It also occupies a place in a homely comparison in Measure for Measure (act i. sc. 2, l. 158, vol. i. p. 303), to point out the duration of nineteen years, or the moon's cycle,— "This new governor Awakes me all the enrolled penalties Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall So long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone round, And none of them been worn; and for a name Now puts the drowsy and neglected act The archery scene in Titus Andronicus (act iv. sc. 3, l. 52, vol. vi. p. 501) mentions several of the constellations and the figures by which they were known. The dialogue is between Titus and Marcus, "Tit. You are a good archer, Marcus; [He gives them the arrows. 'Ad Jovem,' that's for you: here, ‘Ad Apollinem : ' Here, boy, to Pallas: here, to Mercury : To Saturn, Caius, not to Saturnine; You were as good to shoot against the wind. To it, boy! Marcus, loose when I bid. Of my word, I have written to effect; There's not a god left unsolicited. Marc. Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court: We will afflict the emperor in his pride. Tit. Now, masters, draw. [They shoot.] O, well said, Lucius ! Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it Pallas. Marc. My Lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon ; Your letter is with Jupiter by this. Tit. Ha, ha! Publius, Publius, what hast thou done? See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns. Marc. This was the sport, my lord: when Publius shot, The Bull, being gall'd, gave Aries such a knock That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court." In allusion to the old medico-astrological idea that the different members of the human body were under the influence of their proper or peculiar constellations, the following dialogue occurs in the Twelfth Night (act i. sc. 3, 1. 127, vol. iii. p. 231), "Sir And. Shall we not set about some revels? Sir Toby. What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus? Sir Toby. No sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper: ha! higher ha, ha! excellent!" Falstaff, in the Merry Wives of Windsor (act ii. sc. 2, 1. 5, vol. i. p. 190), vaunts of the good services which he had rendered to his companions: "I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym: or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons." In telling of the folly of waiting on Achilles (Troilus and Cressida, act ii. sc. 3, 1. 189, vol. vi. p. 175), Ulysses declares, "That were to enlard his fat-already pride, And add more coals to Cancer when he burns The figure of the ninth of the zodiacal constellations, Sagittarius, is named in Troilus and Cressida (act v. sc. 5, 1. 11, vol. vi. p. 253), "Polixenes is slain, Amphimachus and Thaos deadly hurt ; Patroclus ta'en or slain; and Palamedes Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful sagittary Appals our number." If it be demanded why we do not give a fuller account of these constellations, we may almost remark as the fool does |