Thai. O, let me look! If he be none of mine, my sanctity Per. The voice of dead Thai. That Thaisa am I, supposed de 2 Look to the lady;] When Lady Macbeth p on hearing the account of Duncan's murder mation is used. These words belong, I believ 3 Early, one blust'ring morn,] Old copyThe emendation, which is judicious, was fur lone. Steevens. 4 Found there rich jewels;] The second q and Mr. Rowe, reads-these jewels. Pericle shows that these could not be the poet's word. is found in the first quarto. It should be rem rimon delivered these jewels to Thaisa, (b house) in whose custody they afterwards rem 5 Here in Diana's temple.] The same situa in The Comedy of Errors, where Ægeon lose and finds her at last in a nunnery. Steevens. 6 - they shall be brought you to my house, Whither I invite you.] This circumstance blance to the meeting of Leontes and Hermi Cerimon is not unlike that of Paulina in The 7 to my sense - Sense is here used So also, in Measure for Measure and in Haml 7 past mi he touching of her lips I may no more be seen. O, come be buried Em No time within these arms.2 be gone into my mother's bosom. 7 [Kneels to THAI. Th ok, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh Thaisa; en at the sea, and call'd Marina, Fro vas yielded there. Th Bless'd, and mine own!3 Mo Ho upposed dead, own'd.] Supposed dead, and that my death was by Malone. , in this instance, does not signify suffocated by waerwhelmed in it. Thus, in Knolles's History: “Galbe drowned in the harbour with the great ordnance, 7 could be rigged." Steevens. his: no more, you gods! your present kinduess 3 my past miseries sport: So, in King Lear: is a chance that does redeem all sorrows hat ever I have felt." Malone. I may and no more be scen.] This is a sentiment which Shaker fails to introduce on occasions similar to the pren Othello: - If it were now to die, Twere now to be most happy, &c. The Winter's Tale: I might die within this hour, I have liv'd To die when I desire," Malone. ad no more be seen,] So, in the 39th Psalm:-“ 0, a little, that I may recover my strength, before I go be no more seen." Steevens. come, be buried nd time within these arms.] So, in The Winter's Tale : Tot like a corse ;-or if not to be buried, Sut quick, and in mine arms." Malone. d, and mine own!] So, in The Winter's Tale : ne be b My bean JUSCA Ka of thy fis arina and mine at my dead fy sufrem les's Hata the greal at kinduen Tag Last SOZTOWS ment whits Similar to liv'd th Pac 3th, before l Winter' ed Now do I long to hear how you were four Thai. Lord Cerimon, my lord; this mar Per. Reverend The gods can have no mortal officer Cer. I will, m Beseech you, first go with me to my hous Where shall be shown you all was found How she came placed here within the ten No needful thing omitted. Per. Pure Diana! I bless thee for thy vision, and will offer "Tell me, mine own, "Where hast thou been preserv'd? WI found "Thy father's court?" Malone. 4 I bless thee - For the insertion of the pr am responsible. Malone. 5 - the fair-betrothed -] i. e. fairly conti bly affianced. Steevens. This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daugh Shall marry her at Pentapolis.] So, in the 1: 66 Winter's Tale, Leontes informs Paulina: "And son unto the king, (whom heaver Tale VOL. XVII. Cc ebrate their nuptials, and ourselves he rest untold.-Sir, lead the way. [Exeunt. And now, nament that makes me look so dismal, my lov'd Marina, clip to form; at this fourteen years no razor touch'd, ce thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.] So, in Much Ado he old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed دو or has here followed Gower, or Gesta Romanorum: this a vowe to God I make at I shall never for hir sake, y berde for no likynge shave. Il it befalle that I have convenable time of age 'sette hir unto mariage." Confessio Amantis. 1 so in the first line, and the words-my lov'd Marina, nd, which both the sense and metre require, I have Malone. Lor is in this place guilty of a slight inadvertency. It hort time before, when Pericles arrived at Tharsus, of his daughter's death, that he made a vow never to ce or cut his hair. M. Mason. 3, n. 1; where, if my reading be not erroneous, a be found that this vow was made almost immediately irth of Marina; and consequently that Mr. M. Mant remark has no sure foundation. Steevens. make a star of him!] So, in Romeo and Juliet : ake him and cut him into little stars " Cymbeline: for they are fit inlay heaven with stars." Steevens. id the way.] Dr. Johnson has justly objected to the mpotent conclusion of The Second Part of King HenCome, will you hence?" The concluding line of The ale furnishes us with one equally as abrupt, and nearng the present:----" Hastily lead away." This pas sage reads 1 tioch Mr. plays Mor 2 pies T copy beer It spe 3 rea pea 1s 4 tiv th: ca A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalt sage will justify the correction of the old copy reads-Sir, leads the way. Malone. 1 In Antioch and his daughter.) The old copic tiochus and his daughter, &c. The correction wa Mr. Steevens. "So, (as he observes,) in Shak plays, France, for the king of France; Morocco, Morocco," &c. Malone. 2 Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at las pies are here, I think, manifestly corrupt. They Virtue preferr'd from fell destruction's blast The gross and numerous errors of even the copy of this play, will, it is hoped, justify the 1 been taken on this and some other occasions. It would be difficult to produce from the w speare many couplets more spirited and harmoni 3 and honour'd name - The first and reads-the honour'd name. The reading of the t pears to me more intelligible, is that of the folio is here used for the collective body of the citizen 4 To punish them; although not done, but meant. tive metre of this line in the old copy, induce that the word them, which I have supplied, was carelessness of the printer. Malone. |