sant. Lusty, saucy. Lym, a species of dog. Mace, a sceptre. Magnifico, a chief man or Main-top, top of the main-mast. Malkin, a scullion, a coarse wench. Mall, Mrs. alias Mary Frith, or Mallecho, mischief. Mammock, to cut in pieces. Manage, conduct, administration. Mandrake, a root supposed to have the shape of a man. Mankind, masculine. ly pretty. Modesty, moderation. Moe or mowe, to make mouths. Mome, a dull stupid blockhead. Momentany, momentary. Month's mind, a popish anni versary. Mood, anger, resentment, man 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. Medicine, a she-physicia Meed, reward. Meed,merit, desert,exce Meet, match. Meiny, people, domes Memories, memorialem brances. 33 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. rrian, a plague in cattle. tine, to rise in mutiny. 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. Obligations, bonds. Observing, religiously attentive. Obsequious, serious, as at fu neral obsequies, careful of. Obsequiously, funerally. Obstacle, obstinate. Ouph, fairy, goblin. Out, full, complete. Outward, not in the secret of Owe, to own, possess, govern. Pack, to bargain with. or Paddock, toad. Pagan, a loose vicious person. Pain, penalty. ephew, a grandson or any li- Palabras, words. neal descendant. Nether-stocks, stockings. Newness, innovation. Newt, the eft. Next, nearest. Nice, silly, trifling. Pale, to empaie, encircle with a Penthesilia, Amazon. Perch, a measure of five yards and a half. Perdurable. lasting. 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. Pia mater, the membrane covering the substance of the brain. Piel'd, shaven. Pin and web, disorders of the eye. Pinnace, small ship of burthen. Plain song, the chant, in piano cantu. Plainly, openly. 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. Quail, to faint, languish. Qualify, to lessen, mode Quarrel, a quarreller, the cause Quarter, the allotted posts, sta- Quat, a pimple. al-Queasy, squeamish, delicate, Premised, sent before the time. unsettled. Quell, to murder, to destroy. Quest, inquest or jury, search, expedition. Question, conversation. Reduce, to bring back. Reechy, discoloured by smoke, 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. Repug in armour. of a person for the soul ly persuad Questrist, one who goes in Resolve, to be rised. Quick, lively, sprightly, living. Quillets, law chicane. Prime, youth, the vigour of Quintain, a post set up for va life. rious exercises. Quips, reproaches and scoffs. | Quire, to play in concert. Quit, quitted. | Quit, to requite or answer.. Quittance, return of obliga tions. Quiver, nimble, active. Rabato, an ornament for the Race, original disposition, inborn qualities, a smack or flavour. Rack, wreck. Racking, in rapid motion. Rank, grown up to a great curiously, happily. Propagate, to advance or im- Rascally, applied to lean deer. prove. Propagation, getting. Rash, heady, thoughtless, quick, violent. Rash remonstrance, premature ntempt, 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. Scantling, measure, proportion. Scapes of wit, sallies, irregu larities. Scared, frightened. Scone, a petty fortification. '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. Season, to temper, to infix, to 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. with to close up. Mi Mi Mi Lim Mo Riggish, wanton. cause. Mu Mu Rigol, a circle. Ronyon, a scurvy woman as g, blinding. Lineartg, specious, hypocriti ships Sense, reason, h or sounding. feeling, sense ural affection. Sensible, havin Rope-tricks, abusive language. Roundel, a country dance. Roynish, mangy or scabby. passion. Septentrion, thensation. Sequestration, seth. Sere or sear, dry. acion. Serjeant, a bailiff ५ sheriff's officer. Serve, to accompany. Setebos, a species of devil. Sewer, an officer who place the dishes on the table. Shane, to disgrace. Shane, modesty. Share forne, born by sharis of scar wings. Twigging, wickered. Vail, to condescend to look, to Pre 7ain, light of tongue, not vera cious. a beard. Valance, fringed with Vast, waste, dreary. Vaward, the fore part. GLOSSARY | Unbarbed, antrimmed, un- Unbated, not blunted. Uncape, to dig out, a term in Unconfirmed, unpractised in Undertaker, one who takes Underwrite, to subscribe, to Venew, a bout, a term in fenc- Under-wrought, under-work ing. Vengeance, mischief. course. Ventages, the holes of a flute. Vice. to advise. Vice, grasp. Vie, to contend in rivalry. less, unseen, invisible. a ed, undetermined. cares. Unhouseled, not having re- nature. Unmastered, licentious, Unowed, that which has no owner. Unpregnant, not quickened. belonging to good- Unquestionable, unwilling to be conversed with. Vixen. or fixen, a female fox. Unready, undressed. Vizaments, advisements. Preten Pretenu 1 Untruth,dis.oyalty, treachery. Use, practice long countenanc- Waft, to beckon. Waist, the middle. Wannion, vengeance. Water-work, water-colours. Welkin, the colour of the sky, Well-found, of acknowledged Wen, swollen excrescence. Whittle, a species of knife. Wide, remotely from, wide of 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. Wittol, knowing, conscious of Wood, crazy, frantic. Woolward, a phrase appro- Words, dispute, contention. Worm, a serpent. Worts, cabbage. Wound, twisted about. Yarely, readily, nimbly. 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. Pretende gleam of fire. the po prickle at rest. Un subject. unadapted to their Whirring, whirring away. 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- mon use. Whiting-time, bleaching-time, Whitsters, bleachers of linen. frothy. Yeild, to inform of, condescend to. Yeild, to reward. Yell owness, jealousy, Zany, a bun a merry an 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, 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 |