332 LIBRARY OF OLD AUTHORS. 



Mr. Hooper's note is " inhabiters, viz. of Troy." " In- 

 habitant " is an adjective agreenig with "power." Our 

 power without exceeds that withni. 



" Yet all this time to stay, 

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

 Wittiout it were absurd and vile " (II. n. 257.) 



A note on this passage tells us that " out of judgments" 

 meaiis " against our inclniations." 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 oul 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. S5.) 



Mr. Hooper's note is " ' Which men a comet calV — so 

 both the folios. Dr. Taylor has printed ' which man a 

 comet calls.'' This certainly suits the rhyme, but I ad- 

 here to Chapman's text." Both editors have misunder- 

 stood the passage. The fault is not in " call " but in 

 " exhals," a clear misprint for " exhall," the spelling, as 

 was common, being conformed to the visible rhyme. 

 "That" means "so that" (a frequent Elizabethan con- 

 struction) 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 eviche 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 evict, or doomed one — but ? It is possible 

 Chapman meant to Anglicize the Greek ai| ; or should 

 we read Ibex, as the ai^ i^akos was such 1 " The word 

 means the chamois, and is merely the English form of the 

 French ibiche. Dr. Taylor's reading would amaze us 



