Perhaps, _Who_ gaz'd _upon me_. I.iii.64 (20,8) Why birds, and beasts, from quality and kind] That is, Why they _deviate_ from quality and nature. This line might perhaps be more properly placed after the next line. _Why birds, and beasts, from quality and kind; Why all these things change from their ordinance._ I.iii.65 (20,9) and children calculate] [Shakespeare, with his usual liberty, employs the _species_ [calculate] for the _genus_ foretel]. WARB.] Shakespeare found the liberty established. _To calculate a nativity_, is the technical term. I.iii.l14 (22,2) My answer must be made] I shall be called to account, and must _answer_ as for seditious words. I.iii.117 (22,3) Hold my hand] Is the same as, _Here's my hand_. I.iii.118 (22,4) Be factious for redress] _Factious_ seems here to mean _active_. I.iii.129 (23,5) It favours, like the work] The old edition reads, It favours, _like the work_-- I think we should read, In favour's, _like the work we have in hand, Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible._ _Favour_ is _look, countenance, appearance_. (rev. 1778, VIII, 25, 7) II.i.19 (25,6) Remorse from power] [_Remorse_, for mercy. WARB.] _Remorse_ (says the Author of the _Ravisal_) signifies the conscious uneasiness arising from a sense of having done wrong; to extinguish which feeling, nothing hath so great a tendency as absolute uncontrouled power. I think Warbuton right. (1773) II.i.21 (25,7) common proof] Common experiment. II.i.26 (25,8) base degrees] Low steps. II.i.33 (26,9) as his kind] According to his nature. II.i.63 (27,3) Between the acting of a dreadful thing, And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection] The [Greek: deinon] of the Greek critics does not, I think, mean sentiments which _raise fear_, more than _wonder_, or any other of the tumultuous passions; [Greek: to deinon] is that which _strikes_, which _astonishes_, with the idea either of some great subject, or of the author's abilities. Dr. Warburton'a pompous criticism might well have been shortened. The _genius_ is not the _genius_ of a _kingdom_, nor are the _instruments, conspirators_. Shakespeare is describing what passes in a single bosom, the _insurrection_ which a conspirator feels agitating the _little kingdom_ of his own mind; when the _Genius_, or power that watches for his protection, and the _mortal instruments_, the passions, which excite him to a deed of honour and danger, are in council and debate; when the desire of action and the care of safety, keep the mind in continual fluctuation and disturbance. II.i.76 (29,5) any mark of favour] Any distinction of countenance. II.i.83 (30,6) For if thou path thy native semblance on] If thou _walk_ in thy true form.