slandered hero. This is exceedingly well imagined; the lovers of jesting must fix a point beyond which they are not to indulge in their humour, if they would not be mistaken for buffoons by trade."

It is worthy of notice that the most valuable synthetic criticism of our poet's works should have proceeded from the pen of a GermanAugustus Schlegel-from one speaking a foreign language, one who had to break down the strong barriers of divers speech and customs before he could become in the least degree acquainted with the works of our national Poet. But Schlegel did this, nor this alone; he cast aside all prejudices in favour of the bards of his fatherland; and they were men of lofty intellectual rank, profound thinkers, whose deep thoughts went forth in the garb of loveliness, and found a sympathetic vibration in the hearts of their countrymen, from the courtly peer to the almost solitary peasant in the beauty-clad valley, bowing in reverence: still he passed beyond them, and laid his garland at the feet of Shakespeare. HALLIWELL.

NOTE 24, PAGE 221.

The reconciliation between the lovers and their sweethearts is very good, and the penance which Rosalind imposes on Biron before he can expect to gain her consent to marry him full of propriety and beauty.

NOTE 25, PAGE 240.

"Ye men of Cyprus."] These pretty lines, so complimentary to beauty and excellence, were unwittingly repeated when the Governor of Paris, a courtier of the old school, received Marie Antoinette at the barriers; pointing with his sword to the crowd, he said, "Lovely daughter of Maria Theresa, behold one hundred thousand lovers at your feet." THE COMPILER.

NOTE 26, PAGE 260.

The celebrated Dr. Johnson, although no very great admirer of Shakespeare, used to admit that the perusal of this scene made him suffer intense emotion, and where is there a young person who has not shed hot tears over it? The compiler translated it vivâ voce to a few unlettered Maharatta chiefs on one of the hill forts of the Western Ghats of India. They all went to their homes more or less affected; the next day, in the hyperbolical language of the East, they told him.

that their livers had burst with anguish at the story, but they added, they did not know which to pity most, Othello or Desdemona. THE COMPILER.

NOTE 27, PAGE 262.

"A murder which I thought a sacrifice."] The passage probably bears the following meaning :-Thou dost harden thy heart, and so force me to send thee out of the world in the state of the murdered, without preparation for death, when I intended that thy punishment should have been a sacrifice atoning for thy crime.

NOTE 28, PAGE 265.

HALLIWELL.

"Nay, had she been true."] How beautifully these lines express his unbounded love for his wife; the practical Emilia, in the former scene, weighs the value of the world in comparison with a "small vice," but here the poor, doting, simple-minded Moor prefers his wife's love to the possession of unbounded power and wealth, and in like manner, a few hours before, Desdemona was rejecting the world for her husband's love. No wonder Dr. Johnson felt so acutely when reading this play! a soft heart had the great lexicographer, be witness the scene one night in Fleet Street, so feelingly told by the Laird Boswell.

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NOTE 29, PAge 276.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."] This idea is beautifully expressed in one of Moore's Irish melodies :

"Rich and rare were the gems she wore,

And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore ;
But oh her beauty was far beyond

Her sparkling gems or snow-white wand.

"Lady! dost thou not fear to stray,
So lone and lovely, through this bleak way?
Are Erin's sons so good or so cold
As not to be tempted by woman or gold?'

"Sir knight! I feel not the least alarm;
No son of Erin will offer me harm,

For though they love women and golden store,
Sir knight! they love honour and virtue more !'

"On she went, and her maiden smile

In safety lighted her round the Green Isle.
And blest for ever is she who relied

Upon Erin's honour and Erin's pride."

NOTE 30, PAGE 285.

"Human as she is."] That is, not a phantom, but the real Rosalind, without any of the danger generally conceived to attend the rites of incantation. JOHNSON.

NOTE 31, PAGE 288.

"The many-colour'd Iris rounds thine eye."] There is something exquisitely beautiful in this representation of that suffusion of colours which glimmers round the sight when the eye-lashes are wet with HENLEY.

tears.

NOTE 32, PAGE 293.

"That everything I look on seemeth green."] Shakespeare's observations on the phenomena of nature are very accurate. When one

has sat long in the sunshine, the surrounding objects will often appear tinged with green. BLACKSTONE.

NOTE 33, PAGE 300.

"Tis a derivative from me to mine."] This sentiment, which is probably borrowed from Ecclesiasticus iii. 11, cannot be too often impressed on the female mind; "the glory of a man is from the honour of his father; and a mother in dishonour is a reproach unto her children."

STEEVENS.

That come before the swallow dares.”

These lines seem enamoured of their own sweetness.

HAZLITT.

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