THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, IN EIGHT VOLUMES, WITH THE CORRECTIONS and ILLUSTRATIONS O F Various COMMENTATORS; To which are added NOTES by SAM. JOHNSON. LONDON: Printed for J. and R. TONSON, C. CORBET, H. WOODFALL, M,DCC,LXV. tion as a proof of 1.270. Shakespeare's Learn. "yellow starch not wond Lilly's gram Or are we meet fi in our old writer's cinet This Phrase so frequent well understood, Or is here the same as Ere, i. 2. before, and shouts be writ (as it is still pronounced in Shropshier. Ove. There the people use it often; this they say Ore to-mor Some very Devil. Ja. Thakespeare here probably alludes to the Distinctions & Divisions of some of the Demonologists, so much tead of regarded in his time. They distributed the Devils into different Tribes and Classes, each of which had its prindiar properties & attributes &c. These we have describedi at length 44 in the Anatomy of Melancholy, (Past 1. Siet = row, for Eve or Before 2. Memb. s. 1. Subs. 2. p. 45. 1632) to-morrow. - The addition of Ever or 2'er, is on lay " Of these fublunary Devils augmentative; as in the Thery, Aeriall, Tergistrial, Psalms, or ever their Pselins makes 6 kinds watery and Subterranean. Deveils, befides thote saisies Satyres, Nymplish. " pot be made hot with thorns the. i.?. "Before ever their pot &c. Or are we meet, is Fiery Spirits or Disells are so in the text (pag. 489. Iuch as commonly worke by Blazing Starred, five-drakes, and counterfeit sunned and moones, & sit on this masts, Je. Je. are literally "Before wer we meet the." It should therefore have been Divells printed Or der we "Aeriall Spirits Juch is keepe Quarter most part in the wire, cause many tempests, thunder" and lightnings, Beeples, houses, Strike meet: asitir. in it wrightly pag. 499. lin. ult. |