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p. 3, I. i. 63. firrs-furze. Cp. Cotgrave's ‘Genest espineux. Furres, Whinnes, Gorse, Thorne-broome."

p. 5, I. ii. 41. "Out (=fully) three yeeres old." In a small Qo, 1601, called The Worlde, or An historicall description of the most famous kingdomes, etc. Translated into English and inlarged by some one who in his dedication of the volume signs himself I. R., I have found an apt instance of this use of the word out. In his description of Venice, p. 95, the author says"in their Arsnall they maintaine out 200. gallies," etc.-P. A. Daniel.

p. 6, I. ii. 81. trash, cut off.

p. 6, I. ii. 100.

p. 9, I. ii. 181.

into = unto.

I finde my Zenith, etc.

These lines recall the famous ones of Brutus in Julius Cæsar—

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune:
Omitted, all the voyage of their life,

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”—IV. iii. 216–19.

p. 21, II. i. 82. the miraculous Harpe; Amphion's.

p. 23, II. i. 144-9. mainly from Florio's Montaigne. He is describing nations cald 'barbarous,' but in fact obeying Nature: "The lawes of nature doe yet command them... me seemeth that what in those nations we see by experience, doth not only exceed all the pictures wherewith licentious Poesie hath proudly embellished the golden age... but also the conception and desire of Philosophy. It is a nation... that hath no kinde of traffike, no knowledge of Letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate, nor of politike superioritie; no use of service, of riches or of povertie, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupation but idle; no respect of kinred, but common, no apparell but naturall, no manuring of lands, no use of wine, corne, or mettle. The very words that import lying, falshood, treason .. were never heard of amongst them. Booke I, chap. 30, p. 102, ed. 1632.

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p. 33, II. ii. 166. Scamels: The only use of scamel now known is for the name of the bartailed godwit, Limosa Lapponica, in Norfolk: and that does not seem to give the meaning required here.

p. 34, III. i. 15. it-refers to labours. The use of 'it' instead of 'them' occurs in the following side-note to the Spanish word 'Socorros': "Succors or lendings which they give soldiers when there is no paie, and when the paie comes they take it off."-In Minsheu's Spanish Dialogues and Grammar, 1599, P. 59.

p. 37, III. ii. 4, 5. Iland (A. Sax. iglond): Isle (Fr. isle).

p. 40, III. ii. 118. cout: the same as skowt without the intensive s. P. 43, III. iii. 48. five for one: this was the danger-rate of the time.

A traveller, before starting on a risky voyage, paid £100 to a moneylender, on condition that if he returnd he should have £500. See Fynes Morison's Itinerary, &c. If the passage is to be emended, read at for of.

p. 46, IV. i. 15-22. Does Shakspere speak his own experience here? P. 53, IV. i. 237-8. As we don't know the date when the sailors' practise of shaving men, and playing other rough tricks, on crossing the Equator, began, the allusion here must be to the loss of men's hair from the great heat, and fevers caught, under the Line: see Edwards' MSS. note in Variorum, 1821. Mr. P. A. Daniel writes: Hear what Dr. Peter Kolben says of his experience-"For my own Part, blessed be God, I pass'd the Line in perfect Health, without any Ailment whatever; only I lost my Hair entirely, and became quite bald; " etc., p. 13, The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope, Written originally in High German by Peter Kolben, A.M. Done into English by Mr. [Guido] Medley, 1731. Kolben made the voyage in 1705.

etc.

p. 58, V. i. 145. as late, lately-happened, recent.

p. 63, V. i. 309. Folio 'belou'd' may be kept, etc. 'solémnized' pronounst as in L. L. Lost, II. i. 42.

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