Duke. You can fool no more money out of me at this throw if you will let your lady know, I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my bounty further. Clown. Marry, fir, lullaby to your bounty, till I come again. I go, fir; but I would not have you to think, that my defire of having is the fin of covetoufness: but, as you fay, fir, let your bounty take a nap, I will awake it anon. [Exit Clown. Enter ANTONIO, and Officers. Vio. Here comes the man, fir, that did rescue me. Yet, when I faw it last, it was befmear'd 2 For fhallow draught, and bulk, unprizable; That very envy, and the tongue of lofs, Cry'd fame and honour on him.-What's the matter? That took the Phoenix, and her fraught, from Candy; When your young nephew Titus loft his leg: Shakspeare's improprieties and anachronisms are furely venial in comparifon with thofe of contemporary writers. Lodge, in his True Trage dies of Marius and Sylla, 1594, has mentioned the razors of Palermo, and St. Paul's feeple, and has introduced a Frenchman, named Don Pedro, who, in confideration of receiving forty crowns, undertakes to poifon Marius. Stanyhurst, the tranflator of four books of Virgil, in 1582, compares Chorobus to a bedlamite; fays, that old Priam girded on his fword Merglay; and makes Dido tell Æneas, that the fhould have been contented had the been brought to bed even of a cockney. Saltem fi qua mibi de te fufcepta fuiffet Ante fugam foboles 66 yf yeet foom progenye from me "Had crawl'd, by the father'd, yf a cockney dandiprat hopthumb." STEEVENS. -featchful-] i. e. mifchievous, deftructive. STEEVENS. Here Here in the streets, defperate of shame, and state3, Vio. He did me kindness, fir; drew on my fide; Duke. Notable pirate! thou falt-water thief! Ant. Orfino, noble fir, Be pleas'd that I shake off these names you give me; Though, I confefs, on bafe+ and ground enough, Not half an hour before. Vio. How can this be? Duke. When came he to this town? Ant. To-day, my lord; and for three months before, (No interim, not a minute's vacancy,) Both day and night did we keep company. 3-defperate of shame, and ftate,] Unattentive to his character or his condition, like a defperate man. JOHNSON. 4-on bafe-] Bafe is here a fubftantive, bafis. I give the explication of fo fimple a term, left any one fhould fuppofe, as I once did, that We ought to read-and on base ground enough. MALONE. H 3 Enter Enter OLIVIA, and Attendants. Duke. Here comes the countess; now heaven walks on But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madnefs: But more of that anon.-Take him afide. Oli. What would my lord, but that he may not have, Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable ?— Cefario, you do not keep promise with me. Vio. Madam ? Duke. Gracious Olivia, Oli. What do you fay, Cefario?-Good my lord,- As howling after musick. Duke. Still fo cruel? Oli. Still fo conftant, lord. Duke. What, to perverfeness? you uncivil lady, To whofe ingrate and unaufpicious altars My foul the faithfull'ft offerings hath breath'd out, That e'er devotion tender'd! What fhall I do? Oli. Even what it please my lord, that fhall become him. Duke. Why fhould I not, had I the heart to do it, That 5 — as fat and fulfome-] Fat means dull; fo we fay a fatbeaded fellow; fat likewife means grofs, and is fometimes used for obscene. JOHNSON. 6 hath breath'd out,] Old Copy-bave. Corrected by Mr. Pope. MALONE. 7 Like to the Egyptian thief, at point of death, Kill what I love;] Our author was indebted for this allufion to Heliodorus's Æthiopicks. This Egyptian thief was Thyamis, who was a native of Memphis, and at the head of a band of robbers. Theagenes and Chariclea falling into their hands, Thyamis fell defperately in love with the lady, and would have married her. Soon after, a ftronger body of robbers coming down upon Thyamis's party, he was in fuch fears for his mistress, that he had her fhut into a cave That fometime favours nobly? But hear me this: That fcrews me from my true place in your favour, Where he fits crowned in his master's spight. Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mifchief: I'll facrifice the lamb that I do love, To spight a raven's heart within a dove. Vio. And I, moft jocund, apt, and willingly, [going. To do you reft, a thoufand deaths would die. [following. Oli. Where goes Cefario? Vio. After him I love, More than I love these eyes, more than my life, Punish my life, for tainting of my love! Oli. Ah me, detefted! how am I beguil'd! Vio. Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong? Call forth the holy father. Duke. Come, away. [Exit an Attendant, [to Viola. Oli. Whither, my lord?-Cefario, husband, ftay. Duke. Hufband? Oli. Ay, husband; Can he that deny? Vio. No, my lord, not I. Oli. Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear, with his treasure. It was cuftomary with those barbarians, when they defpaired of their own fafety, firft to make away with thofe robom they beld dear, and defired for companions in the next life. Thyamis, therefore, benetted round with his enemies, raging with love, jealoufy, and anger, went to his cave; and calling aloud in the Egyptian tongue, fo foon as he heard himself answer'd towards the cave's mouth by a Grecian, making to the perfon by the direction of her voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand, and (fuppofing her to be Chariclea) with his right hand plunged his fword into her breaft. THEOBALD. That makes thee ftrangle thy propriety: Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings; Seal'd in my function, by my teftimony: Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave Duke. O thou diffembling cub! what wilt thou be, Oli. O, do not swear; Hold little faith, though thou haft too much fear. 8-ftrangle thy propriety:] Supprefs or difown thy property. MALONE. 9 A contrast of eternal bond of love,] I once fufpected we should read -A contract and eternal &c. but I now believe the text is right. The meaning is only, A contract, promifing love and eternal union. So, in A Midfummer Night's Dream: "The fealing day between my love and me, In Troilus and Creffida we have a bond of air,"--for words that bind or tic the attention of the hearer to the fpeaker. MALONE. 1 - cafe?] Cafe is a word ufed contemptuously for skin. We yet talk of a fox cafe, meaning the stuffed fkin of a fox. JOHNSON. So, in Cary's Prefent State of England, 1626: "Queen Elizabeth afked a knight named Young, how he liked a company of brave ladies? He answered, as I like my filver-haired conies at home; the cafes are far better than the bodies." MALONE. Enter |