Draws the curtain. Twelfth Night, I. 5.
[139]. Whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders. Othello. I. 3.
[140]. Here be truths ... dashed and brewed with lies. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, I. 114. Cf. also a similar passage in Addison (The Spectator, 580).
With other matters of like pith and moment. Cf. ‘enterprizes of great pith and moment.’ Hamlet, III. I.
If these things are done in the green tree. S. Luke, xxiii. 31.
[141]. The Alchemist. By Ben Jonson, 1610.
[144]. Malebranche. Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715), whose De la Recherche de la Vérité was published in 1674.
[146]. Gaubius Gobbo. ‘Good Launcelot Gobbo,’ Merchant of Venice, II. 2.
[147]. There needs no ghost to tell us that. Hamlet, I. 5.
[149]. The Wonderful Magazine. The Wonderful Magazine, or Marvellous Chronicle, or New Weekly Entertainer, a journal of the latter half of the eighteenth century, with varying titles.