Where, from Intrusion (as they thought) fecure, 40 Save that the Peruke whitens down the Back. Licentiato enters. With Appall Each was ftruck dumb, as Mute at Funeral.— When Gauls rufh'd in, and view'd them with Surprize, Taking their awful Forms for Deities. NOTES. 50 Choak’d We cannot but take Notice here of an infamous Addition to thofe admirable Lines, in Favour of this noble exotic Plant; to wit, Tobacco Hick, Tobacco Hick, Twill make you well, if you are fick. An Enemy to Tobacconists has reverfed the Sentiment, by faying, Tobacco Hick, Tobacco Hick, If you are well will make you fick. V. 43. In customary Suits of Solemn Black,' Or customary Suits of folemn Black. Hamlet, V. 49. So fat the Roman Curules, dully wife, When Gauls rufh'd in, and view'd them with Surprize, Taking their awful Forms for Deities. When the Crowd of fuperannuated Patriots had, by their Advice and Exhortations to the Soldiers, done all that was in their Power towards the Choak'd with the Fume, Licentiato broke NOTE. • Give the Defence of the Capital [Rome] they returned 6 to their Houses, there to wait, with fteady Refolution, the coming of the Enemy, and Death. Such of them as had triumphed for Victories, or had been Curule Magiftrates, that they might die with the greater Dignity, adorned themfelves with the Infignia of those Honours which they had acquired by their Virtue. Cloathed in their triumphal Robes, or those of their Magiftracies, they repaired to the Forum, and feating themfelves there in their Curule Chairs, maintained the fame refpectable Air of Greatnefs, as when in the Fulnefs of their former Power. As the Gauls had met with little Refiftance from the Romans in the Field, and were not put to the • Trouble of an Affault to take the City, they entered it (at the Gate Collina) without any Thing, in their Appearance, of hostile Anger, that raging Flame, kindled by Oppofition, Difficulty, and Danger. Moving on, they beheld, with Amazement, the Streets unpeopled as a Defert; and when they came to the Forum, and caft their Eyes all around, they could obferve no Shew of War but in the Citadel alone. What chiefly • drew and fixed their Attention, was the Company $ of venerable Victims, who had devoted themfelves to Death. Their magnificent purple Robes, their long white Beards, their Air of Greatness, their Silence, Stilnefs, and Serenity, all these aftonished the Gauls, held them at an awful Distance, and infpired them with the fame Refpect which they would have had for fo many Gods. It chanced, however, that one of the Soldiers (who was, probably, lefs apt Give us, (hem, hem,) one Drop to clear our Lungs, (Hem,hen) one little Drop to cool our Tongues.' 55 No; not a single Drop, 'ftern Socio roar'd, And up he fnatch'd the Bottle from the Board. How dares Licentiato force our Gate ?' He faid, and hurl'd the Bottle at his Pate. The Glafs, lefs hard,quick from his Front rebounds,60 Scarce leaving on the Skin fome fuperficial Wounds. Thrice happy thou, whofe tender Brain's immur'd In thickeft Cafe, by leaden Skull fecur'd! Drug-venders elfe had rued th' Adventure crofs, And callous Undertakers mourn'd thy Lofs. NOTE. 65 to be religiously affected than his Comrades) took the Freedom gently to put his Hand towards the • Beard of Manlius Papirius, as if he meant to ftroke it; a Familiarity which fo much offended the majestick Figure, that, with a fmart Blow of his Ivory Truncheon, he broke the Fellow's Head. There needed no more to put an End to all Reverence for fuch a cholerick Deity. The Gauls instantly killed Papirius; and, as if he had given the Signal for a general Maffacre, all the reft were now flain, fitting, like him, in State, in their Gurule • Chairs.' HOOKE's Rom. Hift. Book II. Chap. XXXVIII. Let the Reader figure to himfelf the Doctors,their magnificent full-trim'd Black,-their long white Perukes, their Air of Greatness,-their Silence, Stillnefs, and Serenity,-their Gold-headed Canes, (no less refpectable than the Ivory Truncheon)-their fitting in State, in their Elbow Chairs ;-Let the Reader, I fay, figure to himself thefe Majeftick Figures, and we are confident, he must be ftruck with Awe and Admiration. Yet with the Shock Licentiato lies Stun'd-from the Floor unable to arife; And, as when Cupping-uten fil's applied, The trickling Streams from narrow Sluices glide, PART III. AND now a general Tumult reigns thro' all; "To Arms, to Arms," on ev'ry Side they bawl. Each grave Bafhaw, that bears three deathful Tails, Rous'd from his Torpor joins in fierce Affails; Foregoes his wonted Solemnefs of Mein, 5 While Wig meets Wig, and Cane encounters Cane. NOTE. V. 67. Yet with the Shock Licentiato lies The Sound is here defignedly made to echoe to the Senfe. So Virgil. procumbit bumi Bos. Many Inftances may be brought, not only from the Greek and Latin Poets, of fimilar Attention, but alfo from our own. Let one fuffice. Shakespear, in his King Lear, has the following Line. "Many a Fathom down precipitating," the Precipitation of which Tate has chofen to flop (in his Alteration of this Play) by fubftituting "Many a Fathom tumbling down," O what a tumbling down is here! The lies; The ruffled Hairs on fretful Perukes rise, NOTE S. 20 V. 7. The ruffled Hairs on fretful Perukes rife, Make thy young Hairs to ftand on End, HAMLET. V. 12. Curl'd like the Têtes our Dames of Fashion wear. These prepofterous Ornaments of falfe Hair, twisted and twirled into a thoufand unnatural Shapes, may indeed be very properly called Medufa Têtes, though it must be confeffed they are (in the Language of Enamoratos) not quite fo killing. For the Story of Medufa, fee the End of the Latin Dictionary, under the Letter M. V. 22. By a mere Bodkin the Quietus made.' When himself might his Quietus make HAMLET. So |