[277] Mixed metal, from the French word mesler, to mingle, mix.
[278] [Lightning-bolt.]
[279] [Camphored.]
[280] Plin. "Nat. Hist." lib. xxxvi. c. 16. "Sideritin ob hoc alio nomine appellant quidam Heracleon: Magnes appellatus est ab inventore (ut auctor est Nicander) in Ida repertus."—Pegge.
[281] So in "The Merchant of Venice," act i. sc. 1—
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
See also the notes of Bishop Warburton and Dr Farmer on "Love's Labour's
Lost," act v. sc. 4.—Steevens.
[282] This quotation from Plautus, and that which follows from Terence, were assigned by Mr Reed to Communis Sensus, when, in fact, they belong to Comedus. The initials Com. in the old copies led to the error.—Collier.
[283] The first lines of the prologue to Plautus's "Menechmi."
[284] See Terence's "Eunuch," act i. sc. 1.