From her maternal fap, perforce muft wither,

And come to deadly use.

Lear, A. 4, S. 2.

Fie on't? O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,

That grows to feed; things rank and grofs in nature,
Poffefs it merely.
Hamlet, A. 1, S. 2.

Nature, crefcent, does not grow alone In thews, and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, The inward fervice of the mind and foul

Grows wide withal.

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 3.

What may this mean,

That thou, dead corfe, again, in complete steel,
Revifit'ft thus the glimpfes of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
So horridly to flake our difpofition,

With thoughts beyond the reaches of our fouls?

Hamlet, A. 1, S. 4.

'Tis often feen,

Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native flip to us from foreign feeds.

3..

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. Why fhould you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; Within this mile break forth an hundred fprings: The oaks bear mast, the briars scarlet hips; The bounteous hufwife, nature, on each bush Lays her full mefs before you.

Timon of Athens, A. 4, S. 3.

Fiery? the fiery duke?-Tell the hot duke, that— No, but not yet:-may be, he is not well:

Infirmity doth ftill neglect all office,

Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves, When nature, being opprefs'd, commands the mind To fuffer with the body.

Lear, A. 2, S. 4.

O, reason not the need: our basest beggars

Are in the pooreft thing fuperfluous :

Allow not nature more than nature needs,

Man's life is cheap as beaft's. Lear, A. 2, S. 4.

Nothing

Nothing could have fubdu'd nature
To fuch a lownefs, but his unkind daughters.-
Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers
Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot
Thofe pelican daughters.

Lear, A. 3, S. 4. Befides this nothing that he fo plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me, his countenance seems to take from me: he lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my educaAs you like it, A. 1, S. 1. Julio Romano; who, had he himself eternity, and could put breath into his work, would beguile nature of her cuftom, fo perfectly he is her ape.

tion.

Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 2.
Nature never lends

The smallest scruple of her excellence,
But, like a thrifty goddefs, the determines
Herself the glory of her creditor,

Both thanks and ufe.

Meafure for Meafure, A. 1, S. 1.

NECESSITY.

Art cold?

I am cold myself.-Where is this ftraw, my fellow?
The art of our neceffities is ftrange,

That can make vile things precious. Come, your
Lear, A. 3, S. 2.

hovel.

His demand

Springs not from Edward's well-meant honeft love,

1 Of her cuftom.] That is, of her trade, would draw her cuftomers from her. JOHNSON. "Her custom" is rather her excellence; her powers, as ufually feen. The meaning is, that he would rival nature.

A. B.

But from deceit, bred by neceffity,

For how can tyrants fafely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 3, S. 3.

All places that the eye of heaven vifits,

Are to a wife man ports and happy havens;
Teach thy neceffity to reason thus;

There is no virtue like neceffity.

Think not, the king did banish thee;

But thou the king.

Richard II. A. 1, S. 3.

It follows then, the cat must stay at home:
Yet that is but a curs'd neceffity';
Since we have locks to fafeguard neceffaries,
And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.

Henry V. A. 1, S. 2.

Greet him from me;

Bid him fuppofe fome good neceffity
Touches his friend 2.

Timon of Athens, A. 2, S. 2.

Yet that is but a curs'd neceffity.] So the old quarto. The folios read crush'd; neither of the words convey any tolerable idea; but give us a counter reafoning, and not at all pertinent. We fhould read, "fcus'd neceffity," that is, though there be a feeming neceffity, yet it is one that may be well excufed and got WARBURTON.

over.

very

fa

Neither the old readings, nor the emendation, feem tisfactory. A curs'd neceffity has no fenfe; a 'fcus'd neceffity is fo harfh, that one would not admit it if any thing elfe can be found. A crush'd neceffity may mean, a neceffity which is fubdued and overpowered by contrary reafons. We might read a crude neceffity, but it is too harsh. JOHNSON.

Mr. Steevens is for adhering to the reading of the quarto, "curs'd neceffity," but it is impoffible that it should be right. I would read a carv'd neceffity, i. c. a neceffity cut out for the occafion-a pretended neceffity.

2 Bid him fuppofe fome good neceffity

A. B.

Touches his friend.] Good, as it may afford Ventidius an opportunity of exercifing his bounty, and relieving his friend, in return for his former kindness; or fome honeft neceffity, not the confequence of a villainous and ignoble bounty. I rather think this latter is the meaning. Good is here ufed for real, abfolute, no way feigned. NEPTUNE.

MALONE.

A. B.

NEPTUNE.

I, like a forester, the groves may tread,
Even till the eastern gate all fiery-red,
Opening on Neptune with fair bleffed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his falt-green streams.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2.

His mother was a votrefs of my order;
And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
Full often hath she goffipp'd by my fide;
And fat with me on Neptune's yellow fands,
Marking the embarked traders on the flood.

Midsummer Night's Dream, A. 2, S. 2.

NEW S.

You have heard of the news abroad; I mean, the whisper'd ones, for they are yet but ear-kiffing arguments 1? Lear, A. 2, S. 1.

The first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a lofing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a fullen bell,
Remember'd knolling a departed friend.

Henry IV. P. 2, A. 1, S. 1.

I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
The whilft his iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth swallowing a taylor's news;
Who, with his fhears and measure in his hand,
Standing on flippers (which his nimble hafte
Had falfely thruft upon contrary feet)

Ι

ear-kiffing arguments.] Subjects of difcourfe, topicks. JOHNSON.

Ear-kiffing arguments means, that they are yet in reality only whispered ones,

STEEVENS.

"Ear-kiffing arguments" may mean, news that is only talked of -news that is not confirmed. To say that the news is whispered, is faying nothing as to its truth. Befide, he had obferved, that the news was whispered immediately before.

X.2.

A. B.

Told

Told of a thousand warlike French,

That were embattled and rank'd in Kent.

King John, A. 4, S. 2.

Some news is come,

That turns their countenances.

Coriolanus, A. 4, S. 6.

NIGHT.

'Tis now the very witching time of night;

When church-yards yawn, and hell itself breathes

out

Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot

blood,

And do fuch bufinefs as the bitter day

Would quake to look on.

In the church-way paths to glide.

Hamlet, A. 3, S. 2.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 5, The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve: This palpable grofs play hath well beguil❜d The heavy gait of night.

S. 2.

Midfummer Night's Dream, A. 5, S. 1. Night's fwift dragons cut the clouds full faft,

And yonder fhines Aurora's harbinger;

At whofe approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to church-yards.

Midsummer Night's Dream, A. 3, S. 2.

Some news is come,

That turns their countenances.] i. c. That renders their afpect four. This allufion to the acefcence of milk occurs again in Timon of Athens.

MALONE.

I cannot think that' turns has, in this place, any thing to do with four. It only means that the news had affected them that they changed countenance on it.

A. B.

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