Again, in “Hudibras,” p. 1, c. 3, l. 637--
“Let us that are unhurt and whole, Fall on, and _happy man be’s dole_.”
[38] To _contrive_ in this place signifies to wear away, to spend, from _contero_, Lat. So in Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” act i., sc. 2--
“Please you we many _contrive_ this afternoon?”
Totum hunc _contrivi_ diem.--_S._ See also the Notes of Dr Warburton and Dr Johnson on the above line in Shakespeare.
[39] Taunts or sarcasms. See Johnson.--_N._
[40] _Plain-song_ is _planus cantus_, uniform modulation. _Descant_ is musical paraphrase. See a Note on “The Midsummer Night’s Dream,” vol. iii., p. 63; and another on “King Richard III.” vol. vii., p. 6, edit. 1778.--_S._
[41] Spenser has this word which, as Dr Johnson observes, appears to be the same as _winch_. It should seem to be expressive of some slight degree of pain, and in this instance to mean the same as if the speaker had said, I care not a _fillip_.--_S._
[42] Dionysius the tyrant is said to have punished with death one of his subjects for dreaming he had killed him. This was hardly more iniquitous than the execution of the gentleman, who having a white deer in his park, which was killed by Edward the Fourth, wished the deer, horns and all, in the belly of him that counselled the king to kill it, _whereas in truth no man counselled the king to it_: or than the attainder and execution of Algernon Sydney, on the evidence of private and unpublished papers, without any proof, or even a suggestion, of their intended publication.”--_Principles of Penal Law_, c. 11.
[44] _Through_, both editions. The alteration by Mr Dodsley.
[45] _Is lyke unto a stage_, second edition.
[46] This sentence stands in the old copies, _Omnis solum fortis patria_.--_Collier._ [But Mr Collier printed _patriæ_.
[47] See [Hazlitt’s] “Proverbs,” p. [336.]
[48] The _seat_ means _the situation_. See, in Dr Johnson’s Dictionary, instances of it from Raleigh, Hayward, Bacon, and B. Jonson.--_N._
[49] This quotation is given as follows in both the old copies--
“_Dic mihi musa virum captæ post tempora Trojæ, Multorum homines mores qui vidit et urbes._”
Query--Was it meant by the author that Damon should misquote?--_Collier._ [Surely not.]