. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. nd shall at length ActEeons guerdon have : And as his hounds, so their affections baseShall them devour, and all their deeds deface. But in Daniels Fifth Sonnet, published in 1594,we find the thought, and almost the expression,of the text:— Whilst youth and error led my wandring mind. And set my thoughts in heedless ways to unawares a goddess chaste I find, (Diana-like,) to work my sudden her no sooner had mine eye bewrayd, But with disdain to see me in that place,With fairest hand the sweet unkindest ma
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. nd shall at length ActEeons guerdon have : And as his hounds, so their affections baseShall them devour, and all their deeds deface. But in Daniels Fifth Sonnet, published in 1594,we find the thought, and almost the expression,of the text:— Whilst youth and error led my wandring mind. And set my thoughts in heedless ways to unawares a goddess chaste I find, (Diana-like,) to work my sudden her no sooner had mine eye bewrayd, But with disdain to see me in that place,With fairest hand the sweet unkindest maid Casts water—cold disdain—upon my face:Which turnd my sport into a harts despair, Which still is chasd, while I have any breath,By mine own thoughts, set on me by my fair; My thoughts, like hounds, pursue me to my that I fosterd of mine own accordAre made by her to murder thus their lord. Scene III.— viol-da-gamho, or base viol, a kind of vio-loncello, which had six strings, and was so calledbecause placed between the [ Viol-de-gainboys.] * Scene III.— Till his brains turn o the toenice a parish-top. He sleeps like a town top is an old pro-verbial saying. Fletcher, in the Night Walker,has And dances like a town-top, and reels and hobbles. In the passage before us we find that the tovm-top and the jx^-iish-top were one and the custom which existed in the time of Eliza-beth, and probably long before, of a large topbeing provided for the amusement of thepeasants in frosty weather, presents a curiousillustration of the mitigating influences ofsocial kindness in an age of penal legislation. TWELFTH NIGHT. SCENE III.] Whilst poor Tom Tvas whipped from tithingto tithing, he had his ]\Ia3-games, and hisChristmas hospitalities, and his parish-top, ifhe remained at home. Steevens explains thecustom of the parish-top in a very literalmanner :— A large top was formerly kept inevery village, to be whipped in frosty weather,that t
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