9 SCENE III. Before Oliver's House. Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting. ORL. Who's there? ADAM. What! my young master?-O, my gentle master, O, my sweet master, O you memory Of old sir Rowland! why, what make you here? O you memory-] Shakspeare often uses memory for memorial; and Beaumont and Fletcher sometimes. So, in The Humorous Lieutenant: "I knew then how to seek your memories.' Again, in The Atheist's Tragedy, by C. Turner, 1611: Again, in Byron's Tragedy: 9 "That statue will I prize past all the jewels "The memory of my grandame." STEEVENS. So, Milton: " 1 so fond i. e. so indiscreet, so inconsiderate. So, in The Merchant of Venice: 1 66 I do wonder, "Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond "" STEEVENS. "Giants of mighty bone." JOHNSON. 2 The bony priser -] In the former editions-The bonny priser. We should read-bony priser. For this wrestler is characterised for his strength and bulk, not for his gaiety or good humour. WARBURTON. 3 Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. Know you not, master, to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, ORL. Why, what's the matter? ADAM. Your brother-(no, no brother; yet the son- you off: So, in the Romance of Syr Degore, bl. 1. no date: "This is a man all for the nones, "For he is a man of great bones." Bonny, however, may be the true reading. So, in King Henry VI. P. II. Áct V: "Even of the bonny beast he lov'd so well." STEEVENS. The word bonny occurs more than once in the novel from which this play of As you like it is taken. It is likewise much used by the common people in the northern counties. I believe, however, bony to be the true reading. MALONE. 3 -to some kind of men-] Old copy-seeme kind. Corrected by the editor of the second folio. MALone. This is no place,] Place here signifies a seat, a mansion, a residence. So, in the first Book of Samuel: "Saul set him up a place, and is gone down to Gilgal." ORL. Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go? ADAM. No matter whither, so you come not here. ORL. What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food? Or, with a base and boisterous sword, enforce ADAM. But do not so: I have five hundred father, crowns, The thrifty hire I sav'd under your Again, in Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: We still use the word in compound with another, as- -St. James's place, Rathbone place; and Crosby place, in King Richard III. &c. STEEVENS. Our author uses this word again in the same sense in his Lover's Complaint: "Love lack'd a dwelling, and made him her place." Plas, in the Welch language, signifies a mansion-house. MALONE. Steevens's explanation of this passage is too refined. Adam means merely to say- "This is no place for you." M. MASON. diverted blood,] Blood turned out of the course of JOHNSON. nature. So, in our author's Lover's Complaint: balls are tied To divert a water-course, that is, to change its course, was a common legal phrase, and an object of litigation in Westminster Hall, in our author's time, as it is at present. Again, in Ray's Travels: "We rode along the sea coast to Ostend, diverting at Nieuport, to refresh ourselves, and get a sight of the town;" i. e. leaving our course. REED. VOL. VIII. E foster-nurse, : 6 Which I did store, to be my ORL. O good old man; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee. 8 6 and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, &c.] See Saint Luke, xii. 6, and 24. DOUCE. 7 rebellious liquors in my blood;] That is, liquors which inflame the blood or sensual passions, and incite them to rebel against reason. So, in Othello: "For there's a young and sweating devil here, Perhaps he only means liquors that rebel against the constitution. STEEvens. • Even with the having:] Even with the promotion gained by service is service extinguished. JOHNSON. But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, A ADAM. Master, go on; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; But at fourscore, it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better, Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. [Exeunt. 9 From seventeen years] The old copy reads-seventy. The correction, which is fully supported by the context, was made by Mr. Rowe. MALONE. |