Act IV. iii. 30: Autolycus-" For the life to come, I sleep out the thought on't."

1 Tim. iv. 8—“The life present and of that that is to come." Rom. xiii. 11-" And that considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise from sleepe."

Act IV. iii. 42: Clown-" Three man song men all, and very good ones, but they are most of them Meanes and Bases: but one Puritan amongst them and he sings Psalms to horne-pipes."

Ephes. v. 19-"Speaking unto yourselves in Psalmes and hymns and spirituall songs, singing and making melodie to the Lord in your hearts."

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Act IV. iii. 97: Autolycus-"I know this man well he hath been since an ape-bearer: then a process-server, a bailiff; then he compast a motion of the Prodigall Sonne, and married a tinker's wife within a mile where my land and living lies and having flown over many knavish professions, he settled only in rogue." The meaning of the phrase "compassed a motion" is sometimes given as "gained possession of," but compare the Biblical use of the word "compass "

Acts xxviii. 13-" And from thence we set a compasse and came to Rhegium."

So Tyn., Cran., Gen., Author.; Wic.-" we seileden aboute."
Rheims" compassing by the shore."

"He compast a motion of the Prodigall Sonne" is a refer

ence to the return of the Prodigal, but the repentance of Autolycus is best indicated by the fact of his marrying a tinker's wife and settling down into roguery.

Act IV. iii. 448: Perdita

"I was about to speak and tell him plainly,

The self same Sunne that shines upon his Court

Hides not his visage from our Cottage but

Lookes on all alike."

Ecclus. xlii. 16-" The sun that shineth looketh upon al things, and all the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord."

Act IV. iii. 545: Florizel—

"But as unthought-on accident is guiltie

To what we wildely do, so we professe
Our selves to be the slaves of chance, and flyes
Of every winde that blowes."

Eccles. ix. 11-“ I returned and sawe under the sunne that the race is not to the swift, nor the battell to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor also riches to men of understanding, neither yet favour to men of knowledge: but time and chance commeth to them all."

Act V. i. 5: Cleomenes

"No fault could you make,

Which you have not redeem'd: indeed payd downe

More penitence then done trespas: at the last

Doe, as the Heavens have done : forget your evill

With them, forgive yourselfe."

Joel ii. 13-" Rent your heart and not your clothes: and turne unto the Lorde your God, for He is gracious and mercifull.”

Job xlii. 6-"I abhorre myself and repent in dust and ashes.” Jer. xxxi. 34-" I wil forgive their iniquitie and wil remember their sinnes no more."

Act V. ii. 14: 1st Gentleman-"They look'd as they had heard of a world ransom'd or one destroyed."

Mark x. 45" To give His life a ransom for many."

1 Tim. ii. 6—“ Christ Jesus, who gave Himselfe a ransome for all men."

Gen. vi. 17-" And I, behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh."

Act V. ii. 197 Lord-"Lay't so to his charge."

Acts vii. 60-" And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voyce, Lord, lay not this sinne to their charge."

Wic." sette not to them this sinne."

Rheims" lay not this sinne to them."

Tyn., Cran., Gen., Author.-"lay not this sinne to their charge."

Act V. iii. 77: Leontes

"For this affliction has a taste as sweet

As any cordiall comfort."

Heb. xii. 11-"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: but afterward it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, unto them which are thereby exercised.”

Act V. iii. 95: Paulina—

"It is requir'd

You do awake your Faith: then, all stand still.

Exod. xiv. 13-"Then Moses sayd to the people, Feare ye not, stand still and beholde the salvation of the Lord." 22—“Then the children of Israel came through the mids of the sea."

Act V. iii. 121: Hermione

"You gods look downe

And from your sacred Viols poure your graces
Upon my daughter's head."

Rev. v. 8-" Golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the Saintes."

Ps. cxxxiii. 2-"It is like to the precious oyntment upon the head."

Genevan Note-"The oyntment was a figure of the graces

which come from Christ the head unto His Church."

THE TEMPEST.

1611.

"The Tempest" was probably the latest drama that Shakespeare completed.

Act I. ii. 28: Prospero

"I have with such provision in mine art

So safely ordered, that there is no soule,

No not so much perdition as an hayre

Betid to any creature in the vessel

Which thou heardst cry: which thou saw'st sinke."

Compare Acts xxvii. in which the line "no not so much perdition as an hayre" occurs as follows

Acts xxvii. 34-"For there shall not an haire of your heads perish."

Acts xxvii. 22-"There shall be no losse of any man's life among you save of the shippe onely."

Act I. ii. 217: Ariel

"Not a haire perished;

On their sustaining garments not a blemish,

But fresher than before."

Luke xxi. 18-"Yet there shall not an haire of your heads perish."

Ariel was a spirit of flame and made the vessel "all afire,"

line 212, and Shakespeare seems to have recalled the

incident of the burning fiery furnace of Nebuchad

nezzar, where the words occur

Dan. iii. 27—“The fire had no power over their bodies, for not an haire of their head was burnt, neither were their coats changed, nor any smell of fire came upon them."

Act I. ii. 337: Caliban

"Teach me to name the bigger Light, and how the lesse
That burne by day and night."

Gen. i. 16-"God then made two great lightes, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesse light to rule night.'

Act II. i. 3: Gonzalo.

Our hint of woe is common;

Every day some sailor's wife,

The master of some merchant, and the merchant

Have just our theme of woe."

Job v. 7-" But man is borne unto travell, as the sparks flie upward."

Act II. i. 121-Francisco. "He came alive to land."

Acts xxvii. 43-" And the other, some on boards and some on certaine pieces of the ship: and so it came to passe that they came all safe to land."

Act II. i. 160: Gonzalo

"All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavour treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun or need of any engine
Would I not have: for Nature should bring forth

Of it owne kinde, all foizon, all abundance

To feed my innocent people."

I.e., a return to Paradise and its conditions of peace and

innocence.

Gen. i. 21-" Brought foorth in abundance, according to their kinde." 29-" And God saide, Beholde I have given unto you every herbe bearing seede which is upon all the earth and every tree wherein is the fruite of a tree bearing seed that shall be to you for meate."

Gen. iii. 17-19-"In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread."

"In sorrow shalt thou eate of it."

Act II. i. 225: Antonio

Ebbing men, indeed,

Most often do so near the bottom run

By their own fear or sloth."

Prov. xxii. 13-"The slouthfull man saith, A lyon is without, I shall be slaine in the streete."

Prov. xxvi. 14-"As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slouthfull man upon his bed." 13-"The slouthfull man says, A lyon is in the way, a lyon is in the streetes."