APPENDIX IN of friends, which came fome N the profecution of this work I received many remarks from learned Friends, which came fometimes too late for insertion, and fome of my own remarks either. more mature reflection or better information has disposed me to retract. An Appendix therefore became neceffary, that I might omit nothing which could contribute to the explanation of my authour. I do not always concur with my friends in their opinion, but their abilities are fuch as make me lefs confident when I find myfelf differing from them, and the publick might juftly complain if I suppressed their fentiments either by pride or timidity. From the Revifal of Shakespeare lately published, I have selected fome just remarks, and from Dr. Gray some valuable illuftrations. I am far at laft from fuppofing my work perfect, but do not think any thing which I am likely to add to it of value enough to justify longer delay. NOTES to the FIRST VOLUME. P. 3. I remember to have been told by my friend Mr. William Collins, that great part of this Play was founded on an Italian chemical Romance, cal led ORELIA and ISABELLA; in P. 10. Key.] This doubtlefs is meant of a key for tuning the harpfichord, fpinette or virginal; we call it now a tuning hammer, as it is used as well to ftrike down the iron pins whereon the strings are wound, as to turn them. As a key it acts like that of a watch. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 22. Mir. Abhorred flave-] The modern editions, take this fpeech from Miranda, and give it to Profpero; tho' there is nothing in it but what the may fpeak with great propriety; efpecially as it accounts for her being enough in the way and power of Caliban to enable him to make the attempt complained of. Mr. Dryden, in the alteration made by him and Sir William Davenant, in this play, led the way to this change which Mr. Theobald calls judicious, vol. i. p. 18. n. 10. and adds, "it would be very indecent for Miranda to reply to what was laft fpoke:" but it is probable the Poet thought otherwife, and that it was not only decent, but neceffary, for her to clear her character, by fhewing how the monfter acquired an opportunity of making the attack. The Poet himself fhews he intended Miranda fhould be his tutorefs, in the latter end of the fecond fcene of the fecond act, when he makes Caliban fay "I've feen thee in her, my Mistress fhewed me thee and thy dog and thy brufh,” to Stephano, who has juft affured the monster, he was the man in the moon when-Time was. Mr. HOLT. P. 45. For patter read utter P. 48. Young Scamels from the rocks.-] Theobald fubftitutes fhamois, for camels; which laft word, he fays, has poffeffed all the editions. I am inclined to retain scamels: For in an old Will, dated 1593, I find the bequeft of " a bed of Scammelcolour," i. e. of the colour of an animal fo called, whose skin was then in ufe for drefs or furniture. This, at least, fhews the exiftence of the word at that time, and in Shakespeare's sense. Mr. WARTON. P. 74. Weak mafters though ye be.] The Revifalreads, weak minifiers, probably, but without neceffity. The meaning may be, Though you are but inferi our masters of these supernatural powers, though you poffefs them but in a low degree, P. 86. It is obferved of the Tempeft that its plan is regular ; this the Revifal thinks, what I think too, an accidental effect of the ftory, not intended or regarded by the authour. P. . 94. Beteem-] Or pour down upon them. POPE. P. 104. For through bush, &c. read in all the Places tho rough. P. 106. that shrewd, and That fright the maidens of the Skim milk, and fometimes labour And cond, the dance in the figure, the "And fong in all the roundell Chaucer's Knight's Tale, 1531. P. 136. Snowt. By'rlaken a And fometime make the drink to bear no barm, Mislead night-wand'rers, laughing at their harm?] This account of Robin-goodfellow correfponds, in every article, with that given of him in Harfenet's Declaration, ch. 20. P. 135. "And if that the bowle of curdes and creame were not duly fet out for Robin-goodfellow, the frier, and fiffe the dairy maid-why then either the pot tage was burnt to next day in the pot, or the cheeses would not curdle, or the butter would not come, or the ale in the fat never would have got head. But if a pater-nofter, or an houfle" oaths, as if you never walked egge were beturned, or a patch "farther than Finsbury." of tythe unpaid-then beware of bull beggars, fpirits, &c." He is mentioned by Cartwright, as a fpirit particularly fond of difconcerting and disturbing domeftick peace and œconomy. "Saint Francis and Saint Be- "Bleffe this houfe from wick- Mr. WARTON. P. 12c. Queen. Come now, a roundel, and a fairy fong] From round comes roundel, and from roundel, roundelet. The first, the form of the figure, the fe Dr. GRAY. P. 132. There are but three fairies that falute Bottom, nor does he addrefs himself to more, though four had entered before. whom the queen had called by name, and commanded to do their courtefies. In short, I can-, not tell what is become of monfieur Moth, unless he be prudently walked off, for fear of Cavalero Cobweb: for we hear no more of him either here, or in the next act, where the queen, Bottom and fairies are introduced again. Anon. Dr. GRAY. P. 134. And at our flamp-] I apprehend the stamp of a fairy's foot might operate to the full as ftrongly on this occafion, as the ftump of a tree. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 147. In the note, for a- P. 150. Peofe "Ne was Satyrane her far be "But with like fiercenefs did "His former fuit, and from Fairy Queen, book iii. canto ii. v. P. 190. Julia. I fee you have a month's mind to them.] A month's mind was an anniversary in times of popery; or, as Mr. Ray calls it, a lefs folemnity directed by the will of the deceased. There was alfo a year's mind, and a week's mind, proverbial phrafes. Dr. GRAY. P. 162. The thrice three mufes mourning for the death Of learning, late deceas'd in beggary. I do not know whether it has been before obferved, that Shakespeare here, perhaps, alluded to Spenfer's poem, entitled, The Tears of the Mujes, on the neglect and contempt of learning. This piece firft appeared in quarto, with others, 1591. The oldeft edition of this play, now known, is dated 1600. If Spenfer's poem be here intended, may we not prefume that there is fome earlier edition of this play? But, however, if" the allufion be allowed, at leaft it ferves to bring the play below Mr. WARTON. 1591. P. 176. Of this play, wild and fantastical as it is, all the parts in their various modes are well written, and give the kind of pleasure which the authour defigned. Fairies in his time were much in fashion; common tradition had made them familiar, and Sperfer's poem had made them great. P. 189. Lucetta. Indeed I bid the bafe for Protheus-] Bidding the bafe was a country diverfion, not unlike what is called barly break in the North, where fome purfue others in order to take them prifoners. See This appears from the interrogatories and observations againft the clergy, in the year 1552. Inter. VII. "Whether "there are any month's minds, and anniversaries ?" Strype's Memorials of the Reformation, vol. ii. p. 354. "Was the month's mind of "Sir William Laxton, who died "the last month (July 1556) "his herfe burning with wax, " and the morrow mafs cele"brated, and a fermon preach"ed, &c." Strype's Memorial, vol. iii. p. 305. Dr. GRAY. A month's mind in the ritual fenfe fignifies not defire or inclination, but remembrance, yet I fus pofe this is the true original of the expreffion. P. 197. Oh! excellent motion, &c.] I think this paffage requires a note, as every reader does not know, that motion, in the language of Shakespeare's days, fignifies P. 198. Here Silvia calls her lover fervant.-And again, below, the calls him gentle fervant; this was the language of ladies to their lovers, at the time when Shakespeare wrote, and as the word is no longer ufed in that fenfe, would it not be proper to fix it by a note on this paffage? Mr. HAWKINS, P. 227. -St. Nicholas be thy Speed.] That this Saint prefided over young fcholars, may be gathered from Knight's life of Dean Colet, p. 362. For by the ftatutes of Paul's fchool, there inferted, the children are required to attend divine fervice, at the cathedral, on his anniversary. The reason I take to be, that the legend of this faint makes him to have been a bishop, while he was a boy. At Salisbury cathedral is a monument of a boy bishop, and it is faid, that a custom formerly prevailed there, of chufing, from among the chorifters, a bishop, who actually performed the paftoral functions, and difpofed of fuch prebends as became vacant during his epifcopacy, which lafted but a few days: it is thought the monument abovementioned was for fome boy that died in office,-See the pofthumous aworks of Mr. John Gregory, 4to. Oxon. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 234.-awful men.] This, I think, fhould be lawful, in oppofition to lawless men. In judicial proceedings the word has this fenfe. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 276. For zenith, in the note, read youth, P. 281. Lucio.-'tis my familiar fin, With maids to feem the lapwing, and to jeft. Tongue far from heart-] The modern editors have not taken in the whole fimilitude here: they have taken notice of the lightness of a fpark's behaviour to his mistress, and compared it to the lapwing's hovering and fluttering flying. But the chief, of which no notice is taken, is, and to jeft. (See Ray's Proverbs.) "The lapwing cries, 66 Tongue far from heart," most, fartheft from the neft, i. e. She is, as Shakespeare has it here, Tongue far from heart. "The farther fhe is from her "neft, where her heart is with "her young ones, fhe is the "louder, or, perhaps, all "tongue." Mr. SMITH. Shakespeare has an expreffion of the like kind, Comedy of Errors, act iv. fc. iii. p. 246. |
