[241]. Oldcastle. See Rowe, p. [5], and note.
[247]. note. Be thus when thou art dead. Othello, v. 2. 18.
[248]. Barbarian. See notes on Voltaire, pp. 117, etc.
Love's Labour lost. In his edition of L.L.L. (1768), Capell omitted fifteen lines from Biron's speech in Act iv., Sc. 3 (iv. 1 in his own edition, p. 54). He did not record the omission.
[249]. Nothing perishable about him except that very learning, etc. Cf. Edward Young, Conjectures on Original Composition, 1759, p. 81, and Hurd, Notes on Horace's Art of Poetry, line 286 (1757, i., pp. 213, 4): “Our Shakespear was, I think, the first that broke through this bondage of classical superstition. And he owed this felicity, as he did some others, to his want of what is called the advantage of a learned education.”
[251]. Macbeth, i. 5. 18, 49; v. 5. 13; v. 3. 23.
practicer of arts inhibited. Othello, i. 2. 78.
[254]. note. Shakespeare's magic, etc. Dryden, Prologue to the Tempest, 1667, lines 19, 20.
[258]. miching malicho. Hamlet, iii. 2. 147.
[260]. but a choleric word. Measure for Measure, ii. 2. 130.