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sant.

Lusty, saucy.
Luxurious, lascivious.
Luxuriously, wantonly.
Luxury, lust.

Lym, a species of dog.

Mace, a sceptre.
Mad, wild, inconstant.
Made, enriched.
Magnificent, glorying coast-
ing.

Magnifico, a chief man or
grandee at Venice.
Mailed, wrapped up, covered
with.

Main-top, top of the main-mast.
Make, to bar, to shut.
Makest, dost.

Malkin, a scullion, a coarse wench.

Mall, Mrs. alias Mary Frith, or
Moll Cutpurse.

Mallecho, mischief.
Mammering, hesitating.
Mammets, puppets.

Mammock, to cut in pieces.
Man. to tame a hawk.
Manacle, a handcuff.

Manage, conduct, administration.

Mandrake, a root supposed to

have the shape of a man.

Mankind, masculine.

ly pretty.

Modesty, moderation.
Module, model, pattern.

Moe or mowe, to make mouths.
Moiety, a portion.
Mollification, pacification,
softening.

Mome, a dull stupid blockhead. Momentany, momentary. Month's mind, a popish anni

versary.

Mood, anger, resentment, man

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Marches, the borders, limits, Moun or confines.

Marchpane, a species of sweet

meat.

a supporte

Ar to

of the lances

Mouse, tu

er, sist, or help.

pieces. ace, the

Mouse, a t

Mowe. Se

Martial-hand,acareless scrawl. Mouse-hur arbitrate

Martlemas, the latter spring.

Match, as appointment, a co pact.

Mate, to confound.

nement.

Moy, a pie ma money or a

tion,

callow

ble, re

derate.

pect,

Seate

Seart,

llected;

Mated, amared, dismay.
Meacock, a dastardly creatu
Mealed, sprinkled or minglec-
Mean, the tenor in music,
Mean, the middle.
Means, interest, pains
Measure, the reach.
Measure, stately so
Measure, means.
Meazels. lepers.
Medal, portrait.
Meddle, to mix with.

Medicine, a she-physicia

Meed, reward.

Meed,merit, desert,exce

Meet, match.

Meiny, people, domes

Memories, memorialem

brances.

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not, th

Memorized, made rable.

Memory, memoriz

Mephistophilus, me of a

spirit or famili

Mercatanté, a mant.

Mere, exsci, e, absolute.

Messes, dep about court.

Mered, mere

Mermaid, si

Metal, tem

Metaphys supernatural.

Mete-yareasuring yard.

Mewed fined.

rn.

pression of disdain. uge, wonderful. r, drain of a dung

kind of dress for the part of the face. ene muleteers.

softened and dispirited. plied, multitudinous. ingultiplying, multiplied. sultitudinous, full of multitudes.

ummy.thebalsamic liquor of.
undane, worldly.
are, a wall.
rky, dark.

rrian, a plague in cattle.
se, to admire, to wonder.
st, a scramble.

tine, to rise in mutiny.
ines, mutineers.

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Micherruant, lurking thief. Michiplaying truant, skulkMingont. Miepuntenance.

Mir to walk with affected

dacy. Ming, calling to remem ance, reminding. neral, a mine. innow, a small river fish, term of contempt. Minstrelsy, office of minstrel, Misconceived, misconceivers. Miscreate, ill-begotten, illeg.

timate.

Nonce, on purpose, for the turn. Nook-shotten, that which shoots into capes.

Northern man, vir borealis, a clown.

Note, notice, information, remark.

Novice, a youth.

Novum, some game at dice.
Nourish, to nurse.
Nowl, a head.
Nurture, education.
Nuthook, a thief.

Obligations, bonds.
Observed, paid respective at-
tention to.

Observing, religiously attentive.

Obsequious, serious, as at fu neral obsequies, careful of. Obsequiously, funerally. Obstacle, obstinate.

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Ouph, fairy, goblin.
Ousel-cock, the cock blackbird.
Out, be gone.

Out, full, complete.
Outlook, to face down.
Outvied, a term at the game of
gleek.

Outward, not in the secret of
affairs.

Owe, to own, possess, govern.
Oxl-lip, the great cowslip.

Pack, to bargain with.
Pack, combined, accomplice.
Packing, plotting, underhand
contrivance,

or Paddock, toad.

Pagan, a loose vicious person.
Pageant, a dumb show.
Paid, punished.

Pain, penalty.
Pains, labour, toil.

ephew, a grandson or any li- Palabras, words.

neal descendant.

Nether-stocks, stockings. Newness, innovation. Newt, the eft.

Next, nearest.

Nice, silly, trifling.
Nick, reckoning or count.
Nick, to set a mark of folly on.
Nighted, made dark as night.
Night-rule, frolic of the night.
Nine men's morris, a game.
Nobility,distinction, eminence.
Nobless, nobleress.
Nodily, fool, game at cards.
Noise, music.

Pale, to empaie, encircle with a

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Penthesilia, Amazon.

Perch, a measure of five yards and a half.

Perdurable. lasting.
Perdy, par Dieu, a French
oath.

Perfect, certain, well informed. Perfections, liver, brain, and heart.

Perjure, a perjured person Periapts, charms sewed up and worn about the neck. Perspectives, certain optical glasses.

Pervert, to avert.
Pew-fellow, a companion.
Pheere. See Feere.
Pheece, to teaze or beat, to
comb or curry.

Pia mater, the membrane covering the substance of the brain.

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Piel'd, shaven.
Pight, pitched, fixed.
Pilcher, a pilche, the scabbard.
Pilled, pillaged.

Pin and web, disorders of the eye.

Pinnace, small ship of burthen.
Pix, a small chest in which the
consecrated host was kept.
Placket, a petticoat.
Plague, to punish.

Plain song, the chant, in piano cantu.

Plainly, openly.
Plaited, complicated, involved.
Planched, made of brands.
Plant, the foot.
Platforms, plans, schemes.
Plausive, gracious, pleasing.
popular.
Pleached, folded together.

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Pouncet-box, a small box for | Putter-out, one who places out perfumes

Power, forces, an army. Practice, unlawful or insidious stratagem.

Practise, to employ unwarrantable arts.

Practisants, confederates in stratagems.

Prank, to adorn, to dress ostentatiously, to plume. Precedent, original draft. Precept, a justice's warrant. Precisian, a great pretender to sanctity.

Prefer, to recommend, to ad

vance.

Pregnancy, readiness. Pregnant, ready, plain, evident, apposite. Pregnant eneiny, the enemy of mankind.

money at interest.
Putting-on, spur, incitement.
Puttock, a degenerate species
of hawk.

Quail, to faint, languish.
Quaint, fantastical, graceful.
Quaint mazes, game running
the figure of eig
Quaked, thrown into
tion.

Qualify, to lessen, mode
Quality, confederates.
Quality, Profession, condition
of life.

Quarrel, a quarreller, the cause
of a quarrel.
Quarry, game after it is killed.
Quart d'ecu, fourth part of a
French crown.

Quarter, the allotted posts, sta-
tion.

Quat, a pimple. al-Queasy, squeamish, delicate,

Premised, sent before the time.
Prenominate, already named.
Pre-ordinance, ordinance
ready established.
Presence, the presence-cham-
ber, a public room.
Presence,dignity of mien, form,
figure.
Prest, ready.
Pretence, design, intention.
Pretend, to intend, design..
Pretended, purposed, intended.
Prevent, to anticipate.
Prick, the point on the dial.
Pricks, prickles, skewers.
Pride, haughty power.
Prig, to filch.

unsettled.

Quell, to murder, to destroy.
Quench, to grow cool.
Quern, a hand-mill.

Quest, inquest or jury, search, expedition.

Question, conversation.

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Reduce, to bring back.

Reechy, discoloured by smoke,
smoky, greasy.
Refell, to refute.
Refer, to reserve to.
Regard, look.

Regiment government, authority

Regreet, exchange of saluta

tion. Reguerdon, recompense, reIntendin Intend

e, nearly related, or ted.

bered, remembering. Abrance, admonition. her rse. pity, tenderness of

Rem

Ret.

Maotion, removal or remote

Reess. Removed, remote, sequestered. Reder, to describe. trener, a confession, an acpe cut.

minse, in renounce.
Reation, imanvate.
Rep dness, inti
Repr

Repug in armour.
Reputing lawless,
Requiem aquence of.

of a person

for the soul

ly persuad

Questrist, one who goes in Resolve, to be rised.
search of another.
Quests, reports.

Quick, lively, sprightly, living.
Quicken, to animate.
Quiduits, subtilties.

Quillets, law chicane.

Prime, youth, the vigour of Quintain, a post set up for va

life.

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rious exercises.

Quips, reproaches and scoffs.

| Quire, to play in concert. Quit, quitted.

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Quit, to requite or answer.. Quittance, return of obliga

tions.

Quiver, nimble, active.
Quote, to observe.

Rabato, an ornament for the
neck.
Rabbit-sucker, a sucking rab-
bit.

Race, original disposition, inborn qualities, a smack or flavour.

Rack, wreck.
Rack, to exaggerate.
Rack, to harass by exactions.
Rack, the fleeting away of the
clouds.

Racking, in rapid motion.
Rag, an opprobrious epithet.
Ragged, rugged.
Rake, to cover.
Rank, rate or pace.

Rank, grown up to a great
height and strength.
Rapt, rapturously affected.
Rapture, a fit.

curiously, happily.

Propagate, to advance or im- Rascally, applied to lean deer.

prove.

Propagation, getting.
Proper, well-looking, hand-

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Rash, heady, thoughtless, quick, violent.

Rash remonstrance, premature
discovery.
Rated, chided.
Ravin, to devour eagerly
Ravin, ravenous.

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ed, satisfied. Resolve, to dissolven, Respect, considerathro tion. Respective, respectan office. spectful, formal. Respective, cool, consi Respectively, respectfue penRetailed, handed down. Retire, to draw back. Reverb, to reverberate, Revolts, revolters. Rib, to enclose. Rid, to destroy.

Rift, split.

but the whole tenor of any discourse.

Say, silk.

Say, a sample, a taste or relish. Scaffoldage, the gallery part of the theatre.

Scald, a word of contempt, poor, filthy.

Scale, disperse, put to flight.
Scaled, over-reached.
Scaling, weighing.
Scall, an old word of reproach.
Scamble, to scramble.
Scan, to examine nicely.
Scant, to be deficient in, to con
tract.

Scantling, measure, proportion. Scapes of wit, sallies, irregu larities.

Scared, frightened.
Scarfed, decorated with flags.
Scath, destruction, harm.
Scath, to do an injury.
Scathful, mischievons,destruc-
tive.

Scone, a petty fortification.
Sconce, the head.
Scotched, cut slightly.

'scrimens, fencers.

Scrip, a writing, a list.

Scroyles, scabby fellows,

Sculls, great numbers of fishes swimming together.

Soutched, whipt, carted Seal, to strengthen or plete.

Seam, lard.

com.

Sear, to stigmatize, to close.
See Sere.

Season, to temper, to infix, to
impress.

Seasoned, established or settled by time. MLimt, throne.

M

in the, fixed, firmly placed. Lime. a cutting in gardening. Lime, ly, with too great confi Limence.

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Riggish, wanton.
Right, just, even.
Right drawn, drawn in Mint

cause.

Mu

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Rigol, a circle.
Ringed, environed, encirdu
Ripe, come to the height.
Rivage, the bank or shore.
Rivality, equal rank.
Rivals, partners.
Rive, to burst, to fire.
Road, the haven where
ride at anchor.
Rogues, vagrants.
Romage, rummage.

Ronyon, a scurvy woman
Rood, the cross.
Rook, to squat down.
Ropery, roguery.

as

g, blinding.

Lineartg, specious, hypocriti

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ships Sense, reason, h or sounding. feeling, sense ural affection. Sensible, havin

Rope-tricks, abusive language.
Round, a diadem.
Round, rough, unceremonious.
Rounded, whispered.
Rounding, whispering.

Roundel, a country dance.
Roundure, circle.
Rouse, a draught of joliity.
Royal, due to a king.
Royalize, to make royal.
Royalty, nobleness, supreme
excellence.

Roynish, mangy or scabby.

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passion.

Septentrion, thensation. Sequestration, seth. Sere or sear, dry. acion. Serjeant, a bailiff

sheriff's

officer.
Serpigo, a kind of tetu
Serve, to full.

Serve, to accompany.
Set, seated.

Setebos, a species of devil.
Several, separated, appro
priated.

Sewer, an officer who place the dishes on the table. Shane, to disgrace.

Shane, modesty.

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Share forne, born by sharis of

scar wings.

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Twigging, wickered.
Tyed, limited, circumscribed.
Type, distinguishing mark,
show or emblem.
Tything, division of a place, a
district.

Vail, to condescend to look, to
let down, to bow, to sink.
Vailing, lowering.
Vain, vanity.

Pre

7ain, light of tongue, not vera

cious.

a beard.

Valance, fringed with
Validity, value.
Vanity, illusion.
Vantage, convenience, oppor-
tunity, advantage.
Vantbrace, armour for the arm.
Varlet, a servant or footman to
a warrior.

Vast, waste, dreary.
Vaunt, the avant, what went be-
fore.

Vaward, the fore part.
Velure, velvet.

GLOSSARY

| Unbarbed, antrimmed, un-
shaven.

Unbated, not blunted.
Unbolt, to open, explain.
Unbolted, coarse.
Unbookish, ignorant.
Unbreathed, unexercised, un-
practised.

Uncape, to dig out, a term in
fox-hunting.
Uncharged, unattacked.
Unclew, to draw out, exhaust.
Uncoined, real, unrefined, un-
adorned.

Unconfirmed, unpractised in
Under generation, the anti-
the ways of the world.
Undergo, to be subject to.
podes.
Under-skinker, a tapster, an
underdrawer.

Undertaker, one who takes
upon himself the quarrel of
another.

Underwrite, to subscribe, to
obey.

Venew, a bout, a term in fenc- Under-wrought, under-work

ing.

Vengeance, mischief.
Vent, rumour, matter for dis-

course.

Ventages, the holes of a flute.
Venys, hits in fencing.
Verbal, verbose, full of talk.
Verify, to bear true witness.
Very, immediate.
Via,a cant phrase of exultation.
Vice, the fool of the old mo-
ralities.

Vice. to advise.

Vice, grasp.

Vie, to contend in rivalry.
ed, bragged.

less, unseen, invisible.
worthless fellow, a

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ed, undetermined.
Unearned, not deserved.
Undeserving, undeserved.
Uneath, scarcely, not easily.
Unexpressive, inexpressible.
Unhappy, mischievously wag-
gish, unlucky.
Unhidden, open, clear,
Unhoused, free from domestic

cares.

Unhouseled, not having re-
ceived the sacrament.
Unimproved, not guided by
knowledge, or experience.
Union, a species of pearl.
Unkind, contrary to kind, or

nature.

Unmastered, licentious,

Unowed, that which has no

owner.

Unpregnant, not quickened.
Unproper, common.
Unqualitied, unmanned, dis-
armed of his faculties.

belonging to good- Unquestionable, unwilling to

be conversed with.

Vixen. or fixen, a female fox. Unready, undressed.

Vizaments, advisements.
Voluntary, voluntarily.
Votarist, supplicant.
Vouchsafed, vouchsafing.
Vox, tone or voice.
Vulgar, common
Vulgarly, publicly.

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Untruth,dis.oyalty, treachery.
Unvalued, invaluable.
Up-spring, upstart.
Urchins, hedge-hogs, or per-
haps fairies.
Usance, usury.

Use, practice long countenanc-
ed by custom.
Use, to make a practice of.
Use, interest.
Used, behaved.
Usurping, false.
Utis, a merry festival.
Utterance, a phrase in combat,
Utter, to vend by retail.
extremity.

Waft, to beckon.
Wage, to fight, to combat, to
prescribe to..
Waist, the part between the
Wages, is equal to.
quarter-deck and the fore-
castle.

Waist, the middle.

Wannion, vengeance.
Walk, a district in a forest.
Ward, posture of defence.
Ward, guardianship.
Warden, a species of pears.
Warder, guard, sentinel.
Warn, to summon.
Wassels, meetings of rustic
mirth.

Water-work, water-colours.
Watch, a watch-light.
Wax, to grow.
Waxen, increase.
Wealth, advantage, happiness.
Wear, the fashion.
Wee, little.
Weeds, clothing.
Ween, to think, to imagine.
Weet, to know.
Weigh, to value or esteem, to
deliberate.

Welkin, the colour of the sky,
blue.

Well-found, of acknowledged
excellence.
Well-liking, plump, embon-
point.

Wen, swollen excrescence.
Wend, to go.

Whittle, a species of knife.
Whooping, measure or reckon
ing.

Wide, remotely from, wide of
the mark.
Will, wilfulness.
Wilderness, wildness.

Unrespective, inattentive to Whelked,varied with protuber

consequences. Unrest, disquiet.

Unrough, smooth-faced,

bearded. Unsisted, untried.

ances.

Whe'r, whether.

un- Where, whereas.

Wimple, a hood or veil.
Winter-ground, to protect a
gainst the inclemency of
winter.
Wis, to know.
Wish, to recommend.
Witch, to charm, to bewitch.
Wit, to know.
Wits, senses.

Wittol, knowing, conscious of
Witty, judicious, cunning.
Wce, to be sorry.
Woman, to affect suddenly and
Woman-tired, hen-pecked.
deeply.
Wondered, able to perform
wonders.

Wood, crazy, frantic.
Woodman, an attendant on the
forester.

Woolward, a phrase appro-
priated to pilgrims and pe-
tentiaries.

Words, dispute, contention.
Workings, labours of thought.
Work, a term of fortification.
World, to go to the, to be mar
ried.

Worm, a serpent.
Worship, dignity, authority,
Worth, wealth or fortune, the
value, full quota or propor-
tion.

Worts, cabbage.
Wot, to know.

Wound, twisted about.
Wreak, resentment.
Wreak, to revenge.
Wrest, an instrument for tun-
ing the harp.
Writ, writing, composition.
Wrested, obtained by violence.
Wrongs, persons who wrong.
Writhled, wrinkled.
Wrongs, injurious practices.
Wroth, misfortune.
Wrung, pressed, strained.
Wrought, worked, agitated.

Yarely, readily, nimbly.
Yearns, grieves or sexes.

Whiffler, an officer who walks Yeasty, or yesty, foaming or

first in processions.

Unsisting, always open, never Whiles, until.

Whip, the crack, the best.

Umber, a dusky yellow-colour-squared, clean, not defiled. Whipstock, a carter's whip.

ed earth.
Umbered, discoloured by the

Pretende gleam of fire.

the po

prickle

at rest.

Un

subject.

unadapted to their

Whirring, whirring away.
White, the white mark in ar-
chery

revent, taccustomed, unseemly, in- Untempering, not tempering, White death, the chlorosis.

Unaughty Without extreme

decen Jnanele

the avoidable.

unction. Unavcided, unt,

Unstanched, incontinent.

not softening.

Untraced, singular, not in com-
Untrimmed, undressed.

mon use.

Whiting-time, bleaching-time,
spring.

Whitsters, bleachers of linen.

frothy.

Yeild, to inform of, condescend

to.

Yeild, to reward.

Yell owness, jealousy,
Yeoman, a bailiff's follower.

Zany, a bun a merry an
drew.

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THERE was no e lition of this play previous to the first folio of the Author's works, in 1623.-It was one of the very latest of his productions: Mr. Malone supposes it to have been written in the year 1611;-but it was most probably produced in the latter part of 1612, or the beginning of 1613, as we find from Mr. Vertue's MSS. that it was acted by John Heming and the rest of the King's company, before Prince Charles, the Lady Elizabeth, and the Prince Palatine Elector, in the beginning of the year 1613."-The Prince Palatine was married to the Lady Elizabeth in February 1613, and this exquisite poem, which relates the loves of a young prince and princess, and introduces a pageant of spirits to crown them with

Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,

was not improbably composed on the occasion of their royal nuptials; as we know that it made a part of the splendid festivities in celebration of them. Mr. Malone imagines in this play a reference to the shipwreck of Sir George Somers on the Island of Bermuda. I cannot follow him in tracing the resemblance.-It is difficult to perceive the connexion between a tempest in the Mediterranean and a hurricane in the Atlantic or between the wreck of an English ship, with her crew of adventurous navigators, on the coast of Bermuda, and the loss of an Italian vessel, conveying the king of Naples and the Duke of Milan from a royal marriage in Tunis, on an imaginary island, near the coast of Africa.-The only circumstance I can discover in the accounts of Sir George Somers's shipwreck, which Shakspeare appears to have had in his mind in writing this play, is the only circumstance that none of the commentators have noticed, though it is related in a volume to which they have all referred, viz. Stith's History of Virginia.-The assumption of royal authority by Stephano, and the scenes between that character and Caliban and Irinculo, may have been suggested by the event related in the following passage.-When Sir George Somers left the Island of Bermuda in the year 1609, "Christopher Carter, Edward Waters, and Edward Chard remained behind, Sir George's vessel being once out of sight, these three lords, and sole inhabitants of all these islands, began to erect their little commonwealth, with equal power and brotherly regency, building a house, preparing the ground, planting their corn, and such seeds and fruits as they had, and providing other necessaries and conveniences. Then making search among the crannies and corners of those craggy rocks, what the ocean, from the world's creation, had thrown up among them,

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

ALONSO, King of Naples.

SEBASTIAN, his brother.

PROSPERO, the rightful Duke of Milan.

ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.

FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples.

GONZALO, an honest old counsellor of Naples.

ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, lords.

CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave.

TRINCULO, a jester.

STEPHANO, a drunken butler.

Master of a ship, Boatswain, and Mariners.

MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero.

ARIEL, an airy spirit.

IRIS, CERES, JUNO, Nymphs, Reapers, spirits. Other spirits attending on Prospero. SCENE. The Sea, with a Ship; afterwar uninhabited Island.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-On a Ship at Sea.-A Storm with Thunder and Lightning.

Enter a Ship-master and a Boatswain. Master. Boatswain,

Boats. Here, master: What cheer?

Mast. Good: Speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir [Exit

Enter Mariners.

Boats. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my

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