S S. SADNESS. me, UCH a want-wit sadness makes of In footh, I know not why I am fo fad; It wearies me; you fay it wearies you; I am to learn. Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1. King John, A. 4, S. 1. Methinks, your looks are fad, your chear appall'd '. Henry VI. P. 1, A. 1, S. 2. SALVATION. For a quart d'ecu he will fell the fee-fimple of his falvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the intail from all remainders, and a perpetual fucceffion for it perpetually. All's well that ends well, A. 4, S. 3. SE A. Know, Iago, But that I love the gentle Defdemona, ance. · your chear appall’d.] Chear is countenance, appear STEEVENS. "Chear" is not countenance, but gaiety, cheerfulness.---" Your "chear appall'd," means, your chearfulness abated. He had already faid, "your looks are fad." A a 4 A. B. I would I would not my unhoufed free condition Othello, A. 1, S. 2. O, she is fallen Into a pit of ink! that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again. Much ado about nothing, A. 4, S. 1. Suppofe, that you have seen The well-appointed king at Hampton pier What harm a wind too great might do at sea, Merchant of Venice, A. 1, S. 1, Romeo and Juliet, A. 5, S. 3, We will not from the helm, to fit and weep; Is't meet, that he Should leave the helm, and, like a fearful lad, And give more strength to that which hath too much, Henry VI. P. 3, A. 5, S. 4. The sea being smooth, How many fhallow bauble boats dare fail Upon her patient breaft, making their way But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The ftrong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, From fimple fources; and great seas have dry'd, Was I, for this, nigh wreck'd upon the fea; S. 2. Henry VI. P. 2, A. 3, I have seen two fuch fights, by fea, and by land; but I am not to fay, it is a fea, for it is now the sky; betwixt the firmament and it, you cannot thrust a bodkin's point. Winter's Tale, A. 3, S. 3. Thou didft fimile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven, When I have deck'd the fea1 with drops full falt. Tempest, A. 1, S. 2. SEASON, deck'd the fea.] To deck the fea, if explained, to honour, SEASON. He is noble, wife, judicious, and best knows Macbeth, A. 4, S. 2. SELF-SLAUGHTER. I must die; And if I do not by thy hand, thou art No fervant of thy matter's: against self-flaughter That cravens my weak hand. Cymbeline, A. 3, S. 4. SENS S E. 2 * I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry. Othello, A. 5, S. 1. Impoffible honour, adorn, or dignify, is indeed ridiculous, but the original import of the verb deck is, to cover; fo in fome parts they yet fay deck the table. This fenfe may be borne, but perhaps the poet wrote fleck'd, which I think is ftill used in ruftic language of drops falling upon water. Dr. Warburton reads mock'd, the Oxford edition brack'd. JOHNSON. I have little doubt but that the poet wrote "beck'd the sea," added rivers to the fea. Beck, in early writers, is a river. "I "have beck'd the fea," for, I have added rivers to the sea, is not indeed a very easy language, but it is certainly the language of Shakespeare. A. B. 1 The fits o' the feafon.] The fits of the feafon fhould appear to be, from the following paffage in Coriolanus, the violent diforders of the feafon, its convulfions: "The violent fit o' th' times craves it as phyfick." STEEVENS. "He is noble, wife, judicious, and best knows The meaning is,-He is wife and judicious, and knows how to conduct himself according to the temper of the times. 2. A. B. I've rubb'd this young quat almoft to the fenfe, verted 'Impoffible be ftrange attempts, to thofe All's well that ends well, A. 1, S. 1. verted among the editors. Sir T. Hanmer reads quab, a gudgeon; not that a gudgeon can be rubbed to much fenfe, but that a man grofsly deceived, is often called a gudgeon. Mr. Upton reads quail, which he proves, by much learning, to be a very choleric bird. Dr. Warburton retains gnat, which is found in the early quarto. Theobald would introduce knot, a finall bird of that name. I have followed the text of the folio, and third and fourth quartos. Aquat, in the midland counties, is a pimple, which by rubbing is made to fmart, or is rubbed to fenfe. Rodorigo is called a quat by the fame mode of fpeech, as a low fellow is now termed, in low language, a fcab. JOHNSON. All the commentators, I believe, have mistaken the fenfe of this paffage. A "quat," in my opinion, is an intimate, a crony. We now fay, when we speak of the intimacy of one man with another," O! they are quater-coufins."-I therefore read as follows: "I have fubb'd this young quat," &c. i. e. I have fubb'd, or put off, this quater-coufin, or associate of mine, as long as poffible, and now he grows angry. Quat" appears to be an abbreviation of " quater," and may have been ufed for quater-coufin, or friend, in the fame way that cuz is employed for coufin, a relation by blood or marriage. A. B. Hanmer : I Impoffible be ftrange attempts, to those That weigh their pain in fenfe; and do fuppofe, What hath been cannot be.] Thefe lines I read with "Impoffible be strange attempts to those "That weigh their pain in fenfe, and do suppose, "What ha'nt been, cannot be." New attempts feem impoffible to those who eftimate their labour or enterprizes by fenfe, and believe that nothing can be but what they fee before them. JOHNSON. There is no neceffity for alteration. The paffage is fufficiently clear as it ftands. New attempts, fays Helena, appear fo very difficult to most people, that they are apt to imagine it is impoffible we fhould ever fucceed in them, though it is well known that events or occurrences, equally ftrange with that on which I am meditating, have frequently been obferved in the world. If any change is made, it fhould be as follows: "Impoffible |