fell defperately in love with the lady, and would have married her. Soon after, a stronger body of robbers coming down upon Thyamis's party, he was in fuch fears for his mistress, that he had her shut into a cave with his treasure. It was customary with those barbarians, " when they def paired of their own fafety, first to make away with those whom they hold dear," and defired for companions in the next life. Thyamis, therefore, benetted round with his enemies, raging with love, jealoufy and anger, he went to his cave; and calling aloud in the Ægyptian tongue, so soon as he heard himself answered towards the cave's mouth by a Grecian, making to the perfon by the direction of her voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand, and (fuppofing her to be Chariclea) with his right hand plunged his fword into her breast. THEOB. P. 283, 1. 23. Cafe is a word ufed contemptuously for fkin. We yet talk of a fox cafe, meaning the ftuffed skin of a fox. JOHNS.

P. 284, 1. 27. Then he's a rogue, and apast-measure painim.] Then he's a rogue, after a passy-measure pavin, folio 1632, and probably right, being an allufion to the quick measure of the pavin, a dance in Shakespeare's time. GRAY.

P. 285, 1. 16. A nat'ral perspective,] A perspective seems to be taken for fhows exhibited through a glass with such lights as make the pictures appear really protuberant. The Duke therefore fays, that nature has here exhibited fuch a fhow, where fhadows feem realities; where that which is not appears like that which is.

P. 286, 1. 29.➡.

by whofe gentle belp

JOHNS.

I was preferv'd to ferve this noble Duke.] Though this be fenfe, and poffeffes all the printed copies, yet I suspect, from the fimilitude in the two words preferv'd and Jerve (a famenefs of found, which Shakespeare would, probably, have avoided;) the copyifts, or men at prefs, committed a flight mistake. When the Captain and Viola first appear upon the stage, the fays to him;

I'll ferve this Duke;

Thou shalt prefent me, &c.

I therefore believe, the author wrote, as I have reformed. the text;

by whofe gentle help

I was preferr'd to ferve this noble Duke.

THEOB. and REV1.* P. 287, 1. 24. A most extracting frenzy-] i. e. A frenzy that drew me away from every thing but its own object. WARB.

P. 288, 1. 8. allow vox.] The word vox, hath abfolutely no meaning; perhaps we should read, you must allow for't; that is, you must make the proper allowances for the condition he is in.

REVI.* L. 28. fball crown the alliance on't, so please you,] The word on't in this place is mere nonfenfe. I doubt not the poet wrote an't so please you.

lighter -]

P. 289, 1. 19.

A fool.

L. 30.

for imposed.

REVISAL.* People of less

JOHNS.

JOHNS.

bere were prefuppos'd] Prefuppos'd,

WARB.

Ibid. Previously pointed out to thee, in such manner as to deceive thee.

REVI.

P. 290,1. 7. When that I was, &c.] This wretched stuff not Shakespeare's, but the Players!

WARB.*

This play is is in the graver part elegant and eafy, and in fome of the lighter fcenes exquifitely humourous. Agueebeek is drawn with great propriety, but his character is, in a great measure, that of natural fatuity, and is therefore not the proper prey of a fatirift. The foliloquy of Malvolio is truly comic; he is betrayed to ridicule merely by his pride. The marriage of Olivia, and the fucceeding perplexity, though well enough contrived to divert on the ftage, wants credibility, and fails to produce the proper inftruction required in the drama, as it exhibits no juft picture of life,