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Our escape

Is much beyond our lofs: our hint of woex25

Is common.

Tempest, A. 2, S. 1.

WOMA N.

Women will love her, that fhe is a woman
More worth than any man; men, that she is
That rarest of all women. Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 1.
If, one by one, you wedded all the world,
Or, from the all that are, took fomething good,
To make a perfect woman: fhe, you kill'd,
Would be unparallel'd.

Winter's Tale, A. 5, S. 1,

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E'en a woman; and commanded. By fuch poor paffion as the maid that milks, And does the meaneft chares. It were for me To throw my fceptre at the injurious gods; To tell them that this world did equal theirs, Till they had ftolen our jewel.

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Antony and Cleopatra, A. 4, S. 13,

Thefe dangerous unfafe lunes o' the king! befhrew

them!

He must be told on't, and he fhall: the office

Becomes a woman beft; I'll take't

upon me: If I prove honey-mouth'd, let my tongue blifter. Winter's Tale, A. 2, S. 2.

"whereas" is frequently printed for where. So in our author's poem-"Wholesome Counfel."

Whenas thine eye bath chofe the dame,

A. B.

our hint of woe.] Hint is that which recalls to the memory. The caufe that fills our minds with grief is common. Dr. Warburton reads fint of woe.

JOHNSON,

I would read, "Our hent of woe." Hent, in Chaucer and Spencer, is, got, caught, laid hold of."Our hent of woe" may therefore mean, the woe that feizes or preys on us.

A. B.

However

However we do praise ourselves,

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, fooner loft and worn,
Than women's are.

Women are as rofes; whofe fair flower,

Twelfth Night, A. 2, S. 4.

Twelfth Night, A. 2, S. 4.

Being once difplay'd, doth fall that very hour.

Fear not; he bears an honourable mind,
And will not use a woman lawlessly.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 5, S. 3.

You must forget to be a woman; change
Command into obedience; fear, and niceness,
(The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,
Women its pretty felf) into a waggish courage;
Ready in gybes, quick-anfwer'd, faucy, and
As quarrellous as the weazel. Cymbeline, A. 3, S. 4.
Heaven and earth!

Must I remember? why, fhe would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on: and yet, within a month,-
Let me not think on't;-frailty, thy name is woman!
Hamlet, A. 1, S. 2.

A woman mov'd, is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-feeming, thick, bereft of beauty;
And, while it is fo, none fo dry or thirty
Will deign to fip, or touch one drop of it.

Taming of the Shrew, A. 5, S. 2.

Let it not be believ'd for womanhood!
Think we had mothers; do not give advantage
To ftubborn critics-apt without a theme,
For depravation-to fquare the general fex

By Creffid's rule. Troilus and Crefida, A. 5, S. 2.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the cafement; fhut that, it will fly with the fimoak out at the chimney.

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In that day's feats,“⠀⠀

'When he might act the woman in the fcene,

He prov'd beft man i' the field.

Coriolanus, A. 1, S. 2.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think,

I must speak.

As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

The duke is made protector of the realm;
And yet fhalt thou be fafe? Such fafety finds
The trembling lamb, environed with wolves.
Had I been there, which am a filly woman,
The foldiers fhould have tofs'd me on their pikes,
Before I would have granted to that act.

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 1, S. 1.

Women are foft, mild, pitiful, and flexible;
Thou ftern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
Bidft thou me rage? why, now thou haft thy wish;
Wouldft have me weep? why, now thou haft thy
Henry VI. P. 3, A. 1, S. 4.

will.

cannot be a man with wifhing, therefore

I will die a woman with grieving.

Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1.

One woman is fair; yet I am well: another is wife; yet I am well: another virtuous; yet I am

• When he might act the woman in the Scene.] It has been more than once mentioned, that the parts of women were, in Shakefpeare's time, reprefented by the most smooth faced young mea to be found among the players. STEEVENS.

This does not appear to me to have any allufion to plays or players. "When he might act the woman in the scene," feems to mean, that from his extreme youth, little was expected from him in the field: yet at the time when he was only fixteen years of age, and when he would not have been cenfured had he fhewn the fear and timidity of a woman, he proved himself an hero. Befide, it is Cominius who fpeaks, and not Shakespeare.

A. B.

well;

well: but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

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Much ado about nothing, A. 2, S. 3.

grant, I am a woman; but, withal,
A woman that lord Brutus took to wife:
I grant, I am a woman; but, withal,
A woman well-reputed; Cato's daughter.
Think you, I am no ftronger than my fex,
Being fo father'd, and fo hufbanded?

Julius Cæfar, A. 2, S. 1.

All women fhall pardon me because, I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myfelf the right to truft none; and the fine is, for the which I may go the finer I will live a bachelor.

Much ado about nothing, A. 1, S. 1.

My fometime general,
I have feen thee ftern, and thou haft oft beheld
Heart-hard'ning fpectacles; tell these sad women,
"Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,
As 'tis to laugh at them. Coriolanus, A. 4,

With immodeft hatred,
The child-bed privilege deny'd, which 'longs
To women of all fashion;-lastly, hurried
Here to this place, i' the open air, before
I have got ftrength of limit 1.

S. I.

Winter's Tale, A. 3, S. 2.

I have got Strength of limit.] I know not well how ftrength of limit, can mean ftrength to pass the limits of the child-bed chamber, which yet it must mean in this place, unless we read in a more eafy phrafe, ftrength of limb. JOHNSON. "Strength of limit" fhould, perhaps, be ftrength or limit. Limit for the ufual, or appointed, or fettled time, for quitting her chamber,

A. B.

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What faid he? How look'd he? Wherein went he? What makes he here? Did he afk for me? Where remains he? How parted he with thee? And when fhalt thou fee him again? Anfwer me in one word. As you like it, A. 3, S. 2.

Hear me, Hubert! drive these men away,

And I will fit as quiet as a lamb;

I will not stir, nor wince, nor fpeak a word,
Nor look upon the iron angerly:

Thruft but thefe men away, and I'll forgive you.

I

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King John, A. 4, S. 1. Thefe haughty words of hers

Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-fhot,

And made me almost yield upon my knees.

2

Henry VI. P. 1, A. 3, S. 3.

Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals. wtrolle Romeo and Juliet, A. 1,

thefe haughty words of hers

S. I.

That

Have batter'd me like roaring cannon foot.] How thefe lines came hither I know not. There is nothing in the speech of Joan haughty or violent; it is all foft entreaty and mild expoftulation. JOHNSON. "Haughty" does not here mean violent or vehement, but great, important. He fays, in the next fcene, his haughty courage, i. e. his great, his diftinguished valour.

A. B.

2 we'll not carry coals.] Dr. Warburton very juftly ob ferves, that this was a phrafe formerly in ufe, but as he has given no inftances in support of his declaration, I thought it neceffary to fubjoin the following:

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Nath, in his Have with you to Saffron Walden, fays, "We will bear no coles." So in Marfton's Antonio and Melida, "He has had wrong; and if I were he, I would bear no coles." Again in May-day, "You muft fwear by no man's beard but "your own, for that may breed a quarrel; above all things, carry no coals." And again in the fame play, "Now my ancient being a man of an un-coal carrying spirit.”

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