And there, all fmother'd up, in fhade doth fit, Where they refign'd their office and their light Whereat each tributary fubject quakes 3 ; That from their dark beds, once more, leap her eyes; And, being open'd, threw unwilling fight Upon the wide wound that the boar had trench'd' 1 confort with ugly night,] So, in Romeo and Juliet: "To be conforted with the humorous night." Who like a king MALONE. In Whercat each tributary fubje&t quakes ;] So, in King Lear: 39 STEEVENS. As when the wind, imprifon'd in the ground, Henry IV. P. I oft the teeming earth "Is with a kind of cholick pinch'd and vex'd "Within her womb; which, for enlargement friving, "Shakes the old beldame earth &c." STEEVENS. that the boar had trench'd] Trench'd is cut. Trancher, Fr. So, in Macbeth : "Safe In his foft flank; whofe wonted lily white With purple tears, that his wound wept, was drench'd: No flower was nigh, no grafs, herb, leaf, or weed, But ftole his blood, and feem'd with him to bleed. ; This folemn fympathy poor Venus noteth Her voice is stopp'd, her joints forget to bow; Upon his hurt the looks fo ftedfastly, That her fight dazling makes the wound feem three; My tongue cannot exprefs my grief for one, Alas, poor world, what treasure haft thou loft! 2 Safe in a ditch he bides "With twenty trenched gafhes on his head." MALONE. Dumbly fhe paffions, frantickly fhe doteth,] This verb is again fed by our author in The Two Gentlemen of Verona : "Madam, 'twas Ariadne, paffioning MALONE. Whose tongue is mufick now? what canft thou boast Of things long fince, or any thing enfuing? The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim; But true-fweet beauty liv'd and dy'd in him. Bonnet or veil henceforth no creature wear! you; But when Adonis liv'd, fun and fharp air Lurk'd like two thieves, to rob him of his fair; And therefore would he put his bonnet on, Whofe tongue is mufick now? So, in The Comedy of Errors: "That never words were mufick to thine ear." MALONE. nor wind will ever frive to kifs you :] So, in Othello: "The bawdy wind that kiffes all it meets. Again, in The Merchant of Venice: 66 1 STEEVENS, Hugg'd and embraced by the ftrumpet wind." MALONE. Having no fair to lofe] Fair was formerly used as a subftantive, in the fenfe of beauty. So, in The Comedy of Errors: "My decayed fair A funny look of his would foon repair." See many other inftances of this expreffion in the last edition of our author's plays, Vol. II. p. 180. It appears from the correfponding rhime, and the jingle in the prefent line, that the word fear was pronounced in the time of Shak fpeare as if it were written fare. It is ftill fo pronounced in Warwickshire. MALONE. the wind doth hiss you.] So, in Romeo and Juliet; the winds, Who, nothing hurt withal, kid him in fcorn." STEEVENS, The The wind would blow it off, and, being gone, Play with his locks'; then would Adonis weep: And ftraight, in pity of his tender years, They both would strive who first should dry his tears. To fee his face, the lion walk'd along Behind fome hedge, because he would not fear him'; To recreate himself, when he hath sung, The tyger would be tame, and gently hear him': When he beheld his fhadow in the brook, He fed them with his fight, they him with berries. But this foul, grim, and urchin-fnouted boar', 7 Play with his locks; -] The earliest сору that I have feen, reads lokes. But it was, I think, a mifprint. The reading. of the text is that of the edition in 1636. MALONE. - becaufe he would not fear him;] Because he would not terrify him. So, in K. Henry VI. P. I: "For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all." MAlone. when he bath fung, The tyger would be tame -] So, in Othello: She would fing the favageness out of a bear." STEEVENS, urchia-Snouted boar,] The urchin is the fea-hedgehog. MALONE 'Tis true, 'tis true; thus was Adonis flain; Had I been tooth'd like him, I muft confess She looks upon his lips, and they are pale; As if he heard the woeful words fhe told: the loving fine Two Sheath'd, unaware, his tusk in his foft groin.] So, in The Sheepheard's Song of Venus and Adonis, 1600: "On the ground he lay, "Blood had left his cheeck, For an orped [f. o'er-fed] fwine "Smit him in the groyne; "Deadly wound his death did bring: "Which when Venus found, "She fell into a fwound, "And awak'd her hands did wring." MALONE. My youth with his ;] Thus the Duodecimo, 1600. The edi tion of 1636, and the modern copies, read--my mouth; which can not be right, unless our author forgot what he had before written, Adonis had granted her a kifs. "He with her plenty prefs'd, fhe faint with dearth, "(Their lips together glew'd) fell to the earth." MALONE. two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies.] The fame want of grammar is difcoverable in Cymbeline: "Hi |