P. 224, 1. 12-14. To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o'the air,

And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt That should but rive an oak.] The old cópy has change. The correction is Dr. Warburtou's. MALONE.

The meaning of the passage is, To threaten much; and yet be merciful. WARBURTON.

P. 224, 1. 24 26. - yet here he lets me prate, Like one i' the stocks.] Keep me in a state of ignominy talking to no purpose. JOHNSON. P. 225, 1. 9. Does reason our petition] Does argue for us and our petition. JOHNSON.

P. 226, 1. 7. 8. -out of that I'll work Myself a former fortune. ] I will take ad vantage of this concession to restore myself to my former credit and power. JOHNSON.

P. 226, 1. 12. But we will drink together;] Perhaps we should read think. FARMER.

P. 226, I. 15.

Ladies, you desérve

To have a temple built you:] Plutarch informs us, that a temple dedicated to the Fortune of the Ladies, was built on this occasion by order of the senate. STEEVENS.

stay upon execution.] i. e.

STEEVENS.

P. 227, 1. 8. 9. he no more remembers his mother now, than an eight year old horse. ] Sub'intelligitur remembers his dam. WARBURTON.

P. 227, 1. 14. He sits in his state,] In a foregoing note he was said to sit in gold. The phrase, as a thing made for Alexander, means, as one made to resemble Alexander.

JOHNSON.

His state means his chair of state. MALONE.
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P. 228, l. 16. 17. Ne'er through an arch so hurry'd the blown tide, As the recomforted through the gates.] Blown in the text is swell'd.

The effect of a high or spring tide, as it is called, is so much greater than that which wind commonly produces, that I am not convinced by the following note that my interpretation is erroneous. Water that is subject to tides, even when it is not accelerated by a spring tide, appears swolu, and to move with more than ordinary rapidity, when pass ing through the narrow strait of an arch.

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MALONE.

The blown tide is the tide blown, and consequently accelerated by the wind. So, in another of our author's plays;

"My boat sails swiftly both with wind and tide." STEEVENS.

P. 231, 1. 22. Which he did end all his;】 In Johnson's edition it was, "Which he did make all his," which seems the more natural expression," though the other be intelligible. M. MASON. End is the reading of the old copy, and was changed into make by Mr. Rowe. STEEVENS.

P. 231, 1. 25. He wag'd me with his coun→ tenance,] This is obscure. The meaning, I think, is, he prescribed to me with an air of authority, and gave me his countenance for my wages; thought me suffi-, ciently rewarded with good looks. JOHNSON.

To wage a task was, anciently, to undertake a task for wages. STEEVENS.

P. 231) 1. 32. For which my sinews shall be (stretch'd upon him. ] This

is the point on which I will attack him with my utmost abilities. JOHNSON.

P. 252, 1. 30. answering us

With our own charge ;] That is, rewarding us with our own expences, making the cost of war its recompense. JOHNSON.

P. 233, 1. 30. For certain drops of salt,] For certain tears.. MALONE.

P. 234, 1. 6. Auf. No more.] This should rather be given to the first lord. It was not the business of Aufidius to put a stop to the altercation. TYRWHITT.

P. 234, 1. 35.

his fame folds in

This orb o' the earth.] His fame overspreads the world. JOHNSON.

P. 234, last 1. & P. 235, first 1.

offence to us

His last

Shall have judicious hearing,] Perhaps judicious, in the present instance, signifies judicial, such a hearing as is allowed to criminals in courts of judicature. Thus imperious is used by our author for imperial. STEEVENS.

P. 235, 1. 32. 33. the most noble corse,

that ever herald

Did follow to his urn.] This allusion is to a custom unknown, I believe, to the ancients, but observed in the publick funerals of English princes, at the conclusion of which a herald proclaims the style of the deceased. STEEVENS.

P. 236, 1. 9. Memory for memorial.

STEEVENS.

The tragedy of Coriolanus is one of the most amusing of our author's performances. The old

man's merriment in Menenius; the lofty lady's dignity in Volumnia; the bridal modesty in Virgilia; the patrician and military haughtiness in Coriolanus; the plebeian maliguity and tribunitian insolence in Brutus and Sicinius, make a very pleasing and interesting variety and the various ⚫ revolutions of the hero's fortune fill the mind with anxious curiosity. There is, perhaps, too much bustle in the first act, and too little in the last. JOHNSON.

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