Duke S. Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:
For thou thyself hast been a libertine,

As sensual as the brutish sting itself.
I agree with Mr. Steevens.

P. 328.-163.—68..

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon.

In the Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio translates çelsa senis, that we might beguile the old pantaloon.

P. 329.-164.-70.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude;

Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.

Not seen is, I think, rightly explained by Dr. Johnson.

P. 334.-168.—77..

Cor. He, that hath learned no wit by nature nor art,
may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull
kindred,

Complain of good breeding is, I think, rightly explained by Dr. Johnson.

1. P. 335.-168.—77.

Touch. Wast ever in court, shepherd ?

Cor. No, truly.

Touch. Then thou art damn'd.

Cor. Nay, I hope,

Touch. Truly, thou art damn'd; like an ill-roasted egg,

all on one side.

I do not understand this jest. Perhaps Malone

is right.

P. 336.-169-79.

Cor. You have too courtly a wit for me. I'll rest.
Touch. Wilt thou rest damn'd? God help thee, shallow
man! God make incision in thee! thou art raw.

I still doubt the meaning of this. Perhaps Mr. Steevens's explanation is just.

P. 337.-170.-80.

All the pictures, fairest limn'd,

Are but black to Rosalind.

I take the true reading to be lin'd, which I think means having the fairest lines, lineaments, or features; or, rather (as I find, since writing the above, Mr. Steevens in his edition of 1793 explains it), most fairly delineated.

P. Ibid.-80.

Let no face be kept in mind,

But the fair of Rosalind.

I think Pope's correction (face for fair) is clearly right.

P. 339.-172.—82.

Why should this a desert be?
For it is unpeopled? No;
Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
That shall civil sayings show.

I do not think Mr. Tyrwhitt's emendation at all necessary. The Poet means that when there were many tongues shewing civil sayings in the place, it would no longer be a desert. Dr. Johnson has rightly explained the passage in his note on the word civil.

P. 344.-176.-89.

One inch of delay more is a South-sea-off discovery, I
pr'ythee tell me, who is it?

A South-sea-off discovery is, I think, the true reading, and means as far as the extent of the South sea distant from discovery.

P. 347.-179.-93.

Jaq. You are full of pretty answers: Have you not been
acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conn'd them out.
of rings.

Orl. Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from
whence you have studied your questions.

There is no need of Sir Thomas Hanmer's emendation. Malone is right.

P. 351.-183.-99.

Orl. What were his marks?

Ros. A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye,
and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable
spirit: which you have not.

Chamier is certainly right.

P. 352.-184.-101.

Ros. I drave my suitor from his mad humour of love,
to a living humour of madness.

I do not understand this. I cannot think Malone is right.

P. 354. 186.-103.

Touch. When a man's verses cannot be understood,
nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child,
understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great
reckoning in a little room.

The alteration of the Oxford editor appears to me so strange as to warrant Warburton's censure of it.

P. 357-187.-105.

Touch. Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul

slut, were to put good meat into an unclean dish.
Aud. I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am
foul,

I think Mason is right.

P.-188.-106.

Enter Sir OLIVER MAR-TEXT.

The title Sir, is given to Bachelors of Arts at Oxford.

I believe Mr. Steevens is right. I would read wend, with Dr. Johnson.

Sil.

P. 364.-193.-115.

Will you sterner be

Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?

I believe Tollet and Musgrave are right.

Ros.

P. 366.-195-118.

What though you have more beauty,
in you
Than without candle may go dark to bed,)

(As, by my faith, I see no more

Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?

I would read, What though you have beauty.

P. 374.-203.-128.

Ros. Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turn'd nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night: for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, and, being taken 55with the cramp, was drown'd; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was— -Hero of Sestos.

I believe chroniclers is the right word, though I agree that found is used here in the forensic

sense.

Ibid.

Orl. Then love me, Rosalind.

Ros. Yes, faith will I, Fridays, and Saturdays, and all.

After the Reformation, and the abolition of the Romish fasts, political fasts were ordered upon Fridays and Saturdays for the purpose of promoting the fisheries upon the coast of England. ANDERSON'S History of Commerce.

P. 381.-208.—136.

Ros. How say you now? is it not past two o'clock ? and
here much Orlando!

Surely it should be here's.

P. 387.-214.-144.

Ohio. He sent me hither, stranger as I am,
To tell this story, that you might excuse
His broken promise, and to give this napkin,
Dy'd in this blood, unto the shepherd youth
That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.
I would read, Dy'd in his blood.

P. 391.-218.-150.

Ros. God save you, brother.
Oliv. And you, fair sister.

Chamier is right.

P. 394.-220.-153.

Sil. It is to be all made of fantasy,

All made of passion, and all made of wishes;

All adoration, duty, and observance,

All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance;

And so am I for Phebe.

I think Malone is right.

P. 395.-222.-155.

Touch. To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-
morrow will we be married.

Aud. I do desire it with all my heart: I hope it is no
dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of the world.

I do not think there is such an allusion as the anonymous writer in the Appendix supposes.