He feems to give him gold bear, yet he is GOLD. be of great authority: close with him; and though authority be a stubborn often led by the nose with gold. Winter's Tale, A. 4, S. 3. -'Tis gold Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up Their deer to the stand o' the stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd, and faves the Cymbeline, A. 2, S. 3. thief. What a god's gold, 'Tis thou that rigg'ft the bark, and plow'ft the foam, Settlest admired reverence in a flave; To thee be worship! and thy faints for aye Be crown'd with plagues, that thee alone obey. Timon of Athens, A. 5, S. 1. Here's gold: go fuck the fubtle blood o'the grape, 'Till the high fever feeth your blood to froth, And fo, 'fcape hanging. Timon of Athens, A. 4, Go on-here's gold-go on; S.3. Be as a planetary plague, when Jove The The providence, that's in a wachful state, Keeps place with thought, and almoft, like the gods, Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. Troilus and Creffida, A. 3, S. 3• He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, As you like it, A. 2, S. 3, There is thy gold; worfe poifon to men's fouls, Doing more murders in this loathfome world, Than thefe poor compounds that thou may'st not fell: I fell thee poison, thou haft fold me none. Romeo and Juliet, A. 5, S. 1. Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods, * Knows almost every grain of Pluto's gold.] I think we should read, of Plutus' gold. It fhould be remembered, however, that mines of gold were anciently fuppofed to be guarded by demons. STEEVENS. "Pluto" is right. Pluto is properly the god of riches. Plutus is rather the keeper or diftributor of those riches. -I A. B. - no idle votarift.] No infincere or inconftant fupplicant. JOHNSON. Votarift can fcarcely ftand for fupplicant-befide, Timon was refigned to his fate, and he had nothing more to afk. By vota rift, he means that he had devoted himself to labour; and by 66 idle one," he would intimate that his refolution was taken, and that even the fight of gold has nothing alluring in it, or that can tempt him to break his vows. no M 3 A. B. GOOD, GOOD, GOODNESS. I never did repent for doing good, Nor fhall not now. Merchant of Venice, A. 3, S. 4. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wife pow'rs By lofing of our prayers. Antony and Cleopatra, A. 2, S. 1. O loyal father of a treacherous fon! Thou fheer, immaculate, and filver fountain, Richard II. A. 5, S. 3. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 2. My vows and prayers Yet are the king's, and, till my foul forfake me, GRACE, Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 1. GRACE S. Lady, you are the crueleft she alive, If you will lead these graces to the grave, And leave the world no copy. Twelfth Night, A. 1, S. 5. Chide Chide me, dear ftone; that I may fay, indeed, Octavia to his wife: whose beauty claims Antony and Cleopatra, A. 2, S. 2. Make your full reference freely to my lord, Antony and Cleopatra, A. 5, S. 2. Hamlet, A. In what have I offended you? what cause Hath 3, S. 4. Aftation.] Station, in this inftance, does not mean the Spot where any one is placed, but the act of ftanding. "A ftation like the herald mercury," STEEVENS. is an elegant, ftriking figure. That such is the meaning, the following line will fhew. "A combination, and a form, indeed." A. B. That thus you should proceed to put me off, Good my lord, Henry VIII. A. 2, S. 4. You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory To keep your earthly audit. Henry VIII. A. 3, S. 2. A fin of perjury: the not denies it. Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1. O Hero! what a Hero hadft thou been Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1. GREATNESS. O be fick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure! Will it give place to flexure and low bending? Henry V. A. 4, S. 1. O hard condition! twin-born with greatness, Subjected to the breath of every fool, Whose sense no more can feel but his own wringing! Would |