Volume Vii Part 113 (1/2)

Marston's ”What You Will,” act ii. sc. 1--

”Think'st thou a libertine, _an ungiv'd_ beast, Scornes not the shackles of thy envious clogs?”

Milton's ”Samson Agonistes,” l. 1092--

”Dost thou already single me? I thought _Gyves_ and the mill had tam'd thee.”

See Dr Newton's note on the last pa.s.sage; and Mr Steevens's note on ”First Part of Henry IV.,” act iv. sc. 3.

[78] _Amate_ is to daunt or confound. Skinner, in his ”Etymologicon,”

explains it thus: ”Perterrefacere, Attonitum reddere, Obstupefacere, mente consternare, Consilii inopem reddere.” So in ”Thule or Vertue's Historic,” by Francis Rous, 1598, sig. B--

”At last with violence and open force.

They brake the posternes of the Castle gate, And entred spoyling all without remorce, Nor could old Sobrin now resist his fate, But stiffe with feare ev'n like a senceles corse Whom grisly terror doth so much _amate_, He lyes supine upon his fatall bed.

Expecting ev'ry minute to be dead.”

Again, Ibid., sig. D--

”He would forsake his choyse, and change his fate, And leave her quite, and so procure her woe, Faines that a sudden grief doth her _amate_, Wounded with piercing sicknes' Ebon bow.”

[79] Astonished. So in ”Euphues and his England,” p. 102--”Philautus, _astonied_ at this speech,” &c. And again, in the ”Fable of Jeronimi,”

by G. Gascoigne, p. 209: ”When Ferdinando (somewhat _astonied_ with hir strange speech) thus answered.” And in ”Thieves Falling Out,” &c., 1615, by Rob. Greene: ”The gentleman, _astonied_ at this strange metamorphosis of his mistress.”

[80] _Sprent_ is sprinkled. So in Spenser's ”Shepherd's Calendar,”

December--

”My head _besprent_ with h.o.a.ry frost I find.”

And Fairfax's ”Ta.s.so,” cant. xii. st. 101--

”His silver locks with dust he foul _besprent_.”

Again in Milton's ”Comus,” l. 542--

”Of knot gra.s.s dew _besprent_.”

[81] Harbour.

[82] Old copy, _hasteth_.

[83] Habiliments, _S.P_.

[84] Unrevenged. [The more correct form would be _unwroken_.] So in Ben Jonson's ”Every Man out of his Humour,” act ii. sc. 4--

”Would to heaven, In _wreak_ of my misfortunes, I were turn'd To some fair water nymph.”

In ”Seja.n.u.s his Fall,” act iv.--

”Made to speak What they will have to fit their tyrannous _wreak_.”