135. should be mew'd,] A mew was the place of confinement where a hawk was kept till he had moulted. So, in Albumazar : "Stand forth, transform'd Antonio, fully mew'd "From brown soar feathers of dull yeomanry, "To the glorious bloom of gentry.” STEEVENS. "To do obsequious sorrow.' 170.- -key-cold] A key, on account of the coldness of the metal of which it is composed, was anciently employed to stop any slight bleeding. The epithet is common to many old writers; among the rest, it is used by Decker in his Satiromastix: "It is best you hide your head, for fear your wise brains take key-cold." Again, in the Country Girl, by T. B. 1647: "The key-cold figure of a man.” STEEVENS. 202. I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.] So, in Hamlet: "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.” Holinshed says: "The dead corps on the Ascension even was conveied with billes and glaives pompouslie (if you will call that a funeral pompe) from the Tower to the church of St. Paule, and there laid on a beire or coffen bare-faced; the same in the presence of the beholders did bleed; where it rested the space of one whole daie. From thense he was carried to the Black friers, and bled there likewise," &c. STEEVENS. 220. -see! dead Henry's wounds Open their congeal'd mouths, and bleed afresh!—] It is a tradition very generally received, that the murdered body bleeds on the touch of the murderer. This was so much believed by Sir Kenelm Digby, that he has endeavoured to explain the reason. JOHNSON. So, in Arden of Feversham, 1592 : "The more I sound his name, the more he bleeds: "This blood condemns me, and in gushing forth "Speaks as it falls, and asks me why I did it ?" Again, in the Widow's Tears, by Chapman, 1612: "The captain will assay an old conclusion often approved; that at the murderer's sight the blood revives again and boils afresh; and every wound has a condemning voice to cry out guilty against the murderer." Again, in the 46th Idea of Drayton : "If the vile actors of the heinous deed, bleed." Mr. Mr. Tollet observes that this opinion seems to be derived from the ancient Swedes, or Northern nations, from whom we descend; for they practised this method of trial in dubious cases, as appears from Pitt's Atlas, in Sweden, p. 20. STEEVENS. 243. Vouchsafe, diffus'd infection of a man,] Diffus'd infection of a man may mean, thou that art as dangerous as a pestilence, that infects the air by its diffusion. Diffus'd may, however, mean irregular. So, in The Merry Wives, &c. 66 -rush at once "With some diffused song." Again, in Green's Farewell to Follie, 1617: "I have seen an English gentleman so defused in his sutes; his doubtlet being for the weare of Castile, his hose for Venice," &c. 265. That laid their guilt-] The crime of my brothers. He has just charged the murder of lady Anne's husband upon Edward. JOHNSON. 272. O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuousGlo. The fitter for the king of heaven, &c.] So, in Pericles Prince of Tyre, 1609: "I'll do't: but yet she is a goodly creature. "Dion. The fitter then the gods should have her." STEEVENS. 286. a slower method ;-] As quick was used for sprightly, so slower was put for serious. In the next scene lord Grey desires the queen to -cheer his grace with quick and merry words. STEEVENS. 00 290. Thou wast the cause, and most accurs'd effect.] So, in the Yorkshire Tragedy, 1608 : -thou art the cause, "Effect, quality, property; thou, thou." STEEVENS. 325. they kill me with a living death.] In imitation of this passage, and, I suppose, of a thousand more, Pope writes, "Says Dapperwit, and sunk beside his chair." JOHNSON. The same conceit occurs in The Trimming of Tho. Nash, 1597: "How happy the rat, caught in a trap, and there dies a living death?" STEEVENS. Again, in our author's Venus and Adonis: "For I have heard it [love] is a life in death, 328. These eyes, which never, &c.] The twelve following beautiful lines added after the first editions. They were added with many more. POPE. JOHNSON. -] Shakspere countenances the observation, that no woman can ever be offended with the mention of her beauty. JOHNSON. 386. Crosby-place:] Crosby-Place is now Crosbysquare in Bishopsgate-street; part of the house is yet remaining, and is a meeting-place for a presbyterian congregation. Sir J. HAWKINS. 399. 399. Imagine I have said farewel already.] Cibber, who altered Richard III. for the stage, was so thoroughly convinced of the ridiculousness and improbability of this scene, that he thought himself obliged to make Tressel say : When future chronicles shall speak of this, They will be thought romance, not history. STEEVENS. 419. Fram'd in the prodigality of nature,] i. e. when nature was in a prodigal or lavish mood. 420. WARBURTON. and, no doubt, right royal,-] That is, full of all the noble properties of a king. No doubt, right royal, may, however, be ironically spoken, alluding to the incontinence of Margaret, his mother. STEEVENS. 427. —a beggarly denier,] A denier is the twelfth part of a French sous, and appears to have been the usual request of a beggar. So, in the Cunning Northerne Beggar, bl. let. an ancient ballad : "For still will I cry, good your Worship, good Sir "Bestow one poor denier, Sir." STEEVENS. 454. It is determin'd, not concluded yet :] Determin'd signifies the final conclusion of the will: concluded, what cannot be altered by reason of some act consequent on the final judgment. WARBURTON. 475. Ay, madam: he desires to make atonement] Thus all the old editions that I have seen; but Mr. Pope altered it thus: "Madam, we did; he seeks to make atone ment;" and |