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No man is the lord of any thing,

(Though in and of him there is much confifting)
Till he communicate his parts to others:
Nor doth he of himself know them for aught,
Till he behold them form'd in the applaufe
Where they are extended.

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,
I fhot his fellow of the felf-fame flight

The felf-fame way, with more advised watch,
To find the other forth; and by advent'ring both,
I oft found both. Merchant of Venice, A. 1. S. 1.
That which I owe is loft: but if you please

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,
Or bring your latter hazard back again.

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;
Our court shall be a little academe,
Still and contemplative in living art.

Love's Labour Lost, A. 1, S. 1.

AT TEM P T.

The quality and hair of our attempt
Brooks no divifion.

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,
But it confounds the breather.

Measure for Measure, A. 4, S. 4.
Authority, though it err like others,

Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o' the top.

Measure for Measure, A. 2, S. 2.

A

B.

BABE S.

S looks the mother on her lovely babe,
When death doth close his tender dying eyes,
See, fee, the pining malady of France;

Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
Which thou thyself haft given her woful breast!

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?
Here could I breathe my foul into the air,
As mild and gentle as the cradle babe,
Dying with mother's dug between its lips.

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,
And mince it fans remorse.
Ah, my poor princes! ah, my tender babes!
My unblown flowers, new-appearing fweets!
If yet your gentle fouls fly in the air,
Hover about me with your airy wings.

S. 3.

Richard III. A. 4, S. 4.

Thus lay the gentle babes, girdling each other
Within their alabafter innocent arms:

Their lips were four red rofes on a stalk,

Which, in their fummer beauty, kifs'd each other,
The most replenished sweet work of nature,
That, from the prime creation, e'er she fram'd.

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.

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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.

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A. B.

Thy

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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,
Approach me: and thou shalt be as thou waft,
The tutor and the feeder of my riots:

'Till then I banish thee. Henry IV. P. 2, A. 5, S. 5.
Ha! banishment?

It comes not ill; I hate not to be banish'd;
It is a caufe worthy my spleen and fury,
That I may ftrike at Athens. I'll cheer up
My difcontented troops, and lay for hearts.

Timon of Athens, A. 3, S. 5.

BANKRUPT.

Sweep on, you fat and greafy citizens;
'Tis juft the fafhion: wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?

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

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