244 LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 



Bid (!!. i.) is explained to mean threaten, challenge, where 

 offer would be the right word. 



And cast 

 The offal of all to the deep. (II. i. 309.) 



Surely a slip of Chapman s pen. He must have intended to 

 write Of all the offal/ a transversion common with him and 

 needed here to avoid a punning jingle. 



So much I must affirm our power exceeds th inhabitant. (II. ii. no.) 



Mr. Hooper s note is inhabiters, viz. of Troy. Inhabitant is 

 an adjective agreeing with * power. Our power without exceeds 

 that within. 



Yet all this time to stay, 



Out of our judgments, for our end, and now to take our way 

 Without it were absurd and vile. (II. ii. 257.) 



A note on this passage tells us that &amp;lt; out of judgments means 

 f against our inclinations. It means simply in accordance 

 with our good judgment/ just as we still say out of his wisdom. 

 Compare 11. iii. 63. 



Hector, because thy sharp reproof is cut of justice given, 

 I take it well. 



And as Jove, brandishing a star which men a comet call, 

 Hurls out his curled hair abroad, that from his brand exhals 

 A thousand sparks. (II. iv. 85.) 



Mr. Hooper s note is &quot; Which men a comet calV so both 

 the folios. Dr. Taylor has printed &quot; which man a comet calls.&quot; 

 This certainly suits the rhyme, but I adhere to Chapman s^text. 

 Both editors have misunderstood the passage. The fault is not 

 in * call but in exhals/ a clear misprint for exhall/ the spel 

 ling, as was common, being conformed to the visible rhyme. 

 That means so that (a frequent Elizabethan construction) 

 and exhall is governed by sparks. The meaning is, As 

 when Jove, brandishing a comet, hurls out its curled hair so 

 that a thousand sparks exhale from its burning. 



The evicke skipping from the rock. 



Mr. Hooper tells us, It is doubtful what this word really is. 

 Dr. Taylor suggests that it may probably mean the evtct, or 

 doomed one but ? It is possible Chapman meant to Anglicise 

 the Greek ( ; or should we read Ibex, as the o&amp;lt; i ^aXoc,- was 

 such? The word means the chamois, and is merely the English 

 form of the French ibiche. Dr. Taylor s reading would amaze 

 us were we not familiar with the commentators on Shakespeare. 



And now they out-ray to your fleet. (II. v. 793. ) 



f Out-ray spread out in array; abbreviated from array. Dr. 



