Márny, without any effect-to no purpose.

Which when that squire beheld he woxe full glad
To see his foe breathe out his sprite in vain.

868

But who can snare a minde all ey'd with fears?
Earl of Stirling's Alexandrian Tragedy, act iii. sc. 1.

Καθεύδουσιν μάτην.

See above.

883

GRAT.

VENDIC.
GRAT.

VENDIC.

GRAT.

Επίσχες, ὦ παῖ, τόνδε δ' αἴδεσαι, τέκνον,
Μαστόν, πρὸς ᾧ σὺ πολλὰ δὴ βρίζων ἅμα,
Οὔλοισιν ἐξήμελξας εὐτραφὲς γάλα.

Are sons turn'd monsters? help!

In vain.

Are you so barbarous, to set iron nipples
Upon the breast that gave you suck?
That breast

Is turn'd to gnarled poison.

Cut not your days for't: am I not your mother? VENDIC. Thou dost usurp that title now by fraud,

For in that shell of mother breeds a band.

Cyril Tourneur's Revenger's Tragedy, act v.

I may observe, that the proper reading is probably curt; that is, shorten, curtail.

897 ΚΛΥΤ. Η μοίρα τούτων, ὦ τέκνον, παραιτία.

GLOUCESTER. For this, amongst the rest, was I ordain'd. Henry VI. part iii. act v. sc. 6.

898

906

(Stabs Henry.)

ΟΡΕΣ. Καὶ τόνδε τοίνυν μοῖρ ̓ ἐπόρσυνεν μόρον.

With thee my treasure I reposed in trust,
What could provoke thee now to prove unjust?
"Sir! blame the stars," felonious culprit cried,
"We'll by the statutes of the stars be tried.
"If their strong influence all our actions urge,

"Some are condemn'd to steal." "And some to scourge.
"The beadle must obey the Fates' decree,

"As pow'rful destiny prevail'd with thee."

E. Fenton's Epistle to Thomas Lambard.

ΟΡΕΣ. Μὴ ἔλεγχε τὸν πονοῦντ ̓ ἔσω καθημένη.
ΚΛΥΤ. "Αλγος γυναιξὶν ἀνδρὸς εἴργεσθαι, τέκνον.
ΟΡΕΣ. Τρέφει δέ γ' ἀνδρὸς μόχθος ἡμένας ἔσω.

Peile quotes,

913

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,

And for thy maintenance, commits his body
To painful labour, both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe.

Taming of the Shrew, act v. sc. 2.

Ἔοικα θρηνεῖν ζῶσα πρὸς τύμβον μάτην.

Probably this means no more than

914 Πατρὸς γὰρ αἶσα τόνδε σουρίζει μόρον.

Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.

Henry VI. part ii. act iv. sc. 1.

925 Ἔμολε δ ̓ ἐς δόμον τὸν ̓Αγαμέμνονος Διπλοῦς λέων.

Never a man's thought in the world keeps the road-way better than thine.

In a slightly different sense,

Henry V. act ii. sc. 2.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding.

See also Antig. Herm. 795.

1020

Πρὸς δὲ καρδίᾳ φόβος

Prov. xxi. 16.

Αιδειν ἕτοιμος ἠδ ̓ ὑπορχεῖσθαι κότῳ.

This somewhat resembles the expression illustrated, line 165.

With the ᾄδειν, compare,

PETER. Oh musicians, because my heart itself plays “ My heart is full of woe," oh play me some merry dump

to comfort me.

Romeo and Juliet, act iv. sc. 5.

Whose pleasant touch hath made my heart to dance,
And play him praises in my zealous breast.

Peile's David and Bethsabe.

1057 Ὑμεῖς μὲν οὐχ ὁρᾶτε τάσδ', ἐγὼ δ ̓ ὁρῶ· Ελαύνομαι δὲ, κοὐκ ̓ ἔτ ̓ ἂν μείναιμ ̓ ἐγώ.

Then those ill-favour'd ones, whom none
But my unhappy eyes could view,

Led me, with wild emotion, on,

And, with resistless terror, drew.

Through lands we fled, o'er seas we flew, &c.

Crabbe's Sir Eustace Grey.

Some think the passage in Hamlet, act iii. sc. 4, and that in the banquet of Macbeth, sufficiently similar.

I see a hand

you cannot see,

That beckons me away.

Tickell's Colin and Lucy..