I IN Troy there lies the fcene. From ifles of Greece With wanton Paris fleeps; and That's the quarrel. And the deep-drawing barks do there difgorge The princes orgillous,] Orgillous, i. e. proud, difdainful.. Orgueilleux, Fr. STEEVENS. Priam's fix-gated city, (Dardan and Timbria, Helias, Chetas, Trojan, And correfponfive and fulfilling bolts, Stir up the fons of Troy.] This has been a moft miferably mangled paffage through all the editions; corrupted at once into falfe concord and falfe reafoning. Priam's fixgated city firre up the fons of Troy?—Here's a verb plural. governed of a nominative fingular. But that is cafily remedied. The next queftion to be asked is, In what fenfe a city, having. fix ftrong gates, and thofe well barred and bolted, can be faid to fir up its inhabitants? unless they may be fuppofed to derive fome fpirit from the ftrength of their fortifications. But this could not be the poet's thought. He muft mean, I take it, that the Greeks had pitched their tents upon the plains before Troy; and that the Trojans were fecurely barricaded within the walls and gates of their city. This fenfe my correction A 2 reftores. And correfponfive and fulfilling bolts, Now expectation, tickling skittish Spirits reftores. To perre, or par, from the old Teutonic word (SPEREN) fignifies, to fut up, defend by bars, &c. THEOBALD. "Therto his cyre | compaffed enuyrowne "The fourthe gate hyghte alfo Cetheas; 66 Stronge and myghty | both in werre and pes." Lond. empr. by R. Pynfon, 1513, Fol. b. ii. ch. 11, The Troye Boke was fomewhat modernized, and reduced into regular ftanzas, about the beginning of the laft century, under the name of, The Life and Death of Hector who fought a Hundred mayne Battailes in open Field against the Grecians; wherein there were flaine on both Sides Fourteene Hundred and Sixe Thoufand, Fourfcore and Sixe Men.Fol. no date. This work Dr. Fuller, and several other criticks, have crroneously quoted as the original; and obferve in confequence, that if Chaucer's coin were of greater weight for deeper learning, Lydgate's were of a more refined standard for purer language: fo that one might mistake him for a modern "" writer." FARMER. On other occafions, in the courfe of this play, I fhall infert my quotations from the Troye Boke modernized, as being the moft intelligible of the two. STEEVENS. 2 A prologue arm'd;-] I come here to fpeak the prologue, and come in armour; not defying the audience, in confidence of either the author's or actor's abilities, but merely in a character fuited to the fubje&t, in a drefs of war, before a warlike play. JOHNSCH. Of |