ADDENDA. ¡Tempest, p. 64. c. 18. Broom, in this place, fignifies the Spartium fcoparium, of which brooms are frequently made. Near Gamlingay in Cambridgeshire it grows high enough to conceal the tallest cattle as they pass through it; and in places where it is cultivated, ftill higher: a circumftance that had escaped my notice, till I was told of it by Profeffor Martin, whose name I am particuHarly happy to infert among those of other friends who have honoured and improved this work by their various communications. STEEVENS. Gent. of Verona, p. 99, 1. 19, for Look, read, And. Ibid. p. 108, 1. 16. for fhe made, read, fhe bath made. "Merry Wives, &c. p. 216. n. 6. up with your fights,] This paffage may receive an additional and perhaps a fomewhat different illuftration from John Smith's Sea-Grammar, 4o. 1627. In page 58 he says, "But if you fee your chafe ftrip himself into fighting failes, that is, to put out his colours in the poope, his flag in the maine top, his ftreamers or pendants at the end of his yards' arms, &c. provide yourself to fight." Again, p. 60. Thus they use to ftrip themselves into their fhort failes, or fighting failes, which is only the fore fail, the maine and fore top failes, because the reft should not be fired or fpoiled; befides they would be troublesome to handle, hinder our fights and the ufing our armes : he makes ready his clofe fights fore and aft." In a former passage, p. 58, he has said that a fhip's clofe fights are fmall ledges of wood laid croffe one another, like the grates of iron in a prifon's window, betwixt the maine maft and the fore maft, and are called gratings or nettings," &c. STEEVENS. Twelfth Night, p. 387, n. 5. Dr. Farmer would read fat instead of tall, the former of thefe epithets, in his opinion, being referable to the following words-a good boufekeeper. STEEVENS. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. |