Tempeft, A. 5, S. 1. I muft Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some vanity of mine art Tempest, A. 4, S. 1. I would I had beftow'd that time in the tongues, that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-bating; O, had I but followed the arts! Twelfth Night, A. 1. S. 3. Navarre Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; Love's Labour Lost, A. 1, S. 1. AT TEM P T. The quality and hair of our attempt Henry IV. P. 1, A. 4, S. 1. AUTHORITY. So please thee to return with us, And of our Athens (thine and ours) to take The captainship, thou fhalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with abfolute power, and thy good name Live with authority. Timon of Athens, A. 5, S. 2. I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority. I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him The quality and hair of our attempt.] The hair feems to be the complexion, the character. The metaphor appears harsh to us, but perhaps was familiar in our author's time. We still fay fomething is against the hair, or against the grain, that is, against the natural tendency. JOHNSON. I am not satisfied with this interpretation, and therefore read, "The quality and aire of our attempt." An aire, or airy, is the neft of a bird of prey: which nefts are always built on the tops of the loftiest trees. The fenfe of the paffage is, our attempt being great and towering, &c. A. B. Allow'd with abfolute power.] This is neither English nor fenfe. We fhould read, "Hallow'd with abfolute power." i. e. thy power fhall be held facred. For abfolute power being an attribute of the gods, the ancients thought that he, who held it in fociety, was become facred, and his perfon inviolable. On this account the Romans called the tribunitial power of the Emperors, facrofancta poteftas. WARBURTON. Allowed is licenfed, privileged, uncontrolled. So of a buffoon, in Love's Labour Loft, it is faid, that he is allowed, that is, at liberty to say what he will, a privileged fcoffer. JOHNSON. "Allow'd with abfolute power," is, abfolute power shall be allowed or granted thee. What can poffibly be clearer ? A. B. a lord. with any convenience, an he were double and double All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 3. My authority bears a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch, Measure for Measure, A. 4, S. 4. Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, Measure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2. A B. BABE S. S looks the mother on her lovely babe, Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds, Henry VI. P. 1, A. 3, S. 3. Is this the fcourge of France? Is this the Talbot, fo much fear'd abroad, That with his name the mothers ftill their babes? Henry VI. P. 1, A. 2, S. 3. In thy fight to die, what were it else, But like a pleasant flumber in thy lap? Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, S. 2. Spare not the babe, Whose dimpled fmiles from fools exhaust their mercy; Think it a baftard, whom the oracle Hath Timon, A. 4, Hath doubtfully pronounc'd thy throat fhall cut, S. 3. Richard III. A. 4, S. 4. Thus lay the gentle babes, girdling each other Their lips were four red rofes on a stalk, Which, in their fummer beauty, kifs'd each other, Richard III. A. 4, S. 3. BACCHU S. Come thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne. I Antony and Cleopatra, A, 2, S. 7. BACHELOR. When I faid I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were marry'd. Much ado about nothing, A. 2, S. 3. Shall I never see a bachelor of threefcore again? Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thruft thy neck into a yoke, wear the print of it, and figh away Sundays. Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S. I. 1 with pink eyne.] Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, fays a pink eye is a fmall eye, and quotes this paffage for his authority. Pink eyne, however, may be red eyes. Eyes inflamed with drinking are very well appropriated to Bacchus. STEEVENS. "Pink eyne," in this place, I believe, are neither small eyes nor red eyes, but twinkling eyes; and fuch as are ufually obferved in drunken perfons. To pink, is to wink with the eyes. "He is quite pinky," for "he is quite fuddled," is now made use of in ordinary conversation. C 2 A. B. Thy 1 I Thy broom groves, Whose shadow the difmiffed bachelor loves. Tempeft, A. 4, S. 1. BANISHMENT. When thou doft hear I am as I have been, 'Till then I banish thee. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 5. It comes not ill; I hate not to be banish'd; Timon of Athens, A. 3, S. 5. BANKRUPT. Sweep on, you fat and greafy citizens; As you like it, A. 2, S. 1. BARBARIS M. Whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim barbarifin, and policy grows into an ill opinion. Troilus and Creffida, A. 5, S. 4. BASE and thy broom groves.] A grove of broom, I believe, was never heard of, as it is a low fhrub, and not a tree. Hanmer reads brown groves. STEEVENS. Broom is here ufed adjectively, I believe, for thick, clofe The broom shrub is remarkably close knit, and almost impervious. A. B. 2 to proclaim barbarifm.] To fet up the authority of ignorance, to declare that they will be governed by policy no longer. JOHNSON. To proclaim, means in this place, I think, to hew, and not to |