71. We should read the entire passage, I think, as follows,— "Such a rare woman! all our women here, Such oils, such [ 1,15 such tinctures, such pomatums, For the spelling quintessence' see "Shakespeare's Versification," art. li. Precedent, which I have substituted for president, as more agreeable to the context, may be thought doubtful, from her being, throughout the play, styled the president of the "collegiates"; this, however, does not prove that the word is right here; indeed, it may have been the origin of the corruption. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, iii. 1, near the beginning, O, Lucio, Thou hast been ever held respected, dear, Part II. iv. 3, last speech but one (locus pulcherrimus !),"She fumbled out thanks good, and so she died;" 15 Perhaps salves. Walker evidently intended to add much to these "Instances in other authors."-Ed. Write,-"She fumbled out, thanks, good!' continually occurring in Part I. of this play. In Ford also it is frequent, if I recollect right. Perkin Warbeck, iv. 2, Moxon, p. 113, col. 2, "Good, bear with my distractions!" Broken Heart, iii. 2, p. 60, col. 2,— Fletcher (?), Faithful Friends, i. 1, Moxon, vol. ii. p. 538, Creature frequently pronounced as a trisyllable. King Henry VI. i. 6, near the beginning, "Divinest creature, Astræa's daughter." Vulg., I believe, “bright Astræa's daughter." The ad 16 I may add the following examples. Hamlet, i. 1,-" Good now, sit down," &c. Dutch Courtezan, ii. 4th p. of the act,--'Nay good let me still sit," &c., and next page but one,-" Good me wrong not." Valentinian, i. 3, Dyce, p. 222,-" Good, give me leave." Nice Valour, i. 1, Dyce, p. 307,-"Nay, good, give eave a little, sir;" p. 308,-"Good, let us alone a little." Captain, . 2, Dyce, p. 231,-Good, bear with me." The last passage was ophisticated in the second folio, the phrase having probably then ecome obsolete.-Ed. 7 Bright first appeared in the second folio, and (strange to say!) was retained by Mr. Collier, and even by Mr. Knight. In the ext example, such is a sophistication of Hanmer's.-Ed. dition is needless, inasmuch as creäture in that age was still frequently pronounced as a trisyllable, as in the days of Chaucer. Winter's Tale, v. "The other, when she has obtain❜d your eye, Will have your tongue too. This is such a creature, Of all professors else;" &c. So in some editions, I know not whence; the folio omits such. We should read, I imagine, metri gratia,-"This a creature," &c. For this', see "Shakespeare's Versification," art. vi. p. 84. In Othello, iii. 3,— "And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand, Cry,-O sweet creature! and then kiss me hard;" &c. where the folio omits the and in 1. 2, it may perhaps b doubted whether the common reading (is it from the quarto? is not preferable.18 I suspect that we ought to restor creäture in a passage of Pericles, iii. 2; where, moreover the lines require new-arranging, as follows, "Gentlemen, this queen will live: nature awakes; 1 Gent. Cer. A warmth breathes out of her; she hath not been The heavens, Through you, increase our wonder, and set up She is alive; behold, Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels 18 Just here the folio is shamefully incorrect, both in printi and arrangement; the quarto, which inserts the second and, far superior. I cannot, however, but think that then here has cre in from then two lines below; it certainly is better away, for c and kiss are most closely connected.-Ed. Which Pericles hath lost, begin to part To make the world twice rich. O live, and make Rare as you seem to be!" 19 (Aut Shakespearius aut diabolus! In the above passage, praised means prized;—high-priced. Browne, ii. 1, p.170, "When casting round her over-drowned eyes (So have I seen a gem of mickle price Roll in a scallop-shell with water fill'd)," &c. Does not the ancient accuracy of rhyme require prize?) "She is a gallant creature, and complete In mind and feature." Qu., creäture and complete. i. 2,— 66 ten times more ugly Than ever they were fair. This man so complete," &c. Hamlet, i. 4, "That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisit'st," &c. Yet creäture seems to require more of a pause after it. Instances of creäture in the Elizabethan poets. (I use the term Elizabethan, as usual, with considerable latitude, including the reign of James I., and even a few years of Charles I. We want a specific term for an age, which is essentially one.) Webster, Cure for a Cuckold, iii. 3, Dyce, vol. iii. p. 317,— ""Tis you have made me your own creature." 19 Walker has done for this passage what Cerimon did for Chaïsa. He has restored the dead to life and beauty.-Ed. Beaumont and Fletcher, Coxcomb, v. 2, Moxon, vol. ii. p. 304, col. 1, "In presence of so pure a creature." And so, I imagine, Honest Man's Fortune, iv. i. p. 490, col. 2, Long. "Who's this alights [qu. 'lights.-Ed.] here? Are you the lady-mistress of the house ?" Lord Brooke, Works, 1633, p. 239, Sonnet xcii.,— "King's creature, subjection's gilded bliss." Alaham, Prologue, p. 2, "Privation would raigne there, by God not made, Mustapha, i. 2, p. 86, "Wherein they make their creatures their graves." iv. 3, p. 133, Decrepit slave, vile creature of mine." Jonson, Sad Shepherd, ii. 2, Gifford, vol. vi. p. 293, a witch Is sure a creature of melancholy," &c. For melancholy, a pronunciation which rarely occurs at a in the Elizabethan age, is, I believe, unknown to Jonson it is true he has melancholic, but this is a different cas Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses, scene 2, Giffo and Dyce, vol. vi. p. 391, "Tir'd out with killing of the creature." Maid's Revenge, i. 2, vol. i. p. 111, They are both excellent creatures; there is A majesty in Catalina's eye," &c. Unless, indeed, Shirley's looseness of versification may |