Sustains such prejudice by those it honours; [,]
That of necessity we must pervert it

With passionate enemies, and ambitious boundless
Avarice, and every licence," &c.

I think," and ambitions boundless, Avarice, and," &c.
Jonson, Fox, i. 1, Gifford, vol. iii. p. 172,—

"Tear forth the fathers of poor families
Out of their beds, and coffin them alive
In some kind-clasping prison."

First Part of Sir John Oldcastle, iv. 3,—

"Do not thou, with thy kind-respective tears

Torment thy husband's heart, that bleeds for thee," &c. i.e., expressive of that regard which springs from natural affection; respect in our old writers signifying regard, and kind being natural, affectionate. By the way, in Chapman and Shirley's Play, Chabot, Admiral of France, iii. 2, Gifford and Dyce's Shirley, vol. vi. p. 127,—“ yet, notwithstanding all these injustices, this unmatchable, unjust delinquent affecteth to be thought inculpable, and incomparable just; "we ought evidently to read "unmatchable-(i.e.-bly) unjust," as below "incomparable-just." So excellent-white, pestilent-complete, above. Play of Lust's Dominion, Old English Plays, vol. i. p. 113.

"For base lust of a loathed concubine.

Eleaz. Ha! concubine! who does Prince Philip mean?
Phil. (To Eleaz.) Thy wife.-(To Alv.) Thy daughter,-base
aspiring lords;

Who to buy honour are content to sell
Your names to infamy, your souls to hell."

Base-aspiring. Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, v. 3,—
"And like a glorious desperate man, who buys
A poison of much price, by which he dies," &c.

Glorious-desperate; glorious (ut sæpe) in the sense of gloriosus; ostentatious and costly in his suicide.

Beaumont and Fletcher, Faithful Friends, i. 3, towards the end of the act, write,—

in whose each part reigns a world

Of strange-attractive pleasures."

iii. 1, write,

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he's a white-cheek'd boy,

Whose fearful soul a soldier's frown would fright
From his fine-mettled breast." [So Dyce.-Ed.]

Knight of Malta, v. 1,—

and can you be

So cruel, thankless, to destroy his youth
That sav'd your honour," &c.

Cruel-thankless; see context.

King and No King, ii. 1, I think,—

a new-strong constancy;" if this is

not too obvious for notice. Massinger, Bondman, iv. 3,

write,

teach your tongue,

In the first sweet-articulate sound it utters,
To sign my wish'd-for pardon."

L. Digges, Lines prefixed to the folio Shakespeare,—

'Or till I hear a scene more nobly take

Than when thy half-sword parleying Romans spake." Half-sword-parleying, if this correction has not been made already. Chapman, Widow's Tears, v. 1, Dodsley, vol. vi. p. 186,

"Do not with vain-affrighting conscience

Betray a life," &c.

Jonson, Elegy, Underwoods lxix. p. 409,

Gifford, vol. viii.

"No, mistress, no, the open-merry man

Moves like a sprightly river;"

at least so I think; opposed to the man who keeps his mirth to himself. See context. Fairfax's Tasso, B. iii. St. lvi.,

"The town is stor❜d of troughs and cisterns, made

To keep fresh water, but the country seems

Devoid of grass, unfit for ploughmen's trade,

Not fertile, moist with rivers, wells, and streams."

Perhaps Fairfax wrote fertile-moist.12 B. ix. St. vi. read,"And with huge sums of false-enticing gold

Th' Arabian thieves he sent him forth to hire."

And so B. x. St. lxv.-B. xvi. St. xvii.-In B. xv. St. lix. write,

"The nymphs applied their sweet-alluring arts."

B. xix. St. xci.,

"And from her lips the words slow, trembling came; slow-trembling. Herrick, ed. Clarke, xiii. vol. ii. p. 38,"See here a maukin; there a sheet

As spotless, pure, as it is neat."

spotless-pure. Lodge, Wounds of Civil War, iii. Dodsley, vol. viii. p. 36, write,

66

v. p. 80,

O false-ambitious pride in young and old!"

"Such chances wait upon uncertain fate,

That where she kisseth once, she quelleth twice;
Then whoso lives content is happy, wise."

Happy-wise; wise to happiness. (For quelleth we should read, I imagine, killeth. Quelleth, I believe, is sometimes 12 This seems supported by the original,—

"E di fontane sterile e di rivi."-Ed.

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used in this sense; so that the one word might easily be written, through an oversight, for the other.) Anonymous Lines addressed to W. Browne, Clarke's Browne, vol. i. p. 19, 1. 4,—

"Lest secret, rocky envy, or the source
[wrong; force, I imagine.]

Of frothy, but sky-tow'ring arrogance;
Or fleeting, sandy vulgar-censure chance
[dele hyphen and comma.]

To leave him shipwreck'd," &c.

We should read secret-rocky, and, I think, fleeting-sandy. Spenser, Faerie Queen, i. v. xviii., "a cruell-craftie crocodile," I imagine. Ib. xi. xlix. write,

"By this the drouping Day-light gan to fade,

And yield his rowme to sad-succeeding Night." xii. xxix., "these bitter-byting wordes." ii. iii. xxxi., “ sadafflicted Troy." iii. i. lvi., "the false-instilled fire." lviii., "her soft-fetherd nest." ii. xvii., "her first-engraffed payne.” iii. xxii., “big-embodied [i.e. big-bodied] branches." xi. xlv., "the sweet-consuming woe." iv. ii. xxxiv., "O most sacred-happie spirit." Fairfax, xvi. xxxiv.,—

"This said, the noble infant stood a space

Confused, speechless, senseless, ill, ashamed;"

see the lines following; ill-ashamed; the old distinction between a good and an evil shame, somewhat differently applied. xiv. vi., “glorious-shining." xv. ix., a gentlebreathing air. "xi. ix., "shrift-fathers." xiii. xlviii., "monsters foul-misshap'd." x. lviii., "the sly-enticing maid." lxv., "false-enticing smiles." Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. 1,—

his course is so irregular,
So loose, affected, and depriv'd of grace," &c.

Loose-affected; licentiously inclin’d.

Ib.,

"But rather use the soft persuading way.”

Soft-persuading. Chapman, Il. ix. Taylor, vol. i. p. 204, 1. 22, perhaps,

"And my life never shall be hir'd with thankless-desperate prayers."

xv. vol. ii. p. 60,—

"This said, he hasted to his tent: left there his shafts and bow, And then his double, double shield did on his shoulders throw," &c.

Papa! double-double, i.e. twice double, or fourfold; v.479,—

αὐταρ ἅγ ̓ ἀμφ' ὤμοισι σάκος θέτο τετραθέλυμνον.

P. 64, “his unhappy-hasty foot." xvi. p. 85,

"Now, brethren, be it dear to you to fight and succour us, As ever heretofore ye did, with men first excellent."

Meaning first-excellent; for Chapman evidently understands the passage as if it stood (v. 556),—

Αἴαντε, νῦν σφῶν ἀμύνεσθαι φίλον εστω,

οἷοί περ πάρος ἦτε, μετ ̓ ἀνδρασιν οἳ καὶ αρείους·

although this would require μer' avôp☎v. xxi. 1. 1, p. 168, “And now they reach'd the goodly swelling channel of the flood," &c.

goodly-swelling,

ἀλλ ̓ ὅτε δὴ πόδον ἶξον εϋρρεῖος ποταμοῖο, &c. Marmyon, Antiquary, iii. 1 (it ought to be 4), Dodsley, vol. x. p. 55,-" A shrewd-convincing argument!" Fairfax, xiv. lxxv.,-"those13 deadly-wicked streams." Carew,

13 The elegant, and generally most correct edition of 1817 omits those by an error of the press, and consequently gives us one of those limping lines, which some editors of Shakespeare admire.-Ed.