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the hose or breeches. Point, the utmost height.

of nt-de-vice, with the utmost possible exactness. Points, tags to the laces. Poize, weight or moment. Polled, Lared, cleared. Pomander, a ball made of perfumes.

Pomewater, a species of apple.
Poor-johu, hake dried, salted.
Popinjay, a parrot.
Popularity, plebeian inter-

course.

Port, external pomp, figure.
Port, a gate.

Portable, bearable.
Portance, carriage, behaviour.
Possess, to inform, to make to
understand.

Possessed, acquainted with,
fully informed.
Possessed, afflicted with mad-

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Property, a thing quite at disposal.

Propose, to image, to imagine. Proposing, conversing, Propriety, regular and proper

state.

Prorogue, lengthen or proloug. Provand, provender. Provencial, Provençal, from Provence.

Provincial, belonging to one's province.

Provost, sheriff or gaoler.
Prune, to plume.
Puck, or hobgoblin in fairy
mythology.
Pugging, thievi.h.
Pun, to pound.
Purchase, stolen goods.
Purchased, acquired by unjust
methods.

Purlieu, border, enclosure.
Pursuivants, heralds.
Put to know, compelled to ac-
knowledge.
Putter-on, one who instigates.
Putter-out, one who places out
money at interest.
Putting-on, spur, incitement.
Puttock, a degenerate species
of hawk.

Quail, to faint, languish.
Quaint, fantastical, graceful,
Quaint-mazes, a game running
the figure of eight.
Quaked, thrown into trepida-

tion.

Qualify, to lessen, moderate.
Quality, confederates.
Quality, Profession, condition
of life.

Quarrel, a quarreller, the cause
of a quarrel.
Quarry, game after it is killed.
Quart d'ecu, fourth part of a
French crown.
Quarter, the allotted posts, sta-
tion.

Quat, a pimple.

Queasy, squeamish, delicate, unsettled.

Quell, to murder, to destroy.
Quench, to grow cool.
Quern, a hand-mill.

Quest, inquest or jury, search, expedition.

Question, conversation.

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Questrist, one who goes in Resolve, to be firmly persuad-
search of another.
Quests, reports.

Quick, lively, sprightly, living.
Quicken, to animate.
Quiduits, subtilties.

Quillets, law chicane.

Prime, youth, the vigour of Quintain, a post set up for va

life.

Prime, prompt.

Primer, more urgent, more important.

Primero, a game at cards. Principality, the first or princicipal of women. Principals, rafters of a building.

Princox, a coxcomb, or spoiled child.

Probal, probable.
Process, summons
Procure, to bring.
Prodigious, portentous, omi-

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Proface, much good may it do

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rious exercises.
Quips, reproaches and scoffs.
Quire, to play in concert.
Quit, quitted.

Quit, to requite or answer. Quittance, return of obliga tions.

Quiver, nimble, active.
Quote, to observe.

Rabato, an ornament for the neck.

Rabbit-sucker, a sucking rabbit.

Race, original disposition, inborn qualities, a smack or flavour.

Rack, wreck.
Rack, to exaggerate.
Rack, to harass by exactions.
Rack, the fleeting away of the
clouds.

Racking, in rapid motion.
Rag, an opprobrious epithet.
Ragged, rugged.
Rake, to cover.
Rank, rate or pace.
Rank, grown up to a great
height and strength.
Rapt, rapturously affected.
Rapture, a fit.
Rarely, curiously, happily.
Rascally, applied to lean deer.
Rash, heady, thoughtless,

quick, violent. Rash remonstrance, premature discovery. Rated, chided. Ravin, to devour eagerly Ravin, ravenous.

ed, satisfied. Resolve, to dissolve. Respect, consideration, cau

tion.

Respective, respectable, respectful, formal.

Respective, cool, considerate.
Respectively, respectfully.
Retailed, handed down.
Retire, to draw back.
Reverb, to reverberate.

Revolts, revolters.
Rib, to enclose.
Rid, to destroy.
Rift, split.

Riggish, wanton.
Right, just, even.

but the whole tenor of any discourse.

Say, silk.

Say, a sample, a taste or relish. Scaffoldage, the gallery part of the theatre.

Scald, a word of contempt,
poor, filthy.
Scale, disperse, put to flight.
Scaled, over-reached.
Scaling, weighing.
Scall, an old word of reproach.
Scamble, to scramble.
Scan, to examine nicely.
Scant, to be deficient in, to con-
tract.

Scantling, measure, proportion. Scapes of wit, sallies, irrego larities.

Scared, frightened.
Scarfed, decorated with flags.
Scath, destruction, harm.
Scath, to do an injury.
Scathful, mischievous,destrac-

tive.

Scone, a petty fortification.
Soonce, the head.
Scotched, cut slightly.
Scrimens, fencers.

Scrip, a writing, a list.
Scroyles, scabby fellows.
Sculls, great numbers of fishes
swimming together.
Soutched, whipt, carted.
Seal, to strengthen or
plete.
Seam, lard.

Com

Sear, to stigmatise, to close. See Sere.

Season, to temper, to infix, to impress.

Seasoned, established or settled by time. Seat, throne.

Seated, fixed, firmly placed. Sect, a cutting in gardening. Secur ly, with too great conf

dence.

Seel, to close up.

Seeling, blinding.

Seeming, specious, hypocriacal.

Right drawn, drawn in a right Seeming, seemly.

cause.

Rigol, a circle.

Ringed, environed, encircled.
Ripe, come to the height.
Rivage, the bank or shore.
Rivality, equal rank.
Rivals, partners.
Rive, to burst, to fire.

Seen, versed, practised.
Seld, seldom.

Self-bounty, inherent genero

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Road, the haven where ships Sense, reason,natural affection.

ride at anchor.

Rogues, vagrants.

Romage, rummage.

Ronvon, a scurvy woman.
Rood, the cross.
Rook, to squat down.
Ropery, roguery.
Rope-tricks, abusive language.
Round, a diadem.
Round, rough, unceremonious.
Rounded, whispered.
Rounding, whispering.
Roundel, a country dance.
Roundure, circle.
Ronse, a draught of jollity.
Royal, due to a king.
Royalize, to make royal.
Royalty, nobleness, supreme
excellence.

Royuish, mangy or scabby.

feeling, sensual passion. Sensible, having sensation. Septentrion, the north. Sequestration, separation. Sere or sear, dry. Serjeant, a bailiff or sheriff's officer.

Serpigo, a kind of tetter.
Serve, to fultil.

Serve, to accompany.
Set, seated.

Setebos, a species of devil.
Several, separate i, appro-
priated.

Sewer, an officer who placed
the dishes on the table.
Shame, to disgrace
Shame, modesty.

Shard-borne, born by shards or scaly wings.

Shards, the wings of a beetle. Shards, broken pots or tiles. Sharked, picked up as a shark collects his prey. Sheen, shining, splendour, lustre.

Sheer, pellucid, transparent.
Shent, scolded, rebuked,
ashamed, disgraced.
Shent, to reprove harshly.
Sheriff's post, a large post set
up at the door of that officer
for affixing proclamations.
Shive, a slice.

Shot, shooter.
Shovel-board, a game.
Shoughs, shocks, a species of
dog

Shouldered, rudely thrust into. Shrewd, having the qualities of a shrew.

Shrift, confession.

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Shrive, to confess, to call to Square, compass, comprehenconfession.

Shut-up, to conclude.

Side-sleeves, long sleeves.

Siege, stool, seat, rank.

sion, or complement.
Squarer, & quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiny, to look asquint.

Sight, the perforated part of a Squire, a square or rule.

helmet.

Sightless, unsightly.

Sign, to shew, to denote.
Silly, simple or rustic.

Silly, sooth, plain,simple truth.
Sincere, honest.
Sinew, strength.
Single, weak, debile, small,
void of duplicity or guile.
Sink-a-pace, cinque-pace, a
dance.

Sir, the designation of a parson. Sir-reverence, a corruption of

save-reverence. Sith, since. Sithence, thence.

Sizes, allowances of victuals.
Skains-mates, loose compa-
nions.

Skirr, to scour, to ride hastily.
Slack, to neglect.
Slave, to treat as a slave.
Sleave, the ravelled knotty part
of the silk.

Sledded, riding in a sled or

sleage. Slights, arts, subtle practices. Slips, a contrivance of leather, to start two dogs at the same time.

Sliver, to cut a piece or slice. Slops, loose breeches, or trowsers, tawdry dress. Slough, the skin which the serpent annually throws off. Slower, more serious. Slubber, to do any thing carelessly, imperfectly, obscure. Smilingly, with signs of plea

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Solicit, to excite.

Soliciting, information.

Solidares, an unknown coin.

Sometimes, formerly.
Sooth, truth.

Sooth, sweetness

Sorriest, worthless, vile.
Sorry, sorrowful or dismal.
Sort, to choose out.

Sort, a company, a pack, ranks
and degrees of men.
Sort, to happen, to agree.
Sort, the lot.

Sort and suit, figure and rank.
Sot, a fool.

Soul-fearing, soul-appalling. Sound, to declare or publish. Sound, soundly.

Sowl, to pull by the ears.

Staggers, delirious, perturba

tion.

Stale, a bait or decoy to catch birds.

Stale, a pretence.
Stale, to allure.
Stand, to withstand, to resist.
Standing bowls, bowls elevated
on feet.

Stannyal, the common stonehawk.

Star, a scar of that appearance.
Stark, stiff.
Starkly, stiffly.

Starred, destined.

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Suspire, to breathe. Swaggerer, a roaring, fighting fellow.

Swart or swarth, black, or dark brown.

Swarth or swath, as much

grass or corn as a mower

cuts down at one stroke of his scythe. Swashing, noisy, bullying, Schild. the dress of a new-born

State, a chair with a canopy Sway, the whole weight, mo

over it,

State, standing.

State, official state, dignity.
States, persons of high rank.
Station, the act of standing.
Statist, statesman.
Statue, a portrait.
Staves, the wood of the lances.
Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.
Stead, to assist, or help.
Sticking-place, the stop in a
machine.

Sticklers, arbitrators, judges, sidesmen.

Stigmatical, marked or stigma

tized.

Stigmatic, one on whom nature
has set a mark of deformity.
Still, constant or continual.
Stilly, gently, lowly.
Stint, to stop, to retard.
Stith, an anvil.
Stoccata, a thrust or stab with
a rapier.

Stock, a term in fencing.
Stock, stocking.
Stomach, passion, pride, stub-
born resolution, constancy,
resolution.

Stoop, a measure somewhat

more than half a gallon. Stover, a kind of thatch. Stoup, a kind of flagon.

mentum.

Sweeting, a species of apple.
Swift, ready,

Swinge-bucklers, rakes, rioters.
Swoop, the descent of a bird of

prey.

woven.

Thought, melancholy., Thrasonical, boastful, brag

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Thread, fibre or part
Thread, to pass through.
Three-man-beetle, imple-
ment used for driving piles.
Three-pile, rich velvet.
Thrift, a state of prosperity.
Throes, emits as in parturition.
Thrum, the extremity of a
weaver's warp.
Thrummed, made of cours
woollen cloth.
Tib, a strumpet.
Tickle, ticklish.
Tickle-brain, some strong l

quor.

Tight, handy, adroit.
Tightly, cleverly, adroitly.
Tilly-valley, an interjection of
contempt.

Tilth, tillage.
Timeless, untimely.
Tinct, tincture.
Tire, head-dress.
Tire, to fasten, to fix the talens

on.

Tire, to be idly employed on. Tired, adorned with ribands. Tod, to yield or produce a tod. or twenty-eight pounds. Tokened, spotted as in the plague.

Toll, to enter on the toll-book. Tolling, taking toll.

Tomboy, a masculine, forward girl.

Topless, that which has no thing above it, supreme. Topple, to tumble.

Table, the palm of the hand Touch, sensation, sense, feel

extended. Table, a picture. Tables, table-books, dums.

ing:

Touch, exploit or stroke. memoran-Touch, a spice or particle. Touch, touchstone. Touches, features. Touched, tried.

Tabourine, a small drum.
Tag, the lowest of the populace.
Taint, to throw a slur upon.
Take, to strike with a disease,

to blast.

Take-in, to conquer, to get the

better of. Take-up, to contradict, to call

to an account.

Take-up, to levy.
Tall, stout, bold, courageous.
Tallow-keech, the fat of an ox

or cow.

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Toward, in a state of readiness. Toys, rumours, idle reports, fancies,freaks of imagination Toze, to pull or pluck. Trace, to follow. Trade, a custom, an established habit.

Tradition.traditional practices. Traditional, adherent to old

customs.

Trail, the scent left by the pas sage of the game. Traitress, a term of endearment. Tranect, a ferry. Translate, to transfer, to explain

Tarre, to stimulate, to excite, Trash, a hunting phrase, to corprovoke.

Tartar, Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment.

Strachy, probably some kind of Task, to keep busied with seru

domestic office.

Straight, immediately.
Strain, descent, lineage.
Strain, difficulty, doubt.

Strait, narrow, avaricious.
Straited, put to difficulties.
Strange, odd, different from.
Strange, alien, becoming a
stranger, a stranger.
Strangely, wonderfully.
Strangeness, shyness, distant
behaviour.
Stranger, an alien.
Strangle, to suppress.
Stratagem, great or dreadful

event.

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ples.

Tasked, taxed.

Taurus, sides and heart in me-
dical astrology.
Tawdry, a kind of necklaces
worn by country girls.
Taxation, censure or satire.
Teen, sorrow, grief.
Temper, to mould like wax.
Temper, temperament, consti-

tution.

Temperance, temperature. Tempered, rendered pliable. Tend, to attend upon, to wait for.

Tender, to regard with affection.

Tend'ring, watching with tenderness.

Tent, to take up residence. Tercel, the male hawk. Termagant, the god of the Saracens.

Termagant, furious Tested, brought to the test. Testern, to gratify with a tester, or sixpence. Tetchy, touchy, peevish, ful. Tharborough, thirdborough, a

rect. Travel, to stroll.

Traverse, a term in military

exercise.

Traversed, across.
Tray-trip, some kind of game
Treachers, treacherous per-

sons.

Trenched, cut, carved.
Trick, trick of the times.
Trick, peculiarity of voice,
face, &c.

Trick, smeared, painted, in be
raldry.
Tricking, dress.
Tricksy, clever, adroit.
Triumphs, masques, revels,
public exhibitions.
Trojan, cant word for a thief.
Troll, to dismiss trippingly
from the tongue.
Trol-my-dames, a game
Trossers, trowsers.
Trow, to believe.
Truth, honesty.
Tucket, or tucket sonnuance a
flourish.

Turlygood, or turlupin, a spe cies of gipsy. Turn, to become acescent. fret-Turquoise, a precious stone. Twangling an expression of contempt.

Twigging, wickered.

Tyed, limited, circumscribed.
Type, distinguishing mark,
show or emblem.
Tything, division of a place, a
district.

Vail, to condescend to look, to
let down, to bow, to sink.
Vailing, lowering.
Vaia, vanity.

ain, light of tongue, not vera

cious.

Valance, fringed with a beard.
Validity, value.
Vanity, illusion.

Vantage, convenience, oppor-
tunity, advantage.
Vantbrace, armour for the arm.
Varlet, a servant or footman to
a warrior.

Vast, waste, dreary.

Vaunt, the avant, what went before.

Vaward, the fore part.

Vefore, velvet.

Unbarbed, antrimmed, un-
shaven.

Unbated, not blunted.
Unbolt, to open, explain.
Unbolted, coarse.
Unbookish, ignorant.
Unbreathed, unexercised, un-
practised.

Uncape, to dig out, a term in
fox-hunting.

Uncharged, unattacked.
Unclew, to draw out, exhaust.
Uncoined, real, unrefined, un-
adorned.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in
the ways of the world.
Under generation, the anti-
podes.

Undergo, to be subject to.
Under-skinker, a tapster, an
underdrawer.

Undertaker, one who takes
upon himself the quarrel of
another.

Underwrite, to subscribe, to
obey.

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servant.

Virginalling, playing on the
virginal, a spinnet.
Virtue, the most efficacious.
part, valour.
Virtuous, salutiferous.
Virtuous. belonging to good-
breeding.

Vixen. or fixen, a female fox.
Vizaments, advisements.
Voluntary, voluntarily,
Votarist, supplicant.
Vouchsafed, vouchsafing.
Vox, tone or voice.

Vulgar, common.
Vulgarly, publicly.

Umber, a dusky yellow-colour
ed earth.
Umbered, discoloured by the
gleam of fire.
Unaccustomed, unseemly, in-
decent.

Juaneled, without extreme
unction.

Unavoided, unavoidable.

ed, undetermined.
Undeserving, undeserved.
Unearned, not deserved.
Uneath, scarcely, not easily.
Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unhappy, mischievously wag-
gish, unlucky.
Unhidden, open, clear,
Unhoused, free from domestic

cares.

Unhouseled, not having re-
ceived the sacrament.
Unimproved, not guided by
knowledge, or experience.
Union, a species of pearl.
Unkind, contrary to kind, or

nature.

Unmastered, licentious,
Unowed, that which has no
owner.

Unpregnant, not quickened.
Unproper, common.
Unqualitied, unmanned, dis-
armed of his faculties.
Unquestionable, unwilling to
be conversed with.
Unready, undressed.

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Use, practice long countenanc-
ed by custom.
Use, to make a practice of.
Use, interest.
Used, behaved.
Usurping, false.
Utis, a merry festival.
Utter, to vend by retail.
Utterance, a phrase in combat,
extremity.

Waft, to beckon.

the mark.

Wilderness, wildness.
Will, wilfulness.

Wimple, a hood or veil.
Winter-ground, to protect a
gainst the inclemency of

winter.

Wis, to know.
Wish, to recommend.
Wit, to know.

Witch, to charm, to bewitch.
Wits, senses.

Wittol, knowing, conscions of
Witty, judicious, cunning.

Wage, to fight, to combat, to Woe, to be sorry.
prescribe to.

Wages, is equal to.
Waist, the part between the
quarter deck and the fore-
castle.

Waist, the middle.
Walk, a district in a forest.
Wannion, vengeance.
Ward, posture of defence.
Ward, guardianship.
Warden, a species of pears.
Warder, guard, sentinel.
Warn, to summon.
Wassels, meetings of rustic
mirth.

Watch, a watch-light.
Water-work, water-colours.
Wax, to grow.
Waxen, increase.
Wealth, advantage, happiness.
Wear, the fashion.
Wee, little.
Weeds, clothing.
Ween, to think, to imagine.
Weet, to know.
Weigh, to value or esteem, to
deliberate.

Welkin, the colour of the sky,
blue.

Well-found, of acknowledged
excellence.
Well-liking, plump, embon-
point.

Wen, swollen excrescence.
Wend, to go..

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Woman, to affect suddenly and deeply.

Woman-tired, hen-pecked. Wondered, able to perform wonders.

Wood, crazy, frantic. Woodman, an attendant on the forester.

Woolward, a phrase appro-
priated to pilgrims and pea
tentiaries.

Words, dispute, contention.
Work, a term of fortification.
Workings, labours of thought.
World, to go to the, to be mar
ried.

Worm, a serpent.
Worship, dignity, authority,
Worth, wealth or fortune, the
value, full quota or proper-
tion.

Worts, cabbage.
Wot, to know.

Wound, twisted about.
Wreak, resentment.
Wreak, to revenge.
Wrest, an instrument for tus-
ing the harp.
Wrested, obtained by violence,
Writ, writing, composition.
Writhled, wrinkled.
Wrongs, persons who wrong.
Wrongs, injurious practices.
Wroth, misfortune.
Wrought, worked, agitated.
Wrung, pressed, strained.

Yarely, readily, nimbly.
Yearns, grieves or vexes.

Whiffler, an officer who walks Yeasty, or yesty, foaming or
first in processions.
Whiles, until.

Whip, the crack, the best.
Whipstock, a carter's whip.
Whirring, whirring away.
White, the white mark in ar-
chery

White death, the chlorosis.
Whiting-time, bleaching time,

spring.

Whitsters, bleachers of linen.

frothy.

Yeild, to inform of, condescend

to.

Yeild, to reward.
Yell owness, jealousy.
Yeoman, a bailift's follower.

Zany, a buffom a merry an
drew.

THXXX was no elition of this play previous to the first folio of
the Author's works, in 1623.-it was one of the very latest of
his productions: Mr. Malone supposes it to have been written
in the year 1611;-but it was most probably produced in the
latter part of 1612, or the beginning of 1613, as we find from
Mr. Vertue's MSS. that it was acted by John 1leming and
the rest of the King's company, before Prince Charles, the
Lady Elizabeth, and the Prince Palatine Elector, in the be-
ginning of the year 1613."-The Prince Palatine was married
to the Lady Elizabeth in February 1613, and this exquisite
poem, which relates the loves of a young prince and princess,
and introduces a pageant of spirits to crown them with

Honour, riches, marriage-blessing.
Long continuance, and increasing,

was not improbably composed on the occasion of their royal
nuptials; as we know that it made a part of the splendid fes-
tivities in celebration of them. Mr. Malone imagines in this
play a reference to the shipwreck of Sir George Somers on the
Island of Bermuda. I cannot follow him in tracing the re-
semblance. It is difficult to perceive the connexion between
a tempest in the Mediterranean and a hurricane in the At
lantic or between the wreek of an English ship, with her
crew of adventurous navigators, on the coast of Bermuda, and
the loss of an Italian vessel, conveying the king of Naples and
the Duke of Milan from a royal marriage in Tunis, on an
imaginary island, near the coast of Africa.-The only cir-
cumstance I can discover in the accounts of Sir George
Somers's shipwreck, which Shakspeare appears to have had
in his mind in writing this play, is the only circumstance that
none of the commentators have noticed, though it is related
in a volume to which they have all referred, via. Stith's
History of Virginia.-The assumption of royal authority by
Stephano, and the scenes between that character and Caliban
and Trinculo, may have been suggested by the event related
in the following passage.-When Sir George Somers left the
Island of Bermuda in the year 1609, "Christopher Carter,
Edward Waters, and Edward Chard remained behind. Sir
George's vessel being once out of sight, these three lords,
and sole inhabitants of all these islands, began to erect their
little commonwealth, with equal power and brotherly regency,
building a house, preparing the ground, planting their corn,
and such seeds and fruits as they had, and providing other
necessaries and conveniences. Then making search among
the crannies and corners of those craggy rocks, what the
ocean, from the world's creation, had thrown up among them,

besides divers smaller pieces, they happened upon the largest block of Ambergris that had ever been seen or heard of in one lump. It weighed fourscore pounds, and is said, itself alone, besides the others, to have been then worth nine or ten thousand pounds. And now being rich, they grew so rioty and ambitious, that these three forlorn men, above three thousand miles from their native country, and with "ittle probability of ever seeing it again, fell out for the superiority and rule; and their competition and quarrel grew so high, that Chard and Waters, being of the greater spirit, had appointed to decide the matter in the field. But Carter wisely stopped their arms, choosing rather to bear with such trouble some rivals, than, by being rid of them, to live alone."Seth's Virginia, p. 120.-1f Shakspeare in composing his play had any recollection of the above event, The Tempest could not have been written till after the year 1612, when the story was brought to England by Captain Matthew Somers. This gentleman was nephew of Sir George Somers; he accompanied his uncle both in his first and second visit to the Bermudas, and, after his death on the Island, returned to England with the body. Collins the poet informed Thomas Warton, that the subject of this play was taken from a novel called Aurelio and Isabella; but this information has proved to be incorrect.-The memory of Collins became confused in his last melancholy illness, and he probably gave the name of one novel for another.A circumstance which he added, may perhaps lead to the discovery of the real tale:-the principal character of the romance, answering to Shakspeare's Prospero, was a chemical necromancer, who had bound a spirit, like Ariel, to perform his services.-Mr. Boswell relates, that a friend of his had met with an Italian novel which corresponded with Collins's description. lowing words from the Induction to Ben Jonson's Bartholomen Malone, Steevens, and Blackstone have discovered, in the folFair"If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it?" an allusion to the character of Caliban, and another proof of that malignity against our Author which they have chosen to impute to the great contemporary and personal friend of Shakspeare.-This subject is fully dis cussed in the Life prefixed to Harness's edition, and only mentioned here, to shew on how slight authority this absurd falsehood has been propagated; and as another instance to prove, that to the theories of a commentator, as to the dreams of jealousy, "trifles light as air. are confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.'

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SCENE I.-On a Ship at Sea.-A Storm with
Thunder and Lightning.

Enter a Ship-master and a Boatswain.
Master. Boatswain,-

Boats. Here, master: What cheer?

Mast. Good: Speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. [Erit.

Enter Mariners.

Boats. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my

hearts; yale, yare: take in the top-sail; Tend to
the master's whistle.-Blow till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!

Enter ALONZO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND,
GONZALO, and others.

Alon. Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.

Boats. I pray now, keep below.

Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain?

Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour; Keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Hence! What care Boats. When the sea is. these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence: trouble us not.

Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.-Cheerly, good hearts.-Out of our way, I say.

[Exit.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.

[Exeunt.

Re-enter Boatswain.

lower, [A cry

Mira.

More to know

Boats. Down with the topmast; yare; Did never meddle with my thoughts. Pro. 'Tis time lower; bring her to try with main-course. within.] A plague upon this howling! they are And pluck my magic garment from me.—So ; I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand,

louder than the weather, or our office.

Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and Gonzalo.

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Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! [Exeunt.

Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us asFor our case is as theirs

[sist them, Seb. I am out of patience. [drunkards.Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by This wide-chapped rascal;-'Would, thou might'st The washing of ten tides! [lie drowning,

Gon. He'll be hanged yet;
Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at wid'st to glut him.

[A confused noise within.]-Mercy on us! We split,
we split!--Farewell, my wife and children! Fare-
well, brother! We split, we split, we split !-
Ant. Let's all sink with the king.
[Erit.
Seb. Let's take leave of him.
[Erit.
Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of
sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown
furze, any thing: The wills above be done! but I
would fain die a dry death.
[Exit.

SCENE II.

The Island: before the Cell of PROSPERO.

Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA.

Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them: The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls! they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallowed, and The freighting souls within her. Pro. Be collected; No more amazement: tell your piteous heart, There's no harm done.

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comfort.

[Lays down his mantle. Lie there my art.-Wipe thou thine eyes; have The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd The very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art So safely order'd, that there is no soulNo, not so much perdition as a hair, Betid to any creature in the vessel Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink.— For thou must now know further. [Sit down, Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd "You have often And left me to a bootless inquisition; Concluding, Stay, not yet.—

Mira.

Pro.

The hour's now come,

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey, and be attentive. Can'st thou remember

A time before we came unto this cell?

I do not think thou can'st; for then thou wast not Out three years old.

Mira.

Certainly, sir, I can. Pro. By what? by any other house, or person' any thing the image tell me, that Hath kept with thy remembrance.

Of

Mira.

"Tis far off: And rather like a dream than an assurance That my remembrance warrants: Had I not Four or five women once, that tended me? [is it,

Pro. Thou had'st, and more. Miranda: But how That this lives in thy mind? What see'st thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? If thou remember'st aught, ere thou cam'st here, How thou cam'st here, thou may`st. Mira. But that I do not. Pro. Twelve years since, Miranda, twelve years Thy father was the duke of Milan, and [since, A prince of power.

Mira.

Sir, are not you my father? Pro. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father Was duke of Milan; and his only heir A princess, no worse issued.

Mira.

O, the heavens !

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O, my heart bleeds To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to, [ther. Which is from my remembrance! Please you, far

Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,

I pray thee, mark me,-that a brother should
Be so perfidious !—he whom, next thyself,
Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put
The manage of my
state; as, at that time,
Through all the signiories it was the first,
And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed
In dignity, and, for the liberal arts.
Without a parallel: those being all my study,
The government I cast upon my brother,
And to my state grew stranger, being transported.
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-
Dost thou attend me ?

Mira.

Sir, most heedfully. Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits.

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