with good and disinterested feelings, which caused
Cumberland to write his Play of "The Jew," to combat the popular
prejudice against that persecuted class, by showing, in the
character of Sheva, that a Jew might possibly be a virtuous man.]

[Footnote 59: _Have been unjustly suspected_)--Ver. 778. The words
here employed are also capable of meaning, if an active sense is
given to "suspectas," "our wives have entertained wrong
suspicions;" but the sense above given seems preferable, as being
the meaning of the passage.]

[Footnote 60: _Run with all speed_)--Ver. 809. Donatus remarks,
that Parmeno is drawn as being of a lazy and inquisitive
character; and that Terence, therefore, humorously contrives to
keep him always on the move, and in total ignorance of what is
going on.]

[Footnote 61: _Surcharged with wine_)--Ver. 824. Cooke has this
remark here: "I suppose that this is the best excuse the Poet
could make for the young gentleman's being guilty of felony and
rape at the same time. In this speech, the incident is related on
which the catastrophe of the Play turns, which incident is a very
barbarous one, and attended with more than one absurdity, though
it is the occasion of an agreeable discovery."]

[Footnote 62: _In the Comedies_)--Ver. 867.-- Madame Dacier
observes on this passage: "Terence here, with reason, endeavors to
make the most of a circumstance peculiar to his Play. In other
Comedies, every body, Actors as well as Spectators, are at last
equally acquainted with the whole intrigue and catastrophe, and it
would even be a defect in the plot were there any obscurity
remaining. But Terence, like a true genius, makes himself superior
to rules, and adds new beauties to his piece by forsaking them.
His reasons for concealing from part of the personages of the
Drama the principal incident of the plot, are so plausible and
natural, that he could not have followed the beaten track without
offending against manners and decency. This bold and uncommon turn
is one of the chief graces of the Play."]

[Footnote 63: _From the shades below_)--Ver. 876. Parmeno says
this, while pondering upon the meaning of all that is going on,
and thereby expresses his impatience to become acquainted with it.
He therefore repeats what Pamphilus has before said in the twelfth
line of the present Act, about his having been restored from death
to life by hi