[283] A metaphor, from engines by which weights are raised or _winched_ up. Harpocrates was the god of silence. [284] [Old copy, _slipt_]. [285] I suppose this word is compounded from _denizen_, _i.e._, one made free, and here very licentiously employed.--_Steevens._ [286] So in Milton's "Paradise Lost," bk. ii. l. 706-- "Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a _comet_ burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid _hair_ _Shakes_ pestilence and war." [287] See the letter printed in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History, bk. iv. c. 2. [288] Pearls. In 1596 Tho. Lodge published a pamphlet, entitled, "A Margarite of America." [289] Mars. "_Gradivumque_ patrem Geticis qui præsidet arvis." --_Virgil_, _Æneid_, iii. 35. [290] Reward. [291] Shields. The author of this play appears to advantage in this and the subsequent catalogues of warriors.--_Steevens._ [292] Broadswords. [293] The Severn. [294] Fluttering. [295] See note to act iii., sc. 5. [296] See Geoffrey of Monmouth, bk. ii.; the play of "Locrine," [probably by Charles Tylney, and falsely] attributed to Shakespeare; and Evans's "Old Ballads," vol. i. [297] See Geoffrey of Monmouth, bk. ii. c. 9. [298] _Ibid._, bk. iii. c. 19. [299] _Ibid._, bk. ii. c. 10. [300] Dunwallo Molmutius. See note to act iii. sc. 5. There was an old historical play called "Mulmutius Dunwallo," which in Henslowe's MS. has the date of September 1598 affixed to it; but it must have been written much earlier, as William Rankins, the author of it, had long before repented of his "lewd life," and in 1587 published his "Mirror of Monsters," a puritanical attack on the stage and plays in general.--_Collier._ ACT III., SCENE I. _Noise of ships landing, and the battle within._ CÆSAR, VOLUSENUS, LABERIUS, ATRIUS. _Ensign,_ _drums, flags._ CÆS. Our landing cost us dearly, many lives Between the ships and shore being sacrific'd: Our men, with heavy armour clogg'd, and ignorant Of all the flats and shallows, were compell'd To wade and fight, like Tritons, half above, Half under water. Now we surer tread, Though much diminish'd by so many lost. Come on, come on. [_They march and go out._ CASSIBELANUS, CRIDOUS, BRITAEL, GUERTHED, _the four Kings of Kent_, NENNIUS, ANDROGEUS, TENANTIUS, EULINUS, HIRILDAS, BELINUS, ROLLANO. _Ensigns, drum. A march._ CAS. So, let them land. No matter which they choose, Fishes or crows, to be executors. They'll find the land as dangerous as the sea. The nature of our soil won't bear a Roman, As Irish earth doth poison poisonous beasts.[301] On then! charge close, before they gather head. NEN. Brother, advance. On this side I'll lead up The new-come succours of the Scots and Picts.