The  gilded  newt,  and  eyeleis  \'enom'd  worm  '*,
With  all  the  abhorred  births  bek>w  crifp  ''  beavca
\M)ereon  Hyperion's  quickening  firs  doth  Ihine  j
Yield  him,  who  all  thy  human  fons  doth  hace»
From  liirth  thy  plenteous  buTom,  one  poor  root  I
finfear  thy  lertile  and  oioceptioos  womb^


>  i.  c.  drawfirtk.        »  An  allufton  to  the  talc  of  Oedipus.        )  Perhaps  «i(/>/7j  it  hrre  u fed  ^r««
vatisil}  for  tijtdt,  4  That  is,  e»»mgk  to  msie  a  utkote  leave  wAorifi^f  and  a  kaxitd  Uavt  makvi£

mthartu  Si.  c.  I  h  ill  tndl  to  your  inclinations.  ^  Dr>  Warburton  commrats

•a  this  palTage  thus :  <*  This  is  obfcure,  partly  from  the  ambimiity  of  the  word  /tffiii,  and
vartly  from  the  generality  of  the  cxprcQion.  The  meaning  is  (lii»  :  He  ha4  faid  bcfovt,  Follow  c«n-
ftjntfy  your  trade  of  debauchery  ;  that  is  [fays  he)  for  Ax  months  in  the  year.  Let  the  other  fix  be
employed  in  ouitc  contrary  paint  and  Ubour,  namely,  in  the  feverc  difcipUne  n^crflary  for  the  rc-i
pair  Of  thofe  oiforders  that  your  debaucheries  occafion,  in  order  to  fit  you  anew  to  the  trade ;  and
thiie  let  the  whole  year  be  fpent  in  thcfe  different  occupations.  On  tbit  account  he  goes  on,  and
fays,  Uakejmi/ekair^it.^,  Mr.  Steevens  however  conceives  the  meaning  to  be  only  this  :  "  Yujar
SMiJ  ihjur  at  hajt  My  yom  fufir  fick  ^antjkmtni  as  is  inftttied  m  harlots  in  h»ufcs  ef  C0rrt{boii.'*
7  QaiUtts  are  fubulttcs.  *  i.  e.  give  the  tiamen  the  hoan  ifpf^fy*  *  To  farej'tehts  parti^uUr,  it
i» pratidtfot  his  privait  4d\taMtagt^  lor  which  he ItiUiu  the  r i^htfcent  efpMcgood,  In  hunting,  when
hares  have  crofs'd  one  another,  it  is  common  for  foroc  of  the  hounds  /«  Jmeiifrom  the  general  weal^
M9d  hffpt  their  awn  partiiuUr,  Shakfpeare,  who  fecmi  to  have  been  a  Ikilful  fporifman,  and  has
•lli.ded  often  to  falconrv,  perhaps  alludes  here  to  huntiog.  ^^  To  grane  is  to  enM>mb.  <<  f^lhft
mafaiU  hreajt  meant  mhaje haandltfi  firfaee.  ^^  The  firpcnt,  which  we»  iioai  the  fmaUncis  of  bU
e/tay  csii  ihei^Ji^ttisr*.     'I  i.  c.  curled,  bent,  hollow.
