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[238]. Either for tragedy. Hamlet, Act II. 2. Hazlitt alters the words of Polonius to apply them to Shakespeare. a deed without a name. Macbeth, Act IV. 1. does his spiriting gently, Act I. 2. to airy nothing. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. 1. semblably. The Second Part of King Henry VI., Act V. 1. worthy of that name. Cf. Act III. 1. [239]. like the dyer’s hand. Sonnet CXI. the liberty of wit’ ... ‘the law’ of the understanding. Cf. Hamlet, Act II. 2 [the law of writ and the liberty]. of the earth, earthy. St. John, iii. 31. always speaks in blank verse, Schlegel, p. 395. As wicked dew, Act I. 2. [240]. I’ll shew thee, Act II. 2. Be not afraid, Act III. 2. [241]. I drink the air, Act V. 1. I’ll put a girdle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II. 2. Your charm, Act V. 1. Come unto these yellow sands, Act I. 2. [242]. The cloud-capp’d towers, Act IV. 1. Ye elves of hills, Act V. 1. [243]. Shakespear has anticipated. The passage quoted is based on Florio’s translation of Montaigne. See Chapter XXX. Book 1. Of the Caniballes. Had I the plantation, Act II. 1.