S

S.

SADNESS.

me,

UCH a want-wit sadness makes of
That I have much ado to know myself.
Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1.

In footh, I know not why I am fo fad;

It wearies me; you fay it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What ftuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,

I am to learn. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1.
Methinks, nobody should be fad, but I:
Yet, I remember, when I was in France,
Young gentlemen would be as fad as night,
Only for wantonness.

King John, A. 4, S. 1.

Methinks, your looks are fad, your chear appall'd '. Henry VI. P. 1, A. 1, S. 2.

SALVATION.

For a quart d'ecu he will fell the fee-fimple of his falvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the intail from all remainders, and a perpetual fucceffion for it perpetually. All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 3.

SE

A.

Know, Iago,

But that I love the gentle Defdemona,

ance.

· your chear appall’d.] Chear is countenance, appear

STEEVENS.

"Chear" is not countenance, but gaiety, cheerfulness.---" Your "chear appall'd," means, your chearfulness abated. He had already faid, "your looks are fad."

A a 4

A. B. I would

I would not my unhoufed free condition
Put into circumfcription and confine
For the fea's worth.

Othello, A. 1, S. 2.

O, she is fallen

Into a pit of ink! that the wide sea

Hath drops too few to wash her clean again.

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

Suppofe, that you have seen

The well-appointed king at Hampton pier
Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet
With filken streamers the young Phoebus fanning,
Play with your fancies; and in them behold,
Upon the hempen tackle, fhip-boys climbing:
Hear the fhrill whistle, which doth order give
To founds confus'd: behold the threaden fails,
Borne with the invifible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breafting the lofty furge. Henry V. A. 3, Chorus,
When I thought

What harm a wind too great might do at sea,
I should not fee the fandy hour-glafs run,
But I fhould think of fhallows, and of flats;
And fee my wealthy Andrew dock'd in fand,
Vailing her high top lower than her ribs.

Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1,
The time and my intents are favage-wild;
More fierce, and more inexorable far,
Than empty tygers, or the roaring sea.

Romeo and Juliet, A. 5, S. 3,

We will not from the helm, to fit and weep;
But keep our courfe, though the rough wind fay no,
From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck
As good to chide the waves, as fpeak them fair,
And what is Edward but a ruthlefs fea?

Is't meet, that he

Should leave the helm, and, like a fearful lad,
With tearful eyes add water to the fea,

And give more strength to that which hath too much,
Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,
Which industry and courage might have fav'd?

Henry VI. P. 3, A. 5, S. 4.

The sea being smooth,

How many fhallow bauble boats dare fail

Upon her patient breaft, making their way
With thofe of nobler bulk?

But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold

The ftrong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,
Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perfeus' horfe. Troilus and Crefida, A. 1, S. 3.
Great floods have flow'd

From fimple fources; and great seas have dry'd,
When miracles have by the greatest been deny'd.
All's well that ends well, A. 2, S. 1.

Was I, for this, nigh wreck'd upon the fea;
And twice by aukward wind from England's bank
Drove back again unto my native clime ? .
What boded this, but well fore-warning wind
Did feem to fay,-Seek not a fcorpion's nest,
Nor fet no footing on this unkind fhore?

S. 2.

Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, I have seen two fuch fights, by fea, and by land; but I am not to fay, it is a fea, for it is now the sky; betwixt the firmament and it, you cannot thrust a bodkin's point. Winter's Tale, A. 3, S. 3.

Thou didft fimile,

Infused with a fortitude from heaven,

When I have deck'd the fea1 with drops full falt.

Tempest, A. 1, S. 2.

SEASON,

deck'd the fea.] To deck the fea, if explained, to

honour,

SEASON.

He is noble, wife, judicious, and best knows
The fits o' the season '.

Macbeth, A. 4,

S. 2.

SELF-SLAUGHTER.

I must die;

And if I do not by thy hand, thou art

No fervant of thy matter's: against self-flaughter
There is a prohibition fo divine,

That cravens my weak hand. Cymbeline, A. 3,

S. 4.

SENS S E.

2

* I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.

Othello, A. 5, S. 1.

Impoffible

honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb deck is, to cover; fo in fome parts they yet fay deck the table. This fenfe may be borne, but perhaps the poet wrote fleck'd, which I think is ftill used in ruftic language of drops falling upon water. Dr. Warburton reads mock'd, the Oxford edition brack'd. JOHNSON.

I have little doubt but that the poet wrote "beck'd the sea," added rivers to the fea. Beck, in early writers, is a river. "I "have beck'd the fea," for, I have added rivers to the sea, is not indeed a very easy language, but it is certainly the language of Shakespeare.

A. B.

1 The fits o' the feafon.] The fits of the feafon fhould appear to be, from the following paffage in Coriolanus, the violent diforders of the feafon, its convulfions:

"The violent fit o' th' times craves it as phyfick."

STEEVENS.

"He is noble, wife, judicious, and best knows
"The fits o' the feafon."

The meaning is,-He is wife and judicious, and knows how to conduct himself according to the temper of the times.

2.

A. B.

I've rubb'd this young quat almoft to the fenfe,
And he grows angry.] This is a paffage much contro-

verted

'Impoffible be ftrange attempts, to thofe
That weigh their pain in fenfe; and do fuppofe,
What hath been cannot be.

All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1.
SERPENT.

verted among the editors. Sir T. Hanmer reads quab, a gudgeon; not that a gudgeon can be rubbed to much fenfe, but that a man grofsly deceived, is often called a gudgeon. Mr. Upton reads quail, which he proves, by much learning, to be a very choleric bird. Dr. Warburton retains gnat, which is found in the early quarto. Theobald would introduce knot, a finall bird of that name. I have followed the text of the folio, and third

and fourth quartos.

Aquat, in the midland counties, is a pimple, which by rubbing is made to fmart, or is rubbed to fenfe. Rodorigo is called a quat by the fame mode of fpeech, as a low fellow is now termed, in low language, a fcab. JOHNSON.

All the commentators, I believe, have mistaken the fenfe of this paffage. A "quat," in my opinion, is an intimate, a crony. We now fay, when we speak of the intimacy of one man with another," O! they are quater-coufins."-I therefore read as follows:

"I have fubb'd this young quat," &c.

i. e. I have fubb'd, or put off, this quater-coufin, or associate of mine, as long as poffible, and now he grows angry. Quat" appears to be an abbreviation of " quater," and may have been ufed for quater-coufin, or friend, in the fame way that cuz is employed for coufin, a relation by blood or marriage. A. B.

Hanmer :

I

Impoffible be ftrange attempts, to those

That weigh their pain in fenfe; and do fuppofe,

What hath been cannot be.] Thefe lines I read with

"Impoffible be strange attempts to those

"That weigh their pain in fenfe, and do suppose,

"What ha'nt been, cannot be."

New attempts feem impoffible to those who eftimate their labour or enterprizes by fenfe, and believe that nothing can be but what they fee before them. JOHNSON.

There is no neceffity for alteration. The paffage is fufficiently clear as it ftands. New attempts, fays Helena, appear fo very difficult to most people, that they are apt to imagine it is impoffible we fhould ever fucceed in them, though it is well known that events or occurrences, equally ftrange with that on which I am meditating, have frequently been obferved in the world. If any change is made, it fhould be as follows:

"Impoffible