Star.
London, England, 1808-01-05 00:00:00

PAR LP MARQUIS DE PI I.VP.

("est x toi,genereuse Terre,
Que de nub jours je dois la.ratx.
Cependantonalgre tes bi!mtaits,
Tu ene..7e i rangire.•
Mak dans ton sin,quand dr ir,,n R ct
Y vient 14 i'...rsonne cht:rie,
Rien West phis stranger pour mei ;
Et je vois en toi ma patrie.
A translation of these elegant and feeling Lines is requested.

SH.IKSPEARI.IN.

(No. 4.)
_ ANNOTATIONs ON THE. TEMPEST.

Page 2.l.—The r../plague rid you.
'rr. STEEvio:s observes, the rod plague and erysi-
pelas were anciently ynonyntous. Rid means destroy;
so in the third part of Henry the Sixth,

As cleathsrnen; you have rid this sweet young Prince.
Page I:8. My prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is, () you nrondis!
If you be Irak, or no?

Much discussion has prevailed with respect to the
phrase made. On my first mature reading of this sen-
tence, the clear interpretation struck me to he as fol-
lows.--' are you a treated being :''—dool,l.;tig whether
Miranda was not an airy, inccrNroal :orni. This
question, and her answer,
No w.y•hirr. ;
But rcrtainly a
taken connectedly, simply display one of those fru de
mots so familiar in oar Puet's writings. and which were
the literary vices of the times. The more 1 have con-
sidered this passage, the more has the* first impression •
oa my mind been strengthened ; and I am now con-
firmed in my early opinion.
Pag: 39: My :angua::.e ! Heavens !
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.
• Speech here means dialect, namely, the dialect fa-
miliar to Feidinand's native kingdom, Naples. Sup-
posing his father drowned, Ferdinand would say, if he
was at the place where the dialect which Miranda has
• delivered was spoken, he should be the best, ur must
distinguished personage there.
Pkge 30:-- • Thou dolt here usurp
The name thou ow'st not.
•

Mr, STEEVF.NS observes on a passage in page 27
' the earth own'—that owe, in that place, and many
others, signifies to own. These wants of emendation
in the modern Editors argue, methinks, a nicety whi,•h
would be " more honoured in the breach than the
ohsevance."
Page -Is.—Beseech you, sir, be merry: hare cause
(So hare we all) of
.!oy ; for our escape

Is much beyond our loss.
In other words, our escape is ftr mere surprising,
than our loss.
Ibid.--- Onr his: of woe

Is crlmml

Mr. STEEVENf, on a passage in page 13, where lifl-
randa says—
. .

It is a flint
That wring mine eyes tort,

intimates that hint is suggestion. 1)r. JortNEo.l inter-
prets the expression to intend that which recalls to the
memory and he renders the first-mentioned passage
thus—' The cause tied fills our minds with grief is com-
mon.' I have endeavoured to nroncile the following
extract from Otielle with either of those authorities :
Wherein of mires vast, and deserts idle, '

Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch Heaven,
• It my Alas to speak—

But I cannot exactly suit my fancy to the ideas of
those judicious commentators : neither can I, with
any thing like positive confidence, oppose the
reading our hint of woe.' The word is obsolete in
its intended acceptation, and the exact meaning, in
my opinion, as yet undefined. I think, however,
that the word stint by Dr. WARBURTON merits atten-
tion. Stint, or limit of woe, is clearly understood,
and the phrase was familiarly applied by &UK-
SPEAR, though perhaps not precisely in the same
sense as in the present extract. The following are
amongst the instances.—And stint thou too,—l pray
thee nurse, say I, ( Romeo and Juliet). We must not
stint our necessary actions—(Henry the Eighth). Make
peace ; stint war—(Timon of Athens). He can at plea-
sure stint their melody—(Titut Andronicus ). The
combatants being half kin, hall stint their strife before
their strokes begin—(Troilur and Cressida.)

A new Opera, in five acts, was yesterday rehearsed
at Drury-lane Theatte.

A private of the Horse Artillery, lying in Christ-
church Barracks, being with a party on trulay night
last, on the look-out for Smugglers, in attempting to
leap his horse over a gate, was thrown off, and killed
th espot.
Letters from Cork mention the arrival there of a
valuable Danish brig, with 200 tons of gum onboard,
prize to the Lion privateer, of 12 guns, belonging to
Plym,3tteh.