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Dubled in my sleep this night,
ay new comfort hath inspir'd.

Peal. Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, BAS-
VINIA, CHIRON, DEMETRIUS, and Atten-

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Ford editor is in the right; unless we reason

in Macbeth, and say:

Foul, and foul is fair."

Steevens.

s, I think, right; nor did grey anciently denote ancheerful hue. It signified blue, " of heaven's

in Shakspeare's 132d Sonnet :

ly not the morning sun of heaven

becomes the grey cheeks of the east, -."

Henry VI, Part II:

stuck upon him as the sun

prey vault of heaven."

and Juliet:

-y-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night -."

you grey is not the morning's eye."

ositely, in Venus and Adonis, which decisively ling of the old copy :

=yes are grey and bright, and quick in turning."

Malone.

fany colour may be bright; but still grey can-
blue, nor a grey morning a bright one.
blue. Is a grey coat then a blue one?

Mr. Ma-
Steevens.

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A desert Part of the Fore

Enter AARON, with a Bag of
Aar. He, that had wit, would think t
To bury so much gold under a tree,
And never after to inherit it.6

Let him, that thinks of me so abjectly,
Know, that this gold must coin a stratag
Which, cunningly effected, will beget
A very excellent piece of villainy:
And so repose, sweet gold, for their un

That have their alms out of the empres
Enter TAMORA.

Tam. My lovely Aaron, wherefore lo

6 to inherit it.] To inherit formerly s See Vol. II, p. 108, n. 4; and Vol. VII, p. 12,

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•for their unrest,] Unrest, for disqu quently used by the old writers. So, in Th 1603:

"Thus therefore will I rest me in unr Again, in Eliosto Libidinoso, an ancient nov 1606:

"For the ease of whose unrest, "Thus his fury was exprest." Steev 8 That have their alms &c.] This is obscure only, that they who are to come at this gold to suffer by it. Johnson.

9 My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou se of the following notes several examples of th Ravenscroft, who altered this play in the re II, are set down for the entertainment of the lowing is a specimen of his descriptive talent line with which this speech of Tamora begin say:

rilly to the well-tun'd horns,
le hunt were heard at once,-
own, and mark their yelling noise :
conflict, such as was suppos'd
ing prince and Dido once enjoy'd,
a happy storm they were surpriz'd
d with a counsel-keeping cave,-
ch wreathed in the other's arms,
es done, possess a golden slumber;
nds, and horns, and sweet melodious birds,
as is a nurse's song

emperor, with wine and luxury o'ercome,
len asleep; in 's pendant couch he 's laid,
- hangs in yonder grotto rock'd by winds,
Ch rais'd by art to give it gentle motion :
troops of slaves stand round with fans perfum'd,
e of the feathers pluck'd from Indian birds,
cool him into golden slumbers:
time I chose to come to thee, my Moor.
ovely Aaron, wherefore," &c.

who has had too large a dose of love and wine, quence of satiety in both, falls asleep on a bed es of the nature of a sailor's hammock, and a child's triosity which only Ravenscroft could have ventube on the stage. I hope I may be excused for a few of his flowers into the barren desart of our this tragedy. Steevens.

laron, &c.] There is much poetical beauty in this mora. It appears to me to be the only one in the - the style of Shakspeare. M. Mason.

ecquer'd shadow - Milton has the same expres

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known song by Dryden:

echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry."

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No, madam, these are no venereal signs;
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my ha
Blood and revenge are hammering in my
Hark, Tamora, -the empress of my soul.
Which never hopes more heaven than re
This is the day of doom for Bassianus;
His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day
Thy sons make pillage of her chastity,
And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood

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- as is a nurse's song

Of lullaby, to bring her babe asleep.] Dr. Joh tionary, says, "it is observable that the nurses lullaby aby is therefore lull to sleep." But to lull or to sleep. To compose to sleep by a pleasing soun sense retained after its primitive import becam verbs to loll and lollop evidently spring from the by meant house; go to by is go to house or crad compliment at parting, good by is good house. prosper; and Selby, the Archbishop of York's house. So that lullaby implies literally sleep in cradle. H. White.

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- though Venus govern your desires,

Saturn is dominator over mine:] The mear sage may be illustrated by the astronomical d turn, which Venus gives in Greene's Planetomас star of Saturn is especially cooling, and somew Again, in The Sea Voyage, by Beaumont and

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for your aspect "You 're much inclin'd to melancholy, "Tells me the sullen Saturn had predor "At your nativity, a malignant planet! "And if not qualified by a sweet conjur "Of a soft ruddy wench, born under V "It may prove fatal." Collins. Thus also, Propertius, L. IV, i, 84:

"Et grave Saturni sydus in omne caput 5 His Philomel &c.] See Vol. XVI, p. 53, n.

more, great empress, Bassianus comes:
th him; and I 'll go fetch thy sons
- quarrels, whatsoeʼer they be.

Enter BASSIANUS and LAVINIA.

o have we here? Rome's royal emperess, of hers well-beseeming troop?

n, habited like her;

bandoned her holy groves,

general hunting in this forest?
acy controller of our private steps !7
ower, that, some say, Dian had,
es should be planted presently
, as was Actæon's; and the hounds
e upon thy new-transformed limbs,
y intruder as thou art!

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er-] Old copies of our. Corrected by Mr. Rowe. Malone.

600, reads exactly thus:

sht of her well beseeming troop? Todd.
ir private steps!] Edition 1600:-my private steps.

Todd.

rive upon thy new-transformed limbs,] Mr. Heath suse poet wrote:

thrive upon thy new-transformed limbs,

is an expression that suggests no image to the fanve, I think, may stand, with this meaning: the pass with impetuous haste, &c. So, in Hamlet : Chus at Priam drives," &c.

impetuosity at him. Steevens.

opies have-upon his new-transformed limbs. The vas made by Mr. Rowe. Malone.

a note by Mr. Malone, that the old copies read, new-transformed limbs," and that Mr. Rowe made on-thy. The edition of 1600 reads precisely thus: I drive upon thy new transformed limbes. Todd.

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