Furioso, played before Elizabeth, they are mentioned, and Raleigh speaks of people whose heads appear not above their shoulders. Histories, says Gilpin, in a sermon before Edward IV., notice "a people called Anthropophagi, eaters of men." In Hackluyt's Voyages, 1598, we find this passage: "On that branch which is called Caora, are a nation of people whose heades appear not above their shoulders: they are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouthes in the middle of their breastes."-REED and STEEVENS. "Thrice driven bed of down."--Act I. Sc. 3. A driven bed is a bed for which the feathers are selected, by driving with a fan, which separates the light from the heavy.—JOHNSON. "As luscious as locusts."—Act I. Sc. 3. The fruit of the locust tree is a long black pod, that contains the seeds, among which there is a very sweet luscious juice, of much the same consistency as fresh honey.-STEEVENS. "Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings.”—Act III. Sc. 3. Jesses are short straps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk, by which she is held on the fist.-HANMER. Pioneers were generally degraded soldiers, appointed to the office of pioneer as a punishment for misbehaviour. "A soldier ought ever to retaine and keepe his armes in saftie and forthcoming, for he is more to be detested than a coward, that will lose or play away any part thereof, or refuse it for his ease, or to avoid paines; wherefore such a one is to be dismissed with punishment, or to be made some abject pioneer." The Art of War, by E. Davies, 1619.—Grose. "Crusadoes."-Act III. Sc. 4. The crusado is so called from the cross which is stamped upon it; it is a Portuguese coin, in value about three shillings of our money.-GREY. "And it was died in mummy.”—Act III. Sc. 4. The balsamic liquor running from mummies, was formerly celebrated for its anti-epileptic virtues. We are now wise enough to know that the qualities ascribed to it are all imaginary. Mummy, however, is still much coveted by painters, as a transparent brown colour which throws a warmth into their shadows.-STEEVENS. "If that the earth should teem with woman's tears, Each drop she falls, would prove a crocodile.”—Act IV. Sc. 1. Shakspeare here alludes to the fabulous accounts of crocodiles. "It is written (says Bullokar), that he shall weep over a man's head, when he hath devoured the body, and then will eat up the head too. Wherefore, in Latin there is a proverb, crocodili lachrymæ, crocodile's tears, to sig nify such tears as are fained." It appears, that a dead crocodile, "but in perfect forme," of about nine feet long, had been exhibited in London in our poet's time.—MALONE. "For a joint ring."— Act IV. Sc. 3. The nature of a joint ring will be best explained by a passage in Dry. den's Don Sebastian: 66 a curious artist wrought them, With joints so close as not to be perceiv'd; Yet are they both each other's counterpart: Her part had Juan inscrib'd, and his had Zayda, "Chrysolite.”—Act V. Sc. 1. Pliny informs us, that Ptolemy Philadelphus had a statue of his wife, Arsinoe, made of one topas, four cubits in length. Topaz and chrysolie were once used as synonymous terms.-PLUMTREE. NOTE. N order that this edition of Shakespeare might be more complete, it has been deemed requisite that a collection of gems be appended to it. Our design is not to give a complete Concordance of Shakespeare's words, which would imply the duplicating of the same passage as well as the introduction of many thousands of trivial passages, but rather to select all the desirable quotations (care being taken that complete sense was retained) and insert them once, taking for the initial word that which in our opinion is the most prominent. The usual reference to Play, Act and Scene has been dropped, and that of Play, Volume and Page adopted. For rapid and accurate reference, the advantage of this over the other method will readily be appreciated. (799) CONCORDANCE. ABA - ÆT V. P. ........A. Y. L. ...R. III. ABANDONED.-Left and a. of his velvet friends................... ABSOLVED.-Your great goodness, out of holy pity, a. him with an 'Accost' is front her; board her; woo her; assail her 3 167 2 374 .....Ham. 4 560 .....Ham. 4 516 axe...H. VIII. 3 323 M. W. W. I 140 Tem. I 22 .Oth. 4 588 I 201 Tw. N. .....Ham. 4 497 7. C. ...M. Ado. ACCOUNT.-Sent to my a. with all my imperfections on my head... ACTION.-In such business a.. is eloquence.... Suit the a. to the word; and the word to the a.. ACTOR.-After a well-graced a. leaves the stage...... ADAM.-A.'s sons are my brethren...... Had he been A. he had tempted Eve.......... A. was a gardener... A. was the first that ever bore arms... Whipped the offending 4. out of him... ADDER.-Whose tongue more poisonous than the a.'s tooth. It is the bright day that brings forth the a.. ADMIRABLE. In form and moving how express and a. !.......... ADMITTANCE.'Tis gold which buys a..... 3 579 376 ADORE.-I did a. a twinkling star, but now I worship a celestial sun... T. G. V. 120 I 96 Cym. 4 106 Tem. I 32 4 524 ADVANCEMENT.-Do not think I flatter, for what a. may I hope from thee. Ham. ADVANTAGE.-Made use and fair a. of his days........... Let's away; a. feeds him fat, while men delay. .......T. G. V .........1 H. IV. ........... H. IV. ......... H. V .........R. III. 3 220 ...... Oth. 2 587 4 600 I 35 ADVANTAGEOUS.-Here is everything a. to life: True; save means to live. Tem. ADVERSARIES.-Do as a. do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink. Tam. Sh. Our a, buildeth in the cedar's top and dallies with the wind. |