is fairly removed by Mr. Malone; besides which it may be remarked that at the end of the play Caliban specifically calls Trinculo a fool. The modern managers will perhaps be inclined for the future to dress this character in the proper habit.

Sc. 2. p. 100.

CAL. Will you troll the catch

Troll is from the French troler, to lead, draw, or drag, and this sense particularly applies to a catch, in which one part is sung after the other, one of the singers leading off. The term is sometimes used as Mr. Stevens has explained it. Littelton renders to troll along his words, by volubiliter loqui sive rotundè. Trolling for fish, is drawing the bait along in the water, to imitate the swimming of a real fish.

There is one tree, the Phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

Bartholomæus De propriet. rerum, speaking of Arabia, says "there breedeth a birde that is called Phoenix ;" and from what has already been

said of this book, it was probably one of Shakspeare's authorities on the occasion.

Sc. 2. p. 106.

GON. Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging

at them

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men,
Whose heads stood in their breasts ?

The "dewlapp'd mountaineers" are shown to have been borrowed from Maundeville's travels, and the same author doubtless supplied the other monsters. In the edition printed by Thomas Este, without date, is the following passage: "In another ile dwell men that have no heads, and their eyes are in their shoulders, and their mouth is on their breast." A cut however which occurs in this place is more to the purpose, and might have saved our poet the trouble of consulting the text, for it represents a compleat head with eyes, nose, and mouth, placed on the breast and stomach.

ACT IV.

Scene 1. Page 122.

CER. Hail many-coloured messenger, that ne'er
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;

Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers;

And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
My bosky acres

An elegant expansion of these lines in Phaer's Virgil. En. end of book 4.

"Dame rainbow down therefore with safron wings of dropping showres.

Whose face a thousand sundry hewes against the sunne devoures,

From heaven descending came

ARI.

Sc. 1. p. 131.

so I charm'd their ears,

That calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns
Which enter'd their frail skins.

Dr. Johnson has introduced a passage from

Drayton's Nymphidia, as resembling the above

description. It is still more like an incident in the well known story of the friar and the boy.

"Jacke toke his pype and began to blowe

Then the frere, as I trowe,

Began to daunce soone;

The breres scratched hym in the face

And in many another place

That the blode brast out,

He daunced among thornes thycke

In many places they dyde hym prycke, &c."

Sc. 1. p. 136.

CAL. And all be turn'd to barnacles, or apes.

Mr. Collins's note, it is presumed, will not be thought worth retaining in any future edition. His account of the barnacle is extremely confused and imperfect. He makes Gerarde responsible for an opinion not his own; he substitutes the name of Holinshed for that of Harrison, whose statement is not so ridiculous as Mr. Collins would make it, and who might certainly have seen the feathers of the barnacles hanging out of the shells, as the fish barnacle or Lepas anatifera is undoubtedly furnished with a feathered beard. The real absurdity was the credulity of Gerarde and Harrison in supposing that the barnacle goose was really produced from the shell of the fish.

Dr. Bullein not only believed this himself, but bestows the epithets, ignorant and incredulous on those who did not; and in the same breath he maintains that christal is nothing more than ice. See his Bulwarke of defence, &c. 1562. Folio. fo. 12. Caliban's barnacle is the clakis or treegoose. Every kind of information on the subject may be found in the Physica curiosa of Gaspar Schot the Jesuit, who with great industry has collected from a multitude of authors whatever they had written concerning it. See lib. ix. c. 22. The works of Pennant and Bewick will supply every deficiency with respect to rational knowledge.

ACT V.

Scene 1. Page 140.

PRO. Ye elves of hills

The different species of the fairy tribe are called in the Northern languages ælfen, elfen, and alpen, words of remote and uncertain etymology. The Greek 0x610s, felix, is not so plausible an original as the Teutonic helfen, juvare; because many of these supernatural beings were supposed to be