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

 habitant" 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." (U. ii, 257.) 



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

 meaus " 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 out 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 " ' 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 evicTce skipping from the rock." 



]\Ir. 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 a'i^ i'^aXo? was such 1 " The word 

 means the chamois, and is merelj^ the English form of the 

 Et'ench ihiche. Dr. Taylor's reading would amaze us 



