1969. _Adrian_ or _Adriane_, the M.E. spellings of Ariadne: see Ho. Fame, 407; Prol. to Man of Law, B 67. Ariadne and Phædra were the daughters of Minos; Theseus took both of them away from Crete; and, on the voyage, deserted Ariadne for her sister. 1990. 'And make this sorrowful man come with him.' 1992. _Quit_, free, delivered. It seems to have been an understood thing, that if a captive Athenian should succeed in slaying the Minotaur, he should go free, and the tribute paid by the Athenians should be remitted. One account in Plutarch says that Minos himself 'chose Theseus, upon condition agreed between them; ... and that after the death of the Minotaur this tribute should cease.'--Sh. Plut. p. 282. One condition was, that the captives should be _unarmed_. This explains Phædra's plan, in l. 1994, for arming Theseus surreptitiously; cf. l. 2011. 1993. _Taste_, test. The word _test_ was formerly used only as a sb., of a vessel in which gold or silver was tested; the place of the mod. E. verb to test was supplied by the M.E. _tasten_, and there can be little doubt that the words _taste_ and _test_ have been partially confused; see these words in my Etym. Dict., whence I quote the following: 'The M.E. _tasten_ meant both to feel and to taste. "I rede thee, lat thyn _hand_ upon it falle, And _taste_ it wel, and stoon thou shalt it finde"; Ch. C. T. 15970 (G 502). "Every thyng Himseolf schewith in _tastyng_;" King Alisaunder, 4042.--F. _taster_, to taste or take an assay of; also to handle, feel, touch; Cotgrave. Cf. mod. F. _tâter_; Ital. _tastare_, "to taste, to assaie, to feele, to grope, to trye, to proofe, to touch"; Florio.' 1996. The former syllable of _Fighten_ forms a foot by itself. 1997. 'Where he will have to descend.' 2002. _Shal do_, will be sure to do. 2004. Bell remarks that this resembles the stratagem by which Daniel destroyed the dragon at Babylon. 'Tulit igitur Daniel picem, et adipem, et pilos, et coxit pariter: fecitque massas, et dedit in os draconis, et diruptus est draco'; Dan. xiv. 26 (Vulgate). 2009. _To-hepe_, together; i.e. 'before they come to closer quarters.' Bell alters this, the reading of all the MSS. and old editions, to _to kepe_, which gives no sense; and Morris and Corson follow suit. Yet _to-hepe_, lit. 'to a heap,' but used adverbially in the precise sense of 'together,' is not a recondite expression. Morris explains it rightly elsewhere, viz. in Chaucer's tr. of Boethius, bk. iv. pr. 6, l. 182, where 'y-medled to-hepe' means 'mixed together.' It is also in Troil. iii. 1764:--'that Love halt now _to-hepe_,' which Love now holds together. And yet again, in Ch. Astrolabe, pt. i. § 14. 5. See also P. Plowm. Crede, 727.