...service, it he shall think fit to apply for it at our publisher's. King Richard III. act 1. sc. 1. Glo. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. The question with Dr. Johnson is, whether it be -war that capers, or Turk. And he justly remarks, that if the latter,...

...judge from appearances one might be led to suppose Grim-visag'd war had smooth'd his wrinkled frout, And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He caper'd nimbly in a lady's chamber, To. Uic lascivious pleasing of a Into. . In addition to the customary...

...mirlikc sound, &c.— So, in Shakespeare's Richard III. A. 1. S. l : " Grim vUaced war hath smoothed his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting...capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleading of a lute." LYLY.] [LTLT. whose wounded thoughts can neither he expressed nor endured. " Cease...

...treats his own manifold deformity, and his derision of the fripperies of " this piping time of peace." Instead of mounting' barbed steeds, To fright the...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Never were features and voice more happily associated than Mr. Cooke's for the production of that impression...

...smiling. 1 Barbed horses.'] War-horses, with their trappings and armour on. So in King Richard III. : " And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds > To fright the souls of fearful ailversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber." 1 The honour of an English name and nature.^ I...

...monuments ; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.2 Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds,3 . To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — ' ' .. i' He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber,...

...monuments ; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.* Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds,1 To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — 1 this sun of York ;] Alluding to the cognizance...

...stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. O Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front: And now, instead...souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a ludy's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. By thus throwing discredit on the usual attendants...

...measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smootn'd his wrinkled front Ami now, — instead of mounting harbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing ul a lute. But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass...

...stately triumphs, mirthful comic shews, " Such as befit the pleasures of the court." SHAKESPEARE. " He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, " To the lascivious pleasing of a lute." IBID. KING EDWARD was handsome, was gay, debonair, His foes found him warlike, abroad in the field...