And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse, Lying with simple shells. Lychorida, "The air-remaining lamps." STEEVENS. Air-remaining, if it be right, must mean air-hung, suspended for ever in the air. So, (as Mr. Steevens observes to me,) in Shakspeare's 21st Sonnet: 66 those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air." In King Richard II. right-drawn sword is used for a sword drawn in a just cause; and in Macbeth we meet with air-drawn dagger. Perhaps, however, the author wrote-aye-remaining. Thus, in Othello: "Witness, you ever-burning lights above-." Again, in Troilus and Cressida : "To feed for aye her lamp, and flames of love." "That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps The propriety of the emendation suggested by Mr. Malone, will be increased, if we recur to our author's leading thought, which is founded on the customs observed in the pomp of ancient sepulture. Within old monuments and receptacles for the dead, perpetual (i. e. aye-remaining) lamps were supposed to be lighted up. Thus, Pope, in his Eloisa : "Ah hopeless, lasting flames, like those that burn "To light the dead, and warm th' unfruitful urn! I would, however, read: "And aye-remaining lamps," &c. "Instead of a monument erected over thy bones, and perpetual lamps to burn near them, the spouting whale shall oppress thee with his weight, and the mass of waters shall roll with low heavy murmur over thy head.' STRevens. 5 Hudibras has the same allusion: - "Love in your heart as idly burns "Those only that see nothing by't." REED. the BELCHING WHALE,] So, in Troilus and Cressida : 66 "Before the belching whale." MALONE. 6 And HUMMING water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,] Milton perhaps had this verse in his head, when he wrote, "Where thou perhaps under the humming tide He afterwards changed humming to whelming. HOLT WHITE. Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper", 2 SAIL. Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulk'd and bitumed ready. PER. I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this? Thus also Pope, 18th Iliad, 472: "The rushing ocean murmur'd o'er my head." Perhaps our great translator had previously cast his eye on Chapman's version of the same passage, 4to. 1598 : 7 over us - ink and PAPER,] This is the reading of the second quarto. The first has taper. MALONE. 8 Bring me the sattin COFFER:] The old copies have-coffin. It seems somewhat extraordinary that Pericles should have carried a coffin to sea with him. We ought, I think, to read, as I have printed,-coffer. MALONE. Sattin coffer is most probably the true reading. So, in a subsequent scene: 66 66 Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels, Lay with you in your coffer." Our ancient coffers were often adorned on the inside with such costly materials. A relation of mine has a trunk which formerly belonged to Katharine Howard when queen, and it is lined throughout with rose-coloured sattin, most elaborately quilted. By the sattin coffer, however, may be only meant the coffer employed to contain sattins and other rich materials for dress. Thus we name a tea-chest, &c. from their contents. Pericles, however, does not mean to bury his queen in this sattin coffer, but to take from thence the cloth of state in which it seems she was afterwards shrowded. It appears likewise that her body was found in the chest caulk'd and bitumed by the sailors. 66 So, in Twine's translation; -a large chest, and we will seare it all ouer within with pitch and rozen melted together, &c. -Then took they the body of the faire lady Lucina, and arrayed her in princely apparell, and laid her into the chest," &c. STEEVENS. 2 SAIL. We are near Tharsus. PER. Thither, gentle mariner, Alter thy course for Tyre 9. When can'st thou reach it? 2 SAIL. By break of day, if the wind cease. PER. O make for Tharsus. There will I visit Cleon, for the babe Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it SCENE II. [Exeunt. Ephesus. A Room in CERIMON'S House. Enter CERIMON1, a Servant, and some Persons who have been shipwrecked. CER. Philemon, ho! Enter PHILEMON. PHIL. Doth my lord call? CER. Get fire and meat for these poor men ; It has been a turbulent and stormy night. SERV. I have been in many; but such a night as this, Till now, I ne'er endur'd 2. 9 Alter thy course for Tyre.] Change thy course, which is now for Tyre, and go to Tharsus. MALONE. I CERIMON,] In Twine's translation he is called-a Physician. Our author has made a Lord of him. STEEVENS. 2 I have been in many; but such a night as this, Till now, I ne'er endur'd.] So, in Macbeth : "Threescore and ten I can remember well "Within the volume of which time I have seen "Hours dreadful, and things strange; but this sore night "Hath trifled former knowings." Again, in King Lear: Since I was man, ; CER. Your master will be dead ere you return There's nothing can be minister'd to nature, That can recover him. Give this to the 'pothe 3 cary, And tell me how it works. [TO PHILEMON. [Exeunt PHILEMON, Servant, and those who had been shipwrecked. Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea, "Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Again, in Julius Cæsar: 3 "I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds "Did I go through a tempest dropping fire." MAlone. Give this to the 'pothecary,] The recipe that Cerimon sends to the apothecary, we must suppose, is intended either for the poor men already mentioned, or for some of his other patients. ―The preceding words show that it cannot be designed for the master of the servant introduced here. MALONE. Perhaps this circumstance was introduced for no other reason than to mark more strongly the extensive benevolence of Cerimon. For the poor men who have just left the stage, kitchen physick only was designed. STEEVENS. 4 Shook, as the earth did quake ;] So, in Macbeth : "Clamour'd the live-long night: some say, the earth Again, in Coriolanus: as if the world "Was feverous and did tremble." MALONE. The very principals did seem to rend, And all to topple ; pure surprize and fear 2 GENT. That is the cause we trouble you so early; "Tis not our husbandry. CER. 1 GENT. But I much having O, you say well. marvel that your lordship, Rich tire about you?, should at these early hours. 5 The very PRINCIPALS did seem to rend, And all to topple :] The principals are the strongest rafters in the roof of a building. The second quarto which is followed by the modern copies, reads corruptly-principles. If the speaker had been apprehensive of a general dissolution of nature, (which we must understand, if we read principles,) he did not need to leave his house: he would have been in as much danger without as within. All to is an augmentative often used by our ancient writers. It occurs frequently in the Confessio Amantis. The word topple, which means tumble, is again used by Shakspeare in Macbeth, and applied to buildings : 66 Though castles topple on their warders' heads." "Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down Mr. Malone has properly explained the word-principals. So, in Philemon Holland's translation of the 33d book of Pliny's Natural History, edit. 1601, p. 467 :-" yea, the jambes, posts, principals, and standerds, all of the same metall." STEEVENS. I believe this only means, and every thing to tumble down.' M. MASON. 6 "Tis not our HUSBANDRY.] Husbandry here signifies economical prudence. So, in King Henry V. : "For our bad neighbours make us early stirrers, See also Hamlet, Act I. Sc. III. MALONE. 7 RICH TIRE about you, &c.] Thus the quarto, 1609; but the sense of the passage is not sufficiently clear. The gentlemen rose early, because they were but in lodgings which stood exposed near the sea. They wonder, however, to find Lord Cerimon stirring, because he had rich tire about him; meaning perhaps a bed more richly and comfortably furnished, where he could have slept |