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Spleen, violent hurry, tumul-
tuous speed.
Spleens, inclination to spiteful
mirth.

Spot, stain or disgrace.
Spotted, wicked.

Sprag, or spackt, apt to learn.
Spread, to stand separately.
Sprighted, haunted.
Sprights, spirits
Springhalt, a disease incident
to horses.
Springing, blooming, in the
spring of life.
Sprightly, ghostly.
Spurs, the longest and largest
roots of trees.
Square, to quarrel.
Square, regular, equitable, just,
suitable.

Strive, to confess, to call to Square, compass, comprehen

confession.

Shut up, to conclude.

Side-sleeves, long sleeves.

Siege, stool, seat, rank.

sion, or complement.
Squarer, a quarrelsome fellow.
Squash, an immature peascod.
Squiny, to look asquint.

Sight, the perforated part of a Squire, a square or rule.

belmet.

Sightless, unsightly.

Sign, to shew, to denote.

Slly, simple or rustic.

Suy, sooth, plain, simple truth.
Sincere, honest.
Sinew, strength.

Single, weak, debile, small, ved of duplicity or guile. Stat-a-pace, cinque-pace, a dance.

Sir, the designation of a parson. Sar-reverence, a corruption of

save-reverence. Sith, since.

Suthence, thence.

Sizes, allowances of victuals.
Stains-mates, loose compa-

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Sol, spot, turpitude, reproach.

Solely, alone.

Solicit, courtship.

Salcit, to excite.

Soliciting, information.

Solidares, an unknown coin.
Sometimes, formerly.
South, truth.

Sooch, sweetness.
Serriest, worthless, vile.
Sorry, sorrowful or dismal.
Sort, to choose out.

Sort, a company, a pack, ranks
and degrees of men.
Sort, to happen, to agree.
Sort, the lot.

Sort and suit, figure and rank.
Sex. a fool.

So fearing, soul-appalling, Suci, to declare or publish. Soud, soundly.

Sowi, to pull by the ears.

Staggers, delirious, perturba

tion.

Stale, a bait or decoy to catch birds.

Stale, a pretence. to allure.

Sand, to withstand, to resist.

Standing bowls, bowls elevated on feet.

Stannyal, the common stonehawk.

Star, a scar of that. appearance.
Stark, stiff.
Starkly, stiffly.
Starred, destined.

Subtle, smooth, level.
Success, succession.
Successive, belonging to the

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Thread, fibre or part Thread, to pass through.. Three-man-beetle, an implement used for driving piles. Three-pile, rich velvet. offi-Thrift, a state of prosperity. Throes, emits as in parturition. Thrum, the extremity of a weaver's warp. Thrum med, made of coarse woollen cloth. Tib, a strumpet. Tickle, ticklish. Tickle-brain, some strong li

Sumpter, a horse that carries necessaries on a journey. Superfluous, over-clothed. Superstitious, serving with superstitious attention. Supposed, counterfeited, imagined. Sure, safe, out of danger, surely.

Sur-reined, over-worked, or ridden.

Suspire, to breathe. Swaggerer, a roaring, fighting fellow.

Swart or swarth, black, or dark brown.

Swarth or swath, as much

grass or corn as a mower

cuts down at one stroke of his scythe. Swashing, noisy, bullying, Swath, the dress of a new-born child.

State, a chair with a canopy Sway, the whole weight, mo

over it,

State, standing.

State, official state, dignity.
States, persons of high rank.
Station, the act of standing.
Statist, statesman.
Statue, a portrait.
Staves, the wood of the lances.
Stay, a hinderer, a supporter.
Stead, to assist, or help.
Sticking-place, the stop in a
machine.

Sticklers, arbitrators, judges,
sidesmen.
Stigmatical, marked or stigma-

uzed.

Stigmatic, one on whom nature
has set a mark of deformity.
Still, constant or continual.
Stilly, gently, lowly.
Stint, to stop, to retard.
Stith, an anvil.
Stoccata, a thrust or stab with
a rapier.

Stock, a term in fencing.
Stock, stocking.
Stomach, passion, pride, stub-
born resolution, constancy,
resolution.

Stoop, a measure somewhat

more than half a gallon. Stover, a kind of thatch. Stoup, a kind of flagon.

mentum.

Sweeting, a species of apple.
Swift, ready.

Swinge-bucklers, rakes, rioters. Swoop, the descent of a bird of prey.

quor.

Tight, handy, adroit.
Tightly, cleverly, adroitly.
Tilly-valley, an interjection of
contempt.

Tilth, tillage.
Timeless, untimely.
Tinct, tincture.
Tire, head-dress.
Tire, to fasten, to fix the talons

on.

Tire, to be idly employed on. Tired, adorned with ribands. Tod, to yield or produce a tod, or twenty-eight pounds. Tokened, spotted as in the plague.

Toll, to enter on the toll-book. Tolling, taking toll.

Tomboy, a masculine, forward girl.

Topless, that which has nothing above it, supreme. Topple, to tumble.

Table, the palm of the hand Touch, sensation, sense, feelextended.

Table, a picture.
Tables, table-books, memoran-
dums.

Tabourine, a small drum.
Tag, the lowest of the populace.
Taint, to throw a slur upon.
Take, to strike with a disease,
to blast.

Take-in, to conquer, to get the
better of.
Take-up, to contradict, to call

to an account.

Take-up, to levy.
Tall, stout, bold, courageous.
Tallow-keech, the fat of an ox

or cow.

ing.

Touch, exploit or stroke.
Touch, a spice or particle.
Touch, touchstone.
Touches, features.
Touched, tried.

Toward, in a state of readiness.
Toys, rumours, idle reports,

fancies,freaks of imagination. Toze, to pull or pluck. Trace, to follow. Trade, a custom, an established habit.

Tradition.traditional practices. Traditional, adherent to old

customs.

Trail, the scent left by the passage of the game. Traitress,a term of endearment. Tranect, a ferry. Translate, to transfer, to explain.

Tame, ineffectual.
Tame snake, a contemptible
fellow.
Tamed, flat, spiritless.
Tarre, to stimulate, to excite, Trash, a hunting phrase, to cor-

provoke.

Tartar, Tartarus, the fabled place of future punishment.

Strachy, probably some kind of Task, to keep busied with scru

domestic office.

Straight, immediately.
Strain, descent, lineage.
Strain, difficulty, doubt.
Strait, narrow, avaricious.
Straited, put to difficulties.
Strange, odd, different from.
Strange, alien, becoming a
stranger, a stranger.
Strangely, wonderfully.
Strangeness, shyness, distant
behaviour.
Stranger, an alien.
Strangle, to suppress.
Stratagem, great or dreadful
event.

Strict, hard.

Strive, to contend.

Stuck, a thrust in fencing. See
Stoccata. Stock.
Stuff, baggage.

Stuff, substance or essence.

Sowter, perhaps the name of a Stuffed, plenty, more than

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Speed, measured.

Specialty, particular rights.

Sed, the fate decided.

Speed, event.

bars, &c.

enough. Subscribe, to agree to. Subscribe, to yield, to surrender. Subscription, obedience.

Sperr, to shut up, defend by Submerged, whelmed under

water.

ples.

Tasked, taxed.

Taurus, sides and heart in medical astrology.

Tawdry, a kind of necklaces
worn by country girls.
Taxation, censure or satire.
Teen, sorrow, grief.
Temper, to mould like wax.
Temper, temperament, consti-

tution.

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rect. Travel, to stroll.

Traverse, a term in military exercise.

Traversed, across.
Tray-trip, some kind of game.
Treachers, treacherous per.

sons.

Trenched, cut, carved.
Trick, trick of the times.
Trick, peculiarity of voice,
face, &c.

Trick, smeared, painted, in he-
raldry.
Tricking, dress.
Tricksy, clever, adroit.
Triumphs, masques, revels,
public exhibitions.
Trojan, cant word for a thief.
Troll, to dismiss trippingly
from the tongue.
Trol-my-dames, a game.
Trossers, trowsers.
Trow, to believe.
Truth, honesty.
Tucket, or tucket sonnuance a
flourish.

Turly good, or turlupin, a species of gipsy.

Turn, to become acescent.
Turquoise, a precious stone.
Twangling an expression of
contempt.

Twigging, wickered.
Tyed, limited, circumscribed.
Type, distinguishing mark,
show or emblem.
Tything, division of a place, a
district.

Vail, to condescend to look, to
let down, to bow, to sink.
Vailing, lowering.
Vain, vanity.

Vain, light of tongue, not vera-
cious.

Valance, fringed with a beard.
Validity, value.
Vanity, illusion.

Vantage, convenience, oppor-
tunity, advantage.
Vantbrace, armour for the arm.
Varlet, a servant or footman to
a warrior.

Vast, waste, dreary.

Vaunt, the avant, what went before.

Vaward, the fore part.

Velure, velvet.

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Unbated, not blunted.
Unbolted, coarse.
Unbolt, to open, explain.
Unbookish, ignorant.
Unbreathed, unexercised, un-

practised.

Uncape, to dig out, a term in
fox-hunting.

Unclew, to draw out, exhaust.
Uncharged, unattacked.
Uncoined, real, unrefined, un-
adorned.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in
Under generation, the anti-
the ways of the world.
Undergo, to be subject to.
podes.
Under-skinker, a tapster, an
underdrawer.

Undertaker, one who takes
upon himself the quarrel of
another.

Underwrite, to subscribe, to
obey.

Venew, a bout, a term in fenc- Under-wrought, under-working.

Vengeance, mischief.
Vent, rumour, matter for dis-

course.

Ventages, the holes of a flute.
Venys, hits in fencing.
Verbal, verbose, full of talk.
Verify, to bear true witness.
Very, immediate.
Via,a cant phrase of exultation.
Vice, the fool of the old mo-
ralities.

Vice, to advise.
Vice, grasp.

Vie, to contend in rivalry.
Vied, bragged.

Viewless, unseen, invisible.
Villain, a worthless fellow, a

servant.

Virginalling, playing on the
virginal, a spinnet.
Virtue, the most efficacious.
part, valour.
Virtuous, salutiferous.
Virtuous, belonging to good-
breeding.

Vixen, or fixen, a female fox.
Vizaments, advisements.
Voluntary, voluntarily.
Votarist, supplicant.
Vouchsafed, vouchsafing.
Vox, tone or voice.
Vulgar, common.
Vulgarly, publicly.

Umber, a dusky yellow-colour-
ed earth.
Umbered, discoloured by the
gleam of fire.
Unaccustomed, unseemly, in-
decent.

Unaneled, without extreme
unction.

Unavoided, unavoidable.

ed, undetermined.
Unearned, not deserved.
Undeserving, undeserved.
Uneath, scarcely, not easily.
Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unhappy, mischievously wag-
gish, unlucky.
Unhidden, open, clear.
Unhoused, free from domestic

cares.

Unhouseled, not having received the sacrament. Unimproved. not guided by knowledge, or experience. Union, a species of pearl. Unkind, contrary to kind, or

nature.

Unmastered, licentious.
Unowed, that which has no

owner.

Unpregnant, not quickened.
Unproper, common.
Unqualitied, unmanned, dis-
Unquestionable, unwilling to
armed of his faculties.
Unready, undressed.
be conversed with.

Untruth,disloyalty, treachery.
Unvalued, invaluable.

Up-spring, upstart.

Whittle, a species of knife. Whooping, measure or reckon ing.

Urchins, nedge-hogs, or per- Wide, remotely from, wide of

haps fairies.
Use, practice long countenanc-
Usance, usury.
Use, to make a practice of.
ed by custom.
Use, interest.
Usurping, false.
Used, behaved.
Utis, a merry festival.
Utter, to vend by retail.
Utterance, a phrase in combat,
extremity.

Waft, to beckon.
Wage, to fight, to combat, to
prescribe to.
Waist, the part between the
Wages, is equal to.
quarter-deck and the fore-
Waist, the middle.
castle.
Wannion, vengeance,
Walk, a district in a forest.
Ward, posture of defence.
Ward, guardianship.
Warden, a species of pears.
Warder, gnard, sentinel.
Warn, to summon.
Wassels, meetings of rustic
mirth.

Watch, a watch-light,
Water-work, water-colours.
Wax, to grow.
Waxen, increase.
Wealth, advantage, happiness.
Wear, the fashion.
Wee, little.
Weeds, clothing.
Ween, to think, to imagine.
Weet, to know.
Weigh, to value or esteem, to
deliberate.

Welkin, the colour of the sky,
blue.

Well-found, of acknowledged
excellence.
Well-liking, plump, embon-
point.

Wen, swollen excrescence.
Wend, to go.

Unrespective, inattentive to Whelked,varied with protuber

consequences.

Unrest. disquiet.

ances.

Whe'r, whether.

Unrough, smooth-faced, un- Where, whereas.
bearded.

Unsisted, untried.
Unsisting, always open, never

at rest.

Unsmirched, clean, not defiled.
Unsquared, unadapted to their
subject.

Untempering, not tempering,
Unstanched, incontinent.
not softening.
Untraced, singular, not in com-

mon use.

Untrimmed, undressed.

the mark.
Wilderness, wildness.
Will, wilfulness.
Wimple, a hood or veil.
Winter-ground, to protect a-
gainst the inclemency of

winter.
Wis, to know.
Wish, to recommend.
Witch, to charm, to bewitch.
Wit, to know.
Wits, senses.

Wittol, knowing, conscious of.
Witty, judicious, cunning.
Wce, to be sorry.
Woman-tired, hen-pecked.
Woman, to affect suddenly and
deeply.
Wondered, able to perform
wonders.

Wood, crazy, frantic.
Woodman, an attendant on the
forester.

Woolward, a phrase appro-
priated to pilgrims and peni-
tentiaries.

Words, dispute, contention.
Work, a term of fortification.
Workings, labours of thought.
World, to go to the, to be mar
ried.

Worm, a serpent.

Worship, dignity, authority,
Worth, wealth or fortune, the
value, full quota or propor-
tion.
Worts, cabbage.
Wot, to know.

Wound, twisted about.
Wreak, resentment.
Wreak, to revenge.
Wrest, an instrument for tun-
ing the harp.
Wrested, obtained by violence.
Writ, writing, composition.
Wrongs, persons who wrong.
Writhled, wrinkled.
Wrongs, injurious practices.
Wroth, misfortune.

Wrung, pressed, strained.
Wrought, worked, agitated,

Yarely, readily, nimbly.
Yearns, grieves or vexes.

frothy.

Whiffler, an officer who walks Yeasty, or yesty, foaming or

Whiles, until.
first in processions.
Whipstock, a carter's whip.
Whip, the crack, the best.
Whirring, whirring away.
White, the white mark in ar-
White death, the chlorosis.
chery
Whiting-time, bleaching-time,
spring.

Whitsters, bleachers of linen.

Yeild, to inform of, condescend

to.

Yeild, to reward.
Yeoman, a bailiff's follower.
Yell owness, jealousy.

Zany, a buffoon, a merry an-
drew.

THE TEMPEST.

THERE was no edition of this play previous to the first folio of the Author's works, in 1623.-It was one of the very latest of his productions: Mr. Malone supposes it to have been written in the year 1611;-but it was most probably produced in the latter part of 1612, or the beginning of 1613, as we find from Mr. Vertue's MSS, that it "was acted by John Heming and the rest of the King's company, before Prince Charles, the Lady Elizabeth, and the Prince Palatine Elector, in the beKing of the year 1613."-The Prince Palatine was married to the Lady Elizabeth in February 1613, and this exquisite poems, which relates the loves of a young prince and princess, and introduces a pageant of spirits to crown them with

Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,

was not improbably composed on the occasion of their royal baptials; as we know that it made a part of the splendid fesuvities in celebration of them. Mr. Malone imagines in this

lay a reference to the shipwreck of Sir George Somers on the Island of Bermuda. I cannot follow him in tracing the resemblance. It is difficult to perceive the connexion between tempest in the Mediterranean and a hurricane in the Atlante-or between the wreck of an English ship, with her crew of adventurous navigators, on the coast of Bermuda, and the loss of an Italian vessel, conveying the king of Naples and the Duke of Milan from a royal marriage in Tunis, on an imagmary island, near the coast of Africa.-The only circumstance I can discover in the accounts of Sir George Somers's shipwreck, which Shakspeare appears to have had in his mind in writing this play, is the only circumstance that Lode of the commentators have noticed, though it is related

a volume to which they have all referred, viz. Stith's Hutary of Virginia-The assumption of royal authority by Stephano, and the scenes between that character and Caliban and Trinculo, may have been suggested by the event related in the following passage.-When Sir George Somers left the Island of Bermuda in the year 1609, "Christopher Carter, Edward Waters, and Edward Chard remained behind. Sir George's vessel being once out of sight, these three lords, and sole inhabitants of all these island's, began to erect their Jatle commonwealth, with equal power and brotherly regency, band az a house, preparing the ground, planting their corn, and such seeds and fruits as they had, and providing other Lecessaries and conveniences. Then making search among the crannies and corners of those craggy rocks, what the acean, from the world's creation, had thrown up among them,

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besides divers smaller pieces, they happened upon the largest block of Ambergris that had ever been seen or heard of in one lump. It weighed fourscore pounds, and is said, itself alone, besides the others, to have been then worth nine or ten thousand pounds. And now being rich, they grew so rioty and ambitious, that these three forlorn men, above three thousand miles from their native country, and with ittle probability of ever seeing it again, fell out for the superiority and rule; and their competition and quarrel grew so high, that Chard and Waters, being of the greater spirit, had appointed to decide the matter in the field. But Carter wisely stopped their arms, choosing rather to bear with such trouble. some rivals, than, by being rid of them, to live alone."Stith's Virginia, p. 120.-If Shakspeare in composing his play had any recollection of the above event, The Tempest could not have been written till after the year 1612, when the story was brought to England by Captain Matthew Somers. gentleman was nephew of Sir George Somers; he accompanied his uncle both in his first and second visit to the Bermudas, and, after his death on the Island, returned to England with the body. Collins the poet informed Thomas Warton, that the subject of this play was taken from a novel called Aurelio and Isabella; but this information has proved to be incorrect. The memory of Collins became confused in his last melancholy illness, and he probably gave the name of one novel for another.A circumstance which he added, may perhaps lead to the discovery of the real tale:-the principal character of the romance, answering to Shakspeare's Prospero, was a chemical necromancer, who had bound a spirit, like Ariel, to perform his services.-Mr. Boswell relates, that a friend of his had met with an Italian novel which corresponded with Collins's description. Malone, Steevens, and Blackstone have discovered, in the following words from the Induction to Ben Jonson's Bartholomer Fair-"If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it?" an allusion to the character of Caliban, and another proof of that malignity against our Author which they have chosen to impute to the great contemporary and personal friend of Shakspeare.-This subject is fully discussed in the Life prefixed to Harness's edition, and only mentioned here, to shew on how slight authority this absurd falsehood has been propagated; and as another instance to prove, that to the theories of a commentator, as to the dreams of jealousy, "trifles light as air, are confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."

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Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain?

Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour; Keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence trouble us not.

You

Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more ; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.-Cheerly, good hearts.-Out of our way, [Exit.

say.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.

[Exeunt.

Re-enter Boatswain.

Mira.

More to know

Did never meddle with my thoughts. lower,

Boats. Down with the topmast; yare; lower; bring her to try with main-course. [4 cry within.] A plague upon this howling! they are

louder than the weather, or our office.

Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and Gonzalo. Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink? Seb. A pox o' your throat! you bawling, blasphemous, íncharitable dog!

Boats. Work you, then.

Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent noise-maker, we are less afraid to be drowned than

thou art.

Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench.

Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold: set her two courses off; to sea again, lay her off.

Enter Mariners wet.

Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! [Exeunt.

Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us asFor our case is as theirs. [sist them, Seb. I am out of patience. [drunkards.Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by This wide-chapped rascal;-'Would, thou might'st The washing of ten tides! [lie drowning,

Gon. He'll be hanged yet;

Though every drop of water swear against it,
And at wid'st to glut him.
gape

[A confused noise within.]-Mercy on us! We split,
we split!-Farewell, my wife and children! Fare-
well, brother! We split, we split, we split !—
Ant. Let's all sink with the king.
[Exit.
Seb. Let's take leave of him.
Exit.
Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of
sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown
furze, any thing: The wills above be done! but I
would fain die a dry death.
[Exit.

SCENE II.

The Island: before the Cell of PROSPERO.

Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA.

Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them: The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls! they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallowed, and The freighting souls within her.

Pro.

Be collected; No more amazement: tell your piteous heart, There's no harm done.

Mira. Pro.

O, woe the day!

No harm.

I have done nothing but in care of thee,
(Of thee, my dear one! thee, my daughter!) who
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
Of whence I am; nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.

Pro.

'Tis time

I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me.-So;
[Lays down his mantle.
Lie there my art.-Wipe thou thine eyes; have

comfort.

The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
The very virtue of compassion in thee,
I have with such provision in mine art
So safely order'd, that there is no soul-
No, not so much perdition as a hair,
Betid to any creature in the vessel
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink.—
[Sit down;
For thou must now know further.
Mira.
'You have often
Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd
And left me to a bootless inquisition;
Concluding, Stay, not yet.—

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Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,pray thee, mark me,-that a brother should Be so perfidious !—he whom, next thyself, Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put The manage of my state; as, at that time, Through all the signiories it was the first, And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed In dignity, and, for the liberal arts, Without a parallel: those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported, And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncleDost thou attend me?

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