[30] A proverbial expression often found in ancient writers. Heywood has it: “Happy man, happy _dole_.” See Dyce’s Glossary to his second edition of Shakespeare, p. 201. _Dole_, Mr Steevens observes (Notes to “The Taming of the Shrew,” act i., sc. 1), is any thing dealt out or distributed, though its original meaning was the provision given away at the doors of great men’s houses. It is generally written _be his dole_, though Ray, p. 116, gives it as in the second 4to _by_ his dole. Shakespeare also uses the phrase in “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” Again, in “Hudibras,” p. 1, c. 3, l. 637-- “Let us that are unhurt and whole, Fall on, and _happy man be’s dole_.” [31] _He_, first edition. [32] _Bosome_, second edition. [33] Original, _outwery_. [34] _Seeketh_, second edition. [35] _Grace_, second edition. [36] _Quietly_, first edition. [37] [i.e., So near _are they_.] [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man counselled the king to it_: or than the attainder and execution of Algernon Sydney, on the evidence of private and unpublished papers, without any proof, or even a suggestion, of their intended publication.”--_Principles of Penal Law_, c. 11. [43] _With crueltie_, second edition. [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.]