CXVI. Instances of a certain class of noun substantives (accuse for accusation, begin for beginning, depart for departure, and the like). Troilus and Cressida, i. 2,— 3, "Therefore this maxim out of love I teach,-193 Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be 't of less expect 2 King Henry VI. iii. 1,— "And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, By false accuse doth level at my life." Troilus and Cressida, ii. 3, Ulysses. "What's his excuse? He doth rely on none; But carries on the stream of his dispose, 19 In will peculiar, and in self-admission." 193 These two verses were, by accident or design, transposed in the fourth folio, and the corruption occupied all the editions, till Capell and Johnson removed it. The second verse has been, I should say, improperly tampered with by Mr. Harness, and Mr. Collier's Old Corrector; but qu., did not Shakespeare write ungaine, a substantive, like unrest? Command, beseech, begin, &c., seem to be infinitives used for substantives.-Ed. 194 Dispose is found in Dryden, Rival Ladies, ii., about fiftyfive lines from the end,— "Your dowry is at my dispose." Milton uses retire as a substantive in Paradise Lost, xi. 267.-Ed. So W. Smith, Lines to Shirley on his play of the Royal "Say they, what makes the King in his dispose To orderly solicits." And so Shirley, Arcadia, v. 2, Gifford and Dyce, vol. vi. p. 245, tir'd with his solicits I had no time to perfect my desires With his fair daughter." Other Writers.-Bishop Bale, God's Promises, v., Dodsley, vol. i. p. 32, 66 By hys power he shall put Sathan from hys holde, Play of Robert Earl of Huntingdon, P. i., quoted in Ritson's Robin Hood, Smith's edition, 1843, p. 16, col. 2,— "Wind once more, jolly huntsmen, all your horns, Whose shrill sound, with the ecchoing wods (i.e., woods') assist, Shall ring a sad knell for the fearefull deere;" &c. Spenser, F. Q., B. iii. C. v. St. xviii.,— Him boldly bad his passage there to stay, For all the damage which he had him doen afore." So Shirley, Love Tricks, v. 1, Gifford and Dyce, vol. i. p. 78, 1. 1, "You owe this shepherdess for your restore, Whose skill Heaven made so happy." It is rare in Spenser. F. Q., B. iii. C. iii. St. xx.,— "Most noble virgin, that by fatall lore Hast learn'd to love, let no whit thee dismay The hard beginne that meets thee in the dore," &c. B. ii. C. v. St. xxxvii., "With percing wordes and pittifull implore." B. iii. C. xii. St. xx., "Her brest all naked, as nett yvory Without adorne of gold or silver bright, St. xxiv., "Behinde him was Reproch, Repentaunce, Shame; Reproch the first, Shame next, Repert behinde :" B. ii. C. viii. St. xxiii., demayne for demeanour. Court for courtship, B. i. C. vii. St. xxxviii., does not seem to be in point. B. iv. C. i. St. lii.,— "False traitour squire, false squire of falsest knight, Why doth mine hand from thine avenge abstaine ?" B. v. C. vi. St. xv., "The certaine cause of Artegals detaine." Sidney, Astrophel and Stella, Fifth Song, last stanza but one; p. 553, "For thy face tempts my soul to leave the heaven for thee And thy words of refuse do pour e'en hell on me." Ford, The Shepherd's Sorrow, &c., Clarke's Helicon of Love, p. 75, "When I behold the fair adorned [fair-adorned] tree, Which lightning's force and winter's frosts resist [resists]; Then Daphne's ill betide, And Phoebus' lawless pride, Enforce me say even such my sorrows be, P. 76 (as in an example from Fletcher, and one from Dubartas below), "When I beheld upon the leafless bough The hapless bird lament her love's depart," &c. Play of Tancred and Gismunda, iv. 3, Dodsley, vol. ii. p. 208, thou didst once unprincelike make agree [for agreement] With that vile traytor County Paiuvin” [Palatine]; &c. Shirley, Gentleman of Venice, i. 1, Gifford and Dyce, vol. v. p. 6,— Dear, should the proudest gentleman of Venice Have call'd my mother whore; but you shall [,] only My anger off;" &c. Chapman and Shirley, Chabot, v. 2, vol. vi. p. 158,— That my free Resign of title, office, and what else My pride look'd at, would buy my poor life's safety!" Shirley, Cardinal, ii. 1, vol. v. p. 292,— She writes, and counsels, Under my hand to send her back a free iii. 2, p. 312, "To this your answer was a free resign ?" Court Secret, ii. 3, vol. v. p. 457, I may entreat her grace's mediation Narcissus, vol. vi. p. 479, St. 2, yet "Prithee, unlock thy words' sweet treasury, This will thy beauty, and my passions wrong." Chapman, Il. vi., Taylor, vol. i. p. 151, 66 Even Bacchus he did drive From his Nisseius, who was fain, with huge exclaims, to dive Into the ocean." P. 157. (Paris was) "Born for the plague he hath been born, and bred to the deface (By great Olympius) of Troy, our sire, and all our race." xi. p. 244,— but at last, when their cur-like presumes More urg'd, the more forborne," &c. xvi. vol. ii. p. 73,— "And so of this repeat [i.e., repetition] enough." P. 81, where rout was busiest, there pour'd on Patroclus most exhorts and threats." xxiv. vol. ii. p. 224,— "O thou that to betray and shame art still companion." Heywood, Four Prentices of London, i. 1, Dodsley, vol. vi. p. 404, "I hold it no disparage to my birth, Though I be born an Earl, to have the skill And the full knowledge of the Mercer's [Mercers'] trade." (Possibly have may be an erratum for learne.) Same play, p. 432, "Princes, my master County Palatine Sends me to know the cause of your arrive.” Fletcher, &c., Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 3, Moxon, vol. ii. p. 557, col. 1, Since his depart, his sports, Though craving seriousness and skill, past slightly |