Incompt, subject to account. Incony or Kony, delicate, pretty. lazorrect, ill regulated. Istent, to sign an indenture. Induction, preface, prelude. Insite, extent or power. Inhabitable, not habitable. Ichibit, to forbid, decline. Ink-horn mate, a book-mate. Initiate, young. Inland, civilized. GLOSSARY. Lavoltas, a kind of dances. Lay, a wager. Leer, feature, complexion. Leet, petty court of justice. Leman, a lover or mistress. Libbard, or Lubbard, a leopard. License, licentiousness. Lieger, an ambassador. Light o'love, a dance tune. Limbeck, a vessel used in distilling. Limbo, a place supposed near hell. Lime, bird lime; to cement. Limited, appointed. Limits, estimates. Lined, delineated. Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed when ordnance is tired. List, limit. Lither, flexible. Little, miniature. Livelihood, appearance of life. Loggats, a game. Loofed, brought close to the wind. Looped, full of apertures. Lop, the branches. Lordling, a little lord. Lottery, allotment. Love in idleness, a flower. Lover, sometimes for mistress. Lowted, treated with contempt. Lullaby, cradle. Lunes, lunacy. Lurch, to win, to purloin. Lure, a decoy for a hawk. Lym, or Lyme, a bloodhound. M. Mace, a sceptre. Magnifico, & Venetian potentate. Makeless, mateless, widowed. Malkin, a trull. Mallecho, mischief. Maltworms, tipplers. Mammering, stammering. Mammets, puppets. Man, to tame a hawk; the devil. Mandragora, a soporific plant. Mankind, a wizard. Manacle, a handcuff. Meazels, lepers. Medal, portrait. Meddle, to mingle. Medicine, a she-physician. Meiney, domestics. Memories, memorials. Memory, memorial. Mends, the means. Mephistophilus, a familiar spirit. Mered question, the sole question. Mermaid, a syren. Metaphysical, supernatural. Micher, a truant. Miching Mallecho, a secret mischief. Mince, to walk affectedly. Minding, reminding. Minnow, a very small fish. Minstrelsy, office of minstrel. Minute-jack, Jack-o-lantern. Miscreate, illegitimate, spurious. Misdoubt, to suspect. Mistress, the jack in bowling. Mobled, veiled, muffled. Modern, new-fangled. Modesty, moderation. Moe, to make mouths. momentary. Monster, to make monstrous. Month's mind, a popish anniversary. Mood, anger, manner. Moody, melancholy. Moonish, variable. Mops and Moes, ludicrous anticks. Morisco, Moorish. Morris pike, Moorish pike. Mort of the deer, a tune on the death of the deer. 0. Odd-even, the interval between twelve at night and one in the morning. Od's pitikins, God me pity. Oeliads, glances of the eye. O's, circles, pockmarks. Obligations, bonds. Obsequious, funereal. Observation, celebration. Obstacie, obstinate. Occurrents, incidents. O'er-raught, over-reached. Offering, the assailant. Offices, culinary apartments Of all loves, by all means. Old age, ages past. Once, sometime. Opal, a precious stone. Opinion, obstinacy, conceit Order, measures. Orgulous, haughty. Oaprey, an eagle. Ostent, ostentation, appearance. Ostentation, appearance. Overblow, to drive away. Overscutched, whipped at a cart's tail. Overture, opening, discovery Ounce, a tiger-cat. Ouph, fairy. Ousel cock, the cock blackbird. Out, full, complete. Outvied, defeated, a term at the game of gleek. Outward, not in the secret. Owe, to possess, to own. Oxlip, the great cowslip. P. Pack, to bargain with. Pagan, a dissolute person. Palabras, words. Pale, dominions. Pale, to encircle with a crown. Pall, to wrap, to invest. Palled, vapid. Palmers, pilgrims. Palmy, victorious. Paly, pale. Palter, to inggle, to cheat. Pang, to afflict. Paper, to commit to writing. Parcel, part, to reckon up. Paucas, few. Pavin, a dance. Pay, to beat. Peat, pet, darling. Pedascule, a pedant. Peer-out, to peep out. Peize, to weigh, keep in suspense. Penthesilia, Amazon, Pelting, paltry. Pennons, small flags. Perdu, one of the forlorn hope. Perdurable, lasting. Perdy, (Par Dieu) a French oath. Perfect, certain; well-informed. Perfections, liver, brain, and heart. Periapts, charms worn about the neck. Perjure, a perjurer. Person, parson. Perspectives, spy-glasses. P-stilence, poison. Pey fellow, a companion Pheere, companion. Phisnomy, physiognomy. Pheeze, to tease, to currycomb Phill-horse, shaft-horse. Pick, to pitch. Picka-xes, fingers. Picked, foppish. Pickers, the hands. Picking, insignificant. Pickt-hatch, a place noted for brothels. Pick-thank, a parasite, Piece, a contemptuous term for a wo man. Pied ninny, a fool. Piled, deprived of hair. Pin, a term in archery. Pin and web, disorder of the eye. Pix, the box that contains the host Place, a mansion. Placket, a petticoat. Plague, punish. Plainly, openly. Plantage, plantain. Plaited, complicated. Planched, made of planks. Plant, the foot. Plates, silver money. Platforms, schemes. Pluerisy, plethory. Plausive, gracious, applauded. Pleached, folded. Plot, portion. Point, negative. Point, hooks used to fasten up bree ches Point-de-vice, exactly Points, tags to laces Poize, weight. Polack, a Polander Polled, bared. Pomewater, an apple. Pomander, a perfume ball. Poor-john, salted tish. Popinjay, a parrot. Popularity, intercourse with the vul gar. Porpentine, porcupine. Port, deportment. Port, a gate. Prig, to pilfer, Prime, sprightliness of youth. Primer, of more consequence. Primero, a game at cards. Princox, a coxcomb. Probal, probable. Prodigious, portentous. Proface, much good may it do you. Profane, grossly talkative. Progress, a royal journey of state. Prognostication, almanack. Project, to shape. Prolixious, coy, delaying. Proof, puberty. Prompture, suggestion. Prone, humble, also prompt. Propagate, to advance, to improve. Proper, handsome. Proper false, deceitful. Propertied, possessed. Properties, incidental necessaries to des back. Receipt, receptacle. Recensag, ready apprehension. Necate, a busting teria. %, to care for. Ackless, careless. Kord, to sing Borders, a kind of flute. kare, to recover. Flattice phrases, alehouse talk. plague, the St. Antony's fire. May, ducoloured with smoke. Kis, wheels Refel, to confufe. Ker, to reserve to. 4. and, look. Resent, government. Regret, exchange of salutation. Barrdon, recompense. Genres, journies. t, to describe. ge, to renounce. Xie, to be assured. ed, banded down. t, to refer back. Bier, to reverberate. ut of mana, change of complexion. sta, rebels. tortclose. Bad a lewd fellow. Kat, to destroy. 3.apit garle. #try. Engel, encircled. ago, e bank or shore. Baby, al rank. Ka partners. Ke, minage, bustle. 7 the cross. * squat. Fert requery. Re tricks, abusiveness. bod ad adem. Brad, rough. Buded, whispered. del, a country dance. King, whispering. Rotare, a circle. se, carousal. Anish, mangy. Kck red breast. Kf the folding of the tops of boots. Rad, to be nuisy. Le rustling. p-ed, fed with offals. Scald, beggarly. Scale, to disperse. Scaled, overreached. Scaling, weighing. Scamble, to scramble. Scarfed, decorated with flags. Sconce, a fortification. Scrip, a writing, a list. Seat, to strengthen, or complete. Seamels, a bird. Sear, to stigmatize, to close. Season, to temper, to infix, to impress. Sect, a cutting in gardening. Seeming, seemly. Seen, versed, practised. Semblably, resemblingly. Sennet, a flourish on cornets. g-bell, the bell announcing the approach of the host. Sad dent, grave appearance. Sic or Swagg, to sink down. Set, a belmet. Sattery patyrs. Sne, St. Domingo. Sded wady colour. Mas, without. bury, lascivious. Surage, sylvan. Serve, to fultil. Setebos, a demon. Set of wit, a term at tennis. Sessa, be quiet. Several, separated. Sluggabed, sluggard. Sneaping, nipping. Sueck-up, go hang yourself. Several, or severell, a field set apart for corn and grass. Sewer, the placer of the dishes. Shard-borne, borne on scaly wings. Shards, broken pots or tiles. Shark up, to pick up. Shaven Hercules, Samson. Sheen, shining, gay. Sheer, transparent. Shent, to scold, rebuke Sherris, sherry. Shive, a slice. Shog, to go off. Shotten, projected. Snuffs, dislikes. Soil, spot, turpitude, reproach. Soliciting, information. Solidares, a coin. Sometimes, formerly. Sooth, truth. Sooth, sweetness. Sorel, a deer during his third year. Sort, to happen, to agree. Sort and suit, figure and rank. Shotten herring, a herring that has spawned. Shoulder-clapper, a bailiff. Shoughs, shocks, a species of dog. Shovel-boards, shillings used at the game of shovel board. Shrewd, shrewish. Shrift, auricular confession. Side-sleeves, long sleeves Sieve, a common voider. Sights, the perforated parts of a helmet. Sinew, strength Single, weak. Sink-a-pace, cinque pace, a dance. Sir, the title of a parson, Sister, to imitate or re-echo. Sithence, thence. Sizes, allowances of victuals. Skain's-mates, kin's-mates. Skills not, is of no importance. Skirr, to scour. Slave, to treat with indignity. Sleave, the knotty part of silk. Sledded, carried on a sledge. Sleided, untwisted. Slights, tricks. Shp, counterfeit coin. Sowter, the name of a hound. Spanielled, dogged. Specialty, particular rights. Speculation, sight. Speculative, seeing. Sped, the fate decided. Speed, event. Sperr, to shut up, defend by bars. Spill, to destroy. Spotted, wicked. Sprag, apt to learn, alert. Sprighted, haunted. Sprights, spirits. Springhalt, a disease of horses. Spurs, the greater roots of trees. Square, to quarrel. Squarer, a quarreller. Squash, an immature peascod. Squiney, to look asquint. Squire, a rule, or square. Stage, to place conspicuously. Stale, a decoy for birds. Stannyel, a hawk, or stallion. Slips, a contrivance in leather, to start two dogs at the same time. Sliver, to slice. Slops, loose breeches. Starred, destined. Statists, statesmen. Statue, a portrait. Slough, the skin which the serpent an nually throws off. Slower, more serious. Slubber, to do carelessly, to obscure. Stay, a hinderer, a supporter. Stigmatic, marked with deformity. Stinted, stopped. Stith, an anvil. Stithied, forged at the furnace. Stithy, a smith's shop. Stoccata, a stab. Stork, a stocking. Stomach, pride. Stone-bow, a cross bow. Stover, thatch. Strain, descent, lineage. Strain, difficulty, doubt. Strait, narrow, avaricious. Strange, shy. Stratagem, great or dreadful event. Strawy, straying. Striker, a borrower. Stuck or Stock, a term in fencing. Stuff, baggage, substance or essence. Stuffed, sufficiency, ample abilities. Subscription, obedience. Success, succession. Sufficiency, abilities. Suggest, to tempt. Suggestion, temptation. Suited, dressed. Sumpter, a horse that carries necessa ries on a journey. Superfluous, over clothed. Supposed, counterfeit. Sur-reined, over ridden. Suspire, to breathe. Surcease, an end. Swart, dark brown. Swashing, bullying. Swath, grass cut at one stroke. Sway, weight. Sweeting, an apple. Sweltered, weltered. Swinge-bucklers, riotous fellows. Swounded, swooned. Swoop, the descent of a bird of prey. T. Table, the palm of the hand. Tables, tablets, memorandum books. Take, to strike with disease, to blast. 'Take-in, to conquer 1 Tasked, taxed. Taurus, sides and heart in medical astrology. Tawdry, necklaces worn by country girls. Tawney coat, the dress of an apparitor. Taxation, censure, satire. Tear a cat, to bluster. Teen, grief, trouble. Temperance, temperature. Tender, to regard with affection. Tent, to take up residence, to search. Tercel, the male hawk. Terms, the phraseology of cours. Tested, attested, brought to the test. Testerned, gratified with a tester, or sixpence. Tetchy, touchy, peevish. Tether, a string by which any animal is fastened. Tharborough, a constable. Thewes, muscular strength. Thick, pleached, thickly interwoven. Thin helm, thin covering of hair. Thread, to pass. Three-man-beetle, an implement for Trigon, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius in the Zodiac. Trip, to defeat. Triple, one of three. Triumphs, revels. Trojan, cant term for thief. Trol-my-dames, the game of nine holes. Troll, to sing trippingly. Trossers, trousers. Trot, a term of contempt. Trow, to imagine. Truly good, or turlupin, a gipsy. Try conclusions, try experiments. Tub fast, the sweating process in the venereal disease. Tucket, or tucket sonnuance, a flou rish on a trumpet." Turre, to whisper. Turlygood, or Turlupin, a gipsy. Twigging, wickered. Tything, a district. U. Umber, a dusky coloured earth. Unaneled, without extreme unction Unavoided, unavoidable Unbarbed, beardless, unshaven. Unbated, not blunted. Unbolt, to explain. Unbolted, coarse. Unbonetted, without diguities. Uncape, to dig out, a term in fox-hunting. Uncharged, unattacked. Uncoined, unrefined, unadorned. Unconfirmed, unpractised in wordly craft. Uncurrent, irregular. Undercraft, to wear beneath the crest. Undertaker, the defender of another's quarrel. Underwrite, to subscribe, to obey. Unexpressive, inexpressible. Unhappy, unlucky, mischievous. Wannion, vengeance. Ward, posture of deference. Ward, guardianship. Warden, a pear. Warn, sumraon. Wasselscandle,candleused at festivals Wassels, rustic revelry. Watch, a watch-light Water-work, water-colours. Wasen, increase. Waxen, soft, yielding Wanton, a feeble or effeminate man. Warp,to change from the natural state Weigh, to value or esteem. Welkin, the sky. Welkin-eye, blue eye.. Well-a-near ! lack-a-day 1 Well liking, plump. Wend, to go. Westward hoe, the name of a play acted in shakspeare's time. Wether, used for a ram. Wear, the fashion. Whelked, varied with protuberances, Whe'r, whether. Where, whereas. Whiffler, an officer in processions. Whiles, until. Whinidst, mouldy. Whip, the crack, the best. Whipstock, the carter's whip. White, the white mark in the target. Whitsters, linen bleachers. Whittle, a pocket knife. Whooping, measure and reckoning. Wide, remote from. Wilderness, wildness. Will, wilfulness. Wimple, a hood or veil. Winchester goose, a strumpet. Winking-gates, gates hastny closed from fear of danger. Winnowed, examined. Winter-ground, to protect against winter. Wittol, knowing, conscious of. Wittol, a contented cuckold. Woe, to be sorry. Woman, to affect deeply. Woman-tired, henpecked. Wondered, able to perform wonders. Wood, crazy, frantic Wooden thing, awkward business. World to see, wonderful. Woodman, an attendant on the forester. Woolward, wearing wool. Work, fortification. Workings, thoughts. Worm, a serpent. Worth, wealth. Worship, dignity. Wreak, to revenge; resentment. Wrest, an instrument for tuning the The Tempest and The Midsummer Night's Dream are the noblest efforts of that sublime and amazing imagination peculiar to Shakspeare, which soars above the bounds of nature, without forsaking sense; or, more properly, carries nature along with him beyond her established Imits Fletcher seems particularly to have admired these two plays, and hath wrote two in imitation of them, The Sea Voyage, and The Faithful Shepherdess. But when he presumes to break a lance with Shakspeare, and write in emulation of him, as he does in The False One, which is the rival of Antony and Cleopatra, he is not so successful. After him, Sir John Suckling and Milton catched the brightest fire of their imagination from these two plays; which shines fantastically indeed in The Goblins, but much more nobly and serenely in The Mask at Ladlow Castle. WARBURTON. No one has hitherto been lucky enough to discover the romance on which Shakspeare may be supposed to have founded this play, the beauties of which could not secure it from the critr.sm of Ben Jonson, whose malignity appears to have been more than equal to his wit. In the induction to Bartholomew Fair, he says: "If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antaques? He is loth to make nature afraid in bis plays, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like drolleries." STEEVENS. I was informed by the late Mr. Collins of Chichester, that Shakpeare's Tempest, for which no origin is yet assigned, was formed on a romance called Aurelio and Isabella, printed in Italian, Spanish, French, and English, in 1588, But though this information has not proved true on examination, an useful conclusion may be drawn from it, that Shaxpeare's story is somewhere to be found in an Italian novel, at least that the story preceded Shakspeare. Mr. Collins had searched this subject with no less fidelity than judgment and industry; but his memory failing in his last calamitous indisposition, he probably gave me the name of one novel for another. I remember he added a circumstance which may lead to a discovery,-that the principal character of the romance, answering to Shakspeare's Prospero, was a chemical necromancer, who had bound a spirit like Ariel to obey his call, and perform his services. Taken at large, the magical part of The Tempest is founded on that sort of philosophy which was practised by John Dee and his associates, and has been called the Rosicrucian. The name Ariel came from the Talmudistick mysteries with which the learned Jews had infected this science. T. WARTON. It was one of our author's last works. In 1598, he played a part in the original Every Man in his Humour. Two of the characters are Prospero and Stephano. Here Ben Jonson taught him the pronunciation of the latter word, which is always right in The Tempest: "Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler ?" And always wrong in his earlier play, The Merchant of Venice, which had been on the stage at least two or three years before its publication in 1600 : "My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you," &c. -So little did Mr. Capeil know of his author, when he idly supposed his school literature might perhaps have been lost by the dissipation of youth, or the busy scene of public life FARMER. A |