other compared eds. retain "weary:" the Camb. eds. mark the text as corrupt. Note (2.) Ib. Line 178, 66 Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen As friend remember'd not." Compare Rich. II. iv. 1, 297, my grief lies all within; And these external manners of laments Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul." Lear, iii. 4, 6,— "Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin so 'tis to thee; But where the greater malady is fix'd, "When the mind's free, The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind The folio has,— 66 Thy tooth is not so keene, because thou art not seene." In this form the text is not so far from the proposed. emendation; the original MS. was probably mutilated; and as some words were a necessity to the Ι singer, the defaced "that are" became "thou art," and then, "because" followed of course. 66 so keen and "Although" can only refer to some wound or suffering in the intervening line, which, as do the three corresponding lines, should commence with, "As." All the compared eds. retain the old text. "Warp" to cause to wry from their nature, to turn contrary to their nature. Compare W. T. i. 2, 365, "My favour here begins to warp." To lose the nature of favour, to become something quite different. So Lear, iii. 6, 56, "whose warp'd looks proclaim What store her heart is made on." Regan had as with, 66 an engine wrench'd [her] frame of nature From the fix'd place; drew from [her] heart all love, (Lear, i. 4, 290.) As a consequence, she had bemonstered her feature, her proper deformity showed more horrid in a woman, than in the fiend. (Lear, iv. 2, 63.) So Isabel of Claudio (M. for M. iii. 1, 142),— "Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair! Ne'er issued from his blood." Warped so contrary to my father's nature. "Slip of wilderness," i.e. not of the nature of the true stock -but of a wild, worthless stock. Compare The Book of Job, ch. 37, ver. 10, 66 "By the breath of God [the north wind] frost is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened." i.e. their natural powers are suspended-for the time, their nature is changed. We have in Act ii. 1, 6, "the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, And M. for M. iii. 1, 123, 66 or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice." "Thrilling" piercing, that pierces the imprisoned soul. The meaning of the present passage is—though the sting of cold is so intense as to curdle up the living waters into a motionless mass, yet it is not so keen as the friend who not remembers. "Remember'd not "—the antithesis of remembered, adj. full of recollection that has no remembrance. Compare John, tortured by fever (John, v. 7, 37),— "And none of you will bid the winter come, Here, it is ingratitude, whose still colder hand wrings the heart. Note (3.) Act III. Scene 2, Line 37, "He that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of his good breeding.” Compare 1 Hy. IV. ii. 4, 545,— "If I become not a cart as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!" Of his good breeding." Of is here used for on, against. So, T. S. iv. 1, 31,— "Shall I complain on thee to our mistress ?" And M. W. W. i. 1, 112,— "You'll complain of me to the king?" Similarly accuse and impeach mean to bring an accusation against. So, Rich. II. i. 1, 47,— "Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal.” M. N. D. ii. 1, 214, "You do impeach your modesty too much, The folio has, "complain of good breeding"—his having evidently dropped out, for he did not impeach good breeding generally, but simply his own good bringing up. Good breeding and good manners are to be considered as single words; breeding and manners being frequently used alone, with the same signification as when good is prefixed. The number of short words which have clearly dropped out of the text of this play in the folio, is somewhat remarkable. The following are some of the instances. These are corrected by all the compared eds. Act ii. 1, "the body of [the] country; " (ii. 7), "[not to] seem senseless;" (iii. 2), "this [a] desert be;" (iii. 2), "drops forth [such] fruit;" (iii. 4), "oath of [a] lover;" (iv. 1), "let me [be] better acquainted;" (v. 2), "nor [her] sudden consenting;" (v. 4), " to [the] lie circumstantial." All the compared eds. here retain the old text. Note (4.) Ib. Line 75,— "Touchstone. Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow God make incision in thee! thou art raw." man! "Make incision in thee!" graff thee with grace. "Raw" in ignorance, not in grace; of the old stock (see Richardson, Dict., Udal, Luke c. 22). Compare Ham. iii. 1, 119,— "Virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it." Cor. ii. 1, 205, “We've some old crab-trees here at home, that will not And line 125 of this scene, "Touch. Truly, the tree yields bad fruit. Ros. I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it with a medlar." Compare The Spectator, No. 587 (a vision),— "but before you can be qualified to see and animadvert on the failings of others, you must be pure yourself; whereupon he [the angel] drew out his incision-knife, cut me open, took out my heart," &c. So, B. and F.'s The Mad Lover, Act ii. sc. 1, Note (5.) "But I must be incis'd first, cut and open'd, My heart, and handsomely, ta'en from me." Ib. Line 103, "Touch. I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the right butterwomen's amble to market."- "For a taste: If a hart do lack a hind, Let him seek out Rosalind," &c. "This is the very false gallop of verses." Compare 1 Hy. IV. iii. 1, 135, "mincing poetry ; 'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag." 'forc'd gait"amble. son, Dict.), amble. Fuller, Worthies (Richard “I had almost marr'd my own natural trot by endeavouring to imitate his artificial amble." Every Man in his Humour, Act iii. Sc. 5, |