That you have no such mirrors, as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye."

Read thing, and probably mirror. So with some in several other places. Ib.,

and Cicero

Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes,
As we have seen him in the Capitol,

Being crost in conference by some senators."

All's Well, &c., i. 2,

"I, after him, do after him wish too,

Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,
I quickly were dissolved from my hive,
To give some labourers room."

(Dissolved, as Browne, Brit. Past. ii. 4, Clarke, p. 274,— frost and snow,

Seldom dissolved by Hyperion's ray."

For the sense of the word, i.q., released, solutus, compare Chapman, Il. xv. Taylor, vol. ii. p. 49,—

"None durst dissolve [unchain] thee."

Odyss. viii. fol. p. 119, Neptune

propitiate

Was still for Mars, and pray'd the God of fire
He would dissolve him."

I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement,
Till by some elder masters, of known honour,
I have a voice and precedent of peace

To keep my name ungor'd."

I am not quite sure of this last. By the way, I suspect that one of the two honours-the latter-has originated in the other. Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 1,—

"Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head."

So in Ford, Perkin Warbeck, v. 3, Moxon's edition, p. 121, col. 2,

"Death? pish! 'tis but a sound; a name of air;

A minute's storm, or not so much; to tumble
From bed to bed, be massacred alive

By some physicians, for a month or two,
In hope of freedom from a fever's torments,
Might stagger manhood; here the pain is past
Ere sensibly 'tis felt."

Clearly physician. Tailor, Hog hath Lost his Pearl, iv. 1,
Dodsley, vol. vi. p. 379,-

If you stay here,

Your life may end in torture, by the cruelty

Of some wild ravenous beasts."

Beast. And so Cymbeline, ii. 1,—“ When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths: Ha?" On the other hand, Shirley, Sisters, iv. 2, Gifford and Dyce, vol. v. p. 403,—

"I've had more lead in bullets taken from me,

Than would repair some steeple."

Perhaps steeples. Julius Cæsar, i. 3,—

"No, it is Casca, one incorporate

To our attempts."

(iv. 1, which I once regarded as corrupt, seems to be right,—

I rather think that in commons was the established phrase.) Othello, iii. 4,—

"If my offence be of such mortal kind,

That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,

Nor purpos'd merit in futurity,

Can ransom me," &c.

Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2,

"When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes."

But

If this be right, subject must refer to Gloster alone. I think Shakespeare wrote quake. Subject, more prisco, meaning not subjectus but subjecti; as we say the elect, the reprobate. Old writers passim; indeed the usage occurs as late as Burke. Winter's Tale, iv. 3, which I once regarded as corrupt, is probably sane,

Here's flowers for you,

Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram," &c.

Quere, whether our ancestors in the time of Elizabeth used mints as we do cabbages, parsnips, and the like? This was certainly the usage in the time of Chaucer; Romaunt of the Rose, p. 176,-I have the quotation from the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, in v. mint. [Fol. 112, ed. 1602],"Tho went I forth on my right hand (hond)

Downe by a litel path I fond

Of mintes full (ful), and fenel greene (grene).”

And a passage of Bacon, Essay of Gardens, near the end of the second paragraph, where he associates together "burnet, wild thyme, and watermints," seems to prove the correctness of the received reading in the Winter's Tale. Much Ado, &c., i. 2, near the end,-" Cousins, you know what you have to do." Qu. See context. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 4,-" the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place." I think boy seems more natural, but I doubt much.88 Tempest, v. 1, fol. p. 18, col. 1,—

"Let vs not burthen our remembrances, with

A heauinesse that's gon."

Pope (I think it was he) altered this to remembrance, for the sake of the metre; rightly; Malone, however, reads and arranges,

ȧμérows, Shakespeario saltem judice. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 1,

"We'll have him: Sirs, a word."

Sir, I imagine; to Valentine. Ib., near the end,—

"Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews." 89

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88 The second folio reads boy; Mr. Collier's Corrector, "a hangman boy." He evidently knew nothing of the first folio; otherwise he would have read "the hangman boys." If Shakespeare wrote hangman, boys would be more natural, if hangman's, boy. -Ed.

89 The Old Corrector observed this, and ingeniously read, cave, perhaps remembering v. 3,-" Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave." Mr. Collier is, I think, mistaken in supposing that, in iv. 1, the band was present on the stage. Only three outlaws were so.-Ed.

Were not crews the established reading, every one would perceive at once that it was a solecism. Perhaps Merry Wives of Windsor, iii. 4, near the beginning,

"Besides these, other bars he lays before me,

My riots past, my wild societies," &c.

Measure for Measure, i. 2,

"Well, there went but a pair of shears between us. Lucio. I grant; as there may between the lists and the velvet; thou art the list; "

perhaps wrong. ii. 2,

Grace? iv. 2,—

Heaven give thee moving graces!"

"Heaven give your spirits comfort; perhaps spirit, the error having originated in the spirits three lines below; yet I very much doubt, for spirits seems to be the word required here by Elizabethan usage. Comedy of Errors, i. 1,—

"That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd

To tell sad stories of my own mishaps."

Misfortune, surely; and so indeed Ayscough's edition.90 v. 1,—

that here my only son

Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares."

Perhaps care. Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2, qu.,"I will not stay thy question; let me go."

As You Like It, v. 2, read,—

tr

'Speak'st thou in sober meaning?"

All's Well that Ends Well, iii. 6," he will steal himself into a man's favour, and, for a week, escape a great deal

90 So too the Old Corrector, who, however, seems mistaken in altering that to and.-Ed.