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Nurture can never ftick +; on whom my pains, 4 Humanely taken, all, all loft, quite lost; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers: I will plague them all, Even to roaring:-Come, hang them on this line. [Profpero remains invisible.

Enter Ariel loaden with glistering apparel, &c. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.

Cal. Pray you, tread foftly, that the blind mole may not

Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.

Ste. Monster, your fairy, which, you fay, is a harmless fairy, has done little better than play'd the " Jack with us.

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Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nofe is in great indignation.

Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I fhould take a displeasure against you; look youTrin. Thou wert but a loft monster.

Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour ftill: Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hood-wink this mifchance: therefore, fpcak foftly;

All's hufh'd as midnight yet.

Trin. Ay, but to lofe our bottles in the pool, Ste. There is not only difgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite lofs.

Trin. That's more to me than my wetting: Yet this is your harmless fairy, monster.

Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour.

Cal. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet: See'ft thou here, This is the mouth o' the cell; no noife, and enter:

4 Nurture can never flick ;] Nurture is education. STELVENS. 5 He has play'd Jack with a lantern] Has led us about like an ignis fatuus, by which travellers are decoyed into the mire.

JOHNSON.

Do

Do that good mifchief, which may make this ifland Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,

For aye thy foot-licker.

Ste. Give me thy hand: I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

Trin. O king Stephano! o peer! o worthy Stephano!

Look, what a wardrobe here is for thee!

Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. Oh, ho, monfter; 7 we know what belongs to a frippery :—o, king Stephano!

Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown.

Trin. Thy grace fhall have it.

Cal. The dropfy drown this fool! what do you

mean,

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To doat thus on fuch luggage? Let's along,

• Trin. O king Stephano! o peer! o worthy Stephano !

And

Look, what a wardrobe here is for thee!] The humour of these lines confifts in their being an allufion to an old celebrated ballad, which begins thus: King Stephen was a worthy peer-and celebrates that king's parfimony with regard to his wardrobe.— There are two ftanzas of this ballad in Othello. WARBURTON. The old ballad is printed at large in The Reliques of Ancient Poetry, vol. i. PERCY.

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1 we know what belongs to a frippery:] A frippery was a fhop where old cloaths were fold. Fripperie, Fr.

Beaumont and Fletcher ufe it in this fenfe, in Wit without Money, act II:

"As if I were a running frippery."

So in Monfieur de Olive, a comedy, by Chapman, 1606: "Paffing yesterday by the frippery, I fpied two of them hanging out at a stall with a gambrell thrust from shoulder to shoulder."

The person who kept one of these fhops, was called a fripper. So again in Monfieur de Olive, 16c6;

"Taylors, frippers, brokers.'

Again, ibid: What is your profeffion, I pray?-Fripperic, my

lord."

Again: "Farewell fripper, farewell petty broker."

Strype, in the life of Stowe, fays, that thefe frippers lived in Birchin-lane and Cornhill. STEEVENS.

Firft edit. Let's alone. JOHNSON.

Let's

And do the murder firft: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our fkin with pinches ;
Make us ftrange stuff.

Ste. Be you quiet, monfter.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line : Now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin.

Trin. Do, do; We fteal by line and level, and't like your grace.

Ste. I thank thee for that jeft; here's a garment for't: wit fhall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country: Steal by line and level, is an excellent pafs of pate; there's another garment for't.

Trin. Monster, come, put fome lime upon your fingers, and away with the reft.

Cal. I will have none on't: we fhall lofe our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villainous low.

Ste.

Let's alone may mean-Let you and I only go to commit the murder, leaving Trinculo, who is fo folicitous about the trash of drefs, behind us. STEEVENS.

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under the line:] An allufion to what often happens to people who pass the line. The violent fevers, which they cop tract in that hot climate, make them lose their hair.

EDWARDS' MSS.

Perhaps the allufion is to a more indelicate disease than any pe

culiar to the equinoxial.

So in The Noble Soldier, 1632:

""Tis hot going under the line there."

Again, in Lady Alimony, 1659:

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Look to the clime

"Where you inhabit; that's the torrid zone.
"Yea, there goes the hair away."

Shakespeare feems to defign an equivoque between the equi

noxial and the girdle of a woman.

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STEEVENS.

-put fome lime, &c.] That is, birdlime. JOHNSON.

-to barnacles, or to apes] Skinner fays barnacle is Anfer Scoticus. The barnacle is a kind of fhell-fifh growing on the bottoms of fhips, and which was anciently fuppofed, when broken off, to become one of thefe gecfe. Hall, in his Virgedemiarum, lib. iv. fat. 2. feems to favour this fupponition:

VOL. I.

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"The

Ste. Monster, lay to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogfhead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this. Trin. And this.

Ste. Ay, and this.

A noife of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits in fhape of hounds, hunting them about; Profpero and Ariel Jetting them on.

Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey!

Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver!

Pro. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark!

[To Ariel.] Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints

With dry convulfions; fhorten up their finews

The Scottish barnacle, if I might choose,

"That of a worme doth waxe a winged goofe," &c. So likewife Marfton, in his Malecontent, 1604:

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like your Scotch barnacle, now a block, "Inftantly a worm, and prefently a great goose.' "There are," (fays Gerard, in his Herbal, edit. 1597. page 1391) "in the north parts of Scotland certaine trees, whereon do growe fhell-fishes, &c. &c. which, falling into the water, do become fowls, whom we call barnakles; in the north of England brant geefe; and in Lancashire tree geefe," &c.

This vulgar error deferves no ferious confutation.' Commend me, however, to Holinfhed, (vol. I. p. 38.) who declares himfelt to have feen the feathers of these barnacles" hang out of the shell at least two inches." And in the 27th fong of Drayton's Po lyolbion, the fame account of their generation is given. Again, in Valentinian, by B. and Fletcher:

--not till barnacles

"Breed in my fides." COLLINS.

3 A noife of hunters heard.-] Shakespeare might have had in view" Arthur's Chace, which many believe to be in France, and think that it is a kennel of black dogs followed by unknown huntsmen with an exceeding great found of horns, as if it was a very hunting of fome wild beaft." See a Treatife of Spectres tranflated from the French of Peter de Loier, and published in quarto, 1655. Dr. GRAY,

With aged cramps; and more pinch-fpotted make

them,

Than pard, or cat o' mountain.
Ari. Hark, they roar.

Pro. Let them be hunted foundly: At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:

Shortly fhall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom for a little,
Follow, and do me service.

[Exeunt.

ACT V. SCENE I.
Before the cell.

Enter Profpero in his magick robes, and Ariel.

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Pro. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my fpirits obey; and time Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?

Ari. On the fixth hour; at which time, my lord, You faid our work fhould cease.

Pro. I did fay fo,

When first I rais'd the tempeft. Say, my fpirit,
How fares the king and his followers?

Ari. Confin'd together

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;
Juft as you left them; all prifoners, fir,
In the lime-grove which weather-fends

your

cell;

They cannot budge, till your releafe. The king,
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of forrow, and dilmay; but, chiefly,

and time

Goes upright with his carriage.-] Alluding to one carrying a burthen. This critical period of my life proceeds as I could with. Time brings forward all the expected events, without faultering

under his burthen, STEEVENS.

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