_Troll_ is from the French _trôler_, to _lead_, _draw_, or _drag_, and this sense particularly applies to a catch, in which one part is sung after the other, one of the singers leading off. The term is _sometimes_ used as Mr. Steevens has explained it. Littelton renders _to troll along his words_, by _volubiliter loqui sive rotundè_. _Trolling_ for fish, is drawing the bait along in the water, to imitate the swimming of a real fish. SCENE 2. Page 104. SEB. ... in _Arabia_ There is one tree, the Phœnix' throne, _one phœnix_ At this hour reigning there. Bartholomæus _De propriet. rerum_, speaking of _Arabia_, says, "there breedeth a birde that is called _Phœnix_;" and from what has already been said of this book, it was probably one of Shakspeare's authorities on the occasion. SCENE 2. Page 106. GON. Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men, _Whose heads stood in their breasts?_ The "dewlapp'd mountaineers" are shown to have been borrowed from Maundeville's travels, and the same author doubtless supplied the other monsters. In the edition printed by Thomas Este, without date, is the following passage: "In another ile dwell men that have no heads, and their eyes are in their shoulders, _and their mouth is on their breast_." A cut however which occurs in this place is more to the purpose, and might have saved our poet the trouble of consulting the text, for it represents a complete head with eyes, nose, and mouth, placed on the breast and stomach. ACT IV. SCENE 1. Page 122. CER. Hail many-coloured messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres---- An elegant expansion of these lines in Phaer's _Virgil. Æn._ end of book 4. "Dame rainbow down therefore with safron wings of dropping showres. Whose face a thousand sundry hewes against the sunne devoures, From heaven descending came----" SCENE 1. Page 131. ARI. ... so I charm'd their ears, That calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns Which enter'd their frail skins. Dr. Johnson has introduced a passage from Drayton's _Nymphidia_, as resembling the above description. It is still more like an incident in the well known story of the _friar and the boy_. "Jacke toke his pype and began to blowe Then the frere, as I trowe, Began to daunce soone; The breres scratched hym in the face And in many another place That the blode brast out, He daunced among thornes thycke In many places they dyde hym prycke, &c." SCENE 1. Page 136.