reafon: but if fhe be less than an honeft woman, fhe is indeed more than I took her for. Lor. How every fool can play upon the word! I think, the best grace of wit will shortly turn into filence, and difcourfe grow commendable in none but parrots. Go in, firrah, bid them prepare for dinner. Laun. That is done, Sir; they have all stomachs. Lor. Good lord, what a wit-fnapper are you! then bid them prepare dinner. Laun. That is done too, Sir; only cover is the word. Lor. Will you cover then, Sir? Laun. Not fo, Sir, neither; I know my duty. Lor. Yet more quarrelling with occafion! wilt thou fhew the whole wealth of thy wit in an inftant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning: go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, ferve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner. Laun. For the table, Sir, it fhall be ferv'd in; for In reafon he should never come to heav'n. Hath Hath not her fellow. Lor. Even fuch a husband Haft thou of me, as the is for a wife. Jef. Nay, but ask my opinion too of that. Jef. Nay, let me praise you, while I have a fto mach. Lor. No, pray thee, let it ferve for table-talk Then, howfoe'er thou speak'ft, 'mong other things, I fhall digeft it. Jef. Well, I'll fet you forth. [Exeunt. ACT IV. SCENE, the Senate-boufe in VENICE. Enter the Duke, the Senators; Anthonio, Baffanio, and Gratiano, at the Bar. DUKE. HAT, is Anthonio here? : Ant. Ready, fo please your Grace. Duke. I'm forry for thee; thou art come to answer A ftony adversary, an inhuman wretch Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy. Ant. I have heard, Your Grace hath ta'en great pains to qualifie Té To fuffer, with a quietness of fpirit, Duke. Go one, and call the Jew into the Court. Duke. Make room, and let him ftand before our face. And, where thou now exact'ft the penalty, From braffy bofoms, and rough hearts of flint; We all expect a gentle answer, Jew. Shy. I have poffefs'd your Grace of what I purpofe. Upon your charter, and your city's freedom. Cannot t Cannot contain their urine for affection. (24) Of what it likes, or loaths. Now for your anfwer: (24) Cannot contain their Urine for Affection. Malterlefs paffion fways it to the Mood Of what it likes, or loaths.] Mafterlefs Paffion was firft Mr. Rowe's Reading, (on what Authority, I am at a Lofs to know;) which Mr. Pope has fince copied. And tho' I have not disturb'd the Text, yet, I must observe, I don't know what Word there is to which this Relative [it, in the 2d Line] is to be referr'd. The ingenious Dr. Thirlby, therefore, would thus adjust the Paffage. Cannot contain their Urine; for Affection, * Mafter of Paffion, fways it &c * Or, Mistress. And then it is govern'd of Paffion: and the 2 old Quarto's and Folio's Mafters of Paffion, &c. read. It may be objected, that Affection and Paffion are Synonomous Terms, and mean the fame Thing. I agree, they do at this time. But I obferve, the Writers of our Author's Age made a fort of Distinction: confidering the One as the Caufe, the Other as the Effect. And then, in this place, Affection will ftand for that Sympathy or Antipathy of Soul, by which we are provok'd to fhew a Liking or Difguft in the Working of our Paffions. B. Jonson, in his Sejanus, feems to apply the Terms thus: He bath ftudied Affection's Paffions, knows their Springs, their Ends, So much, in fupport of Dr. Thirlby's Regulation of the Paffage. My ingenious Friend Mr. Warburton is for pointing, and writing it, as in the Old Editions: but for giving it a different Turn in the Poet's Drift and Meaning. I come now to his Reading and Opinion. 66 Cannot contain their Urine for Affection. Mafters of Paffion fway it to the Mood Of what it likes, or loaths. "Obferve, he is here only speaking of the different Power of Sounds, "and the Influence they have upon the humane Mind: and then con "cludes, the Mafters of Paffion (for fo he finely calls Muficians) sway "the Paffions, or Affections, as they please: Our Poet then having, no Doubt, in his Mind the great Effects that Timotheus, and other ancient "Muficians, are faid to have wrought by the Power of Mufick. This "puts me in mind of a Paffage of Collier, in his Effay on Mufick; who fuppofes it poffible by a right chofen Compofition (not, Concord) of "Sounds to infpire Affright, Terror, Cowardife, and Confternation; "in the fame Manner that, now, Chearfulness, and Courage, is affifted "by contrary Compofitions". Thus far Mr. Warburton. I fhall fubmit the Paffage, for the prefent, to the Opinion and Determination of the Publick; upon which, I may hereafter venture with more fafety to ascertain it. Why Why he, a harmless neceffary cat; A lofing fuit against him. Are you answer'd? Shy. I am not bound to please thee with my anfwer. Baff. Do all men kill the thing they do not love? Shy. Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Baff. Ev'ry offence is not a hate at firft. Shy. What, would'ft thou have a ferpent fting thee twice? Ant. I pray you, think you queftion with a Jew. As feek to foften that, (than which what's harder!) Shy. What judgment fhall I dread, doing no wrong? You |