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. course. Port, external pomp, figure. Portable, bearable. Possessed, acquainted with, 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. Purlieu, border, enclosure. Quail, to faint, languish. tion. Qualify, to lessen, moderate. Quarrel, a quarreller, the cause Quat, a pimple. Queasy, squeamish, delicate, unsettled. Quell, to murder, to destroy. Quest, inquest or jury, search, expedition. Question, conversation. Questrist, one who goes in Resolve, to be firmly persuad- Quick, lively, sprightly, living. 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. Proface, much good may it do rious exercises. Quit, to requite or answer. Quittance, return of obliga tions. Quiver, nimble, active. Rabato, an ornament for the neck. Rabbit-sucker, a sucking rabbit. Race, original disposition, inborn qualities, a smack or flavour. Rack, wreck. Racking, in rapid motion. 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. Revolts, revolters. Riggish, wanton. 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, Scantling, measure, proportion. Scapes of wit, sallies, irrego larities. Scared, frightened. tive. Scone, a petty fortification. Scrip, a writing, a list. 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. Seen, versed, practised. Self-bounty, inherent genero Road, the haven where ships Sense, reason,natural affection. ride at anchor. Rogues, vagrants. Romage, rummage. Ronvon, a scurvy woman. 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 accompany. Setebos, a species of devil. Sewer, an officer who placed 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. Shot, shooter. Shouldered, rudely thrust into. Shrewd, having the qualities of a shrew. Shrift, confession. Shrive, to confess, to call to Square, compass, comprehenconfession. Shut-up, to conclude. Side-sleeves, long sleeves. Siege, stool, seat, rank. sion, or complement. Sight, the perforated part of a Squire, a square or rule. helmet. Sightless, unsightly. Sign, to shew, to denote. Silly, sooth, plain,simple truth. Sir, the designation of a parson. Sir-reverence, a corruption of save-reverence. Sith, since. Sithence, thence. Sizes, allowances of victuals. Skirr, to scour, to ride hastily. 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 Solicit, to excite. Soliciting, information. Solidares, an unknown coin. Sometimes, formerly. Sooth, sweetness Sorriest, worthless, vile. Sort, a company, a pack, ranks Sort and suit, figure and rank. 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. Stannyal, the common stonehawk. Star, a scar of that appearance. Starred, destined. 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. Sticklers, arbitrators, judges, sidesmen. Stigmatical, marked or stigma tized. Stigmatic, one on whom nature Stock, a term in fencing. 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. Swinge-bucklers, rakes, rioters. prey. woven. Thought, melancholy., Thrasonical, boastful, brag an Thread, fibre or part quor. Tight, handy, adroit. Tilth, tillage. 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. to blast. Take-in, to conquer, to get the better of. Take-up, to contradict, to call to an account. Take-up, to levy. or cow. 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. Strait, narrow, avaricious. event. ples. Tasked, taxed. Taurus, sides and heart in me- 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. sons. Trenched, cut, carved. Trick, smeared, painted, in be 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. Vail, to condescend to look, to ain, light of tongue, not vera cious. Valance, fringed with a beard. Vantage, convenience, oppor- Vast, waste, dreary. Vaunt, the avant, what went before. Vaward, the fore part. Vefore, velvet. Unbarbed, antrimmed, un- Unbated, not blunted. Uncape, to dig out, a term in Uncharged, unattacked. Unconfirmed, unpractised in Undergo, to be subject to. Undertaker, one who takes Underwrite, to subscribe, to servant. Virginalling, playing on the Vixen. or fixen, a female fox. Vulgar, common. Umber, a dusky yellow-colour Juaneled, without extreme Unavoided, unavoidable. ed, undetermined. cares. Unhouseled, not having re- nature. Unmastered, licentious, Unpregnant, not quickened. Use, practice long countenanc- Waft, to beckon. the mark. Wilderness, wildness. Wimple, a hood or veil. winter. Wis, to know. Witch, to charm, to bewitch. Wittol, knowing, conscions of Wage, to fight, to combat, to Woe, to be sorry. Wages, is equal to. Waist, the middle. Watch, a watch-light. Welkin, the colour of the sky, Well-found, of acknowledged Wen, swollen excrescence. Unrespective, inattentive to Whelked, varied with protuber 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- Words, dispute, contention. Worm, a serpent. Worts, cabbage. Wound, twisted about. Yarely, readily, nimbly. Whiffler, an officer who walks Yeasty, or yesty, foaming or Whip, the crack, the best. White death, the chlorosis. spring. Whitsters, bleachers of linen. frothy. Yeild, to inform of, condescend to. Yeild, to reward. Zany, a buffom a merry an THXXX was no elition of this play previous to the first folio of Honour, riches, marriage-blessing. was not improbably composed on the occasion of their royal 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.' SCENE I.-On a Ship at Sea.-A Storm with Enter a Ship-master and a 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 Enter ALONZO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, 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. 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; [A confused noise within.]-Mercy on us! We split, 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. 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; 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 ! 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 Mira. Sir, most heedfully. Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits. |