APPENDIX came N the profecution of this work I received many remarks from learned Friends, which came fometimes too late for infertion, and fome of my own remarks either more mature reflection or better information has difpofed me to retract. An Appendix therefore became neceffary, that I might omit nothing which could contribute to the explanation of my authour. I do not always concur with my friends in their opinion, but their abilities are fuch as make me lefs confident when I find myself differing from them, and the publick might juftly complain if I fuppreffed their fentiments either by pride or timidity. From the Revifal of Shakespeare lately published, I have selected fome just remarks, and from Dr. Gray some valuable illustrations. I am far at laft from fuppofing my work perfect, but do not think any thing which I am likely to add to it of value enough to justify longer delay. NOTES to the FIRST VOLUME. P. 3. I remember to have been told by my friend Mr. William Collins, that great part of this Play was founded on an Italian chemical Romance, cal led ORELIA and ISABELLA; in which there was a spirit like Ariel. The chemistry of the dark ages was full of these fpiMr. WARTON. ritual agents. P. 10. -Key.] This doubtless is meant of a key for tuning the harpfichord, fpinette or virginal; we call it now a tuning hammer, as it is used as well to ftrike down the iron pins whereon the ftrings are wound, as to turn them. As a key. it acts like that of a watch. Mr. HAWKINS. P. 22. Mir. Abhorred flave-] The modern editions, take this fpeech from Mi anda, and give it to Profpero; tho' there is nothing in it but what she may fpeak with great propriety: efpecially as it accounts for her being enough in the way and power of Caliban to enable him to make the attempt complained of. Mr. Dryden, in the alteration made by him and Sir William Davenant, in this play, led the way to this change which Mr. Theobald calls judicious, vol. i. p. 18. n. 1o. and adds, "it would be very indecent for Miranda to reply to what was laft fpoke:" but it is probable the Poet thought otherwife, and that it was not only decent, but neceffary, for her to clear her character, by fhewing how the monfter acquired an opportunity of making the attack. The Poet himself fhews he intended Miranda fhould be his tutorefs, in the latter end of the fecond fcene of the fecond act, when he makes Caliban fay "I've feen thee in her, my Miflrefs fhewed me thee and thy dog and thy brush," to Stephano, who has juft affured the monster, he was the man in the moon when-Time was. Mr. HOLT. P. 45. For patter read uttet. P. 48. Young camels from the rocks.-] Theobald fubftitutes fhamois, for scamels; which laft word, he fays, has poffeffed all the editions. I am inclined to retain camels: For in an old Will, dated 1593, I find the bequeft of "a bed of Scammelcolour," i. e. of the colour of an animal fo called, whose skin was then in ufe for drefs or furniture. This, at least, fhews the existence of the word at that time, and in Shakespeare's fenfe. Mr. WARTON, P. 74. Weak mafters though ye be.] The Revifalreads, weak minifters, probably, but without neceffity. The meaning may be, Though you are but inferiour masters of these supernatural powers, though you possess them but in a low degree. P. 86. It is obferved of the Tempeft that its plan is regular; this the Revifal thinks, what I think too, an accidental effect of the ftory, not intended or regarded by the authour. P. 94. Beteem-] Or pour down upon them. POPE. P. 104. For through bush, &c. read in all the Places borough. P. 106. that shrewd, and That fright the maidens of the Skim milk, and fometimes labour in the quern, And bootlefs make the breathless bufe-wife chern And fometime make the drink to bear no barm, Mislead night-wand'rers, laughing at their harm?] This account of Robin-goodfellow correfponds, in every article, with that given of him in Harfenet's Declaration, ch. 20. P. 135. "And if that the bowle of curdes and creame were not duly fet out for Robin-goodfellow, the frier, and fiffe the dairy maid-why then either the pot tage was burnt to next day in the pot, or the cheeses would not curdle, or the butter would not come, or the ale in the fat never would have got head. But if a pater-nofter, or an houfleegge were beturned, or a patch of ty the unpaid-then beware of bull beggars, fpirits, &c." He is mentioned by Cartwright, as a fpirit particularly fond of difconcerting and difturbing domeftick peace and œconomy. "Saint Francis and Saint Be- "Bleffe this houfe from wick- Mr. WARTON. P. 12c, Queen. Come now, a roundel, and a fairy fong] From round comes roundel, and from roundel, roundelet. The firft, the form of the figure, the fe cond, the dance in the figure, the laft, the fong or tune to the dance. Anon. "And fong in all the roundell P. 136. Snowt. By'rlaken a parlous fear.] By our ladykin, or little lady, as ifakins is a corruption of by my faith. Thefe kind of oaths are laughed at, in the first part of Henry the Fourth, act ii. fc. iii. When Hotspur tells lady Percy, upon her faying in good footh, "You fwear like a comfit maker's wife, and give "fuch farcenet furety for your oaths, as if you never walked "farther than Finfbu y." Dr. GRAY. P. 132. There are but three fairies that falute Bottom, nor does he addref hin felf to more, though four had entered before whom the queen had called by name, and commanded to do their courtefies. In fhort, I cannot tell what is become of monfieur Moth, unless he be prudently walked off, for fear of Cavalero Cobweb: for we hear no more of him either here, or in the next act, where the queen, Bottom and fairies are introduced again. Anon. Dr. GRAY. P. 134. And at our flamp-] I apprehend the stamp of a fai ry's foot might operate to the full as ftrongly on this occafion, as the ftump of a tree. Mr. STEEVENS. P. 147. In the note, for aread aby. buy P. 150. Bottom. Nothing, good monfieur, but to help Cavalero Cobweb to fera ch.] Without doubt it fhould be Cavalero Perfe : Peafebloom as for Cavalero Dr. GRAY. Thef.Call Philoftrate.] Call Egaus, edit. 1632, and Egaus anfwers to his name there, and every where elfe in that old edition. Dr. GRAY. P. 162. The thrice three mufes mourning for the death Of learning, late deceas'd in beggary. I do not know whether it has been before obferved, that Shakespeare here, perhaps, alluded to Spenfer's poem, entitled, The Tears of the Mufes, on the neglect and contempt of learning. This piece first ap peared in quarto, with others, 1591. The oldeft edition of this play, now known, is dated 1600. If Spenfer's poem be here intended, may we not prefume that there is fome earlier edition of this play? But, however, if the allufion be allowed, at leaft it ferves to bring the play below 1591. Mr. WARTON. P. 176. Of this play, wild and fantastical as it is, all the parts in their various modes are well written, and give the kind of pleasure which the authour defigned. Fairies in his time were much in fashion; common tradition had made them familiar, and Sperfer's poem had made them great. P. 189. Lucetta. Indeed I bid the bafe for Protheus-] Bidding the bafe was a country diverfion, not unlike what is called barly break in the North, where fome purfue others in order to take them prisoners. "Ne was Satyrane her far be- "But with like fiercenefs did "His former fuit, and from P. 190. Julia. I fee you have a month's mind to them.] A month's mind was an anniversary in times of popery; or, as Mr. Ray calls it, a lefs folemnity directed by the will of the deceased. There was also a year's mind, and a week's mind. See proverbial phrases. This appears from the interrogatories and obfervations against the clergy, in the year 1552. Inter. VII. " Whether "there are any month's minds, "and anniversaries?" Strype's Memorials of the Reformation, vol. ii. p. 354 "Was the month's mind of "Sir William Laxton, who died "the last month (July 1556) "his herse burning with wax, "and the morrow mafs cele"brated, and a fermon preach"ed, &c." Strype's Memorial, vol. iii. p. 305. Dr. GRAY. A month's mind in the ritual fense fignifies not defire or inclination, but remembrance, yet I fuppofe this is the true original of the expreffion. P. 197. Ob! excellent motion, &c.] I think this paffage requires a note, as every reader does not know, that motion, in the language of Shakespeare's days, fignifies |