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TBOILira AND CREBBIDA
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TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.
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TBOILUS AKD CBEBBIDA.
We leun from Henslowe's Diary (p. 147 sqq. ed. ShakeapeaTe Boe.) that in April 1699 DeUer tud Chettle were engaged in miting a pla;, which has not come down to qb, called Troilui and Crtuida; and to that piece per- hapB appliet the entry made b; Boberts in the Stationen' RegiBters, Feb. 7tli, 1603-3, of " The bcwke of rrolliiB and Creeseda, as yt ii acted hy tnj ho. Chambei'leDi men," — which "hoobe," as far bb we know, was never given to the pxoBB. But another entr; in the Stationers' RegiHterH, made by Banian and Walley, Jan. 2eib, lGOB-9, of " A booke called the EiBtoiy of Troylns and CreBaula," uudonbtedl; describe! our aathor'a drama, which waa pub- lished by the boohBellera who made the entry. " The play was originally printed in 1609 [4to] . It was formerly snpposed that there were two edi' lions in that year, but they were merely diflerent iaenea of the same im- preBBion: the body of the work (with two eiceptionsj is alike in each; they were from the types of the Biune printer, and were puhlisbed by the same itationen. [Tarions readings are frequently fonnd in old plays which have been printed from the same forms of type.] The title-pageB [isee vol. 1. p. 1E4] vary materiallj; bnt there is another more remarkable diTenity. On the ttUe-pHge of the eupies first circulated, it is not stated that the dr^a had been represented by any company; and in a sort of preface, headed 'A never Writer to an ever Reader. News; it is asserted that it had never been ' staled with the etage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the valgar ;' in other words, that the play bad not been acted. This was probably then tme ; bnt aa ' Troilas and Cressida' was very soon afterwards bronght npon the stage, it became necessary for the publishers to snlwlitnte a new title-page, and to suppress their preface : accordingly a re-ieene of the same edition took place, by the title-page of which it appeared, that the play was printed ' as it Was acted by the
Sing's Majesty's servants at the Olobe.' It ia very evident that
■ Troilns and Cressida' iras originally acted in the inierral between the first and the second edition of the Ito, as printed by Q. Eld for Bonian and Wal- ley in the early part of 1609. It is probable that our great dramatist pre- pared it for the stage in the winter of 1606-9, with a view to its productim> at the Olobe as soon as the seasoa commenced at that theatre: before it was so produced, and alter it had been licensed, Bonian and Walley seem to have posseased themselves of a copy of it ; and having procured it to be printed, iaaued it to the world as ' a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapper- da wed with the palms of the vulgar.' That they had obtained it without the consent of the company, ' the grand poesessois,' as the; are called, may be gathered from the concloaion of the preface. Tha second isane of Bonian and Walley'a edition of 1609 was not made until after the tragedy had been acted at the Olobe, as is stated on the title-page." Collieb (Introd. Id Troilut and Crmida). — That some portions of it, particularly to- wards the end, are from the pen of a very inferior dramatiet, is unquestion- able: and they would seem to belong to an earlier piece on the same sobject, perhaps to the joict-prodnction of Dekker and Chettle before mentioned. — The Troilui and Creeeide of Chancer may be considered as the foundation of this play; towards which something was also furnished by Caxton's itfrayelt of the Butorj/et of Troy e (first printed circa 147**}, and by Ljdgate's M*<- toq/c, Segt, and dyttntccyon of Trmje (first printed in IBIS).
■ "(UT]-i;;." Keia'iLif and Ttftg. (ff WUllata CaxUm.Tol.lL p, S.
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FBEHXED TO EOHE COPIES OF THB EDITION OF IN*, tta.
A never tpriier to an ever reader: — Neat. Ztxbkal leader, jon hare here a new play, never staled with the stage, ueTet dapperoUired with the julma of the vulgar, and yet paanng foil of the palm comical; for it is a birth of joux brain that nevar undertook any thing comical vainly : and vere but the vain names of comedies changed for the titles of commodities, or of plays for pleas, you should see all those grand cenaors, that now style them such vanities, flock to them for the main grace of their gTavities; especially this author's comedies, that are so &amed to the life, that they serve for the moat common commentaries of all the actions of our lives, showing such a dexterity and power of wit, that the most displeased with plays are pleased witii his come- dies. And all sach dull and heavy-witted worldlings as were never capable of the wit of a comedy, coming hy report of thran to his representations, have found that wit there that they never found in themselves, and have parted hetter-witted than they came; feeling an edge of wit set upon tfaem, more than ever they dreamed they had brain to grind it on. So much and such savoured salt of wit is in his comedies, that they seem, for their height of pleasure, to he bom in that sea that brought forth Venus. Amongst all there is none more witty than this : and had I time, I would comment upon It, though I know it needs not, — for so much as wiU make you think your testcm well bestowed, — but fbr so much worth as even poor I know to be stuffed in it. It deserves such a labour, ss well as the best comedy in Terence or Plautus : and believe this, that when he is gone, and his comedies out of sale, you will scramble for them, and set up a new English inquisition. Take this for a warning, and, at the peril of your pleasure's loss and judgment's, refuse not nor like this the less for not being Bullied with the smoky breath of the multitude ; but thank fortune for the scape it hath made amongst you ; since by the grand poa- season' wills, I believe, you should have grayed for them, rather than been prayed. And so I leave alt such to be prayed for — for the states of their wits' healths—that will not praise it VcUe.
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DKAMATIS PERSONS.
pRUM, Ung of Tny.
TBOiLre,
Pabib, hiasous.
Deifhobcs,
Helekub,
HABaUELOii, ft bftstud rod of Ptiam.
CiLCBU, a Trajan priest, tahiiig part with the QreekB.
PiNDABUB, nnds to Cresttdft.
AaAUEXHOii, the Qredon gencnL
UuntiiitTB, hia brother.
AcHiujti, '
Ajii,
U»B(U, „ .
. CiTeoian commanden.
DlOHEDKB,
PiTBOCLUi, ,
Thbbhitbb, a defonned EUid BcnmlooB Oreoiaii.
A1.EUHDEB, Eerrant to CreBElda. Berrant to TroilnB,
Serrant to Fans. Seirant to DiomedeB.
Hei^en, wife to MenelaoB.
Andboiucei, wife to Hector.
CiBaUfDiu, danghter of Priam ; a propheteiB.
Cbbbeida, danghter of Calchaa.
Trojan and Oreak Boldiere, and AttendantB. Bvivs—Troy, and th« Grecian cungj bt^ore it.
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PROLOGUE.
In Troy, there lies the Bcene. From isleB of Qreecs
Tho priuc«s orgalouB, their high blood chaf d,
Have to the port of Athene Bent their ships,
Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Of cmel war ; sixty and nine, that wore
Their crownets regal, &om th' Athenian bay
Pat forth toward Phrygia : and their tow is made
To ransack Troy; within whose strong immures
The raTish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,
With wanton Paris sleeps; and that's the qaarrel.
To Tenedos they come;
And the deep-drawing barks do there disgo^e
Their warlike franghtage : now on Dardan plains
The fresh and yet nnhtaisM Ctreeks do pitch
Their brave parilions: Priam's six-gated city,
Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetaa, Troien,
And Antenorides,'" with massy staples,
And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,
Spert'*' np the sons of Troy,
Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits.
On one and other side, Trojan and G-reek,
Sets all on hazard: — and hither am I oome
A prologue arm'd, — ^bnt not in confidence
Of aatbor's pen or actor's Toice ; but suited
In like conditions m onr argument, —
To tell you, fair beholders, that our play
Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
Be^nning in the middle; starting"' thence away
To what may be digested in a play.
Like, or find &alt; do as your pleasures are;
Now good or bad, 'lis bat the chance of war.
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ACT I.
ScEKB I. Troy. Before Pkiam'b -palace. EtUer TROiLua armed, and Pakdabitb.
2*1-0. Call bete my Tarlet; I'll unarm again: Why should I war without the walls of Troy, That find Bach cruel battle here within ? Each Trojau that is master of his heart, Let him to field; TroiluB, alas, hath none!
Pan. Will this gear ne'er be mended?
Tto. The Greeks are strong, and ekilful to Uieir Btrengtb, Fierce to their skill, and to their fiercenesa Taliant; But I am weaker than a woman's tear, Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, Less valiant than the virgin in the night. And skilleBB as nnpractis'd in&ncy.
Pan. Well, I have told yon enough of this : for my part, m not meddle nor make no further. He that will have a cake oat of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
Tro. Have I not tarried?
Pan. Ay, the grinding; bnt yon mnst tarry the bolting.
Tro. Have I not tarried ?
Pan. Ay, the bolting ; but yoa must tarry the leavening.
Tro. Still have I tarried.
Pan. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word "hereafter" the kneading, the making of the cake, the heat- ing of the oven, and the baking ; nay, yon must stay the cooling too, or yon may chance to bum yoar lips.
Tro. Patience hereelf, what goddess e'er she be,
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Doth lessar blench at saffer&nce than I do.
A.t Priam'fl royal table do I sit;
And when fair CreBBid comes into my thoaghts, —
So, traitor! — "when she comcB!" — ^When ia she thence?"'
Pan. Well, she looked yestermght iaiier than ever I saw her look, or any woman else.
Tro. I was abont to tell thee, — when my heart, Aa wedgM with a sigh, would rive in twain; Lest Hector or my father shonld percei?e me, — I hare — as when the sun doth light a storm — ^ Bnried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile: Bnt sorrow, that is conch'd in seeming gladness, Is like that mirth fate tarns to sadden sadness.
Pan, An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's, — well, go to, — ^there were no more comparison between the women, — bnt, for my part, she is my kinswoman ; I would not, as they term it, praise her, — but I wonld somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit; bat —
Tro. 0 Fandaras! I tell thee, Pandarns, — When I do tell thee, there my hopes lie drown'd. Reply not in how many fathoms deep They lie indrench'd. I tell thee, I am mad In Gressid's love : then answer'st, "she is fair;" Fonr'st in the open ulcer of my heart Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; Handiest in thy diaconrae, 0, that her hand, Li whose comparison all whites are ink, Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down ia harsh, and ^irit of sense Hard as the palm of ploaghman !'" — this thou tell'st me. As"' true Uioa tell'st me, when I say I lore her; Bat, saying thus, instead of oil and balm, Tboa lay'st in every gash that love hath given me The knife that made it.
Pan. I speak no more than troth.
Tro. Thou; doat not speak so much.
Pan. Futh, I'll not meddle in't. Let her be as she is: if she be &ir, 'tis the better for her; an she be not, she has Ibe mends in her own hands.
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Tro. Good Pandarns, — how now, Pandarna!
Pan. I have had my labour for m; travail; ill-thonght on of her, and ill-thonght oo of ;oa : gone betwe«ii and be- tween, bat small thanks for my labour.
Tro. What, art than angry, Pandarns? what, with me?
Pan. Becanae she's kin to me, therefore she's not so fair as Helen : an she were not kin to me, she would be as fair on Friday aB Helen is on Sunday. Bnt what care I? I care- not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me.
Tro. Say I she is not fair?
Pan. I do not care whether yoa do or no. She's a fool to stay behind her father; let her to the Greeks; and so I'll tell her the next time I see her: for my part, I'll meddle nor make no more i' the matter.
Tro. Pandarns, —
Pan. Not I.
Tro. Sweet Pandarns, —
Pan. Fray yon, speak no more to me : I will leave all as. I fonnd it, and there an end. [JExit Pandants. Alarum.
Tro. Peace, yonnngraciottsclamonrs! peace, mde sounds I Fools on both sides t Helen mnst needs be fair. When with yonr blood yon daily paint her thns. I cannot fight npon this argoment ; It is too starv'd a subject for my sword. But Pandarns, — 0 gods, how do yon plagae me ! I cannot come to Cressid bnt by Paudar; And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo. As she is stnbbom-chaste against all suit. Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love, What Cressid is, what Pan^, and what we? Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl : Between onr Hinm and where she resides. Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood; Onrself the merchant; and this sailing Pandar, Our doubtftil hope, onr convoy, and otu batk.
Alarum, Enter Msb/lB. Mne. How now. Prince TroUns! wherefore not a-field? Tro. Because not there : this woman's answer sorts, For womanish it is to be from thence.
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What news, ^iieas, from the field to-day ?
^ne. That Paris is retomM home, and hurt.
Tro. By whom, ^neas ?
^ne. TroUaB, by Menelans.
Tro. Let Paris bleed ; 'tis bnt a scar to scom ; ^uris is gor'd irith Menelans' horn. lAlarum^
^ne. Hark, what good eport is oat of town to-diiy !
Tto. Better at home, if " wonld I might" were " may." — Bat to the sport abroad : — are yon boond thither ?
JEne. In all swift haste.
Tro. Come, go we, then, together. ^Exevnt.
SoxKE U. The same. A street. Enter Cbessisa and Alekaudbr.
Cret. Who were those went by ?
Alex. Qaeen Hecoba and Helen.
Cret. And whither go they?
Alex. Up to th' eastern tower.
Whose height commands aa snbject all the Tsle, To see the battle. Hector, whose patience Is, aa a firtae, fix'd, to-day was moT'd : He chid Andromache, and atraok hia armorer ; And, like as there were haebandry in war, Before the son rose, he was hamess'd light,'" And to the field goes he ; where every flower Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw Id Hector's wrath.
Cret. What was hia caoae of anger ?
Alex. The noise goea, thia : there ie among the Greeks A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector ; They call him Ajax.
Cret, Good ; and what of him ?
Alex. They say he is a very man per te, And stands alone.
Cret. So do all men, — onless they are dmnk, sick, or hare no legs.
Alex. This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their
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particular additione ; he iB as valiaot as tbe lion, churlish ab the bear, slow as the elephant : a man into whom uatare hath so crowded humonrs, that hie Taloor is crashed into folly, his folly sanced with discretioD : there is no man hath a virtae that he hath not 8 glimpse of; nor any man an attaint bat he carries some stain of it : he ie melancholy without caase, and merry against the hair : he hath the joints of every thing; bat every thing so oat of joint, that he is a goaty Briarens, many hands and no use ; or parblind Argos, all eyes and no sight.
Cret. Bat how should this num, that makes me smile, make Hector angry ?
AUx. They say he yesterday coped Hector in the hatUe, ■and struck him down ; the disdain and shame whereof hath «Ter since kept Hector fasting and waking.
Ores. Who comes here ?
Alex. Madam, yonr nncle Pandarus.
Enter Pandabds,
Crea. Hector's a gallant man.
Alex. Ab may be in the world, lady.
Pan. What's that ? what's that ?
Cres. Oood morrow, uncle Pandarus.
Pan. Good morrow, cousin Cressid : what do you talk of ? — Good morrow, Alexander. — How do you, coasin ? When were you at Hinm ?
Cres. This morning, uncle.
Pan. What were you talking of when I came ? Was Hec- tor armed and gone, ere ye came to Hinm ? Helen was not ap, was she ?
Cres, Hector was gone ; but Helen was not up.
Pan. E'en so : Hector was Btirriug early.
Cres. That were we talking of, and of his anger.
Pan. Was he angry ?
Cret. So he says here.
Pan. True, he was so ; I know the cause too ; he'll lay aboat him to-day, I can tell them that : and there's Troilas urill not come fax behind him ; let them take heed of Troilas, I can tell them that too.
Crea. What, is he angry too ?
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Pan. 'Who, Troilns ? TtoUub is the better man of the two.
Cres. 0 Jupiter ! there's no comparieon.
Pan. What, not between Troilns and Hector ? Do yon know a man if yon Bee him 9
Crea. Ay, if I ever saw him before, and knew him.
Pan. Well, I say Troilns ia Troilns.
Creg. Then yon say as I Bay ; for, I am snre, he ia not Hector.
Pan. No, nor Hector is not Tioilas in some degrees.
Crea. 'Tia jnst to each of them ; he is himself.
Pan. Himself ! Alas, poor Troilns ! I would he were, —
Ores. So he is.
Pan. Condition, I had gone barefoot to India.
Crea. He is not Hector.
Pan. Himself! no, he's not himself: — wonld 'a were himself I Well, the gods are above ; time must friend or end: well, Troilns, well, — I would my heart were in her body ! — No, Hector is not a better man than Troilns.
Creg. Escase me.
Pon. He is elder.
Creg. Pardon me, pardon me.
Pan. Th' other's not come to't ; you shall tell me an< «Uier tale, when th' other's come to't. Hector shall not have Mb witf" this year, —
Creg, He shall not need it, if he have his own.
Pan. Nor his qualities, —
Creg. No matter.
Pan. Nor his beaaty.
Creg. 'Twould not become him, — his own's better.
Pan. Yon hare no judgment, niece : Helen herself awore th' other day, that TroUus, for a brown favour — for so 'tis, I must confess, — not brown neither, —
Creg. No, but brown.
Pan. Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown.
Creg. To say the truth, true and not true.
Pan. She praised his complexion above Paris.
Cre». Why, Paris hath colour enough.
Pan. So he has.
Creg. Then Troilus should have too much : if she praised "him above, his complexion is higher than his; he having
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colour enoogh, and the other higher, is too flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had aB lief Helen's golden toagae had commended Troilns for a copper nose.
Pan, I Bwear to yon, I think Helen loves him better than Pans.
Creg. Then she's a merry Greek indeed.
Pan. Nay, I am ^nre ^e does. She came to him th' other day into the compassed window, — and, yoa knoWi he has not past three or four hairs on his chin —
Cres. Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his particalars therein to a total.
Pan. Why, he is very yoang: and yet will he, within three pound, liil as mnch as his brother Hector.
CrcB. I8 be so yoong a man, and so old a lifter ?
Pan. But, to proYe to yon that Helen loves him, — she came, and pats me her white hand to his cloven chin —
Cres, Jnno have mercy ! how came it cloven ?
Pan. Why, you know, 'tis dimpled : I think his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Fhrygia.
Creg. 0, he smiles valiantly.
Pan. Does he not?
Cres. 0 yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn.
Pan. Why, go to, then : — ^but to prove to yon that Helen loves Troilus, —
Cres. Troilns will stand to the proof, if you'll prove it so.
Pan. Troilns ! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg.
Cres. If yon love an addle egg as well as yon love an idle head, yoa would eat chickens i' the shell.
fan. I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled hia chin ; — indeed, she has a marvell's'"'' white hand, I mnst needs confess, —
Cres. Without the rack.
Pan. And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin.
Cres. Alas, poor chin ! many a wart is richer.
Pan, But there was such laughing ! — Queen Hecuba langhed, that her eyes ran o'er, —
Crea, With mill-stones.
Pan. And Cassandra langhed, —
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Cret. Bat there was more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes : — did her eyes run o'er too ? Pan. And Hector laaghed. CrtB. At what was all tbia laughing ? Pan, Marry, at the white hair that Helen Bpied on Troi- Ins' chin.
Cret. An't had been a green hair, I should hare langhed too.
Pan. They langhed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer.
Crea. What was his answer ?
fan. Quoth she, "Here's bnt one and fiff^^'^ hairs on yonr chin, and one of them is white." Crea. This is her question.
Pan. That's troe ; make no question of that. "One and fifty hairs," quoth he, "and one white: that white hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons." " Jnpiter !" qnoth she, " which of these hairs is Paris my hnsband ?" " The forked one," qnoth he ; " pluck't oat, and give it him." Bnt there was snch laughing ! and Helen so blushed, and Paris BO chafed, and all the rest so langhed, that it passed.
Cres. So let it now ; for it has been a great while going by. Pan. Well, cousin, I told you a thing yesterday ; think on't.
Crei. So I do.
Pan. I'li be sworn 'tis true ; he will weep you, an 'twere a man bom in April.
Cret. And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle
against May. [A retreat sounded.
Pan. Hark ! they are coming from the field : shall we
stand up here, and see them as they pass toward Hiam ? good
niece, do, — sweet niece Gressida.
Cret. At your pleasure.
Pan. Here, here, here's an excellent place ; here we may see most bravely : I'll tell you them all by their names as they pass by; bat mark Troilns above the rest. Cret. 8pe^ not so load.
Ma^i.^ pateet. Pan. That's Mneaa : is not that a brave man ? he's one
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of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you : bnt mark Troilua ; you shall eee anon.
AstKSOR patses. ■ Ores. Wto'B that?
Pan. That's Antenor: he has a shrewd wit, I can toll yoa ; and he's a man good enough : he's one o' the soundest judgments in Troy, whosoever, and a proper man of person. — When comes Troilus? — ^I'll show you TroUas anon : if he see me, yon shall see him nod at me.
Ores. Will he give you the nod ?
Pan. Yon shall see. -
Creg. If he do, the rich shall have more.
'B.ECTOK passes- Pan. That's Hector, that, that, look you, that ; there's a
fellow ! — Go thy way, Hector ! — There's a brave man, niece.
— 0 brave Hector ! — Look how he looks ! there's a coanten-
ance ! is't not a brave man ? Ores. 0, a brave man ! Pan. Is 'a not?. it does a man's heart good: — look yoa
what hacks are on his helmet t look yon yonder, do you see ?
look you there : there's no jesting ; there's laying on, take't
off who will, as they say : there be hacks ! Ores. Be those with swords ? Pan. Swords ! aoy thing, he cares not; an the devil come
to him, it's all one: by God's lid, it does one's heart good. —
Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris :
Pabis passes. look ye yonder, niece ; te't not a gallant man too, is't not ? — Why, this is brave now. — ^Who said he came hurt home to-day? he's not hurt : why, this will do Helen's heart good now, ha ! — Would I could see Troilus now ! — Yoo shall see Troilus anon.
Hel^jus passes.
Cres. Who's that?
Pan. That's Helenus: — I marvel where Troilus is: — that's Helenas : — I think he went not forth to-day : — that's HelenuB.
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Cret. Can HelenaB fight, ancle?
Pan. Helenas! no; — jes, he'll fight indiSerent well. — I marrel where Troilns is. — Hark 1 do 70a not hear the people cry " Troilns"? — Helenas ie a priest.
Ores. What sneaking fellow comes yonder?
TROiLcra jpasses.
Pan. Where? yonder? that's Deipbohas : — 'tis Ttoilas! there's a man, niece .'—Hem ! — Brave Troilaa ! the prince of chiraliy !
Crea. Peace, for ehome, peace !
Pan. Mark him; note him: — 0 brave Troilus t — look well npon him, niece : look yon how his sword is bloodied, and his helm more hacked thAn Hector's; and how he looks, and how he goes ! — 0 admirable yontb ! he ne'er saw three- and-twenfy. — Go thy way, Troilns, go thy way! — Had I a sister were a grace, or a danghter a goddess, he should take his choice. 0 admirable man ! Paris ? — Paris is dirt to him ; and, I warrant, Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot.
Crtt. Here comes more.
Forces jjom.
Pan, Asses, fools, dolts t chaff and bran, chaff and bran I porridge after meat ! — I coald live and die i' the eyes of Troilns. — Ne'er look, ne'er look ; the eagles are gone : crows and daws, crows and daws \ — I had rather be snch a man as Troilns than Agamemnon and all Greece.
Cret. There is among the Greeks Achilles, — a better man than Troilns.
Pan. Achilles ! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
Crei. WeU, weU.
Pan. Well, well ! — Why, have yon any discretion ? have yoa any eyes ? do yon know what a man is ? Is not birth, beanfy, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man 7
Cret. Ay, a minced man : and then to be baked with no date in the pie, — for then the man's date's oat.
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Pan. Yoa are snch a woman ! one knows not at what ward 70a lie.
Ores. Upon m; back, to defend my belly ; upon my wit, to defend my wiles ; npoQ my seorecy, to defend mine hon- esty ; my mask, to defend my beaaty ; and yoa, to defend all these : and at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches.
Pan. Say one of yonr watches.
Cres. Nay, I'll watch yoa for that ; and that's one of the chiefest of them too : if I cannot ward what I would not hare hit, I can watch yon for telling how I took the blow ; anlees it swell past hiding, and then it's past watching.
Pan. Yoa are snch another !
Enter TaoiLua' Boy,
Boy. Sir, my lord would instantly speak wiUi you.
Pan. Where?
Boy, At yonr own hoase ; there he nnarms him.
Pan. Good boyj tell him I come. [Exit Boy."] I doabt he be hurt. — Fore ye well, good oiece.
GreB, Adien, uncle.
Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by and by.
Cres. To bring, ancle ?
Pan. Ay, a token from Troilaa,"*'
Crea. By the same token — yon are a bawd.
lExit Pandarut. "Words, TOWS, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise : Bat more in Troilns thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may he ; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing : Tilings won are done ; joy's soul lies"* in the doing : That she belov'd knows naught that knows not this, — Men prize the thing tmgain'd more than it is : That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sae : Therefore this masim oat of love I teach, — Achievement is command ; nngain'd, beseech :"** Then, though my heart's content firm love doth bear, Kothing of that shall from mine eyes appear. [Exeunt.
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SCBMB m. The Grecian camp. Before AoAUEinioN's tent.
Sennet. Enter Aqaueiikon, Xestob, TTltbsb^ Mshelads,
and olhciv. Agam. F tin cob, "What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeka ? The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs hegao on earth below Fails in the promis'd largeness : checks and disasters Grow in the Teins of actions highest rear'd ; As knots, hy the conflnx of meeting sap. Infect the soood pine, and divert his grain TotiiTe and errant from his conrse of growth. Kor, princes, is it matter new to as, That we come short of oar sappose so far. That, after seven years' siege, jet Troy walls stand ; Sith every action that hath gone before, Whereof we have record, trial did draw Bios and thwart, not answering the aim, And that nnbodied figure of the thought That gave't snrmised shape. Why, then, yon princes, Do yon with cheeks abash'd behold our vrrecks,"® And call them shames, which are, indeed, naught else Bot the protractive trials of great Jovo To find persistive constanoy in men ? The fineness of which metal is not foand In fortune's love ; for then the bold and covrard, The vrisfl and fool, the artist and unread. The hard and soft, seem all afSn'd and kin : Bat, in the wind and tempest of her frown. Distinction, with a broad and powerful t&n, Paffing at all, winnows the light away; And what hath mass or matter, by itself Lies rich in virtue and unmingl^.
Nest. With due observance of thy godlike seat, Qreat Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men : the sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
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Upoo her patient breast, making their way
With those of nobler bnlkl
Bnt let the mfBan Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold
The Btrong-ribb'd bark through Uqnid moontaina cut.
Bounding between the two moiab elements.
Like Persena' horse : where's then the sancy boat,
Whose weak nntimber'd Bides bat even now
Co-riTall'd greatness ? either to harboor fled,
Or made a toast for Keptane. Even so
Doth valonr's show and vslonr's worth diride
In storms of fortane : for in her ray and brightneas
The herd hath more annoyance by the breese
Than by the tiger ; but when the splitting wind
Makea flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
And flies fled"*" under shade, why, then the thing of coarage.
As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize,
And with an accent tun'd in Belfsame key
Betorts"'' to chiding fortune.
Ulysa. Agamemnon, —
Than great commander, nerve and bone of Greeee, Heart of oar numbers, soul and only spirit. In whom the tempers and the minds of all Should be shot np, — ^hear what Ulysses speaks. Besides the applaase and approbation The which — [to Agamemnon] most mighty for thy place and
away, — [To Nestor] And thoa moat reverend for thy stretch'd-out
Ufe— I give to both your speedies, — which were such As Agamemnon and the hand of Oreece Should hold np high in brass ; and anch again Aa venerable Ifestor, hatch'd in silver. Should with a bond of air — strong as the axletree On which heaven rides — knit all the Greekiah ears To his experienced tougne, — yet let it please both. Though'"" great and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.
Agam. Speak, Prince oflthaca; and be't of less expect"" That matter needless, of importless harden. Divide thy lipa, than we ore confident.
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When rank Thereites opes hia mastiff'^ jaws. We shall hear masic, wit, and oracle.
Ulyaa. Troy, yet npon his basis, had been down, And the great Hector's sword had laok'd a master. Sat for these instances. The specialty of rale hath been neglected : And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow npon this plain, so many hollow factions."'' When that the general is not like the hive,'*" To whom the foragers shall all repair. What honey is expected ? Degree being Tizarded, Th' nnworthiest shows as fiiirly in the mtuk. The heaTeos themselTes, the planets, and this centre. Observe degree, priority, and place, Insistare, conrse, proportion, season, form, Office, and castom, in all line of order: And therefore is the glorions planet Sol In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other;**" whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill asp^s of planets evil. And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad : bnt when the planets. In btU mixture, to disorder wander. What plagoes, and what portents, what mntiny, What raging of the sea, shaking of earth. Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors. Divert and crack, rend and deracinate The nnity and married calm of states Qnite from their fiznre ! 0, when degree is sbak'd. Which is the ladder to all high designs, Then*"* enterprise is sick! How could commanities. Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenity'*'' and due of birth, PrerogatiTe of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels. But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take bat degree away, untune that string. And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppngnancy : the bounded waters Shoold lift their bosoms higher than the abotw,
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And make a sop of all this solid globe :
Strength should be lord of imbecility,
And the nide son should strike his father dead :
Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong —
Between whose endless jar jastice resides —
Should lose their names, and so should jusUce too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite ;
And appetite, an aniTereal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power.
Must make perforce an universal prey,™*
And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,
This chaos, when degree ia suffocate.
Follows tiie choking.
And this neglection of degree it is.
That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose
It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd
By him one step below; he, by the next;
That next, by him beneath : so every step,
Exampled by the first pace that is sick
Of bis superior, grows to an envious fever
Of pale and bloodless emulation :
And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot.
Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length,
Troy in our weakness stands, not in her strength.
Nest. Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover'd The fever whereof all our power is sick.
Agam. The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses, What is the remedy ?
Ulyss. The great Achilles, — whom opinion crowns The sinew and the forehand of our host, — ■ Having bis ear full of his airy &ms, Qrows dainty of bis worth, and iu his tent Lies mocking our designs : with him, Fatroclus, Upon a lazy bed, the livelong day Breaks Bcurril jests ;
And vrith ridiculous and awkward action — Which, slanderer, be imitation calls — He pageants ns. Sometime, great Agamemnon, Thy topless deputation he puts on ;
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And, like a stratting player, — whose conceit Lies in his bamstring, and doth think it rich To bear the wooden dialogue and Bonnd 'Twixt his stretoh'd footing and the soaffoldage, — ■ Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested'*" seeming He acts thy greatness in : and when he speaks, "Tis like a chime a-mending; with torms nnsqaar'd, 'Which, from the toogae of roaring Typhon dropp'd, Would seem hyperboles. At this fasty stuff The large Achilles, on bis prese'd bed lolling. From his deep chest langhs ont a lond applanse ; Cries, "Excellent! 'tis Agamemnon jnst. Now play me Kestor; hem, and stroke thy beard. As he being drest to some oration." That's done ; — as near as the extremest ends Of parallels ; as**^ like aa Vulcan and bis wife : Yet good"*' Achilles still cries, " Exoellent 1 'Tis Kestor right. Now play him me, Fatroclns, Aiming to answer in a night-alarm." And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age Must be the scene of mirth ; to congh and epit. And, with a palsy-fombling on his gorget, Shake in and ont the rivet : — and at this sport Sir Valour dies ; cries, " 0, enough, Patroclus ; Or give me ribs of steel I I shall split all In pleasnre of my spleen." And in this fosbion. All onr abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, Sererals and generals of grace exact, Achievemente, plots, orders, preventions. Excitements to the field, or speech for trace, Snccess or loss, what is or is sot, serves As staff for these two to make paradoxes.
Nest. And in the imitation of these twain — Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice — many are infect. Ajax is grown self-will'd ; and bears his head In such a rein, in full as prond a pace"°> As btoad Achilles ; keeps his'tent like htm ; Makes &otious feasts ; rails on our state of war. Bold as an oracle; and sets Thersitea —
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A slftTd whose gall coins slanders like a tmut — To match as in comparisoiiB with dirt. To weaken and discredit onr exposare. How rank soever roonded-in with danger.
Ulyga. They tax out policy, and call it cowardice; Count wisdom as no member of the war ; Forestall presdesce, and esteem no act Bat that of hand ; the still and mental parts, That do contrire how many hands shall strike, When fitness calls them on ; and know, by measure Of their observant toil, the enemies' weight, — Why, this hath not a finger's dignity : They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war; So Uiat the ram that batters down the wall. For the great swing and rudeness of hia poise, They place before his hand that made the engine. Or those that with the fineness of their souls By reason goide his execution.
Nest. Let this be granted, and Achillea' horse Makes many Thetis' sons. [A tucJcet.
Agam, What tmmpet ? look, Menelaua.'"'
Men. From Troy.
Enter MsEis.
Agam. What wonld you 'fore onr tent?
jEne. Is this great Agamemnon's tent, I pray yon ?
Agam. Even Uiis.
Mne. May one, that is a herald and a prince, Do a fair message to his kingly ears ?
Agam. With aorety stronger than Achilles' arm'*" 'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice Gall Agamemnon head and general.
j£ne. Fair leave and lai^e secarity. How may . A stranger to those most imperial looks Enow them &om eyes of other mortals?
Agam. How !
AEne. Ay; I ask, that I might waken reverence. And bid the cheek be ready with a blnsh Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
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The ^athfal Phaebns :
'Which is that god in oSSce, guiding men ?
Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon ?
Agam. This Trojan scorns na ; or the men of Troj Are ceremonious conitiers.
^ne, ConrtierB as free, ae debonair, unann'd. As bending angels ; that's their fame in peace : Bat when they nonld seem soldiers, they ^lave galls, Good arms, strong joints, true swords ; and, Joto's accord,'**' Nothing so full of heart. Bat peace, £neas, Peace, Trojan ; lay thy finger on thy lips ! The worthiness of pmise distains his worth, If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth : Bat what the repining enemy commends. That breath fame blows; that praise, sole pure, transcends.^
Agam. Sir, yon of Troy, call yon yonrself ^oeas ?
./£ne. Ay, Qreek, that is my name.
Agam. What's your affair, I pray yon ?
^ne. Sir, pardon ; 'tis for Agamemnon's ears.
Agam, He hears naught privately that comes &om Troy.
^ne. Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him : I bring a trumpet to awake his ear ; To set bis sense on the attentive bent. And then to speah.
Agam. Speak frankly as the wind ;
It is not Agamemnon's sleeping faonr : That thoa shalt know, Trojan, he is awake. He tells thee so himself.
jEne. Trnmpet, Mow loud.
Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents ; And every Greek of mettle, let him know, What Troy means &irly shall be spoke aload.
{Trvmpei tounds. We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy A prince call'd Hector, — Priam is his father, — Who in this doll and long-oontinu'd truce Is rusty grown : be bade me take a trumpet, And to this purpoae speak. Kings, princes, lords 1 If there be one among the faii'st of Greece That holds his honour higher than his ease ;
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That seeks bis pnuse more than he fears his peril ;
That hnows his valoor, and koows not his fear ;
That loves his mistress more than in confession,
With bnant tows to her own lips he loTee,
And dare avow her beauty and her worth
In other arms than hers, — to him this challenge.
Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,
Shall make it good^ or do his best to do it.
He hatb a lady, viBer, birer, truer.
Than ever Greek did compass in his arms ;'"'*
And will to-morrow with bis trumpet call
Midway between yoar tents and walls of Troy,
To ronse a Grecian that is tme in love :
If any come. Hector shall honour him ;
If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires.
The Grecian dames are Bonbnmt, and not worth
The BpUnter of a lance. Even so much.
Agam. This aboil be told oar lovers. Lord ^neas; If none of them have soul in such a kind. We left them all at home : but we are soldiers ; And may that soldier a mere recreant prove. That means not, hatb not, or is not ia love ! If then one is, or hath, or means to be. That one meets Hector ; if none else, I am he.
Nest. Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man When Hector's grandsire snck'd : he is old now ; Bat if there be not in our Grecian host One noble man that hath one spark of fire. To answer for his love, tell him from me, — 111 hide my silver beard in a gold beaver. And in my vantbrace pot this vrither'd brawn ; And, meeting him, will tell him that my lady Was fairer than his grandam, and as chsste As may be in the world : bis youth in flood, I'll prove this troth with my tbr*^ drops of blood. ^ne. Now heavens forbid such scarcity of yonth t Ulyss. Amen.
Agam. Fair Lord ^neas, let me touch your band ; To our pavilion shall I lead yon, sir. Achilles shall have word of this intent;
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So shall each lord of Greece, &om teot to tent : Yoarself shall feast with as before ;oa go, And find the welcome of a noble foe.
[Exeunt aU except Ulysaes and Nestor.
Ulysa. Nestor, —
Nest. "Wbat saja UlysseB ?
Ulyat. I hare a yoang conception in td.j brain ; Be fon my time to bring it to some shape.
Neet. Mliat is't ?
VlyM. This 'tis :— Blont wedges lire hard knots : the needed pride That hath to this matorit; blown up In rank AchiUes mast ot cow be cropp'd, Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil, To DTerbolk as all.
Nett, Well, and how ?'»'
Viyat. This challenge that the gallant Hector senda. However it is spread in general name, Belates in purpose only to Ac^iilles.
NeBl. The purpose is perspioaona even as snbstance. Whose groMness little characters sum up : And, in the pnblication, make no strain. But that Achilles, were his brain as barren As banks of Libya, — though, Apollo knows, 'Tis dry enough, — will, with great speed of judgment. Ay, with celerity, find Hector's purpose Pointing on him.
Ulysa. And wake him to the answer, think yon?
Neet. Yes,
It is most meet : who may yoa else oppose. That can from Hector bring his honour off. If not AchiUes ? Though 't be a sportful combat, Yet in the trial mnch opinion dwells ; For here the Trojans taste onr dear'st repute With their fin'st palate : and trust to me, Ulysses, Our impntation'"' shall be oddly pois'd In this wild action ; for the success. Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general ; And in such indexes, although small pricks
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To their BubB^aent Tolnmes, there is aeen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large. It is anppos'd,
He that meets Hector issQes &om oar choice :
And choice, being mntnal act of all our souls,
Makes merit her election ; and doth boil,
Ab 'twere from forth na all, a man distill'd
Oat of oar virtnes ; who miscarrying,
What heart receives from hence the conqaering part,
To steel a strong opinion to themselves?,
Which entertsin'd, limbs are his**^^' instramenta,
la no less working than are swords and bows
Directive hj the limbs.
ZJlyss. Give pardon to my speech ; — Therefore 'tis meet Achilles meet not Hector. Let as, like merchants, show our fonlest wares, And think, perchance, that they will sell ;"" if not. The lastre of the better yet to show. Shall ehow the better. Do not, then, consent"*" That ever Hector and Achilles meet ; For both oar hononr and oar shame in thiB Are dogg'd with two strange followers.
Nest. I see them not with my old eyes : what are they ?
Ulysa. What glory oar Achilles shares from Hector, Were he not proad, we all should share with him : Bnt he already is too insolent ; And we were better parch in Afrio snn Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes, Shoold he scape Hector fair : if he were foil'd. Why, then we did oar main opinion crash Is taint of onr best man. No, make a lottery ; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector : 'mong ourselves Give him allowance as the worthier man ; For that will physic the great Myrmidon Who broils in lond appJauBO, and make him fall Hie crest that prouder than blae Iris bends. If the dull brainlesB Ajax come safe off, We'll dress him tip in voices : if he fail. Yet go we under our opinion still
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That we liave better men. Bot, hit or miss, Oor project'a life this shape of sense assumes, — Ajaz employ'd placka down Achilles' plames.
Neat. Ulysses, Now*''" I beg^ to relish thy adrice ; And I will giye a taste of it forthwith To Agamemaon: go we to him straight. Two COTS shall tame each other : pride alooe Most tatre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone. [Exeunt.
Scene I. A part of the Oi-edan camp. Enter Ajax and Tsebsiteo.
Jjax. Theraites, —
Tker. Agamemnon, — how if he had boils, — full, all over^ generally ? —
AJax. Thersitea, —
Ther. And those boils did run? — Sa; so, — did not the general ran then ? were not that a botchy core ? — '•"
JJax. Dog, —
Ther. Then woald come some matter ftom bim ; I see none now.
Jjax. Thoa bitch-wolf's son, canst thon not hear ? Feel, llien. [^Beating him,
Thar, The plagne of Greece upon thee, thon mongrel beef-witted lord !
Ajax. Speak, then, thon Tinewedst learen, apeak : I'*^ will beat thee into handaomenesa.
Ther. I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness : bnt, I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration than thoa learn a prayer witboat book. Thoa canst atrike, const thon? a red mnrrain o' tb; jade's tricka !
Ajax. Toadstool, learn me the prodamation.
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Tker. Dost thou think I have no sense, thoa Btrikest me thus?
Ajax. The proclamation !
Tker. Thoa art proclaimed a fool, I think.
Ajax, "Do Dot, porpentioe, do not : my fingers itch.
Tker. I wotild thoa didst itch &om head to foot, and I had the scratching of thee ; I woald make thee the loathsom- est scab in Greece. Whea thoa art forth in the iQCorsions, thoQ Btrikest as alow as another.
Ajax. I Bay, the proclamation !
Tker. ThoD grnmblest and railest every hoar on Achilles; and thoa art as fall of envy at his grealjiess as Cerberas is at Proseipina's beaaty, ay, that thou barkest at him.
Ajeu:. UistreBS Thersites !'***
Tker. Thoa sboiUdst strike him.
Ajax. Cobloaf!
T/ter. He would pan thee into abivers witb his fist, as a sailor breaks a biscoit.
Ajax. Yon whoreson car ! [Beating him.
Tker. Do, do.
Ajax. Thoa stool for a witch !
7'ker. Ay, do, do; thon sodden-witted lord! thoa hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows ; an assinico may tator thee : thoa scarry-valiant ass ! thoa art here bat to thrash Trojans ; and thou art bought and sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave. If thon ase to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and tell what thoa art by inches, thoa thing of no bowels, thoa 1
Ajax. You dog !
Tker. You scurvy lord 1
Ajax. You car I [Beating him,
Tker. Mars hig idiot I do, radeness ; do, camel ; do, do.
Unier Achilles oTtd Fatroclus, AchU. Why, how now, Ajax ! wherefore do you thus ? — How now, Thersites 1 what's the matter, man ? Tker. You see him there, do you ? AchU. Ay; what's the matter ? Titer. Nay, look upon him. AchU. So I do : what's the matter ?
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Tker. Nay, bat regard him well.
Acha. Weil! why, I do so.
Ther. Bnt yet yoc look not well upon Mm; for, whoso* ever yon take him to be, he is Ajax.
Aehil. I know that, fool.
Tker. Ay, bat that fool knows not himself.
Ajax. Therefore I beat thee.
Ther, Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he ntters ! hia •erafdons have ears thas long. I have bobbed bis brain more than he has best my bonee : I will bay nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a sparrow. This lord, Achilles, Ajax, — who wears his wit in his belly, and his gats in his head, — I'll tell you what I say of him.
AchU. What?
Ther. I say, this Ajai —
[Ajax offers to beat him, Achilles interposes.
AchU. Nay, good Ajax. .
Ther. Has not so mach wit —
AchU. Nay, I must hold yon.
Ther. As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he comes to fight.
AchU. Peace, fool!
Ther. I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will not : be there ; that he; look yon there.
Ajax. 0 thoa damned cor I I shall —
AchU. Will yon set your wit to a fool's ?
Tker. No, I warrant you ; for a fool'e will shame it.
Patr. Qood words, Thersites.
AchU. What's the quarrel ?
Ajax. I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenonr of the proclamatiou, and he rails upon me.
Ther. I serve thee not.
Ajax. Well, go to, go to.
Ther. I serre here voluntary.
Ackil. Your last service was sufferance, 'twas not volun- tary,— no man is beaten voluntary : Ajax was here the volun- tary, and you as under an impress.
Ther. E'en so ; a great deal of your wit too lies in your sinews, or else there be liars. Hector shall have a great catch.
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if he knock oat either of yonr brains : 'a were as good crack a fnsty nut with no kernel.
Achil. What, with me too, ThersitoB?
Tker. There's Ulysses and old Mestor — whose wit was moaldy ere your'**' grandsires had nails on their toes — yoke yoa like draaght-oxen, and make you plough up the wars.
Achil. What, what 7
Ther. Yes, good sooth : to, Achilles ! to, Ajax, to !
Ajax. I shall cut out yonr tongue.
Ther. 'Tis no matter; I shall speak aa much as thou after- wards.
Patr. No more words, Thersites ; peace !
Ther. I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach'*" bids me, shall I ?
Achil. There's for you, Fatroclus.
Tker. I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to yonr tents : I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. [Exit.
Patr. A good riddance.
Achil. Marry, this, sir, is proolaim'd through all oar host : — That Hector, by the fifth hourt*" of the sun. Will, with a trampet, 'twizt our tents and Troy, To-morrow morning call some knight to arms That hath a stomach ; and such a one that dare Maintain — I know not what ; 'tis trash. Farewell.
Ajax. Farewell. Who shall answer him ?
Achil. I know not, — 'tis put to lottery; otherwise He knew his man. lExennt Achil. and Patr.
Ajax. 0, meaning you. — I will go learn more of it.
[Exit.
SoENB n. Troy. A room in Fiiuu's palace. Enter Friah, Hector, TuoiLns, Pasis, and Helekhs. Pin, After BO many hours, lives, speeches spent, Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks : — " Deliver Helen, and all damage else — As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,
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WonndB, friends, and vhat else dear that is cousiim'd
b hot digestion of this cormorant war —
Stall be Bbnck off:" — Hector, what say yon to't?
Hect, Thongh no man lesser fears tbe Greeks than I As br as tonchetli my particular, Yet, dread Priam,
There is no lady of more softer bowels. More spongy to snck in the sense of fear, More ready to cry oat " Who knows what foflows ?" Than Hector is : the wound of peace is surety, Snrety secnre ; bnt modest donbt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of tbe worst. Let Helen go : Since tbe first sword was drawn abont this question, Erery tithe sonl, 'mongst many thonsand dismes. Hath been as dear as Helen, — I mean, of oars : If we hare lost so many tenths of onrs. To gcard a thing not onrs nor worth to na. Had it oar name, the valne of one ten, — What merit's in that reason which denies The yielding of her np ?
Tro. Fie, fie, my brother \
Weigh yon the worth and honour of a king. So great as onr dread &ther, in a scale Of common ounces ? will you with counters som The past-proportion of bis infinite ?'*" And buckle-in a waist most fathomless With spans and inches bo diminntive As fears and reasons ? fie, for godly'**' shame !
Hel. Mo marvel, though yon bite so sharp at reasons. Yon are so empty of them. Shoold not oar father Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons, Because your speech hath none that tells him so ?
Tro. You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest ; Yoa fur your gloves with reason. Here are your reasons : Yon know an enemy intends yoa hami ,- Yon know a sword employ'd is perilous. And reason fiies the object of all harm : Who marrela, then, when Helenus beholds A Grecian and his aword, if be do set
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The very wings of reaaon to his lieela,
And fly like chidden Mercniy from Jore,
Or like a star disorb'd ? Nay, if we talk of reason,
Let'B shut oar gates, and sleep : manhood and hoDOtir
Shonld have hare-hearts, would they but fat their thoughts
With this cramm'd reason : reason and respect
Make livers pale, and Instihood deject.
Hect. Brother, she is not worth what she dotb cost The holding.
Tro. What is aught, bnt as 'tis valo'd ?
Hect. Bat valne dwells not in particular will ; It holds hie estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precioas of itself As in the prizer : 'tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god ; And the will dotes, that is attributive To what infectiously itself affects. Without some image of th' affected merit.
Tro. I take to-day a urife, and my election Is led on in the condnct of my will ; My will enkindled by mine eyes and earn, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment : how may I avoid, Althoagh my will distaste what it elected. The wife I chose ? there can be no evasion To blench &om this, and to stand firm by honour : We tarn not hock the silks upon the merchant When we have soil'd them ; nor the remainder viands We do not throw in onreapective sieve Because we now are full. It was thought meet Paris shonld do some vengeance on the Greeks : Your breath of full consent bellied his sails ; The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a trace. And did him service : he toucb'd the ports desir'd ; And, for an old anut whom the Greeks held captive. He brought s Grecian qaeen, whose youth and freshness Wrinkles Apollo, and makes stale the morning."** Why keep we her ? the Grecians keep oar aunt : Is she worth keeping? why, she is a pearl. Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships.
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And tnm'd crown'd kings to merchants. If yonll avoncli 'twas wisdom Paris went, — As yon mcBt needs, for you all cried, " Qo, go ;" K you'll confess he brought home noble prize, — As you must needs, for you all clapp'd your hands. And cried, " Inestimable !" — why do you now The issue of your proper wisdoms rate. And do a deed that fortune never did, — Beggar the eetiouition which you priz'd Bicher than sea and land ? O theft most base. That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep!'*" Bat, thieves, unworthy of a thing so Btol'ti, That in their country did them tiiat disgrace We fear to wanaot in our native place I
Cat. [tpithiti] Cry, Trojans, cry !
Pri. What noise, what shriek is this?
Tro. 'Tis our mad sister ; I do know her voice.
Cos. {icithin] Cry, Trojans !
Hect, It is Cassa&dro.
Enter Cassaudba, tavttig.
Cos. Cry, Trojans, cry [ lead me ten thousand eyes. And I will fiU them with prophetic tears.
Hect, Peace, sister, peace !
Cos. Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,'*''' Soft infancy, that nothing canst bnt cry. Add to my clamours t let ns pay betimes A moiety of that mass of moan to come. Cry, Trojans, cry ! practise your eyes with tears 1 Troy mast not be, nor goodly Ilion stand ; Our firebrand brother, Paris, bums as all. Cry, Trtijans, cry ! a Helen and a woe ! Cry, cry 1 Troy bums, or else let Helen go. [Exit,
Hect. Now, youthful Troilns, do not these higb strains Of divination in our sister work Some touches of remorse ? or is your blood So madly hot, that no discourse of reason, Nor fear of bad saocesB in a bad cause. Can qualify the same ?-
Tro. Why, brother Hector,
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We may oot tbink the jaetneae of each act Sach and no other than eTent doth form it ; Nor ODC6 dejent the courage of oar minds, Becaaae Cassandia'a mad : her brain-Bick raptares Cannot distaste the goodneBe of a qnarrel Which hath oar Bevetal hononrs all engsg'd To make it gtacious. For my private part, I am no more tonch'd than all Priam's sons : And JoTB forbid there sboold be done amongst as Sach things as might offend the weakest spleen To fight for and maintain \
Par. Else mi^t the world convince of levity As well my andertakings as yoni coansels : Bnt I attest the gods, yoar fall consent Gave wings to my propension, and cat off All fears attending on so dire a project. For what, slas, can these my single arms ? What propognation is in one man's valoor. To stand the push and enmity of those This qnarrel wonld excite ? Tet, I protest. Were I alone to pass*^ the difflcnlUes, And had as ample power as I have will, Paris shoald ne'er retract what he hath done. Nor faint in the porsnit.
Pri. Paris, yoa speak
Like one besotted on yoar sweet delights : Yoa have the honey still, bat these the gall ; So to be valiant is no praise at all.
Par. Sir, I propose not merely to myself The pleaearea sach a beauty brings with it ; Bnt I woald have the soil of her fair rape Wip'd off in honoarable keeping her. What treason were it to the ransack'd queen. Disgrace to your great worths, and shame to me, Now to deliver her possession ap On terms of base compulsion ! Can it be That 80 degenerate a strain as this Should once set footing in yoar generous bosoms ? There's not the meanest spirit on our party Withoat a heart to dare, or sword to draw.
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When Helen is defended ; nor none bo noble Whoae life were ill beetow'd, or death nnfam'd. Where Helen ia the subject: then, I say. Well may we fight for her, whom, we know well. The world's lai^e spEtces cannot parallel.
Hect. Paris and Troilna, yon have both aaid well ; And on the caase and question now in hand HaTe gloz'd, — but saperfioially ; not mach Unlike yonng men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy: The reasons yon allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a free determination 'Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves Ail daes be render'd to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all bomanity Than wife is to the husband ? If this law Of nature be corrupted through affection. And that great minds, of partial indulgence To their bennmbM wills, resist the same, There is a law in each well-ordet'd nation To cnrb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and r^ractory. If Helen, then, be wife to Sparta's king, — As it is known she is, — these moral laws Of nature and of nations apeak alond To have hw back retnm'd : thus to persist In doing wrong extenuates not wrong, But makes it much more heavy. Hector's opinion Is this, in way of tmth : yet, ne'ertheless, My spritely brethren, I propend to you In resolution to keep Helen stiU ; For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependance Upon onr joint and several dignities.
Tro. Why, there you touch 'd the life of our design : Were it not gloty that we more affected Than the performance of our heaving spleens, I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood
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Spent more in her defence. Bat, worthy Hector, She is a theme of honour and renown ; A. B-pUT to valiant and magnanimons deeds ; Whose present coorsge may beat down oar foea, And &nie in time to come can6nize qb : For, I presnme, braTO Hector woald not lose So rich advantage of a promis'd glory, As Bmiles npon the forehead of tbia action. For the wide world's revenne.
Hect. I am yoare,
Yon valiant offspring of great Friamns. — I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The doll and factions nobles of the Oreeka Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits : I was adv^rtis'd their great general slept, Whilst emnlation in the army crept: This, I presnme, will wake him. [ExeutiU
SflBHE m. The Grecian camp. Before Aohillbs' tent. £nter Thebsites. Ther. How now, Thersitea ! what, loet in the labyrinth of thy fiiry ! Shall the elephant Ajax cany it thns ? he beats me, and I rail at him : 0 worthy satisfaction ! woald it were otherwise ; that I coold beat him, whilst he railed at me : 'sfoot, I'll learn to conjore and raise devils, bat I'll see soma iaane of my epitefal execrations. Then there'a Achilles, — a rare enginer. If Troy be not taken till these two undermine it, the walls will atand till they fall of themselves. 0 thoa great tiinnder-darter of Olympas, forget that thon art Jove, the king of gods ; and, Mercory, lose all the serpentine craft of thy cadacens ; if ye take not that little little less-than-little wit &om them that they have I which short-aimed'**' ignor- ance itself knows is so abundant scarce, it will not in ciroam- vention deliver a Sy from a spider, withoat drawing their massy irons and catting the web. After this, the vengeance on the whole camp ! or, rather, the bone-ache I***' fo( that, methinks, is the cnrse dependant on those that war for a
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placket. I hme said my prayers ; and devil emj say Amen. — Wliat, ho ! my Lord Achillea 1
Unter PATBOCLtrs.
Patr. Who's there? Thereites! Good ThersiteB, come in and rail.
Th^r. If I coold have remembered a gUt coonterfeit, thaa wooldet not have slipped out of my contemplation : but it is no matter; thyself npon thyself! Thecommon curse ofmaa- kind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenoe ! heaven bless thee from a tutor, and discipline come not near thee ! Let thy blood be thy direction till thy death ! then if she that lays thee oat says thon art a t&ii corse, I'll be worn and sworn npon't she never Bhrooded any bat lazars. Amen. —Where's Achilles?
Patr. What, art thon devout ? wast thoa in prayer ?
Ther. Ay ; the heavens hear me !
£ntor AoHiLLES.
AchU. Who's there ?
Patr. Therdtes, my lord.
AehU. Where, where ? — Art thon come ? why, my cheese, my digestion, why hast thoa not served thyself in to my table 80 many meals? Come, — what's Agamemnon?
Tker. Thy commander, Achilles. — Then tell me, Fatro- cIqb, what's AichilleB ?
Patr, Thy lord, Thersites : then tell me, I pray thee, what's thyself?
Ther. Thy knower, Fatroclns : then tell me, Fatioolas, what art thoa ?
Patr. Thon mayat tell that knowest.
AekU. O. teU, teU.
Ther. Ill decline the whole qaestion. Agamemnon com- mands Achilles ; Achilles is my lord ; I am Fatrodas' knower ; and Fatrodas is a fool.
Patr. Toa rascal t
I%er. Peace, fool t I have not done.
AchU. He is a privileged man. — Proceed, Thersites.
Tker. Agamemnon is a fool ; Achilles is a fool ; Thersites is a fool ; and, as aforesaid, Fatrodas is a fool.
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Achil. Derive this ; come.
Tker. Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles ; Achillea ia a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon ; Tber- eitoB is a fool to serve such a fool ; and Patroolos ia a fool positive.
Pair. Why am I a fool?
Ther. Make that demand to the creator.''** It saffices me then art. — Look yon, who comes here ?
AckU. Fatrocloa, I'll epeak with nobody. — Come in vith ne, Tbersites. [Exit.
Tker. Here is sach patchery, snch juggling, and BQch knavery ! all the argument is a cuckold and a whore ; a good quarrel to draw emnlons factions and bleed to death npon. Now, the dry serpigo on the snbject ! and war and lechery confoond aU t [Exit.
Elder AaAUBUHOH, TTltssbs, yESTOB, Siouedes, and Ajaz.
Agam. Where is Achilles ?
Patr. Within his tent; bat ill-dispos'd, my lord.
Agam, Let it bo known to him that we are here. He shent oar messengers ;'"' and we lay by Our appertainments, visiting of him : Let him be told so ; lest perchance he think We dare not move the question of oar place. Or know not what we are.
Pair. I shall say so to him. [Exit.
Ulysi. We saw him at the opening of his tent : He is not sick.
Ajax. Yea, lion-sick, sick of proad heart : yoo may call it melancholy, if yon will favour the man ; bnt, by my head, 'tis pride: hot why, why? let him show ns the cause. — A word, my lord. ^TakeB Agamemnon aside.
Nest. What moves Ajax thus to bay at him ?
Ulyss. Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.
Neat. Who, Tbersites ?
Ulyss. He.
Nest. Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his argnment.
Ulyis. No, yon see, he is his argnment that has his arga- ment,— Achillea.
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Negt All the better ; their fraction is more our Trish than th^ faction : bat it was a strong composure a fool could dia- nnite.
Vlpta. The amity that visdom knits not, folly may easily nntie. — Here comes Patroclns.
Nest. No AchilleB with him.
Ulyaa. The elephant hath jointa, bat none for courtesy : Ms legs are legs fbr necessity, not for flexure.
Re-enter Patroolbs.
Patr. Achilles bids me say, he is mnch sorry, If any thing more than yonr sport and pleasure Did move your greatness and this noble state 7o call upon him; he hopes it is no other But for yonr health and yonr digestion sake,^ An after-dinner's breath.
Agam. Hear yon, Patro<dns : —
We are too Tell acqnainted with these answers : Bnt his evasion, wing'd thus swift with scorn, Oannot outfly our apprehensions. Mach attribute he hath ; and much the reason "Why we ascribe it to him: yet all his virtues, Not virtnously on his own part beheld. Do in oar eyes begin to lose their gloss ; Yea, like &iT fruit in an unwholesome dish, Are like to rot nntasted. Go and tell him, We come to speak with him ; and you shall not sin, If yon do say we think him over-proud And under-honest ; in self-assumption greater Than in the note of judgment ; and worthier than himself^*^ Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on. Disguise the holy strength of their command. And nnderwrite in an observing kind His humorous predominance ; yea, watch B!is pettish Innes, his ebbs, his flows,"'' as if The passage and whole carriage of this action Bode on his tide. Go tell him this ; and add, That if he overbold his price so much. We'll none of him ; but let him, like an engine Kot portable, lie under this report, —
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Bring RCtion hither, this cannot go to war : A Btiiring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant : — tell him so.
Pair. I shall; and bring his answer presently. [Exit.
Agavi. In second voice we'll not be satisfied ; We come to speak with him. — Ulysses, enter you.
lExit Vlyties.
Ajax. What is he more than anbther ?
Agam. No more than what he thinks he is.
Ajax. Is he so mach ? Do yoa not think he thinks him- ■elf a better man than I am ?
Agam. No qaestion.
Ajax. Will yon snbscribe hia thonght, and say he is ?
Agam, No, noble Ajax ; yoa are as strong, as raliant, as wise, no less noble, mach more gentle, and altogether more tractable.
Ajasc. Why should a man be proud ? How doUi pride grow ? I know not what pride is.
Agam. Yoor mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your mtues the fairer. He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and what- ever praises itself hut in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
Ajax. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.
NeBt. {aeidel Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?
Re-enter Ultssbs.
Vlyss. Achilles will not to the field to-morrow.
Agam. What's his excuse ?
XJlyaa. He doth rely on none ;
But carries on the stream of his dispose, Without observance or respect of any. In will peculiar and in self-admiesion.
Agam, Why'will he not, upon our fair request, Untent his person, and share the air with us ?
Ulyts. Things email as nothing, for request's sake onlyr He makes important : possess'd he is with gieatsess ; And speaks not to himself, but with a pride That quarrels at self-breath i imagin'd worth
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Holds in his blood sach ewoln and hot discourse. That 'twixt his mental and his active parts Kingdom'd Achillea in commotion rages. And batters down himself : what should I aay ? He is 80 plaguy proud, that the death-tokens oft Cry " No recoTBry."
Agam. Let Ajas go to him. —
Dear lord, go yon and greet him in his tent : 'Tis said he holda yon well ; and will be led, At yonr reqaeet, a little &om himself.
UU/$s. 0 Agamemnon, let it not be bo ! Well consecrate the steps that Ajax makes 'When they go ftom Achilles : shall the prond lord. That bastes hia arrogance with his own seam. And neTet saffers matter of the world Enter bis thonghts, save anch as doth rerolve And niminate himself, — shall he be worshipp'd Of that we hold an idol more than he 9 No, this duice-worthy and right-Tsliant lord Mnst not so stale his palm, nob^ acqnir'd ; Nor, by my will, assnbjngate his merit. As amply titled as Achilles is, By going to Achillea : That were t' enlard hia fat-already pride. And add more coala to Cancer when he boms With entertaining great Hyperion. This lord go to him 1 Jnpiter forbid. And say in thnnder, "Achilles go to him."
Nest, [aside] 0, this is well ; he robs the vein of
Dio. [a«i(2e] And how hia silence drinks ap this ap- plause!
Jjax. If I go to him, with my armdd fist m paah him o'er the £ace.
Agam. 0, no, yon shall not go.
Ajax. An 'a be prond with me, I'll pheese his pride : Let me go to him.
tTlj/M. Not for the worth that hangs npon onx qnanel.
Ajax. A paltry, insolent fellow !
Nest, {ande} How he deacribes himself!
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Ajax. Can he not be sociable 9
Ulyss. [asidf] The raven chides blackneaa.
Ajax. I'll 1st his hnmourB blood.
Agam. \_aside\ He will be the physician that should be the
Ajax. An all men were o' my mind, —
Ulyss. [aside] Wit would be out of foshion.
Ajax. 'A shoold not bear it so, 'a ahoold eat swords first: shall pride carry it ?
Nest, [aside'] An 'twould, yon'd carry half.
Ulyss. [aside] 'A wonld have ten shares.
Ajax. I will knead him ; I'll make him sopple.
Nest, [oxide] He's not yet throagh warm :'*°' force him with praises : ponr in, pour in ; his ambition is dry.
Ulyss, [to Agam^ My lord, you feed too mnch on this dis- like.
Nest. Onr noble general, do not do ao.
Dio. Yon mnat prepare to fight without Achilles.
Ulyss. Why, 'tis this naming of him does him harm. Here is a man — bat 'tis before his &ce ; I will be silent.
Neat. Wherefore shonld yon so ?
He is not emnlons, as Achilles is.
Ulyss. Know the whole world, he is aa valiant.
Ajax. A whoreson dog, that shall palter thoa with as ! Would he were a Trojan !
Nest. What a vice were it in Ajax now, —
Ulyss. If he were prond, — ""
Dio. Or covetous of praise, —
XJlyss. Ay, or early borne, —
Dio. Or strange, or self-affected !
Ulyss. Thank the heavens, lord, tiioa art of sweet com* posare ; Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee sack : Fam'd be thy lator, and thy parts of nature Thrice-fom'd, beyond all eradition :"*' Bat he that disciplin'd thy arms to fight, Ijet Mars divide eternity in twain, And give him half: and, for thy vigour, let"* BoU'bearing Milo bis addition yield
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To anevj Ajax. I'll not prsiBe thy wisdom, Whicli, like a bonm, a pale, a shore, confines Thy spacioDB and dilated parts : here's Nestor, — Instractod by the antiquary times, He mast, he is, he cannot hat be wise : — Bat pardon. Gather Nestor, were year days Aa green as Ajax', and year brain ao temper'd, Yoa shoold not hare the eminence of him, Bot be as Ajax.
Ajax, Shall I call yon lather ?
Nest. Ay, my good son."***
Dio. Be ml'd by him, Lord Ajax.
Ulyss. There is no tarrying here ; the hart Achilles Seeps thicket. Please it onr great general To call together all his state of war ; Fresh kings are come to Troy : to-morrow'*" We most with all oar main of power stand hst : And here's a lord, — come knights from east to west. And call their flower, Ajax shall cope the best.
Affam. Qo we to council. Let Achilles sleep ; Xiight boats sail swift, thongh greater hoiks draw deep.
[^Exeunt.
Scene I. Troy. A room in Peiah's palace. Enter a Servant and Panda bus.
Pan, Friend, yon, — pray yon, a word : do not yoa follow the yoong Lord Paris ?
Serv. Ay, sir, when he goes before me.
Pan. Yoa depend npon him, I mean ?
Serv, Sir, I do depend npon the lord.
Pan. Yoa depend upon a noble gentleman ; I most needs praise him.
Seru. The lord be praised I
Pan. Yoa know me, do yoa not ?
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Serv. Faith, sir, superficially.
Pan. Friend, know me better ; I am ihe Lord PandsmB.
Sero. I hope I shall know yoor honour better.
Pan. I do desire it.
Serv. Yoa are in the Btste of grace.
P(m. Grace I not ao, friend ; honoar and lordship are my titles. [Mntic witkin.^ — What music is this ?
Serv. I do bat partly know, sir : it is mnaio in parts.
Pan. Know yon the masicians ?
Serv. "Wholly, sir.
Pan. Who play they to ?
Serv. To the hearers, sir.
Pan. At whose pleasure, friend ?
Serv. At mine, sir, and theirs that lore mnsic.
Pan. Command, I mean, friend.
Serv. Who shall I command, air ?
Pan. Friend, we understand not one another : I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning. At whose request do these men play?
Serv. That's to't, indeed, sir : marry, sir, at the request of Paris my lord, who's there in person ; with him, the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's invisible soul, — "**
Pan. Who, my cousin Cressida ?
Serv. No, sir, Helen : could you not find oat that by her attributes ?
Pan. It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris &om the Prince Troilus : I will make a complimental assault upon him, for my business seethes.
Serv. Sodden business t there's a stewed phrase indeed 1
Enter Pabis and Eelbn, attended.
Pan, Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair com* pany! fair desires, in all fair measure, fairly guide theml — especially to you, &ir queen ! fair thoughts be your fair pillow 1
Helen. Dear lord, you are full of fair words.
Pan. You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. — Fair prince, here is good broken music.
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Par. YoD have broke it, coasiQ : and, by mj life, yoa shall make it whole again ; 7011 ahall piece it oat with a piece of JOI17 performance. — ^Nell, he is fnll of harmony.
Pan. Truly, lady, no.
Helen. 0, air, —
Pan. Bade, in sooth ; in good aooth, yery mde.
Par. Well said, my lord ! well, you say bo in fits.
Pan. I have bosinesa to my lord, dear queen. — My lord, -will yon voachBafe me a word ?
Helen. Nay, this shall not hedge ns otit : well hear yon fling, certainly.
Pan. Well, sweet qaeen, you are pleasant with me. — Bat, many, thas, my lord, — My dear lord, and most esteemed friend, yoor brother Troilas, —
Helen. M7 lord Fandarns; honey-sweet lord, —
Pan. Go to, sweet qaeen, go to: — commends himself most affectionately to you, —
Helen. Yon shall not bob us oat of our melody; if yon do, oar melancholy apoa your head I
Pan. Sweet queen, sweet queen ; that's a sweet qaeen, i' faith,—
Helen. And to make a sweet lady sad is a soar ofTence. Nay, that shall not serve your tarn ; that shall it not, in truth, la. Nay, I care not for aach words ; no, no.'*"
Pan. And, my lord, he desires yoa, that if the king call for him at sapper, yoa will make his excuse.
Helen. My Lord Pandarns, —
Pan. What says my sweet queen, — ^my very very sweet •qaeen?
Par. What exploit's in hand ? where sups he to-night ?
Helen. Nay, bat, my lord, —
Pan. What says my sweet qneen ? — My consin will Call -out with yoa. You must not know where he saps.****
Par, 1*11 lay my life, with my disposer'*" Cressida.
Pan. No, no, no such matter; yon are wide : come, your disposer is sick.
Par. Well, I'll make excuse.
Pan. Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? no, year poor disposer's sick.
Par. I spy.
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Pan, You spy ! what do you spy ? — Come, give me an in- atniment, — Now, sweet qaeen.
Helen. Why, this is kindly done.
Pan. My niece is horribly in love with a thing yon have, sweet qneen.
Helen. She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord Paris.
Pan. He ! no, she'll none of him ; Uiey two are twain. Helen. Falling in, after falling out, may make them three. Pan. Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing you a song now.
Helen. Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thon hast a fine forehead.
Pan. Ay, yon may, you may.
Helen. Let thy song be love : this love will nndo ns all. 0 Cnpid, Cupid, Cnpid !
Pan. Love ! ay, that it shall, i'faith. Par. Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but loTe. Pan, In good troth, it begins so. [Singa^
Love, lore, nothing but lore, still more ! For, 0, loTe'fl bow Shoots buck and doe : The shaft confbunda, Not that it woonds, But ticklea still the sore. These lovera cry — Oh ! oh ! they die !
Yet that which seems the wound to kill Doth turn oh I oh ! to ha I ha ! he I
So dying love lives still : Oh ! oh t a whUe, but ha 1 ha 1 ha I Oh I oh ! groans out for ha ! ha ! ha I Heigh<ho !
Helen. In love, i'faith, to the very tip of the nose. Par. He eats nothing bat doves, love ; and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thooghts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.
Pan. Ifl this the generation of love ?"*' hot blood, hot thonghts, and hot deeds ? Why, they are vipers : is love a generation of vipers? — Sweet lord, who's a-field to-day? Par, Hector, Deiphobus, Helenns, Antenor, and all the
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gallantly of Troy : I would fain have armed to-day, bat my Nell wonld not hare it so. How cbance my brother TroiluB went not ?
Helen. He hangs the Up at something : — yon know all, Lord Pandaraa.
Pan. Not I, honey-sweet queen. — I long to hear how they sped to-day. — You'll remember yonr brother's excuse ?
Par. To a hair.
Pan. Farewell, sweet queen.
Helen, Commend me to joor nie<:e.
Pan. I will, sweet queen. [Exit.
[A retreat tounded.
Par. They're come &om field : let us to Priam's hall, To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo yoa To help unarm onr Hector : his stubborn buckles, WiUi these your white enchanting fingers toooh'd, SbaiH more obey than to the edge of steel Or force of Glreekish sinews ; you shall do more Thau all the island kings, — disarm great Hector.
Helen. 'Twill make us proud to be his serrant, Paris ; Yea, what he shall receive of as in duty Oires db more palm in beauty than we hare, Yea, oTershines onrself.
Par. Sweet, above thonght I loye thee. [Exeunt.
SoENS n. Tke tame. Pansabus' orchard. Enter Pakdardb and Tboilcs' Boy,*''* meeting. Pan. How now! where's thy master? at my cousin Cres- nda's?
Boff. No, sir ; he sta3rs for yon to condact him thither. Pan. 0, here he comes.
Ikter TitomuH, How now, how now !
TVo. Sirrah, walk off. [Exit Boy.
Pan. Have yon seen my consin ?
Tro. No, Pandarus : I stalk about her door.
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Like a Btrange soul upon the Stygian bsnkB Staying for waftage. 0, be thou my Charoc, And give me swift transportBiice to those Gelds "Where I may wallow in the lily-teda Ppopos'd for the deserver ! 0 gentle Pandanifl, From Cnpid'e shonlder plnck bis painted wings. And fly with me to CresBid I
Pan. Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight.
lExit.
Tro. Tm giddy; expectation whirls me loand. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense : what will it he, When that the watery palate tastes'"' indeed Love's thrice-repar^d*'*' nectar ? death, I fear me ; Swooning"*' destraction ; or some joy too fine, Too subtle-potent, tnn'd too sharp in sweetness, For the capacity of my ruder powers : I fear it much ; and I do fear besides, That I diall lose distinction in my joys ; As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps The enemy flying.
He-enter Pandabcs.
Pan. She's making her ready, she'll come stnnght : yon must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches her wind BO short, as if she were frayed with a sprite : 111 fetch her. It is the prettiest villain : she fetches her breaUi as short as a new-ta'en sparrow. [Exit,
Tro. Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom : My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse ; And all my powers do their bestowing lose. Like vassah^e at unawares encountering The eye of majesty.
Re-enter Fandabus with CitBSStnA. Pan. Come, come, what need you blush ? shame's a baby, — Here she is now: ewear the oaths now to her that yon have sworn to me. — What, are you gone again? yon must be watched ere you be made tame, must you ? Gome your ways, come your ways ; an you draw backward, well put
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yon i* the fills. — Why do yoa oot Bpeak to her? — Come, dnw this cortain, and let's Boe your picture. Alas the day, how loth yoa are to offend daylight! an 'twere dark, yoa'd close sooner. So, bo i rah on, and kiBB the nuBtreBB. How DOW ! a kiSB in fee-farm I haild there, carpenter ; the air ia Bweet. Nay, yon shall fight your hearts ont ere I part yon. The falcon as the tercel, for all the dnckB i' the river ; go to, goto.
Tro. Yon b^re bereft me of all words, lady.
Pan. Words pay no debts, give her deeds : bnt she'll be- reare yon o' the deeds too, if she call yonr aotirity in ques- tion. What, billiiig agaip? Here's — "Ip witness whereof the parties interchangeably" — Come in, come in ; I'll go get B fire, {Exit.
Cret. Will yon walk in, my lord ?
Tro. O Cressida, bow often have I wished me thae I
CrgB. Wished, my lord 1 — The goda granb-r-O my lord !
Tro. What sbonld they grant? what makes this pretty abmption f What too cnrions dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love ?
Crei. More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.
Tro. Fears make devils of cherubiuB; they never see truly.
Cret. Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer foot- ing than blind reason stnmbling without fear ; to fear the worst oft enres the worst.''^
Tro. 0, let my lady apprehend no fear : in all Capid's pageant there is presented do monster.
Cres. Nor noUiing monstrouB neither ?
Tro. Nothing, but onr nndertakingB ; when we vow to weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it harder for oar mistresB to devise imposition enoDgh than for OB to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the monstru- oflity in love, lady, — that the will is infinite, and the execa- tioD confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
Crei. They say, all lovers swear more performanee than they are able, and yet reserve sn ability that they never per- form ; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and disoha^- ing less than the tenth part of one. They that have the voice of lions and the act of hares, are the; not monsters ?
TCOh TI. ■
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Tro. Are tliere sneh 9 ench &re sot we : praise as as we ate tasted, allow na as we prore ; our bead shall go bare till merit crown it : do perfection in rererBion shall have a praise in present : we will not name desert before his birth ; and, being bom, his addition shall be hnmble. Few words to fair &itb : Troilas shall be such to Cressid as what enry can say worst shall he a mock for Ms truth, and what tenth can speak truest not traer than Troilns.
Cres. Will yon walk in, my lord ?
S«-ent€r Pandabds.
Pan. What, blnshing still? hare yon not done talking yet?
Cres. Well, nnole, what folly I commit, I dedicate to yon.
Pan. I thank yon for that : if my lord get a hoy of yon, yon'll give him me. Be true to my lord : if he flinch, chide me for it.
Tro. Yon know now yonr hostages; yonr nnole's word and my firm faith.
Pan. Kay, I'll give my word for her too : onr kindred, though they be. long ere they are wooed, they are constant being won : they are burs, I can tell yon ; they'll stick where {hey are thrown.
Cres. Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart: — Prince Troilns, I have lov'd yon night and day For many weary months.
Tro. Why was my Cressid, then, so hard to win ?
Crea. Hard to seem won : bnt I was won, my lord. With the first glance that ever — pardon me — If I confess much, yon will play the tyrant. I loTe you now ; bat not, till now, so much"" But I might master it : — in faith, I lie; My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown Too headstrong for their mother : — see, we fools ! Why have I blabb'd ? who shall he true to us When we are so unsecret to onrselTCs ? — But, though I lor'd yon well, I woo'd you not ; And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man, Or that we women had men's privilege
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Of epeaking first. Sweet, bid me bold my tongue ; For, in this rapture, I shall satelj speak The thing I shall repent. See, see, yonr silence. Canning'"* in dainbne«e, from my weakness draws My very sonl of coonsel I — stop my month.
Tro. And shall, albeit sweet mueio isaaes thence.
Pan. Pretty, i' tdiih. IKUtet her.
Cra. My lord, I do beseech yon, pardon me ; 'Twas not my pnrpcme thns to b^ a kiss : I am Mham'd ; — 0 heavens I what have I done ? For this tame will I take my leave, my lord.
Tto. Tonr leave, sweet Cressid I
Pan. Leave! an yon take leave till to-morrow morning, —
Crta. Pray yon, content yon.
Tro. What offends yon, lady ?
Crtt. Sir, mine own company.
Tto. Yoa cannot shnn
Yonrself.""'
Cret. Let me go and try : I have a kind of self resides with yoa ; But an unkind self, that itself will leavs. To be another's fool. I wonld be gtme : — Where is my wit ? I know not what I speak.
Tro. Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely.
Crtf. Perchance, my lord, I show'd'''' more crafl than love; And fell so ronndly to a la^ confession. To angle for yonr thoaghts : bat yoa are wise ; Or else yoa love not ; for to be wise and love Exceeds man's mi^t ; that dwells with gods above.
Tro. 0 that I thonght it conld be in a woman— As, if it can, I will presume in yon — To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love ; To keep her constancy in plight and yonth, Oatliving beacty's oatward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays 1 Or, that persaasion coald bat thas convince me, — That my integrity and tmth to you Uight be afi&onted with the match and weight
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Of Baoh a winnow'd parity in love ; How were I then apliiled I bat, Eilas, I am as true as troth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of trnth.
Crei. In that I'll war with you-
Tro. 0 Tirtnonfl fight,
When right with right wars who shall be most right I Tnie BwaiQS in love shall, in the world to come, Approve their trnths by Troilns ; when their rhymes, Fnll of protest, of oath, and big compare, Want similes, trnth tir'd with iteration,— As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, Ab snn to day, as turtle to her mate. As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,— Yet, after all comparisons of truth. As tmth's authentic anthor to be cited, "As true as Troilus" shall crown up the Terse, And sanctify the numbers.
Cres. Prophet may you be (
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When time is old and hath forgot itself. When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And blind oblivion swallow'd cities np, And mighty states char&cterlesB are grated To dnsty nothing ; yet let memory. From ffdse to false, among false maids in love. Upbraid my falsehood t when they've said " as false As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth, As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son," — " Yea," let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, " As false as Greseid."
Pan. Qo to, a bargain made : seal it, seal it ; I'll be the witness. Here I hold yonr hand ; here my consin's. If ever you prove false one to another, since I have taken snch pains to bring yon together, let all pitifnl goers-between be called to the world's end after my name, call them all Pandsrs ; let all inconstant*^ men be Troilnses, all false women Cressids, and all brokers-between Pandars ! say, amen.
Tro, Amen.
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Cret. Amen.
Pan. Amen. Wherenpon I will show yon s chamber with ft bed ; which bed,^ becftnse it shall not speak of jooi pretty encoanters, preae it to death : awa; t And Cnpid grant'**' all tongne-tied maidena here Sed, ohamber, Paodar to provide this gear ! [Exeunt.
SoEKE m. The Grecian camp,
EtUtf A&iMMitsov, ULtasBB, DiohsdBs, NasTOB, Ajax, MIxnbuits, and Calohas.
Cal. Now, princes, for the service I hfCfe done yon, Th' advantage of the time prompta me alond To call for recompense. Appear it to yoar mind**" That, throngh the sight I bear in things to Jove, I have abandon'd Troy, left my possessions,"** Incorr'd a traitor's name ; expos'd myself. From certain and possees'd conveniences, To donbtfnl fortunes ; sequestering from me all That time, aoqnaintance, onstom, and condition. Made tame and most familiar to my natnre ; And here, to do yob service, am become As new into*^ the world, strange, anacqaainted : I do beseech yon, as in way of taste. To give me now a little benefit, Oat of those many register'd in promise. Which, yon say, live to come in my behalf.
Agam. What wonldst thon of os, Trojan ? make demand.
Cal. Yon have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor, Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you — oft«n have yon thanks theref6re — Desir'd my Cressid in right great exchange, Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor, I know, is snch a wrest tn their affaire, That their negotiations all mast slack. Wanting his manage ; and they will almost Give as a prince of blood,**" a son of Priam, In change of him : let him be sent, great princes.
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And he shall buy my daughter ; and her presence Shall qnite Btrike off all service I have done. In most accepted pay.'^
Agam. Let Diomedee bear him,
And bring us Cressid hither : Calobaa shall have What he reqaeats of ns. — Good Diomed, Fnmieh yon &irly for this interchange : Withal, bring word if Hector will to-morrow Be answer'd in hie challenge: Ajax is ready.
Dio. This shall I undertake ; and 'tie a burden Which I am prond to bear.
[^Exeunt IMomedet and Calckas.
Enter Aohillbb and Patroclus, before their lent. Ulyas. Achilles stands i' th' entrance of his tent : — Please it onr general to pass strangely by him, Ab if he were forgot ; and, princes all. Lay negligent and loose regard upon him : I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me Why Bnch nnplaaBiye eyes are bent on him :'^ If 80, 1 have derision med'cinable, To nae between yonr strangeness and his pride, Which his own will shall have desire to drink : It may do good : pride hath no other glass To show itself bat pride ; for supple ksees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.
Agam. We'll execute your purpose, and put on A form of stiangeness as we pass along : — So do each lord ; and either greet him not. Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way.
Achil. What, comes the general to speak with me ? Ton know my mind, I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy.
Agtmi. What says Achilles ? would he aught with na ?
Nest. Would you, my lord, anght with the general ?
AckU. No.
Neat, Nothing, my lord.
Agam. The better. [Exeunt Agamemnon and Nestor.
AckU. Good day, good day.
Men. How do you ? how do you ? [Exit.
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Aehil. What, does the cuckold Bcom me ?
Ajax. How now, PatrocloB !
AehH. Good monow, Ajax.
Ajax. Hat
Achil. Good motiow.
Ajax. Ay, and good next day too. {Exit.
Aehil. What mean theaefellowB? Know they not Achilles?
Patr. They pasB by Btrangely: they were aa'd to bend. To send their Bmiles before them to Achillea ; To oome as hombly as they nse'^' to creep To holy altarB.
Aehil, What, am I poor of late 9
*Ti8 certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortnue. Mast fall oat with men too : what the declin'd is. He sbaU aa soon read in the eyes of others Ab feel in his own fall ; for men, like butterflies, Bhow not their mealy wingB hot to the summer ; And not a man, for being simply man. Hath any honoar, bat honour"^' for those hononra That are withont him, ss place, riches, favoar,'*" Prizes of accident as oft as merit : Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, The lore that lean'd on them as slippery too. Do one plack down another, and together Die in the fall. Bat 'tis not so with me : Fortone and I are friends : I do enjoy At ample point all that I did poaeess. Save these men's looks ; who do, methinks, find oat Something not worth in me Bach rich beholding As they hare often given. Here is Ulysses : I'll interrapt his reading. — How DOW, Ulysses I
Ulyaa. Now, great Thetis' son !
Achil. What are yoa reading ?
Ulgta. A strange fellow here
Writes me, " That man — how dearly ever parted, How mach in having, or without or in — Cannot make boast to have that which be hath, Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection ; As when his virtneB shining apon others
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Heat them, and the; retort that heat again To the firBt girer."
AckU. This is not strange, UljsBes.
The beanty that is home here in the face The bearer knowe not, bnt commends itself To others' eyes : nor doth the eye itself, That most pore spirit of sense, behold itself^ Not going from itself; but eye to eye oppoe'd Salutee each other with each other's form : For specnlation tarns not to itself, Till it hath travell'd, and is mirror'd'^ there Where it may see itself. This is not strange at alli
Ulyis, I do rtot strain at the position, — It is &miiiar, — bnt &i the anther's drift ; Who, in his circumstance, expressly proves That DO man is the lord of any thing, Thongh In and of hiili there be mnch consiBtiiigf Till he commanicate bis parts to others; Not doth hft of himdelf know them for anght Till he behold them formed in th' applanse Where they're extended ; who, like an arch, rererberbtes*'*' The Voice again ; Or, like a gate of steel Fronting the snn, recelTes and renders back His figbre and his heat. I was mach rapt in this ; And apprehended here immediately The nnknown Ajax.
Heavens, whst a man is there ! s very horse ) That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there are. Most abject in regard, and dear in nse ! What things again most dear in the esteem. And poor in worth ! Now shall we see to-morrow— An act that veiy chance doth throw upon him — Ajax renowD'd. 0 heavens, what some men do, While some men leave to do I How some men creep in skittish Fortnne's hall. Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes I How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fiisting in his wantonness ! To see these Grecian lords I — why, even already They olap the Inbber Ajax on the shoulder.
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As if his foot were on brsve Hector's breast;, And great Troy abrieking.
Ackil. I do belieyfl it ; for they pasa'd by me As misers do by beggars, — neither gave to"*' me Qood word Uor look: what, are my deeds forgot?
Ulysa. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he pnts almg for oblivion, A great-siz'd monster of ingratitudes :'**' Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are deTottf'd As fiut as they are made, forgot as soon Aa they are done i*^ pers^veraBce) dear my lord, Keeps honour bright ! to have done, ia to hang Qnite ont of fashion, like a rusty mail In monnmental mockei^. Take th' instant Way] For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but'*" goea abreast : keep, then, the path | For emoladon hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue t if yon give way, Or hedge aeide from the direct forth-right^ Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leaTe yon hindmost ;*•* Or, like a gallant horse &ll'n in first rank, Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,**" O'er-mn and thimpled on : then ^at they db in preEleilt) Though leas than yours in past, must o'ertop youra ; For time is like a filshionable host) That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand) And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps-in the comer : welcome"""' ever emilcB, And farewell goes out sighing. 0, let not virtae seek Remuneration for the thing it was j For beauty, wit,
High birth, vigonr of bone, desert iti Service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To enrions and calumniating time. One tonoh of nature makes tbe whole world kin, — That all, with one consent, praise new-bom gauds. Though they are made and moulded of thinga past. And give to dnst, that is a little gilt. More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
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The present eye praiseH the present object i^"^
Then marrel not, thou great and c6inplete man,
That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajaz ;
Since things in motion sooner catch the eye
Than what not stire. The cry went once on thee.
And still it might, and yet it may again.
If thoa wonldst not entomb thyself ahve.
And case thy reputation in thy tent ;
Whose gloriooe deeds, but in these fields of late,
Hade emolons miBsiona 'mongst the gods tbemeelyes,
And drare great Mars to faction.
Ackil. Of this my privacy
I have strong reasons.
XJlyss, Bat 'gainst yonr priTaoy
The reasons are more potent and heroical : 'Tis known, Achilles, that yon are in love With one of Priam's danghters.'"'*'
Ackil. Ha! known!
UlygB. Is that a wonder? The providence that's in a watchfdl state Knows almost every grain of Plntns' gold j"*" Finds bottom in th' nncomprehensive deeps ; Keeps pace with thought, and almost, like the gods, Does thoughts nnveil in their domb cradles."*^ There is a mystery — with whom'*"*' relation Durst never meddle — in the soul of state ; Which bath an operation more divine Than breath or pen can give ezpressnre to : All the commerce that yoa have had with Troy As perfectly is oars as yours, my lord ; And better woold it fit Achilles mach To throw down Hector than Polyiena : Bat it mast grieve yonng Pprhas now at home. When fame shall in oar islands sound her tramp. And all the Greekish girls shall tripping aing, " Great Hector's sister did Achilles win ; Bat onr great Ajax bravely beat down him."""" Farewell, my lord : I as your lover speak ; The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break. [Exit. Pair. To this effect, Achilles, have I mov'd yoa :
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A woman impudent and manniBh grown Is not more loatfa'd than an effeminate man In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this ; Tlie; think my little stomach to the war. And yonr great love to me, restrains yon thns : Sweet, rotise yonraelf j"*"' and the weak wanton Cnpid Shall from your neck unloose his amoroas fold^ And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
Aehil. ShaU Ajax fight with Hector ?a«
Pair. Ay, and perhaps leoeive mncb honour by him.
AchU. I see my repntation is at stake ; My fame is shrewdly gor'd.
Pair. 0, then, beware ;
Those wonnds heel ill that men do glTO themselTOs: OmissioD to do what is necessary Seals a oommission to a blank of danger ; And danger, like an agne, snbtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the son.
Achil. Go call Thersites bitber, sweet Fatroclns : I'll send the fool to Ajax, and desire him T' invite the Trojan lords after the combat To see as here nnarm'd : I bave a woman's longing. An appetite tbat I am sick witbal, To see great Hector in bis weeds of peace ; To talk with him, and to behold his visage, Eren to my fall of view. — A laboor sav'd !
Enier Thebsites.
Ther. A wonder !
Acha. What?
Ther. Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.
AchU. How so?
Ther. He mnst fight singly to-morrow with Hector; and is so prophetically prond of an faeroical cudgelling that he raves in saying nothing.
Achil. How can that be ?
Ther. Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock, — a stride and a stand : mminatoa like an hostess that bath no arithmetic bat her brain to set down her reckoning : bitos
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his lip with a politic regard, as who slioaM Bay " Tliere were wit in tliia head, an 'twould ont;" and so there ia; but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, whioh will not show with- out knocking. The man's undone for ever; for if Hector break not his neck i'the combat, he'll break 'tbimsDlf in vain- glory. He knows not me : I said, " Q-ood morrow, Ajax ;" and he replies, " Thanks, Agamemnon." What think yon of this man, that takes me for the general ? He's grown a very land'fish, langaageless, a monster. A plagae of opinion t a man may Wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
AekU, Thoa mast be my ambassador to him, Thersitea.
Tkef. Who, I ? why, hell answer nobody ) he professes not answering: speaking is for beggars; he wears his tongue in's arms. I will pat on hie presence : let Patroolns make demands to me, yon shall see the pageant of Ajax.
Ackil. To him, Patroclns : tell him, — I hnmbly desire the valiant Ajax to invite the most valoroas Hector to come nnanned to my tent; and to procare safe-condnot for his person of the magnanimoos and most illnstriona six-or- seven-times-honoiired captain-general of the G-reeian army, Agamemnon.'""' Do this.
Patr. Jove bless great Ajax t
Ther. Ham I
Patr. I come from the worthy AohilloB,— '
Tket. HaT
Patr. Who most humbly desires yon to invite Hector to hie tent, —
Tker. Hnm!
Patr. And to procure safe-conddct from Agamemnon.
Ther. Agamelnnon !
Pair. Ay, my lordi
Tker. Hal
Patr. What say yoa to 't ?
Tker. God b' wi' you, with all my heart.
Patr, Yoor answer, sir.
Titer. If to-morrow be a fait day, by eleven o'clock it will go one way or other : howsoever, he shall pay for me ere he has me.
Patr, Your answer, sir.
Tker. Fare yon well, with all my heart.
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AekU. Why, bat he is not in thta tnne, is he ?
Tker. No, bat he'B oat o' tnoe thoa. What masic will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I knoT not ; bnt, I am snre, none, — nnlesB the fiddler Apollo get his Binevs to make catlings on.
AchU. Come, thon shalt bear a letter to him straight.
Tker, Let me bear another to his horse ; for that's the more capable creature.
AckU. My mind is troabled, like a fonQtoin stirr'd ; And I mjaelf see not the bottom of it,
[Exeunt AchiUes and Patroclua.
Ther. Would the focntajn of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it ! I had rather be a tick in a sheep than soph a vftUant ignorance, [Exit.
ACT IV. SoENB I. Troy. A streeL
.Enter, from one aide, JEssmb, and Servant with a torch; from fA« other, Fabib, Dbipeobds, Ajitbnob, Bioubdeb, ami <^her; miih torches.
Par. Bee, ho ! who 'b that there ?
Z>ei. 'Tis the Lord ^neas.
^ne. Is the prince there in person ? — Had I BO good occasion to he long As 70a, Prince Paris, nothing bat heavenly basiness Shonld rob my bed-mate of my company.
Dio. That's my mind too. — Good morrow. Lord ^neas.
Par. A Taliant Greek, ^neas, — take his hand, — Witness the process of your speech, wherein Ton told how Diomed, a whole week by days. Did hannt yoa in the field.
■£ne. Health to yoa, Titliant sir.
Daring all qnestion of the gentle tmce ; Bnt when I meet you arm'd, as black defiance As heart can think or ooarage execote.
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Dio. The ons and other Diomed embncee. Our bloods are now in calm ; and, bo long, health ; Bot when contention and occasion meet, B; Jove, I'll play the hnnter for thy life With all my force, pareait, and policy.
^ne. And thon ahalt hnnt a lion, that will fly With hie face backward.— In hnman gentleness,""" Welcome to Troy ! now, by Anchises' life, Welcome, indeed t By Yenns' hand I swear, No man alive can loTe in sncb a Bort The thing he means to kill more excellently.
Dio. We sympathize : — Jove, let Mneas live. If to my sword his hte be not the glory, A thoasand c6mplete coorses of the san J But, in mine emnlons honoar, let him die. With cTery joint a woond, and that to-morrow !
^ne. We know each other well.
Dio. We do; and long to know each other worse.
Par. This is the most despiteful gentle greeting. The noblest hatefol love,'"" that e'er I heard of. — What basinesB, lord, so early ?
^ne. I was sent for to the king ; but why, I know not.
Par. His purpose meets yon : 'twas to bring this Qreek To Calchas' house ; and there to render him. For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cresaid ; Let's have your company : or, if yon please. Haste there before ns : I constantly do think — Or, rather, call my thou^t a certain knowledge — My brother Troilns lodges there to-night : Bouse him, and give him note of our approach. With the whole qnality wherefore : I fear We shall be mach unwelcome.
^ne. That I assnre yon :
Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece Than Cressid borne &om Troy.
Par. There is no help ;
The bitter disposition of the time Will have it so. On, lord ; we'll follow you.
Mne. Good morrow, all. [Exit with Servant.
Pot. And tell me, noble Diomed,- — fiuth, tell me true.
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EveD in the aonl of soond good-fellowBhip, — , Who, in fonr thoughts, merits &ir Helen beet. Myself or Menelans ?
Dio. Both alike :
He merits well to hare her, that doth seek her. Not making any scmple of her soilnre. With BOoh a hell of pain and world of charge ; And yoa as well to keep her, that defend her, Not palating the taste of her dishonottr. With such a costly loss of we^th and Mends : He, like a ptiling cuckold, woold drink up The leefl and dregs of a flat tamM piece ; Ton, like a lecher, oat of whorish loins Are pleaa'd to breed out yonr inheritors : Both merits poia'd, each weighs nor less nor more; Bat he as he, each heavier for a whore. '^*''
Par. Yon are too bitter to yonr coantrywomsn.
I>u>. She's bitter to her country: hear me, Paris : — For every false drop in her bawdy veins A Grecian's life hath sank ; for every scrapie Of her contaminated carrion weight A Trojan hath been slain ; since she coald speak, She hath not given so many good words breath As for her Greeks and Trojans svffer'd death.
Par. Fair Diomed, yon do as chapmen do. Dispraise the thing thai yoa desire to buy : Bat we in silence hold this virtne well, — We'll but commend what we inteiid to sell.°^ Here lies oar way. [Exeunt.
SoBNx n. 7%e same. Court of Pamdabtib' houae. Enier Troil0s and Crbsbida. Tro. Dear, troable not yourself; the mom is cold. Crea. Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine ancle down ; He shall unbolt the gates.
Tro. Tronble him not ;
To bed, to bed : sleep kill"'^ those pretty eyes. And give as soft attachment to thy senses
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Ab ia&ntB' empty nf all. ihonght !
Cres. Good monow, then.
Tto, I prithee now, to bed,
Cre: Are yon a-weary of me ?
Tro. 0 Cressida ! but that the basy day, Wak'd by the lark, hath roui'd the ribald crows. And dreamiog night will hide oor joye no longer, I vonld not from thee.
Cret, Kight hath been too brief.
Tro. Beelu'ew the witch I with venomonB wights she Btays Ah tedionaly aa hell -^^ but flies the grasps of love With wings more momentary-swift than tbooght, Yon will catch cold, ^d cnrse me.
Cre$. Prithee, t^rry ( —
Yoa men will nsTor tany.— 0 foolish Gressid !^I might have still held off. And then yon would hsrs tarried. — Hark ! there's one ap.
Pan. [witkin\ What, 's all the dftots open here ?
Tro. It is yonr uncle.
Cret. A pestilence on Mm ! now wil) he be n^ooHng : Z shall bare snch a life !
Enter pAKDiRDS.
Pan. How now, bow now t how go maidenheads ? — Here, yon maid ! where's my consin Cressid ?
Crea. Go hang yourself, yon naogh^ mjOcMng nacle ! Yon bring me to do — and then yon float me too.
Pan. To do what? to do what ? — let her say what : — ^what have I bronght yon to do ?
Crea. Come, come, b^shrew yonr heart I you'll ne'er be good, Nor snffer others.
Pan. Ha, ha! Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchio I^*** hast not slept to-night? wonld he not — a nanghty man — let it Bleep ? a bugbear take him !
Cres. Did not I tell yon ? — wonld he were knock'd i' th' head ! — '"" [Knocldng toithin.
Who's that at door ? good ancle, go and see. — My lord, come yon again into my chamber : Yoa smile and mock me, as if I meant nanghtily.
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Tro. H&, ha !
Cre». Come, you're deoeiT'd, I think of no snch thing. — [Knocking within. How e&rnestly they knock ! — Pray yon, oome in : I wonld not for hidf Troy have yon seen here.
\Exeunt Troilva and Crestida.
Pan. [going to the door] Who's there? what's the matter?
will yon beat down the door? How now! what's the matter?
Enter MsEAa.
Mne. Good morrow, lord, good morrow.
Pan. "Who's there? myLord^neas! By my troth, I knew yon not : what news with yon so early ?
JBne, Is not Prince TroUoB here ?
Pan. Here t what shonld he do here ?
^ne. Come, he is here, my lord ; do not deny him : It doth import him mnch to apeak with me.
Pan. Is he here, say you ? 'tis more than I know, I'll be sworn : — for my own part, I came in late. What should he do here ?
Mne. Who l^"— nay, then :— oome, come, yoa'll do him wrong ere you're ware : you'll be bo true to him to be false to him : do not yon know of him, but yet go fetch him hither ; go-
A» PaHdahos is going out, re-enter Tboilds.
Tto. How now I what's the matter ?
Mne. My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you, My matter is so rash ; there is at hand Puis your brother, and Deiphobns, The Clrecion Diomed, and our Antenor Deliver'd to us; and for him forthwith, Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour. We must give up to Diomedes' hand The Lady Cressida.
Tro. Is it 80 concluded ?
Mne. By Priam and the general state of Troy: They are at hand, and ready to effect it.
Tro. How my achievements mock me I — I win go meet tfa«m : and, my Lord £neas,
Toi. Vfc r
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We met by chance ; yon did not find me here.
Mne. Good, good, my lord ; the secrete of natnre Hare not more gift in tacitaraity.'^'*'
[Exeimt Troilus and jEnea$,
Pan. Is't poBsibls ? no sooner got hot lost ? The devil take Antenor I the yonog prince will go mad : a plague npon Antenor ! I would they bad broke's neck I
Enter Cbbsbida.
Crea. How now 1 what's the matter ? who waa here?
Pan. Ah, ah !
Cr«. Why aigh yon so profoundly? where'a my lord? gone ! Tell me, sweet nncle, what's the matter ?
Pan, Wonld I were as deep ander the earth as I am above I
Cret. 0 the gods! — what's the matter?
Pan. Prithee, get thee in : would thoa hadst ne'er been bom ! I knew thon wonldst be his death : — O, poor gentle- man ! — A plague npon Antenor I
Crea, Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees I beseech you, what's the matter ?
Pan. Thou must be gone, wench, thon mast be gone ; thoQ art changed for Antenor : thon mast to thy father, and be gone from Troilus : 'twUl be his death ; 'twill be hifl bane ; he cannot bear it.
Creg, 0 you immortal gods ! — ^I will not go.
Pan. Thou must.
Ores. I will not, uncle : Tve forgot my father; X know no touch of consanguinity ; No kin, no love, no blood, no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus. — 0 you gods diyine. Make Creseid's name the very crown of falsehood. If ever she leave Troilus I Time, foree, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth. Drawing all things to't. — ^I'U go in and weep, —
Pan. Do, do.
Ores. Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praisM cheeks ; Crack my clear voice with sobs, and break my heart With sounding " Troilus." I will not go from Troy. lExeunt.
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SoBHB m. The taine. Street before Pahdabub' house. Enter Fabis, Tboilub, ^nbas, Dbiphobub, Autenor, avid
DlOHEDBS.
Par. It is great morning ; and the hour prefix'd Of ber delivery to this valiant Oreek Comes fast upon : — good my brother Troilua,"*"' Tell yon the lady what she is to do, And haste her to the purpose.
Trtj. Walk into her house ;
I'll bring her to the Grecian presently : And to his hand when I deUver her. Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilns A priest, there offering to it his own heart. [Exit.
Par. I know what 'tie to love ; And wonld, as I shall pity, I ooold help I — Please yon walk in, my lords. [Exeunt.
SoEMB IV. The tame, A room, in Pamdasus' house. Enter Pandabus atnd CsiBBmA.
Pan. Be moderate, be moderate.
Cret. Why tell yoa me of moderation ? The grief is fine, foil, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong Aa that which canseth it : how can I moderate it? If I could temporize with my affection. Or brew it to a weak and colder palate. The like allayment could I give my grief : My love admits no qnaliiying dross ; No more my grief, in such a precious loss.
Pan. Here, here, here he oomes.
EiUer Tboilds. Ah, sweet ducks I"*"
Cret. 0 TroiluB I Troilna ! [Embracing kim.
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jPon. Wliat a pair of spectacles is here ! Let me embrace too. " 0 heart," as the goodly saying is,
" 0 heart, 0»**" heavy heart,
Why B^h'at thoD trithoot breaking 7" where he answers again,
" Because thoo canst not ease thy smart By friendship nor by Bpeaking."'"** There was never a tnier rhyme. Let us cast away nothing, for we may live to have need of snch a verse : we see it, we see it. — How now, lambs !
Tro. Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity. That the blesa'd gods, as angry with my fancy. More bright in zeal than the devotion which Gold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me.
Crei. Have the gods envy ?
Pan. Ay, ay, ay, ay ; 'tis too plain a case.
Cret. And is it true that I must go from Troy ?
Tro. A hateful truth.
Crea. What, and from Troilus too ?
Tro. From Troy and Troilus.
Cret. Is it possible?
Tro. And suddenly; where injury of chance Puts back leave-taking, jostles roughly by All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows Sven in the birth of our own labouring breath : We two, that with so many thousand sighs Did buy each other, must poorly sell oorselvea With the rude brerity and discharge of one. Injtuious time now, with a robber's haste. Grams his rich thievery up, he knows not how : As many farewells as be stars in heaven, With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them. He fumbles up into a loose adieu ; And scants us with a single famish'd kiss, Distasted with the salt of broken tears.
jEne. [witkin] My lord, is the lady ready ?
Tro. Hsrkl you are call'd : some say the Genius so
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Cries " Come !" to him that inBtantly must die. — Bid them have patience ; she ehall come anon.
Pan. Where are my tears ? rain, to lay this wind, or my heart will be blown np by the root. [^Exit.
Cret. I mnst, then, to tiie Grecians ?°*"
Tro. No remedy.
Crea. A wofiil CresBid 'mongst the merry Greeks ! When shall we see again 9°*"
Tro. Hear me, my love : be tbou bat true of heart, —
Cree. I trae ! bow now ! what wicked deem is this ?
Tro. Nay, we mnet ase expostnlation kindly. For it is parting &om as : I speak not "be then tine," as fearing thee; For I will throw my glove to Death himself, That there's no macnlation in thy heart : Bat "be thou tme," say I, to fashion ia My sequent protestation ; be tbou true. And I will see thee.
Crta. 0, yon shall be ezpos'd, my lord, to dangers As infinite as imminent 1 bat I'll be true.
Tro. And I'll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve.
Cret. A^d yoa this glove. When shall I see yon ?
Tro. I will cormpt the Grecian sentinels, To give thee nightly visitation. But yet, be true.
Crea. 0 heavens ! — " be true" again I
Tro. Hear why I speak it, love : The Grecian youths are fall of qaality ; They're loving, well compos'd with gifts of natnre. And swelling o'er with arts and exercise :^'*' How novelty may move, and parts with person, Alas, a kind of godly jealoaay — Which, I beseech you, call a virtaoos sin — Makes me afeard.
Cret. 0 heavens ! yoa love me not.
Tro. Die I a villain, then I Ib Uiis I do not call your faith in question So maioly as my merit : I cannot sing, Nor heel the high lavolt, nor sweeten talk, Kor play at subtle games ; fair virtues all.
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To irhich the GreoiaiiB are moBt prompt and pregnant : Bat I can tell, that in each grace of these There larks a still and damb-discoDrsire devil That tempts most conningly : bnt be not tempted.
Cres. Do yon think I will ?
Tro. No. Bnt something may be done that we irill not : And Bometimes we are devils to oarselves, When we will tempt the frailty of onr powers, Presamiog on theb ohangefal potency.''^'
jEne. [within] Nay, good my lord, —
Tro. Come, kiss ; and let as part.
Par. {loitkin] Brother TroUuB !
Tro. Good brother, come yoa hither ;
And bring iBoeas and the Greciaa with yoa.
Cres. My lord, will yon be true ?
Tro. Who, I ? alas, it is my vice, my faalt : Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great tmth oatch mere simplicity ; Whilst some with canning gild their copper crowns. With troth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my tmth : the moral of my wit Is "plain and true;" there's aU the reach of it.
Enter ^vkab, Paris, Antbhob, Bbiphobits, and Diokedes. Welcome, Sir Diomed ! here is the lady Which for Antenor we deliver yoa : At the port, lord, I'll give her to thy hand ; And by the way possess thee what she is. Entreat her fair ; and, by my sonl, fair Greek,''*'' If e'er thoa stand at mercy of my sword. Name Cressid, and thy life shall be as safe As Priam's*"** is in Hiob.
JDio. Fair Lady Cressid,
So please you, save the thanks this prince expects : The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek. Pleads your &ir usage ; and to Diomed Yoa shall be miatreee, and command him wholly.
Tro. Grecian, thou dost not ase me courteously. To shame the zeal''*''' of my petition to thee
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Li pnusiiig her : I tell thee, lord of Oreeoe, She iB as f at high-soaring o'er th; praises As thoQ unworthy to be call'd her servant. I charge thee nse her. well, even for m; charge ; For, by the dreadM Pinto, if thoa dost not, Thoogh the great bnlk Achilles be thy gnard, ril ont thy throat.
Dio. 0, be not moT'd, Prince Troilns :
Let me be privileg'd by my place and message To be a speaker free ; when I am hence, I'll answer to my Inst :"*'' and know yon, lord, m nothing do on charge : to her own worth She shall be pris'd ; bat that yon say, " Be't so," ril°'" speak it in my spirit and hononr, "No."
Tro. Come, to the port.— Ill tell thee, Diomed, This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head. — Lady, give me yonr hand ; and, as we walk. To onr own selves bend we onr needftil talk.
[^Exeunt TroUus, Cretnda, and ZHomtda. \Trampei within.
Par. Hark 1 Hector's tmmpet.
Mne. How have we spent this morning 1
The prince most think me tardy and remiss, That swore to ride before him to the field.
Par. 'Tis Troilns' faalt : come, come, to field with him.
Dm."** Let va make ready straight.
^ne. Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity, Let OS address to tend on Hector's heels : The glory of oar Troy doth this day lie On his &ir worth and single chivalry. [Exetmt,
SosNB Y. The Oreaan camp. lAsta set <ntt.
J&ifar Ajax, armed; Aoaheuivoit, Aobillbb, FATROOLna, Ubns-
LACS, Ultsbeb, Nestor, and <ahert.
Agam. Here art thoa in appointment fresh and fiur,
Anticipating time with starting courage.
Give with thy tmmpet a lend note to Troy,*"*'
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Thou dreadfol Ajax ; that th' appallM air May pierce the head of the great combatant. And hale him hither.
Ajax, Thoa, trumpet, there's my pnrse.
Now crock thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe : Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek Outswell the colic of puff 'd Aqnilon : Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes apont blood ; Thon blow'st for Hector. [Trumpet lounds.
Ulyii. No trumpet answers.
AchH. 'Tis bat early days.
Agam. Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas' daughter ?
XJlyBt. 'Tis he, I ken the manner of bis gait ; He rises on the toe : that spirit of hU In aspiration lifts him from the earth;
Enter Diouedes mth Cressida. Agam. Is this the Lady Gressid P Dio. Even she.
Agam. Most dearly welcome to the Greeks, sweet lady.
[KitMea her. Nett. Onr general doth salute yon with a kiss. Ulyss. Yet is the kindness bat particular ; 'Twere better she were kiss'd in general.
Nat. And very courtly counsel : I'll begin. —
[Kwes her. So much for Nestor.
Achil. I'll take that winter from yonr lips, foir lady:
[^Kitaea her. Achilles bids yon welcome.
Men. I had good argument for kissing once. Pair. But that's no argument for kissiug now ; For thus popp'd Paris in his hardiment, And parted thas yon and your argument. [Kitaea her.
Ulyaa. 0 deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns ! For which we lose our heads to gild his horns.
Pair. The first was Menelaus' kiss; — this, mine:
[Kiaaea her again. Patroclus kisses yon.
Men. 0, Uiis is trim t
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Pair. Paris and I kiss arennord for him.
Men. I'll have my kis8, nt. — IJady, by your lesTe.
Cres. In kiasing, do yon render or receire ?
JIfen.o"' Both take and gife.
Cres. I'll make my match to Uyo,
The kiBS yoa take is betted than yon give ; Therefore no kiSB.
Men. I'll give yon boot, I'll give yon three for one,
Crea. Yoa're an odd man ; giro even, or give none.
Men. An odd man, lady ! erery man is odd.
Cres. No, Paria is not ; for yoa know 'tis trae That yon are odd, and he la eren with yon.
Men. Yon fillip me o' the head.
Cres, No, I'll be Bwom>
Ulysg. It were no match, yonr nail againet hie horn. — ■ May I, sweet lady, beg a kisa of yon ?
Cres. Ton may.
Uljfgst I do desire 't.
Cres. Why, beg tken, do.^»"
Ulyti. Why, then, for Ve&ns' sake, give me a kiaa, When Helen is a maid again, and his.
Cres. I am yoor debtor, claim it when 'tis dne.
Ulyss. Never's my day, and then a kias of yon.
Dio. Lady, a word : — I'll bring yon to yoor &ther.
[Exit vfith Crestida,
Nest. A woman of qniok aense.
Ulyst. Fie, fle npon her I
There's langoage Ln her eye, her cheek, her lip. Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look ont At every joint and motive of her body. 0, these enconnterers, so glib of tongue. That give accoating^"' welcome ere it oomea. And wide nnclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! aet them down For alattish spoils of opportunity And daoghtera of the game. [Trumpet within.
All. .The Trojana' trumpet.
Agam. Yonder comes the troop.
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TBOILUB Am> CKBSaiDA.
Enter HlOTOB, armed ; ^Smab, TBoti.i:8, and other Tiojaiui, with Attend&Qts.
.£ne. Hail, all joti state^^ of Oroeoe ! what shall be doD« To him that Tiotory oommondB T"*** or do yon parpoae A victor shall be known ? will yon, the knights Shall to the edge of all extremity Pnrsue each other ; or shall be divided By any Tolee or order of the field ? Hector bade aek.
Agam. Which way wonld Hector have it ?
j^ne. He cares not ; he'll obey conditions.
AchU.^^ 'Tis done like Hector; hot seoorely done, A little proudly, and gteat deal misprieing The knight oppos'd.
.Mne. If not Achillea, sir.
What is your name ?
Achil. If not Achilles, nothing.
jEne. Therefore Aohilles : bat whste'er, know this : — In the extremity of great and little, Talonr and pride excel themselTeB in Hector ; The one almost as infinite as all. The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well. And that which looks like pride is conrtesy. This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood : In loTe whereof half Hector stays at home ; Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek This blended knight, half Trojan and half Greek.
AchU. A maiden battle, then? — 0, 1 perceive yoo. .
Rt-enter Diouedbs. Agam. Here is Sir Diomed. — Go, gentle knight. Stand by oar Ajax : as yon and Lord JGneas Consent apon the order of their fight. So he it ; either to the nttermoet. Or else a breath ; the combatants being kin Half stints their strife before their strokes begin.
\Ajax and Hector enter the lists. Ulygg. They are oppos'd already.
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Agam. What Trojan is that same that looks bo heavy ?
Ulya. The yottngesi son of Friam, a true knight ; Not yet matare, yet matchlesB : firm of word ; Speaking in deeds, and deedleas in hia tongae ; Not Boon prOTok'd, nor being proTok'd Boon oalm'd : Hia heart and hand both open and both &ee ; For what he has he gires, what thinks he shows ; Yet gives he not till jadgment guide his bonnty. Nor dignifies an Impnre thought with breath :"*'' Manly as Hector, but more d&ngerona ; For Hector, in his blase of wrath, subscribes To tender objects ;^*^ bat he, in heat of action, Is more Tindicative than jealous love : They call him Troilns ; and on him erect A second hope, oa fairly built as Hector. Thus says ^neas ; one that knows the youth Even to his inches, and with private soul Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me.
{Alarum. Hector and Ajax fight.
Agam. They are in action.
Nest. Now, Ajax, hold thine own !
Tro. Hector, then sleep'st ;
Awake thee I
Agam. His blows are well dispoa'd : — there, Ajax t
Dio. YoQ mast no more. \Trampett ceau.
jEju. Princes, enough, so please yoa.
Ajax. I am not warm yet; let ue fight again.
Dio. As Hector pleases.
Hect. Why, then will I no more : —
Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A consin-german to great Priam's seed ; The obligation of oar blood forbids A gory emalation 'twixt us twain : Were thy oommiztion Greek and Trojan so That thon coaldst say, " This hand is Grecian all. And this is Trojan ; the sinews of this leg All Greek, and this all Troy ; my mother's blood Buns on the dexter cheek, and this sinister Bounds-in my father's;" by Jove mnltipotent, Thon ehoaldst not bear from me a Greekish member
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Wherein 1117 sword had not impKBsaid made Of oni rank fend : bnt the jnat gods gainsay That any drop thon borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aont, shonld by my mortal sword Be drained ! Let"*" me embrace thee, Ajai : By him that thunders, thoa hast lasty arms ; Hector wonld hare them fall npou him thus i Consin, all bonoar to thee !
Ajax. 1 thank thee, Hector:
Thou art too gentle and too free a man i I came to kill thee, oonsin, and bear hence A great addition eam^ in thy death.
Hect. Not Neoptolemns"'*' so mirable— On whose bright crest Fame with her lond'st oyes Cries " This is he"— -^wnld promise to himself A thonght of added honour torn from Heotor.
.^tne. There is eiq>ectance here from both the sides. What farther yoa will do.
HecU, We'll answer it ;
The iesae is embraoement : — Ajax, farewell.
Ajax. If Z might in entreaties find saccess — As seld I ha?e the chance — I wonld desire My famons consin to onr Grecian tents.
Dio. 'Tis Agamemnon's wish ; and great Achilles Doth long to see tmann'd the valiant Hector.
Hect. iGneas, call my brother Troilna to me : And signify this loving interview To the expecters of onr Trojan part ; Desire them home. — Give me thy hand, my consin ; I will go est with thee, and see yonr knights.
Ajax. Great Agamemnon comes to meet ns here.
Hect. The worthiest of them tell me same by name; Bnt for Achilles, mine own searching eyes Shall find him by his latge and portly size.
Agam. Worthy of arms! as welcome as to one That wonld be rid of such an enemy ; Bnt that's no welcome : understand more clear, What's past and what's to come is strew'd with hasks And formless rain of oblivion ; Bnt in this extant moment, faith and troth.
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Strain'd pnrel; from all hollow bias-drawing,
Bids thee, wiUi most dirine iotegrity,
From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome.
Heet. I thank thee, most imperioaB Agamemnon.
Agam. [to TtoUui] My well-fam'd lord of Troy, no leBB to you.
Men. Let me oonfirm my prinoely brother's greeting ; — Yon brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither.
Hect. Who mast we answer ? '
.^hte. The noble M^ielaas.
Hect. 0, yon, my lord ? by Mars his ganntlet, thanks ! Mock not, that I affect th' antraded oath ; Yonr qttondam wife swears still by Yenns' glove : She's well, bat bade me not commend her to yon.
Men. Name her not now, sir; she's a deadly theme.
Heet. 0, pardon ; I offend.
Nest. I have, tfaon gallant Trojan, seen thee oft, Laboaring for destiny, make cmel way Throogh ranks of Greekish yonth ; and I have seen thee, As hot as Perseas, spar thy Phrygian steed. Despising many forfeits and sabdaements, When thon hast hnng thy advancM sword i' th' air. Not letting it decline on the dechn'd ; That I hare said to some my standers-by, " Lo, Jnpiter is yonder, dealing life !" And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath. When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in, lake an Olympian wrestling : this have I seen ; Bat this thy countenance, still loek'd in steel, I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire. And once fonght with him : he was a soldier good ; Bat, by great Mara, the captain of as all. Never like thee. Let an old man embrace thee ; And, worthy warrior, welcome to onr tents.
^ne. 'Tis the old Nestor.
Hect. Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle. That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time : — Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp thee.
Neet. I would my arms could match thee in contention, Ai they contend with thee in courtesy.
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Hect. I wonld ihey oould.
Nest. Ha! B; this white beard, I'd fight with thee to-morrow : — Well, welcome, welcome ! — I have seen the time —
Uiyaa, I wonder now how yonder eit; stands When we have here her base and pillar by ub.
Heet. I know yonr favonr. Lord Ulysses, well. Ah, sir, Uiere's many a Oteek and Trojan dead, Since first I saw yourself and Diomed In nion, on year Greeldsh embassy.
Ulysa. Sir, I foretold yon then what would enene : My prophecy is bnt half his jonmey yet; For yonder walls, that pertly &ont your town, YoQd towers, whose wanton tops do bass the clouds, Mnat klBS their own feet.
Hect. I mnat not believe yon :
There they etand yet ; and modestly I think. The &11 of erery Phrygian stone will cost A drop of Grecian blood : the end crowns all ; And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.
Ulygt. So to him we leave it.
Most gentle and most valiant Hector, welcome : After the general, I beseech yon next To feast with me, and see me at my tent.
Ackil. I shall forestall thee. Lord Ulysses, thon !— ''^ Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee ; I have with exact view pems'd thee. Hector, And qnoted joint by joint.
Hect. Is this Achilles ?
Achil, I am Achilles.
Heet. Stand fair, I pray thee : let me look on thee.
Ackil. Behold thy fill.
Hect. Nay, I have done already.
AchU. Thon art too brief: I will the second time. As I wonld bay thee, view thee Umb by limb.
Hect. 0, like a book of sport thoa'It read me o'er; Bnt there's more in me than then underatand'st. Why doBt thon so oppress me with thine eye ?
Ackil. Tell me, yoa heavens, in which part of his body
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Shall I destroy him ? whether there, or there, or there 5^*" That I nu; give the local woaiid a name. And make distinot the very breach whereoat Hector's great spirit flew : answer me, heavens !
Hect. It woold discredit the hlesa'd gods, proud man. To answer each a qaestion : stand again : Think'st thoa to catch my life bo pleasanUr As to prenominate in nice conjecture "Where thoo wilt hit me dead ?
AekU. I tell thee, yea.
Hect. Wert thon an oraole to tell me so, I'd not believe thee. Henceforth gnard thee well ; For I'll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there ; Bat, by th« forge that stithied Mars his helm, rU kill thee every where, yea, o'er and o'er. — Yon wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag. His insolence draws folly from my lips ; Bat I'll endeavour deeds to match these words. Or may I never —
Ajax. Do not chafe thee, coasin :—
And yoa, Achilles, let these threats alone, Till accident or purpose bring yon to't : Too may have every day enongh of Hector, If yoD have stomach; the general state, I fear. Can scarce entreat yoa to be odd with him.
Heet. I pray yoo, let as see yon in the field : We have had pelting wars, since yon refos'd The Grecians' canse.
AchU. Dost thon entreat me. Hector 7
To-morrow do I meet thee, fell as death ; To-night all friends.
Heet. Thy hand apon that match.
Agam. First, all yon peers of Greece, go to my tent; There in the fall convive we : afterwards. As Hector's leisare and yonr bonnties shall Conoor together, severally entreat him. — Beat lond the tabonrines, let the trampets blow, That this great soldier may his welcome know.
[Exeunt aU except Troilu* and Vlyttea.
Tro. My Lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech yon.
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Is what place of the field doth Galohaa keep ?
Ulyss. At Menelans' tent, moat princely TroilaB : There Diomed doth feast with him to-night ; Who neither looks npon the heaven nor earth, Bnt gives all gaze and bent of amorons view On the fair Cressid.
Tro. Shall I, sweet lord, be bonnd to yon ao mnch. After we part from Agamemnon's tent, To bring me thither?
XJlyu. Yon shall command me, sir.
As gentle tell me, of what honour was This Cresaida in Troy ? Had she no loyer there That wails her absence ?
Tro. O sir, to such as boasting show their Bears A mock is dne. Will yon wallc on, my lord ? She was belov'd, she lov'd ; she is, and doth : But still sweet love is food for fortnne's tooth. [Exeunt.
ScBMB I. The Orecian camp. B^ore Aohillbb' tent. Enter AomLLsa and Paiboclub.
AehU,. Ill heat Ms blood with Oreekisb wine to-night. Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow. — Patroclns, let ns feast him to the height.
Pair. Here comes Thersites.
Knter Thsbsitbb.
AchU. How now, thou core of envy I
Thoa crasty batch of satnre, what's the news ?
Ther. Why, thon picture of what thon seemeat, and idol of idiot-worshippers, here's a letter for thee. \Qives letter.
Ackil. From whence, fragment ?
Ther. Why, thon fall dish of fool, from Troy.
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Patr. Who keeps the tent now ?
Ther. The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound.
Patr. Well said, adYersity !""' and what need these tricks?
Ther. Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk: thoo art thought to be Achilles' male varlet."***
Patr. Male Tarlet, you rogue ! what's that ?
TJkt. Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten dis- eases of ihe south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs, loads o' grayel i' the hack, lethargies, cold palsies, raw eyes, dirt- rotten livers, wheezing lungs, bladders full of impostbatne, sciaticas, limekilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take again such preposterous discoveries !"^'
Patr. Why, thou damnable box of enyy, thou, what mean- est thou to carse thus ?
Ther. Do I curse thee ?
Patr. Why, no, you ruinous butt ; you whoreson indis- tinguishable cur, no.
Ther. No! why art thou, then, exasperate, thou idle im- material skein of sleave-silk, thoa green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thoa tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou ? Ah, how the poor world is pestered with such waterflies, — diminatiTes of nature !
Patr. Out, gall !
Ther. Finch-egg!
AchU. My sweet Fatroclus, I am thwarted quite From my great purpose in to-morrow'e battle. Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba ; A token from her daughter, my fair love ; Both taxing me and gaging me to keep An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it : Fall Greeks ; fail &me ; hononr or go or stay ; My major tow lies here, this I'll obey. — Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent; This night in banqueting mast all be spent. — Away, Fatroclus ! ^Exeunt Achilles and PatrocluB.
Ther. With too much blood and too little brain, these two may run mad ; but, if with too much brain and too little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen. Here's Agamem-
voib n. a
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non, — an honest fellow enough, and one that Ioybs quails ; hat he has not bo much biain aa ear-wax : and the goodly transfonnatioD of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, — the primitive statae, and obliqne'"''' memorial of cuckolds ; a thrift; shoeing •horn in a chain, banging at his brother's leg, — to what form, but that he is, sbonld wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit, turn him to ? To an ass, were nothing ; he is both ass and oz : to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and asa. To be a dog, a mole, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, aa owl, a pnttock, or a her- ring without a roe, I would not care ; but to be Menelaus ! — I would conspire against destiny. Ask me not what I would be, if I were not Thersitea ; for I care not to be the louse of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus. — Hoy-day ! spirits and fires ]
I^er Hbctor, Troilub, Ajai, Aoahbknon, Ultssbs, Nebtob, Menelaus, and Diohedeb, with lights. Agam. We go wrong, we go wrong. Ajax. No, yonder 'tis ;
There, where we see the lights.
Hect. I trouble you.
Ajax. No, not a whit.
XHyat, Here comes himself to guide you.
He-enter Acbilleb.
Achil. Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, princes all.
Agam. So now, fair Prince of Troy, I bid good night. Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.
Hect. Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general.
Men. Good night, my lord.
Hect. Good night, sweet Lord Menelaos.
Tftcr. Sweet draught : flweet, quoUi 'a ! aweet sink,"*" sweet sewer.
AchU. Good night and welcome, both at once, to those That go or tarry.
Affavt. Goodnight. lExeimt Agamemnon and Menelaus.
Ackil. Old Nestor tarries; and yon too, Diomed, Keep Hector company an hoot or two.
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Dio. I cannot, lord ; I have important bneinesB, The tide whereof is now. — Good night, great Hector.
Hect. Give me your hand.
lUyst. \(mde to Trcnlufi] Follow his torch; he goes to Calchas' tent : m keep yon company.
Tro. \aside to Vlyss^ Sweet sirj you honour me.
Hect. And 80, good night.
[Exit Diomedea ; TJlytaei and Troiliu following.
Aehil, Come, come, enter my tent.
[Extant Aehilles, Hector, Ajax, and Nestor.
Ther. That same Diomed'a a false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers than I will a serpent when he hisses : he will spend his month, and promise, like Brabbler the hound ; but when he performa, astronomers foretell it ; it is prodigions, there will come some change ; the sun borrows of the moon when Diomed keeps his word. I will rather leave to see Hector than not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan drab, and ases the traitor Galcbas' tent : I'll after. — Nothing but lechery ! all inconti- nent varlets ! [Exit.
SOBHB n. The same. Before Caicbab' tent. Enter Diohbdzs. Dio. What, are you ap here, ho ? speak. C<U. {within'] Who calls?
Dio. Diomed. — Calchas, I think. Where's your daugh- ter? Cal. [wiikiri] She comes to yoo.
J!^iferTitoiLnB and Ultbsbs, at some distance; after them Therbitkb. Ulyis. Stand where the torch may not discover us.
Enter Crbbbida. Tro. Cressid comes forth to him. Dio. How now, my charge 1
Cns. Now, my sweet goardian ! — Hark, a word with yon. [Wnaspert,
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Tro. Yea, so familiar !
Ulyn. She will sing any man at firet eight.
Tker. And any man may aing her, if he can take her diff; she's noted.
Dio. Will yon rememher ?
Cre». Remember ! yes.
Dio. Nay, bat do, then ;
And let yonr mind be coapled with your words.
Tro. What should she remember 9
UlyM. List.
Gres. Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.
Ther. Roguery I
Dio. Nay, then, —
Cres. I'U tell yon what, —
Dio. Foh, fob ! come, tell a pin : yon are forsworn.
Cret. In faith, I cannot : what would yon have me do ?
Ther. A jnggling trick,— to be secretly open.
Dio. What did you awear yon woold bestow on me ?
Cres. I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath; Bid me do. any thing bat that, sweet Greek.
Dio. Good night.
Tro. Hold, patience !
Ulyts. How now, Trojan !
Cret. ■ Diomed, —
Dio. No, no, good night: I'll be yonr fool no more.
Tro. Thy better moat.
Grea. Hark, one word in yonr ear.
Tro. 0 plague and madness t
Ulytt. You are mov'd, prince ; let ns depart, I pray you, Leat yonr diapleaanre shonld enlarge iteelf To wrathfal terms : this place ia dangerone ; The time right deadly; I beseech yon, go.
Tro. Behold, I pray you !
Ulyss. Nay, good my lord, go off:
Yon flow to great distraction ; come, my lord.
Tro. I pray thee, stay.
UlysB. Yon have not patience ; come.
Tro. I pray yoa, stay ; by hell and all heU'a torments, I will not Bpea^ a word !
Dio. And so, good night.
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Crea. Na;, bat yon part in anger.
Tro. Doth that griere thee ?
0 withet'd truth !
UlysB. "Why, how now, lord !
Tro. By JoTe,
1 will be patient.
Creg. Gnardi&n ! — whyi Greek !
Dio. Foh, fob ! adieu ; yon palter.
Cres. In faith, I do not : come hither once again.
Ulyte. Yon shake, my lord, at something : will yon go ? You will break oat.
Tto. She strokes his cheek t
Uljfsg. Come, come.
Tro. Nay, stay ; by JoTe, I will not speak a word : There is between my will and all ofTencee A gnard of patience : — stay a Uttle while.
Tker. How the devil Inxnry, with his fat mmp and potato-finger, tickles these together ! Fry, lechery, fry !
Dio. But will yon, then ?
Cres. In faith, I will, la ; never ttast me else.
Dia. Give me some token for the snrety of it.
Cres. I'll fetch yon one. [Exit.
Ulyga. Yon have sworn patience.
Tro. Fear me not, sweet lord ;
I will not be myself, nor have cognition Of what I feel : I am all patience.
Re-enter Crbsbid^.
Ther. Now the pledge ; now, now, now !
Cret. Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve.
Tro. O beaatyl where is thy faith?
Vlysa. My lord, —
Tro. I will be patient ; ontwardly I will,
Crea. Yon look npon that sleeve ; behold it well. — He lov'd me — 0 false wench'I — Give't me again.
Dio. Whose was't?
Grea. It is no matter, now I have't again. I will not meet with yon to-morrow night : I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.
Ther. Now she sharpens : — well said, whetstone !
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Dio. I shall hare it.
Ores. What, this ?
Dio. Ay, that.
Crea. 0 all yoa goda ! — 0 pretty, pretty pledge ! Thy master now lies thinking in his bed Of thee and me ; and sighs, and takes my glove. And gives memorial dainty Hsbbs to it, Aa I kiss thee. — Nay, do not snatch it from me ;''^ He that takes that doth take my heart withal.
Dio. I had yonr heart before, this follows it.
Tro. I did swear patience.
Cre$, Yon shall not have it, Diomed; faith, yoa shall not ; I'll give yon something else.
Dio. 1 will have this : whose was it ?
Cres. 'Tis no matter.
Dio. Come, tell me whose it was,
Cres. 'Twas one's that lov'd me better than you will. But, now yon have it, take it.
Dio. "Whose was it ?
Crea. By all Diana's waiting-women yond, And by herself, I will not tell yon whose.
Dio. To-morrow will I wear it on my helm ; And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.
Tro. Wert thoa the devil, and wor'st it on thy horn, It should be ohalleng'd.
Cres. Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past; — and yet it is not ; I will not keep my word.
Dio. Why, then, ferewell;
Thon never ehalt mock Diomed again.
Crea. Yon shall not go : — one cannot speak a word, Bnt it straight starts yoa.
Dio. I do not like this fooling.
Ther. Nor I, by Pluto : bat that that likes not you pleases me best.
Dio. What, shall I come 9 the hour ?
Cres. Ay, come: — 0 Jove! — do come: — I shall be plagn'd.
Dio. Farewell till then.
Cres. Oood night : I prithee, come.
[Exit Diomedtt, Troilas, farewell t one eye yet looks on thee ;
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Bat with my beart the other eye doth see.
Ah, poor onr sex ! this taxdi in ns I find,
The error of oar eye directs qui mind :
What error leads must err; 0, then conclude
Minds sway'd by eyee are fall of tarpitade. ^Exit.
Ther. A proof of strength she coald not pabUsh more, Unless she said, "My mind is now ttirn'd whore." UlyBs. All's done, my lord. Tto. It is.
Ulyst. Why stay we, then ?
Tro. To mails a reoordation to my sool Of every syllable that here was spoke. But if I tell how these two did co-act, Shall I not lie in pitblishing a tnith ? Sith yet there is a credence in my heart, An esperance so obstinately strong, That doth invert th' attest of eyes and ears ; As if those organs had deceptions fnnctions. Created only to calumniate. Was Cressid here ?
Ulyit. I cannot conjure, Trojan.
Tro. She was not, sore. UlysB. Most sure she was.
Tro. Why, my negation hath no taste of madness. Vly»B. Nor mine, my lord : Cressid was here bnt now, Tro. Let it not be believ'd for womanhood ! Think, we had mothers ; do not give advantage To stubborn critics, — apt, withoat a theme. For depravation, — to square the general sex By Gressid's rule : rather think this not Cressid.
Ulyu. What hath she done, prince, that can soil our
mothers ? Tro. Nothing at all, unless that this were she. Ther. Will he swagger himself oat on's own eyes? Tro. This she ? no, this is Diomed's Cressida : If beacty have a soul, this is not she ; If souls guide TOWS, if vows be sanctimonies. If sanctimony be the gods' delight, If there be rule in unity itself. This is not she. 0 madness of disconrse,
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That canee aets up with and against itself!
Bi-fold anthority ! where reason can revolt
Without perdition, and loss assame all reason
Without revolt : this is, and is not, Cressid !
Within my sonl there doth condQce"*" a fight
Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparate
Divides more wider than the sky and earth ;
And yet the spacious hreadth of this division
Admits no orifex for a point, as subtle
As Ariachne's"**' broken woof, to enter.
Instance, 0 instance ! strong as Plato's gates ;
Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven :
Instance, 0 instance ! strong as heaven itself;
The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, disaolv'd, and loos'd ;
And with another knot, five -finger- tied.
The fractions of her faith, orts of her love.
The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greasy relics
Of her o'er-eaten faith, ^'"' are bound to Diomed.
Ulysg. May worthy Troilus be but half attach'd"*" With that which here his passion doth express ?
Tro. Ay, Greek ; and that shall be divulged well In characters as red as^Mars his heart Infiam'd with Venns : never did young man fancy With so eternal and so fix'd a soul. Hark, Greek : — as much as I do Cressid love,''*^* So mach by weight hate X her Diomed : That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on bis helm ; Were it a casque compos'd by Yulcan's skill, My sword should bite it : not the dreadful spout. Which shipmen do the hnrricano call, Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun. Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear In his descent than shall my prompted sword Falling on Diomed.
Ther. He'll tickle it for his concupy.
Tro. 0 Cressid ! 0 false Cressid ! false, false, false I Let all antrutha stand by thy stained name, And they'll seem glorious.
Ulyse. 0, contain yourself;
Your passion draws ears hither.
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ETiter ^HEAB.
jEne. I have been seeking you this hour, my lord : Hector, by thie, ie arming bim in Troy ; Ajax, yoar guard, stays to conduct you bome.
Tro. Have with you, prince. — My courteoae lord, adieu. — Farewell, revolted fair ! — and, Diomed, Stand toBt, and wear a castle on tby bead !
Uh/g». I'll bring you to the gates.
Tro. Accept distracted tbanks.
\_Exeunt Troilus, jEneas, and Ulysset.
Tker. Would I could meet that rogue Diomed ! I would croak like a raven ; I would bode, I wonid bode. Fatroclns will give me any tbiog for the' intelligence of this whote : tbe parrot will not do more for an almond than he for a commo- dious drab. Lechery, lechery ; still, wars and lechery ; no- thing else holds fashion : a burning devil take them ! [Exit.
Scene m. Troy. Before Pbiah's palace. Enter Hbctor and Amdbomachs. And. Wben was my lord so much ungently temper'd. To stop his ears against admonisbment ? Unarm, nnarm, and do not fight to-day.
Hect. You train me to offend you ; get yon in: By all the everlasting gods, I'll go !
And. My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to-day."*" Hect. No more, I say.
Enter CASSAimitA.
Caa. Where is my brother Hector ?
And. Here, sister ; arm'd, and bloody in intent. Consort with me in loud and dear petition. Pursue we bim on knees ; for I have dream'd Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.
Cos. 0, it is true.
Hect. Ho I bid my trumpet sound !
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Caa. No notea of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother.
Hect. Be gone, I say ; the gods have heard me swear.
Cos. The gods are deaf to hot and pecTish tows : They are pollnted offeringe, more abhorr'd Ulan spotted liTers in the sacrifice.
And. 0, be persuaded ! do liot coant it holy To hurt by being just : it is as lawful, For we would give mnch, to tise violent thefts. And rob in the behalf of charity."^
Cos. It is the ptirpoee that makes strong the tow ; Bat TOWB to every porpose mast not hold : Unarm, sweet Hector.
Hect. Hold yoa still, I say ;
Mine honotu keeps the weather of my fate : Life every man holds dear ; bat the brave man Holds honoar far more precious-dear than life.'^**'
Enter Tboilus, How now, yonng mab ! mean'st thoa to fight to-day ?
And. Cassandra, call my father to persoade.
[Esdt Cassandra.
Hect. No, faith, yoong Troilns ; doff thy harness, youth ; 1 am to-day i' the vein of chivalry : Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong. And tempt not yet the brashes of the war. Unarm thee, go ; and doabt thoa not, brave boy, I'll stand to-day for thee, and me, and Troy.
Tro. Brother, yon have a vice of mercy in yon, 'Which better fits a lion than a man.
Hect. What vice is that, good Troilns ? chide me for it.
Tto. When many times the captive Grecians fall,""* Even in the fan and wind of yoar fair sword. Yon bid them rise, and live.
Hect. 0, 'tis fair play.'^*"
Tro. Fool's play, by heaven. Hector.
Hect. How now I how now !
Tro. For the love of all the gods.
Let's leave the hermit pity with oar mothers ; And when we have oar armours buckled on. The***** venom'd vengeance ride npon our swords,
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Spar them to rathM work, rein them from mth."***
Hect. Fie, Bavage, fie )
Tro. Heotor,*^** then 'tia wktb.
Hect. Troilns, I would not hare ;oa fight to-day.
Tro. Who Bhonld withhold me ? Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of MarS Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire ; Not Friamus and Hecnba on knees, Their jcyes o'ergall^d with recourse of tears ; Nor yoa, my brother, with yonr true sword drawn, Oppos'd to hinder me, should stop my wa^, Bat by my min.
Se-enier Cabbandra and Fkiak.
Cas. Lay hold apon him, Priam, hold him fast r"*^ He is thy cratch ; now if then lose thy stay, Thoa on him leaning, and aU Troy on tbee, FaU all together.
Pri. Comei Hector, come, go back :
Thy wife hath dream'd ; thy mother hath had Tisions ; Cassandra doth foresee ; and I myself Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt. To tell thee that this day is ominons : Therefore^ come hack^
Hect. ^neas is a-field ;
And I do stand engag'd to many Qreeks, Even in the faith of valoar, to appear This morning to them.
Pri. Aj, bnt thoa shalt not go.
Hect. I mast not break my faith. Yon know me dutifol ; therefore, dear air. Let me not shame respect ; but gire me leave To take that coarse by yoar consent and Toioe, Which yon do here forbid me, royal Priam.
Cos. 0 Priam, yield not to him !
And. Do not, dear father.
Hect. Andromache, I am offended with yoa : Upon the lore yoa bear me, get yoa in. [_Exit Andromache.
Tro. This foolish, dreaming, saperstitioas girl Makes all these bodements.
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Cat. O, fsrewell, dear Hector t
Look, how thoa dieat ! look, how thy oye tama pale 1 Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many rents ! Hark, how Troy roars ! how Hecaha cries oat ! How poor Andromache Bhrills her doloara forth ! Behold, dietractioQ, frenzy, and amazement, Like witless antics, one another meet. And all cry " Hector ! Hector's dead !" 0 Hector !
Tro. Away ! away !
CaB. Farewell : — yet, soft ! — Hector, I take my leave : Thou dost thyself and all onr Troy deceire. [Exit.
Hect. YoQ are amaz'd, my liege, at her exclaim: Go in, and cheer the town : we'll forth and fight ; Do deeds worth praise, and tell yon them at night.
Pri. Farewell : the gods with safety stand abont thee !
[Exeunt severally Priam and Hector. Alarums.
Tro. They're at it, hark ! — Prond Diomed, believe, I come to lose my arm, or win my sleere.
At TboilDS is going out, enter from the other eide Pandabc&
Pan, Do yon hear, my lord ? do yon hear ?
Tro. What now ?
Pan. Here's a letter come from yond poor girf.
[Gives letter,
Tro. Let me read.
Pan. A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so tronbles me, and the foolish fortane of this girl; and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one o' th's days : and I have a rhenm in mine eyes too ; and sach an ache in my bones, that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what to think on't. — What says she there ?
Tro. Words, words, mere words, no matter firom the heart; Th' effect doth operate another way. — [Tearing the letter. Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together. — My love with words and errors still she feeds ; But edifies another with her deeds.""' [Exeunt gereraUy.
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SaesE TV. Plaiiis between Troy and the Grecian camp. Alarums: eaxuTaioite. Ejiter TaKOBiTSS. Ther. Now they are clapper- clawing oda another ; I'll go look on. That dissembling abominable rarlet, Diomed, bae got that aame scnrrj doting foolish yonng knave's sleeve of Troy there in his helm : I wotild fain see them meet ; that that same yonng Trojan ass, that loves the whore there, might send that Greekish whoremaaterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand. 0' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty swear- ing"*" rascals — that stale old mouse-eaten dry cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses — is not proved worth a blackberry: — they set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur, Ajas, against that dog of as bad a kind, Achilles : and now is the cur Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm to-day ; whereupon the Grecians begiu'^*** to proclaim barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion. — Soft ! here comes sleeTe, and t'other.
.^1^ DioMBDBS, TsouAJS/olloimtg, Tro. Fly not ; for shouldst thou take the river Styx, I would swim after.
IHo. Thou dost miscall retire :
I do not fly ; but advantageous care Withdrew me from the odds of multitude : Have at thee !
Tker. Hold thy whore, Grecian I — now for thy whore, Tro- jan ! — now the sleeve ! now the sleeveless !""**
^Exeunt Troilm and Diomede$, Jighting.
Enter Hectoh. Hect. What art thou, Greek ? art thou for Hector's match? Art thou of blood and honour ?
Ther. No, no, — I am a rascal ; a scurvy railing knave ; a very filthy rogue.
Hect. I do believe thee ; — Kve. \Exit.
Ther. God-a-mercy, that tboa wilt beUeve me ; bnt a
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plagae break thy neck for frighting me ! — ^What's become of the wenchiiig rogaes ? I think they have swallowed one ano- ther : I woold langh at that miracle : — yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself. I'll seek them. [Exit.
SoBNB V. Another part of the plains. Enter Dioicbdbs and a Servant Dio, Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilas* horse ; Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid : Fellow, commend my service to her heanty ; Tell her I have chaatis'd'*'" the amorous Trojan, And am her knight by proof.
Serv. I go, my lord. [Exit.
Enter Ao&hgmnon. Agam. Renew, renew ! The fierce PolydamM Hath beat down Menon : bastard Margarelon Hath Dorens prisoner, And stands colossas-wise, waving his beam, Upon the pash^ corses of the kings Epistrophns and Cedius : Polyxenes is slain ; Amphimachns and Thoaa deadly hart ; Patroclus ta'en or slain ; and Palamedes Sore hart and bmis'd : the dreadful Sagittary Appals our numbers ; — haste we, Diomed, To reinforcement, or we perish all.
Enter XEsroB. Neit. Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles ; And bid the snail-pac'd Ajax arm for shame. — There is a thousand Hectors in the field : Now here he fights on Galathe his horse. And there lacks work ; anon he's there afoot. And there they fly or die, like scaled scnlls Before the belching whale ; then is he yonder. And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge. Fall down before him, Uke the mower's swath :
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Sere, there, and OTery where, he leaTes and takes ; Dexterity bo obeying appetite. That what he will he does ; and does bo much, That proof is oall'd impossibility.
ErUer TjLtBBKa. Ulyss. O, cocrage, courage, princes t great Achilles Is arming, weeping, cnrsing, vowing Tengeanoe : Patroclus' wonnds have rous'd his drowsy blood, Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, haok'd and ohipp'd, come to him. Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a &iend. And foams at month, and he is arm'd and at it, Boaring for Troilns ; who bath done to-day Mad and fantastic execution ; Engaging and redeeming of himself. With SQch a careless force and forceless care. As if that Inok, in very spite of conning, Bode him win all.
JSSifer Ajax, Ajax. Troilna t thoa coward Troilos ! {_Exit.
Dio. Ay, there, there.
Neit. So, BO, we draw together.
Enter Achilles. AckU. Where is this Hector?^
Come, come, thoa boy-qneller, show thy face ;*"* Enow what it is to meet AcbilleB angry : — Hector t wbere's Hector ? I will none bat Hector. ^Exeunt.
Scene VI. Another part of the plains.
Enter Aj AIL.
Ajax. Troilns, thoa coward Troilus, sbov thy bead !
Enter Diokedbs. Dio, Troilna, I say t wbere's Troilns ?
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Ajax. What woaldst thon ?
Dio. I wonld correct him.
Ajax. Were I the geoerEil, thou shouldst have my office Ere that oorrectioa. — Troilna, I say ! what, Troilus !
Enter Troilds. Tro. O traitor Diomed ! — tern thy felee face, thoa traitor, And pay the"** life thoa ow'at me for my horse ! Dio. Ha, art thoa there ?
Ajax. I'll fight with him alone : stand, Diomed. Dio. He is my prize; I will not look upon,*"* Tro. Come, both you cogging (Greeks ; have at you both ! [Exeunt, Jighiing.
Enter Hbctob. Hect. Yea,TroilaB? O, well fought, my youngest brother!
Enter Achilles.
AehU. Kow do I see thee, ha ! — hare at thee. Hector !
Hect. Pause, if thoa wilt.
A chil. I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan : Be happy that my arms are out of use : My rest and negligence befriend thee now. But thou anon shalt hear of me again ; Till when, go seek thy fortune. [Exit.
Hect. Fare thee well :—
I would have been much more a fresher man,*"*' Had I expected thee.
Re-enter TaoiLts. How now, my brother ! Tro. Ajax hath ta'en jEneas : shall it be? No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven. He shall not carry him ; I'll be ta'en too. Or bring him off: — fate, hear me what I say! I reck not though I end my life to-day. [Exit.
Hect. Stand, stand, thou Greek ; thou art a goodly mark : —
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No ? wilt thon not?— I like thy armour well ;
m frash it, and unlock the riveta all,
But I'll bo master of it ; — wilt thou not, beaat, abide ?
Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide. lExeunt.
Scene VII. Another part of the plains . Elder Achilles utith Myrmidous, Achil. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons; Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel : Strike not a stroke, bat keep yourselves in breath : And when X have the bloody Hector found, Empale him with your weapons round about ; In fellest manner execute your aims."'" Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye : — It is decreed Hector the great muBt die. [^Exeunt.
Enter Mbnelaus and Vkv-a, fighting; then THEBSiTBa.
Ther. The cuckold and the onckold-maker are at it. —
Now, bull ! now, dog ! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo ! now my double-
henned sparrow ! 'loo, Paris, 'loo ! — The bull has the game :
— ware horns, ho I [Exeunt Paris and Menelavs.
Enter Marqarbloh.
Mar. Turn, slave, and fight.
Tlier. What art thou?
Mar. A bastard son of Priam's.
Ther. I am a bastard too ; I love bastards : I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in ralour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard ? Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us : if the son of a whore flght for a whore, he tempts judgment : farewell, bastard. [Exit.
Mar, The devil take thee, coward t [Exit.
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ScxHE Vni. Another part of tke plairu. Enier Hboiob. Hec(. Moat patreflfed core, bo fair withont, Th; goodly armour thns hath coat thy life. Now ia my day's work done ; I'll take good breath : Beet, Bword ; thoa hast thy fill of blood and death.
[Put* off kia helmet, and hang» kit shield behind him.
Erder Aosilles and Mynuidotts.
Achil. liook, Hector, how the snn begina to sot; How ngly night cornea breathing at his heels : Even with the vail and darkening of the sun, To close the day np. Hector's life is done.
Hect. I am nnarm'd ; forgo this vantage, Greek.
Achil. Strike, fellows, atrike ; this is the man I seek.
[Hector fallt. So, Hion, fall thon next ! now, Troy, sink down ! Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone. — On, Myrmidons ; and cry yon all amain, "Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain." — [_A retreatiound^d. Hark ! a retire upon onr Grecian part.
Myr. The Trojan tmmpets sonnd the Uke, my lord.
AchU. The dragon wing of night o'erapreads the earth. And, stickler-like, the armies separates. My half-snpp'd sword, that frankly wonM hare fed, Pleas'd with this dainty bait,'"" thna goes to bed.
[Sheathes hit tword. Gome, tie bis body to my horse's tail ; Along the field I will the Trojan trail. [Exewat.
SoBNZ IX. Another part of the plains.
Enter Aoauemnon, Ajaz, Menblaub, Kestor, Diouedes, and otherg, marekiTtg. Slimda within. Agam, Hark I hark ! what shont ia that ? Nest. Peace, drama I
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[TTif Ain] Achilles ! Achillea ! Hector's slain ! Aohilles !
I>io. The brnit is, Hector's slain, and by Aolulles.
Ajax. If it be so, yet br&gless let it be ; Great Hector was a loan as good as he.
Agam. March patiently along : — let one be sent To pray Achilles see us at our tent, — If in his'''*' death the gods have ub befriended, Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.
[Exeunt, marching.
BOENE X. Another part of the plaint. Enter iEsBiS and Trojans. ^ne. Stand, ho ! yet are we masters of the field : Never go home ; here starve we out the night.
Enter Troilos.
Tro, Hector is slain.
AU. Hector !~the gods forbid I
Tro. He's dead ; and at the murderer's horse's tail. In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field. — Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed I Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smite all Troy !"'•' I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy, And linger not onr sure destructions on !
^ne. My lord, you do discomfort all the host.
Tto. You anderstand me not that tell me so ; I do not speak of Sight, of fear, of death ; But dare all imminence that gods and men Address their dangers in. Hector is gone : Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba ? Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd. Go into Troy, and say there " Hector's dead :" There is a word will Priam turn to stone ; Uake wells and Niobes of the maids and wives, Cold statues of the youth ; and, in a word, Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away : Hector is dead ; there is no more to say. Stay yet. — ^Yon vile abominable tents,
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Thns prondly pight npon onr Phrygian plains,
Ist Titan rise sb early as he dare,
ni tbroagh and through you 1 — and, thou great-siz'd coward.
No space of earth shall sander onr two hates :
I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,
That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts. — *"''
Strike a free march*^*" to Troy I — with comfort go :
Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.
[Exeunt ^neas and Trqjant.
Aa Troildb is going out, enter, from the other side, Fahdabds. Pan. Bat hear you, hear you 1 Tro. Hence, broker-lackey I ignomy and shame Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name ! \E3At.
Pan. A goodly medicine for my aching bones ! — 0 world ! world ! world ! thus is Uie poor agent despised ! 0 traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited ! why should car endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed 9 what verse for it ? what instance for it ? — Let me see : —
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing. Till he hath lost bis honey and his sting ; And being once subdu'd in anuM tail, Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail. — Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted cloths. As many as be here of pander's hall, Youi eyes, half oat, weep out at Pandar's fall; Or if yon cannot weep, yet give some g^ans. Though not for me, yet. for your aching bones. Brethren and sisters of the bold-door trade, Some two months hence my will shall here be made : It should be now, but that my fear is this, — Some gallM goose of Winchester"*" would hiss : Till then I'll sweat, and seek about for eases ; And at that time bequeath you my diseasea. [Exit.
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P. 5. (i) "Bordrut, and Tymbria, Htliat, Cketiu, TroUn, And AatawTidu," I le>Te theM namca u thej aUnd in the folio (thii Prologas ia not in the qn&rto), — eioept that I hare anbatvtatod •' Antenoridu" tot " Antenonidna." — Aooording to Darea PhrjgiaB, cap. 4, " Ilio portu f acit [Priamna] , qnaram Domiiik hnc aunt, Antenorida, DardAnin, Tlim, Sonn, ThTmbrss, Trojana [ot- Antenoiu, Dardania, Ilia, Sc»a, ThTmbnaa, Trojana] :" and Theobald nwde tbe namea in the present paaaage agree with that liat. But Shake- apeare, we may be gnre, did not conanlt Dares Pbrygina. — Coiton, in his proae RecuytU of the hiitoryti of Troye, &o. under the heading " How the kynge Piwm reediffled the e^ of traje," writes thna; "In this Cjte were size pryiudpall gates, of whome that one was named datdant. the seconde tym- bria. the thirde helyat. the foorthe chetat. the fifths troyettne. and the sizthe anttTUtridei." Ed. (which has neither pacing nor signatures} oiroa 1474: ■ee Introd. to this pla}r, p. 3. — Ljdgate, in his poem entitled The kyMtvrye, Sege and dyitTuccyon of Truye, sajs ;
" The finte of all and atrengeat e^e withall
Waa b7 the kynge called Dardanydei ;
And in stor;e lyke as it is fonnde,
Tymbria was named the aeoonde;
And the thirde called Helyat;
The fonrthe gate h^bte also Citheaij
The fyfte Troiana, the ayith Anlbaaydei" &e.
B. ii. Big. F 1, ed. 1513. In the laat of theae linea ed. 1S66 reads
" the ayith Anliilorydei ."
P. 6. (») " Sperr"
So Theobald.— The folio has " Stlrre." (In the fourth line above Theobald anbatitntad •• Priam.'! tix galea i' th' city," to aroid what he Mjs is "a verb ptitrat goremed by a nominatiTe linffvtar ;" and Capell, who retains the old reading abore, prints here " Bperra." Bnt the city with the ennmeration of it« gates WM oertainlr eoiwdered bj onr author aa equivalent to a plural
P. 5. (j) ••ttarlitig"
Mr. W. N. Lett«om wonld read " ataita."
P. 7. (4) "'when the eomei !" — Whai it ilu theneet" : : ;,,.
Bowe's ooirection (made partly in hia Srat, partly in hia aeo. ed.).— TJ^^Sffll ; •da. have " then ihe coma, vken she ia thenet." ' '
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P. 7. (i) "Mom—"
The old eda. tukve " uome."
P. 7. (6)
" In totupariicm tPith Crtulda't hand, m.jB he, tht tpirit o/ierue, the utmost degree, tJie moat exqnisile power of Beasibility. irhich impliea » soft hand, tinee the Hense ot tonching, m [Joliaa CieBKr] SeaJiger rajs in his Ezercila- tioni, Teiidei ohiefly in the Sngera. is htxi ae the o&lloai and i&BBnsible pftlm ot the plaoghmui. Warbtirton reads
■ ipitt of BGtue ;'
Hanmer,
' — - — to Ih' Hpirit of Hense.' It is not proper to make a Iotst profess to praise his mistrasa in ipite of tttue; tat thon((h he often does it tn ipilt of the taut of others, his own •enses sie sobdoed to his deBiies." Jobhbon.— Capell prints "in tpirit of
1866. Hr. W. N. Lettsom pMpoMB to amend the gre*ter part id thil speech m IoUowh ;
" thon ansirer'st, she is fair; Her tjet, her hair, her choeti, her gait, her Tdoe Handleat in th? diBconrse ; — (0 that her hand. In whose comparison all whites are ink, Writing their own reproach ; to whoee soft seiznre And tpirit ofimte the eygnet'i doicn u hanh A» the hard palm of ploughman I—) this thon tell'st me, And tme thon tell'st me, when I Ba; I love her ; Bnt, saying thns, instead ot oil and balm Pour'd in the ppen ulcer of my heart, Thon laj'at in ererf gash that Love hath glren me The knife that made it." And he obaerrea; "Three ont of these fonr changes are the proper^ <^ others [of Grant White, Walker, and Barron Field]. I most eiprees mj ntter dissent from those orftice who take the part whioh I have put into parenthesis for a qnotation from PandamB. 'O that her hand,' &c. is eri- dentlj a lover's bnrst, and the whole poaaage is as remote from the low jargon of Pandama as the sky from a ceaapool. The words ' thit thou telVit me' refer to CresBida'B ryn, hair, tec. of which Psodaraa hod been in the habit of taUdng. This is evident from the cloee of the apeeck. The phraBO ' every gaeh' cut refer to nothing but an ennmcnitiDn of rariona partLcnlarv, ' Spirit of itnie' I take to mean here mott delicate and ethereal touch. In act iii. ic. S the same words are applied to the aight, or rather to the eye, the instnunent of sight. "
^lOAir (Oil. Exam. Ac. toL Ui. p. IBl) bsjb of this reading " ETidently iftong. 'And,' I think."
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P. 9. {i) •• ftomm'd light,"
Li. inned lightly, — whether ire ohoosa to nudentuid " lightly" In its nsnal MBM, or in that of quicklj/, lOon ["Lightly oz Bone." Proust. Parv. ed. 14M). — Theobald Babatitated (moat Tilely) " homMi-dight." — Heaih nnder- tttnds " lightly" to meui " readj lor aotion."
P. 11. (9) "v,it"
Bowe'a eotrection. — The old ads. h»Te " will."
P. 12. (lo) ••marvM-i"
H«re, — M in HomUI, "Yon ehall do marveWi viself," Ae. Mrt ii. m. 1, — "auaveWt" is m abbrenatiou ot marcelloui.
P. IS. (ii) "Here'i but one and fifty"
The old eda. baf e, both in the present and in the neit speech of Pandanu,
" two and fifty" — which Theobald altered aa abOTe, obaerring, "How
elie Ban the nnmbeF make ont Priam and bis fifty wne F" and thia leotifioa- tion of an enor, whiob piobably arose from the Ma. haTing bad the nnmben In ftgnree, waa adopted bj all Bnbgeqnent editors till Mr. Eiught and Mr- Collier brought baok into the tait the corrapted reading. — It is not to be doubted that Shakespeare knew the exaot nnmbec d aona wMoh from the •artiest timea had been assigned to Priami—eren sappoeing that the follow- ing pawage was by anothet dramatist ;
"Bomana, nlfivt-and-twtnty valiant lont. Half of the numAcr thai King Prtatn had. Behold the poor remainB, aliTe, and dead I"
rilu« Andronievt, act L lo. 3 ;— and it is utterly improbable that here be wonld needlessly deviate from the Homeiio tradition. — Mr. Knight, in defending " two and fifty," remarks that "The Margerelon of the romance -writers, who makea his appeaianee in Aot T., ia one of the additions to the old olaaaieal family." Bnt Margerelon is not to be eonaidered aa an addition to the family (whieh, in all eonaeienoe, was large enongh already) ; the romanoe-writera merely bestowed that name en one of the fifty sons whom antiquity had left unnamed.
P. 16. (ii) "Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by and by.
Ores, Tu bring, un«l« /
Pan. Ay, a token from Troiliu." After " To bring, tmele," the qnarto has a colon ; the folio, a fnll-poinL — When Pandarus says, " m be toith you, nleoe, by and by," Cressida catehes at the worda "tU be with you," and subjoins "lo bring" — )"•* »b P""- dams eatehea at " to bring," and adds " Ay, a token," Ao.— See Oloss. snb " bring," Aa.
P.ie. {ij) "liei" , ,:-
Mmob would read " dies."
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P. 16. (14) " Achievement it eotianand; uagain'd, btieeeh:" Hr. CoUier'a Ml. Coaeetor sabatitotai " Achier'd men bUU command," ie. : bnt if the text reqniras alteration (of which I hare yat to be eonnnoed), Mr. Eameaa'i reading, " Achiev'd men na command," &o. is far preferable. — Sea Walker's Crit. Exam. &c. Tol. ii. p. BIS, vhere this pasaage ii qaoted withoat anj Biupiidou of its b«iqg oormpt ; and the editor's note ibid.
P. 17. (15) "m-Mtt."
Bo Mr. CoUier'B Hb. Ootreetor.— The old eda. have " irorkea ;" which Walkar {Cril. Exiaa. &e. *oL iii. p. 193) prononnees to be " palpably wrong."
P. 18. (16) "fled"
" Perhaps 'flee'," utys Walker (Crit. Exam. tea. toI. ii. p. 68) ; which C^iell gives.
P. 18. (17) "RetoTU"
80 I conjectured tn my Fev Notei, lea. p. 107 ; and so too Mr. Orant White. — Theqnarto has " BetireB ;" thafolio, " Setyres." — Pope printed "Betnma;" Hanmer, " Replies,'' — which ig the reading of Mr. Collier's Mb. Correehx. — Hr. Stannton gif es " Re-ahides."
P. 18. (i8) "Though"
The old eds, have " Thoa." — Corrected b; Hanmer.
P. 18. (19) " and be't 0/ Utt expect," &e.
Here " expect" is explained to mean expectation. — I have no doubt that Gie line la corrDpted.— Pope gave " we Icn expect," Aa.; Capell, "Andwelcse expect," Sic. ; and Mr. W. N. Lettsom eonjeetnreB, " we no leit expect," lea. i. e. " we are as swe of a bad speech from yon as of a good one from Ther- sitea. Ulysaes makes a Bimilarlj' inverted or ironical comparison below, p. 31;
' as near as the eitremest ends Of parsUele ; as like as Volcan and his wife.' "— This speech is not in the qnarto.
P.19.(«) "maetiS"
The folio has " Maitioke."— Thia speech is not in the qoarto.
P. 19. (11) " Hollotc upon thit plain, eo man^ hoUoie faetioni." Hanmer omitted the flrst " Sallow;" Steevens proposes to omit the seoood-
E- 18- (»») " Wien that the genial U not like the hive," He. 7^TIie_meaning is, — When the general ts not to the army like the hive to ths beds, ihe reposilor? of the stock of every individoal, that to which eaoh par-
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tionlw TSMiTta with whatarez he hu ooUeoted for the good of the whole, viol honey U txpecttd I wh^t hope of adTuitage ? The bbubb ia clear, the eiprsBBion ia confuted." Jobnbon. — W&rbnrtan reads " When that the gene- ral not likeB the Mve," Ac. ; HeaUi propoaea " When thai the general's not the life ol th' hive,'" Ac. ; and Capell printi " When thai the general ie not lik'd o' the hive," bo.
P. 19. (tj) "other ;••
lb. ffinger (Shaketptart Viniitatei, tee. p. 192) reads " eilier :" in oppod- tioD to which reading Mr. Grant White obeerreB, " It is not Sol'a place in the ether, bat hii Bnpremacf > amidst the other' heaTonly bodiee, which Uljeeea withea to imprSEs apon his hearera." Sh(fketpeare'$ Schclar, Sie. p. 864.
P. 19. (x4) " Then"
So Hanmer.— The old eds. hare " The."
P. 19. (tfi ''prijMgenity"
So the qnwto i^friaogeniiie"). — The folio luu "primogenitioe."
an univeTtal prey," " [The flnt ' uuTersal'J wrong, anielf ." Walker's Crii. Exam. Iba. Tol. i.
P. 81, (17) " o'er-wraUd"
i.e. over-wonnd, — as with a WMt (for tuning haipe). — The old eds. hare "ore-reated."
P..21. (»g) "a."
Has been omitted ; and rightly perhaps.
P. 31. (19) "good"
Bo the second foUo. — The qnarto and the flrat folio hare "god;" which in mj fmner edition I wrongly retained. — On the worda "good" and "god" eoofonnded in our early writera, see Crit. Exam. Ac. voL i. p. SM, by WaUcsr, — who eunparea with the misprint in the present paaaage a aimilar misprint of the folio in Coriolantu, act iii. so. 1 ;
" Shall r 0 Qod! hot moat Tnwise Patrioiaiti: why," See.
P. 31. (jo) The iM eda. have " place."
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P. 33. [31) "What tmmpttt look, MeneUnu." Capell piintB "What Inunpet'B that? look, M««4latu.'' — 8t««Teiu would owU" Menel/ua." — Qj. " Menelaiu, look"?
P. 23. (31) " Aehillei- arm"
"Perhaps the snthor wrote 'illcid«' arm'." Jobmioh.
P. 23. (33) "Jovc'i accord,"
Theobald takes this for ftn tblatiTe absolnte, — "when Jove ehowe hiiDBeU OD their side:" bat it it very donbtfnl if we have the tme text here. — Malone (badlj>) coajeotures " Jovi'i a god ;" Steeient (a< badly), " Lore's a lord ;" and ifaaon (abnudlf), " Jove'i own bird." — Tlie qnuto hu "great loua
P. 39. (34) " thai praite, toU pure, trantcendt,"
Here Mr. Collier's Ma. Corrector alters "sole pure" to " nojil-piire,"- seemi to ooutbj no n
P. 34. (jj) " Than ever Greek did eompan in hi* arm*;" Bo the folio. — The qaarto has " Then euer Greeke did oonple in hit armei," whioh Mr. Collier persiata in adopting. He sajs ; " The Ker. Hr. Dj>ce does not understand (' Bemarka,' p. 161) the sipression ' ooaple in his arms.' We are aonj for it : to other people the words may he more intelligible ; and, Willi all respect, we cannot alter the langnage ol Shakespeare in deterenoe merely to Hr. Dyoe's want of perception. It is only a flgnratiTe mode of a^iiig, ' did embrace in his arms,' hat the folio saorifioea the flgore : so when old Talbot, in ' Henry TI., Part I.,' A. i*. so. 7, clasps his dead son, he says that they are 'ooapled in bonds of perpetnl^.' The arms of the Oreek are what are termed ' couples' in the language of the chase." — 1 oow repeat the words which I naed long ago,^ — that here "conple" ia neither En^ish nor sense; and I would aik, what has become of Hr. Collier's "perception" when he oan see no difference of eipreaaion hetweeo " a Oreek cm^ling a lady in hia arma" and old Talbot and hia son " being eot^led in bonda of perpetuity" t
P. 26. (36} " fVell, and hoa t"
Bteavens proposes " Well, and how then f "
"Mr. Collier, following hia annotator.reads 'reputation;' neither being aware that ' impotation' was often need [nearly] in that seDse : see Hamlet, act t. ac. 3, 'I mean, air, for hia weapon; bnt in the insulation laid on him by then, ia his meed he's nnfellowed." SucnroM.
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P. 86.(38) "oreWf"
80 the leeond folio. — TIm fint (olio htt "art in hU." — Thia ia not in the
P. 3€. (]9) " perehan^e, that they teili ttU ;"
The oU ed«. liftT« "ptrchanct thedle [and thej'I] ittl."
P. 96. (4P)
'■ Th< tuitr; 0/ the better ^it (0 i ftoir, Shall thoto the better. Do not, then, eoment" Bo the tolio, eicept th&t it omita " then," which was snpplied by Pope. — Mr. Grant White eonjectnres
SAoU thoiB tht belter thna. Do not cotaent." — Here the qnarto has
" The Ituter of the better ahtil exceed. By ahewing the wane fint : do not eomeut."
P. 27. (41) •' Neat. Ulyuei,
The old ede. hkTe " Ne$l. Now TlyaBee."
P.27.(4z) "eor<»-"
Hr, Collier's Me. Carreotor leada " sore." — Mr. fitannton propoies "oor." — From Johnwia'B Dictionary, eab " Cf/re," we learn that the word ia naed in the aenae of a body or collection (French, eorpt) by Bacon in the follow- ing paaaage of hia Huiory of King Henry the Seventh ; " Bnt hee waa more donbttall of the rayaing of torcea to reaiat the rebela, then of the leaiat- ance it aelfe ; for that he was in a core ot people, whoee affectioDi he ■napected." p. 17, ed. 1641, — on the fltren(rth of whioh paaaage Mr. Grant White here anbatitnteB " corps" for " core."
P. 27. (43) " (AoB jiineaedtl leaven, tpeak : F'
The qnarto has " thott vnaalted Uauen, ipeake, I:" the folio, " yon wliinid'at
Uaven Mpeake, I." — The senae aeema to require " ipeak, or I ;" whlcll
Basnier gare.
P. 38. (44) "AJBi. Miitreu Thertitea!" tee.
So the folio. — The qnarto iiu
" Aiax. Hiatre» Theraitce. Ther. Thon ahonldst atrile him. AiaiCoblofe, Hee woold pnnne thee into ahinen with hia flat, as a aayler breahea a biaket, yon horton cnrre. Do T do T Aiax .- Tlion atode for a witch." — Narca in hia OIoM. writea aa follows : "Cob-loif. Alarge loaf. Cot ii oiad
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in eompoBitian to ezprewi large, oa cob-nut, cob-iwan, &o. Bat if AjiiS nte» it to TberaiteB, he moBt mean to impl; awkwardneaa and deformit;." Then, titer citing the passiigB as it staadB in our text, Karea proceeda ; " Thia U desperatelj oomipt. Of ' MiatFssa Theraitea,' I can make notliiilg [neither conld Walker, Crit. Exam. &c. vol. iii, p. 193} ; bat the 4ta gnggeata the tme reading of the reat, eHei tranapoaing onl7 one irord, by giiiiig the whole to TheniteB ;
' Thtr. Shonldat thoa atrike him, Ajai, eobloaf! he would pnn thee into thiVBra,' &o.
The commentatora, to 'explain the other reading, aay that eob-loaf ineana ' a ernat? uneven loaf,' that it ma; aait Therutea ; and Mr. SteeTena says it it M Daed in the midland conntieB; bnt Mr. Steevena flnda an naage wheM he wasta it. Whereas, U Theraitea oalla Ajai cob-loaf, it then retains its ana- It^ons sense, of a ' large, clamaf loaf,' and the socceeding allaaioD to a biBonit ia natural, and in ita place. ' Though ;on are like a large loaE, Achillea wcnld poond ;oa like a blBcnit.' The paaaage lilUe deaerrea the labour of correoting, had not the correction Iwen ao obTiona." Bnt Narea's ao-oalled " obTJoos correction" (fonnded on the error of the qnarto) ia nn* donbtedl; wrong. " Cobloaf" applies well to the personal dofcrmit; of Ther- rites. ("(7ob-Ioii/, a miaahapen loafotbrcsd," dtc. Capell's G2o«>. "Cobloaf. A emstj' naeien loaf, with a ronnd top to it. LosTea called cobbi are still made in Oitordsbire. See Edwarda'a Old English Caatoma, p. 2£." Halli- well'a Diet, of Arch, and Prov. Words, ftc.)— I may add that " Tkou ihouldtt itrike him" ia equivalent to "Yon had better strike bim."
P. 80. (45) ••your"
The old eds. have "their."
P. 30. (46) " brach-'
Howe's oorrection. — The old eda. have " brooch."^" •Brach' certainlj meana [herej a bitch, and not a 4og, which renders the eipreaaion more abolive and offenaiTe. Theraitea calla Patroolus ' Achilles' bracK for the same reaaon that he afterwards calls him hia male harlot [bnt sec note 148] and hia mofcuftne v>hore." Hasom.
P. 80. (47) '■ the fifth hoar"
So the folio. — The quarto haa " the first hmire :" bnt, as Hr. Collier obaerrea, it would seem b; what Thersites says afterwards (p. GO), — " If to-morrow be a fair day, 1^ eloTen o'clock it will go one way \a other," — that "fifth hour" ia right.
P. 81. (4,8) " The pait-proportion of hit infinite I"
" Thua read both the copica. The meaning ia, ' that greatneaa to which no measure bears aoy proportion.' The modem editora ailently give ' The vatt proportioa— .' " Jobhson.— But aee note 37 on The Comedy of Errors for ex- amples of the proneueaa of printers to blander in words beginning with the
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P. 81. {49) •'godly-
" Qj- ' goodiy,' with CapoU'B [oonjeotnie in hia] Far, H," W. N. Lsttboh.
P. 93. {50) " toftoi* ymtth and/riihiuis
WTiakU$ Apollo, and makes itale the morning." So ths folio, except that ^e the quarto) it hM " Apolloes." — The quarto
reads " and makti pale the moming :" bnt the reading of the folio
(thoogh Hr. ColliGr deolareB that it " oan hardly he right") is sarsly prefer- able; "§taU" is more properly opposed to " freshnesB" than "pale." Com-
" Pallaa for all her painting than, Her face would Heeme bat pale ; Then Juno wonld haue bltuht lor Bhame, And Teona looked tiaU."
Ljly's Mayda Mttamorphatit, IBOO, ^. D 3. " Faire Irii ironld hsne lookt bat itaU and dimme In her beat eolotm, had she there appear'd."
VTither'B Efitlialamia, lig. D 2, ed. 1620.— Knee I irrote what precedes, I find that Walker (Crit. Exam. &e. vol. i. p. SOS), speaking of this passage, say b, " I folloir Dyoe in reading irlth the folio 'itaU.' "
P. Bfl, (ji) " That we have itot'n vtutt lee do/ear to ktep!" " Burely, with some editiooB [Haomer'B],
' What we hare atol'n, that we do fear to keep.' "
Walker's Crit. Exam. Ac. vd. iii. p. IDS.
P. 83. (5a) "minkUdeld,"
The folio baB "vHnkled old;" the qoarto, "urinekltd olden." — Coiteeted b; mtsrai.
P. W. (S3) "pott"
Mr. Collier's Hs. Corrector BnbstitateB " poise ;" and rigfatlj pefhaps.
P. 86. (j4) •' ihoH-aimed''
Theoldsds. hsTe "(Aorf.armd" and " ahort-aTm'd." — The oorT«otion"tA«rt- aimtd" WM made in mj Remarkt on Mr. Coilitr'i and Mr. Snight't ed*. of Shaketpeart, tec p. 1S9. Compare onr author's Coriolanui, act i. Bo. 3 ; " By the disooTery We shall be iharten'd in onr aim."
P. 86. (jj) " the bone-aehe !"
Tbe quarto bai " the KeopolUan bone-aehe."
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P. 88. (56) •■ to the creator."
The qoarta hM " of the Pnmei."
P. 38. (;7) " Ee ihent ourioetimgert ;"
The quarto hu '' He sate our meiteng/T$ ;" the folio, " He Bent our Meeetn- gen." — I ftdopt the emendittion of Theobald : the «ord " thent" it ieTonl timcB QBed b; onr Bathar; and SteeTena ad I. has apU; cited from the TomanM of The Somdon of Babyloyne, "All metttrtgerit he doth thende :" moreoTer, it the readii^ of the qaarto, "St sate our mettengert," be, bb I BDtpeot it is, a mistake for " He rates our neiiengen," Theobald'B alteration of the folio'i "sent" to "thent" is still further gtren^cthened, — Mr. Collier (at the Bnggestian of a friend) gave in his ed. of Shalittpeare, "We sent OUT meuengeri," Ae. ; and bo reads his Ub. Corrector. Bnt " We gent our maietlgen," — a simple dealaration that Agamemnon had Bent meflaengers to AdlilleB, wUhont any mention of the treatment which those meBsengen had noeived from the latter, — by no meaoB roila with what inunediatelr followa in the aentence. The objection which iSi. Collier bringg Bf»inBt Tfaeobald'a emendation, Tiz. that " Achilles had not rebnked any messengera" (meaning, I presDme, that the said rebuking it not prerioiuly mentioned in the play), forms reall; no Dbjection at alt ; for neither la there prerionsl; the Blightest hint of meBsengera haying been sent bj Agamemnon to Achillea ; yet from the preeetit paBgage (whicherer reading be adopted) it is dear that they had been sent; and, as we are eipressly told (act i. «□. S) that AehiUes nsed to take pleaSQra in seeing Patroalna "pageant" AgaioeiDnoD, we sorely may BVppoBe that he would treat bis messengers with any thing bat respect.
P. S9. (si)
"Than in the nott of judgment; anduiorthieT thanhimtelf" " I inapeot that two half-lines haTe dropt oat, to this effect; ' Than in the note of jndgment. Tell him thit ; And add, betxdet, that worthier than himaelf,' tea."
Walker's Crit. Exam. Sia. to), iii. p. 183.
P. 39. (59) " Hit pettUh lutui, hU ebbi, hit fla-iet," The qnartohaa "Hit conrae, and time, hit eiit and ftomet ■" the folio, "Hit pettith lines, hii ebi, hitJUneet."
P. 13. (60] " He't not yet through varni .-" Both the quarto and the folio give tbeae worda to Ajax.
P. IS. (61) " NcBt. What a vice were it in Ajax now,— Ulyia, If he Kcre proud, — " Mr.W. H. Lettsom would read
" Neit. Why, lehat a vice were it in Ajax note, If he leere proud."
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P. 43. (6x) " Tftriee-/am'd, beyond all eniditum .-" The quarto has " Xhrict fam'd bgyond all thy erudititm;" the folio, " Thrice fam'd beyond, beyond ail tradition."
P. 43. (63} " let-
Added b7 Walker (Grit. Exam. At. vol. iii. p. 194).
P. 43. (64) " Nest. Ay, my good ton."
The folio givM these iroida to Vlyaet. — The qaarto prefliea to them (and rif^tlr, as the oonteit ehoirB) "Nett,": — jet Mt. Eni^t aajB; "Beoansa Neetor irai an old nun, thi KODaan KDrroBd make Mm reply to the qtEesUon of AJax," Ae.
P. 48. (6^) " Freth kingi art eome to Troy : to-morrow" An impetfeot line, which has been TSTionaly amended. Hr. W. N. Lettaom — to Troy to-daj; to-morroio."
P. 44. (66) " Iow*» invitibU »oul,—"
Whieh, aajB Johiuon, " may mean, the tout 0/ loot invisibla erery where else," — was altered by Hanmer to " lote't vidble touli" an alteration ad- opted hj Capell, and recommended bj Mr. W. N. LettBom.
P. 46. (67)
" Nay, that ihall not $ervt your (urn; that $haU it not, in truth, la. Nay, lean not for nteh aordi; no, no." Given to Pandanu in the old edi. ; to Helen by Bowe.
P. 4B. (68) " ran miuf not knoa lehere he tupi."
OiT«n to Helen in the tU eds. ; to Pandams by Hanmer.
P. 4S. (69) " my diipoter"
I.e. she who diipoiei or inolineB me to mirth by her pleaaant (and rather free) talk : see note 36 on Love'i Labonr'i loit. — (Of the alteratiooe made and pro- poaed here — " my disponaer," " my deposer," and " my dispraiser," it ia not «aaj to t^ which ii the meet tooliah.)
P. 46. (70) "Pan. It thU the gmeration of love," &B.
" Howerer ' Pan.' may hare got ■hofSed to the head of this apeeoh, no more of it, I am oonildent, than the last fire or six word* belong* to that charseter. The reat ia eleaiiy ifelm't." Bmov.
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P. 47. (71) " Taoii-oa' Boy,"
Here in the old eia. ke ie sailed " Troybu Han :" bnt ttiia ia endeatly th« atteiLduit whom they have preTioiul; (see p. 16) designated " TroiUu' Boy."
P. iS. (72) "palate tatta"
The old edg. have " p«Uate taste."
P. 48. (73) " tftrfee-repurid"
Bo some ooptea {e.g. the Doke of Devonshire's oopy , and my own copy) of the qoarto. — Other copies of the qnarto, and the folio, have " thrice repnted."
P. 18. {74) "Swooning"
The old eds. have " BonndinK." Bee note gj on The Winltr't Tale.
P.49, (7S) "wor»t."
Botb the qoarto and the folio have " wone." — Correaled by Eanmer.
P. 60. [76) " butnot, till now, 10 much"
" Bead, with the quarto, ' bat, tilt now, not so mneb'." W. N. LmsoK.
P. 61. (77) " Cumting"
Pope's correction. — The old eds. hare " Comming."
P. 61. (78) " Tto. You cannot thun
YouTtelf," Ac. Some dight impeifeotion here.
P. 61. (79) "eboa'd"
Theqnaitohaa "show;" thefoUo, "shew." (Mr. Grant White prints "shew," oonsideiing ifr—erroneonsly, I believe — as a form of the preterite.)
P. 62. (go)
Bo Hamcer. — The old eds. have " constant ;" which the reader will And ela- borately defended in the notes of Tyrwhttt, Malone, and Heath. — " Tyrwbitt woold not hare o<»tended for the reading of ' corutant' instead of ' inoon- stant,' bad he considered the passage with his nsnal accuracy. It is tme that, in Shakespeare's time, a Troilas was an expression for a ooiutant lover, and a Creesida for a jilt, beoanse in the oonclotion of their amonr Troilns oontlmed fi^thfnl, and Creesida proved false ; bnt Pandams snppoees in this speech that they thoold both prove false to eaeh other, and in that case it wonld hare been ahsnid to say that IroilnB shonld be quoted aa
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•n example of aonBUne?." Muos. — " Kotwithetandiiig aU the reuoning of the critics. Oie emeDd&tion of Honmer {' incaiwtant') is not only plan- Bible, but Absolntel; neceiuuy. Pandaras is not Dttaring a prophecj, bat mn imprecation on tlie lovers and himself in case TroilaB and Cresuda are fabe one to the other. Nor [Noir ?] irh; Troilna shoold always he called con- stant, if be proved false to Cressida, thcBe critice woald hare done ireU to ex- plain. Mr. Mason's objection to ' constant,' which, by the way, I have almost transcribed, is nnanswerahle ; thonRh attempted, in vain, to be answered by Malone." Pib.
P. 6S. (Si) " a chamber vith a bed; wkich bed"
The dd eds. have only " a Chamber, ahich bed." — The additional words were inaerted by Hanmar. — In my former edition I queried "a chamber, whosft bed:" which Mr. Orant White has adopted.
P. 53. {81) " And Cupid grant," 3ce.
Walker raqiecta that this oonplet is interpo^ted. He says ; ■> Could Shake- tpeart have written it' Besides, the preoeding 'aaay' seems a natnial oon- oloaioDofthe scene, and in Sliakeqieare'B manner." CriUExian. Ae. TOl.iiL p. 201.
P. 68. (83) " A^ear it to your mtful"
Ur. Collier's Ms. Corrector Bnbstttntes, most improperly, " Appeal {( to yowf
P. 58. (84) " That, through the tight I bear in thingi to Jove, I have abandon'd Troy, left my ^neiiioni," A mncb-controTeited puaage ; in vhich it is doubtfol whether the reading of the old eds. "be" to lone" or " to loue." (Elsewhere in this play the word " Jove" occnrs twelie times ; in the qnarto always in Italia 1 in the (olio three times in Boman.and nine times in Italic.] —According toBte«TeiiB,if waread " to lore," and alter the pnnctnation thns,
" That, through the tight I btar tn thingt, to lore I have abandon'd Troy," &a,, the meaning maybe, "No longer assieting Tioy with my adrioe, I have left it to the dominion of love, to the consequences of the amonr of Paris and Helen :" which, tbOBgh ridicoloas enough, is plaosible when compared to Mr.
" That, through the tight I bear in thingi to love," Ae, i, e. " through my prescience in knowing what things I should love," ftc. I — Bowe printed
" That, through the tight I bear in Ihingt to come," &c. ; a riolent alteration, — " made," as Jolmson obserres, " to obtain some mean- ing."— Mr. Collier's Ms. Cotreeter gives
" That, through the tight I bear in iktTtgi above," &e. (a Tnading which, b«fot« the CMieotor'a emendations were disoomsd, bi^ [ TOL. n. 1
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been nggeiM bj Hr. CoUiei hiniBeU la his aot« ad (., and pertutpa bj otheTH], — Johnson »nd HBlona preferred
" That, tliTOugh tht tight I bear in ihingi, to Jovt 1 have abandon'd Troy," ^c; to which the strong obJectiOTis are obriong, — 186E. Mr. Btaimton 'EahstitnteB
"That, through the light I bear in thingi bom Jovt," &o, — The old eds. have " left mi/ poaaeBsioii."
P.'sa. {85) "into"
Eqnivtlent to " unto" (u in Bareral other puBagea at our poet).
P. E3. (86) " a prince 0/ blcod,"
The (onrth folio fau " a prinee 0' th' 6I00J."— Walker (Crti. Exam. &o. toI. iii. p. 19S) makes here the some alteration as we find in the fourth folio, and then obserres ; " Troiliu and Creiiida is — oertaiol; in the latter part, and, if 1 reeoUeot right, throaghont — one of the most iDdon-ectl; printed pla;< in the folio ; second onlj in this respect to Lcmt't liobour't lott." — Bnt compare "Art thoa of blood and bononr?" p. S3.
F. 64. (87) " Jn moit accepted pay."
The old eds. have " Jn moil accepted paine." Bnt the original oompoeitAr probablj mistook "paie" for "palne:" and "pay" is supported b? the pre- oeding wor^ of the sentence, " buy my daaghter." (Johnson sajs ; " Sir T. Eanmer, and Dr. Warbnrton after him, read ' In most accepted pai/-' The; do not seem to nnderstsod the oonstmetian ol the paaaags. ' Her pretence, aajH Calchaa, thali itrike off, or recompense, the ttniee I have done, ereu in those labouri which were mott accepted.")
P. M. (88) " Why nieh anplaiuive eyet are bent on Aim;" The old eds. have " Why lueh vnpanlsiae [and vnplamiue] eyei are benlt
P. 55. (85) - "tue"
Theoldeds.haTe "Ts'd" (an orror ocoseioned by the ooaarrenee olthst word in the pieoadiog line bnt one).^ — Correoted b; Walker (Crit. Exara. Ac. to], i.
P. 66. (90) " but hotwur"
Bo the qnarto. — The lolio has " 6uf hononi'd :" heuee the modem reading, "bvtia [and fraCe] ftonour'd."
P. 56. (91) "richei, favour,"
So- the aeoond folia. — The ewliei «d«.haTe "riehet, and/ouour."
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P. 68. (gi) "mirror'd"
Ths certain emsndatioti of both the Ms. Coireotora, Mr. CoUiar'e uid Hr. BiagOTB. — The old eds. h»*e " married. " — 1865. " JfiTTor'd tor ' married,'" B«JH Dr Inalebj (CompUU Vitw of the Shaketpiare Conlroveriy, *o. p. 233), "Ib jnet one of Ihoea emendatioilB which bsgnile the jad^ent, Inll □ritioism, and enlist onr love of the aorprising and ingeniooB. But it t( not lound." lent it r
P. 66. (93)
*' Whtrt they're txtended,- who, lilu an arth, Tmtrbtratei," &e. Both the qtiBrto and tbe toUo have
" Where ih'are [the folio they are'] extended: mho like an areh twua- b'rate," &o. i.e. aafB Boavell, "The? who'appland reTerberate. Thia elliptio mode of expreeaion is in oar aathor'a manner." Bnt if ne retain " rsverberato," we moat also change "rtceivei and rindm back" to "receiTe and render back," — I bale metel; (witb tbe editor ot tbe second folio) altered " reierberate" to " reverbtratet." — That " icAo" ma; atond here for uAieA (and compare a later paaaage of this acene,
" There JB a myBteiy — iritb whom relation Dnrat never meddle," &c.) will not be donbted hj an; one who reads m; note on (he line of Titnon of
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" WJio onoe a da; with his embosBid ^th," fe).
P. 57. (94) "to"
Ought pTobabl; to be omitted.
P. 67. (95) " J great-nt'd montter of ingratUadett' Walker {CHt. Exam. &a. toI. L p. 238) qnotea this line aa containing a mia- print, " ingratitudei" tor " ingratitude" (whioh Hanmer giTes); and perhaps ■aeh ia tbe caae: bat it may be meDtioned that in Timon of Athene, act T, ■c. i. Walker approTea of the emendation, " ingratitudei" for " ingratitude." — Mr. Singer (some time after the pablication of bis Shakeipeare, — Notee and Queriet tor March 13th, 185B, p. 303, Sec. Series) proposed "A great- lii'd mOBter of ingratituda" — a very ingenions oonjectnre 1 with which, however, Hr. ArrowBniith mahea himself menj in The Editor of • Notei and Queriel,' Sse. p. II.
P. 67. (96) "At the]/ are done:"
The <dd edj. baTe " Ai done." (Compare, in the preceding line, " aa IA<ir are made.")
P. 67. (97) " one ha"
WaUur, qtuMag iUi paaw«e (Crit. Eittm. ftc. voLlL p. UB), has " but oM."
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P. fi7. (9S) "And leave you Atndmott,'"
" The qnarto whollj omits the Bimile of the horse, and rendi thas ;
' And leKT« yoa hindmost [him, most] , then what the; do «t [in] present — ' The folio seeniB to have some omiesion, for the eimile hegins,
' Or; like a gaUattt horae^'." Johnsok. — " The eonstractioii is. ' Or, like a gallant horse. 3co,, you lie there for psTe- ment — ;' the personal pronoon of a preceding line being understood here." Ualobi.
P. 67. (99) " to tilt abjeel rear,"
Bsnnier's oorreoUoii. — The folio has " to th< abiect, neere." — This dmile is not in the quarto.
P. 67, (100) "veleome"
The old ads. have "the iteleome."
P. 67. (loi) " And give to duet, that ti a little gilt. More laud than gilt o'er-dtuled. The jrreteni eyepraiiet thtpreaent objeel:" The old eds. have 'lAnd goe to dvit," Ac. — Theobald printed " And give to dust, that is a Utile gUt, Miwe laud than they will give to gold, o'ar-dnstod ;" " the fonndation of which amendment," he safs, " he owes to Dr. Thirl)^." — Bat with ''gilt o'er-duited" compare a line in King Richard II. act ii. so. 1,
" Wipe off the dyut that hidei our tceptre'i gill ." which seenu to forbid the alteration of "gilt" to "gold" in the present pass- age, thongh the alteration is approved bj Walker, who [Shakeipeare'e Ver- lifieation, &a, p. 102] also recOiamendB the following arrangement ; " And give to dtut, that i> a little gilt, More laud than gold o'er-duited. The preient eye pTaiiet the preitnt olgtci ;" an arraiigement which is perhaps the preferable one.
P. 68. (lOi) " daaghteri."
A trisyllable hero : see Walker's SItakeipeare'i Veriifieation, fte. p. 307.
P. 68. (toj) " KnojBi almoit every grain of Plutut' gold ;" The qnarto has only
" Snov>e» aImoi{ every thing."
The folio has " euery graint of Plutoes gold," as it again has in .JiittiM
Cstar, act IT. lO. S, " Deerer then PlutoV Mine ;" and in both places "Pinto's"
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mi^t itand ; lor evCD Qie uicieitU themselTeB freqneutlj eonf anmled H^airw, the gol of tbe lower irorld, with n\>vrH, the giMl of richei. Bot aince th« ' folio haa in Timon of Alhem, i^t i. so. 1, " Flutui the God of Gold," and in AU't wcU that tndt leell, Mt v. bo. 3,
" Flatiu [h mistake for PEutut} hinuelfe,
That knowes the tinct and mQlUpl;ing med'cine," ica.,
tbe TuiatioD of the name in the present pasgage and in that of Juliiu Cttiar
maj Borely he attribaled, not to Shakespeare, but to transoriberB or printer*.
P. 68. (,c^)
" Kttpt pate ailh thought, and almoat, like the godi, Doti thoughtt laiveil in thtir dwab eradiei," &0. The old edi. haye " Keepet place leith thought," ic— Virions attempts hare been made to amend the second line. — Walker [Shakeipeart'M rtrn/ieotion, Ae. p. 39} sajs. " Mj ear seema to dictate the arrangement, ' Kttjn pace with thought; And almoit, lilie the godt, doei thovghtt \mveil In their dantb eradlei. There t> a mj/iiery,' 4o." — Mr. W. N. Lettsom proposea
"Keep* pace with tit' brain (in- mind), andabnott, like the godt, Dau thoughtt xmveil in their dumb eradlet. There's J myitery (icftA whom relation Durtt never meddle)," So,
P. 88.(105) "whom"
Bee note 9}.
Walker {Crit. Exam. to. vol. i. p. 136) citea an instance of " win" need aa a rh/me V) " him" from some Terses addressed to W. Browne. I may add that, in the introdnctory lines to the second act of PericUt, "tin" rhyme* to
P.69. (1Q7) "Sweettrouityouneffi"
Mr. Collier now rartdy adopts the reading of his Ms. Corrector, " Bwift, rouM youreelf." See note 7 1 on The Comedy of Erron,
P. 69. (108) " Be ihook to air.
Aohil. Shall AJaxJiffht with Stclorf'
So the qoarto.— The (olio has " Be ihooke to ayrie ayre ," whioh Mr. Knight deliberately adopt*. "The qnarto," he •ays, "has air, withont the Bhak- •perian nipeilatiTe" I
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P. AO. (109) " Agamemmm."
After this word the folia hu "^0.;" which is uat nnnEnkl in old plkji printed from the prompter'* book : it aeeniB to meftn th&t the Ktor of the part nigtit, it he chose, " epeftk more than was set down for him," — a license which aasnredly waa not granted by Shakeapears.
P. S3, (no) "In human gentUntn"
The old eds. hare " In hnmane {and hnmaine) gentUntnt." — Walker [Cril. Exam. &e. toI. iu. p. 196) oompares Midttanmer-NighVi Dream, act ii. so. 3, " in hitman modeitj Sneh •eparatioD," &c.
P. 63. (ill) "Thii U the moit dfipitefal gentle grttting. The noblett hateful love," The toho has " ThU u the moit deBpigbtful'st gentle," ico.; nhioh Mr. Eni^t adopt!, obaerving, " Thia ia the common eonstraction of the age of Sbak- apere: the modish reatUng ia deipiteful." Now, it ie tmo enough that Bhakespeare, Uke other early writers, freqaeotlj joins " moil" with a snper- lative : bnt what Mr, Knight csUb the modern reading happens to he that of the qoarto, — and the better one, aa the oontezt ihows.
P. 68. (ill)
" Both meriti poii'd, each aeighi nor leu nor more ; But he at he, eaek heavier for a ithore," The quarto has
" Both merile poyid, each veighe nor U$ie nor more. But he OM he, the htauier/or a lohore," The lolio,
" Both meriti poyt'd, each utight no leue nor aore. But he ai he, which heauierfor a uikoTe;" where nothing can be plainer than that " which" is a mistake, either of the transoriber or printer, for " each." (This emendatioD ooenrred to me long before Mr. Collier's Ms. Correotor waa heard of.)
P. 68. (113) " We'll but commend mhat me intend to telL" The old «ds. have " Weele not commend," &a. — I adopt the conjeotnre of Zacharj' Jaeksoo; which is perhaps the best method of amending a line in which there is manifeBtl; lome oormption. — WarburtoD and Mr. CoUier'a Ma. Corrector read " We'll not commend what at intend not lell," an altera- tion vhicb Walker (Cril. Exam. Ac. toI. iii p. 197) " fears would be far too harah for Sbakeepesre."
P. 83. (114) "kilV
" A strong eipreasion this ' kill,' and not digested by modems, for the (our latter make leai of it ; bnt of its gensineBCM the word ' attaehmtnf ia ari-
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P. U. (115) "Ai Udttnulu at htU,"
Pope ga<ra " Tedious a* helL"
P. 64. (116) "ah, poor eapocehio !"
Th» old eds. haro " a poon ohipoaluB," — " a" being put, k8 it tr«qu«iitl7 lit tot "ah." Bo in Petle'B Arraignment of Parit 1
••A Colin thoa art ftU deceiaed," &e. Big. C iL ed. 16M.
" A TeuDB, bnt tor tenerenoe," Ae. Id. ibid.
" A well ia ibe hath Colin vomie," &o. Id. Sig. C iiL (Semral editors print " capocchia ;" bnt wiongly, if the term is to be eon- Eiderod aa Italian, and as meaning limpUtoa; though an ed. of Baretti'a Hal. Diet, is now before me, in which "eapoecKio" is given as an adjte- live. The word "oapocchia" signifleB the laieb of a ttiek, and — somethiDg else.)
P. 6*. (117) " fcnocVd i' (V head!—"
This (the reading both of the qnarto and the folio) has been altered to " inocA'd o' the heaiC' by editors who forgot that formerly in was often
P.aB.(ii8) "Wbor
Theobald prints "Pho,"
P. «e. (>.,)
" Qood, good, ny lord; the teerett of taiitn Bave not more gift in taciturnity." 80 the folio. — The qnarto hoi
The leading of the folio (thongh Mr. Collier'^ Mb. Correoior and others have tampered with it) is donbtless right, — "teerett" being used here a* a trisTllable : aee ShaketpeaTe't Venijieatian, &a. p. 10, by Walker, who diet the following among other passages ;
" Whether thon wilt be iteret in this."
Marlowe'B Edieard II.;—WoTkt, p. 331, ed. Dyoe, 1869. " Taah, that's a lecret ; we east alt waters."
Middlflton's Fair QuaTTcl,—lForks, toL iii, p. 499, ed. Dyee. " Bat yon mnat ewear to keep it leeret."
Jonson'a Stjanai, — Workt.vol.. iii. p. lU, od. Glflind. — 186S. To the ahave examples may be added ; " Bid him be merry still, bnt leeret."
Xyd'i Bpaitith Trtfedy, Big. F, ed. 1616.
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P. 67. (iio) "Coma fiat upon ;—^ood tay brotluT TroiUu,"
CftpeU printed " Comti fait uptm ; now, good my brother Troilui .-" and in hii Notes, etc. he oddly bat tcaly gpflaks of " conui /att upon" bb an " antiqnar; eipresBion," and adds that " the Terva'e snppleniEDt hitherto has been *fatt vpon DB.' " Vd. ii P. It. p. 132.
P. 67. (ill) "Ah, tvm dvckiJ"
So theqiuuto {"a [I.e. ah: Be« tu)t« ii6} imeete diufti"). — Tfae folio has "a tweet daake." Bnt the plural it right : Pandanii, seeing the larera embrace (whloh,fTomhianait speech, it is eTidsDt they do), oalla them "eweet dnohB," — al, presently, he nails them " lambs."
P. 68. (Ill) "O"
Not in iho old ed«.
P. 68. (ii]) " Beeauie th<m eantt noteaie thy nuart By frieadihip nor by tptahing." TMb, it mnfit be confessed, reads oddly. —Mr. Collier's Ms. Conector snb-
stitates "By silence nor by tpeaking,"
P. 69. (ii+t '•Greeiantr
Mr.W. N. Lettsom, on acooont of what follows, would read "Gteeks."
P. 69. (115) " When thaU tee tee again!"
In Cymbeline, act i. so. 1, Imogen addresses the very same words to Post- hnmns. — See note i zi on lieaiure for Meature, and note a on Kittg Henry
P. 68. (1.6)
"The Greeian j/outht are full of quality ;
They're Uming, Kill eompoi'd aich giftt of nature. And laellivg o'er with arti and extrcite ." The qnarto has only
"The Orecian yoatht are fult of quality. And tviiUing ore aith artt and extrcite." Tb» toUo has
"The Grecian youtht are full of quatitie. Their louing aelt eompoi'd, with gnift of nature. Flawing and iwelling ore with Arti and exereiti ;" where " Flawing" (a misprint for " Flowing") and " ewelHng" are sorely varia Uetionet : earlier in this play a double reading has crept into the text of the old ooples; lee note S8. — Bnt Hr. W. N. Lettsom "entirely diffbn
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trmn thoee vha think that either ' flowing' or ' itDeUijtg' vaa intended to be fnneelled." He wonld read and arrange (nettrl; with the folio), " They're loTing, well oompos'd with gifta of aatore ; Flowing, swelling o'er, with arte and exerdae :" And he adds that " ' Flnwing^ is here a monosyllable, and 'txereitt' aploral;" and that "'twelling o'er' BtieugthenB 'Floming;' lot tbe metaphor is taken from rtTers, which, if thej are of any oongeqnence, tlwe-jn fioa, bat only oooaaiiinally netU over their banks."
P. 70. {1*7)' " thtir chaagefiil poteney."
Ur. Collier's Ms, Corrector, tntimttn^ a word, reads "their ohaiulnlj'atoiey," from which reading (thongh statker nonsense was nevet pat on paper) Mr. Collier, eqaallj ttptraiSt, oontriTSB to elicit a meaning, — " their potency to bold as with a chain." — Bat may not the iHA reading be explained " their potency which is eabjeot to Taciation, and therefore imperfect, and not to be raahly relied on" f
P.70.(iag) " Entreat her Jair ; and, by my tout, fair Oreek," " Wrong, 1 tbink ; ' jaW oocnrs again four and sereD lines below." Walker's Cril. Exan. &e. toL i. p. 298.
P. 70, (130) "teal"
The old eds. have " seale ;" which is defended by Heath (who altogether mis- nndetstands the passage), and is retained by Mr. GtJlier and Mr. Knight; by tbe former, without any remark, — by the latter with a note which, to me at least, is nnintalligible.— l36fi. Mr. Collier now reads, with' his Ms. Coirec-
P. 71. (131) "PU atuuerlomytrnti"
A Tsr; donbtfol reading. — Ur. W. N. Lettsom conjeotnree "PU atuwer to thy luit," Le. I'U answer you in any way yon please. — Hare Mr. Stannton lemarks, "'Liu(,'ioits ancient sense off l«anir«, is intelligible; bnt it looks laj like a misprint for ' triMt.' "
P. 71. (131) "I'tV
The quarto has " I." — Bee note 10 on ^ MUUammer-Night'i Dream, and note 17 on Sinff Henry YIII.
P. 71. (133) "Dei."
Her* the folio has the prefix "Dio." — This is not la the qnarto.
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P. 71. (134)
"Hert art thoa in ofipointiiieM frtih a)nd fair.
Anticipating tine with lEarefnj; eotaage. Oivt tril'i CAy trumpet a iovd note to Troy" In the old adi. tbe pugaga sUnds thm,
"Pere art (ftou in appointment fruh andfairt, Antieipatiiig time. With stuiing eonnge, Giue Kilh thy trumpet," &e. ; uid BO it Btands in the eda. ol Mr. Eoittht and Mf. Collier, — the formei olwerving on it; " FerhapB. ail thing* aongidered, there never vm a book io oorraetl; printed &B tbe first folio of Bbtkepere. If it had been repiintad, irith a literal attention to the panellation even, np to tbe preeent hoar, ire Bboold have a better eop7 than England poBBeaaea in a hnndred ahapet. Wb HtTB IN iNeiANCi BiTOBB uB." Several other InstanoeB eiactlj parallel ot the eorreet pimetuation of the firit folio mi^t be eaail; adduced : I bIuUI onlj cit« two ;
"Hot. Renolted Mortimer T He nener did fall off, mj Sonerugne IJege, Bnt by tbe ohanoe of Wane : to prone that tme. Need* no ?n«™ but ont tongue. For ail thoie Woatide, Those moathed T^onnds, vhicb valiantly he tooke," ico.
Firat Part of Henry IV. aet i. M. 8. •' Grif. This CardiaaU, Though from an bumlde Stooke, vndonbtedly WoM faehion'd to much Honor. From hit Cradie He wae a, Soholler, and « ripe, and good one."
Benry VIII. mot iv. »o. 3,
P. 78. (135) "Men."
The old eda. h&ve " Patr.;" irrongly, as Tyrwhitt ww.
P.78. (ij6) "do."
I have added thii word for the aake of the rhyme, feeling quite oonfldent that a rhyme was Intended here. — Jidmton'R proposed addition waB " two."
P. 73. (137) "accotling"
80 Mason (and 10 Walter ; " Certainly ' aecotting,' " Crit. £zan. fto. vol. iii. p. 199). — Tbe oltl eds. have " a coasting."
P. 74. (138) "yoaiUUt"
Bo the folio. — The qaarto baa " the itate." — Bnt (though we have previously had "this noble itate,'' i.e. "these personages ol high rank," p. 89), I strongly BUBpeot that Bhakespeare wrote here "you [or "ye") states;" the plural being formerly very ooBUCon is tbe sense of " noUli^." -
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F. 71. (139) "command! f
'WMlker [Cril.Exam. fto. toI. ii. p. 66) wys; "I think Bhakesiraue wrote
* cTovna ;' wMoh to k oBrelsBB eje, like tix&t of the pzinter, might look like
* cominandi.' "
P. 74.(140) "Aohil."
The old eda. h&Te " Aga."
P. 76. (14.1) " Nor dign^flet an Inqntr* thought aith briath ."
Theqnartohae " animpus Ihoughl," lea.; the folio, " on unp«ire
thought," Sec. — Johnson taw that here " impure" nas the trne reading, bat he forbore to make an; change, being " OTerpowered bj the anmiiiiit; of the editors and ooncnrreuae of the old copies." — -Next comes BtesTeoB, whose note in defence of " impair" rnns thas ; " So, in Chapman's Prefaoe (0 his translation of the Shield of Homer, 1696: 'nor is it more impaire to an honest and absolDte man,' £0." But it happens that the passage irhioh BtecTens has cited, and which I now sabjoin entire, is nothing to the par- pose, tor in it " empaire" is a si;BSTANTiTB,~-Bot, as he sapposed, and aa he bsB mialed even Nores, Todd, and Bicbudson to sQppose, an adjective ; •• To the TnderBtandar. " Yon are not enery bodie, to yon (as to one of my TCry few Mends) I may be bold to vtter my minde, nor is it more empaire [i.«. impair, impair- ment] to an honest and absolute mans Bofficiancie to hane few triendes, then to an Uomericall Poeme to hane few oommendars, for neythei doe coaunon dispositions keepe fltte or p lansible conaort with iadioiall and simple hones- tie, nor are idle capacitiea compTeheBBible of an elaborate Poems." AehilU»' ShUld, 1698, sig. B.
In my liemarki an Mr. Collier'i and Mr. Kidght'i editiom of Shake- tpeare, p. 156, I pointed oat this nnfortanate mistake oE Staefans : yat Mr. Collier, in the sec. ed. of bis Shakespeare, 1858, persists in retaining the lection "an impair thought," nbich he explains "a thonght ntiwoctby of him, nol eqaal to him ;" nay, declares that " the very passage" which 1 have qnoted from AchilUi' Shield " prores me to be wrong," I therefore snb- join three other passages cA Chapman, in which sorely Hr. Collier will not Tentnre to deny that " empaire" is a bubstantivi ;
" Onaly the eitraame false printing troables my oonscience, for feare of joor desemed disconragement in the empaire of our Poets eweetness ; whoae generall dininitie of spirit, clad in my willing labours (enoiona of none, nor detracting any) I commit to yoar good natnre and solid capacitie."
" To the Vnderstander,"— .icAiifri' Shield, 1598, sig. B B. "And Qod, that yat nanar let me line, I know will nener let me die, an empaire to any friend."
Epistle Dedicatoiie to An Epicede, &c. on Prince Henry, 1613. " Blow, blow, sweet windes, O blow away Al Taponrs from the fined ayre ; That to this golden head no ra;
May langniah with the least empaire." Matqv» of the Middle Temple and Lincobft Imi, 1618, ilf . D 8.—
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Shftkeipeue, of oonrte, is not singnlar in tnaldiig the »e«eDt ttH on th« firat BjUkble of " impure :" compare » line in Lord Stirling's Tragtdie of
"Nor toBar impure tkoughu iostaiaei^mmie." Big. O, ed. 1604.
P. 76. (141) "oldeeU!"
Altered b; Mr. CoUier'a Ms. Corrector to " abjacta."
P. 76, (143) " Bt drainid.' Let"
Walker (Grit. Exam. &o. Tol. iii. p. 200) ooDJectnreB "Be draiaid forth" (or "<rat,"— as Capell gave).— I strongly Baepcct that the poet wrote "Be drainid ! O, let." — (Both the qnarto and the folio have " dratneil," not " drain'd.")
P. 78. (144) " HeoptoUnau"
Was expanded into " Neoptoletma' sire" by Warbnrton. Bnt most probably, as Johnson observes, " the anthor, remembering that the son was Pprhas KeoptolemnB, considered Neoptolemns as the nonten gtntilitium, and tboaght the father was liketrise AduUes Neoptolemas." — Steevens shows that in a poem by Wilfrid Holme, Tfce Foil and EMI Succeae of Eebellion, &o. 1673, the same mistake oocars.
P. 78. (145) ••thour—
TjTwhitt wonld read " though."— Walker {Crit. Exam. tic. vol. iii. p. 201) ecnjeotnres " there" (i.e. in that matter).
P. 79. (146) " ahethtr there, or there, or there J"
Here "whether" is to be read (as it is freqaently written in Shakespeare) "wher."
P. 61. (147) "advertity!"
" I believo in this instance signifies emtrarietn. The reply of Thenitee baa been stndiously advene to the drift of the qneation urged by Patroelns." Btbbyems. — " Wa feel assured that Shakespeare wrote 'pervertity,' and that in some way, either by the copyist or printer, the preposition became changed." Coijjeb.
P. 81. (148) "truile varUt."
Here and in the neit speech both the quarto and the folio have "male varlot;" which was altered in the fourth folio to "male varlet."—" &ix T. Hanmer reada 'male harlot,' plaasibly enough, except that it seems too plain to require the explanation which Patroclus demands." Johneoh. — "Some editors have seriously proposed to read 'male harlot,' not being aware that the former word often represented the latter one : thus. In Middleton'B 'Roaring Girl,' Act i. Sc. I, ' She's a varlet.' In Deeper and Mlddleton's play called ' The Honest Whore,' Act i. So. 10, we have, indeed, the very eipresBian of the text,
' 'tis a niale varlet sore, my lord,' " HTicirroH.—
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I donbt if In the nbove-eited paaMge of The Roaring Girl (Hiddleton'a JForIa, vol. ii. p. 447. ei. Djce) "varUt" be an; thing more thaii a genenU (erm of teproacb. As for the puisage of The Honeit Whore (Middletoa's Worke, «oI iii. p. TT), vhicb Mr. Btauntun addnoeB, and which.irss originally quoted bj Farmer, I ran only say that if " malt varltt" be used there M equivalent to anuuitu (which is b; no meana certain], the passage is rightly brought forward in iUnBtratiou of that in TroUv* and Creiiida, I enbjoin it ; having Qnt to notice that the person vho oecaaionB the dialogne ia a temsle,^ — Bellafront, in the diHguise of a page ;
" Ser. Here'a a person [pareoo] woold epeak with jon, sir.
Hip. Haht
Ser. A parson, lir, would speak with jon.
Hip. Tioarf
Ser. Tioar I no, sir, liaa too good a tnee to be a vioar yet ; a youth, a TMyyonth.
Hip. What yonth f ol man or woman 1 look the doors.
Ser. It it be a woman, marrow-boneB and potato-piea keep me from meddling with her, tor the thing has got the breeches t 'tis a male varUt ■nre, iny lord, for a woman'B tailor ne'er meaanred him," fto.
I may oonolode this nnaattsfaotory note by obserring that Home Tooke oonlideTB varlet to be the same word as harlot, the aspirate being ohanged
P. 81. (149) " diteoveriei ."'
Hanmer fobstitntai " debancheries ; " Mr. Collier's Ms. Correotor, "^aoo- lonrors" (1). — " Singer, I think, is right in reading < ditcoverm ;' bat surely • diietweren' with the epithet ' prepoiterma' can mean nothing but 'mason- line whores.' Compare Iiaiah Ivii. B 1 ' Thon hast discorered thyself to an- other than me.' " W. N. Lbttbom.— Qy. is " diicoveriei" the abstract for the ooDcrsie r see note 141 on Love'i Labom-'i loit.
P. S3, (i jo) "oblique"
" ■ Antique,^ I think" [which Hanmer printed] . Walker's Crit. Exam. Ac. Tid. iU.p.203.
P. 63. [iji] " Sweet draught: raeet, quoth 'a.' mieet link,"
" Bather, ' Sweat, qaoth 'a 1 sweet draught, sweet sink.' " Walker's Crit. Exam. Ac. Tol. iii. p. 303.
P. 86. (151) "Na]i, do not match it/rom vu
In the old edi. thia ii giren, by mistake, to " Dio."
P. 98. {1 53) " conduce"
m* very donbtfnl raadiug was altered to " oommenoe" by Bowe.
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P. 88. (15+) "Jriaehne't"
80 the folio. — The qaarto has "Aiisehna'a" and (in Mine oopiea) "Ariath- Dft'e." — There wema to be Uttle doubt that Shakespeare wrote the name inoorrecU;.
P.B8.(iS5) '• The fraetiont of her faith
Of her o'er-eaten faith," " Qa. ' o'er-eaten truth' or ' troth' t" Walkei'a CHi. Exam. Ao. toL L p. 998,
P. 88. (156) "May worthy Trotlui be bat half attack'^' Bo Walker: see his Shakttpeare't Verii/lcation, Ao. p. 16G, and his Crit. Exam, Sco, toI. ii. p. 2fll. — The old eds. omit " but" (which omisidon makea " Troibu" — ^wbat it nerer is in BhakespeaTe— a triaylUhle).
P. 88. (157) "atmuehoMldo Creiiid love," Theqnartohaa "a* mvcA I do Creiiid t<me," &c.; the folio, "at much I doe Crsaeida hue," Ac. ; the eecond folio, " at much at I dot Crewida love," Ae. — Hr. W. N. LettBom vonld read " At much at I did Crenid tone."
P. 89. {ijg) "to-day" Tba old eds. have " to the day" (at whioh Ualone and othen spprore I).
P.90.(i59) "And. 0, be pertuaded.' do not eountit koly
To hurt by being jiut : it it at lavifvi.
For lee would give much, to ute violent tkeftt.
And rob in the behalf of eharily." The laat three linei are not in the quarto ; " the compositor's eye," as Halone obaerret, *' hariag probabl; passed over thom ; in coneeqaenoe of wbioh the next speech of Caaaandra ia in tbat cop; given to Andromache, and joined nrith the first line of this."— -The folio has
" And, O be periaadtd, doc not count it holy.
To hurt by being iutt; it it at latcfult:
For v>e fBOvld coant giuc natch to as violent theftt.
And rob in the behalf e of charilie." — In the third line I adopt the emendation ol TTnrhitt, vho no donbt ie right In s^ing tbst the word "count" crept in from the preceding line bnt one. — The more recent attempt* to mend the passage are not worth coBsidering. —Mr. Enigbt and Mr. Collier, who giie each a new alteration, object to the expression intiodaced by Tjrwhitt, " utt thtftt," calling it " clearly not Bhakespearian'' and " awkward." It certainly does not ocoar elsewhere in Bhakespeare ; bat Middleton (no mean master of langasi^e] bas
" Is it enough to uan adalteroas tbirb," be.
Women bevare Women, — Worhi, iv. 631, ed. Djoe,
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P. 90. (160) " Lift tetry man holdt dear; but the bravtTiUM Holdi honour far more prtciaat-dear than lift," The old eds. have " — bat tht deera -nan," Ao. — " No other word than ' braxt' will &t the sentenoe ; and Bo Pope, and all following editors, read, till Johnaon (I think it waa he) Testored dear." Walher'e CHt. Exam. ftn. vol, i. p. 394.
P. 90. (t6i) " When many timti tht taptive Orteiant fall.
You Md thttn rUt, and liet." The old«da.baT« " theeaptive Orecian talla," &o.
P. 90. (i6a) " Even in tht fan and wind of yotir fair ttimrd,
Heot. O, 'ti* fair play." Walker(e:r{t. Exum.Afl. vol. 1. p. 2g8}obHerTeg; "'Fair' ^ the first of Umm linei] has a apeoionB look ; hnt is quite ant of place. 'B*^ 'fitrte:' fairt — fitree or f tine." — Ib the tme reading "fell award" f Compare Hamltt, act ii. M.2;
" Bat with the whiff and wind of hii ftll tword Th' nnnerrtd father lalla."
P. 90. { I S3) "The"
Hr. W. N. Lettwnn wonld read '■ Theu ;" ud rightlf, I aiup«ot.
P. 91. (164) "nUhfalviOT\, rtin thtm from r»th." Walker [Crit, Exam. Ao. toL i. p. 399] oonjeotnrM " desthfnl work," &e.
P. 91. (i6s) " Hector," Ut. W. N. LettKom propoBss " Naj, Hector."
P. 91. (166) "Lay hold t^on him, Priam, hold him fatt:" Walker {Crit Exam. ie. vol. i. p. 299) would read "-Lay hand t^on bin," *a.
P. 93. (167) "Suttdi^ another vith h«r deeds." After thia line the folio haa
" PaniJ. Whj, but heare yon T Troy. Hence brother lackle ; ignomie and ahame Parsae thy life, and line aye with thy name.
A Lamm. Exeunt." —
" The two laat lines {with a similar introdnction by Pandama [and " broker" ri^tl; (nbatitnted for " brother"] ) are alio lonnd jiiBt betOTe the oloie of the pli?: tbey oannot be rightlj Inserted In both plaoei, and aa ihej ae«m
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to come in with at lesit equal propriety, and with the eorreotioB of a mis- print, inbseqneDtlr, vs have given them in that place, and omitt^ them hwe." Collier. — But Walker, differing irhollj from Mr. Collier, obierrea ; " This ia the proper place for these two Epeeches ; for without them the scene endi abrnptlj : and, on the othei hand, the conclnding lines of Troilns'a (peech, T. 10, —
' Strike a free march to Troj I — with comfort go : Hope of revenge ahall hide oar inward woe,' — are evident!; the oonclnding lines of the play itaelf : the mind of the reader ia fully satisfied, and any thing additional sannds like an impertineace and obtrnBion, — an extra note after tlie harmony is completed. Besides, after what had passed, is it conceivable that Pandams's disgrace ahonld have been pat off to the end of the play t Pandaras'a epilogne mnet, therefore, be an in- terpolstion. (Bince I wrote this, I have discovered that fiteevene also tbooght that the play ended here.) Perhaps the words from 'A goodly nudietn^ to 'painted clolhi' onght to be added to the end of v. S. Troilas strikes Pan- daroe, or pnsbea him violently from him." Crtl. Exam. Ac. vol. iii. p. 203.
V. BS. (i6!) " nceartng"
Theobald snbetitntad " sneering."
V. 98. (169) '• 6<^«"
The old eda. have " began."
P. 03. (170) " the lUevtUti ."'
80 Hr. Collier's Ma. CoTTcetor. — The old eda. have " th« ileeoe."
"J have chattit'd"
P. 9S. (17a) "lAow thy face;"
Qy. " and ihow thy faee"f
P.98.(i7j) ■•(**"
The old eda. have " thy."
P. 98. (174) " I irill Rof look upon."
" That is (aa wo ahonld now speak), I will not be a lootrtr-on." Miloki. —Sea note iii on The Wimer't Tale.
P. 96. (175) " I would have been much more a frtiha- man,"
" Qn. ' a VMch more fresher man'?" Walker's CHu Exam. bo. vol. iL
p.9iS.
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P. 97. (.76)
"Bo," sajB Mr. CoUler, "the 4to belonging to tbe Duke of Deronahire. ■ . . This Blight Tnriatioii in the copieg [some oopieB having ' armea,' and the folio 'tvtne*] makaB tHear $, paaBOge ahick gavt the commentaton lonu trouhle;" Hr. Collier flvidently not knowing that here Capell priuted " aimt."
P. 88. (177) "6ait,"
Bo the qntrto (" bail" meaning, of oonree, refreshinent}. — The folio ha* "bed;" for which oooEeDBe the editor of the leoond folio (who moet probably never looked into the quarto) inbstitnted " hitt," Ac. : the two later foUoB have " bit."
P. 69. (178) "Aft"
Ht. W. N. Lettsom conjeetnreB " thii."
P. 99. (179) "smite oH Troy"iko.
Bo Hanmer (whose pnnatiiBtion is,
"$mile all Troy I lay at once; Ut your brief plagva bt mercy," tie.). — The old eds. have "amile at Troy," Ao. (In KingHtnry V. act ii. so. 1, Ttd. ir. p. 434, we have had "rmitti" miBprinted " emileB :" in Coriolamu, act L M. 1, the folio has " wold al the rest wer so ;" and in note 14.1 on the present play is a quotation from a maiqne bj Chapman in vbioh " All" ia (pelt " Al ;" a spelling that might eaBily be normpted into " At" bj a Boiibe or oompositor.) — Mr. W. N. Lettsom (Prefaoe to Walker's Crit. Exaia. Sio. p. uiii.) obserfes; '" SmiU,' no doabt. ia nonsense, and the words ' I say at onoe' are awkward, whether we take them with what goes before, or with what comes after. Perhaps we might reasonably read, partly with Hanmer, ' Sit, gods, upon yonr thrones, and imiU all Troj, Ay, tUiy at once ; let,' ±a. ' Ay' is almost always spelt ' r in the old copies.' '
P. 100. (igo) "fretuy thmighf" The old eda. have " frieues [and frensiea) Ibonght*."
P. 100. (181} "StHie afree mareh." &o.
P. 100. (lix) " Some gtUUd gooit 0/ WincluiltT" See Qloesary in " Winekater goote." — Commenting on theee words, in the seoond edition of his 5Aalt<t)Mar«, 18S8, Hr. Collier goes ont ofhis way totax me wiOi error, as follows 1 " The ordinary tenu for a vioUm to sharpers and perwna of that olaas, in the time of Shakaspeaie and afterwards, wu, m TOL. TI. E
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CTerjF bodj knowB, giM, Bm b pMsdge in Hlddleton's ' Miahmelnut Term,' A. m. U). i (Work* br Djoe, t. 477), in irhioli, by bq odd blonder, ■ nmreT 1b called • 'gnll' iuBtMclof affoU.- the person ao deeignkted wm the gall tai ■anoyuiae, not ' the gnll of the dty.' " What an " odd blonder" Mr. Odlier hinuell oommita here I The paseage U; "I miiBt tell toq tbia, ;oa hare fell into the handaot % moat mercileBB deTonrer, the verjfruUs' theoit;, fto.;" and the context " deToorer" prorea Uuit "fvU" ia perfeotly righL The tol- loiring extract from Todd'a Johnton't DielUntary is partjcalarlj reoonimended to the notiee ot Hr. Collier; "Ouij- — S. A aett-biid [mtrfm, Ptobahlrfram fMlo, M tlie Urd ia a voratioiu fttdtr]."
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COBIOLAN0S.
FmsT printed In the folio of ISas.— It la prared by the stjle to have been one of the anthor's UtMt oompodtionB : Mcoitting to Halone, ft vm writtMi in 1610. — N<«th'i Flutareh (truulated from the Franoh of Amiot) lapplied Bhalcetpeue with the inddentc, uid indeed irith mnch of the wmding, <d
this tngedf .
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DBA.Hi.TIS PERBOKA.
Chub Huumts, ifterwuda Ouns Uaxcidb CowoLuroa, a Doble Boman.
Timi LlBTICB. 1^,,^ .^^t jt^ VolMiMI.. OOMIMTUI, J
Hensmiuh AaKiFFi, friend to Coriolftniu.
Bicnrtui Tihttob. 1 tribune, of the people.
Jdhici Bsmci, J
Taang Uuiciui, wm to Coriolftnoi.
A Somui Henld.
TUI.LCB AuTiDiDB, gene»J cf the Tolwiiijii.
laeataUBiit to Anfldini.
ConipirkiOFa with Anfldina.
A Citiuti of Antinm.
Two Vobdiii OQwda.
ToLOMHU, mother to Cnrioluiiu. TmaiLu, wife to Gorioluiiu. Tu-BKU, Mend to yirgili&. Oentlewomui attending on Tirgilia. imsn «nd Tolwdu) Senaton, Pktriciuu, £dileB. Uoton, Soldlen, Citixei Hesaengen , Serranti to Anflditui, end other Attendants.
Soasi — ParOg Bome and itt ntighboarltood ; portly CorioU and ft* ntighbavrhood ; and partly Antiu/m.
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SosNB I. Rome. A atreet.
Enter a company ofmuttnow Citizens, vriih ttavet, cbtbt, and other weapons.
Fint Cit. Before we proceed ttny farther, hear me speak.
Citizens. Speak, speak.
Firat Cit. Too are all resolved rather to die than to fam- ish?
Citieent. Besolyed, resoWed.
Firat Cit. First, yon know Caias MaroinB is chief enemy to the people.
CitizeTU. We know't, we know't.
Fint Cit. Let ns kill him, and we'll have com at oar own price. Is't a verdict ?
Citizens. No more talking on't ; let it be done : away, away!
Sec. Cit. One word, good citizena.
First Cit. We are accounted poor citizens; the patriciuis, good. What authority surfeits on wonld relieye ns : if they woald yield us bat the saperflnity, while it were wholesome, we might goess they relieved ne hnmanely; bot they think we we too dear : the leanness that afflicts ns, the object"' of our misery, is as an inventory to particnlarize their abundance ; onr BnfTerance is a gain to them. — ^Let us revenge this with onr pikes, ere we become rakes : for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
See. Cit. Wonld yon proceed especially against Cains Mar- oioB?
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Citizens. Against him first :"' he'e a very dog to the com- monalty.
Sec. Cit. Consider yoa what serriceB he has done for his conntty ?
First Cit. Tery well ; and conid be content to give him good report for't, but that he paya himself with being proud.
See. Cit, Nay, but speak not maliciouBly.'*'
First Cit. I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did it to that end : though soft-con scienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please hie mother, and to be partly'^ proud ; which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.
Sec. Cit. What he cannot help in his nature, you account a Tiee in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.
First Cit. If I must, not, I need not be barren of acca- satione; be hath faults, with snrpluB, to tire in repetition. [^Shouts within.'] What shouts are these ? The other side o' the city is risen : why stay we prating here ? to the Capitol !
Citizens. Come, come.
First Cit. Soft ! who comes here ?
Sec. Cit. Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath al- ways loved the people.
First Cit. He's one honest enough : would all the rest were sot
Enter Menbkiub Aqrifpa.
Men. What work's, my conntrymen, in hand ? where go yon With bats and dabs ? the matter ? speak, I pray you.
First Cit. Our business*" is not unknown to the senate ; they have had inkling, this fortnight, what we intend to do, which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor suitors have strong breaths ; they shall know we have strong arms too.
Men. Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neigh- bours. Will yon undo yourselves ?
First Cit. We cannot, sir; we are undone already.
Men. I tell you, friends, most charitable care Have the patricians of you. For your wants. Your BufTering in this dearth, you may as well
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MSHB lO OOBIOLANUS. IBT
Strike at the heaven vitb yoor etaves ae lift them Against the Boman state ; whose coarse will on The way it takes, cracking ten tbonsand curbs Of more strong link asnnder than can ever Appear in your impediment : for the dearth. The gods, not the patricians, make it ; and Tear knees to them, not arms, mast help. Alack, You are transported by calamity Thither where more attends yon ; and yon slander The helms o' the state, who care for yon like fathers, When yon cnrse them as enemies.
Firtt Cit. Care for us ! True, indeed I They ne'er cared for ns yet : — snffer as to famish, and their store-houses cram- med with grain ; make edicts for usury, to support asnrers ; Tepeal daily any wholesome act estabHshed against the rich ; and provide more piercing statutes daily, to chain np and restrain the poor. If the wars eai us not up, they will ; and there's all the love they bear us.
Men- Either yon must Confess yourselves wondrous malicious. Or be accns'd of folly. I shall tell you A pretty tale : it may be you have heard it ; But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture To stale 't"" a little more.
Firgt Cit. Well, I'll hear it, sir ; yet you must not think to fob-off our disgrace with a tale : but, an 't please you, de- liver.
Men. There was a time when all the body's members Bebell'd against the belly ; thus accns'd it : — That only like a gulf it did remain r the midst o' the body, idle and nnactive, Still cupboarding the via^d, never bearing Like labour with the rest ; where th' other instruments Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel. And, mutually participate, did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body. The belly answer'd, —
Firtt Cit. Well, sir,
What answer made the belly ?
Men. Sir, I shall tell you. — With a kind of smile,
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Wliich ne'er came from the longB, bat even thaa —
For, look yon, I may make the belly smile
Ab well as speak — it taantingiy replied
To the discontented members, the mntinons puts
That envied his receipt; even bo most fitly
As yoa malign our senators for that
They are not snch as yon.
First at. Yonr belly's answer ? What I
The Mngly-crown&d head,*"' the vigilant eye, The connsellor heart, the arm onr soldier, Onr steed the leg, the tongue our trnmpeter, With other muniments and petty helps In this onr fabric, if that they —
Men. What then ?—
Tore me, this fellow speaks ! — what then ? what then ?
First Cit. Should by the cormorant belly be restrsin'd, Who is the sink o' the body, —
Men. Well, what then ?
Fint Cit. The former agents,*' if they did complain. What could the belly answer ?
Men. I will tell yoa ;
If you'll bestow a small — of what you've little — Patience awhile, you'll""' hear the belly's answer.
First Cit. Ye're long about it.
Men. Note me this, good friend ;
Yonr most grave belly was deliberate. Not rash like his accusers, and thns answer'd : " True is it, my incorporate friends," quoth he, " That I receive the general food at first. Which you do live upon ; and fit it is, Because I am the store-house and the shop Of the whole body : but, if you do remember, I send it°" throagh the rivers of your blood, Even to the coort, the heart, — to the seat o' the brain ; And, through the cranks and offices of man, The strongest nerves and small inferior veins From me receive that natural competency Whereby they live : and though that all at once. You, my good friends," — this says the belly, mark mo, —
Firtt Cit. Ay, sir ; well, well.
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Men. " Thoagli all at onoe can not
See what I do deliver oat to each, Yet I can make m; andit ap, that all From tne do back receive the flonr of all. And leave me bat the bran." — What say yoa to't?
First Cit. It was an answer : how apply yon this ?
Men. The senators of Kome are this good belly, And yoa the matinoas members : for, examine Their counsels and their caros ; digest"^' things rightly Tonching the weal o' the common, yon shall find No public benefit which yon receive Bat it proceeds or comes from them to yoa. And no way from yoarselves. — What do yon Uiink, — Yon, the great toe of this assdmbly ?
Mnt Cit. I the great toe ! why the great toe ?
Men. For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest, Of this most wise rebellion, thon go'st foremost : Thoa rascal, that art worst in blood to ran,"^ Lead'st first to win some vantage. — Bnt make yon raady yonr stiff bats and clabs : Borne and her rata are at the point of battle ; The one side mast have bale.
Ihiter Caiub Maroiub.
Hsil, noble Marcias 1
MaT. Thanks. — What's the matter, yon dissentionsrogaes. That, robbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yonrselves scabs ?
First Cit. We have ever yonr good word.
Mar. He that will give good words to ye will fiatter Beneath abhorring. What woold yon have, you cars,'*** That like nor peace nor war ? the one afi'rights you, The other makes yoa proad. He that tmsts to yoa. Where he shoold find yoa lions, finds yon hares ; Where foxes, geese ; yoa are no surer, no, Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, Or hailstone in the son. Yonr virtue is. To make him worthy whose offence eubdnes him. And curse that justice did it Who deserves greatness Deserves yonr hate ; and yonr affections are
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A sick man's appetite, who desires most that .
Which would increase his evil. He that depends
Upon yonr favours swims with fins of lead.
And hews down oaks with mshea. Hang ye • Trnst ye l""
With every minnte you do chan^^e a mind ;
And call him noble that was now yonr hate,
Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,
That in these"^ several places of the city
Yoa cry against the noble senate, who.
Under the gods, keep yon in awe, which else
Wonld feed on one another ? — What's their seeking ?
Men. For com at their own rates ; whereof, they say. The city is well etor'd.
Mar. Hang 'em ! They say !
They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know What's done i' the Capitol ; who's like to rise. Who thrives, and who declines ; side factions, and give oat Conjectural marriages ; making parties strong. And feebling such as stand not in their liking Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's grain enough ! Would the nobility lay aside their mth. And let me use my sword, I'd make a quarry With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high As I could pick my lance.
Men. Nay, these are almost"" thoroughly persuaded ; For though abundantly they lack discretion, Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you. What says the other troop ?
Mar. They are dissolv'd : hang 'em I
They said they were an-hungry ; sigh'd forth proverbs, — That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs mnst eat. That meat was made for months, that the gods sent not Com for the rich men only : — vrith these shreds They vented their complainings ; which being answer'd. And a petition granted them, a strange one — To break the heart of generosity.
And make bold power look pale — they threw their caps As they would bang them on the horns o' the moon. Shouting their emolation.*^"
Men. What is granted them ?
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Mar. Fire tribnnes to defend their Tulgor wisdoms, Of their own choice : one's Junius Brutus,"*' Sicioins Velutus, and I know not — 'Sdeath t The rabble should have first nnroofd'*" the city. Ere BO prevail'd with me : it will in time Win upon power, and throw forth greater themes For insurrection's a^uing.
Men. This is strange.
Mar. Go, get you home, 70a IragmentB ! Enter a Messenger, haelUy.
Meia. Where's Gaius Marcius ?
Mar. Here : what's the matter ?
MesB. The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.
Mar. I'm glad on 't; then we shall ha' means to vent Oar musty superfluity. — See, our best elders.
Eftier CoHimns, Titdb Lartius, and other Senators; Junidb Bbuiub and Siciniub Vbhttob.
First Sen. Marcius, 'tis true that yon have lately told as, — The Volscea are in anus.
Mar. They have a leader,
ToUuB Aufidins, that will put you to 't. I sin in epvying his nohilitv : And were I any thing hut what I am, rd wish me only he.
Com. You have fought togetiier.
Mar. Were half to half the world by th' ears, and he Upon my party, I'd revolt, to make Only my wars with him : he is a lion That Z am proud to hunt.
First Sen. Then, worthy Marcius,
Attend upon Cominins to these ware.
Com. It is your former promise.
Mar. Sir, it is ;
And I am constant. — Titus Lartius, thou Shalt see me once more strike at TuUus' foce. What, art thou stiff? Btand'st out?
Tit. No, CaiuB Marcius ;
m lean upon one crutch, and fight with t'other. Ere stay behind this business.
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Men. 0, trae-bied !
Firat Sen, Yoar comp&ny to the Capitol ; where, I know. Our greatest friends attend ub.
Tit. [to Com.'] Lead you on. —
[To Mar."] Follow Cominins : we mast follow yoa ; Kigbt worthy yoa priority.*"'
Com. Noble Marcias !
Firat Sen. [to the Citizena] Hence to your homes ; be
gone! Mar. Nay, let them follow :
The VoIsceB have mncb com ; take these rats thither To gnaw their gamers. — Worehipfiil mutiners,*"* Yonr valoor puts well forth : pray, follow.
[Exeunt aU except Brutus and Siciniia. The Citizens steal away. Sic. Was ever man so proud as is this Marcias ? Bra. He has no equal.
Sic. When we were chosen tribnnes for the people, — Bru. Mark'd yoa his lip and eyes ? Sic. Nay, bnt his taniita.
Bru. Being moVd, he will not spare to gird the gods. Sic, Be-mock the modest moon. Bru. The present wars devoar him! He is grown Too pronJlo be so y^iant.
Sic. Snch a nature.
Tickled with good snccesB, disdains the shadow Which be treads on at noon : bnt I do wonder Hia insolence can brook to be commanded Under Cominias.
Bra. Fame, at the which he aims, —
In whom already he's well grac'd, — can not Better be held, nor more attain'd, than by A place below the first : for what miscarries Shall be the general's &alt, tboagh he perform To th' atmost of a man ; and giddy censure Will then cry oat of Marcias, " 0, if he Had borne the business !"
Sic. Besides, if things go well,
Opinion, that so sticks on Marcias, shall Of his demerits rob Cominias.
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Bru. Come i™'
Half all CominioB' hoooora are to Marcins, Though MarcinB eani'd them not ; and all his fiinlts To MarciUB ahall be honours, though, indeed, In aught he merit not.
Sic, Let's hence, and hoar
How the dispatch ie made ; and in what fashion, More than his singularity, be goes Upon this present action.
Bru. Let's along. [^Exeunt.
SoGME n. Corioli. The Senate-koute. Enter TuLLitS Aotididb aiid certain Senators.
Fint Sen. So, yonr opinion is, Aofidina, Thai they of Bome are enter'd in onr counsels. And know how we proceed.
Auf. Is it not yours ?
What ever hath**^ been thonght on in this state. That coold be brooght to bodily act ere Bome Hod oircomTention ? 'Tis not four days gone Since I heard thence ; these are the words : I think I haTe the letter here ; yes, here it is : [^Readt.
" They have presc^d a power, bnt it ia not known Whether for east or west : the dearth ia gnat ; The people mntinouB : and it is mmoni'd, Cominius, Marcina your old enemy, — Who is of Bome wone hated than of yon, — And Titus I^rtios, a moat valiant Roman, These three lead on this prepaiation Whither 'tis bent : most likely 'tis for yoa : Consider of it"
Firtt Sen. Our army's in the field :
We never yet made doabt bat Bome was ready To answer ns.
Auf. Nor did yoa think it folly
To keep yoor great pretences veil'd till when Tlwy needs most show themselTes ; which in the hatching,
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It Beem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery We shall be Bborten'd in our aim ; which was, To take in many towns, ere, almost, Rome Should know we were afoot.
Sec. Sen. Noble Anfidius,
Take yonr commission ; hie yon to yonr bands ; Let ns alone to guard Corioli i***' If they set down before 'a, for the""* remove Bring ap yonr army ; but, I think, you'll find They've not prepar'd for us.
Ai^. 0, doubt not that;
I speak from certainties.*"' Nay, more. Some parcels of their power are forth already, And only hitherward. I leave yonr honours. If we and Cains Marcias chance to meet, 'Tis sworn between ns, we shall ever strike Till one can do no more.
AU. The gods assist you !
Auf. And keep your honours safe t
First Sen. Farewell.
Sec. Sen. Farewell.
AU. Farewell. lExeunt.
Scene IH. Rome. A room in Maboius' house.
Unler Volumnia and Viboilia : they sit down on two low stools, and sew.
Vol. I pray you, daughter, sing ; or express yourself in a more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I shoold freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honour than in the embracements of his bed where he would show most love. When yet he was but tender-bodied, and the only son of my womb ; when youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way ; when, for a day of kings' entreaties, a mother should not sell him an hont from her beholding ; I — con- sidering how honour would become snob a person ; that it was no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if renown made it not stir — was pleased to let him seek danger where he was like to find &me. To a cmel war I sent him; from
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whence he returned, his brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I spr&ng not more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child than now in first seeing he bad proved himself a man.
Vir, But hod he died in the basiness, madam,— how then ?
Vol. Then his good report should have been my son ; I therein would have found issne. Hear me profess sincerely, had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have*^ eleven die nobly for their country than one volaptnonsly surfeit out of action.
Enter a Gentlewoman.
Oent. Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit yoa.
Vir. Beseech yon, give me leave to retire myself.
Vol. Indeed, yon shall not. Methinks I hear hither your hueband's drum ; I**" see him pluck Aufidius down by th' hair ; As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him : Methinks I see him stamp thna, and call thas, — " Come on, you cowards ! you were got in fear, Though you were bom in Rome :" his bloody brow With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth be goes. Like to a harvest-man, that'e"^* task'd to mow Or all, or lose his hire.
Vir. His bloody brow 1 O Jupiter, no blood !
Vol. Away, yon fool ! it more becomes a man Than gilt his trophy: the breasts of Hecuba, When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovelier Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood. At Grecian swords, contemning. — Tell Valeria*"' We are fit to bid her welcome. [Exit Gent,
Vir. Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius !
Vol. He'U beat Aufidius' head below his knee. And tread upon his neck.
Re-enier Gentlewoman with, Valeria and her Usher. Vol. My ladies both, good day to yon. Vol. Sweet madam. Vir. I am glad to see your ladyship. Vol. How do you both ? yoa are manifest house-keepers.
VOL. VI. L
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What ate you sewing hete ? A fine spot, ia good faith.'" — How does yoni little aon ?
Vir. I thank joai ladyship, well, good madam.
Vol. He had rather see UjtLJSKada.^ and _hBM;_a_jiniinj
tiian look npnn hjg aptinnlmaatjir
Vai. 0' my word, the father's son : I'll Bwear, 'tis a very pretty boy. 0' my troth, I looked npon him o' Wednesday half an hour together : 'bae snch a confirmed coautenance. I saw him ran after a gilded bntterfly ; and when he caaght it, he let it go again ; and after it again ; and orer and ovei he Gomea, and ap again ; catched it again : or"*' whether his fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his teeth, and tear it; 0, I warrant, bow he mammocked it !
Vol. One on 's father's moods.
Val. Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child.
Vir. A crack, madam.
Vol, Come, lay aside yonr stitchery ; I mast have yoa play the idle bnswife with me this afternoon.
Vir. No, good madam ; I will not oat of doors.
Val. Not ont of doors !
Vol. She shall, she shall.
Vir. Indeed, no, by yoor patience ; I'll not over the threshold till my lord retom from the wars.
Val. Fie, you confine yonrself most unreasonably : come, you mast go visit the good lady that lies in.
ViT. I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with my prayers ; but I cannot go thither.
Vol. Why, I pray yoo?
Vir. 'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.
Val. Yoa would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all the yam she spun in Ulysses* absence did bat fill Ithaca fall of moths. Come; I would your cambric were sensible as your finger, that you might leave pricking it for pity. Come, you shall go with us.
Vir. No, good madam, pardon me ; indeed, I will not forth.
Val. Id truth, la, go vith me; and I'll tell you excellent news of your husband.
Vir. 0, good madam, there can be none yet.
Val. Verily, I do not jest with you ; there came news from him last night.
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Vir. Indeed, madam?
Val. In earnest, it's true; I heard a aenator speak it. Thus it is : — The Volsoes have an arm; forth ; against whom Cominins the general is gone, with one part of onr Roman power : yonr lord and Titos Lartins are set down before their city Corioli ; they nothing donbt prevailing, and to make it brief wtUTB. This is true, on mine honour ; and so, I pray, go with ns.
Vir. Give me exoaae, good madam ; I will obey you in every thing hereafter.
Vol. Let her alone, lady : as she is now, she will bat disease onr better mirth.
Val. In troth, I think she would. — Pare yon well, then. — Come, good sweet lady. — Prithee, Yirgilia, tarn thy soleoineBB oat o' door, and go along with ns.
Vir. No, at a word, madam ; indeed, I mast not. I wish yoa much mirth.
Vol. Well, then, farewell. [Exetmt.
SoENB rV. B^ore Corioli.
Enter, with drum and cotottrs, Mutoios, Titds LABliaa, Officers, OTuf Soldiers,
Mar. Yonder comes news : — a wager they have met.
Lart. My horse to years, no.
Mar. 'Tia done.
Lart. Agreed.
Enter a Messenger.
Mar. Say, has oat general met the enemy ?
Meal. They lie in view ; bat have not spoke as yet.
Lart. So, the good horse is mine.
Mar. ril hay him of you.
Lart. No, I'll nor sell nor give him ; lend you him I will For half a hundred years. — Sommon the town.
Mar. How far off He these armies?
Meat. Within this mile and half.<»"
Mar. Then shall we hear their 'laram, and they oars. — Now, Mars, I prithee, make as qnick in work.
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That we with smoking swords ma; marcli from hence. To help our fielded friends ! — Come, blow thy blast.
They sound a parley. Enter, on ike walU, some Senators and others. Tnllns Anfidius, is he within your walls ?
First Sen. No, nor a man that fears you less than he, That's lesser than a little. [Drums afar off.'} Hark, our
drums Are bringing forth our youth ! we'll break oar walls. Rather than they ehall pound ns up : our gates. Which yet seem shut, we have but pinn'd with rushes ; They'll open of themselves. [Alarum afar off."] Hark yon,
far off ! There is Aufidius ; list, what work he makes Amongst your cloven army.
Mar. O, they're at it t
Lart. Their noise be our instruction. — Ladders, ho!
The Volscee enter and pats over. Mar. They fear ns not, but issue forth their city. Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight With hearts more proof than shields. — ^Advance, brave Titus : They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts. Which makes me sweat with wrath. — Come on, my fellows : He that retires, I'll take him for a Volsce, And he shall feel mine edge.
Alarum ; and exeunt Bomans and Volacea, fighting. The Bomana are beaten back to their trenches. Re-enter Marciub. Mar. All the contagion of the south light on yon. You shames of Rome ! you herd of — Boils and plagues Plaster yon o'er ;•*" that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile \ You souls of geese. That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat ! Pluto and hell I All hurt behind ; backs red, and faces pale With flight and agn'd fear ! Mend, and charge home. Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe.
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And make my wars on jou : look to't : come on ;
If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wirea.
As they hb to our trenches. Follow me.'*''
Attother alarum. The Volacea and Eomaua re-enter, and the fight ia
renetoed. The Volacea retire into CorioU, and Maroivs followB
them to the gates. So, now the gates are ope : — now prove good seconds : 'Tis for the followers fortune widens them, Kot for the fliers : mark me, and do the like.
[Enter* tke gates.
First Sol. Fool-hardinesB ; not I.
Sec. Sol. Nor I.
[Marcius U skut in.
First Sol. See, they have shnt him in.
AU. To the pot,'"* I warrant him.
l^Alarum continues. Reenter TiTDB I^astids.
Lart. What is become of Marcins ?
All. Slain, sir, doubtless.
First Sol. Following the fliers at the very heels. With them he enters ; who, upon the snddeu, Glapp'd-to their gates : be is himself alone. To answer all the city.
Lart. 0 noble fellow !
Who, senBible, outdares hie senaelesa sword. And, when it bowa, standa op I"** Thon art lost,"** Marcins : A carbnucle entire, as big as thon art. Were not bo rich a jewel. Thon wast a soldier Even to Cato'a wiah,'*"* not fierce and terrible Only in strokes ; bnt, with thy grim looks and The tfannder-like percussion of thy Bounds, Thou mad'at thine enemies shake, as if the world Were feverous and did tremble.
£e-enter If arciob, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy.
First Sol. Look, sir.
Lart. 0, 'tis Marcius !
Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike.
[They fight, and aU mter the city.
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ScHHB V. Within Corioli. A ttreet. Enter certain Romans, with ipoQg. First Rom. This will I carry to Borne. Sec. Rom. And I this. Third Bom. A marram on't ! I took this for Bilver.
[Alaram continues stiU afar off.
Enter MABOins and TiTDS Iiabtiub vitk a trumpet.
Mar. See here tbeae movers that do prize their honrs At a crftck'd drachm !'^ Cushions, leaden spoons, Irons of a doit, donblets that hangmen would Bnry with those that wore them, these base slaTes, Ere yet the fight be done, pack np : — down with them 1 — And hark, what noise the general makes ! — To him ! There is the man of my soul's hate, Anfidins, Piercing our Romans : then, yaliant Titus, take Convenient nnmbers to make good the city ; Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste To help Cominins.
Lart. Worthy sir, thou bleed'st ;
Thy exercise hath been too violent for A second coarse of fight.
Mar. Sir, praise me not ;
My work hath yet not warm'd me : fare yoa well : The blood I drop is rather physical Than dangerous to me : to Anfidius thas I will appear, and fight.
LaH, Now the fiair goddess, Fortane,
Foil deep in love with thee; and her great charms Misguide thy opposere' swords !'"' Bold gentleman, Prosperity be thy page !
Mar. Thy friend no less
Than those she placeth highest ! So, farewell.
Lart. Thon worthiest Marcius ! — [Eait Marciut.
Go, sound thy trumpet in the marketr-pUce ; Call thither all the officers o' the town, Where'*" they shall know oar mind: away t {Exeurtt.
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SoBNB VI. Near the camp of Gounnufl. EtUer ComNins and Forces, retreating. Com, Breathe yoo, my friends : well fought ; we are come off Like BomanB, neither fooliefa in oiu stands Nor cowardly in retire : believe me, sirs. We eholl be charg'd again. Whiles we have Btruok, By interims and conveying guBtB we've beard The charges of onr friends. — Ye"**" Koman gods. Lead their saccesses as we wish oar own, That both onr powers, with smihng fronts enoountering. May give yoc thankful sacrifice I
Enter a Messenger.
Thy news ? Meat, The citizens of Gorioli have issn'd, And given to Lartias and to Marcins battle : I saw our party to their trenches driven, And then I came away.
Com. Thoagh thon speak'st truth,
Methinks thon speak'st not well. How long is't since ? MesB. Above an hour, my lord. Com. 'Tia not a mile ; briefly we heard their drams : How conldst thoa in a mile confoand an boar. And bring thy news so late?
M«4«. Spies of the VolsoeB
Held me in chase, that I was forc'd to wheel Three or fonr miles aboat ; else bad I, sir, Half an hour since brought my report.
Com. Who's yonder.
That does appear as he were flay'd? 0 gods I He has the stamp of Marctas ; and I have Before-time seen him thns.
Mar. \within\ Come I too late ?
Com. The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor, More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue From every meaner m&n's.'^
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Enter Marciub. Mar. Come I too l&te ?
Com. Ay, if yon come not in the blood of others, But mantled in your own.
Mar. 0, let me clip ye
In arms &b sonnd as when I woo'd ; in heart Aa merry as when oar nuptial day was done. And tapers bam'd to bedward !
Com. Flower of warriors,
How is't with Titus Lartias?
Mar. As with a man busied abont decrees : Condemning some to death, and some to exile; Kansoming him or pitying, threatening th' other; Holding CorioH in the name of Boiiie, Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. To let him slip at will.
Com. Where is that slave
Which told me they had beat you to yonr trenches ? Where is he ? call him hither. I Mar. Let him alone ;
! He did inform the truth : but for our gentlemen, ' The common file — a plague ! — tribunes for them ! — The mouse ne'er ahunn'd the cat as they did budge , From rascals worse than they.
~~ Com. But how prevail'd you ?
Mar. Will the time serve to tell ? I do not think.**" Where is the enemy ? are you lords o' the field ? If not, why cease you till yon are so ?
Com. Marcius,
We have at disadvantage fought, and did Betire, to win our purpose.
Mar. How lies their battle ? know you on which side They've plac'd their men of trust ?
Com. As I guess, MarciuB,
Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,^*" Of their best trust ; o'er them Aufidius, Their very heart of hope.
Mar. I do beseech you.
By all the battles wherein we have fought.
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By the blood we've ahed together, by the towb We've made to endnre friends, that yoa directly Set me agEtinst Anfidins and his Antiatee ; And that you not delay the present, bat, Filling the air with swords advanc'd and darts. We prove this very hour.
Com, Though I ooald wish
YoQ were conducted to a gentle bath, And balms applied to yon, yet dare I never Deny yonr asking : take your choice of those That beet can aid yonr action.
Mar. Those are they
That most are willing. — If any such be here — As it were sin to donbt — thai love this painting Wherein yon see me smear'd ; if any fear Lesser'^ his person than an ill report ; If any think brave death outweighs bad life, And that his coontry's dearer than himself; Lei him alone, or so many so minded. Wave thus, t' express his disposition, And follow Marcias,
[They all sJtout, and wave their ewords ; take Aim, vp m their arms, and cast vp their caps . 0, me alone ! make yon a sword of me ? If these shows be not ontward, which of yon Bat is four Volscea ? none of you bat is Able to bear against the great Anfidins A shield as bard as his. A certain number, Thongh thanks to all, must I select from all :'**' the rest Shall bear the business in some other fight. As caose will be obey'd. Please yon to march ; And fonr""' shall quickly draw out my command. Which men are best inclin'd.
Com. March on, my fellows :
Make good this ostentation, and yoa shall Divide in all vrith us. [Exeunt.
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SoENB VII. The gates of Corioli.
TiTUB Laetiub, having eet a guard upon Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward Cohinidb and Caius Maiioiub, miert with a LieDteoant, a party of SoldierB, and a Scout. Lart. So, let the porta be gtutrded : keep yoar dnties,
Aa I't6 set them down. If I do send, dispatch
Those centariee to oar aid ; the rest will serve
For a short holding : if we lose the field,
We cannot keep the town.
LAeu. Fear not oar cate, sir.
Lart. Hence, and ahat yoor gates upon 's. —
Onr gnider, come ; to the Roman camp conduct as. {Exeunt,
SoBKB Vm. Afield of battle between the Roman and the VoUeian camps.
Alarum. Elder, from opposite sides, Mabgius and Aufidihs.
Mar. Ill fight with none but thee ; for I do hate thee Worse than a promise-breaker.
A^f. We hate alike :
Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor More than thy CEime I envy,'*" Fix thy foot.
Mar. Let the first badger die the other's slave, And the gods doom him after 1
^^f• If I fly, Marcius,
Halloo me like a hare.
Afar. Within these three honrs, TulluB,
Alone I foaght in yonr Ck>rioli walls. And made what work I pleas'd : 'tis not my blood Wherein thoa seest me mask'd ; for thy revenge Wrench up thy power to th' highest,
All/. Wert thon the Hector
That was the whip*"" of yonr bragg'd progeny, Thoa ahonldst not scape me here.
[They fight, and certain Volaces cotae to the aid of Alalia.
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[Exeunt fighUng, driven in by Marettia.
Scsm IX. The Eoman camp.
Alarum- A retreat is sounded. Flourish. Enter, from ow side, CoMiNiua and Komans ; from the other »ide, Maroius, with hie arm in a scarf, ajid other RomnDS. Com. If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work, Thoa'lt not believe thy deeds :'"" but I'll report it. Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles ; Where great patricians shall attend, and shrug, r th' end admire ; where ladies shall be frighted. And, gladly quak'd, hear more ; where the dull triboneB, That, with the fosty plebeians,'^ hate thine honours, Shall say, against their hearts, " We thank the gods Oar Borne hath such a soldier !" Yet cam'st thon to a morsel of this feast. Having fully din'd before.
Enter Titdb Lartiub, loHh hig ^power, from the pursuit.
Lart, 0 general,
Here is the steed, we the caparison : Hadst thou beheld —
Mar. Pray now, no more : my mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood. When she does praise me grieves me. I have done As yon have done, — that's what I can ; induo'd As you have been, — that's for my country :**" He that has but effected his good will Hath overta'en mine act.
Com. You shall not be
The grave of yonr deserring; Borne must know The value of her own : 'twere a concealment Worse than a theft, no less than a tradncement, To hide your doings ; and to silence that, Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd.
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Would seem but modest : therefore, I beseech you —
In sign of what yon ate, not to reward
What yon have done — before our army hear me.
Mar. I have some wounds upon me, and they smart To hear themselveB remember'd.
Com. Should they not,
Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude. And tent themselres with death. Of all the horses, — Whereof we've ta'en good, and good store, — of all The treasure in this field acbiev'd and city. We render you the tenth ; to be ta'en forth, Before the common distribution, at Your only choice.
Mar. I thank you, general ;
But cannot make my heart consent to take A bribe to pay my sword ; I do refuse it ; And stand upon my common part with those That have beheld the doing.
[-4 long flourish. They all cry, " Marcius ! Mar- cius!" cast up their caps and lances: Cominius and Lartiv-s stand bare. May these same instruments, which you profane, Never sound more I When drnms and trumpets shall I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be Made'"' all of false-fac'd soothing ! When steel grows Soft as the parasite's silk, let him be made A coverture for the wars l**'* No more, I say ! For that I have not wash'd my nose that bled. Or foil'd some debile wretch, — which, without note, Here's many else have done,— you shout"*" me forth In acclamations hyperbolical ; As if I lov'd my little should be dieted In praises sauc'd with lies.
Com. Too modest are you ;
More cruel to your good report than grateful To as that give you truly : by your patience, If 'gainst yourself you be incens'd, we'll put yon — Like one that means his proper harm — in manacles, Then reason safely with yon. — Therefore, be 't known, As to us, to all the world, that Caius Marciue
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"Weare this war's garlaod : in token of the which. My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him, "With all hia trim belonging ; and from this time, For what be did before Corioli, call him. With all th' applanae and clamoar of the host, Caiub Mabcius C0RIOLAMU8.'**' — Bear Th' addition nobly ever !
IFiourigk. Trumpets sound and drumi.
Ali. Cains Marcius Coriolanas !
Cor. I will go wash ; And when my face is fair, yon shall perceive Whether I binsh or no : bowbeit, I thank yon : — I mean to stride your steed ; and at all times, To nndercrest yonr good addition To the &imes8 of my power.
Com. So, to our tent ;
Where, ere we do repose us, we will write To Rome of our success. — You, Titus Lartins, Must to Corioli back : send us to Bome The best, with whom we may articulate, For their own good and ours.
Lart. I shall, my lord.
Cor. The gods begin to mock me. I, that now Befus'd most princely gifts, am bound to beg Of my lord general.
Com. Take 't ; 'tis yours. What is't ?**"'
Cor. I sometime lay, here in Corioli, At a poor man's house ; he us'd me kindly : — He cried to me ; I saw him prisoner ; But then Aufidius was within my view. And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity : I request you To give my poor host freedom.
Com,. 0, well begg'd !
Were he the butcher of my son, he should Be free as is the wind. — Deliver him, Titus.
Lart. Marcins, his name ?
Cor. By Jupiter, forgot : —
Tm weary; yea, my memory is tir'd. — Hare we no wine here ?
Com. Oo we to our tent :
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The blood opon your nsage dries ; 'tis time
It shoold be look'd to : come. lExeunt.
80ENE X. The camp of the ToIsceB.
AJUmruh. Comett. Enter TuLLns Aufididb bloody, uiitk two or three Soldiera.
Auf. The town in ta'en I
First Sol. 'Twill be deliTer'd back on good conditiou.
Auf. Condition ! — I wonld I were a Roman ; for I cannot, Being a Yolsce, be that I am. — Condition t What good condition can a treaty find I' the part that ia at mercy ? — Five times, Marcins, I've fonght yith thee ; flo often haat thon beat me ; And wonldet do so, I think, shoold we enconnter As often as we eat. — By th' elements. If e'er agun I meet him beard to beard, He's mine, or I am his : mine emulation Hath not that hononr in't it had ; for where I thonght to crash bir" in an equal force Tme sword to sword, I'll poach at him some way. Or wrath or craft may get him.
Firtt Sol. He's the devil.
Aiif. Bolder, though not so subtle. My Taloor,"'' poison'd With only suffering stain by him, for him Shall fly ont of itself : nor sleep nor sanctuary, Being naked, sick ; nor fane nor Capitol, The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice, Embarqnements'^ all of fury, shall lift up Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst My bate to Marcius : where I find him, were it At home, upon my brother's guard, even there. Against the hospitable canon, would I Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to the city; Learn how 'tis held ; and what they are that mast Be hostages for Borne.
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I^rst Sol. Will not you go ?
Auf. I am attended at the oypresB grore : I pray yoQ — *TiB Boath the city millB — bring me word thither How the world goes, that to the pace of it I may spnr on my joomey.
Firtt Sol. I shall, sir. lExeunt.
Scene I. Rome. A public place. Enter Mbnknidb, Sioimns, and Bbutdb.
Men. The angnrer tella me we shall have news to-night.
Bru,. Good or bad ?
Men. Not according to the prayer of the people, for thay love not MarciuB.
Sic. Nature teaches beasts to know their Mends.
Men. Pray yon, who does the wolf loTe ?
Sic. The lamb.
Men. Ay, to devonr him ; as the hungry plebeians would the noble Marcine.
Bru. He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.
Men. He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. Yon two are old men : tell me one thing that I shall ask yon.
Both. Well, tax.
Men. In what enormity is Morcius poor in, that yon two have not in abundance ?
Bru. Hfl^gjtoor^innoonB fault, bat stored with all.
Sic. Especially in pride.
Bru. And topping all others in boasting.
Men. This is strange now: do yon two know how yoa are censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the right-hand file? do you?
Both. Why, how are we censured ?
Men. Because you talk of pride now, — will you not be angry?
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Both. Well, well, air, well.
Men. Why, 'tis no great matter ; for a very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience : give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at yonr pleasures ; at the least, if yon take it as a pleasnre to you in being so. You blame Marcias for being proud ?
Sru. We do it not alone, sir.
Men. I know you can do very little alone ; for yoor helps are many, or else yonr actions would grow wondrous single : your abilities are too infant-Uke for doing much alone. Toa talk of pride : 0 that you could turn yonr eyes toward the napes of yonr necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves ! 0 that you conld !
Bra. What then, sir?
Men. Why, then you should discover a brace of unmerit- ing, proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as any in Borne.
Sic. Menenius, you are known well enough too.
Men. I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't ; said to be something imperfect in favouring the first complaint,"" hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion ; one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning :***' what I think I utter, and spend my malice in my breath. Meeting two such weals- men as you are, — I cannot call you Lycurgnses, — if the drink yon give me tonch my palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot'*" say your worships have delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in compound with the major part of yonr syllables : and thongh I must he content to bear with those that say yon are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that tell you you**** have good faces. If yon see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? what harm can your biseon"" conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?
Bru. Come, sir, come, we know you weU enough.
Men, You know neither me, yourselves, nor any thing. You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs : yon wear ont a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the con-
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trorers; of throe-pence to a second da; of aadience. When yon are hearing a matter between party and party, if yoB chanco to be pinched with the colic, you make -fiices like mammera; set up the bloody flag against all patience; and, in roaring for a chamber-pot, diBmiBB the controveiey bleed- ing,**** the more entangled by yoar hearing: all the peace yon make in their cause is, calling both the parties knaves. Yon are a pair of strange ones.
Bra. Come, come, yon are well understood to be a per- fecter giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the Capitol.
Men, Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall encounter such ridicnlous sabjects as you are. When yoa speak best auto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-saddle. Yet yon must be saying, Marcins is prond ; who, in a cheap estimation, is worth all your prede- ceasora since Deucalion ; though peradventure some of the beat of 'em were hereditaty hangmen. Qod-deu to yoar worships : more of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians : I will be bold to take my leave of yon. [^Brutaa ajid Siciniut retire.
Enter VoLniniiA, TiaoiLiA, OTid Valehia, with Attendants. How now, my as fair as noble ladies, — and the moon, were she earthly, no nobler, — ^whither do you follow yoar eyes so fast?
Vol. Honourable Menenius, my boy Marcins approaches ; for the love of Juno, let's go.
Men. Ha ) Marcina coming home t
Vol. Ay, worthy Menenins ; and with most prosperous approbation.
Men. Take my cap, Jnpiter, and I thank thee. — Hoo I Marcins coining home I
Vir. Vai. Nay, 'tis true.
Vol. Look, here's a letter &om him ; the state hath ano- ttier, bis wife another ; and, I think, there's one at home for you.
VOL. VI. If
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Men. I will make my very house reel to-night : — a letter for me !
Vir. Yes, certain, there's a letter for yoa ; I saw't.
Men. A letter for me I it gives me an estate of seven years' health ; in vhich time I will make a lip at the physi- aian : the most Bovereign prescription in Oalen is bat empiri- cntic,'^' and, to this preserratire, of no better report than a horse-drench. — Is he not woanded? he was wont to come home wounded.
Vir. 0, no, no, no.
Vol. 0, he is wounded, — I thank the gods for't.
Men. So do I too, if it be not too much : — ^brings 'a vic- tory in his pocket ? — the wounds become him.
Vol. On's brows :'^^' Menenins, he comes the third time home with the oaken garland.
Men. Has he disciplined Aufidiue sonudly?
Vol. Titus Lartine writes, — they fought together, but Ao- fidius got off.
Men. And 'twas time for him too, FIl warrant him that: an he had stayed by him, I would not hare been so fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this ?
Vol. Good ladies, let's go. — Yes, yes, yes ; the senate has letters &om the general, wherein he gives my son the whole name of the war : he hath in this action outdone his former deeds doubly.
Val. In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.
Men. Wondrous ! ay, I warrant you, and not without his true purchasing.
Vir. The gods grant them true !
Vol. True ! pow, wow.
Men. True! I'll be sworn they are true. — ^Where is he wounded? — [To the Tribunes] God save your good worships ! Marcius is coming home : he has more cause to be proud. — Where is he wounded ?
Vol. V the shoulder and i' the left arm : there will be large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall stand for hie place. He received in the repulse of Tarqain seven hurts i' the body.
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Men. One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh, — there's niae that I know.*^"
Vol. He had, before this kst expedition, twesty-fiTe wounds npon him.
Men. Now it'a twenty-Beven : eTeiy gash was an enemy's grave. \A shout and flourish within^ Hark ! the trttrnpets.
Vol. These are the ashers of Marcius : before him he car- ries noise, and behind him be leaves tears : Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie ; Which, being advanc'd, decUnes, and then men die.
A unnd. Tmtnpets tound. Enter Cokiniob and Tirns Lartius;
between them, Coriolah'ob, crowned with an oaken garland;
mih Captains, Soldiers, and a Herald.
Her. Know, Ilome, that all alone Maroins did fight Within Gorioh gates : where he hath won, With fame, a name to Cains Marcins ; these In hononr follows Coriolanns : — welcome, Welcome to Rome, renown'd Coriolanua f"' \Fl(miriah.
All. Welcome to Rome, renown'd Coriolanns !
Cor. No more of this, it does offend my heart ; Fray now, no more.
Com. Look, sir, yoor mother!
. Cor. 0,
Yon have, I know, petition'd all the gods For my prosperity. IKneek.
Vol. [raising hiTn] Nay, my good soldier, np; My gentle Marcins, worthy Cains, and By deed- achieving honour newly nam'd, — What is it ? — Coriolanns mnst I call thee ? — Bnt, 0, thy wife !
Cor. My gracious silence, hail I
Wooldst thon have langh'd had I come coffin'd home. That weep'st to see me triumph ? Ah, my dear, Sacb eyes the widows in Corioli wear, And mothers that lack sons.
Men. Now, the gods crown thee I
Cor. And live yon yet ? — [To Valeria'] 0 my sweet lady, pardon.
Vol, I know not where to torn: — 0, welcome home; —
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And mloome, gmiAral ; and ye'r« welcome all.
Men. A himdred thoaeand welcomes : — ^I could weep. And I oonld Ungh ; Vm ligtt and heavy : — ^welcome : A cnree begin at Ter; root on's heart That is not glad to see thee! — ^Yon are three That Rome ahonld dote on : yet, by the &ith of men, WeVe some old crab-tieee here at home that will not Be grafted to yoor relish. Yet welcome, warriors : We call a netUe bnt a nettle, and The faults of fools bat folly.
Com. Ever right.
Cor. Menenins ever, ever. Her. Give way there, and go on!
Cor. {to Vol. and Vir."] Yonr hand, and yours :
Ere in oar own honse I do shade my head. The good patricians mast be risited ; From whom I have receiv'd not only greetings. Bat with them ebai^ of honoars.'^*'
Vol. I haTO liv'd
To see inherited my very wishes, And the bnildinge of my fancy : only there Is one thing wanting, which I donbt not bnt Onr Rome will cast npon thee.
Cor. Know, good mother,
I had rather be their servant in my way Than sway with them in theirs.
Com, On, to the Capitol !
[FiourUh. Comett. Exeunt in $tate, a* before. Brutut and SiiAnvue come forward. Bra. All tongues speak of him, and the blearM sighta Are spectacled to see him : yonr prattling norse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While she chats him i"*^ the kitchen malkin ping Her richest lockram 'bont her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him ; stalls, balks-, windows, Are smother'd np, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd With variable complexions ; all agreeing In earnestness to se^ him : seld'shown flamena Do press among the popolar threngs, and pnff To win a vulgar station : oar veil'd damea
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Commit the war of wbite and damask, in Their nicely-gawded'^'' cheeks, to the wanton spoil Of Phcebns' burning kiases : suoh a pother, As if that whatsoever god who leadB him Were slily crept into his hnman powers, And gave him graceful postare.
Sic. On the sudden,
I warrant him consul.
Bru. Then oar office ma;,
During his power, go sleep.
Sic. He cannot temperately transport his hoooim From where he should begin and end ; bat will liose those he hath won.
Bru. In that there's comfort.
Sic. Doubt not
The commoners, for whom we stand, but they. Upon their ancient malice, will forget. With the least cause, these his new honours ; which That he will give them make I"" as Uttle question As he is proud to do't.
Bru. I heard him swear,
Were he to stand for consul, never would he Appear i' the market-place, nor on him put The napless vesture of humility ; Not, showing, as the manner is, hie wounds To the people, beg their stinking breaths.
Sic. 'Tis right.
Bru. It was his word : 0, he would miss it, rather Than carry 't but by the suit of the gentry to him. And the desire of the nobles.
Sic. I wish no better
Than have him hold that purpose, and to put it In execution.
Bru. 'Tis most like he will.
Sic. It shall be to him, then, as oar good willa,*^ A sure destruction.
Bru. So it must fall out
To him or oar authorities. For an end. We must snggest the people in what hatred He still hath held them ; that to's power he would
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HftTfi made them moles, silenc'd their pleaders, and
Dispropertied their freedoms; holding them.
In homan action and capacity.
Of no more seal nor fitness for the world
Than camels in the war;'^^ who have their provand
Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows
For sinking under them.
,Sic. This, as you say, suggested
At some time when his soaring insolence Shall touch"*' the people, — which time shall not want. If he be put upon't ; and that's as easy Ab to set dogs on sheep, — will he his fire'*" To kindle their dry stubble ; and their blaze Shall darken him for ever.
Enter a Messenger.
Bru. What's the matter?
Mesa. You're sent for to the Capitol. 'Tib thought That MarciuB shall be consul : I've seen the dumb men throng to see him, and The bhnd to hear him speak : matrons flung gloves. Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkercfaers. Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended, As to Jove's statue; and the commons mode A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts : I never saw the like.
Bru, Let's to the Capitol ;
And carry with us ears and eyes for tiie time. But hearts for tiia event.
Sic. Have with yon. {Exeunt.
Scene II. Tke tame. The Capitol. Enter two Officere, to lay cushions. Fint Of, Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand for consalBhipe ?
Sec. Off. Three, they say : but 'tis thought of every one Coriolaons will cany it.
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First Of. That's a brare follow; bnt he'sventfeaaceproadf and lovea not the common peoplo.
Sec. Off. Faith, there have been many great men that have flattered the people, who ne'er loved them ; and there be many that thej have loved, they know not wherefore : so that, if they love they know not why, they hate npOQ no better a gronnd : therefore, for Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate him manifcBtB the true knowledge he has in ibeir disposition ; and, ont of his noble carelessnesB, lets them plainly see't.
First Off. If he did not care whether he had their love or no, he waved'*" indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor barm: but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him ; and leaves nothing nndone that may fnlly discovet him their opposite. Now, to seem to affeet the malice and displeasore of the people is as bad as that which he dislikes, — to flatter them for their love.
Stc. Off. He hath deserved worthily of his country : and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who, having been sapple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without any further deed to heave them*^' at all into their estimation and report: but he hath so planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions in their hearts, that for their tongues to be silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of ingrateful injury; to report otherwise, were a malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck reproof and rebuke from every ear that beard it.
First Off'. No more of hi;n ; he's a worthy man : make way, they are coming.
A aetmet. Enter, with Lictora before them, Cohinidb, Mbneniiis, CoRiOLAKCS, Senators, SiciNios, avd Brutcs. The Senators take their places; the Tribaues take theirs also hy themselves. Men. Having determin'd of the Volsces, and
To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,
Aa the main point of this oar after-meeting.
To gratify his noble service that
HaUi thus stood for bis country : therefore, please you.
Most reverend and grave elders, to desire
The present consul, and last general
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Id our well-foaml Bnccesaes, to report
A little of that worthy work perform'd
By Cains Marcias CoriolannB ; whom
We meet here,'"' both to thank, and to remember
With honoars like himaelf.
First Sen. Speak, good Cominins :
Leave nothing out for length, and make as think Bather oar state's defective for requital Than we to stretch it out. — [To the TVUmnes] Maaters o' the
people, We do reqnest yonr kindest ears ; and, after, YoTir loTicg motion toward the common body. To yield what passes here.
Sic. We are convented
Upon a pleasing treaty ; and have hearts Inclinable to honoar and advance The theme of oar assembly.
Bra. Which the rather
We shall he blest to do,'**' if he remember A kinder valne of the people than He hath hereto priz'd them at.
Men. That's off, that's off;
I wonld yon rather had been silent. Please yon To hear Cominius speak ?
Bru. Most willingly:
Bnt yet my cantion was more pertinent Than the rebake you give it.
Men. He loves yonr people;
But tie him not to be their bedfellow. — Worthy CominiUB, speak. — [Coriolanug riset, and offers to go away."] Nay, keep your place.
First Sen. Sit, CoriolanuB ; never shame to hear What you have nobly done.
Cor. Your honours' pardon :
I had rather have my wounds to heal again Thau hear say how I got them.
Bnt. Sir, I hope
My words diabenoh'd you not.
Cor. No, sir : yet oft.
When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.
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Yoa Booth'd not, therefore hart not : bnt yoor people, I love them as they weigh.
Men. Pray now, sit down.
Cor. I had ni^er have one scratch my head i' the sno, "When the alamm were strack, than idly sit To hear my nothings monster'd. [Exit.
Men. Masters of the people,
Yonr mnltipljring spawn how can he flatter — That's thousand to one good one — when yon now see He had rather venture all his limbs for honour Than one on's**" ears to hear't? — Proceed, Comimns.
Com. I shall lack voice : the deeds of Coriolanus Should not be atter'd feebly. — It is held That valonr is the ohiefest virtue, and Most dignifies the haver ; if it be. The man I speak of cannot in the world Be singly connterpois'd. At sixteen years, When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fonght Seyond the mark of others : our then dictator, Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight. When with his Amazonian chin'"' he drove The bristled lips before him : be bestrid An o'er-press'd Roman, and i' the consal's view Slew three opposers ; Tarquin 's self he met. And struck him on his knee : in that day's feats. When he might act the woman in the scene. He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his meed Was brow-bonnd with the oak. His pupil-age Man-enter'd thns, he waxed like a sea ; And, in the brunt of seventeen battles since. He lurch'd all swords of the garland. For this last, Before and in Corioli, let me say, I cannot speak him home : he atopp'd the fliers ; And by his rare example made the coward Turn terror into sport : as weeds'*" before A vessel onder sail, so men obey'd, And fell below his stem : his sword, death's stamp Where it did mark, it took ; from face to foot He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was tim'd with dying cries : alone he enter'd
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The mortal gate of the city, which he painted With Bhanlees destiny ; aidless came off. And with a sadden re-enforcement stnick Gorioli like a planet : now all's hie : When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce His ready sense ; then straight his doubled spirit Be -quicken 'd what in flesh was fatigate, And to the battle came he ; where he did Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if 'Twere a perpetnal spoil : and till we call'd Both field and city ours, he never stood To ease his breast with panting.
Men, Worthy man !
First Sen. He cannot bnt with measure fit the honours Which we devise him.
Com. Our spoils he kick'd at ;
And look'd npon things preoiouB as they were The common muck of the world : he covets less Than misery itself would give ; rewards His deeds with doing them ; and is content To spend the time to end it.
Men. He's right noble :
Let him be call'd for.
First Sen. Gall Goriolanns.
Off. H« doth appear.
Re-enter Goriolanus.
Men. The senate, Goriolanus, are well pleas'd To make thee consul.
Cor. I do owe them still
My life and services.
Men. It then remains
That yon do speak to the people.
Cor. I do beseech you.
Let me o'erleap that custom ; for I cannot Pat on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them. For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage : please you That I may pass this doing.
Sic. ■ Sir, the people
Must have their voices ; neither will they bate
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'One jot of ceremony.
Men. Put them not to't : —
Pray you, go fit yon io the custom ; and Take to you, as your predecessors have, Your honoor with your form.
Cor. It is a part
That I Bhall binsh in acting, and might well Be taken from the people.
Btu. [(oSic] Mark yoa that?
Cor. To hrag onto them, — thus I did, and thns; — Shew them th' nnaching scare which I ehonld hide, Ab if I had receiv'd them for tiie hire Of their breath only I —
Men. Do not stand npon't. —
We recommend to yon, tribunes of the people, Onr pnrpoBe to them ; — and to onr noble consul Wish we all joy and honour.'**'
Senators. To Coriolanus come all joy and honour !
\_Flourieh. Exeunt aU except Brutus and Sicinlus.
Bra. Yoa see how he intends to nse the people.
Sic. May they perceive 'b intent ! Be will require them, As if he did contemn what he requested Should be in them to give.
Bru. Gome, we'll inform them
Of onr proceedings here : on the market-place I know Uiey do attend us. ^Exeunt.
Scene in. The same. The Foram. Enter several Citizena.
First Cit. Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny htm.
Sec. Cit. We may, sir, if we will.
Third Cit. We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a power that we have no power to do : for if he show us his woonds, and tell us his deeds, we are to put our tongues into those wounds, and speak for them ; so, if he tell us bis noble deeds, we most also tell him our noble acceptance of them.
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Ingratitude is monBtroiiB : and for the mnltitade to be in-^- grateful, were to make a monster of the mnltitade ; of the which we being members, ahonld bring oarBelres to be mon- strous members.
Firat C'tt. And to moke as no better tbonght of, a little help will serve; for once we stood np abont the com, he him- self stack not to call as the many-headed multitude.
Third Git. We have been called bo of many ; not that onr heads are some brown, some black, some aubnm,'^ some bald, bat that onr wits are so diversely coloared : and trnly I think, if all oar wits were to issue oat of one sknll, they woald fiy east, west, north, soath ; and their consent of one direct way sbonld be at once to all the points o' the compass.
Sec. Cit. Think yon so ? Which way do yoa judge my wit woald fly?
Third Cit. Nay, yonr wit will not so soon out as another man's will, — 'tis strongly wedged np in a block-head ; but if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward.
Sec. Cit. Why that way?
Third Cit. To lose itself in a fog; where being three parts melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.
Sec. Cit. You are never without your tricks : — ^you may, you may.
Third Cit. Are yoa all resolved to give your voices ? Bat that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I say, if he would incline to the people, there was never a worthier man. — Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his beha- viour. We are not to stay all together, but to come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and by threes. He's to make his requests by particulars ; wherein every one of ua has a single honour, in giving him our own voices with our own tongues : therefore follow me, and I'll direct you how yon shall go by him.
All. Content, content, [^Exeunt.
Enter Coriolahus and Menbhius. Men, 0 sir, you are not right : have you not known The worthiest men have done't ?
Cor. What must I say?—
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" I pray, air," — Flagae apoa't ! I cannot bring
My tongue to snch a pace : — " Look, sir ; — my wonnds ; —
I got them in my coantry's Benice, when
Some certain of yoor brethren roar'd, and ran
From the noise of onr own dmms."
Men. O me, the gods 1
Yoa most not speak of that ; yon most desire them To think npon yoo.
Cor. Think apoo me ! bang 'em !
I woold they would forget me, like the Tirtoes "Which OUT divines lose by 'em.
Men. You'll mar all ;
I'll leare yon : pray yon, speak to 'em, I pray yon. In wholesome manner.
Cor. Bid them wash their faces.
And keep their teeth dean. [^Exit Meneniut.^ — So, here oomes a brace.
Ee-enier tteo Citizens. Yoo know the canse, sirs, of my standing here.
First Cit. We do, sir;'*" tell ns what hath brought you to't.
Cor. Mine own desert.
See. Cit. Your own desert I
Cor. Ay, not'"' mine own desire.
First Cit, How 1 not your own desire 1
Cor. No, sir, 'twas neTCr my desire yet to trouble the poor with begging.
First Cit. Ton must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to gain by you.
Cor. Well, tjien, I pray, your price o' the coDsnlship ?
First Cit. The price is, to ask it kindly.
Cor. Kindly I Su, I pray, let me ha't : I have wounds to show you, which shall be yoors in prirate. — Your good Toice, sir ; what say you ?
Sec. Cit. Yon shall ha't, worthy air.
Cor. A match, sir. — There's in all two worthy voices begged. — I have your alms : adieu.
First Cit. But this is something odd.
Sec. Cit. An 'twere to give again, — but 'tis no matter.
[Exeunt the two Citizetu.
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Cor. Pray yon now, if it may stand with the tone of yonr voices that I may be codbuI, I have here the castomary gown.
Third Cit, You have deserved nobly of your country, and yoa have not deserved nobly.
Cor. Your enigma ?
Third Cit. You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have been a rod to her friends ; you have not, indeed, loved the common people.
Cor. Yoa should account me the more virtuous, that I have not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer estimation of them ; 'tis a condition they account gentle : and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise the insinoatiag nod, and be off to them most counterfeitly ; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the be- witchment of some popular man, and give it bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you I may be consul.
Fourth Cit. We hope to find you onr friend ; and there- fore give you our voices heartily.
Third Cit. You have received many wounds for your country.
Cor. I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I will make much of your voices, and eo trouble yon no forthfir.
Both Cit. The gods give you joy, sir, heartily t l_Exeunt.
Cor. Most sweet voices 1 — Better it is to die, better to starve, Than crave the hire which first we do deserve. Why in this woolless toge'"* should I stand here, To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear, Their needless vouches ? Custom calls me to't : — What custom wills, in all things should we do't. The dust on antique time would lie unswept. And moantoinouB error be too highly heapt For truth t' o'er-peer. Bather than fool it so. Let the high office and the hononr go To one that would do thus. — I am half through ; The one part auffer'd, th' other will I do. —
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Here come more voicea.
Rtrenter three other Citizens. I Tonr voices : for your voices I have fonght ; Watch'd for yoar voices ; for yonr voices bear Of woimdB two dozen odd ; battles thrice six I've seen, and heard of;*" for yoar voices have Done many things, some less, some more : yoar voices : Indeed, I woold be consalj
Fifth Cit. He has done nobly, and cannot go withoat any honest man's voice.
Sixth Cit. Therefore let him be oonaol: the gods give him joy, and make him good friend to the people !
All three Citizerta. Amen, amen. — God save thee, noble consnl ! lExeunt.
Cor. Worthy voices !
Re-enter MENEKttis, viitti Bsatvz and SiciNins.
Men. Yon've stood yoot limitation; and the tribnnes Endne yon with the people's voice: itemains That, in th' official marks invested, yon Anon do meet the senate.
Cor. Ib this done ?
Sie. The cnstom of reqnest yon have discharg'd : The people do admit yon ; and are enmmon'd To meet anon, upon yonr approbation.
Cor. Whers ? at the senate-honse ?
Sic. There, Coriolanns.
Cor. May I, then,"" change these garments ?
Sic. Yoa may, sir.
Cot. That Til straight do ; and, knowing myself again, Bepair to the senate^honse.
Men. I'll keep yon company. — Will yoa along ?
Bru. We stay here for the people.
Sic. Fare yon well.
[Exeunt Coriolanue and Meneniue. He has it now ; and, by bis looks, methinks 'Tia warm at's heart.
Bru. With a proud heart he wore
Hifl humble weeds. — Will you dismias the people ?
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He-etUer Citizens.
Sic. How now, my maatera ! have yoo chose this man ?
Firit Cit. He has our Toi<^B, bit.
Bru. We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.
Sec. Cit. Amen, sir : — to my poor nnworthy notion,"" He mock'd us when he begg'd onr Toices.
Third Cit. CertMnly
He floated as downright.
Firtt Cit. No, 'tis his kind of speech, — he did not mock ns.
Sec. Cit. Not one amongst ns, save yourself, but Bays He ns'd ns soomfolly ; he ahonld have show'd as His marks of merit, wounds receiv'd for'e conntiy.
Sie. Why, bo he did, I'm sure.
All the Citizens. No, no ; no man saw 'em.
Third Cit. He said he had wonndB, which he could show in private ; And with hie hat, thus waving it in scorn, " I would he consul," says he ; " ag^ cuBtom Bat by your voices will not bo permit me ; Your voices therefore:" when we granted that. Here was, " I thank yon for yoor voices, — thank you, — Tour most sweet voioes: — now you have left your voices, I have no farther with you :" — vras not this mockery ?
Sic. Why, either were you ignorant to see't ? Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness To yield year voices ?
Bru. Could you not have told him.
As yoa were leBBon'd, — when he had no power. Bat was a petty servant to the state. He was your enemy ; ever spake against Yoar liberties, and the charters that you bear I' the body of the weal ; and now, uriving A place of potency, and sway o' the state, If he should still malignantly remain Fast foe to the plebeii, yoar voices might Be curses to yourselves ? You should have said, That as his worthy deeds did claim no less Than what he stood for, so his grocions natore
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Wonld think npon yon for yoar Toicea, and TtftDsUte his malice towards ;oa into love, Standing yonr friendly lord.
Sic. ThoB to have said,
As you were fore-adTis'd, had tonch'd his spirit And tried bis inclination ; from him pluck'd Either his gracions promise, which yon might, Ab caase had cali'd you up, have held him to ; Or else it woold have gaU'd his snrly natare. Which easily endnres not article Tying him to anght ; so, patting him to rage. Yon shoald have ta'en th' advantage of hia choler. And paas'd him nnelected.
Bru. Did yon peroeiTe
He did solicit yoa in free contempt. When he did need yoar loves ; and do you think That his contempt shall not he hraiaing to yoa. When he bath power to crush ? Why, bad yoor bodies No heart amoog yon ? or had yoa tongaes to cry Against the rectorship of judgment?
Sic. Have yoa.
Ere now, denied the asker ? and now again, Of him"*' that did not ask, bat mock, bestow Your BQ'd-for tongaes ?
Third Cit. He's not confirm'd ; we may
Deny him yet.
See. Cit. And will deny him ; I Will have five hundred voices of that sound.
F^Ttt Cit, I twice five hundred, and their friends to piece
Bru. Get yoa hence instantly; and tell those fiieods They've chose a consul that will from them t^e Their liberties ; make them of no mote voice Than dogs, that are as often beat for barking As therefore kept to do so.
Sic. Let them assemble ;
And, OB a safer judgment, all revoke Your ignorant election: enforce his pride, And bis old bate unto yoa : besides, forget not With what contempt he wore the bumble weed ;
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How iD his suit he scDm'd yoa ; bat your loTes, Thinking upon hia services, took from yon The apprehension of hia present port&nce, Which most gibingly, nngravely, he did fashion**" After th' inveterate hate he bears yon.
Bru. Lay
A fanlt on ns, your tribanes ; that we kbonr'd, No impediment between, bat that yon mnst Cast your election on him.
Sic. Say you chose him
More after onr commandment than as gnided ' By yonr own true affections ; and that yonr minds, Pre-occopied with what yon rather mast do Than what yon should, made yoo against the grain To voice him consnl: lay the fault on ns.
Btu. Ay, spare ns not. Say we read lectures to yon. How yoangly he began to aerve his country, How long contina'd ; and what stock he springs of, — The noble bonse o' the Marcians; from whence came That Aneus Marcias, Noma's daughter's son. Who, after great Hostilins, here was king ; Of the same house Publius and Quintus were. That our best water brought by conduits hither ; And CensorinnB, who was nobly nam'd so. Twice being by the people chosen censor, Was his great ancestor.'**'
Sic. One thus descended.
That hath beside well in his person wrought To be set high in place, we did commend To your remembrances ; bat you have found, Scaling hia present bearing with his past. That he's your fixM enemy, and revoke Yonr sudden approbation.
Btu. Say you ne'er had done't —
Harp on that still — but by oar patting on : And presently, when you have drawn your number, Repair to the Capitol.
AU the Citizeju. We will so : almost all Bepent in their election. lExeunt.
Bru. Let them go on ;
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This mutiny were better pat in hazard.
Than stay, past donbt, for greater:
If, as his nature is, he fall in lage
With their refusal, both ohserre and answer
The Tantage of his anger.
Sic. To the Capitol, come :
We will be there before the atream o* the people ; And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own. Which we hare goaded onward. [Exeunt.
ACT III.
Scene I. Rome. A street.
Comets. Enter CooiOLANtrB, Menenihb, Cokihidb, Titus Lartius, Senators, and Fatricians.
Cor. TaUas Anfidias, then, had made new head ?
hart. He had, my lord ; and that it was which caas'd Oar swifter composition.
Cor. So, then, the Volsces stand but as at first ; Beady, when time shall prompt them, to make road Upon's again.
Com. They're worn, lord consul, so.
That we shall hardly in onr ages see Their banners wave again.
Cor. Saw yon Aufidins ?
Lart. On safe-gnard he came to me; and did cnrse Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely Yielded the town : he is retir'd to Antinm.
Cor. Spoke he of me ?
Lart. He did, my lord.
Cor. ^ow? what?
Lart. How often he had met yon, sword to sword^ That of all things upon the earth he hated Yonr person most ; that he would pawii his fortnnes To hopeless restitution, bo he might Be coll'd yonr Tanqoisher.
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Cor. At Antinm lives ha ?
Lart. At Antinm.
Cor. I wish I had a caxiae to seek him there, T' oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.
Enter Siciniub and B&UTua. Behold, these are the tribaues of the people, The tonpnee o' the common month :_I^o deapise them ; For they do prank them in anthority, Against all noble enfferance.
Sic. PaBB no farther.
Cor. Ha ! what is that ?
Bni. It will be dangeroQB to go on : no farther.
Cor. What makes this change ?
Men. The matter ?
Com. Hath he not pass'd the nobles and the commons ?""
Bru. CominiUB, no.
Cor. HaTe I had children's Toices ?
First Sen. Tribunes, give way ; he shall to the market- place.
Bni. The people are inoens'd against him.
Sic. Stop,
Or all will fall in broil.
Cor. Are these yonr herd ? —
Hast these have voices, that can yield them now. And straight disclaim their tongnes ? — What are your o£Bces ? Yoa being their months, why rnle yon not their teeth 9 Have yon not set them on ?
Men. Be calm, be calm.
Cor. It is a pnrpos'd thing, and grows by plot. To curb the will of the nobility : Snffer 't, and live with snch as cannot role, Nor ever will be ml'd.
Bru. Call't not a plot :
The people cry yon mock'd them ; and of late, When com was given them gratis, yon repin'd ; Scandal'd the anppUants for the people, — call'd them Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.
Cor. Why, this was known before.
Sru. Not to them all.
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Cor. Have yon mfotm'd them sitlience ?
Bru. How ! I inform them 1
Cor.°-^ You're like to do snch bnsineBs.
Bra. Not nDlike,
Each way, to better yoars.
Cor. Why, then, ebonld I be oonsal ? By yond clondB, Let me deeerre so ill as yoa, sDd make me YooT fellow tribane.
Sic. You show too much of that
For which the people stir : if yon will pass To where yoa're- boacd, yoa mast inquire yonr way, Which yoa are out of, with a geatler spirit ; Or nerer be so noble as a coDsnl, Nor yoke with him for tribnoe.
Men. Let's be calm.
Com. The people are abos'd : set on. This paltering Becomes not fiome ; nor has Coriolanns Deserv'd this so dishonoar'd rub, laid falsely I' the plain way of his merit.
Cor. Tell me of com 1
This was my speech, and I will gpeak't again, —
Men. Not now, not now.
Firtt Sen, Not in this heat, sir, now.
Cor. Now, as I live, I will. — My nobler friends, I crave their pardons : — For the matable, rank-scented many, let them Begard me as I do not flatter, and Therein behold themselres : I say again, Li soothing them, we noarish 'gainst oar senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Which we ourselves hare ploagh'd for, sow'd, and scatter'd. By mingling them with us, the hononr'd number ; Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that Which they have given to beggars.
Men. Well, no more.
Firgt Sen. No more words, we beseech you.
Cor. How ! no more I
As for my country I have shed my blood. Not fearing outward force, so shall my langa Coin words till their decay against those measles.
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Which we diedain shonld tetter hb, yet songht The very way to catch them.
Bni. You speak o' the people,
As ifyoa were a god to pnnish, not A man of their infirmity.
Sic. 'Twete well
We let the people know't.
Men. What, what? his choler?
Cor. Choler! Were I as patient as the midnight sleep. By JoTC, 'twould be my mind !
Sic. It is a mind
That shall remain a poison where it is, Not poison any further.
Cor. Shall remain ! —
Heat you this Triton of the minnows ? mark you His absolute " shall" ?
Com. 'Twas from the canon.
Cor. "Shall"!
0 good,""" bat most unwise patricians ! why, You grave, but reckless senators, have you thus Given Hydra heart to choose an officer,"'* That wiUi his peremptory " shall," being but The horn and noise o' the monster,"**'' wants not spirit To say he'll turn your current in a ditch, And make yonr channel his ? If he have power. Then vail your ignorance ; if none, awake Your dangerous lenity."**' If you are leam'd,"*** Be not as common fools ; if you are not, Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,""* If they be senators : and they are no less. When, both your voices blended, the great'et taste Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate ; And snch a one as he, who puts his " shall," His popular " shall," against a graver bench Than ever frown'd in Greece. By Jove himself. It makes the consuls base I and my sonl aches To know, when two authorities are up, Neither supreme, how soon confasion May enter 'twixt the gap of both, and take
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Com. Well, — on to the market-place.
Cor. Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth The com o' the storehouse gratis, as 'twas us'd Sometinie in Greece, —
Men. Well, well, no more of that.
Cor, Thongh there the people had more absolute power, — I say, they nonrish'd disobedience, fed The rain of the state.
Bru. Why, shall the people give
One that speaks thus their voice ?
Cor. I'll give my reasons,
More worthier than their voices. They know the com Was not our recompense, '^"' resting well asanr'd They ne'er did service for't : being preea'd to the war, Even when the navel of the state was touch'd, They would not thread the gates : — this kind of service Did not deserve com gratis : being i' the war. Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show'd Most valour, spoke not for them : th' accusation Which they have often made against the sefate, All cause nubom, could never be the motive**"^ Of our so frank donation. Well, what then ? How shall this bissos multitude"'*' digest The senate's courtesy ? Let deeds express What's like to be their words : — " We did reqnest it ; We are the greater poll, and in tme fear They gave us our demands :" — thus we debase The nature of oar seats, and make the rabble Call our cares feats ; which will in time break ope The locks o' the senate, and bring in the crows To peck the eagles.
Men. Come, enough."''*
Brtt. Enough, with Over-measure.
Cor. No, take more :
What may be sworn by, both divine and human. Seal what I end withal ! — This double worship, — Where one"'" part does disdain with cause, the other Insult without all reason ; where gentry, title, wisdom.
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Cannot cocolnde bat by tbe yea and do
Of general ignorance, — it tnaet omit
Real necessities, and give way tbe wbile
T' unstable sligbtness : porpose bo ban'd, it follows,
Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech yon, —
Yon that will be less fearful than discreet ;
That love tbe ftindamental part of state
More than yon doubt the change on't ; that prefer
A noble life before a long, and wish
To imp a body with a dangerous physic*^'*'
That's snre of death without it, — at once pluck out
The m'ultitudinons tongue ; let them not lick
The sweet which is their poison : your dishonoar
Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state
Of that integrity which should become *t ;
Not having the power to do the good it would,
For th' ill which doth control 't.
Bra. 'Has said enough.
Sic. 'Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.
Cor. Thon wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee ! — What should the people do with these bald tribunes ? On whom depending, their obedience fkils To the greater bench : in a rebellion. When what's not meet, but what must be, was law. Then were they chosen : in a better hour. Let what is meet be said it must be meet. And throw their power i' the dust.
Btu. Manifest treason 1
Sic. This a consul ? no.
Bru. The lediles, ho I
Enter an MdHo.
Let him be apprehended. Sic. Go, oaU the people [Exit jEdile] : — in whose name myself Attach thee as a traitorous innovator, A foe to the public weal : obey, I charge thee. And follow to thine answer.
Cor. Hence, old goat I
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Sen. and Pat. We'll surety him.
Com. AgiA sir, haude off."'**
Cor. Hence, rotten thing 1 or I shall shake thy hones Ont of thy garments.
Sie. Help, ye citizens 1
Enter a rahble of Citizens, with the ..Sldiles.
Men. On hoth sides more respect.
Sic. Here's he that would take from yon all yoor power.
Bru. Seize him, (ediles !
Citizena. Down with him ! down with him !
Sen. Pat. dc. Weapons, weapons, weapons!
[They all buslU about Corioianut. Tribanes ! — Patricians ! — Citizens ! — What, ho ! — Sicinias ! — Brains ! — Coriolantis ! — Citizens I — Peace, peace, peace t — Stay, hold, peace!"'**
Men. What is aboat to be ? — I'm oat of breath ; Confasion's near; I cannot speak. — ^Yon, tribones. Speak""* to the people : — CoriolamiB, patience : — Speak, good Sicinins.
Sic. Hear me, people ; peace !
Citizent. Let's hear oar tribune : peace 1 — Speak, apeak, speak.
Sic. Yon are at point to lose yonr liberties : Maroias woold have all &om yon ; Marcins, _Whom late yon have nam'd for consul.
Men. Fie, fie, fie !
This is the way to kindle, not to qnench.
Firtt Sen. t' onboild the city, and to lay all flat.
Sie. What is the city but the people ?
Citizetu. True,
The people are the city.
Bru. By the consent of all, we were establish'd The people's magistrates.
Citizens. You so remain.
Men. And so are like to do.
Cor. That is the way to lay the city flat;"'® To bring tiie roof to the foundation. And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges. In heaps and piles of rain.
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Sic. This deserres death.
Bru. Or let as stand to oni anthoritj. Or let us lose it. — We do here pronoance, Upon the part o' the people, in whose power We were elected theirs, Marcias is worthy Of present death. ~ -
iSts: — - • Therefore lay hold of him ; Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence Into destmction cast him.
Bru. ^diles, seize him !
Citizens. Yield, Maroias, yield t
Men. Hear me one word :
Beseech yon, trihnnes, hear me bqt a word.
jEd. Peace, peace !
Men. Be that yon seem, tmly your country's friends,""' And temperately proceed to what yon wonld Thns Tiolently redress.
Bru. Sir, those cold ways.
That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonons Where the disease is violent. — Lay hands upon him. And bear him to the rock.
Cor. No, m die here. IDrawing kit aword.
There's some among yoa have beheld me fighting : Come, try npon yourselves what yon have seen me.
Men. Down with that aword ! — Tribunes, withdraw awhile.
Bru. Lay hands npon him.
Men. Help, help*""' Marcins, help.
Yon that be noble ; help him, young and old I
Citizens. Down with him ! down with him I
[Jn this mutiny the Triiun4^s, tlie jEdiles, and the People are beat in.
Men. Go, get you to your'^'" house ; be gone, away ! All will be na)ight else.
Sec. Sen. Get you gone.
Cor."""' Stand fast ;
We have as many friends as enemies.
Men. Shall it be put to that ?
First Sen. The gods forbid !—
I prithee, noble friend, home to thy bonse; Leave us to cnre this cause.
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Men, For 'tie a bom opon na.
You caanot tent yonrself : be gone, beseech yon.
Com.'^^ Come, sir, along with us.
Cor. I would they were barbarians,^*" aa they are, Though in Rome litter'd ; not Romane, as they are not, Thoagfa calv'd i' the porch o' the Capitol —
Men. Begone;
Put not yonr worthy rage into yoar tongce; One time will owe EUiotber.
Cor. On fair ground
I could beat forty of them.'
Men. I could myself
Take up a brace o' the best of them ; yea, the two tri- bnnes."*»
Com. But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic ; And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands Against a falling fabric. — Will you hence. Before the tag return ? whose rage doth rend Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear What they are na'd to bear.
Men. Pray you, be gone :
I'll try whether my old wit be in request With those that have but little : this must be patch'd With cloth of any colour.
Com. Nay, come away.
[Exeunt Coriolanus, Cominiut, and otherf.
Firtt Pat. This man has marr'd hia fortune.
Men. His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth: What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death. — [A noise within.
Here's goodly work !
Sec. Pat. I would they were a-bed !
Men. I wonld they were in Tiber t What, the Tcugeance, Could he not speak 'em &ir ?
Be^enter Brutus and Sicintus, vn'ih the rahUe. Sic. Where is this viper,
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That wonld depopulate the cit?, and Be every man himaelf ?
Men. Yon worthy tribaneB, —
Sic. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock With rigoroae hands ; he hath reaiated law, And therefore law shall ecom him further trial Than the severity of the public power. Which he so sets at naught.
First Cit. He shall well know
The noble tribunes are the people's mouths, And we their hands.
Citizens. He shall, sure on't.
Men. Sir, sir, —
Sic. Peace!
Men. Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt With modest warrant.
Sic. Sir, how comes 't that yon
Have holp to make thig. rescue ?
Men. Hear me speak : —
As I do know the consul's worthiness. So can I name bia tanlts, —
Sic. Consnl ! — ^whst consul?
Men. The consul Coriolanas.
Bru. Heconaul!*'"
Citizem. No, no, no, no, no.
Men. If, by the tribanes' leave, and yonrs, good people, I may be heard, I'd crave a word or two ; TJie which shall torn you to no farther harm Than so much loss of time.
Sic. Speak briefly, then ;
For we are peremptory to dispatch Thia viperous traitor : to eject him hence Were but our*^*" danger ; and to keep him here Oar certain death : therefore it is decreed He dies to-night.
Men. ' Now the good gods forbid
That our renownM Bome, whose gratitude Towards her deaervM children is enroU'd In (Tove'fl own book, like an nnnatnral dam Should now eat ap her own t
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Sic. He's a disease that mast be cut away.
Men. O, he's a limb that has but a disease ; Mortal, to out it off ; to cnre it, easy. What has he done to Borne that's worthy death ? Eilling our enemies, the blood he hath lost — Which, I dare Tonch, is more than that he bath, By many an onnce — be dropp'd it for his country ; And what is left, to loae it by his conntry, Were to ns all, that do't and saffer it, A brand to th' end o' the world.
Sie. This is clean kam.
Bru. Merely awry ; when he did love hie country. It hoDoor'd him.
Men. The service of the foot
Being once gangren'd, is not then respected For what before it was."*"
Bra. We'll hear no more. —
Pnrsne him to bis honse, and pluck bim thence ; Lest his infection, being of catching nature. Spread farther.
Men. One word more, one word.
This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find The barm of anscann'd swiftness, will, too late. Tie leaden ponnds to's heels. Proceed by process ; Lest parties — as he is beloT'd — break ont, And sack great Rome with Romans.
Bru. If it were so, —
Sic. What do ye talk ? Hare we not had a taste of his obedience ? Oar »diles smote ? ourselves resisted ? — Come, —
Men. Consider this : — he has been bred i' the wars Since he could draw a sword, and ts ill school'd In bolted language ; meal and bran together He throws without distinction. Give me leave, m go to him, and andertake to bring him Where he shall answer, by a lawful form, — ■ In peace,' — to his utmost peril."*"
Firft Sen. Noble tribunes.
It is the humane way : the other course Will prove too bloody ; and. the end of it
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Unknown to the beginning.
Sic. Noble Menenins,
Be you, then, m the people's officer. — MasterB, lay down yonr wespons.
Bra. Go not home.
Sic. Meet on the market-place. — We'll attend you there : ■Where, if you bring not Marcins, we'll proceed In onr firet way.
Men. I'll bring him to you. — {To the Senators] Let me Desire your company : he mnat come, or what Is worst will follow.
First Sen. Pray yon, let us to him. lEzeant.
SoBNB n. A room in Cobiolanus's home. Enter Cobiolakub and Pfttricians.
Cor. Let them pull all about mine ears ; present me Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels ; Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock. That the precipitation might down stretch Below the beam of sight ; yet will I still Be thus to them.
First Pat. Yoa do the nobler."*''
Cor. ' I muse my mother Does not approve me farther, who was wont To call them woollen vassals, things created To buy and sell with groats ; to show bare heads In congregations, to yawn, be still, and wonder, When one but of my ordinance stood up To speak of peace or war.
Enter VoLtHNiA. I talk of yon : Why did yon wish me milder ? wo^ld yon have me False to my natnre ? Bather say, I play ""The man I am.""''
Vol. O, sir, sir, sir,«*»
I would have had yoa put yonr power well on. Before yoa had worn it out.
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Cor. Let go,"*"
Vol, Yon might have been enongh the man yon are. With striving leas to be so : lesser had been The thwartingB of your disposition,""' if Yon had not show'd them how ye were diapos'd Ere they hick'd power to cross yon.
Cor. Let them bang.
Vol. Ay, and bnm too.*"*
Enter Mknbhicb and Senatots.
Men. Come, come, yoo've been too rough, something too rough; Yon mnst return and mend it.
First Sen. There's no remedy ;
Unlees, by not ao doing, our good city Cleave in the midst, and perish.
Vol. Pray, be connsell'd:
I have a heart as little apt as yonrs, Bat yet a brain that leads my use of anger To better vantoge."**
Men. Well said, noble woman !
Before he should thns stoop to th' herd,'"" but thai The violent fit o' the time craves it as physio For the whole state, I'd put mine armonr on. Which I can scarcely bear.
Cor. What must I do ?
' Men. Betum to the tribonee.
Cor. WeU, what then ? what then ?
Men. Repent what you have spoke.
Cor. For them ? — I cannot do it to the gods ; Must I, then, do't to them ?
Vol. You are too absolute ;
Though therein you oan never be too noble, But when extremities speak. I've heard you Bay, Honour and poUcy, like unsever'd friends, r the war do grow together : grant that, and tell me, In peace what each of them by th' other lose,"*" That they combine not there.
Cor. Toah, tush I
Men. A good demand.
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Vol. If it be hoDOar ia yonr ware to seem The HamaroTi are not. — which, for yaui beat ends, Y55~a3[optyour policy, — how ie it leaa or woree, TESfit-BhaU-liold i:OmpgSion6hip in peaca w ith noDonr, as in war^ since that to Iwtb ITelAndB in li£e reqnest ?
Cor. "Why force yoa this ?
Vol. Becanee that now it lies yon on"''' to apeak To the people ; not by your own instniction, Nor by the matter which yonr heart prompts you,***" Bat with gnch words that are bnt rooted in Yonr tongue,''*" thoagh bnt bastarda, and Byllablea"*" Of no allowance"*" to yonr bosom's truth. Now, this no more dishononrs yon at all Than to take in a town with gentle words. Which else wonld pnt yon to yonr fortnne, and The hazard of much blood. I wonld dissemble with my nature, where ]Uy fortunes and my friends at stake requir'd I should do 80 in hononr : I am, in this, Yonr wife, yoar son, these senators, the nobles ; And yon will rather show our general louts How yon can frown than Spend a fawn upon 'em. For the inheritance of their loves, and safeguard Of what that want might rnin.
Men. Noble lady ! —
Come, go with us ; speak fair: yon may salre so. Not what is dangerous present, but the loss Of what is past.
Vol. I prithee now, my son,
Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand ; And thus far having stretch'd it, — here be with them, — Thy knee bussing the stones, — for in such business Action is eloquence, and th' eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears, — waving thy head, Which often, thus, correcting thy etont heart. Now humble'***' as the ripest mulberry That will not hold the handling, — say"*^ to them, Thon art their soldier, and, being bred in broils. Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess.
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Weie fit for thee to iiBe, as they to claim, In saking their good loveB ; bat thon wilt frame Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far As thou hast power and person.
Men. This bnt done.
Even as she speaks it,"**' why, their hearts were yours ; For they have pardons, being asb'd, as free As words (0 little porpose.
Vol. Prithee now,
Oo, and be ral'd : althongh I know thon badst rather Follow thine enemy in a fiery gnlf Than flatter him in a bower.— Here is Com
Enter CoMiiniifl.
Com. I've been i' the market-place ; and, sir, 'tis fit YoQ make strong party, or defend yonrself By cahnness or by absence : all's in anger.
Men. Only fair speech.
Com. I think 'twill serve, if he
Can thereto frame his spirit.
Vol. He mast, and will. —
Prithee now, say yon will, and go abont it.
Cor. Mnst I go show them my nnbarb'd sconce? moat I With my base tongne give to my noble heart A lie that it mnst hear ? Well, I will do't : Yet, were there bnt this single plot to lose. This moald of Marciae, they to dast should grind it. And throw't against the wind. — To the market-place ! — You've put me now to such a part, which never I shall discharge to the life.
Com. Gome, come, we'll prompt yon.
Vol. I prithee now, sweet son, — as thon hast said My praises made thee first a soldier, so. To have my praise for this, perform a part Thon hast not done before.
Cor. Well, I must do't :
Away, my disposition, and possess me Borne harlot's spirit t my throat of war be tom'd, Which quirfed"*" with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch's,"*** or the virgin voice
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Thst babies Inlla asleep I''"' the smiles of kmiTea Tent in my cheeks ; and schoolboys' tears take ap The glasseB of my eight ! a beggar's tongae Make motion throagh my lips ; and my arm'd knees. Who bow'd bnt in my stirrap, bend like his That bath receiv'd an alms ! — I will not do't ; Lest I anrceaae to bonoor mine own tratb, And b; my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baaenesa.
Vol. At thy choice, then :
To beg of thee, it ie my more dishononr Than thon of them. Come all to rnin : let Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear Thy dangerone stoatness ; for I mock at death With as big heart as thon. Do as thon list. Thy Taliantness was mine, thon snck'dst it ttom me ; Bat owe"** thy pride thyself.
Cor. Pray, be content :
Mother, I'm going to the market-place ; . Chide me no more. FU mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloT'd Of all the trades in Home. Look, I am going : Commend me to my wife. I'll return consnl ; Or never trnst to what my tongae can do I' the way of flattery farther.
Vol. Do yonr will. [Exit.
Com. Away ! the tribnnee do attend yon : arm yourBelf To answer mildly; for they are prepar'd With acoasations, as I hear, more strong Than are npon yon yet.
Cor. The word is "mildly:" — pray yon, let as go: Let them accnse me by invention, I Will answer in mine honour.
Men. Ay, bat mildly.
Cor. Well, mildly be it, then, — mildly! [Exeunt.
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, ScEHB m. The same. The Forum.
Enter SiciniDS and Brutus. Bra. In this point charge him home, — that he afTeots Tyraimical powet : if he evade hb there, Eoforce him with his obt; to the people; And that the spoil got on the Antiates Was ne'er distribnted.
Eraor an Mdi\». What, will he come ?
jEd. He's coming.
Bru. How accompanied?
^d. With old Menenins, and those senators That always &Totu'd him.
Sic. Hare yoa a catalogue
Of all the voices that we have procar'd. Set down by the poll?
^d. I have; 'tia ready."**
Sic. Have yon collected them by tribes ?
Md. I have.
Sic, Assemble presently the people hither : And when they hear me say, " It shall be so I' the right and strength o' the commons," be it either For deaUi, for fine, or banishment, then let them. If I say fine, cry " Fine," — if death, cry " Death ;" Insisting on the old prerogative And power i' the trath'^''' o' the cause.
£d. I shall inform them.
Bru. And when sach time they have began to' ory, Let them not cease, bnt with a din oonfas'd Enforce the present execution Of what we chance to sentence.
jEd. Very well.
Sic. Make them be strong, and ready for this hint, When we shall hap to give't them.
Bra. Go aboat it.— [Exit jEdUe.
Pat him to choler straight ; he hatb been ns'd Ever to conquer, and to have his worth'"''
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Of contradiction : being once chaf d, he cannot Be rein'd again to temperance ; then he speaks What's in his heart ; and that is there which looks With ti8 to break bia neck.
Sic. Well, here he conies.
Ihder CoBioiANDB, MENEKins, Cohihiub, Senatois, aitd Patricians.
Men. Calmlj, I do beseech yon.
Cor. A7, aa an ostler, that for the poorest piece Will bear the knave b; the volume. — The hononr'd gods Keep Bome in safety, and the chairs of justice Supplied with worthy men ! plant lore among 'a 1 Throng""' our large temples with the shows of peace. And not onr streets with war 1
First Sen. Amen, amen.
Men. A noble wish.
Me-enter JEdSe, with Citizens.
Sic. Draw near, ye people.
^d. List to yonr tribnnea ; andience ! peace, I say!
Cor. First, hear me speak.
Both Tri. Well, say.— Peace, ho !"">
Cor. Shall I be charg'd no further than this present ? Mast all determine here ?
Sic. I do demand,
If you submit yon to the people's voices, Allow their of&cers, and are content *
To saffer lawfnl censure for such faults As shall be prov'd upon you ?
Cor, I'm content.
Men. Lo, citizens, he says he is content : The warlike service he has done, consider ; think Upon the wounds his body bears, which show Like graves i' the holy churchyard.
Cor. Scratches with briers,
Soars to move laughter only.
Men. Consider farther.
That when he speaks not like a citizen. You find him like a soldier : do not take His rougher accents"**" for malicious sounds,
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But, 88 I Bftj, finch as become & soldier, Rather than envy joa.
Com. Well, well, no more.
Cor. What is the matter, That being pass'd for consnl witi fnll voice Vm so diabonoor'd, that the Yery hoar Yon take it off again ?
Sic. Answer to as.
Cor. Say, then : 'tis true, I ought so.
(Sic. We charge yon, that you have contriv'd to take From Rome all season'd office, and to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical ; For which yoa are a traitor to the people.
Cor. How! traitor!
Irfyn. Nay, temperately; your promise.
Cor. The fires i* the lowest hell fold-in the people ! Gall me their traitor ! — Thou injurions tribune 1 Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths. In thy hands clatch'd as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say " Thou liest" unto thee with a voice as free As I do pray the gods.
Sic. Mark you this, people ?
Citizeiu. To the rock, to the lock with him !***"
Sic. Peace !
We need not pat new matter to bia charge : Wliat you have seen him do, and heard him speak. Beating your officers, cursing yonrselvea, Opposing laws with strokes, and here defying Those whose great power must try bim ; even this, - So criminal, and in such capital kind. Deserves th' extremest death.
Bru. But since he hath
Serv'd well for Borne, —
Cor. What do you prate of service ?
Bru. I talk of that that know it.
Cor. You?
Men. Is this the promise that yon made yonr mother ?
Com. Enow, I pray yoa, —
Cor. VU know no farther :°"
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"Let them pioBoniice the Bteep Tarpeiau death, Vagabond exile, flaTing, pent to linger Bnt with a grain a day, — ^I would not bny Their mercy at the price of one fair word ; Nor check my courage'"'" for what they can give, To haTe't with aaying " Good morrow."
Sic. For that he has,
Ab mncb as in him lies, from time to time Envied againBt the people,""" seeking means To pluck away their power ; as now at last Qiven hostile strokes, and that not in the presence Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers That do distribute it ; — in the name o' the people, And in the power of as the tribunes, we. Even from this instant, banish him our city; In peril of precipitation From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates : i' the people's name, I say it shall be so.
CitizenB. It shall be so,
It shall be so ; let him away: he's banish' d. And it shall be so.
Com. Hear me, my masters and my common friends, —
Sic. He's sentene'd ; no more hearing.
Com. Let me epeak :
I have been consul, and can show for"*'" Rome Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love My country's good with a respect more tender. More holy, and profoond, than mine own life. My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase. And treasure of my loins ; then if I would Speak that, —
Sic. We know your drift ;— apeak what ?
Bru. There's no more to be said, but be is banish'd. As enemy to the people and bis country: It shall be so.
Citizens. It shall be so, it shall be so.
Cor, You common cry of curs ! whose breath I hate Aa reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead careasses"*" of unbnried men
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That do cormpt my air, — I banish yoa ;
And here remain with your nncertaio^ I
Let every feeble mmocr shake year hearts I
Yonr eoemieB, with nodding of their plnmes.
Fan yoo into despair ! Have the power Btill
To banish yonr defenders ; till at lenj^h
Yonr ignorance, which finds not till it feels.
Making not^"* reservation of yonrselTes,
Still yonr own foes, deliver yon, as most
Abated"*" captivee, to some nation
That won yon without blows ! Despising, then,*"**
For yon, the city, thns I tnm my back :
There is a world elsewhere.
[Exeunt Coriolanua, Cominiui, Menenius, Senators, and Patriciant.
JEd. The people's enemy is gone, is gone !
Citiizena. Onr enemy is hanish'd ! he is gone Hoo ! hoo 1 [Shouting, and throwing up their cape.
Si€. Qo, see him ont at gates, and follow him. As he hath foUow'd yoa, with all despite ; Give him deserv'd vexation. Let a gnard Attend ns tbioagh the city.
CiHzene. Come, come, let's see him oat at gates ; come, come : — "**• The gods preserve onr nohle tribnnes ! — come. [Exeimt.
ACT IV.
SoBNE I. Rome. Before a gate of the city. Enter Cobiolakctb, VoLtmHiA, Virgilia, Kbnbmios, Cokiniub, and teveral ynung Patriciaoe. Cor. Come, leave yonr tears; a brief &rewell: — the beast With many beads batts me away. — Nay, mother, Where is yonr ancient courage ? yon were ns'd To say extremity was the trier of spirit ;"*"
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That common diancee oommoB men could bear ;
That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike
Shov'd maBtership in floating ; fortune's blows.
When moat strnck home, being gentle wounded, crayes"***
A noble canning : you weie ue'd to load me
With precepts that would make invincible
The heart ttiat coun'd them.
Vir. 0 heavens ! 0 heavens !
Cor. Nay, I prithee, woman,—
Vol. Kow the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome, And occupations perish !
Cor. What, what, what I
I shall be lov'd when I am lack'd. Nay, mother. Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say. If f oa had been the wife of Hercules, Six of his UboiiTB you'd have done, and sav'd Your husband so much sweat. — Cominins, Droop not ; adieu. — Farewell, my wife, — my mother : I'll do well yet. — Thou old and true Menenins, Thy tears are Salter than a younger man's. And venomous to thine eyas. — My sometime general, I've seen thee stern, and thou hast oh beheld Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women, 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes, ka 'tis to laugh at 'em. — My mother, yon wot well My hazards still have been your solace : and Believe't not lightly, — though I go alone. Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen, — ^yoar son Will or exceed the common, or be caught With cantelouB baits and practice.
Vol. My first son,""'
Whither wilt thou go ? Take good Cominius With thee awhile : determine on somo course. More than a wild exposure''^ to each chance That starts i' the way before thee.
Cor. 0 the gods !
Com. I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee Where thon shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us. And we of thee : so, if the time thrust forth
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A canse for thy repeal, we ehall not send O'er the vast world to seek a single man ; And lose advantage, which doth ever cool I' th' sbeence of the needer.
Cor. Fare ye well :
Thoa'at years npon tfaee; and thoa art too full Of the wars' surfeits, to go ioto with one That's yet unbroia'd : bring me hat out at gate. — Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and My friends of noble touch ; when I am forth, Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray yon, come. While I remain above the groond, yon shall Hear from me still ; and never of me anght Bat what is like me formerly.
Men. That's worthily
As any ear can hear. — Come, let's not weep. — If I conld shake off but one seven years From these old arms and legs, by the good gods, I'd with thee every foot.
Cor. Give me thy hand : —
Come. [Exeunt.
SoBMB n. The same. A street near the gate. Enter Sicinios, Brvtds, and an ^Edila Sic. Bid them all home;*"** he's gone, and well no farther. — The nobilify are vex'd, whom we see have sided In his behalf. ^ Bra. Now we have shown onr power,
Let ns seem hnmbler after it is done Than when it vnis a-doing.
Sic. Bid them home :
Say their great enemy is gone, and they Stand in their ancient strength.
Brw. Dismiss them home. [Exit^dile.
Here comes his mother.
Sie. Let's oot meet her.
Bru. "Why ?
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Sic. They say sha'a mad.
Bru. They have ta'en note of as : keep on yooi way.
Enter VoLnuNU, Yiboilia, tmd Mekenidb.
Vol. 0, ye're well met: the hoarded plague*"*' o' the godfl Beqnite yooi love !
Men. Peace, peace ; be not bo lond.
Vol. If that I could for weeping, you should hear, — Nay, and yoa shall hear Bome. — [To Brutus] Will yon be gone?
Vir, [to SUnniut] Yoa shall stay too : I woold I had the power To Bay BO to my hnsband.
Sic. Are yon mankind ?
Vol. Ay, fool ; ib that a shame ? — Note bnt this fool. — Was not a man my &ther ? Hadst thon fozahip To banisli him that stnick more blows for Bome Than thoa hast apoken words ? —
Sic. 0 blessM heavens !
Vol. More noble blows than ever thon wise"'" words ; And for Bome's good. — I'll tell thee what ; — yet go : — Nay, but thoa shalt stay too : — ^I would my son Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him, His good sword in his hand.
Sic. What then ?
Vir. What then I
He'd make an end of thy posterity.'"*'
Vol. Bastards and idl. — Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Bome t
Men. Gome, come, peace.
Sic. I would he had oontinu'd to his country As he began, and not nnknit himself The noble knot he made.
Bru. I would he had.
Vol. "I would he had"! 'Twas youincens'd the rabble; — CatB,"^" that can judge as fitly of his worth As I can of those myBteriefl which heaven Will not have earth to know.
Bru. Pray, let ns go.
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Vol, Now, pray, sir, get you gone : Yon'Te done a brave deed. Ere yon go, hear thia : — As far as doth the Capitol exceed The meanest house in Borne, eo tas my son, — This lady's husband here, this, do you see, — Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all.
Bru. Well, well, we'll leave you.
Sic. Why stay we to l>e baited
With one that wants her wits ?
Vol. Take my prayers with you. —
[Exeunt Tribunee. I would the gods had nothing else to do But to confirm my curses ! Could I meet 'em But once a-day, it would anclog my heart Of what lies heavy to't.
Men. Yoa've told them home ;
And, by my troth, you've cause. You'll sup with me ?
Vol. Anger's my meat ; I sup upon myself. And so shall starve with feeding. — Come, let's go : Leave this faint puling, and lament as I do. In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.
Men. Fie, fie, fie !°™ {Exeunt.
SoBNE m. A highway between Rome and Antium. Enter a Roman and a Tolace, meeting.
Bom. I know you well, sir, and you know me : your name, I think, is Adrian.
VoU. It is BO, sir : truly, I have foi^ot yon.
Rom. I am a Boman ; and my services are, as yon are, against 'em : know you me yet ?
VoU. Nicanor ? no.
Rom. The same, sir.
Vols. You had more beard when I laat aaw yon; hut your fitvour is well approved by your tongue.*"" What's the news in Borne 9 I have a note &om the Volacian state, to find you out there : you have well saved me a day's journey.
Rom. There hath been in Borne Btrange insurrections; the people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.
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Fob. Hath been! ie it ended, then ? Onr state thinks not BO : the; are in a most warlike preparation, and hope to come Qpon them in the heat of their dirision.
Rom. The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again ; for the nobles receive bo to heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolaons, that the; ore in a ripe aptness to take all power irom the people, and to plnck from them their tribunes for erer. This lies glow- ing, I can tell yon, and is almost mature for the violent breaking out.
Vols. Coriolanas banished !
Bom. Banished, sir.
Vols. You will be welcome with this intelligence, Kicanor.
Bom. The day serves well for them now. I have heard it said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's &llen out with her husband. Yoor noble Tollus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his great opposer, Coriolanns, being now in no request of his country.
Vols. Ee cannot choose. I am most fortunate thus acci< dentally to encounter yon : you have ended my business, and I will merrily accompany you home.
Bom. I shall, between this and supper, tell you most strange things from Rome ; all tending to the good of their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you ?
Vole. A most royal one ; the centurions and their charges, distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment, and to he on foot at an hoar's warning.
Bom. I am joyful to hear of their leadineBS, and am the man, I think, that shall set them is present action. So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.
Vols. You take my part from me, sir ; I have the most caase to be glad of yours.
Bom. Well, let ua go together. [Exeunt.
Scene IV. Antivm. Before Aurmins's house. Enter Oohiolakhb in mean apparel, disguised and muffled. Cor. A goodly city is this Antinm. — City,
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'Tis I that made thy widows : many an heir
Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars
HftTe I heard groan and drop : then know me not;
Lest that thy wives with spits, and boys with stones.
In puny battle slay me.
Enter a Citizen. Save you, sir.
Cit. And you.
Cor. Direct me, if it be yonr will,
Where great Anfidias lies : is he in Antinm?
Cit. He ia, and feasts the nobles of the state At his house this night.
Cor. Which is his hoase, beseech yoa ?
Cit. This, here, before yon.
Cor. Thank yoa, sir : &rewell.
[Exit Citizen. 0 world, thy slippery tarns I Friends now &st sworn. Whose doable bosoms seem to wear one heart, Whose hoase, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise, Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love Unsepsrable, shall within this faonr,"'^ On a dissension of a doit, break ont To bitterest enmity : so, fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear fiiends And interjoin their issues. So with me : My birth-place hate I, and my love's npon This enemy town."^"' — I'll enter : if he slay me, He does fair jastice ; if he give me way, I'll do his country service. lExii.
ScBKE V. The game. A haU in AupiDrns's house. Music within. Eater a Servant. Firtt Sero. Wine, wine, wine! — What service is here! I think oar fellows are asleep. {^Exit.
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Enter a second Servant.
See. Serv. VPliere's Coins ? my master calls for him. —
Cotasl [£ari(.
Enter CoEiOLANns.
Cor. A goodly house : the feast smells well ; but I
Appear not like a gnest.
Re-enter the first Servant.
First Serv. What would you have, friend? whence are yon ? Here's no place for you : pray, go to the door. [EjAt.
Cor. I have deserv'd no better entertainment In being Coriolanus.
Se-enter second Servant,
See. Serv. Whence are you, sir ? — Has the porter his eyes in his head, that he gives entrance to such companions? — Pray, get yon out.
Cor. Away!
Sec. Seiv. Away ! get yon away.
Cor. Now thon'rt troublesome.
Sec. Serv. Are you so hraye ? I'll have you tailed with anon.
Enter a third Servant. d'^i
Third Serv. What fellow's this ?
Sec. Serv. A strange one as ever I looked on : I cannot get him out o' the house : prithee, call my master to him.
Third Serv. What have you to do here, fellow ? Pray ■ you avoid the house.
Cor. Let me but stand ; I will not hart your hearth.
Third Serv. What are you ?
Cor. A gentleman.
Third Serv. A marvellous poor one.
Cor. True, so I am.
Third Serv. Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other station ; here's no place for you ; pray yon, avoid ; come.
Cor. Follow yoar fauction, go. And batten on cold bits. [IMskes him away.
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Third Serv. Wliftt, yon will not ? — Prithee, tell my master what a strange gnest he has here.
Sec. Serv. And I shall. [Exit.
Third Serv. Where dwellest thoa ?
Cor. Under the canopy.
Third Serv. Under the canopy!
Cor. Ay.
Third Serv. Where's that?
Cor. T the city of kites and crows.
Third Serv. V the city of kites and crows ! — What an ass it is! — Then thoa dwellest with daws too ?
Cor. No, I serve not thy master.
Third Serv, How, sir I do yon meddle with my master ?
Cor. Ay; 'tis an honestet service than to meddle with thy mistresa: Thoa prat'st, and prat'st; serve with tb^ trencher, hence !
[Beatt him in.
Enter AcFroins, miik the seaond Serraut.
Ai^. Where is this fellow ?
Sec, Serv. Here, sir : I'd have beaten him like a dog, bat for distarbing the lords within. [The two Servants retire.
Auf. Whence com'st thoa? what wonldst thoa? thy - name ?''^*' Why speak'st not? speak, man : what's thy name?
Cor. If, TnlluB,"*** [f/nwu^in^.
Not yet thoa know'st me, and, seeing me, dost not Think ms for the man I am, necessity Commands me name myself.
AvS. What 18 thy name?
Car. A name onmosical to the Yolsoians' ears,*"" And harsh in sonnd to thine.
Auf, Say, what's thy name ?
Thoa hast a grim appearance, and thy face Bears a command in 't ; though thy tackle's torn, Thoa show'st a noble vessel : what's thy name ?
Cor. Prepare thy brow to frown : — know'st thon me yet?
Auf. I know thee not : — thy name ?
Cot, My name is Cains M8rciue,^ho bath done To Uiee porticalarly and to all the Tolsoes
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Gre&t hnrt and miacliief ; thereto witness ma;
My samame, Coriolanns : the painfal service.
The extreme dangers, and the drops of blood
Shed for my thankless country, are requited
Bat with that surname ; a good memory.
And witaess of the malice and displeasure
"Which thoa ahouldst bear me : only that name ri
The cmelty and envy of the people,
Permitted by oar dastard nobles, who
Have all forsook me, bath devoor'd the rest; '
And saSer'd me by the voice of Blaves to be
Whoop'd oat of Rome. Now, this extremity
Hath broaght me to thy hearth ; not ont of hope —
AGstabe me not — to save my life ; for if
I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world
I wonld have 'voided thee ; but in mere spite,
To be fnU qait of those my banishers.
Stand I before thee here. Then if tboa hast
A heart of wreak in thee, that will"™' revenge
Thine own particular wrongs, and stop those mdms
Of shame seen through thy coantry, speed thee straight,
And make my misery serve thy tarn : so ase it,
That my revengeful services may prove
As benefits to thee ; for I will fight
Against my canker'd country with the spleen
Of all the ander fiends. Bat if so be
Thoa dar'st not this, and that to prove more fortanes
Thon'rt tir'd, then, in a word, I also am
Longer to live most weary, and present
My throat to ^e and to thy ancient malice ;
Which not to cut would show thee bat a fool.
Since I have ever foUow'd thee with hate.
Drawn tuns of blood oat of thy country's breast,
And cannot live bat to thy shame, onless
It be to do thee service.
A.uf, O Marcius, Marcius I
Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter Should from yond cloud ^)eak divine things, And say " 'Tis true," I'd not believe them more
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Thftn thee, all-noble Marcias."^ — Let me twise
Mine anns abont that body, where against
My grainM ash an hundred times hath broke,
And Bcar'd the moon wiUi splinters :"**' here I clip
The anvil of my aword ; and do contest
As hotly and as nobly with thy lore
As ever in ambitions strength I did
Contend against thy valonr. Know thon first
I lov'd the maid I married ; never man
Sigh'd truer breath; bnt that I see thee here,
Thon noble thing ! more dances my rapt heart
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw
Bestride my threshold. Why, thon Mars ! I tell thee,
We have a power on foot ; and I had pnrpose
Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn.
Or lose mine arm for't : then hast beat me out
Twelve several timea, and I have nightly since
Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me ;'
We have been down together in my sleep,
Unbockling helms, fisting each other's throat,
And wak'd half dead with nothing. Worthy Marcias,
Had we no quarrel else"^ to Rome, but ^t
ThoQ art tiience banish'd, we would mnster all
From twelve to seventy; and, ponring war
into the bowels of nngrateM Borne,
Like a bold flood o'er-bear.'^*" O, come, go in.
And take oar friendly senators by the hands ;
Who now are here taking their leaves of me.
Who am prepar'd gainst your territories,
Tbongh not for Rome itself.
Cor. YoQ bless me, gods !
Auf. Therefore, most absolnte sir, if thon wilt have The leading of thine own revenges, take Th' one half of my commission ; and pet down — As best thon art experienc'd, since thon know'st Thy country's strength and weakness — thine own nays ; Whether to knock against the gates of Kome, Or mdely visit tbem in parts remote, To fright them, ere destroy. Bat come in :""' Let me commend thee first to those that shall
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Say yea to tby deeiMS. A tboasand welcomes ! And more a friend than e'er an enemy ; Yet, Matcina, that was mnch. Tonr hand : most welcome I [^Exeunt Coriolanua and Aujtdiut. — Tke two Servants ccnneforuiard.
First Serv. Here's a strange alteration I
Sec. Serr. By my hand, I had thonght to have Htrackeo him with a cadgel ; and yet my mind gave me his olothes made a false report of him.
First Serv. What an arm he has ! he turned me abont with his finger and his thumb as one wonld set np a top.
Sec. Sen-, Nay, I knew by hia foce that there was wmie- thing in him : he had, air, a kind of face, meihoaglit,-~-[ cannot tell how to term it.
First Serv. He had bo; looking as it were, — Wonld I were hanged, bat I thonght there was more in him than I conld think.
Sec. Sen: So did I, I'll be sworn : he is aimply the rarest ' man i' the world.
First Serv. I think he is : bnt a greater soldier than he you wot on.*"*
Sec. Serr. Who, my master ?
First Serv. Nay, it's no matter for that.
Sec. Serv. Worth six on him.
First Serv. Nay, not so neitiier : bat I take him to be the greater soldier.
Sec. Serv. Faith, look yon, one cannot tell how to say that : for the defence of a town onr general is excellent.
First Serv. Ay, and for an assanlt too.
Se- enter third Sarvant.
Third Serv. 0 slaves, I can tell yon news, — news, you rascals!
First and See. Serv. What, what, what ? let'a partake.
Third Serv. I would not be a Eoman, of all nations; I had as lief be a condemned man.
First and Sec. Serv. "Wherefore ? wherefore ?
Third Serv. Why, here's he that was wont to thwack onr general, — Cains Marcins.
First Serv. Why do yon say " thwack onr general" ?
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Third Sen. I do not Ba; " thwack cor general ;" bot he was always good enongh for him.
See. 8erv. Come, we are fellows and Mends : he was erer too hard for him ; I hare heard him say so himself.
Fint Serv. He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth on't : before Corioli he scotched him and notched him like a carbonado.
Sec. Serv, An he had been cannibally giveD, he might have Ittoiled"* and eaten him too.
Firgt Serv. Bnt, more of thy news ?
Third Sere. Why, he is so made on here within aa if he were son and heir to Mars ; set at npper end o' the table ; no qnestion asked him by any oCithe senators, bnt they stand bald before him : our general himself makes a miatjess of him ; sanctifies himself with's hand, and turns np the white o' the eye to his disconrse. Bnt the bottom of the news is, onr general is ont i' the middle, and but one half of what he was yesterday ; for the other has half, by the entreaty and grant of tile whole table. He'll go, he says, and Bowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears : be will mow all down be- fore him, and leave his passage polled.
Sec. Sen. And he's as like to do't as any man I can
T}Urd Serv. Do'tt he will do't; for, look yoa, air, he has as many Mends aa enemies ; which Mends, sir, as it were, durst not, look yon, sir, show themselves, as we term it, his Mends whilst he's in directitade.'"°'
First Serv. Direotitnde I what's that?
Third Serv, But when they shall see, sir, his crest np again, and the man in blood, they will ont o£ their burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with him.
First Serv. Bnt when goes this forward ?
Third Serv. To-morrow; to-day; presently; yon shall have the dmm struck np this afternoon : 'tis, as it were, a parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they wipe their lips.
See. Serv. Why, then we shall have a stirring world again. This peace is nothing,"*" bnt to rust iron, increase tailon, and breed ballad-makers.
First Serv. Let me have war, say I ; it exceeds peace as
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Car RB day do6B nigbt ; it's spritely, v&king,<"" audible, and fall of vent."" Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy ;°'" mul- led,'"* deaf, sleepy j"*" iosensible ; a getter of more bastard children than war's"*" a destroyer of men.
Sec. Serv. 'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to be a ravisber, so it cannot be denied bat peace is a great maker of cnokolds.
Firgt Serv. Ay, and it makes men hate one another.
Tkird Serv. Reason; because the^ then less need one another. The wars for my money. I hope to see Bomann as cheap as Yolscians. — They are rising, they are rising.
All Three. In, in, in, in ! lExetmt.
Scene YI. Rome. A public place. Enter Sicirios and BRurna.
Sic. We hear not of him, neither need we fear him ; His remedies are tame i' the present peace"*" And qnietness of the people, which before Were in wild hnrry. Here do we make his friends Blnsh that the world goes well ; who rather had, Thongh they themselves did safier by't, behold Dissentioas nombers pestering streets, than see Our tradesmen singing in their shops, and going Abont their Unctions friendly.
Bru. We stood to't in good time. — Is this Menenias?
Sic. 'Tis he, 'tis he : 0, he is grown most kind Ofkte.
Enter Mbnenius. Hail, sir!
Bru. Hail, sir !"»'
Men. Hail to yon both t
Sic. Year Coriolanna, sir,'*°°' is not mnch miss'd But with his friends : the commonwealth doth stand ; And so wonid do, were he more angry at it.
Men. All's well ; and might have been mnch better, if He could have temporiz'd.
Sic. Where is he, hear yon ?
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Men. Nay, I hear nothinf; ; hia mother and his wife Sear nothing from him.
Enter three or/our Citizens.
Citizens. The goda preserve yoa both I
Sic. Ood-den, onr neighbonrs.
Bra. Ood-den to yoa all, god-den to yoa all.
First Cit. OarBelves, onr wives, and children, on onr knees, Am bound to pray for yon both.*""
Sic. Live, and thrive !
Bru. Farewell, kind neighbonrs : we wish'd Coriolanas Had lov'd you as we did.
Citizens. Now the gods keep you t
Both Tri. Farewell, farewell, [Exeunt Citizens.
Sic. This is a happier and more comely time Than when these fellows ran abont the streeta Crying confusion.
£ru. Cains Marcias was
A worthy officer i' the war ; but insolent, O'ercome with pride, ambitions past all thinkiDg, Self-loving, —
Sic. And affecting one sole throne.
Without assistance.
Men. I think not so.'™'
Sic. We should by this, to all our lamentation. If he had gone forth consul, found it so.
Bra. The gods have well prevented it, and Rome Sits safie and still without him.
Enter an MdHe.
JEd. Worthy tribnnes.
There is a slave, whom we have pnt in prison, Beports, the Volsces with two several powers Are enter'd in the Soman territories. And with the deepest malice of the war Destroy what lies before 'em.
Men. 'Tis Aufidina,
Who, hearing of our Marcias' banishment, Throsts forth his home again into the world ;
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Whieh were mahell'd vhen Msrciofl stood for Borne, And durst not once peep oat.
Sic. Come, what talk yon
Of Marcins ?
Bra. Go aee Uiia romonrer whipp'd. — It cannot be The VolBcea dsre break with ns.
Men. ' Cannot be I
We have record that very well it can ; And three examples of the like have been Within my age. Bnt reason with the fellow. Before yon punish him, where he heard this ; Lest yon shall chance to whip yonr information, And beat the mesaenger who bids beware Of what is to be dreaded.
Sie. Tell not me ;
I know this osnnot be.
Sra. Mot possible.
Enter a Mesaenger.
Me$i. The nobles in great earnestness are going All to the senate-hoase : some news is come That tnins their coontenances."""
Sic. 'Tie this slave; —
Qo whip bim 'fore the people's eyes : — his raising ; Nothing bnt bis report.
Me8». Yes, worthy sir,
The slave's report ia seconded ; and more, More fearfdl, ia deliver'd.
Sic. What more fearfiil?
Mets. It is spoke &eely out of many montha — How probable I do not know — that Marcins, Join'd with Anfidias, leads a power 'gainst Bome, And Towa revenge as spacions aa between The yoong'at and oldest thing.
Sic. This is most likely I
Bru. Baia'd only, that the weaker sort may -wiah Good Marcins""*' home again.
Sic. The veiy trick on't.
Men. This ia anlikely : Be and Anfidins oan no more atone
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Thau TioleuteHt contrariety.'*'*'
£iUer a second Messenger. Sec. Meat. Yon are sent for to the senate : A fearM army, led by Caina Marcins ABBOcisted with Anfidiae, ragea Upon our territories ; and have already O'erbome their way, consoni'd with fire, and took What lay before them.
Enter Comihiub.
Com, O, you have made good work !
Men. What news ? what news ?
Com. YoaVe holp to ravish year own daughters, and To melt the city leads npon yoar pates ; To 86e yooi wives dishosonr'd to your noses, —
Men. What's the news ? what's the news ?
Con. Yoar temples bnrndd in their cement ; and Your franchises, whereon yon stood, confin'd Into an aoger's bore.
Men. Pray now, yoar news ? —
You've made fur vrork, I fear me. — Pray, yonr news ? — If Mardas shonld be join'd vrith Yolscians, —
dm. If]
He is their god : he leads them like a thing Made by some other deity than nature, Hiat shapes man better ; and Uiey follow him. Against ns brats, vrith no less confidence Than boys pnraiiing smnmer bntterflies. Or bntchera killing flieB.*"®
Men. Yon've made good work,
Yoa and yoar apron-men ; yoa that stood so moch Upon the voice of oocapation and The breath of garlic-eaters !
Com. He will shake
Yonr Rome abont yonr ears.
Men. As Hercnles
Did ahake down mellow firait. — You've made fitir work I
Bra. Bat is this tne, sir ?
Com. Ay ; and yoa'll look pide
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Before joo fiod it other. All the regions"*"
Do Bmilingly rerolt ; and who resist
Ate mock'd**"*' for TRliant ignorance.
And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him ?
Your enemies and his find something in him.
Men. We are all undone, onless The noble man have mercy.
Com. Who shall ask it?
The tribones cannot do't for shame ; the people Deserve sach pity of him as the wolf Does of the shepherds ; for his beat friends, if they Shonld say, " Be good to Borne," they charg'd him eveo Ab those fihonld do that had deserr'd his hate, And therein show'd like enemies.""*'
Men. "lie true :
If he were putting to my hoase the brand That should consume it, I have not the face To say, " Beseech yon, cease." — You'Te made &ir haads> Yon and your crafts ! yon've crafted Mr !
Com. You'Te brought*"*'
A trembling upon lUime, such as was never So incapable of help.
Both Tri. Say not, we brought it.
Men. How I Was it we ? we lov'd him ; but, like beiwts'- And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters. Who did hoot him out o' the city.
Com. But I fear
They'll roar him In again. Tullua Anfidius, The second name of men, obeys his points As if he were his officer : — desperation Is all the pohcy, strength, and defence, That Borne can make against them.
JSnler a troop of Citizens. Men. Here come the olasterfl. —
And is Aafidius with him 7 — Yon are they That made the air unwholesome, when yon cast Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at Coriolanus' exile. Mow he's coming ; And not a hair upon a soldier's head
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Which will not prove a whip : aa many coxcombs As yoo threw oaps op will he tnmble down, And pay yov for yonr roiceB. 'Tia no matter ; If he oonld bom na all into one coaI> We have deseiT'd it.
Citixent. Faith, we hear fearful news.
Fir$t Cit. For mine own part, __
When I said, banieh him, I said, 'twas pity.
Sec. Cit. And so did I.
Third Cit. And bo did I ; and, to say the tratb, bo did rery many of ns : that we did, we did for the best ; and though j we willingly consented to his banishment, yet it was against f onr will. J
Com. Ye're goodly things, yoo voices I
Men. YoQ have made
Good work, you and yonr ciy ! — Sball 's to the Capitol ?
Com. 0, ay, what else? ^Exeunt Cominius and Menenius.
Sic. Qo, masterB, get yoa home ; be not dismay'd : Theae are a side that would be glad to have This true which they bo aeem to fear. Qo home. And show no sign of fbar.
First Cit. The gods be good to aa! — Come, masters, let's home. I, ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished
See. Cit. So did we all. Bnt, come, let's home.
[^Exeunt Citixena. Bru. I do not like thiB news. Sic. Nop I.
Bru. Let's to the Capitol. — Would half my wealth Would boy this for a lie t
Sic. Pray, let us go. [Exeunt.
SoEHE Tn. A eamp, at a gmaU distance from lUtme.
Enter Adfidius and his lieutenant. Auf. Do they still fiy to the Roman ? Lieu. I do not know what witchcraft's in him, bat Yoor soldiers ose him as the grace 'fore meat.
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Their talk at table, and their thanks at end; And yoa are darken'd in this atftios, sir, Even by yoTir own.
AuJ. I cannot help it now,
Unless, by asing means, I lame the foot Of oar design. He bears himBelf more prondlier. Even to my person, than I thought he wonld When first I did embraee him : yet his natnre In that's no changeling ; and I mast excase What cannot be amended.
lAea. Yet I wish, sir, —
I mean for your partionlar, — yon had not Join'd in commission with him ; bat either Had**^" borne the action of yoorself, or else To him had left it solely.
Avf. I Qoderstand thee well ; and be thon snre, When be shall come to his acconnt, he knows not What I can nrg« against him. Altiiongh it seems, And BO he thinks, and is no less apparent To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fiurly. And shows good hnsbandry for theYolscian state, fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon As draw his sword ; yet he hath left nndona That which shall break his neck or hazard mine, Whene'er we come to oar acconnt.
liea. Sir, I beseech yon, think yon he'll carry Borne?
Avf, AH places yield to him ere he sits down ; And the nobility of Borne are his : The senators and patricians love him too : The tribnnes are no soldiers ; and their people Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty T' expel him thence. I think he'll be to Borne As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it By sovereignty of nature. First he was A noble servant to them ; bat he ooald not Garry his honoors even : whether 'twas pride, Which oat of daily fortnne ever taints The happy man ; whether defect of judgment, To fail in the disposing of those chances Which he was lord of; or whether nature,
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Kot to be other than one thing, not moving
From the casque to the cushion, bnt commanding peace
Even with the same aasteiity and garb
As he oontroU'd the war; bat one of these —
As he hath spices of them all, not all.
For I dare so for free him — made him fear'd,
So hated, and so banish'd :'*^* but he has a merit,
To choke it in the atterance. So our virtues'"*'
lie** in th' interpretation of the time ;
And power, mito itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
T' eitol what it hath done.^*^
One fire drives oat one fire ; one nail, one nail ;
Itights hy rights falter, strengths by strengths do &il.°*''
Come, let's away. When, Cains, Rome is thine,
Thoa'rt poor'at of all ; then shortly art thou mine. [^Exsuut.
SOHNB I. Rotne. A public place.
Enter Mbnenius, CoHitnus, Siciniub, Brctds, and others.
Men. No, I'll not go : yon hear what he hath said 'Which was sometime his general ; who lov'd him In a most dear particolar. He call'd me father : Bnt what o' that ? Go, yon that banish'd him ; A mile before his tent fail down, and knee The way into his mercy : nay, if he ooy'd To hear Cominins speak, I'll keep at home.
Com. He would not seem to know me.
Men, Do yoD hear ?
Com. Yet one time he did call me by my name : I nrg'd onr old acquaintance, and the drops That we have bled together. Goriolanufl He would not answer to : forbad all names ; He was a kind of nothing, titleless.
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Till he had forg'd himself a noma o' the fire Of burning Bome.
Men. Why, ao, — ^you've made good work t
A pair of tribaneB that have wreck'd fair Rome™" To make coala cheap, — a noble memory !
Com. I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon "When it was least**'" expected : he replied, It was a rare petition^" of a state To one whom they had pnnish'd.
Men. Very well :
Conid he eay lees ?
Com. I offer'd to awaken his regard For 'b private friends : his answer to me was. He conld not Btay to pick them in a pUe Of noisome muBty chaff: he said 'twas folly. For one poor grain or two, to leave anbomt. And still to nose th' offence.
Men. For one poor grain or two t
I'm one of those ; his mother, wife, his child. And this brave fellow too, we are the grains : YoQ are the musty chaff; and yon are smelt Above the moon : we mast be bnmt for yon.
Sic. Nay, pray, be patient : if yoo refuse your aid In this so never-needed help, yet do not Upbraid 'b with our distress. But, sure, if you Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue. More than the instant army we can make. Might stop our cooutryman.
Men. No, I'll not meddle.
iStc. Pray you now, go to him."*"
Men. What should I do ?
Bni. Only make trial what your love can do For Bome, towards Maroius.
Men. Well, and say that Marcius**"*
Return me, as CominiuB is retum'd, Unheard; what then? But BB a discontented friend, grief-shot With his unkindneBB? say't be bo?
Sic. Yet your good will
Must have that thanks &om Rome, after the measure
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As yoa intended well.
Men. m andertake 't :
I think he'll hear me. Yet, to bite hie lip And hum at good Cominina, mach nnhearts me. He wAB not taken well ; he had not din'd : The TeinB nnfiU'd, oor blood ia cold, and then We pout upon the morning, are unapt To give or to forgire ; bat when we're BtnfTd These pipes and these conTeyoncee of oar blood With mne and feeding, we hare suppler sools Than in onx priest-like fasts : therefore I'll watch him Till he be dieted to my request, And then I'll set npon him.
Bra. Yon know the very road into his Mndnees, And cannot lose your way.
Men. Orooi faith, I'll prove him.
Speed how it will, yoa''^ shall ere long hare knowledge Of my saooess. {Exit,
Com. He'll never hear him.
Sie. Not?
Com, I tell yon, he does sit in gold, his eye Bed as 'twould bum Bome ; .and bis iujary The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before bir" ; 'Twas very faintly he aaid " Rise ;" dismiss'd me Thns, with his speechless hand : what he woold do, He sent in writing after me ; what he wonid not, Boond with an oath to yield to his conditions :''"' So that all hope is vain. Unless in 's noble mother and bis wife i'^*^ Who, as I bear, mean to solicit him For mercy to his country. Therefore let 's hence, And vrith onr fair entreaties haste them on. [Exeunt,
ScERB n. An ou^et ofUie VoUctan camp be/on The Sentinels at their atations.
Enter to them Menbkius. Pints. Stay: whence are yon?
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See. 8. Stand, aod go bnek.°^
Men. Ton guard like men ; 'tis well : but, by your leave, I am an officer of state, and come To speak with Coriolanus.
First S. From whence?
Men. From Rome.
First S. Ton may not pass, you mnat return : our general Will no more bear from thence.
Sec. S. Yonll see your Borne embrae'd with fire, before You'll speak with Coriolanus.
Men. Good my friends.
If you have heard your general talk of Borne, And of his friends Uiere, it is lots to blanks My name hath touch'd your ears : it is Menenias.
First S. Be 't so ; go back : the virtue of yoor name Is not here passable.
Men. I tell tiiee, fellow,
Thy general is my lover : I have been The book of his good acts, whence men have read His fame anparallel'd, haply amplified ; For I have ever magnified**** my friends — Of whom he's chief — with all tiie size that verity Would vrithont lapsing safier : nay, sometimes, Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, I've tumbled past the throw ; and in hia praise Have almost stamp'd the leasing : therefore, fellow, I must have leave to pass.
First S. Faith, sir, if yon had told as many lies in hiR behalf as you have ottered words in your own, yon should not pass here ; no, though it were as virtoous to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back.
Men. Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenias, always &ctionary on the party of your general.
Sec, S. Howsoever you have been his Uar, as you say you have, I am one that, telling true under him, must say you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.
Men. Has he dined, canst thou tell ? for Z would not speak with him till after dinner.
F^rat S. Yon are a Boman, are you?
Men. J am, as thy general is.
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i^rtt S. Then yoa ahoald hate Borne, as he does. Can yon, when yon have pushed ont your gates the Tety defender of them, and, in a violent popnlar ignorance, given yonr ene- my yoQT shield, think to &ont his revenges with the eagy**"^ groftUB of old women, the virginal pahns of yonr daughters, or with the palsied intercession of snch a decayed dotaot'^*'*' as yon seem to be ? Can yoa think to blow ont the intended fire your city is ready to flame in with such weak hreath as this? No, yon are deceived; therefore, back to Borne, and prepare for yoor execntion : yon are condemned, onr general has Bwora yoa oot of reprieve and pardon.
Men. Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he woald QBe me with eatimatioo.
See. S. Come, my captain knows yon not.
Men. I mean, thy general.
Firat S. My general cares not for yon. Back, I say, go ; lest I let forth your half-pint of blood ; — back, — that's the atmoBt of yoor having : — back.
Men. Nay, bnt, fellow, fellow, —
EtU^ CoRiouHcrs oTid Au?ediub.
Cor. What's the matter?
Men. Now, yoa companion, I'll say an errand for yoa : yoa shall know now that I am in estimation ; yoa shall per- ceive that a Jack gnardant cannot office me from my son Coriolanns : gness, bat by''*" my entertainment with him, if thoa sttmdest not i* the state of hanging, or of some death more long in spectatorship, and cmeller in snfTering ; behold now presently, and swoon''*'" for what's to come apon thee. — (To Cor.] The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than thy old &ther Menenias does ! O my son, my son I thon art pre- paring fire for us ; look thee, here's water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come to thee ; but being assured none but myself conld move thee, I have been blown out of our gates^' with sighs ; and conjure thee to pardon Borne, and thy petitionary ooantrymen. The good gods assuage thy wrath, and tarn the dregs of it upon this varlet here, — Uiis, who, like a block, hath denied my access to thee.
Cor, Away!
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Men. How ! away !
Cor. Wife, mother, child, I know not. My a^^rti Are servaated to others : though I owe My rerenge properly, my ramission lies In Volscion hreasts. That we have been familiar, Ingrate fo^etfalneas shall poisoa, rather Than pity note how much.'™' Therefore, be gone. Mine ears against yonr snits are stronger tiian Yonr gates against my force. Yet, for I lov'd thee, Take this along ; I writ it for thy sake, [<7it-«« a letter.
And woold have sent it. Another word, Menenias, I will not hear Uiee speak. — This man, Acfidina, Was my belov'd in Bomo ; yet thoa behold'st !
Avf. Yon keep a constsjit temper.
[Exeuta Coriotanut and At^ivs.
Firtt 8. Now, sir, is yonr name Menenins ?
Sec. S. 'Tis a spell, yon see, of mnch power : yon know the way home again.
First S. Do yon hear how we ore shent for keeping yonr greatness hack?
Sec. S. What oanse, do yon think, I hare to swoon?***"
Men. I neither care for the world nor yonr general : for snch things as yon, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight. He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another ; let yoor general do his worst. For yon, be that yon are, long ; and year misery increase with yonr age ! I say to yon, as I was said to, Away ! [Exit.
Firet S. A noble fellow, I warrant him.
Sec. S. The worthy fellow is oor general ; he's the rock, the oak not to be wind-shaken. l^Exeunt.
Scene HI. The tent of CoBioi.A}tC8. HtUer CoBiOLANtrs, Adfidiub, and otJien. Cor. We will before the walls of Bome to-morrow Set down our host. — My partner in this action, Yon mnst report to the Volscian lords, how plainly I have home this business.
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Auf. Only their eada
Yon have respected ; stopp'd yoor ears against The geneml suit of Borne ; nerer admitted A private whisper, no, not with sneh friends That thought tiiem sore of 70a.
Cor. This last old Dum,
Whom with a eraok'd heart I have sent to Borne, Lov'd me above the meaeare of a fiither ; Nay, godded me, indeed. Their latest refnge Was to send him ; for whose old love I hare, Thongh I show'd sourly to him, once more offer'd The first conditions, which they did refnse. And cannot now accept ; to grace him only That thought he conld do more, a very little Tre yielded to : fresh embassies and suits, Kor from the state nor private friends, hereafter Will I lend ear to. — Ha ! what shont is this ? {ShoKt within. Shall I be tempted to infringe my tow In the same time 'tis made ? I will not.*^^
Enter, m mourning habila, ViBOlLU, Yolchnia, leading young Maboiob, Valebia, and Attendanla. My wife comes foremost; then the hononr'd monld Wherein this tmnk was fram'd, and in her hand The grandchild to her blood. _Bat ont, affection ! All bond and privilege of natnre, break! Let it be virtnons to be obstinate. — What is that cnrt'sy worth ? or those doves' eyes, Which can moke gods forsworn ? — I melt, and am not Of stronger earth than others. — My mother bows ; As if Olympns to a molehill should Id supplication nod : and my young hoy Hath an asp^t of intercession, which Great Nature cries " I>eny not." — Let the Yolsces Plough Borne, and harrow Italy : I'll nnver
Rn Bnnb a {Tftflh'"f; t^ "^"y JnHttnAt. ; bat Btajldj'"*'
As if a man were author of himself. And knew no o^er kin._
Fir. My lord and husband !
Cot: These eyes are not the same I wore in Borne.
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Fir. The sorrow that delivers na thna chang'd Makes yon tliink so.
Cor. Like a dtiU actor now,
I liaTe forgot my part, aad I am out. Even to a Aill disgrace. — Best of my fleah, Forgive my tyranny ; but do not aay, For that, " Forgive oar Bomans." 0, a kisa Long as my exile, sweet as my reveoge ! Now, by the jealoas qaeen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear ; and my tme lip Hath virgin'd it e'er since. — Yon gods I I prate,*"" And the moat noble mother of the world Leave onaalnted : sink, my knee, i' th' earth ; \KnetU.
Of thy deep daty more impreaaion show Than that of common aons.
Vol. 0, Btand ap bleaa'd 1 {Rainng him.
Whilst, with no softer cndiion than the flint, I kneel before thee ; and improperly Show daty, as mistaken all this while Between the child and parent.
{Kneels ,- he hastily raUe» her.
Cor. What is thie ?
Your knees to me ? to your corrected Bon ? Then let the pebbles on the hnngry beach***" Fillip the stars ; then let the mntinons winds Stri^ the proad cedars 'gainst the fiery snn ; Mardering impossibility, to make What cannot be, slight work.
Vol. Thon art my warrior ;
I Uolp"*" to frame thee. — Do yon know this lady?
Cor. The noble sister of Pnblicola, The moon of Home ; chaste as the icicle. That's curded"*" by the frost from purest snow. And hangs on Dion's temple : — dear Valeria !
Vol. This is a poor epitome of yours. Which by th' interpretation of fall time May show like all yourself.
Cor. The god of soldiers,
With the consent of supreme Jove, inform Thy thoughts with nobleness ; that thoa mayet prove
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Vol. Your knee, sinab.
Cor. That's my hrave hoy 1
Vol. Even he, your wife, this lady, uid myself. Are saitors to yoa.
Cor. I beseeeh yon, peace :
Or, if yoa'd ask, remember this before, — The things"*"* I have forsworn to grant may never Be held by yon denials. Do not bid me IMsmiss my soldiers, or oapitnlate Again with Rome's meehonics : — tell me not Wherein I seem tinnatnral : desire not T' allay my rages and rerenges with Your colder reasons.
Vol. O, no more, no more !
You've said yoa will not grant as any thing ; For we have nothing else to ask, bnt that Which you deny already : yet we'll ask ; That, if we &il in oar raqnest,"^ the blame May hong apon yonr hardness : therefore hear no.
Cor. Anfidias, and yon Volsoea, mark ; for we'll Hear nanght from Rome in private. — Yonr request ?
Vol. Should we be silent and not speak, oar raiment And state of bodies would bewray what life We've led since thy exile. Think with thyself How more anfortunate than all living women Are we eeme hither: since that thy sight, which should Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts. Constrains them weep, and shake with fear and sorrow ; Making the mother, wife, and child, to Bee The son, the husband, and the father, tearing His country's bowels oat. And to poor we Thine enmity's most capital : then barr'st us Oar prayers to the gods, which ia a comfort That all bnt we enjoy ; for how can we, Alas, how can we for oux conntry pray, Whereto W6're bonnd, — together with thy victory. Whereto we're Jboand? alack, or we most lose
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The country, oar dear name, or else thy person,
Onr comfort in the conntry. We must find
Ad eyident calamity, thoogh we hod
Onr ynsh, which side Bhoald win ; for either thon
Mast, as a foreign recreant, be led
With manacles thorongh onr streets, or else
Triumphantly tread on thy conntry's min,
And bear the palm for having bravely shed
Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,
I purpose not to wait on fortune till
These wars detennine : if I cannot persuade thee
Bather to show a noble grace to both parts
Than eeefc the end of one, tboa shalt no sooner
March to assanlt tby conntty than to tread —
Trast to't, thon shalt not — on thy mother's vomb.
That bronght thee to this world.
Vir, Ay, and on mine,**
That bronght yon forth this boy, to keep your name
Living to time.
Young Mar. 'A shall not tread on me ;
I'll mn away till I'm bigger, bat then I'll fight. Cor. Not of a woman's tenderness to be,
Beqoires nor child nor woman's face to see.
I've sat too long. IRUinff.
Vol, Nay, go not from ns thus.
If it were so that our reqneBt did tend To save the Bomans, thereby to destroy The VolBces whom you serve, yon might condemn us. As poisonous of your honour : no ; our suit la, that you reconcile them : while the Yolsces May say, " This mercy we have show'd ;" the Bomans, " This we receiv'd ;" and each in either side Give the all-hail to tb^e, and cry, "Be bless'd For making up this peace !" Thon Icnow'st, great bod. The end of war's nncertoin ; but this certain, That, if thou conquer Borne, the benefit Which thon shalt thereby reap is such a name, Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses; Whose chronicle thus writ, — " The man was noble. But with his lust attempt he wip'd it out;
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DeBtroy'd his coontry ; and his name remainB
To tb' enaning age abhorr'd." Speak to me, boh :
Xhoa haat affected the fine"^ Btrains of honoar.
To imitate the graces of the gods ;
To tear vith thunder the wide cheeks o' tb' air.
And yet to charge'*^ thy salphnr with a holt
That Bhonid bat rive an oak. Why dost not speak?
Thiuk'st tboa it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs ? — Daagbter, speak yoa :
He cares not for yoar weeping. — Speak tbon, boy :
Perhaps thy childishness will move him more
Than can onr reasons. — There's no man in the world
More boond to's mother; yet here he lets me prate
Iiike one 1' the stocks. — Thon'st never in thy life
Show'd thy dear mother any coartesy ;
"When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,
Has clnck'd thee to the wars, and safely home,
Loaden with honoar. Say my reqaest's nnjost.
And spurn me bock : but if it be not so,
Tbon art not honest ; and the gods will plagne thee.
That tboa restrain'st from me the daty which
To a mother's part belongs. — He tarns away :
Down, ladies ; let ns shame him with oar knees.*****
To hiB Boniame Coriolanns 'longs more pride
Than pity to onr prayers. Down : an end ;
Thia is the last : — so we will home to Rome,
And die among onr neighbours. — Nay, behold 'b :
Thia boy, that cannot tell what he wonld have.
Bat kneels and holds np hands for fellowship.
Does reason onr petition with more strength
Than thon hast to deny 't. — Gome, let ns go :
This fellow had a Volacian to his mother;
His wife is in Corioli, and this cbild°*"
Like him by chance. — Vet give ns our dispatch ;
I'm hnsh'd until our city be a- fire.
And then I'll speak a little.
Cor. {afier holding Volmnnia by the hand in aUence] 0 mother, mother t What have yon done ? Behold, the heavens do ope. The gods look down, and thiB unnatural scene
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They laugh at. 0 my mother, mother t 0 ! You've won a happy victory to Rome.; But, for your boh, — believe it, 0 believe it. Most dangeroiiBly yoa have vitb him prevail'd. If not moBt mortal to him. But, let it come.— Aafidias, though I cannot make true wars, I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius, Were you in my stead. Bay would yon have heard"*" A motiier leas ? or granted loBS, AaGdias ? Auf. I was mov'd wiUial.
Cor. I dare be Bwom you were :
And, air, it is no little thing to make Bline eyea to sweat compassion. But, good sir. What peace you'll make, advise me : for my part, m not to Rome, I'll back with yon ; and pray yon, Stand to me in this cauBe. — 0 mother I wife !
Avf. \a»idx\ I'm glad thoa'st set thy mercy and thy hon- onr At difference in thee : out of that I'll work Myself a former fortune."**"
[TAe laMe% mafte st^ru to Cortolaitwff. Cor. [to Vohmmia, Virgilia, tfc] Ay, by and by ; But we will drink together; and yon shall bear A better witness back than words, which we, On like conditions, will have connter-seai'd. Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve To have a temple bnilt you : all the swords In Italy, and her confederate arms. Could not have made this peace. \Exevmii.
SoBNE IV. Home. A public place. Enter Menehiub with SioiKios. Men. See you yond coign o' the Capitol, — yond oorner- stone?
Sk. Why, what of that ?"
Men. If it be posBible for you to displsce it with yoar little finger, there ia some hope the ladies of Rome, especially
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his mother, mayprev&il with him. Bat I say there ia no hope in't : oor throats are aentenced, and stay upon ezecntion.
Sic. Is't possible that so short a time can alter the con- dition of a man ?
Men. There is difTerency between a grub and a batterfly; ^et your bntterfiy was a grub. This Marcins is grown from man to dragon : he has winge ; he's more than a creeping
Sic. He loved hia mother dearly.
Men. So did he me : and he no more remembers his mother now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes : when he walks, he moves like ao engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with bis eye ; talks like a knell, and his ham is a battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for Alexander.**^* What he bids be done, ia finished with his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity, and a heaven to throne in.
Sic. Yes, mercy, if yon report him traly.
Men. I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his mother shall bring from him : there is do more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger ; that shall oor poor ci^ find : and all tbiB is long of yon.
Sic. The gods be good nnto as I
Men. No, in snob a ease the gods will not be good onto Qs. When we banished him, we respected not tbem ; and, he retnming to break oor necks, th^ respect not ns.
Jinler a Messenger. MesB. Sir, if yon'd save yonr life, fly to yoar hoase : The plebeians'"^ have got yonr fellow-tribnne. And hale him np and down ; all swearing, if The Roman ladies bring not comfort home, They'll give him death by inches.
Enter a teeond Messenger. Sie. What's the news ?
See. Meti. Oood news, good news; — the ladies hare pre- vail'd, The Volseians are dislodg'd, and Mareina gone :
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A meirier da; did nerer yet greet Borne, No, Qot tb' expulsion of the Tarqnins.
Sic. Friend,
Art thoo certain this is tree ? is it roost certain 9
Sec. Mess. As certain as I know the sun is fire r'"" Where have yoa lurk'd, that 70a make donbt of it ? Ne'er throngb an areh bo hnrried the blown tide As the tecomforted through the gates. Why, hark yon !
[TnimpeU and hautboys sounded, and drums beaten, all together; shouting also, within. The tnunpets, sackbate, psalteries, and fifes, Tabors, and cymbals, and the sboating Bomans, Make the stin dance. Hark you ! [^Shouting again within.
Men. This is good news :
I will go meet the ladies. This Yolamnia Is worth of consnls, senators, patricians, A city fnll ; of tribanes, snch as yon, A sea and land fall. YouVe pray'd well to-day : This morning for ten thoasand of yonr throats I'd not have given a doit. — Hark, how they joy !
[Shouting and music stUl, within.
Sic. First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next. Accept my thankfuhiesB.
Sec. Mess. Sir, we have all
Great cause to give great thanks.
Sic. They're near the city ?
Sec. Mess. Almost at point to enter.
Sic. We will meet them.
And help the joy. [Exeunt.
Scene ¥.<*"* The same. A street near the gate.
Enter, in procession, Voldhnia, VmaiLiA, Yalbria, &c, aeeom- jmnied by Seuatora, FatriciaQH, and Citizens. First Sen. Behold our patroness, the life of Rome I Call all your tribes together, praise the gods. And make triumphant fires ; strew fiowers before them : UnBhont""" the noise that banish'd Maieins,
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Bepeal him vith the welcome of his mother ; C17, "Welcome, ladiea, welcome!"
AU. Welcome, ladies.
Welcome ! lAJiouriah with dramt and trumpett. Exeunt.
ScEKB VI. Corioli."**' A ptiUic ^ce. Enter Adfidiub, mth Attendants. Auf. Oo tell the lords o' the city I am here : Deliver them this paper : having read it, Bid them repair to the market-place ; where I, Even in theirs and in the oommons' ears, Will vouch the troth of it. Him I accuse The city ports by this hath enter'd, and Intends t' appear before the people, hoping To purge himself with words: dispatch. [Extunt Attendantt,
Enter three or /our Conflpiratora 0/ Auvidiub's faction. Most welcome t
First Con. How is it with our general?
Aitf. Even so
As with a man by his own alms empoieon'd, And with hia charity alain.
Sec. Con. Moet noble sir.
If yoQ do hold tbe same intent wherein Yoa wish'd as parties, we'll deliver yon Of yoor great danger.
A^f. Sir, I cannot tell :
We most proceed as we do find the people.
Third Con. The people will remain anoertain whilst 'Twixt yon there's difference ; bat the fall of either Makes the sorrivor heir of all.
Auf. I know it ;
And my pretext to etrike at him admits A good constractioD. I rais'd him, and I pawn'd Mine honour for his troth : who being so heighten'd. He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery, Sedociag bo my Meuda; and, to this end.
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He bow'd Hb nfttan, neyer kaown before Bnt to be roa^, niiBwayable, and bee."**'
Third Con. Sir, his Btoatneaa When he did Btand for consul, which ho lost By lack of stooping, —
Aiif. That I would have apoke of:
Being baniah'd for't, be came onto my hearth ; PreBented to my kniie Mb throat : I took him ; Made him joint-servaQt with me ; gave him way In all his own desires ; nay, let him choose Ont of my files, his projeotB to acoompliah. My beet and freshest men ; Beir'd bis designments In mine own person ; holp to reap the fame Which he did end all bis ;**'^ and took some pride To do myself this wrong : till, at the last, I seem'd his follower, not partner ; and He wag'd me with bis coantenance, as if I had been mercenary.
Firtt Con. So he did, my lord, —
The army marrell'd at it ; and, in the last. When he had carried Ilome, and that we look'd For no less epoil than glory, —
Auf. There was it ; —
For which my sinews shall be stretch'd npon bim. At a fnw drops of women's rhenm, which are Aa cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labosr Of onr great action : therefore shall he die, And I'll renew me in bis fall. — Bat, hark 1
[Dnatu and trumpets sound, with great thoutt of the people.
First Con. Your native town yon enter'd like a post. And had no weloomes home ; bnt he retams, Splitting the air with noise.
See. Con. And patient fools.
Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear With giving him glory.
Third Con. Therefore, at your vantage.
Ere he express himself, or move the people With what be wonld say, let him feel your sword, Which we will second. When be lies along.
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After yoxu way hiB tale pronoanc'd Bhall boiy His reasons with Mb bod;.
Ai^. Saty no more :
Here oome the loida.
£nier the Lords oftke city.
Lordt. YoQ aro moat welcome home.
Auf. I'Tfi not deaerr'd it.
Bat, worthy lords, have yoa with heed peraa'd What I have written to yoa?
Lordt. We have.
Firtt Lord. And grieve to hear 't.
Wliat fiinlts he made before the last, I thtsk Might have found easy finea : bat there to end Where he was to begin, and give away The benefit of oar levies, answering ns With onr own charge, making a treafy where There was a yielding, — this admits no excnse.
Auf. He approaches : yoa shall hear him.
Ettter CoRiOLAKUB, aitli dr»m and eolovra; a crotcd o/Citiwna wUh kim.
Cor. Hail, lords ! I am retnm'd your soldier ; Ko more infected with my country's love Than when I parted hence, bat still sabsietlng Under yoar great command. Yoa are to know, That prosperoasly I have attempted, and, With bloody paasage, led year wara even to The gates of Borne. Oor spoils we have broaght home Do more than connterpoise a fall third part The charges of the action. We've made peace, With no less hononr to the Antiatea Than shame to the Bomans : and we here deliver, Babscrib'd by the consola and patricians. Together with the seal o' the senate, what We have compoanded on.
Auf. Bead it not, noble lords ;
Bat tell the traitor, in the high'st degree He hath abas'd yoar powers.
Cor. Traitor! — how now 1
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Auf. Ay, traitor, Morcias I
Cor. Maroina !
Avf. Ay, Marciaa, Caias Marcins : doet thou think I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy Btol'n oama CoriolanQB, in Corioli? — Toa lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously He has betray'd your bnsiness, and given np. For certain drops of salt, your city Rome— I say, yoor city — to his wife and mother ; Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk ; never admitting Counsel o' the war ; but at liis nurse's (earB He whin'd and roar'd away your victory; That pages blosh'd at him, and men of heart Look'd wondering each at other.*""
Cor. Hear'st thou, Mars ?
Avf. Kame not the god, thou boy of tears !
Cor. Hal
Auf. No more.'»«"
Cor. Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart Too great for what contains it. Boy ! 0 slave ! — Pardon me, lords ; 'tis the first time that ever I was forc'd to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords. Mast give this cur the lie : and his own notion — Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him ; that Must bear my beating to his grave — shall join To throst the lie unto him.
First Lord. Peace, both, and hear me speak.
Cor. Cut me to pieces, Yolsces ; men and lads. Stain all your edges on me. — Boy ! false hound ! If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there. That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flatter'd***** your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy !
Auf. Why, noble lords,
Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune. Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart, 'Fore your own eyes and oars?
All the Conspirators. Let him die for 't !
Citizens. Tear him to pieces t — Do IFpresentlyP^fie kjlled
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my son! — My daughter! — H« killed mycoasia MarottsI — He killed my father ! —
Sec. Lord. Peace, ho ! — no ontrage : — peace ! The man is noble, and his fame folde-in This orb o' th' earth. His Ust offencee to as Shall have jadicioQB hearing. — Stand, Anfidiae, And tronble not the peace.
Cor. 0 that I had him,
With six Aafidinses, or more, his tribe, To use my lawful sword !
At^. Insolent villain !
All the ConspiratorB. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him !
[^Au/idiu* and the Conspirators draw, and kill Coria- lanus, wkofaUa: At^idiua ttands on him.
Lords. Hold, hold, hold, hold !
Ai^. My noble masters, hear me speak.
First Lord. O Tnllus,—
Sec. Lord. Thoa 'st done a deed whereat valour will weep.
ThirdLord. Tread not open him. — Masters all, be qniet; Pat ap yoar swords.
Aitf. My lords, when yon shall know — u in this rage, Provok'd by him, yoa cannot — the great danger Which this man's life did owe yon, you'll rejoice That be is thns cut off. Please it yoar honours To call me to your senate, I'll deliver Myself yoar loyal servant, or endure . Your heaviest censure.
Fust Lord. Bear from hence his body, —
And moam you for him : — let him be regarded As the most noble corse that ever herald Did follow to his am.
Sec. Lord. His own impatience
Takes from Aafidios a great part of blame. Let's make the best of it.
At^f. My rage is gone;
And I am struck with sorrow. — Take him up : — Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers ; Til be one. — Beat thou the drum, that it apeak monmfally: Trail your steel pikes. — Though in this city he
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[Examt, bearimg the bodg of Conobiinu. A dead march Bom^kd.
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P.US. (l) "«ltfMt"
XCr. CoUkr'B Hi. CoriMtor n>b«titnt«s " alileetiWH."
V. IM. (i) "Agalntt ktmjhtt," Ae.
Ualone thinki Otmt this ipeodi (whioh In tha fbllo bM the prefix "Alt') ought to he uidgned to the Fint Citittu.
P. U6. (]) " Nof, bat tptak not nuUieioiuly."
The folio glvea thia ^eeeh to " Ail."
P. 186. (4) "jwrt^"
Hr. Stksnton eonjeotnreB "pottl;;" Mr.W.N.LetUom, " fetHj," i.t. optJdj, thadj. — (Humiei piinti ■■ he did it to pUtue hit mothtr, and pwtlj to be frmtd /' Ci^ell, '■ k« did it partly to pleate hi* violhtr, arid to be proud.")
P. 186. (5) >' Our batineei," Ae.
" This and all the laleeqasDtplabeiMiapeseheflhi thiiseeiMaregiT«ii In the oU eopj to the leeond dtixen. But the dittlogne at the opening of the play Aawt that it mntt hare been a mlitahe, and that they onght to be attribated to the flrtt Citisen [to whom Capell girea them]. The aeoond ia Tsther fdendly to Coriolauni." Mu^ohi. — Mr. Knight — who "adheres to the raiglaal copy for the precise reason whioh Halone givefi for departing from it" — deelarei that " thia speaker ia of a higher eatt than he who ■■;», ' Let ni hill him, and well haTe com at onr own price' ;" — a Tiew of the Citizen's ehanotei qnite at Tarianoe with the deaeripUon of it whioh, aeoording to Hr. Kni^t's own text, Henenins presentlj glTOi ;
" What do 70U think r Yon, the great toe of this aaaemblyf
Sxc. Grr. I the great toe 1 Whj the great toe t Men. For that, being one o' the lowest, baeeat, poorest. Of thia moat wise reballion, then go'st foremoat : Thon rasoal, that art wmat in hlood to ran, Lead'et flrst, to win Mme Tantage." In tact, the passage jest cited Berrei to prove that Capell and Malone were wen wamsted In altering the preflx here and anbseqaently. (In act ii. eo. S, where Coriolanna, aboat to solieit tbeToiees of the people, najfl, "here ootnea A BmuB," the folio has " Enter thbeb 0/ the Citiient," and prefixes to their "8CTt.,"">Ci(.,""10((.")
P. 187. (6) The foUohas "soale 't
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P. X88, {7) " taunttfiffly"
So the fovrth fella. — The earlier folioB liftve " teintiaely" Mid " Untingly."
P. 188. {!] " The kinglg-eravmid head," &e.
Mr. Singer (Shakeipean ViitdieaUd, &o. p. 208) tmja that this passage "erl- dently belongs to Henemnt." I think, on the oontrwy, that it CTidentlT- belongi to the dtiaen, who aemmea the part and langoage of the rebellions members. II it be taken from the Cititen, vhat propriet; is there in ths Eabeeqaeitt eiclamation of MeneninB, " 'Fore me, thii/tllovi ipeaksf" t (In Mr. Binger's Shaketptare, 1836, 1 And not only that this ia given to Henenitu, but that, among other ahangea in the distribntion of the present dialogne, the words,
" Shonld by the cormorant belly be restrain'd, Who is the (in* 0' the body," are trsntferred to Menenina, — with great anfltaoH.)
P. 1S8. (g) " The fomur agtnte,"
Walker (Oil. JEzom. &c. voL iiL p. 206] pnta a " qa." after these woida, as if VDoertaiu about the meaning of "/onser," or donbting if it were the li^t
P. 188. (10) "jou'U"
a;he folio has "yon'st."
P. 188. (it) "I«iKtie,"Ac.
Mr. W. N. Lettsom boldly proposes
" I lend it through the fiecn of your bUtod, And thtoQgb the orankB and offices of man, Bvea lo the oenter'd heart, th' high-seated brain: The
P. 189. (la) "digeit"
I m^ notice that here the folio has " disgest" (which epelling was formeriy not nnnsnal] ; bnt that afterwards in this play (seep. 163) it has "digeit The Senates Conrtesie."— A writer in Notea and Qveriei, toI. tL p. 27, defsnding the gross corrnption of the folio in act iii. sc 1, " Bosome-tnnltiplied" (see note lot)), rests a portion of bis fery weak argument on the preseet passage, nhioh he does not scrapie to maintain onght henceforth to be pointed thne ; " The seiuttoTB of Rome are this good belly, And yon the mutinoos members I— For examine — Their connsels, and their cares digest things rightly Tonohing the weal o' the eommon t— yoa shall find," &o. I
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P. 139. (ij) "Thourateal, thou artKont in blood to run," " Sir. H. Uuon jodioioQaly obsarrea Uut ... a I«ftU dMr is mUed m raieaX, <u>d tliAt ' mmt in blood' is lent in vigour [both " nueal" and " in blood" being termB ol tha foreatj." STnrsxt.^Here Haumer Babstitiited "firat" tax "wont;" and Mr. StannfoD (not happil;] oaniBOtorea " iMt."
P. 139. (14) " Wliat'$ the matter, you dtitaaimu rogun, Tlmt, nAbing the poor ileh of your opttUon, Make younelvei teaht t
Tini Cit. Wt have ever your good word.
Ifu. He that iBiU give good xordi to yt aiU flatter Btntath tibhorring. What nould you have, you eurt," £0. Tha Ml<t hu "Mar. Be that tHU giue good word* lo ihee.wll flatter," &o.; Oke tnuuoiiber or oompoaltoT, it would aeem, bBving miataken "ye" for *'y" {i.e. thee): — Uuit Ui« anthor eoold not possibly have written "Uiee" IwM ia mauiferi:. See note 107 on 7A« Tempett.
P. 140. (15) "Hang ye.' Tnutye."'
-"Ctderidge, Literary Remaiiu, propoMB 'Trort yer Hang ye!' Perbftpa Tight." Walter's Crt I. £x(iin. Ao.toI. ill. p. 906. — Bnt oompare the first worda «f Mardoa'a neil Bpeeob, "Hang 'entl Theyuyl"
P. 140. (16) "thete"
Should perhapa be "the."
P. 140. (17) " aliaoif
lb, CoQiw's Ma. Coneotor leada " all moat"
P. 140. (18) " Shauliag their emidatioa."
The folk) baa " Bhooting," ice, — Hr. Collier's Ma. Correetor reada " Shout- big their cnltBtion." Bnt the teit ia certainly right ; ud aeema to be rif^tlj explained by Malone, " Each ot tbem Btriiiog to ahont londer than
P. 141. (19) " BnOue," £0.
Walkn {Cril. Ezam. Ao. f ol. iiL p. 207) propoaea " Bnibu, one
Sieinivt," See.
P. 141. (lo) "uttro^Tf
Tke folio ha* "nroo'it." TOL. TI.
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P. 142. (ai) " Itiffht aoTthy you priority."
UeHU. EiiTs Milone, " Yon being right wortliy of preoedence." — But Poper HumieT, MaBoii, Walker, and Hr. Callier'B Mb. Corrector igrM in mdiiig "■ JIfMt voTthy yonr fTiority," — veiy impropeily, I think.
P. 142. (ii) "muliBerj,"
8«e not« 74 on The Tenrput.
P. US. (aj) '•Corner
Mr.W. N. LettBom, after propodjtg an entirely new distribation ol the dia- logue here between SioininB and Brntus, zamarks ; " The word ' Comt' it evidentl; displaced, and Bhonld be inserted, if at all, either before ' Left hence' ex 'Let'i along.' The Metre will allow ^ther."
P. 118. (14) " What ever hath"
So the aaeood fotio.— The flnt folio has " What euer base" (" Elliptleallf ," sajB BoBwell, "wbaterer thi»g»" I).
P. 144. (ij) " CoTioli .-■•
The folio throaf^oat hu '' Corioles" (and "CarideB").
P. 144.(»6) "(ft*"
Ferh»pe, h JohuMn eonjeotnred, " their."
P. 144. (17) "Jrom e^rtaintift."
Hanmer printed "from Teiy eertaintit*."
P. 145. (18) '•have"
The folio haB " had" {a mistake occasioned by the preceding " had rather").
P. 145. (^9) "F'
Not in the folio.— (Compare what precedes, "Methinks I hear," tic, and what foUowa, " Methinka I lee him," fto. ;— and Tide Prefaee to the present edition, p. iii.)
P. 145.(30) "thaCt"
The folio has " that." — Corrected in the second folio.
P. 145. (31) "AtareeUmtv!OTi*,e<mtem,ning.~-Ttll Valeria"
The folio has " At Grecian sword. Contenuing, tell," &c. (where " Conten- ning" iB plainlj a misprint for " eontemning"). — The second folio baa ••At
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Grecian twordi oimtending. TtU" ke.—Vx. CoUisr'i Mb. Oometor givea "AtOrteiaa taordt eoHUntning. TtU," dco. — Mr. W. N LetUom propoMC "AaOreeian neoriU eotUnming." — Lao piinU "At Grecian aword conttnt- ning," ud obserres ; " 'Djco is right in uMng vhetlieT ' contemning at' ia legitimate plirMeologj. Bat Tolnmnia does not speak about ' contemning ftt;' ahe t»yn, ipit al: and tbe aoiiBtmction ol the phnue mml be, ' when Aontemning (full of contempt) it apit forth blood at OreciBn sword.' " — M7 nkding ia that of Mr. Collier's Mb. Conootor, irith the ponctoation of the Cambridge Edlton [Olobe Shaietptare).
P. 148. (ji) " What are you leaing here t A fint ipot, in good faith." Here Steorcni wonld explain "-* fine tpot" by qnoting the TDlgar 01- preaaion, "Yon have made a fine tpot of work of it;" and BoeweU anb- jdnB, " Sorely it means • pretty apot of embroidery. Wo often hear of tpotud mnslin."— A varioiu reading, soffldently obiiouB, occorred to Za- ehu7 Jackson S iipnMifraTot,—" Wliat, are you lemng heret A fine aport, in good faith:" but Valeria wonid hardly wOl sawing a iport, nnless, indeed, ■he were apeaking ironically. (In the folio "apot" is Bpelt "apotte.")
P. 146.(33) "o^"
Perii^pB a miiprint for " uid,"— whiah Hamner Babatitnted.
P. 147. (34) "anifcti/."
" Bbonld be omitted; aa we are told ia ao, 6 that 'Tit not a mile' between the two anoies." Bibbvbhb.
P. 148. (35)
" Yoa ihamet of Bom! you h«rd of—Boile and plaguee Platter yea o'eri" In the foUo thtu ;
" Ton ihame$ of Some : yoa Etard ofByUi and Flagnei Plaitter you o't*." " Thia passage, like almost every oilier abmpt sentence in these iilays, waa Mudeted nnintelligible in the old copy by jnaocnrate punetaation. For the preient regulation I am answerable. ' Ton herd of coioarde F Mardns wonld ■ay, bat his rage prerenls him." Mii*HB,— Mr. ColKar'a Ms. Corrects re»a» "Yoa ihamet of Rotne! Unheard 0/ Soil* ami plaffUM PlatteT yva a^er f not do I think the alteration so "xery improbable" m it appears to Mr. Singer (Sha\t^eare VinAicatei, *c. p. 310), who asks " why itnft-tari off Snrdy the " boila and plagues" might be termed " nnheard of," if those on whom they fell were consequent^ to
"beabborr'd Fnrther than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile."
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P. 149. <36) "FoUoKPU!."
The folto has " followes." — I adopt the conjeohtre of Mr. W. N. Lettaom, who obwrret; "The reoeived reiuling 'foUoieed' is t, BopblHtioation brtbs
editor of the aeoood folio The old stage-direction {'Another Alarms ;
and Startnu folloireE them ta gaUi, and U ihut in') ptotablj oaoaad the amir. .... Hr, Collier propoeea ' Fcdlow ut ;' bat the singular ii regnidte : ■ee the oontcxt." Note on Walker'a Grit. Exam. fte. toL iii. p. S07.
P. 149. (37) "Tothcfot,"
Mr. Collier adopts the reading of his Hs. Correotor, " To tJie •porV' [i.e. to the gate]. — In a Tolmne vbich appeared some years ago I obserred; "A qnotatios from a drama, trMeh Mr, CoUier fnmielf fonnerly tiitad (in DodM- Uf't OtdPtayi, vol. xi.), is aloae snffldent to show the atiodty of the altera- tion, * To the port ;'
' King Edward, no : ire will admit no panie, For goes thit wretch, this traitor, to lAs pal.' Peele's Edward I.,—Worla. i. 118. ed. Djce, 1839. IWorki, p. SS», ed. Dyoe, 1861.) (Knee I wrote what precedes, Hr. Btaonton has pnblished (March 1869) the No. of hia Sltaketptare whioh oontaina Coriotamu ; and in his note ad L he girea, not only the paasage whioh I have cited from Peele, hat the following qaotationi ;
' Thoa mi^iCeit aweare, if I oonld, I would bring them to the pet.* * Hew Cnstome,' Act iL ae. 8.
' they go to IJm pot for't.'
Webster's ' White Devil,' fto.,Dyoe'B ed. p. 117, toLL IWorlu, p. 87, ed. Dyce, 1867].)" Slri«ture» on ilr. Collier'i Nta ed. 0/ ShaJieipeare, p. 166.
P. 149. (38) "Who, letuible, otitdaret hit tetutleii neord, And, tphen it boioi, itatidt up !" The folio has
" Who sensibly ont-dares hit leneeleut Saord, And when it boaet, stand'st op." Here " lentible" is the eorreotion of Ihirlby (who also snbstltated " out- does" for " outdarei").
P. 149. (39) " io.(,"
The fdio has "left,"— Corrected bj Mr. Grant White.
P. 149. (40) "Even to Cato't wdft," 4c.
The folio has " £tMnt to Calnes uiift," ftc— Correoted by Theobald. ("Be [Mardns] was even such snother as Cato wonld bays a sonldier and a eap- taine to be ; not only terrible and fierce to laye abont him, but to tnalte the enemie afeard with the sound of hfa voyoe and grinmea of hia ootintenanoe." North's Ptutta-eh, p. 240, ed. 1679.)
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P. 160. (41) "pfiie ihtiT houn
At a eraei'd draehm!" H«m Pope ohanged " Aoun" to "hoiuniTs."— Bnt Capell {Note*, &o. rol. L P. i. p. 8S) obBerree; "The speftkei oonld Dever Ibink of appljing that void [' hononn'] to the men he ia rfttJng ; their loes of time in this pilfering wm wlut engag'd hie thonghts most, as ia STident from all Tie sajs afterwarda." And 8te«T«iui detraida the oiiftinal nading hj qaotin : from North's Plut- arch ; " HartiDB wai mtunreUonB uigty with them, and cried oat on them, that it was no time now to loohe after bp<^1b," tee. — For " dratkm," we p*r- bapg oDgjit to read " draohma."
P. ISO. (4») " MUguidt thy oppoiert' titord*f"
Here, aooording to Walker, we onght to read " ' TIte oppoaers ;' {. «. tht tnt- mia, nt pasaim apnd 8. The metre (i" titalyt f»t7J and the lense both require thie ; tor ' (Ay oppoaen' woold properly mean Coriolanm'B personal enemiee, not the TolscianB." Grit. Exam. bo. toL ii. p. 233. — I believe that " thy oippoien" ia what the anthor wrote, — meaning •■ thy opponenta, — those of the enemy who shall oppose thee." (In p. 169 Cominiaa mentdona that CorioUniia, when only a stripling, " slew three oppoieri" in battle ; and in p. SU we hare "his great oppcier, Corio^nna.")
P. 150. (+3) " Where"
Mr. W. K. Lettaom wonld rabatitute " There. "
P. 161. (44) " re"
ThoIidiohaa"The."
P. 161. (45) " the round of Mareiiu' tongue
Frwa every meaner man'*." The folio baa " From euery meaner man," — "that is," sajs Halone, "fponi that of erei7 meaner man ;" and he oitea aa examples of similar phraseo-
•««■.
" Thersitea' body is aa good as Ajai, When neither are alire." CyvAeline, act ir. ae. 3. and
"friaod or brother, Be forfeita hia own blood [If. mitgiiotet it life] that spills another."
Timon ofAthent, aet iii. so. 6. Bat who doea not aee that in the first of theae paaaagea we onght to print " Ajai'," jnat as in a passage of Troiliu and Crenida, p. 18 of the present
" were yonr days As green as j^ax', and yonr brain so temper'd," fte. f lad with respeot to the passage of Ttmon, it need not be defended on the ^■a that the neoassity of a rhyme oeoasiooed an offence against grammal', lor " OHoCAer ilood" may certainly mean another blood than kit own.
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p. 163. (46) "I do not think."
If right, mBUiB " I do not think tbat the time will serre to telL"— Ifr. Ool-
- think it."— Mr. W. N. ]
P. 162. (47) -Antiattt,"
Here the folio hu " AntientB ;" bat in the next apeeoh " AnUata."
P. 168. <+g) "Lttter"
The folk) luu " Leuen."— Coneeted in the third folio.
P. 168. {49) "fromtUl:"
" Words appucDtl? neediest tnd redniidaiit." STCxram.
P. 163. (so) "/■'«'■"
' ' Why four ? The nnmber is a strange one, considering the object in riev. The integri^ of the passage has been long BQspeoted ; bnt no einend»tioii worthy of notice has be«o proposed, onless ' tonre' is a misprint for ' some,' mUt. Singer conjectured." GsiKT Wmn.— " Qy. 'iii*,'i.«. Cominini andL 'Four' ma; haTe been derived from the dxth line sboTe." W. N. Littbom.
P. 164. Iji) "famt I mvy."
80 Mr. CoUier'a Ha. Correotor; and Hr. Collier is probably ri^t in ob- serving that " the oompositor mistook ' I' for the contraction for tmd." — The folio has " Fame and Etiuy." — Whether Malone'e or BtoeTcna'a explana- tion ol the old reading be the most ridicolons, is donbttul. — Mr. Staunton BQggests "fame I bate and envy," — which would make the line OTer-nsa- •nre.— Here " envy' means " hate, bear ill-will to."
P. 16*. (51) " ih« whip of your bragg'd progeny " Mr. Bwynfen Jervis conjootnrss "prop" instead of "urhip." Bnt donbtleas the old text is right, meaning, as one of Malone's correspondents explains it, "the whip [or soonrgej that yonr bragged progeny w
P. 166. (53) "IflthMtd ua thee o'er thU thy day'* work, Thou'U not believe thy deedt :" Here Mr. Grant White alters •■ Thou'U" (wbioh in the foUo is spelt ■' Thou'r) to "Thon'dst;" and be observes, " ' If I ihoulif requires, ofconne, 'them ■TDuIfbl,' not ' thon iciK.' ".^Bat see 'note 10 on A MidMumraer-Niglit't Dream, and note 17 on King Henry VIII. Compare too " And if I thoaii tmj (Ar •''■w), I know him not, I thatl bs (firafuu) a liar like nnto yon." it. Jtdm'e Qotpet, viii. 66.
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P. 1E6. (st) "pUhtiam,"
Here, as Walker obserreg {Shakttpeare'i Vertifitation, See. p. 161), '*pUbei- diu" is to be pTonannoed "pUbiaru." (Indeed, the Bpelling of the folio here I«"PlebeuiB:" but in sot iii. bo. 1, the folia has
" Let them hane CnshionB by yon. Ton ate Plebeiani," 4c. «lld in act T. BO. 4,
" The PUbeiaru hane got joat Fellow Tribnne," Ac. ; while in a prose apeeoh, aot IL so. 1, it has " the Heardamen of the BeuUy FUbeani.")
P. IBB. (ss) " country!"
A triflyUable here.
P. 166. (56) "ifflde"
Ur. W. N. Lettsont soBpeotB that this ii tbe vrong wind, "derived from -'made' in the next line of the apeeoh."
P. 168. (57) " Soft oa tlu paraiile-i rilk, Ut him be made A cavcTtuTt for the wartP' tba folio baa ''Let lum be made an OaartnTe/or tA' Warret." — I read, with Tjrwhitt and Mr. Callier's Ma. Correotor, "A coBerture;" ba I cannot bnt think that the commentaton have most signally failed in their endeavoDM to support the old lection ; nor can any thing be aoFe ridiculonB than Ma- lone's addndng, in its defence, from Taelflk-Night, "no overture ofioar,"— as if tbat eiproBBion wero parallel to " an overtnre for the wars" I (Shake- speare has the word " cacertare" elBowhere.) — Tyrwhitt and Mr. Collier's Us. Corrector make further alteration here; the fonDer readbg "let ibis be made," Ice,, the latter " let it be made," 4o. : bnt, as Bleeveng observee, -"the personal hint is not tmlreqaently osed by onr anthor, and other writers of his age, instead td if, the nenter." — Varions ohanges have been tried in the p<^ting of this diffloolt passage: I give what I conceive to be the true pnnotDslion. — 1666. In tbe second edition of bis Shakeiptare, Mr. Collier (forgetting tbat in the first of these lines " Aim" is the original lection) re- marks, " If we were at all authorised to read ' lilJlE' in the plnral, it wonld not be neoeaaaty even to idter them U> ' it' :" Walker too (Crit. Exam, te, Tol. iii. p. 208) qaeries " Soft as the parasite's lillu, let them ba made," Ins. : bat in the present passage " rilkt" appears to mo very objeotionable.^Mr. W. N. Lettsom would adopt ryrwhitt's reading, " Soft as the parasite's idlfc, let thu be made," tie.
P. 1B6. (5I) "ifcoiit"
^nie folio has " shoot." — Coireeted in the fourth folio.
P. 167. (59) " Cuna Mibcids Cobioukctb.''
TIm foUo hM " Uaieai Cains Cortelamu" both here and In the next speech.
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P. 167. (60) " Tale't! 'ti* your*. What tf'i;" to. In this pEBuge ths metre ia alightij defectife. — Wftlker [Crit. Ext ToL iii, p. 209) woold ttmage ;
"Takeitj 'tiijovra. Wli»t ia't*
Cot. I Mmetime Uy,
Here in Corioli, at a pya man's house ; He as'd me kindlr ; — He died to me," &e.
P. 168. (61) "vatouT,"
The folio has " Talon" (the addition of $ to BnbstantiTM beliig a ct onvt in the folio).
F. 166. (61) " EmbaTquemtnU"
P. 160. {63) "thefirit eompUimt,"
Here Mr. Collier's Ha. Corrector makes an emeadation on whioh HTeial oiitiM hare bestowed great applause ; he anhstitntes " the tbiret complaint ;" and Mr. Collier, vho prononnces the reading of the folio to be " merely an error from mishearing on the put of tbe coj^t," osks " What is ' the first Monplaint' in oonnexios mth Menenina'a lore for ' a cnp ol bot win«' V But is it qnite oerlain that any " coHiinioij" was intended between "tht ftnt complaint" and "a cup of hot vine"/ at least, if the folio laithtall; represents the anthor's punctuation, none was intended ; lor in the folio we find a colon after " Tibtr in'f," while " thejint complaint" Is disjoined only by a comma from " ka»ty and tiniUr-like upon too trivial motion," — tcordi which rurareiUjf do not in any Kay allude (a KeneniuM't frmdneitfor drinkir^, Aguu, is " the thirst complaint" a probable eipresaion F^In short, I ooniider the Mb. Cairsetor's alteration as a very doubtful one ; and I have the eatis- taotiou of knowing that Uc. John Forster concurs with me in that opiniou. — I mnst add, that Mr. Biuger's explanation ol "firif appears to me eTeu more unlikely than the Ms. Corrector's now reading, — by which indeed it was eiidently suggested : " it seems," he says, " that thirit was sometimes proviuoially prouooueed and spelt ^rst and funt, Menenius uses it joca- larly," ahaieipeare Vindicated, Ac. p. 'MS.
P. 160. (64) " one that conivr*«i more aith the buttock of the night than vith the forehead of the morning :"
"These words should come before 'said to be something imperfect,' &«.; and ' complaint' should perhaps be ' eoinpIain«r.' " W. N. liiTTSOM .
P. 160. (6s) "connoi"
The folio has " eau."
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P. 160. (66) •'youj/on"
Tha Beooud "you" is omitted in tb« folio, — eridentl^briDiitkkA.
P. 160. [67) " bium-
Hore the apeHing (or nther, emn} of th« tolio ii " beeioitte" (wliiah Tlwo- bald ooiTMted) : but in HamUt, act u. so. 3, it has " Biitm Bbenme."
P. 161. (68) •'bleeding,"
Mr. CoDisr'B Ha. Correotoc rabititatea "pleading."
P. 162. (69) " empiTievtic,"
Bpelt in the loBa " Emperiekqutiqvt ;" wMiih in the third lolio ira« altered to "Empfricktiglw." — Pope printed "empeiio." — Ui. CoUier's Hs. Coiieo- bv Bolwtitates " empric phjsio."
P. 162. (70) " On'» *row« ."
I maj jiut Dotioe Utat this ia in answer to the qneation of Ueuenina, " brings *• Tictoij in hia pocket f"
e that I
Warbnrton reads " Ont i' the neck, and one, too, i' tht thigh,'" Sie. (and so Mr. W. N. Lettaom, except that he would omit "and"). — "The old man, agreeable to hie character, ia minntelf partioalar : ' Seven tronnds T let ma see ; one in the neck, two in the (high — Nay, I am sore there are more, Oteie are nine that I know of.' " [T] Upios.
P. 168. {71) " a name to Caitu Mareiut; theu
In honour /oUmei Cmiiiiamit : — wttcome, Wcicome to Bome, renoum'd CoriolanutP' The folio has
" a Name to UartinB Caioe : Tkeit in honor foUovet Haitins Cains CorioUmui, Welcome to Rome, renoaned Corioiaimi." In this passage the first " veleoaie" is the addition of Walker, Crit. Exam, Aa. ToL iL p. 143.
P, 154. (73) " charge of honour*."
The folio hat " change of Hanon:" whloh the oommentators defend b; the soriptursl eipreiaion, "change of raiment"! — Here Theobald altered "change" to "charge;" and so Mr. Collier's Ms. ConeotoT. (Altamrds in this plv (see p. 330) the foUo has, bj an nndonbted misprint, "And jet to ehtmgt thj Bolphnrs," Ac)
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p. 164.(74) "ekaukimr
U not an error, mutt mean "talki of him." — Hr. ColIier'B Ha. CorMotor nbititatei "cheen Mm,-" Hr. Binger (Shakttpeart VindicaUd, lie. p. 314) 1* oonfident ire oo^t b> Mkd "elain himf koA Hr. Stmnnton propooea " ihonU Mm :" bnt tiwM lUrnktioiu (none of them hk^j] itill leave the m«be imperfeet, — iiiil«u, indeed, ir« sappose it ets be propped bj layinfc
P. 166. (75) " nialy-ffaiadt^'
Hr. W. N. LetUom Bnggerta " niccZy-giurded.''
P. 166. (76) "/"
Ur. W. N. Iiettaom (oompuing "Doabt not" above) would omit thia pT«- noiut.
P. 166. (77} "aiouT good tMU,"
"HsanB 'uonr advantage reqnires.'" HisoH. — (Bb.Cdlier'BlIs. Corrector
alters " at" to " at.")
P. iflfl. (78) •■thetean"
Bo Hanmer. — The folio hat " their Warrt."
P, 186. {79) "toueh"
80 Hanmer. — The folio has "teach."
P. 166. (So) •' will be hufirt," &o.
" Will be a fire lighted by himieU. Perhaps the anthor wrote ' at fira'
[whiah Capell gave]. There is, however, no need of change." Malobe. —
Pope printed " the Ji«," — In the next line Hr. W. H. Lettaom would
read " and the blaic."
P. 167. (Si) " he waned"
"Thatia, 'he would have waved.'" JooHBOn.— Hr. W. N, Lettwm propooea " ht'i tBdved,"
P. 167. (Ss) "bowteted . . . to heave them"
A veiT diffionlt passage.— Malone explsini "boniuted" to mean "took off their bonnets." pj— The folio has " to haiie IA«m. "—Corrected bj Pope.
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P. 166. (I4} " We »kaXl ht bUtt to do,"
ICr. Collier'B Ms. CnreetOT ■alwtitiitM " We lAoU be prast to ic .-" and Mr. Binger'B Ms. Comotor idbIim tlw sune ohftnge, — Mr. Binger tarming it " a good and legitimata emendatiaii." Shakteptare Vindicated, Ac p. 316. — That " piett" (i. t. readj) ralla the preaant epeeeh verj well, there U no deaj- ing: but "bteat" (i.«. moat bappj) la inpported hj a paiaags in King John,
" and then we ihail be blat To do Tonr pleaanre, and eontione friends."
P. 169. (15) "MUOnV
i.e. me oTs.— The folio has " on ones."— CMreeted in the third It^.
P. 169. (86) " cMn"
The folio his " Bhinne." — Coneoted in the third folio*
P. 169. (87) "aetdi"
" Bead ' wave*' vith the seoond folio. The sense requires a oironmstMiM that happens nsnallf , no! exeeptionaiiy, to shipa under sail." W. H. Lbiisom.
P. 171. in)
" Wereeommend to you, tribunet of the people, Ourparpoit to tliem; — and to our aoblt cdbihI With we alt joy and honovr." i.e., saTS Halone, "We entreat ;on, tribnnei of the people, to recommend and enforce to the plebeianE, That we propose to them for their appmbatiott, namely the app<Hniment of Cariolanns to the oonanlahip." — Mason's proposed allention of the pointing, —
" Onr pmpoae ; — to them and to our nobU eonful Wiih ire all joy and honovr," — haa been adopted b? Hr. Collier ; though it is ptored to be irroiig bf the Ter7 neit apeech,
" Senator*. To Coridanne eotoe all joy and hononr I"
P. 172. (89) " allium,"
Here the bMo has " Abram ;" bnt in TJu Two Qentleinen of Verotta, act ir. se. 9, it has "Her haire iaAbame, mine is perfect Telloir :"— and in the present paaaage the editor of the fourth folio altered the old coimpt ipelling " Abram" to *' avbunt."
P. ITS. (go) " So, ken coma o braet.
Be-enter two CiiitesiM. You knoK the emue, tin, of nty ilanding here. Viittai. We do, tin" Sm note 5.— The f^o haa " You knov the emu* (Shr) ^mg," tio.; bat Ccri»>
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imnna ig goir gpeakiiig to the " bnee," Uiongli he pieMnt^ aeks them for thsii vtAeea one by one.
186fi. In theiz TMentlj-pobliihed Globe Slialttpeart the Cuolnidge E^- bws print
" Cor. Bid them WMh their fuwa And keep their teeth elean. [Re-etiter too of the Oitizau.}
So, here comei » b»ee. IRe-tatir a Iftird Cttiifn.] Yon hnow the eania, sir, of mj standing here. Third at. We do, rir," be. the inflertion " [Re-enter a third Cilieen']" being aomethiiig more than odd.
P. 178. (91) "not"
The Wio hat " hot ;" the aecond totio " no."— Corrected In the tliird folio. (The two word« "not" and "but," b( Um reader mOat have already obserred, are verj frequently eoikfoniLded.)
P. 174. {91) '■ aoolUa Uige"
The folio has " Wooluieh tongne." — The editor of the leoond folio altered " tongue" to " govne." — In this mach controverted passage I adopt the read- ily of Mr. Collier't Hb. Correator, " viooiUie :" compare ante, p. 166, " The napleu vature of hnmiiity." — That " tongoe" of the folio is a mistake for " tage" we might have been sure, even if a similar error were not foond In Othello, act L so. 1, according to the folio, and the quarto of 1630, wMoh have " the Tongned CotuuU."
P. 176. (95) " batUet thriet «(«
Fve (««i, and heard a/," tea. Hare " btard of seems to mean " famons," and to refer either to the battles or to the speaker. — Hr. Collier's explanation of the passage ie a strange one ; "The hero, instantly on the mention of the thrioe six battles he has seen, becomes asbamed of his apparent boosting, and adds therefore the qnalify- ing words ' and heard of,' meaning that some of the thrice six battles he had nut 10 maoh seen as heard of." — Farmer preposed
" hoXtlet thrice eix Fee teen, and jon have heard of; for jMir voieti Done many thijigi," Se.
F. 176. (94) Added t^Hanme
P. 176. (95) "nollon,"
The lelloluw " notioe."— Corrected by Walker, Crit, E
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P. 177. (0) "0/Wm"
I.e. OnUm.— TTaaalljKlteTed to "Onftitn."
P. 178. (97)
" Which niMt gihingJy, vrigraveU/, he did faihUm," Here " mo«l" would seem to be an interpolation. — Mr. Grant White gives the old text, Init remoTes the " Which" to the end of the preceding line ; ttud so, b7 mendtog the metre in one plaoe, apoila it in another. — Mr. W. N. IiettBom propoeel
" Wldch, tubing most Dttgrarelj, As did foihion."
P. 178. (98)
" That our heit water bnmght hy cottdaiU hither;
And Cemorlnuii, viho viai nobly nam'd 10,
Ttctee being by ihe people choien eetuor,
Wtu hi» great aneetUir." "The folio has merely
" That our bat Wal^, brought by ConduiU hither.
And Nobly tiam'd, to tieiee being Cemor,
Woe hit great Aiuettor;" lomeOking having been evldentl}' omitted b; mistake. — I give the lines as exhibited b; the Cambridge Editors {Globe Shakapeara), except tliat I havo printed "who leat nobly ruun'd jo," instead of "nobly uunid m," baoana* the folio has " Ran'd." — " The passage, as Hr. Pope obserre^, was taken frou Plntareh's Life of CorioUmti* ; who, spesUng of the house of Coriolanns, takes notice both of his ancettort and of his poiterity, which oni anthor'a haste not giving him leave to observe, has here oonfonnded one with the other." WiKBDBTOH. — "The passage in North's translation [of PlataT«h], 1679. nuts ihns : ' The hanse of the Martians at Rome was of the number of the patridans, oat ol the which bath sprong many noble peisonages : whereof Adcks Martins was one, Sing Nnmaes daughters sonne, who was king of Rome after Inllits Hostilins. Of biie same house were Pablins and Qnintns, who broogbt to Rome tbelr best water they had by condnots. Cengorinns also came of that famiiie, that was so Bnmsmed hioanse the people had chosen him censor twise.' " Malohs.
P. 180. (99) " the noblet and the eonunont t"
The folio has " the Noble, and the Common t" — The editor of the seoond folio ■Iterad "Common" to "Connnoiw,'' bat overlooked the as — rmrnT osr- reotiaD of " NoUe" to " noiles."
P.181.(ioa) "Cor."
The folio has ■' Com."
P. lea. (101) " 0 good,"
ThefaUobss-'OOod!"
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P. 183. (loa) " Oivea Hydra htart to ehoate an oJUcer," The folio hui " Oiuen Hidra been to ehoo4e," ite. — The tnts reading wai lint ao^eated b; Leo ; who oompKres
" Sir Hnmphre; SUfford and hu brother's death Hath gism tltent heart and oontage to proceed."
The See. Part of King Henry TI. aet it. bc. *. We ma; also compare
"Boldneia eomea to ms now, andbrlnga me heart."
TroiivM and Crettida, act iii. m. 2.
P. 183. (loj) " The horn and noite o' the ntontUr,"
So Capell, and eo Mr. Collier's Ms. Correotor.— The folio has " noiie o'
th' MonateiB ;" one ol the man; isatanoes in the folio of the final < being imjooperl; added.— Hr. Binger, indeed [Shakeepeare Vindicated, te. p. StS), tells mi that "To change 'moneteiB' to monitor deatrojB the meaning-, tha plnral refers to the man; heads of tha hydra ; the reference is to Sieinins aa the moothpiece of the pleba." Bnt vcold any writer, after appljinK to the people collectiTelf the temi "Hydra," prooead, in the verjutme Bentenoe, to ■pealcof the to -lymboliaed pleba as "moDaters"? Certainly not. SidaiBa ia " The Aora and noite o' the [many-headed] montter." — Earlier in the present play we hare had, p. ITS, "for the moltitode to be isgratefnl, were to make a momler of the muttitude," tc., and " he bimMlf [i. e. Coriolanos] atnek not to oallDS tht many-headed KttUtitvde :" afterwards in act it. m. 1, Ccriobmns aajB,
" the beatt Wilh many head4 bntts me away."
P. 192, (104) "I/he havepoaer.
Then vail your iffnoranet: if none, av>ake Yovr dangeroui Itmily." The fint olanse ia explained by Johnson, " If this man has power, let ths ignorance that gaTe it him vail or bow down before him." — Mr. CoUier'a Ms. Oorieotor reada
ir impotence ; if Nont, revoke
Mr. Btanoton enggeata that " ignorance" may be a mistake tor " eignorie" or " signories," i.e. senatorial dignity, magistracy, sway, £0.; and that perhaps " lettity" mean* bere, not toildneHs, bat lenitndc, inactivity, sapineness (aa it does in a passage of Plntarch's Life of Coriolamu, — North's tranalaUcai}. — Leo enppoaeB that " aaake your dangtroia lenity" ma; be equivalent to "you mutt awake ojit 0/ yonr dangerous lenity;" which is not English. — Mr. Swjttfen Jervi* proposes
"abate Your dangeroue UnUy."
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P. 182. (loj) "team'd,"
Id printing " Itam'd" (not " learned") I adhere to the folio : eo in Henry nil. Mt i. BO. 2, we have
" Tlie gentlenun is Uam'd, and « most rare Bpeaker," &e. " My Itarn'd lord oudiiial, DeliTer all with obari^."
P. 183. {io6) "pUbetmt,"
Bee note 54.
P. 188. (107) " Tltey know ih^ eoni
WoM not our rrcompente," BoDthem {in a note on his cop; ol the fonrth folio), Hamner, and Ur. Col- liei'a Mb. Corrector read " Wat not their Tteampaue;" bnt the old text maj be right, meaning — was not glTen bj ne as a reoompenae. — Mr, W. N. Lett- aoan Bnggesta " Wai not a reamptnie."
P. IBS. (loi) "taoHve"
So HMon and Mr. CoUiei'B Me. Caareotor.— The folio has " Naliae."
P. 188. (109) "bUton nttilHtude"
The eioellent emendstioB of Mr. Collier'B Ub. Ooireotor. — The folio has "Bosane-maUipUed." — Tide Prefaoe to m; aeocmd edmon, p. zri. — (In a prsTious passage of this pla; the folio has "beesome" for "biuott;" Beo note 67-)
P. 188. (no) "ToptcktkeeagUi.
Men. Coptt, tnoufk."
" Perhaps this imperfect line was tnigiuall; completed bj a repetition of 'aumgK [whkb Hanmer gave]." Stiktbnb. — Bnt I ought to mention that the passage stands in the foUo thoa ;
" The Natore of our Beats, and make the Rabble Call oni Carea, Feareg ; which will in time Breaks ope the Loekea a' th' Senate, and bring in The Crowes to peaks the Baglee. ISau. Coma enon^." and Bach,ino«t probably, was the anthor's arrangement oftheae lines, thon^ the folio, by miitake, baa omitted BomettuDg in the second line. It is better, however, if the metre mnst halt, that it should halt at the oondoBion of tha
P. 183. (ill) The folio has "Whereon."
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p. IMi. [lit) " To imp a boiy ufth a dangerov$ phj/iie" TIm folio hu " To ininps a Body," Ac. ; whioh Haloite ezplaiiiad "To riik a tkod;;" and hia mMutroOB eiplanation of tHat tank oorroptioa has, I am tony to see, milled Dr. RiohardsoD to oite the paaaage in his Diet, noder "Jnmpi" jnst aa a aamment of Steev«n8 baa milled him to mppooe (aeo note 141 on the preceding pla^, p. ISS) that " impair" waa need b; Chapmaa ai an adjectiTs. — In my (oimer edition I read, with Pope, "To Tamp a bodg,'" fte. ; bat I uov prefer the conjeotnral amendaUon of Hr. Singer : the Terh "imp," a common term in faloonij, oocnn in onr anthor'a Sir^ Biehard H, aotii.Ba.li
"Imp ont onr drooping oonntry's broken wing:" indeed, it waa often nied mstapborioallf ; 10 Fntler speaks of persana who "imf* their oredit with atollen feathen." Warthia, toI. U. p. G6T, ed. ISll. — Hi. Btannton haa no donbt that the poet wrote " To pnrge a body,'" t^.
F. 1S6. (tij) " Agid lir, handi iiff."
Has been ameaded to " Hold, agid lir," ko., and to " Ujr agtd lir," Ao.: bnt qy. is the preceding •' turtty" a trisyllable T
" Sen. Pat. Sse. Weapon*, atapon*, leeaponi !
Peaet,ptact, peace f — Stay, hold,peaet.'" "2 Sen. WeifionB, weapona, weapons:
All. Feaee, peace, peaee, atsy, hold, peace." Here, with the Cimbildge Editora (Qloba Shate^eare), I throw ont the pra-
P. 18£. (115) "Speak"
An addition by Tyrwhitt, which is poaiUvely required for the eonse. — Mamn, inatead ^ it, wonld make a most awkward change of pnnctnatlon.
P. 13E. (116] "Cor. Thatu the way to lay ike city fiat," be. The folio bas " Cam. That it the aay," &o. — " It is nmal, thongh in o^mmI- tion to the old eopiei, to assign this apeeeh to Coiiolaniu, on aooorot of irtiat Siainins aaya immediately after,
' Thie deserrea death.'
Bat the apeeoli is not at all oharacteriBtio of Coriolanne ; and the oTiuuiia- lion of the Tribune refers to what he had preriaasly spoken,
' Uaroins wonld hare all from yon,' fto." Suvsiwf, — who ia, in my (pinion, mistaken.
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P. 18fi. (m?) "Sriend,."
'The lolio has " friend :" bat see Meaeuiaa's preceding speech, of whioh, in fact, thif ia ool; a eontiunation. *
P. 186. (iiB) "Help.help"
'Whan Walker {Crit. Exam. tee. voL U. p. 144) pointed oat that hare the fOlie wnngl; oniU the repetition of the word, he did not know that it was to be foond in the editions both of Hasmer and of Capell.— The Cam- itrUge EditoTB (Globe Shakapeart) aaiign this speech to " Com."
P. 186. (lis) •'yoar"
The (<di« baa " onr."
P. 186. (no) "Cor. Stand fait," Ac.
The folio has "Com. Slaadfiul," As. — "This speeoh eertainlj ahonld be ^ren to Cotiolaniu; tor all his friends peiaoade him to retire. Bo Cominins preaaiitl7 after; ' Come, air, along with as'." W^jwcKToif.
P. 187. (ill) "Com."
The fcJio has "Corio." — Corrected in the second folio.
P. 187. (ii») "Cor. I mould Hiey atre barbariant," &<!. This distribntloii of the speechei (nnqaeituKiabl; the right one) was prc^oaed by l^rwhitt, with whom Mr. Collier's Ms. Coneetor here agrees. — The folio
" Mene. I teould thty aere BarbaTiam, at thty are. Though in Bome litter'd : not Smnaia, a» thty art not, Though talutd i' th' Porch o' th' CapitoU: Be gone, put not your leorthy Sage into yoar Tongue, One time tcill oae another,"
P. 167- (113) " I eoutd mylei/
Take «p a brace 0' the beit of them; yea, the tino tribuTui." The Cambridge Editors {Qtobe Shaketpeare) make this the commencemeat «f the neit speeoh. Bnt ma; we not suppose that old Henenlns is here speaking rather of what he wonld like to he able to do than otwhat he really beli«veB he can do t
P. 163. (114) " Se cotuul!"
Mr.W. H. Lettaom wonld read "Consnll h» con«ul."'— The Mrlier altera- tions are " Me the eontul /" and " Be a eotuul /"
P.iee. (.»5) "our"
80 Theobald.— The folio has " one."
TOL. VI. B
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P. 189. (ii6) "The tenict of the foot
Being tmet gaitgnn'd, it nol then retpected For what befme it vat." " NothiDg cut be more erident tluui that this eonld never be sud "bj Corio- Isutu'E apologiat, and that it waa said bj one of the tribunes ; I hftve there- foio given it to Sieinins." Wasbubtoh. — "Yoa allege, as,jB Menenina, that being diseased, be most be cat am;. Acooiding then to jour argnment, the foot, being ottoe gangrened, is not to be respected for what it was before it vos gangrened. ■ Is tbit JnetT' Menenine vonld have added, if the triboiie hs4 not intermpted bim : and indeed, nitbont any soch addition, from his ■tate of the argnment these words are Dnderstood." Mai^he, — "This epeeeb is part of the preceding one ol BratnB. The next speech ('We'll hear no more,' &o.), I ahoold b^, belongs to Sieinins." W. N. Lanaoic.
P. 180.(117)
" ru go to Mm, and nndtrtake to bring ftini Where he ihall annctr, bf/ a laicfal form, — ■ Ittpeace, — to hit utmoit peril," Tbo falio, bj an evident miatake either of the transcriber or the printer, has " lU go to him, and vndertake to bring him in peace. Where lie eh^iU ajuicer by a laicfull Forme (Inpeace) to hit vtmott perill."
P. 190. (i j8) '■ Yon do the m>bter."
Dr. Badham {Cambridge Ettayt, vol. for 18E6, p. 277) thinks that there is a considerable biatna here; — which I donbt. The Fatrieian ia conunending CotiidanaB's obstinate determination to stand ont against the plebfl.
P. 190. (t>9]
" Falte to my nature } Rather tay, I play The man I am." " Bir Thomas Hanmer supplies the defect in the second line, very jodicionsly in my opinion, b; reading ' Truly the man I am,' Trvty is properly opposed to Falte in the preceding line." Stebvuns. —Dr. Badham [Cambridge Etiagtt vol. for 1856, p. 2TB) wonld read
" Falte to my nature t Rather toy yon are glad Iplay the man I am." — Mr. W. N. Lettsom proposes
" Falte to toy nature, laoQiei 7 Rather lay Iplay the man I am."
Mr. W. N. Lettsom wonld substitate, with Mr. CoUier's Ms. Corrector, " 0, son, son, son." Bnt in the old reading have we not one ol Shakespeare's tonehes of nature, — VolnmniB testifying her displeasare at Cariolanus by the reiterated "»ir"r
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P. 191. (131) "Letgo."
" Here again Sir Thonuts Haiuncr, irith anffloieni propriety, teads ' Why, let it go.' Mr. Rition woDld complete the mensiue with a Bimilar eipreuitoi, vhidt occurs in Olbttlo, — ' Let if go all.' " Btebtehs. — Mr. W. H. Lettsom HDggestB " Iiet go, let go."
P. 191. (131) "Tht tkaartingi of your dUpontion," Th« folio baa "The tbinga of your dtapoBitloiiB." — Theobald unbstitnted " thieartingii" (Rowe hnTing read ," The things that thirart yoar dispofli-
P. 191. (133) " Cor, Let them hang.
Vol. Ay, ami bura too." The Cftmbridge Editors {Globe Shaketpeare) pTs the aecond speech to "A Patrician," — I can 011I7 say, that irhoeTer recoU^ots Mrs. Siddona in this soene, irill, I am aure, allow that the words "Ay, and Burn toa" seemed to come qoite natnrall; from the lipa of Volnnmia as a sndden spirt of oon- tempt lor thkt nibble whom, however, she saw the neoessity of her son'a endeaTonriiiB to conaUiate.
P. 191. (134) "I have a heart at little apt a*youTi,
But yet a brain that lead* my ute of anger To better vantage." Is this obaeore possago Ur. Collier's Us. Corrector interpolates a whole
"I ham a heart oi litlU apt at yours To brook control without the use of anger, But ^£t a brain," Ac.
P. 191. (ijs) "loth' herd," Theobald's eotrertioo ; and obvions enongh. — The folio has " to 'th' heart,''
P. 191. (136) •• each of them by th' other loie" As example of a verb plnnd after a nonmutife siiigiilar when a genitlTO plnral interrenea : aee note 1 16 on Love'i Labaur't U»l.
P. 192. (»J7) " it lit* you on" Compare
" It itandi your graee upon to do him rij^t."
King Btchard II. act ii. so. 3. "Does il not, thinba't thee, itand me note upon," ice. Hamlet, ut r. so. 3. " II only itande Our Iiet* upon to use oar stcongeit handa."
^nton^ and Cleog. act U. so. 1.
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260 COBIOLASUB. [son*.
wUoh I qnot«, beoause in the present puuge MTentl editora («Tes Mr. Qnot White) nibftitate " it Ue$ on jon."
Bnt the eiriier put of this speeah hu receirad incmmble wonnda from the trknscaUwT or tba printer : with the preunt text, wlutever urmngement of Ihe lines be kdopted, the rerw moat hftlt inloIenUj.
P. 192. (ijS)
" Nor bji tht matter tchieh j/our heart jironipCi you,"
The feoond foliil liu " pnmptt you to." — Dr. Badham (Cambriigt
Euayt, vol. for 1866, p. 289) read* " tehieh y<mr own heart ."
P. 183. {139) "rooted ill
Your tongut," The folio has " roated in," &e. — Thon{^ Dr. Biohardson In Ub DkI. cites the joeient panage nnder " Bote," he obBerreg, " Roated in Shehespearo ii per- haps rooted, flied, infixed, itnpreued,^DO deeper than joor tongue." — Hr- Collier prints "roted (n," &e., which he deliberately eiplaine " iaid 1^ roU, bi^ the tongue."
P. 182. (140) "though bill battardt, and tyllabla"
Dr.Badham [Cambridge Enayi, toI. for lefiS, p. 289)coDJectare8 " Uionght's biutardt, and bnt tyllabU$."
P. 189. (141) "allowance,"
JohnBon propoBed, and Capell printed, "alliance."
P. 193. (141) " KoiD huntble"
Vi, Collier's Ha. Corrector reads " .Vote's kumblr." — Mason proposed " Bow humble."
P. 192. (44]) "handling,— aay"
Bo print Hanmer, Mr. Grant White, and Leo; and so :(tr. Stannton pro- poses.— The toUo has " handling : or aay."
P. 198. (14s) "quirid"
If the folio eonld be traited in snch matten, here its spelling, " quier'd," would show bow the word was formerly prononnced.
P. 198. (146) " timnch'i,"
The folio haa ■■ Ennncb."
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P. 193. (147) " or tltt virgin voice
That babitt luU* atUtp "' Here the folio hw " That Babiti Inll a-ilrtpe:" nliieh Ur. W. H. Lettaom is dispoKd to reUIu, UiinMng that "voice" m^ be a form of the plniftl (see Walker's Shahapeare'i Verification, be. Art. u,).
P. IW. (14S) " owe"
Ur. CoUier'E Ha, Ccmreator reads "ow'it;" and rightly, I stupeot.
P. 196. {i«) '■ 'tU rrady."
Tha modem addition to these woirds, " here," iMnu neoessary.
P. 19B. (150) •• truth"
Dr. Badham (Cambridge Bnaye, vol, for 1866, p. 289] iroold nibrtitnta "teeth."
P. 186. (iji) "itorth"
If the tight reading, is sqoiTaleiit to "peiin7iToith."~~Ilotre printed "word;" and Hr. Collier's Ms. Correctar giTCS "monOi."— Mr. W. N. Lettsom snggeata
P. 19«. (151) "Thnttg"
Theohald's ooneation.— The foUo has " Through."
P. 196. (ijj) "WeU.tay.—Peaae.hor
Bteerens proposes " FTell, sir I tay on. — Feaet,ho.'''
P. IflU. (154) "aeeeau"
The fdio has " Aotions,"— Correoted bj Theobald.
P. 197. (15s) "To the rock, to therockvithlUnt.'"
Here the metre is defectire. (The second folio haa onl; " To ih' root vtth himJ^
P. 197. (is6)
"Men. Ii this the promi4e thai you nadt yo\iT tnother > Com. Ktune, Ipray you, — Cor. ril hune no farther:"
Here again the metre halts; nor is it perfected if ve adopt the modem
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263 COBIOLAKCB. ' [hozbb.
" Hen. It ihU
TlupromUe that you »a4U your mother!
Com. KnoK,
I pray you, —
Cor. ril kruM nofartfur."
P. 193. [1J7) "Nor eluck tny courage"
Mr. CoUicr'e Ua. CarrectaT reads " tfor check ny cifiiage ;" and Mr. Collier adds, " It le ntoat inaaniiitent with the noble character ol the hero to repre- Hbt him in Ihia way Taonting fail own 'conniige.' . . . Carriage is, of oonrae, deportment ; and the lery ettae mUprint baa b«eo pointed oat, and remedied in the same waj, in Henry VI. Fart III." itr. Singer, too ISKake- tpeare Vindicated, &c, p. 231), commends this alteration, which ia oonnte- nanced ij his own Mb. Corrector. — ^But they forget that "courage" was formerly often used in the eenae of— heart, apirit, mlod : aee note 56 on The Third Part of Sing Henry VI.
18S5. Ab the Mb. Corrector baB corrapted the pasBage of Coriolamu and the passage oIA'iiii; Henry VI. hj changing "courage" to "carriage," so Mr. Collier cormpta the following paesage of Beaumont and Fletcher's Iiland Princeie, act il. bc. 7, b; changing "earmge" to " courage;" " Connt me a heavy sleepy fool, a coward, A coward past recovery, a confirm 'd coward, One without carriage or common Beose." Wonld the Governor of Temata, after three Ctmee prooluming himself a eoieard, immediately add that he was "one withont eourage" t Nobody, I believe, eioept Mr. Collier, wonld sappose ao, or vonld fail to see that " one withont carriage" means " one withoat conduct — management."
P. 198. (ijS) "Envied againit the people,"
i.e., aajB Bteevens, " behared with signs of hatred to the people." Bat (]y. " Inveif^'d against the people" t
P. 188. (,j9) "for"
The folio has " from."
P. 108. (160) "tareatiei"
Wallier {Shateipeare't Vertijlealion, *o. p. MB) wonld print the eontrseted form "oaroasaV
P. 199. (161) "not"
Capell'a correction; and ao Mr. Collier'a Ma, Corrector.— The folio boa " bnt" (which Mr. Staunton and Mr.W. N. Lcttsom think right).
P. 189. (161) "Abated"
Wallur {Crit. Exam. Ac. vol. iiL p. 84) proposes "Abased," — wron^, I think.—" -Abated' here cairies the sense of tuak and dirainitlted in iplril
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■and courage." Hashbb. — To the pusogeE cited b; SteeTeua ad I. maj be added
" ThOM markee of pride shall be abated downe," Ac.
Tfe Warret of Cyna King of Penia, *o. 16M, tliO con- clading apeeob.
P. 199. (163) " thta"
TbiM modem addition ia in all probability the miming word ; for Uiftt a word is wanting here who can doabt 7
P. 199. {164) "eomt:—"
Not in the toUo.
P. 199. (iSj) " To lay extremity wai the trier of tpiriU;" So the Hoond foUo. — The first folio haa >> To lay, Extreamides tcoi," Ae. ; to wUeh reading Halone adhered : in defence of the plnral here, he cited from an earlier aoene, p. 191, "Bnt tiiitn txtremitiei apeak:" toivhiafa, howeTer, ve may oppose what afterwards ocenrs, p. 206 ;
" Now, this extrentity Hath brought me to thy hearth."
P. 200. (166) "being otixile leounded, eravei"
Pope printed "b«Jn$ gently irBrded.eraDM," Hanmer, "betn^ greatly warded, crave;" and Mr. CoUier'a Ma. Corrector sabstituteB "being i)«nti«-mindGd, erava." The old text (which scarcely can be right) ii thaa explained by Jidmson ; " When Fortone itrikea her hardest blovB, to bo wonnded and yet continue calm requires a geoerona policy."
P. 200. (167) » My firit >oa,"
la explained by Warbniton "My noblest aon." — Heath proposea [moat vilely) " ily fierce (on." — Hanmer printed " First, my aon."
P. 300. (16S) " expoiure"
The ftdio has " expoatnre ;" which Walker {Crit. Exam. &c. vol. iii. p. 211) ia " inclined to read." Bat I believe, with Steevena, that it " is no more than a typographical error."
P. 301. (169) " Bid them aU home," Ice.
" Something aeema to have dropt ont of this speech. Qy.
'Bid them all home, and give 'em thaitlit; he 'a gone. And well no farther.— The nobility Are vexbd, whom ve see have vainlg sided In his behalf.' In the third Ifai* the aenaa aa well aa tiie metre demandi aome such word aa
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SCI C0BI0LANU8. lnvaa.
• uUnly,' tat the nobUitf wen not vexed beuou the; )ud aided with Corio- lannB, bnt beemuee they bed done lo to no pnrpoBa." W. N. LxrttOM.
P. 202. (170) "plagtie-
Mr. W. N. IiettMHO would read " pUgoea."
P. 808. (171) "wiM"
Ur. W. N. Iiettiom would mbstittite " vile." (" At uij rate," he obaerrei, " ' wUe' ii prepoeteroiu,")
P. 302.(171) "WhattheH.'
Ht'd make on end of thy jxnteTilg.'' Oiren to Tohunuia ^ Huuner ; mi righUj periupe.
P. 202. (i7j) •' Cot.,"
Mr. Collier'* Ma. Correotor alters " Catt" to " Can,"—" consiatestlj," Ea]r» Mr. Collier, " with the term Coriohwna had prerlonsl; applied to the rabbU.'" Bat it is quite evident that here Tolumnia is Bpaaking, not of the rabble, bnt ol the tao iribunee. — Hr. Btannton mggeBts " Bats."
P. 308. (174) " Come, come, come.
Hen. Fie.ficfie"'
P. SOS. (175) " loell approved bij your tongue."
80 Steerens ; and eo Ur. CoUier'B M«. Corrector. — The fdlo haa " well >p- pear'd bjf your Tongue."
P. 206. (176)
" Whole home, ahoie bid, tohoit meal, and exereite,
Are alitl together, mho tain, at 'latere, in love
Uneeparable, (hall within thii ftour,"
80 Ur. Collier's Us. Correotor. — The folio has " Whoee Honres, tchote Bed,"
toe. ; whiob no one, leilh the context full before Aim, need attempt to defend
hj the passage in Hidtummer.Highl'e Dream, act iu. «c. 3 ;
" the houre that ire have qtent. When we hare ohid the hasty-footed time For parting ne." Here tlie ettor of the folio wm an emj one : bat perhaps it may be partly attributed to the occnrrenoe of the word " hour" at the end of the third line.
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P. 205, (177) "Up birth-pUiee halt I, and tug lore'i i^foit Thit enemy town." C»p«ll'a OMTMotioii.— Tbe tolhi hM " Mj/ BiHhflaee h»ae I," tce.-^ij. (on aooonnt of irhat foQoira, " if ft« b1»7 me," &e.) " Thti etumj't bnen" t
P. 206. (178) " Enter a Uar4 Servant."
The folio has " Enter 3 Serair^man, the 1 meets him j" whioh I formerlj did not nndeTBtuid : I now Bee that "the 1" meane the Servant toho aaefinl on the itagt, before the eutrauee of the Third Serrant, — in fact, the Second Servant.
P. 207. (179)
" fUtenee eom'it thouf vhat wouldit thout thy namtr 0)--
" Whenee eom'tt thou! and what woultbl lAou; ai,j, thy name t"
P. 207. (180) " I/, TuWiu," Ice.
Thia apeeoh [taken, with some TariatioD, from Horth'e Plntareh) ia printed a« i^OM in the folio; bnt Borel} It was not intended for proM I7 the anthor, knd would Bsem to be oorrnpted.— Mr. W. H. Lettaom renuika that the ex- pr«Mion " think for" ii not English. — Pope gate
"If, TttlUit,jet thou hnoa'it me not, and, seeing me, Doit not Tet taken; /in- the man I am, SeeetHty eommandi me name myeelf." Capen,
" If, TuUut, Ifot yet thou know'it me, and, teeing me, dott not take bu To be the man I am, neceMiily Command* me name myielf."
P. 307. (iBi) "to the VoUeUmi' ean,"
Pope prints " (0 Tolsdan tan."
P. 308. (iSj) "Arootofancieiuenvy. JfJupiter
Should from gond cUmd tpeak divine tldng; And toy ' 'Tit true,' I'd not believe them more Than thee, M-noble Mareiui." Bo the lines an anaoged in the folio ; and, I beliere, ri^tl;, though a dU- farent anangnnent has heen attempted. Bnt the noond line ia ooiainlj mntilated. — Pope gsre
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" Should /nmt yon cloud tpeat to me tbingB dirine." — 07.
" Should from out yonder cloud tpeak divine thingt"/ fin Samlet, utiiL H:.3,we hftve "yoadtrebntd.") — In tlM third Hue Wilker (Cril. Escam. Ice. toI. iii. p. 209) would re«d " believe liim more,"
P.30e. (1S4) " And lear'd tfie mom aith iplinttn ;" The folio (with ita old apeDine) hu "Jndseux'd the Mocne" lie.; which ii nttuned Itj Malone mod Mr. Collier (the (oimer innocently remarlring that a line in Siekard III.,
" Amaie the welldn with ;onr broken itaves," " certainly adda tome tupport" to the reading "Kdr'd".')- — 1865. Mr. Collkt now gives, with hie Hs. Corrector, " icar'd."
P. 209, (i!5) " no qttarrel eUe"
Bo the Uiird folio. — The earlier folios have " no other qtmrrell tlte."
P. 209. (186) "o^tr-bear."
So some eopiea of the folio : other copies hare orroaeooalir " o'r«-betite." — Mr. Grant White adopta Jacksou'B reading, " o'er-ieor't." — " IThe proBonn, I Uiink, can aeareely be dispensed with here, bnt it shonld be ' her'." W. N. LsiTsov.
P. 209. (187) Ur. W. K. LettBom
— The natial alteration ia
P. 310. (liS) The folio has "too
P. 211. (189) The folio has " boj^d."
P. 211. (tjo) " diTtcUtude."
" I suspect the anthor wrote ' iiaereditude ;' a made word instead of ' dit- credit.' He intended, I snppose, to pot an uncommon word into the mouth of thia servant, which had some resemblance to sense ; bat oonld hardly have meant that he should talk absolute nonsense." MaImOhb. — Mr. Col- lier's Mb. Corrector suhstitntes " dejeetitude." — Mr. Singer (iS^ieipMiK Vin- dicated, Sco. p. ass) says, much too oouSdently, " There ton be no doubl that
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P. 211. {191) " Thit peace it nothing"
The sentence being perhaps mntilatad, CapeU printed " Thi* peaee it good lot nothing:" the earlier Lnsertion was "worth."
P. 212. (ijz) "iprittly, ■aaking,"
The folio haa "iprightly nalkitig;" which Mr. Sbumton retftine, and ex- plains " quick moving or marching."
P. 212. {193) ••fuU ofvmt."
i. e. " fnll of runwur, foil of tnateiiali for iiteoane." Johbbos. — Mr. Collier'a Ms. Coireotoi i«»da "/ullo/vannt."
P. 219. (194) " Uiharg^ :"
WallraT {Crit. Exam. &e. voL i. p. 93) qneriea " s Itthargy."
P. 212. {19s) ■' mulUd,"
i.t., according to Hanmer, "softened sjid diapirited, aa wine ia when burnt and aweetened. Idtt. molUliu." — Walker would sabstitnte "mote:" see his Cril. Exam. £c. tdI. i. pp. 93, 188, toI. ii. p. 49.
P. 21a. (196) '•ttiepy,-
The folio has " sleepe." — Corrected in the third folio.
P. 212. (,97) "war;"
The folia has " warres" both here and in the next speech. — " I shoold hare ■perdsted ia adherence to the reading of Mr.PopeC'icar's"] hadnotaumilar irregolftritj in speech occnrred in AU'a well that tndt leell, act ii. bo. 1, where the Elecond Lord aaja, ' 0, 'tubr»Te wars." as we have here ' toarama; he said to be a raviiher.' " SxaKTEKa, — Bnt the two pasaageB are not aimi- lai ; and beaideB, Ihongh onr author frequently nsea " ican" (or " war," the firBt WMds of the present Bpeech, " Lot me have war" (the folio " Warre"), prove thSit in the oondnding portion of It he employed the Gingalar. — " In our paaBs^ War is perBonified and is (qiposed to Peace. It Ib enrely impos- uble that, nuder aiicb drcamBtanceB, Shakespeare would have need tbe ploral, particularly when he had begnn wiUi the nngnlar." W. N. Lairsoii.
P. 212. (198) " Bit Ttmediet are toane V the prttenl peace"
Bo Theobald.— The folio has " tamt, th* pretent peace."— Mason wonld
read " are lame i' the," 4c,— Mr. Bt»unton obBervea ; " Omiflsion, how- ever, ia not pediape the only defect in the line ; the word ' remediet' ia very eqnivoeal." — Haomei gave the passage thus ;
" His remedies are tame : the present peace And qnietneBB of the people, which before Were in wild hnrry here, do make his friends Blush that the world goea well," Ac
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P. 312.(199} "Bro. HaH,»iT!" An addition bf Cftpcill, wbloh botli the replf d Heaeniu ud the metre piore to have been acddentaUr omitted in the foUo.
P. ai2. (100) "rir."
Addad 1^ C^ell.— Coaqpare iriiat prwedea.
P. 213. (im) "yoabothr
Qy. " both yon" ?
F. 313. (aoi) " Tftt/unit ofriiennce.
Hen. I think not lo."
" Bead ' aititUmeit' [' ofititancy']." Walker's Crit. Exam, fte, Tol. il. p. 18. — The GsilieT kttompt to perfect the metre here vm by ptindog "Nay, I think not to."
P. 311.(103) "^^ nobU* in great eanuttntu art going All to the tenate-hmue ; totM not* it eotae That turm their ct
The folio faaa "■ lomi netce>i$ eonuning," Ao.; which Mf.Enighttetaiiw
(became " the retder irill Temembei Mr. Cuopbell's flue image, < Coming erenta throw [cast] their ahadowa before ;' " the Roman ncblea, of conrae, being gifted, like Campbell'a wizard, with the
■eoond eight I); and which in moat of the recent editiona ia altered to "
lome ntvt it oome in," ±c. (Boawell defending that alteration in a note aboot « redundant terminationa," tee.) — Now it is qnite eiident that the mi«t»ir* of " comming" fur " come" waa occasioned by the trtuiBorlber'B or oompoai- tor'a eye haying canght the word iutmediate^ abore, "going." (So in The Tempeit, act ii. bc. 3, the folio haa
" No more dama I'le make tor fiah, "Sot fetch in fliing, at requiring, Nor Bcrape (Tmchering, nor waah dieh," £e. ; where the error " (renehtring" originated in the preoeding " Sxittg" and " re- qniriBs.")
P. 211. (104) '■ Good Kareiiu"
In my former edition I too hastily adopted the reading of Mt. Colliez'B Ml. Corrector, " Ood Jfareiiu,-" and I have now to Mgret that I afaonld bavebeen partly the canso of Mr. Orant White's adopting that erroneooi reading.
P. 216. (loj) ■■ Than vioUnttat contrarieti/:'
" The folio haa ' Wofcnl'it,' the tnie reading. It is a line of three feet and a half,
' Thau Tiojlent'st oon|trarie|ty.' " Walker'a SAatcafwora'a Vtrtifieatian, £e. p. 170, — Hanmer printed " Than vioUntett oontrarietiM."
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P. 91fi. (lot)
" Tlian boyi j/vrmit^ tuminer butltrjlia. Or butchrri kiUing Jtlet." "Witte,OT*t leut pronoonoe, ' butterJUtt' [onMommt of "Jtiti" in the next line]. T)Tt.jUia,iIvta' Elytium,vai.;
' Of lilie* »h»U tiM Allows be, YliQi down stnft of tlie butUrfiee.' " WtUwr's Crit. Exam. te. toI. iii. p. 212.
P- 216. (107) " regiont"
Altered by Mi, Collier's M«, CorrMtar to " legions 1" wbiisli (u eliewhwe we lure had "legiona" misprinted "regioni," — see note 135 on The Fint Part of King Henry TL) I hsTsfelt rtrongly inclined to adopt : bntHr. W.N. Lett- ■om renuzkB that " the Bamana had no inaj on foot, and oaaMqnenUj no Iqrioiu,"
p. 216. (loS) •■Aremoei'^'
HuuMT, for the metre, jgave " Are onlj ino«):'d."
P. 216. (109) " they eharg'd Aim mm
At thoif thould do that had deterv'i hit hair, Ani thtrtiti thow'd likt «nont«." " Their charge ca injonetion would show them '"■"'"N" ol his wrongi, and make them «Aow like entmUt," Jobhsom. — "' They eharg'd . . Andthertin thotB'd^ hta here the foirae ol ' They would charge . . . And therein show.' " Hiunra. — ' ' Plntarch s^a that wlien Coriolanns was beetegiiig Larininm witL the VolHes, the Roman people weie deairoDS to annul the decree of hia tnt, hnt the Senate then maintained it. Poaaibly Bkakespeaie may allade to that drennutanoe, though it ii not mentioned in the play." t. Lxmoif.
P. 216. (110) "You'vs made /air handt.
You and your era/li f you've era/ted fair!
Com. You've brought"
'• We oo^t nnqnestionahly," axja lb. CcJlier, " to read [with the Ms. Cor- rector] handycTofU tot 'eiafta,' and to print the lines as follows, both on account of the sense and the metre ;
' YoQ have made fair hands ; Yoa and your handyert^U hare orafted fair.' This change oompletea the (leleetiTe line, and ahowa that Henenina nae* the introdoctoiy ezpreaslan, ■ Ton have made fair hands,' in order that he may follow it op by the oontemptnons mention of handyeraftt." No: the old text is^nita light. To •'mate/airfundf" (or"aj!n« htmd") is a common enon^ «ipre«*ion (eo in Henry VIII, toI. t. p. COS, " Te're nadt a fine hand, fd-
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lowa"); md the chsnge of " cra/li" to " handyenftB" is nnneceBBary for tlia BSDM, because manual labour is Boffldentl; implied in the former word. As to "the metre," it is perfeot with the old reading; while the Corrector's alteistion deranges it eutdrel;.
P. 218. (ill) "Bad"
The fdio has " Hane."
P. 219. (ill) " So hattd, and to bmUh'd:"
According to Mr. fitsnnton, " After ' So hated, and so banish'd,' there is ob- Tionsl; a chasiD, which it were Tain to think of filling np."
P. 219. {113) "rirtua"
80 the second folio. — The £rat folio has " Tertne."
o chair
A Tcry dark (or rather, a manifestly cormpted) passage ; on which the com- ments in the VarioT. Shatetpeare and elsewhere are alike nnsatisfactoiy.— Ilr. Collier's Mb. Corrector (haying previotiBl; made two alteratio&i in this speech] Bnbstitatea "chetc" for "cliair;" Ur. Singer [Shakttpeart Vindi- cated, Ac. p. 236) would read "hair;" and Mr. Grant White {Skaketfeare's Scholar, Ac. p. 836) is well persnaded that the gennino text ii "Hath no( a famB $0 eloquent at a cheer," &c. — 1B66. Mr. Grant White now proposcB "Hath not a tongue taeloqavnt at a chair," &t.; and Leo conjeoturcs "Hath not a tomb to rcidmt at a claim," &o.
P. 319. (lie)
"One fire drive* out one fire; one nail, onenatl; SightM frjf right* falter, ttrtngth* 6j( ittengthi do fail." The folio has "Righti by rights fonlor, tirengtha," lie., which editors and oritica haT« thus Tarionsly altered; "Bight's dy right fonler," Sec, "Right's by right fonled," kc, " Bight's by right foiled," Ac, "Right* by right* fool are," tec, " Righit by right* fonndsr," &e., " Right* by right* sofler," Ac, and " Sight* by Tight* foil'd are," Ac. — That averb liea oouoealed under the cor- raptioii " fouler" is indnbitable. As to the word which I have introduced, it was frequentl/ spelt "fautter" (so in Shelton's Don Quixote, Part first, p. S7S, ed. 4to, " who wbeo tbej perceine their Ladles to favlttT," lie.), and therefore might easily hare been mistaken for " fouler."
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P. S20. (117) " that have vreek'dfair Some," Ue. The folio has " that hatte wrftek'd tor Borne," Sse. — Huunex printed " fAaf hate Buk'd /air Borne," &e. — I give the pMsege nith the additiotuil emenda- tion of the UteMr. W. W.WiManLa,who(not aiiare Uut Huuner had altered " lor" to "fair") mites thas ; " We meet elsewhere in fihakspeare with ' fur Athens,' ' fair Milan,' and ' fair Verona :' and why not /air Some — that ' orbs jmlehertima' ? MeneniDS ezclainiB ironicall; that the trihones have earned Iot themaelTes a noble memorial hy obtaining cheap charcoal for the poprilace at the ooat of the conflagration of their beantilol citj — a homorona azplosion of indignation, in perfect keeping with his character." The Parthenon tar May 3d, 1868, p. 19.
CouJil be tay kai.'" The folio baa "lesse rxpecled."
P. 220. {119) " a rare petition"
i.e.ti itnnge, an extraordinary petition. — The folio has " a bare |>«C jfion." — Corrected by the late Hr. W. W. Williama in The Parthenon for May Sd, 1863, p. 10: be compves "And a petition Kranted tbein, a itrange one," act L
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P. 230. (120) " Pray you now, go to him."
The " now" is not in the folio, (Compare, ante, p. 193, "I prithee nair, my son, Go to tliem," ice.)
P. 220. (izi) " WeU, and tay that Mareiut," iic.
There is evidently something wrong in this passage. Hanmer altered it in one way; Capell in another: and Dr. Badham [Cambridge Eiinyi, vol. for 1856, pp. 280-1) wonld read
" Well, and $ay that ilareiia Selum me, at Cominivi ii retitm'd. Unheard; what thent or not nnbeard, but at A diieonlented friend, grief-ihot with hie Unkindnett.
Sit, Say't be so, yet your good will," te.
P. 221. (ill) "you"
Bo Maion and Hr. CtJlier'a Ms. Corteotor.— The folio has " I ;" a misprint oocanoned by the " Pfl" in the preceding line.—Witb the old reading, and point the apeech how *e will, Menenias roakea a silly remark ; " there could be DO donbt," a« Mason ohaerres, "bnt Menenias himself would soon haTs knowledge of his own sneesss."
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P. 221. (213! " icAat he trouU no(,
Sound «ith an odtA to yield to fti'i eondttiMU .-" HanmBr printed
"Bound aitb n» oath, not |/l(Zd to new conditioti*." HBlone aayB, " I baliore two 'htil UnM have been lost ; thftt ' Bouiut vilh a% oath' ms the begmning of one line, uid ' to j/UId (0 fii'i candid'oni' tbe oon- clmiiiM of the next." — Mr. BUnnton proposes
" Bowid with an oath to yield to no eondilioni." — Hot without reuoa Hr. Onmt White obterres, " Thia puMga is ineoiqae- henaible."— " Proteaaor Soil; waggaaUA to me, as b aeir rekding, ' hold" for ' ^{'Iil.' " Lbo.
P. 331. iI^^) ■■ Ho that all hope U vain,
Unlen tn'i iiobU mother and hit ai/e;" In my tonner editi<m I retkined the i««dii]g of tbe foUo, " rnlate hia Sobte Mother," tec. ; i. e., saya M^one, " Bo that «e have now do other lu^e, no- thing to rely npon, but hli mother and his wife, who, as I am told, mean, fto. Unteii is here naed for except." Bnt I now think it impossible that BhaltecipeMe eonld baTe used tach pbraMology; and I adopt the leotion frtiieh lome one raggeated to Sleerent, " Dnleti in'$ noble mother," ise.: in tbe preaent pl^ contractionB of Utat kind are freqnent. — Haomer mbatitnted " trom'a" for " his."
P. 322. (115) " Stand, an4 go back."
"This defeetive meatnre nugbt be completed threading ' Stand, and go biek again.'" Sieitexb.
P. 293, (116) •' >nagni/ied"
80 Eanmet and Ur. Colller'i Mb. Corrector. — The (olio has " verifiedi" which perhaps crept Into the text in oonBeqaeaee of the transcriber's or comi>odter'a eye having rested on the word "Terit7"in the next line. — Ur.W. N.LettSom •ski "Wh; not repeat ' amplijled't" ^-heo proposes "gloriSed."
P. 238. (117) "eaiy"
Is expbuned "slight, incoasiderable." — Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector read* " queasy;" and Mr. Staunton proposes " wheezy.''
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P. 338. {ii8) |
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P. 228. {»9) |
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p. 223. (130) "tvoon"
So tlie fbnrth folio. — The first folio hag " Bvoond." — See nets 9} on The Winter'a Tale.
P. 223. (131) ••ourgaUi"
The tcdiohu "your QaUt." — OorreotediD the fourth folio.
P. 224, (aja) " Ingrate forgetfiilTteu ihatl poiion, rathsr Tlian pily nott hou mti-h." Theobald printed "Ingrate forgelfulrten thallprisoa, rather," &a.; "whidi," he amja, "adds tta antitheaiB, ij which the sense eeems clearer and more natmsl; viz. thai forgetfulnii shall rather keep it a secret," &c. It is at le&et certnin that elaeivhGre the foUo has by mietalia "poysone" for "priiane" And " poTBon'd" for "pri$on'd ;" see note 1 14 on Love'i Labour'e toil. Bat there is something foroed in Tbeobkld's reading here.
P. 334. (1J3) "tteoont"
So the fonrth folio. — The firat folio has "swoond?" — See note 53 on The ITinter'i Tale,
P. 225. (134) "Iwinnot."
Mr. Lettaom would read "ZtBlllnot, I." — Bnt qj. did not the post write "I Mdlnot.— Ha!"r
P. 236. (»35) "rilnever
Be tvch a goiling to obey initinet; but itand," Mr. W. N. Letlaom qaeriea,
"PiJ ne'er t« A goiling to obey imtinct; bat ilattd."
P. 336. (136) "prait,"
Theobald'B coneetion. — The folio has "prm;." (The Me. meet probably had
P. 328. (237) " tlie hungry btach"
Has been explained, " the beach himgry or eager for sMpwrGoha (Utliu ava- mnt)," and " the sterile nnprolific beach." — Mr. Qrant White is inclined to think that Makme's conjeetnre, " the angry beaeh," is the trae reading.
P. 226.(138) '■Itolp*'
The folio has " h(^," — the ooneetion of which ia ohrions.
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P.2M. (ijj) "enrieO"
The folio hu "enrfied." — (So, in ,<tri veU Ikol endi weO, the folio h wrong Epelling "muddied:" fee note 196 tm Oat plaj.)
P. 227. (»4fl) "(«liff»"
Tlie folio bM " tiling."
P. 227. [141) " Which ^ou dejty alnady : yet tee'U atk; That, if (se fail in our rtquat," ThBloliohu " That if 70a /aiU," &e. — " Mr. Pope, who altered eTeiypbrMH ilut wtifl not conlormaUe to modem phnseology, changed * that if you fail,' fto. to ' that if vt fail,' ftc" Hu/)Ke. — It wu B«ire iriio (in his mo. ed.) mede tlie klteratloni and it ia eridentlr right; "7011" mnst hATO been re- peated bj QUBtftke from the preeeding line. In this pla? the Iidio Bwanns witheiTOTB.
P. 22s. (14.1) "Ay, and on mint,"
" 'Oit' was EQpplied bj aomo former editor [Capall] to complete the taea- snre." Sibbtehs. — " UnneceaEarilf, if 'worid,' acoording to Mr. TTnrhitt'B canon, is used eg « dissyllable." Bobwblu — What reader, if he has common sense, oan donbt that Bttakespeaie, luning written jost before " on tby mother's womb," wrote here "Aj, and or mine"?
P. 239. (i4j) "Jlw"
The folio bas "flue."
P. 220, (144) ••charge"
The folio has " ohange."
P. 220. (145) "Down, ladiet; Ut tu ihame him with our itn«««." So the second loUo.— The first folio has "Down Ladit* : Ut v* ihamt him with him Kith our kneei."
P. 229. (146) '■ thiM child"
The folio baa "bisCMMa." — Corrected by Theobald, who obserree; "Vo- lomnia would hint that Coriolancs b; his stem hehavionr had loat all family regards, and did not remember that he had any child. ' I am not his mother,' aaja Bhe; 'hia wife is in Corioli; and tkit child, whom we bring with na (yonng Mareias), is not his ehlld, bat only bears his reaemblasoe bj ohaoee.' "
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P. SM. (1+7)
" Wert you in my lUad, tay, vxmld ytm have htard" The faUo hu merely " Were you in my ttttd, iBoald yoa hapt heard." — Walker [Crit. Exam. £0. TtA. ii. p. 1ST] snggeats " An aere you in my $Uad, would," Ao. : but the eulier modem addition " lay" seenu pnferaUe.
P. 280. (j4i) "afonnerfartmu."
HeMUiUjBJolinKa), "myformeroredit and power." — Hanmer printed "mj f armor fortuM." — Mr. CoUkr'BMB. Conectra^ giTsa "aiinaerforttmt."
P. 2S1. (i«)
"Se Hu in Jtlt itate, at a thing made for Alexander.'" Thia baving been miaiindentood, — at least by Leo, — I m^ notice that it means, " He uts in his ohair of state, as an image fashioned to resemble
P. 231. (150) "jibftrfow"
See note $4.
P. 2Ba, (151)
" Sio, Friend,
- Art thon certain tM* ii trvet it it moit certainJ
Bee. Mess, At certain at I know the tun it fire :" Walker (Crit. Exam. &e. vol. lit p. 16£] reads, In tlie seoond line, " Art cer- tain thit," AD. (which is the reading of Pope)— Mr. W. K. Lattsom (Note on Walksr'B Shakeipeare'i Venification, lai, p. 286] remaikB that here " Shake- speare oonld Boarcal7 hare jtunbled the phrases together ['Art thou eer- UdnV and 'It it eertain}''\ so awkwardly as be appesia from the editdons
to have done 'It't' (as the old copies print ft] Is a mispruit lor 'I tir,^
i.e. 'Ay, tir,' and here the Messenger begins his answer to Sioinini. The note of inlerrogstian after 'eertain/i' first appeared in the third folio. 'TAou,' moreorer, seems to hare been inserted ob m^trum, as In the old copies the Terse begins with 'Friend.'" — 186B. In a lettoc with which he has lately faToored me, Ur. Lettaom adds ) "It is not at all likely, or rather it is qnite impossible, that a person vonld begin with 'Art thou certain this is bmet* and then go on, ' (( it most oertsin r' He would say ■ art thou most certain f "
P. 933. (151) "And ft«(p the joy. pxennt.
Scun T.," tco. Here nsnally no new scene is marked ; bnt it Is gnite plain that Uenenias, Bloinins, £c. were intended by the author to qnit the stage ; and that, on their " Exeunt" (which the folio has), a duage of scene — to a street near the gate of the dty — was to be snpposed by the speetators. Menenins and his eofflpanlans go oai to meet the ladies as they prooeed throogh the dtj
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P. 232. (153) "Unihoal"
The folio has "Ynshoot."
P. 338. (1S4) "Corioli."
This Boene nsed to be marked "Antium" till Mr. Binger anbetilated "Cotioli." nntaroh, indeed, as Leo obeeTTeB, calls Antium the native town of AnAdia?, and, p. 234, the First Conspiiktor Ba^B to Anfidins, "Yoor natiTe town 7011 enter'd like a poet," &c. : bnt the wordB of Anfidlna, p. 3S6, " dost then think
111 grace thee with that robbery, tbj atol'n name
CoriolaanB, in Corioli T" cannot posBiblj mean what Leo Bnppoaeg the? ma? mean — " dost tfaon Udnk I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy in Corioli Btol'n name V
P. 334. (i5s) "iTe boic'd hii nature, never kiwisn before But to be rough, unstDayable, and free." Walker Bays (Crit. Exam. Sea. toI. i. p. 76) ; " My ear tells me that Shake- qieaie never coold hare ho conclnded a period ; neither conld he have need 'ioui'il' thns ahsolntely. Part of a line has dropt ont, eomewhat lo l^e following etTeet ;
'audfre,. To an «nf oro'd obaerrance.
Third Con. Sir, hit ttoutiuti, ftc' "—
Here Hanmer altered "free" to "fierce" (andsoMr. Collier's Me. Corrector). — Capell omits "free."
P. 234. (aj6) " fiolp to reap thtfamt
Which lie did end aU hit;" Here Rowe altered "end" to "make;" Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector snbstitnteB "ear:" and Mr. Singer {Shakapeart Vindicated, &□. p. 237) approves of the reading proposed by a crarespondent in Notes and Qveriei, "holp tomx the fame Which he did reap all hie," — According to Mr. Grant White {Shakeepeare'i Scholar, Sec. p. 887), "there is not the least necessity for this violence to the original text. Aufidiut helped to reap the fame which Coriolanui made, in the end, all hia." — Mr. Staooton, and the late Mr. W. W. Williams (under the initials W. D. in The Literary Gazette lac March 15, 1663, p. 263) wonld read "holp ta reap the fame Which he did bind all hie.''— Bnt the Ber. W. R. Arrowsmith (in The Editor of " Nolet and Qatriei" and
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hit friend Mr. StTtgtr, ie. -p. 9), to abowibat "thsBhalloireetQloiieeflteieliira ixt HerefordBhire anetlooeer ib competent to verifj the old reading," oitea the ftdlowing odTertuemeDts from The Hereford Timet, Jannu; 3Sd, 1858 ;
" Eockentree Farm, Djmook, GlaneestersMre. Hr. Joseph BinL haa the priTilege tu annoimce to his friends and the pnblio generallj, that be irill anhmit to pnblio aaotion [among other things] three irell-EKDED ha;-ricks, three excellent irell-iKDaD wheat-rieka," &e.
" Bridge Hooae, Rodhftll Mill, in the parish ol Upton Bishop, i; miles from Bogs, Herefordshire. Uessrs. Dowle and Stephens are instmeted to sell b; anotion, on Fridaj, the SSth Jannaiy, 1868, [among other things] a lick of vell-BiiDSD hay," &o.
Mr. ArroTsmith continnea ; "Bnt Bnppoaing no proof could be adduced that ' end' is a teohnical phrase in harvest -work, yet the ordinary eignifiea- tion of the irard mmld folly justify its nse hy Shakspeare here. ' Staf' has tvo meamngs, a narrow, and a hniad : in its stricter sense it denotes no more than cntting with the sickle : it is so nsed by Shakspeare in this pUoe. Its more extended sense — and that, if I mistake not, only in way of meta- phor— by a synecdoehe, impiU'tB the oonnmunatioii of * bairest. Aft«r the partionlar operation of reaping, much remains to be done, many cavoaltieB hare to be eneoontered, befOTe the comjdetion ol the harvest, and 'finit eoronat optu' is as trae in bosbondry m in other occnpations : when the crop is honsed or inned, stacked or ricked, then, and not till then, is it ' endtd.' I repeat, therefore, that Shakspeare's genuine word ' end' recem- mends itself, even in its common acceptation ; and if it has become a stum- bling-blook to commentatora, it is simply becanse they mistook their calling, no less than they miatook the word."
P. 3S6. (ij7) "ot?ur"
The folio has " others."
P. 236. (ijS) "Notaore."
i. e. No more than a bqy of tean. — But periiaps Tynrbitt was right in sup- posing that these words belonged to the Firtt Lord, and in understanding them to mean Save dtme,
P. 236. (159) "FlMtefW
The foUo has " FIatter'd."--Gorreated in the third folio.
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TITCS ANDBOSICCa.
As it ia not onlj included in the folio of 1623, bot mentioiied u Shike- ■pure's b; Meres in hia PaUadit Tamia, tc. 1598 (gm tbe Memoir of Shake- epeare), we are forbidden to asEert — what iuteraal eridenoe aeema strong to attest — that oni author had no share in ita eompoaition. — " On what IHicciple the cditon of the fint complete edition of onr poet's plays admitted Uiii [Tilvt Andronieuil into their rolame, cannot now be ascertained. The most probable reason that can be asugned, ia, that ha wrote a few lines in it, or gave some assistsnea to the aathor in revising it, or in some other way aided him io bringing it forward on the stage. The tradition mentioned by BavenMroft in the time of King James II. irarraats ns in th«H"{; one or other ti these suppositions. 'I hare been told' (says he in his Preface to an slteration of this play published in 1687) > by some anciently conversant with the stage, that it waa not ori{pn«Uy Ma, but bronght by a prirate anthor to be acted, and he only gsTe some master touches to one or two of the prindpsl parts or cbaraieteTB.' " Mai.oke, Prrlm. Brmarkt on Titiu Andronicm. — " Titos Andronicas is now by common consent denied to be, in any senee, a production of Bhakespeare ; very few passage*, I should think not oue, resemble his manner. — Note. Notwithstanding this intenul eTidenee, Meres, so early as 1E9B, enumerates Titna Androoicns among the plays of Shakespeare, and mentions no other l^at what is genuine. Bnt, in criticism of all lands, we must acquire a dogged habit of resisting testimony when ;■« ipio per te vociftratnr to the contraij." Haij.ui, Introd. to tlie Lit. of Europe, 4o. Tol. ii. p. 177, ed. 1843. — " A. i., and the greater part, or r»tlier the whde, of A. v., are the work of one writer, and that writer not Shake- speare. The Jjatinism both of the manner and the matter would be snffl- cicut to prOTfi this, did not the ntter want of imagination in the anthor render oil other arguments nccdlesE. The other three Acta — with occasional excep- tions, perhaps — bear the anuiiGtakablB stamp of another and more poetical mind ; yet I feel all but certain that Bhakespeare did not write a wori of ths play, except (posEibly) one or two passages. To say nothing of the absence of his peculiar ciocllenees, and the precipitous descent tram Fmu> and Adimit and Tarquin and Lucrtce to Ti'liu Androaicus, I do not belisTe tliat he vimild haro written on such s sabjcct (and this, by the way, applies as well to the First Scene of Periclet, and the brothel sccnea of A. ir.}; still less that lit coold hare reveUed with such evident zest in details of outrage snd annntaral craelty. Perhaps the Ijiat Scene of A, ii. was written by the anthor of Acta i. and t." Walimi, Crit. Exam, of the Text of Shakeepearr. etc. Tol. iii. p. 214. — Uenslowe (Diary, p. 3S, ed. Sbakeapeare Boc.) reoorda that a play which bad never been eoted before, called " Titut and Ondrom- cm," was performed by the Eari of Sussex's men, Jan. 23d, 1593-4 ; and he dso menticns (Diary, p. 3S) that in June 1594, an " ,4n(froiiicouj" was acted by the Lord Admiral's and the Lord Chamberlain's company. — It seems certain that an entry made by Danler in the Stationers' Begistos, Feb. 6th, 15!f3'4, of " A booke entitled a noble Bonuiu Historye of Tytns
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AndnmitmB" refen to the plsj attribnted to Bhakeipeare ; which, aooording to Langbune (Account of Eng. Dram. Poeti, p. JM}, " was first printed 4° IjOdiL 16M," tbongh at pTeaent no qatrto earlier than that ol 1600 is known to be ertant.
In B quarto Tidnnie jnst published (1865) b7 Mr. Albert Cohn, entitled Shaketpeart in Qermam/ tn tlu Sixlemth <md Seventeenth Centnria, £o., ii (both in Oerman and English] the "Tragedy ofTitui Andranicut, atltd in Qenaatty, about Iht year 1600, hy EngUek Flayert, tuppoied to be aa tnttta- lion of the old Titiu Andronicui ;" and I now Bobjoin, without an; remarks of my own, the greater portion of the aeeonnt of it given b; Mr. Cohn (from whom,b7tbeh7,IbegleaTentterlyto dissent when he dedaiei that the Titut Andronieva attribnted to Bhakespeare "betiaTS nnmennu tiaoea of his genine"). " In onr Oerman ' Lamentable Traged;' we have the pla;, in all probabijitj, in a form copied from the first design. But the coare« feeling, which was interested in the mete external action alone and not in the dra- matio doTelopment, has prCTOiled in the treatment of this, as well as almost all th« otbor pieeei in the coUeetiot], fat the ptioeipal object has OTidenllf
been to reduce the piece to the smallest possible compass No notice
baa hitherto been taken of a circumstance in the Oerman piece which enables ns to fix with tolerable certaint; the date of the English one. In the year 1691. a piece entitled 'Titne and Tespasian' was performed on the London stage. It must have been very popular, tor from the llth of April 1591 to the ISth of January lS9B[-4] it is very frequently mentioned by Henslowe. In Bhakespeare's 'Titas Androoicus' there is no Vespasian; no one therefore ctmld erer imagine that the piece alluded to by Eenslowe was the original
fram of the Shakespeiian piece But in our Oerman ' Titus Androni-
«as' a Teepaaian is one of the principal charact«rs. It is a fictitious, and no historical personage. In the beginning of the piece ha appears as the parti- san of Titus Andronions, for whom he claims the Uirone of Home, bat to- wards the end he is suddenly transformed into his Bon and aTenger, who ot the conclusion obtains the crown, — one of those instances of a confusion of charaeterB to which we hsTs already alluded, and which are strong eridence ot the carelessness with which this Oerman Tersion of the piece was made. We may safely assume that this Teepaeian, like all the other characters of the Oerman piece, was taken from the original 'Titus AndrouicDB,' and thoB we should hare to acknowledge that ' Titus and Vespasian' as the original on which Shakespeare's play was founded. In his first menUou ot it, tuideT the date of April 11, 16S1, Henslowe designates it on the marpn with ne, which,
with him, always signifies a piece given for the first time On the
9Srd of January 1693[-4], the piece ia first mentioned under the name of 'Titne Andrenlcua,' and again with the addition ne; it is probably therefore the recast ot the piece, as we have it in the folio of 1623." p. ciiL
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DRAMATIS PERSONS.
SutnimiUE, 8011 to the Ule Emporor of Bwie, uid ktterwuda de-
olai«d empsiOT. BiuuKiii, Imtther to Bataniiniu; in lore with LaTinia. TiTUi AnsBonoci, a aoble Boman, genenl agunat tlie Qotha. Hiwnrs Annxosicus, Mbmie of the people, and brother to Titu. LvciCfl,
Udiiub,
YovHa Loonrs, a boj, rod to Lndiu.
PuBLnrl, Mm to Maroos the tiibiiiie*
Bxiawaivt,-.
Cmdb, V kinnneB to Titna.
VAUKTnn, J
Mmiliob, a noble Boman.
AliiXBUB, -I
DxKVTBica, j- lona to Tamora.
Cbuos, J
Aaboh, a Moot, beloved by Tamora.
A Captain, Tiibnne, Meewnger, and down.
T^^Tfn^nn mnA Qoths.
Tucoa*, Qneen of the Gotha. I^Tnrai, daaghtw to Titna Andtonimu. A NwM, and a blaok Child.
Senatora, Tribnoei, Offlcera, Boldien, and Attandanti.
Soxm — Borne and thi eomttry near it.
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TITUS ANDRONIOUS.
ACT I.
SoBNX I. Rome. Bejore the Cental.
The Tomb o/f£e Amdronioi ajipearing; the Tri1>aiies and S
aiofi. Enter, hdow, from one side, Satcbninub and hie Fol- lowen; and, from t?ie other nc/e, Bassukub and hie Followen; with drume and colours. Sat. Noble pfttriciims, patrons of mj right,
Defend the joBtice of my cause irith arms ;
And, coontrymeD, my loving followers.
Plead my snccesBive title with year swords :
I am his firBt-bom son, that was the last
That wore th' imperial diadem of Bome ;
Then let my father's hocoars lire in me,
Nor wrong mine age with this indJignity.
Baa. Romans, — friends, followers, &Tonters of my ri^t, —
ISe\et Bassianas, Ctesar's son.
Were gracious in the eyes of royal Bome,
Keep, then, this passage to the Capitol;
And suffer not dishonour to approach
Th' imperial seat, to virtae consecrate.
To jnstice, continence,^ and nobility :
But let desert in pare election ahine;
And, Bomans, fight for freedom in yoor ohnce.
Enter Masous Andbokicus, aloft, with the crown. Mare. Princes, — that strive by factions and by friends- Ambitiously for rule and empery, — Enow that the people of Bome, for whom we stand A special party, have, by common voice,
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In election for the Boman empety,
Chosen AndronicuB, samamM Pins
For man; good and great deserts to Borne :
A nohler man, a braver warrior,
LItos not thJB day within the city walls :
He by the senate is accited home
From weary wars against the barbarous Goths ;
That, with bis eons, a terror to onr foes,
Hath yok'd a nation strong, train'd ap in arms.
Ten years are spent since first he nndertooh
This cause of Rome, and chastised with arms
Onr enemies' pride : five times he bath rctoru'd
Bleeding to Bome, bearing his valiant sons
In coffins from the field ;
And now at last, laden with honour's spoils,
BetnmB the good Andronicns to Bome,
RenownM Titus, flonriBbing in arms.
Let ns entreat, — by honour of his name,
Whom worthily you would have now succeed.
And in the Capitol and senate's right.
Whom yon pretend to honour and adore, —
That you withdraw yon, and abate yoor strength ;
Dismiss yonr followers, and, as saitora should.
Plead your deseitB in peace and humbleuesg.
Sat. How fair the tribnne speaks to cahn my thonghts !
Bob, Marcns Andronicns, so I do aSy In thy uprightness and integrity. And so I love and honour thee and thine. Thy uoble brother Titus and his sons. And her to whom my tbongbts are humbled all. Gracious Lavinia, Bome'e rich ornament, That I will here dismiss my loving friends ; And to my fortunes and the people's favour Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd.
^Exeunt the Followers of Baaaiatuu.
Sat. Friends, that have been thus forward in my right, I thank you all, and here dismiss you all ; And to the love and favour of my country Commit myself, my person, and the cause.
[^Exeunt the FoUmeera of Satuminus.
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Borne, "be as jttst and gracious unto me As I am confident and kind to thee. — Open the gates, and let me in.'''
Bas. Tribnnes, and me, a poor competitor.
[Flourish. Sa^iminus and Baaeianus go up into the Capitol.
Enter a Captain. Cap. Bomans, make way : the good AndronicuB, Patron of virtae, Rome's best cliampion, Snccessfol in the battles that he- fights, With hononi' and with fortune is return'd From where he circumscribed with his sword. And bronght to yoke, the enemies of Borne.
Druma and trvmpeta toundetl. Enter Martius and Mdtics; ^fler them, two Mea hearing a coffin covered with black; titen Lucics avd QniKxns. After them, Titus Androsicus ; and then Ta- UORA, with Al&rbus, DEMETHiug, CniKON, Aaron, artd other Goiba, prisoners ; Soldiers uTid People following. T?ie Bearera M( dovm the coffip, and TiTua speaks. Tit. Hail, Bome, victorioas in my'** moaming weeds !
Lo, as the bark that hath discharg'd hei'*' &aaght
Betams with ptecioas lading to the bay
From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage,
Cometh Andronicas, bonnd with laorel-boaghs,
To re-salnte his country with his tears, —
Tears of true joy for his return to Rome. —
Thoa great defender of this Capitol,
Stand gracious to the rites that we intend ! —
Romans, of five-and-twenty valiant sons,
Half of the number that King Priam bad.
Behold the poor remains, alive and dead I
These that Hurrive let Rome reward with love ;
These that I bring unto their latest bome,
With borial amongst their ancestors :
Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword.
Titos, nnkind, and caieleea of thine own.
Why anffer'st thou thy sons, nnbnried yet.
To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx ?—
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Hake way to lay them by their brethren. —
[The tomb u opened. TThere greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And Bleep in peace, slun in yonr ooantry's wars I O sacred receptacle of my joys. Sweet cell of Turtne and nobility, How many sons of mine hast thoa in store. That thoa wilt never render to me more !
Luc. Give ns the proudest prisoner of the Cloths, That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile Ad manes fratram sacrifice his fiesh. Before this earthy prison of their bones ; That 80 the shadows be not anappeas'd,*** Nor we distnrb'd with prodigies on earth.
Tit. I give him yon, — the noblest that sarriTeB, The eldest son of this distressed qaeen.
Tarn, Stay, Soman brethren 1 — Gracious conqueror, Yictorioas Titns, me tihe tears I shed, A mother's tears in passion for her son : And if thy sons were ever dear to thee, 0, think my son to be as dear to me I Snfficeth not, that we are bronght to Rome, To beautify thy triumphs and return, CaptiTo to thee and to thy Roman yoke ; But must my sons be slanghter'd in the streets, For valiant doings in their country's cause? 0, if to fight for king and commonweal Were piety in thine, it is in these. Andronicus, etain not thy tomb with blood : "Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them, then, in being merciful : Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge : Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-bom son,
Tit. Patient yoarself, madam, and pardon me. These are their brethren, whom yon Goths beheld Alive and dead ; and for their brethren slain BoligionBly they ask a sacrifice : To this your son is mark'd ; and die he must, T' appease their groaning shadows that are gone. Lws. Away with him ! and make a Gre straight ;
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And with oar ewotds, upon a pile of wood, Ijet'H hew hlB hmbs till they be clean consnm'd.
[Exeunt Lucius, Quintas, Martiui, and Aftrttiu, with Alarbue.
Tom. 0 crael, iireligioas piety !
Chi. Was eyer Bcythia half bo barbarous ?
J>em. Oppose not Scythia to ambitions Bome. Alsrhas goes to rest ; and we onmre To tremble ander Titns' threatening looks. Then, madam, stand resolv'd ; bnt hope withal, The self-Bame gods, that arm'd the Qneea of Troy With opportonity of aharp revenge Upon the Thracian tyrant in her tent,*** May favonr Tamora, the qneen of Goths, — - "When Goths were Goths, and Tamora was qaeen, — To qnit her*" bloody wrongs npon her foes.
Se-^nter Lcoius, Qumrns, Mabtids, cmd Mutivb, with their ttcorda bloody.
Zmc. See, lord and Mher, how we have perform'd Oar Boman rites : Alarbns' limbs are lopp'd, And entrails feed the sacrificing fire, "Whose smoke, like incense, doth perfume the sky. Bemaineth nangbt, bnt to inter onr brethren, And with lood lamms welcome them to Rome.
Tit. Let it be BO ; and let Andronicns Make this his latest brewell to their sools.
[Trumpets sounded, and tJie coffin laid in the tomh.'^ In peace and honoar rest yon here, my sons ; Rome's readiest champions, repose yon here,'*' Secnre &om worldly chances and mishaps I Here Inrks no treiuon, here no envy swells. Here grow no damned grndges, here no storms, "°' No noise ; bnt silence and eternal sleep :
Enter Lavinia. In peace and hononr rest yoa here, my sons !
Lav. In peace and hononr live Lord Titos long ; My noble lord and father, hve in fame 1 Lo, at thia tomb my tribataiy tears
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I tender, for my brethren's obsequies ; Acd at tby feet I kneel, with tears of joy, Shed on the earth, for thy return to Borne : 0, bless me here with thy victorioaB hand, "Whose fortunes Home's best citizens applaud !
Tit. Kind Borne, that hast thus lovingly reaerr'd The cordial of mine age to glad my heart ! — Lavinia, live ; outlive thy father's days, And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise !
Eniei', below, Marcus AnDBONicira and Tribunes ; re-enter Saturninus and BA»3ANina, attended.
Marc. Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother, Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome I
Tit. Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus.
Marc. And welcome, nephews, from snccessfol wars. You that survive, and you that sleep in fame ! Fair lords, your fortnnea are alike in all, That in yotir country's service drew your swords : But safer triumph is this funeral pomp, That hath aspir'd to Solon's happiness. And triumphs over chance in honour's bed. — Titus Andronicus, the people of Borne, Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been. Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust. This palliament of white and spotless hue; And name thee in election for the empire. With these our late-deceased emperor's sons : Be candidaliis, then, and put it on. And help to set a head on headless Bome.
Tit. A better head her glorious body fits Than hia that shakes for age and feebleness : What should I don this robe, and trouble you ? Be chosen with proclamations"" to-day, To-morrow yield up rule, resign my life, And set abroach""' new bueiness for you all ? Bome, I have been thy soldier forty years. And led my country's strength snccessfally. And buried one-and-twenty valiant sons. Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms.
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In right and service of their nohla eonntry : Oire me a staff of honour for mine age, Bat not a sceptre to control the world : Upright he held it, lords, that held it last.
Marc. Titns, thoa ehalt obtain and ask the empery."" Sat. Proud and ambitions tribnne, canst thoa tell 9 Tit. Patience, Prince Satamine."*'
Sat. Romans, do me right;—
Patricians, draw yonr swords, and sheathe them not Till Satnminns be Rome's emperor. — AndronicuB, woald thou wert shipp'd to hell, Bather than rob me of the people's hearts !
Luc. Prond Satnmine, interrapter of the good That noble-minded Titne means to thee !
Tit. Content thee, prince ; I will restore to thee The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves.
Bas. Andronicns, I do not flatter thee. Bat hononr thee, and will do tiU I die : My foction if thoa strengthen with thy friends,^" I will most thankful be ; and thanks to men Of noble minds is honourable meed.
Tit. People of Rome, and people's tribunes here, I ask your voices and your snffirages : Will you bestow them friendly on Audromcns ? Tribunes. To gratify the good Andronicns, And gratnlate his safe rotara to Rome, The people will accept whom he admits.
Tit. Tribunes, I thank yon : and this suit I make. That you create your emperor's eldest son, Lord Satamine ; whose virtues will, I hope, ReSect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth, And ripen justice in this commonweal : Then, if yon will elect by my advice. Crown him, and say, "Long live our emperor!"
Marc. With voices and applause of every sort. Patricians and plebeians, we create Iiord Satuminus Bome's great emperor. And say, " Long live oar Emperor Satnmine !"
{A long flourish. Sat. Titns Androniena, for thy &Toiin done
TOL. TI. V
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To OB in onr election this day I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts. And will with deeds requite thy gentlenesB : And, for an onset, Titns, to advance Thy name and hononrable Kunily, LaTinia will I make my emprefls,"" Home's royal mistress, mistrees of my heart. And in the sacred Pintheon'^" her espouse : Tell me, Andronioas, doth this motion please thee 7 Tit. It doth, my worthy lord ; and in this match I hold me highly hononr'd of yoar grace : And here, in sight of Borne, to Saturnine — King and commander of our commonweal, The wide world's emperor — do I consecrate My sword, my chariot, and my prisoners ; Presents well worthy Rome's imperions lord : ItooeiTe them, then, the tribute that I owe. Mine hooonr's ensigns hnmbled at thy feet.
Sat. Thanks, noble Titos, father of my life ! How prond I am of thee and of thy gifts Borne shall record ; and when I do totget The least of these unspeakable deserts, Bomans, forget your fealty to me.
Tit. [to Tamordj Now, madam, are yon prisoner to an emperor ;"* To him that, for your honour and your state, Will use yon nobly and yoar followers.
Sat. [aaide] A goodly lady, trust me ; of the hae That I would choose, were I to choose anew. — Clear ap, fair queen, that cloudy countenance : Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer, Thou com'st not to be made a scorn in Rome : Princely shall be thy usage every way. Best on my word, and let not discontent Daunt all your hopes : madam, he comforts you Can make yon greater than the Queen of Qoths. — Lavinia, you are not diapIeuB'd with this ?
Lav. Not I, my lord ; sith true nobiUty Warrants these words in princely courtesy.
Sat. Thanks, sweet Lavinia.— Bomans, let as go ;
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BanBomlesB here ve set our prisoners free : Proclaim onr hononrs, lords, with trnmp and dram.
^Flourish. Satuminiu cowrta Tamora in dvMh-show.
Bos. Lord Titus, by your leaTO, this maid ia mine.
{_Seizing La,vinia.
Tit. How, sir ! are yon in earnest, then, my lord ?
Bat. Ay, noble Titas ; and reBolv'd withal To do myself thia reason and this right.
Marc. Suum cuique'^^ is our Roman justice : This prince in justice seizeth hat his own.
Laic. And Uiat he will, and shall, if Lncias live.
Tit. Traitors, avaantt — Wtere is the emperor's guard? — Treason, my lord, — Larinia is sorpris'd t
Sat. Snrpris'd ! by whom ?
Bob. By him that justly may
Bear his betroth'd from all the world away.
[Exeunt Baaaianus and Marcus with Lavinia.
Mut. Brothers, help to convey her hence away. And with my sword I'll keep this door safe.
[Exeunt Lucius, Quintus, and Martiut,
Tit. Follow, my lord, and I'll soon bring her back.
Mut. My lord, yoa pass not here.
Tit. What, Tillain boy !
Barr'st me my way in Eome ? [Stahhing Mutiaa.
Mvi. Help, Lncias, help t [Dies.
Re-enter Lncins.
Lue. My lord, yoa are unjust ; and, more than so, In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son.
Tit. Nor thou, nor he, are any sons of mine ; My sons would never so dishonour me ; Traitor, restore Lavinia to the emperor.
Zmc. Dead, if yoa will; but not to be his wife. That is another's lawful-promis'd love. [Exit.
Sat. No, Titus, no ; the emperor needs her not,""' Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock : I'll trust, by leisure, him that mocks me once ; Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons. Confederates all thus to dishonour me. Was there none else in Borne to make a Btale,**"
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SOS TTTUB ANDKOmCUS. [act I.
Bat Satnmice ? Fnll w«ll, Audroniona, Agree these deeds with that prond brag of thine. That Baidst, I begg'd the empire at thy bands.
Tit. O monBtroQB 1 what reproachfol words are these ? Sat, But go thy ways ; go, give that changing piece To him that flonrish'd for her with his sword : A valiant son-in-law thoa shalt enjoy; One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. To raffle in the commonwealth of Rome.
Tit. These words are razors to my wonnded heart. Sat. And therefore, lovely Tamora, qneen of Goths, — That, like the stately Phcebe 'mongst her nympbs, Bost oTershine the gallant'st dames of Rome, — If thon be pleas'd with this my sadden choice. Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride, And will create thee empTesB"** of Bome. Speak, Qneen of Ooths, dost thon applaad my choice ? And here I swear by oil the Boman gods, — Sith priest and holy water are so near. And tapers burn so bright, and every thing Iq readiness for Hymensns stand, — I vrill not re-salnte ihe gtreeta of Bome, Or climb my palace, till from forth this place Z lead espons'd my bride along with me.
Tarn. And here, in sight of heaven, to Rome I swear. If Satnmine advance the Qneen of Goths, She will a handmaid be to his desires, A loving nurse, a mother to bis youth.
Sat. Ascend, fair qoeen. Pantheon."" — Lords, accom- pany Tonr noble emperor and his lovely bride. Sent by the heavens for Prince Satamine, "Whose wisdom hath her fortnne conqaerM : There shall we oonaommate onr sponsai rites.
[Exeunt SatuTnintis attended, Tamora, Dettutriut, Chiron, Aaron, and Ootks. Tit. I am not bid to wait upon this bride : — TituB, when wert thou wont to walk alone, Dishononi'd thus, and challenged of wrongs ?
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acsxm I.] TITUa ANDBOHIOUB. 3«S
B^-erUer Mahoub, Luciob, Qcintds, and Mabtius.
Marc. 0 Titns, see, O see what tboa hast done ! b a bad quarrel Blain a Tirtaoas son.
Tit. Xo, foolish tribniie, no ; no bob of mine, — Ncxr thoo, nor these, confederates in the deed That hath dishononr'd all onr fomily ; Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons !
Luc. Bat let as give him bnrial, as becomes ; Oire Mntins bnrial with our brethren.
Tit. TraitorB, «wtty\ he rests not in this tomb : — This monoment fire hundred years hath stood. Which I have somptaoosly re-edified ; Hare none but soldiers and Rome's servitors Kdpose in fome ; none basely slain in brawls : — Bnry him where yon can, he comes not here.
Marc. My lord, this is impiety in yon : My nephew Matins' deeds do plead for him; He mast be buried with his brethren.
„ ' j- And shall, or him we will accompany.
Tit. "And shall"! what villain was it spake that word?
Quin. He that would Touch't in any place bat here.
Tit. 'What, would you bury him in my despite ?
Mare. No, noble Titus ; bat entreat of thee 1o pardon Mutioa, and to bary him.
Tit. Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest. And, with these boya, mine honour thou hast wounded : My foes I do repute you ereiy one ; So, bvuble me no more, but get yoa gone.
Mart. He is not with himself;'**' let us withdraw.
Quin. Not I, till Mutins' bonea be buridd.
[Marcus and tke torn of Titus kneel.
Mare, Brother, for in that name doth nature plead, —
Quin. Father, and in that name doth nature speak, —
Tit. Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed.
Marc. BenownM Titua, more than half my soul, —
Luc. Dear father, sool and sabstance of as all, — ''*'
Marc. Suffer thy brother Marcas to inter His noble nephew here in virtue's nest,
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That died in honour and Lavinia's canee. Thon art a Boman, — ^be not barbaroas : Tbfl Greeks upon advice did boiy Ajaz, That slew bimBelf; and wise Laertes' son Did gtacionsly plesd for his fdnerals i'"' Let not yonng Mntiaa, then, that vta thy jo;. Be barr'd his entrance here.
Tit. Biae, Marcus, rise :—
[Marciu and the others riw^ The diamall'st day is this that e'er I saw. To be dishonoor'd by my sons in Borne ! — Well, bory him, and bury mo the next,
[MiiHua it put into the tomb. Luc. There lie thy bones, sweet Mntins, with thy friends, Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.
All. [kneeling] Ko man ^ed tears for noble Matins; He liTCB in fame that died in virtne's eaase.**"
Marc, [risijig with the rest'] My lord, — to step out of these^ dreary damps, — '*" How comes it that the snbtle Qneen of Goths Is of a snddeo thns adranc'd in Borne ?
Tit. 1 know not, Marcus ; bat I know it is, — Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell : Is she not, then, beholding to the man That bronght her for this high good torn so far ? Marc. Yes, and will nobly him remanerate.'*"
Flouritlt. Re-enter, from one aide, SATCBiriHua attended, Tamoba, Dehotrius, Chiron, and Aabon ; from lite other, BAasusua^- Lavinia, oTid oihere.
Sat, So, Bassianas, yon have play'd yonr prize : God give yon Joy, sir, of yonr gallant bride !
Bas. And yon of years, my lord ! I say no more. Nor wish no less ; and so, I take my leave.
Sat. Traitor, if Borne have law, or we have power, Thoa and thy faction shall repent this rape.
Bat. Bape, call yon it, my lord, to seize my ovnir My trae-betrothM love, and now my wife ? Bat let the laws of Bome determine all ; Meanwhile I am possesa'd of that is mine.
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Sat. 'Tia good, sir : yon are very short with na ; Bot, if we live, wa'll he m sharp with you.
Bat. My lord, what I hare done, as beet I may Answer I moat, and shall do with my life. Only thas mnch I gire your grace to know, — By all the dnties that I owe to Borne, This noble gentleman, Lord Titns here. Is in opinion and in honoor wrong'd ; That, iu the rescue of Lavinia, With his own hand did slay his yonngest son. In seal to yon, and highly mov'd to wrath To be controll'd in that be frankly gave : BeceiTe him, then, to fsToar, Satnmine, That hath exprese'd himself in all his deeds A father and a friend to thee and Borne.
Tit. Prince Bassianna, leave to plead my deeds : 'Tis thoa and those that have diahononr'd me. Rome and the righteoas heavens be my judge. How I have lov'd and bononr'd Saturnine !
Tarn. My worthy lord, if ever Tamora Were graoionB in those prinoely eyes of thine, Then hear me speak indifferently for all ; And at my Bait, sweet, pardon what is past.
Sat. What, madam ! be dishonoor'd openly. And basely pat it ap withoat revenge ?
Tarn. Not so, my lord ; the goda of Borne forfend I shonld be aathor"^ to diahononr yon ! Bat on mine honour dare I undertake For good Lord Titus' innocence in all ; Whose fdry not dissembled spe^s his griefs : Then, at my suit, look graciously on him ; Ijose not so noble a friend on vain sappoae, Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart. — [Atide to Sat."] My lord, be ml'd by me, be won at last; Dissemble all yoor griefs and discontents : Yoa are bat newly planted in your throne ; Lest, then, the people, and patricians too. Upon a just survey, take Titus' port. And BO sapplant yoa for ingratitade, — Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin, —
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Yield at entreats ; and then let me alone : I'll find a day to massacre them all. And raze their faction and their family. The cmel father and his traitoroas sons, To whom I ened for my dear son's life ; And make them know what 'tis to let a queen Eneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain. — Come, come, sweet emperor, — come, Andromcos, — Take np this good old man, and cheer the heart That dies in tempest of thy angry firown.
Sat. Bise, Titas, rise ; my empress hath prerail'd.
Tit. I thank yonr majesty, and her, my lord : These words, these looks, infase new life in me.
Tam. Titas, I am incorporate in Bome, A Soman now adopted happily, And mnst advise tiie emperor for his good. This day all quarrels die, Andronicas ; — And let it be mine hononr, good my lord. That I have reconcil'd yonr Mends and yon. — For yoQ, Prince Basaianas, I haye pass'd My word and promise to the emperor, That you will be more mild and tractable. — And fear not, lords, — and yon, LsTinia ; — By my advice, all bambled on yoar knees. Yon shall ask pardon of his majesty.
[^Marcus, Lavinia, and the sons of Titus ikneel.
Luc. We do ; and vow to heaven, and to hie highness. That what we did was mildly as we might. Tendering our sister's honour and oar own.
Marc. That, on mine hononr, here I do protest.
Sat. Away, and talk not; tronble ns no more.
Tam. Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we mnst all be friends : The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace ; I will not be denied : sweet heart, look back.
Sat. Marons, for thy sake and thy brother's here, And at my lovely Tamora's entreats, I do remit these yonng men's heinons fanlte.
{^Marcus and the others rut. Lavinia, thoagh yoa left me like a charl,*^" I foond a Mend ; and sore as death I swore
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I would not part a bachelor from the priest. Come, if the emperor's ooart can feast two brides, Yon are mj gneet, Lannia, and your friends. — Thislday shall be a love-day, Tamora.
Tit. To-morrow, an it please yoar majesty To hnnt the panther and the bart with me. With horn and bound we'll give your grace boryour.
Sat. Be it so, Titas, and giamercy too.
[Flourigh. EzeuTit.
ACT II.
BflBHB I. Rome. Before the palace.
Aar, Now elimbeth Tamora Olympas' top, Safe ont of fortune's shot; and sits aloft. Secure of thnnder's crack or lightning-flash; Advanc'd above pale envy's threatening reach. As when the golden son salntes the mom, And, having gilt the ocean with bis beams, CTallops the zodiac in his glistering coach, And overloolcs the highest-peering biUB ; So Tamora :
Upon her wit'**' doth earthly hononr wait. And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown. Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy tbongbts, To moant aloft with thy imperial mistress. And mount her pitch,''^ whom thon in triompb long Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains, And &ster bound to Aaron's charming eyes Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus. Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts ! I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold. To wait upon this new-made empress. To wait, said I ? to wanton with this queen.
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This goddess, this SemiTamis, thiB sympfa, This Biles, that will charm Rome's Satormne, And aee hia shipwreck and his commonwe&l'B. — Holla ! what storm iB this ?
£nter Dhhbtbiub and Cbibon, braving.
Dem. Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge. And mannerB, to intrude where I am grac'd ; And may, for anght thoa know'st, affected be.
Cki. Dametritis, thou doat over-ween in all ; And BO in this, to bear me down with brares. 'Tis not the difference of a year or two Make me less graoions, thee'*^ more fortanate : I am as able and as fit as thoa To serre, and to deserve my mistress' grace ; And that my Bword npon thee shall approve. And plead my passions for Laviaia's love.'**'
Aar. [aside] Glabs, clubs ! these lovers will not keep Uie peace.
Dem, Why, boy, altiiongh oar mother, onadvis'd, Gave yoa a dancing-rapier by yonr side, Are yoQ eo desperate grown to threat yonr friends ? Go to ; have yonr lath gln'd within yonr sheath Till yon know better how to handle it.
Cki. Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have. Fall well shalt thoa perceive how mnch I dare.
Dem. Ay, boy, grow ye so brave ? [TAey draw.
Aar. [coming forward] Why, how now, lords t
So near the emperor's palace dare yoa draw. And maintain snch a qaarrel openly ? Fall well I wot the ground of ^ this gmdge : I wonld not for a million of gold The caase were known to them it moat concerns ; Nor woald yonr noble mother for mnch more Be BO dishonoar'd in the court of Rome. For shame, put ap.
Dem. Not I, till I have Bheath'd
My rapiet in his bosom, and withal Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat That he hath breath'd in my dishonour here.
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Chi. For that I am prepar'd and fall resoWd, — Fool-spoken coward, that thnnder'st with thy tongae, And with thy weapon oothing dar'st perform.
Aar. Away, I say! — Now, by the gods thai warlike Goths adore, This petty brabble will ondo ob all. — Why, lords, and think yoa not how dangerona It is to jet npon a prince's right? What, is Lavinia, then, become bo loose, Or Bassianas so degenerate. That for her loTe snch qaarrels may be broach'd Withont controlment, jnstiee, or revenge ? Young lords, beware !*an shonld the empress know This discord's ground, the nmsic would not please.
Cki. I care not, I, knew she and all the world : I love Larinia more than all the world.
Dem, Yonngling, learn thoa to make some meaner choice :' Iiannia is thine elder brother's hope.
Aar, Why, are ye mad ? or know ye not, in Borne How fnrionB and impatient they be. And cannot brook competitors in love ? I tell yon, lords, yoa do bnt plot your deathB By this device.
Chi. Aaron, a thonsand deaths
Would I propose t' achieve her whom I love.
Aar. T' achieve her ! — how?
Dem. Why mak'st thou it so strange ?
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; Bhe is Lavinia, therefore mast be lov'd. What, man t more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a oat loaf to steal a shive, we know : Though BaBsianuB be the emperor's brother. Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge.'^
Aar. [aside] Ay, and as good as SataminuB may.
Dem. Then why shonld he despair that knows to court it With words, fair looks, and liberality? What, hast not thon full often stmok a doe, 'And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose ?
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Aar. Why, then, it Beems, flome certain siiatch or so Would serve yonr toriia.
CAi. Ay, 80 ibe torn were serr'd.
Dem. AoroQ, thon hast hit it.
Aar. Would yon had hit it too 1
Then shoold not we be tir'd with this ado. Why, hark ye, hark ye, — and i^re yon sneh fools To square for this ? would it offend yoa, then, That hoth should speed 7
Chi. Faith,**" not me.
T>vm. Xor me, so I were one.
Aar. For shame, be firiende, and join for that you jar : 'Tie policy and stratagem mnst do That yon affect ; and so mast yon resolre. That what yon cannot as yon would achieve. Yon mast perforce accomplish as yon may. Take this of me, — Locrece was not more chaste Than this Lavinia, BaBsianns' love. A speedier coarse than Ungering langoishmeitt Mnst ye pnrBne,'*^ and I have fbnnd the path. My lords, a solemn buntings is in hand ; There will the lovely Boman ladies troop : The forest-walks are wide and spacions ; And many nnfreqnented plots there are Fitted by kind for rape and villany: Sihgle yon thither, then, this dainty doe, And strike her home by force, if not by words : This way, or not at all, stand yon in hope. Gome, come, onr empress, with her sacred wit To villany and vengeance consecrate. Will we acqnaint with all that we intend ; And she shall file onr engines with advice, That will not suffer yon to sqaare yonrselves. But to yonr wishes' height advance yon both. The emperor's court is like the honse of Fame, The palace fnll of tongues, of eyes, and ears : The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull ; There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take your turns ; There serve your lust, shodow'd f^m heaven's eye. And revel in Lavinia's treasury.
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Chi. Thy coansel, lad, Bmells of no cowardice.
Dem. Sit/as aiU nefas, till I find the stream To eool this heat, a charm to calm these fits. Per St^ga, per manes vehor. lExtunt.
SoBHE n. A forest near Rome. Somt and cry of hounds heard.
Eater Titos AmiBOHiocs, leilh Huntets, &e., Marcus, Lirciua, QtriNTUs, and Marticb.
. Tit. The hant is ap, the mom is bright and gray,*^' The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green : Uncouple here, and let ns make a bay. And wahe the emperor and hie lovely bride, And ronae the prince, and ring a hunter's peal, That aU the court may echo with the noise. Sons, let it be yonr charge, as it is onrs, T' attend the emperor's person carefnlly : Z have been tronbled in my sleep this night. Bat dawning day new comfort hath inspir'd.
Hon\B wind a peal. Enter Saidbkikos, Tahora, Eabsianus, Lavikia, DflMiriRios, CnmoK, and Attendants Many good morrows to yonr majesty; — Madam, to yon as many and as good: — I proiiuBed yonr grace a hnnter'a peal.
Sat. And yon have rnng it Inatily, my lord ;'^' Somewhat too early for new-matried ladies.
Bos. Lavinia, how say yon ?
Lav. I say, no ;
I hare been broad awake two hoars and more.
Sat. Come on, then ; horse and chariots let ns have. And to oar sport. — [To Tamora] Madam, now shall ye see Oar Soman hnnting.
Mare. I have dogs, my lord.
Will ronee the prondest panther in the chase. And climb the highest promontory top.
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Tit. And I have horse will follow where the game Makes way, and nm like swallows o'er the plain.
Dem. Chiron, we hunt Dot, we, with horse nor hoond, Bnt hope to plnck a dainty doe to groand. [EJxfvnt.
Scene HI. A lonely part of tiu forest. Enter Aabon, with a hag of gold. Aar. He that had wit would think that I had none. To bnry so mnch gold nnder a tree, And never after to inherit it. Let him that thinks of me bo abjectly Enow that this gold mnst coin a stratagem. Which, cunningly efTectod, will b^et A very excellent piece of yillany:
And 80 repose, sweet gold, for their nnrest [Hides tke gold. That have their alma oat of the empress' chest.
Enter Tauoba. Tarn. My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thon sad, "When every thing doth make a gleefnl boast ? The birds chant melody on every bash ; The snake lies rolled'*" in the cheerful snn ; The green leaves qaiver with the cooling wind. And make a cheqner'd shadow on the ground : Under their sweet shade, Asron, let as sit. And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hoonds, Beplying shrilly to the well-tan'd horns. As if a donble hunt were heard at once. Let as sit down and mark their yelping noise ; And — after conflict snch as was snppos'd The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, "When with a happy storm they were surpris'd, And cartain'd with a coansel-keeping cave — We may, each wreathM in the other's arms, Oar pastimes done, possess a golden slamber; Whiles honnds and horns and sweet melodioas birds Be onto as as is a nnrse's song
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Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.
AaT. Madam, though VeniiB goTem your desires, Satnm is dominator ovet mine : What eignifies my deadly-standing eye, My silence and my clondy melancholy. My fleece of woolly hair that now nncurls Eves as an adder when she doth nnroll To do some fatal execatioo ? No, madam, these are no yenereal signs : Yeugeanoe is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. Hark, Tamora, — the empress of my soul. Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee, — This is the day of doom for BaBsianns : His Philomel must lose hei tongae to-day ; Thy BODS make pillage of her chastity. And wash their hands in Bassianns' blood. Seest thoQ this letter? take it np, I pray thee. And give the king this fatal-plotted scroll. — Now question me no more, — we are espied; Here comes a parcel of oar hopeful booty, Wliich dreads not yet their lives' destmction.
Tarn. Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life !
Aar. No mqte, great empress, — ^Bassianns comes : Be cross with him; and I'll go fetch thy sons To back thy quarrels, whatsoe'er they be. [Exit.
Enter BASSlAMira and Latima.
Bat. Who have we here ? Bome's royal empress, Unfiimish'd of her well- beseeming troop ? Or is it Dian, habited like her. Who hath abandonM her holy groves To see the general hunting in this forest?
Tam. Sancy controller of our private steps ! Had I the power that some say Dian had. Thy temples should be planted presently With horns, as was Actieon's ; and the hounds Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,'*" CnmaDnerly intruder as thou art !
Lav. Under yonr patience, gentle empress,
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'Tis thought 7011 have & goodly gift in homing ; And to be doubted that joxa Moor and 70a Are singled forth to try experiments : JoTO shield yoor hasband Irom his honnds to-day t 'Tis pity they should take him for a st^.
Bat, BelieTe me, qneen, yonr svarth Cimmerian Doth make yoar honour of hia body's hue, Spotted, detested, and abominable. "Why are yon seqaester'd from all yoor trua, DismooDted from your snow-white goodly steed, And wander'd hither to an 6bsciire plot. Accompanied bat with a barbarons Moor, If foal desire had not conducted you?
Lav. And, being intercepted in year sport, Great reason that my noble lord be rated For saucinesB. — I pray yon, let us hence, And let her joy hot raven-colour'd love ; This valley fits the purpose passing well.
Bos. The king my brother shdl have note'^ of this.
Lav. Ay, for these slips have made him noted long : Good king, to be bo mightily abns'd !
Tarn. Why have I'"' patience to eudnre all this ?
Enter Dembibiitb and Chibok. ^ Dem. How now, dear sovereign and onr graciona mo- ther! Why doth yonr highness look so pale and wan ? ,
Tarn. Have I not reason, think you, to look pale ? These two have tic'd me hither to this place : — A barren'*" detested vale yon see it is ; The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe : Here never Hhines the sun ; here nothing breeds. Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven : — And when they show'd me this abhorr^ pit. They told me, here, at dead time of the night, A tlioasand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes. Ten thousand swelling toads, as many archins, Would make such fearful and confdsM cries, As any mortal body hearing it
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Should Btraigfat fall mad, or else did Buddenly.
No sooner had the; told this hellibh tale,
Bat straight they told me they would bind me here
Unto the body of a dismal yew.
And leare me to this miserable death :
And then they call'd me foul adalteress,
LasciTtons Goth, and all the bitterest terms
That ever ear did hear to sach efTect:
And, had yon not by wondrons fortune come,
This vengeance on me had they executed.
Revenge it, as yon love your mother's life.
Or be not'^*' henceforth call'd my children.
Dem. This is a witness that I am thy son.
[Stabs Bassiaiitis.
Chi. And this for me, etrnck home to show my strength. [Also stabs Bassianus, who dies.
Lav. Ay, come, Semiramis, — nay, barbarous Tamora, For no name £ts thy nature but thy own !
Tarn. Give me thy**" poniard; — ^you shall know, my boys, Yoat mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong.
Dem. Stay, madam ; here is more belongs to her; First thrash the com, then after bum the straw : This minion stood upon her chastity. Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,
And with that painted hope she braves your mightiness :*'*' And shall she carry this unto her grave ?
Chi. An if she do, I wonld I were an ennnoh. Drag hence her hasband to some secret hole. And make his dead tmnk pillow to onr lust.
Tarn. But when ye have the honey ye desire. Let not this wasp outlive ye, both to sting.'^'
Chi. I warrant yon, madam, we wiU make that sore. — Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy lliat nice- preserve honesty of years.
Lav. O Tamora t thon bear'st a woman's face, —
Tarn. I will not hear her speak ; away with her t Lav. Sweet lords, entreat ber hear me bat a word.
Dem. Listen, &ir madam: let it be your glory To Bee her tears ; but be your heart to them As anrelenting flint to drops of rain.
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Lav. When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam ? 0, do not leuB her wrath, — she taught it thee ; The milk thon anck'dst from her did torn to marble ; Eren at thy teat thoa hadst thy tyranny. — Yet ereiy mother breeds not sons alike : [To Ckirofi] Do thou entreat her ehow a woman pity.
Chi. What, wouldst thon have me prove myself a bas- tard?
Lav. 'Tis true,— the raven doth not hatch a lark:'™ Yet have I heard, — 0, could I find it now! — The lion, mov'd with pity, did endnre To have his princely paws*" par'd all away : Some say that ravens fester forlorn children, The whilst their own birds famish in their nests': 0, bo to me, though thy hard heart oay no, Nothing so kind, but something pitiful 1
Tarn, I know not what it means. — Away with her!
Lav. 0, let me teach thee I for my father's sake. That gave thee life, when well he might have slain thee. Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears.
Tarn. Hadst thon in person ne'er offended me. Even for his sake am I pitiless.—"" Bemember, boys, I ponr'd forth tears in vain To save your brother from the sacriBce ; Bnt fierce Andronicus would not relent: Therefore, away with her, use'**' her as yon will ; The worse to her, the better lov'd of me.
Lav. 0 Tamoia, be call'd a gentle queen. And with thine own hands kill me in this place ! For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long ; Poor I was slain when Bassianus died.
Tam. What begg'st thou, then ? fond woman, let me go.
Lav. 'Tis present death I beg ; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell : 0, keep me from their worse than killing last, And tumble me into some loathsome pit. Where never man's eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer.
Tam. So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.
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Dem. Away ! for tboa hast stay'd aa here too long. Lav.- No grace ? no womanliood ? Ah, beastly creatnre ! The blot and enemy to oar general name ! Confofiion fall —
Chi. Nay, then I'll stop your moatb. — Bring thou her hnsband : This i8 the hole where Aaron bid ns bide bim.
[Demetrius tkrowa the body of Bassianua into the pit; then exeunt Demeh-ing and Chiron, drag- ging off Lavinia. Tarn. Farewell, my sons : see that you make ber snre : — Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed Till all th' Andronici he made away. Now will I hence to Beak my loTely Moor, And let my BpleenM sons this trull deflour. {Exit.
Re-enter Aaron, with Qointhb atid Maetius.
Aar. Gome on, my lords, the better foot before : Straight will I bring yon to the loathsome pit Where I espied the panther fast asleep.
Quin. My sight is very dnil, whate'er it bodes.
Mart. And mine, I promise yoa ; wete't not for shame, Well coald I leave onr sport to sleep awhile.
[Falls into tJiepit.
Quin. What, art tboa fall'n? — Vfhai. subtle hole is this. Whose month is cover'd with rnde-growing briers. Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood As &esfa as morning dew distill'd on flowers 9 A very fatal place it seems to me. — Speak, brother, bast tbon hart thee with the fall ?
Mart. 0 brother, with the dismall'st object hurt That ever eye with sight made heart lament !
Aar. [aside} Now will I fetch the king to find tbem here. That be thereby may give^'^' a likely guess How these were they that made away bis brother. [Exit.
Mart. Why dost not comfort me, and help me oat From this anhallow'd and blood-stained bole ?
Quin. I am sarprisM with an nacoath fear; A chilling sweat o'er-rans my trembling joints ; My heart sospects more than mine eye can see.
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Mart. To prore thou bast a tme-diTining heart, Aaron and thoa look down into this den. And Bee a fearfol sight of blood and death.
Quin. Aaron is gone ; and my compassionate heart Will not permit mine eyen once to behold The thing whereat it trembles by snrmise : 0, tell me how it is ; for ne'er till now Was I a chUd to fear I know not what.
Mart, hori BassianiiB lies embrew&d here, All on a heap, like to a slanghter'd lamb. In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.
Quin. If it be dark, how dost then know 'tis he?
Mart. Upon his bloody finger he doth wear A precioas ring, that lightens all the hole. Which, like a taper in some monnment, Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks. And shows the ragged entrails of the pit : So pale did shine the moon on P^ramas When he by night lay bath'd in maiden blood.
0 brother, help me with thy fainting band — If fear hath made thee faint, as me it bath — Oct of this fell-deTonring receptacle.
As hateful as Cocytns' misty month.
Qiiin. Beach me thy hand, that I may help thee oat ; Or, wanting strength to do thee so mnch good,
1 may be plnck'd into the swallowing womb Of this deep pit, poor Baesianns' grave.
I have no strength to pinck thee to the brink.
Mart. Kor I no strength to climb without thy help.
Quin. Thy hand once more ; 1 will not loose again, Till thoa art here aloft, or I below: Thoa canst not come to roe, — I come to thee, IFallt in
Enter Satubhinus teith Aaboh.
Sat. Along with me : I'U see what hole is here. And what he is that now is leap'd into it. — Say, who art thoa that lately didst descend Into this gaping hollow of the earth ?
Mart. Th' anhappy eon of old Andronicns ; Brongbt hither in a most anlncky hoar,
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To find thy brother BaBsiaonB dead.
Sat. My brother dead ! I know thon doat bat jest : He fttid his lady both are at the lodge UpoD the north side of this pleasaot chase ; 'Tis not an hoar since I left him there.
Mart. We know not where yoa left him sU oliTO ; Bat, out, alas 1 here have we fonnd him dead.
Se-enter Tamora, icith Attendants ; 7itub Andboniccb, and Lnoiua.
Tarn. Where is my lord the king ?
Sat. Here, Tamora ; though griev'd with killing grief.*"'
Tam. Where is thy brother Bassianas ?
Sat. Now to the bottom doat thou searoh my wonnd: Poor Bassianae here lies mnrderM.
Tam. Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,
[Gii-ing a letter to Sat. The complot of this timeless tragedy; And wonder greatly that man's face can fold In pleasing smiles such mnrderons tyranny.
Sat, [reads] " An if we misa to meet him handsomely, — Sweet huntsman, Baesiatiiia 'tia we mean, — I>o thon BO much aa dig the grave for him : Thou knoVst onr meaning. Look for thy reward Among the nettleg at the elder-tree Which oTenhadeB the month of that same pit Where we decreed to bury BassiaiiDB. Do this, and purchase ua ^y lasting friends." — O Tamora I was ever heard the like ? — This is the pit, and this the elder-tree. — Look, sirs, if yon can find the huntsman oat That shonld hare morder'd Bassianna here.
Aar, My gracioaa lord, here is the bag of gold.
[^Showing it.
Sat. [to Titut] Two of thy whelps, fell curs of bhK)dy kind, Have here bereft my brother of his life. — Sirs, drag them from the pit nuto the prison : There let them bide antil we have devis'd Some neTer-heard-of tortoring pain for then).
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Tarn. What, are they in this pit ? O wondions thing ! How easily murder is discoTered t
Tit. High emperor, npon my feeble knee I beg this boon, -with tears not lightly shed, That this fell fault of my accursed sona, — AccuTfiM, if the faalt he prov'd in them,—
Sat. If it be prov'd ! you see it is apparent. — Who fonnd this letter ? Tamora, was it yon?
Tarn. Andronicns himself did take it up.
Tit. I did, my lord : yet let me be their bail ; For, by my father's reverent tomb, I vow They shall be ready at your highneBs' will To answer their'**' suspicion with their lives.
Sat. Thoa shalt not bail them : see thoa follow me. — Some bring the murder'd body, some the murderers : Let them not speak a word, — the"" guilt is plain ; For, by my sou!, were there worse end than death. That end upon them shoold be executed.
Tarn. AndroniouB, I will entreat the king : Fear not thy sons ; they shall do well enongh.
Tit. Gome, Lucius, come ; stay not to talk with them.
[Exeunt Satuminua, Tamora, Aaron, attd Attend- ants, with Quintus, Martius, and the body 0/ Basaiamta; then Andronicua and Lucius.
ScEMB IV. Another part of the forest.
Enter Demetrius and Chibon, teilh Lavinia, ramsltad; her haiuf^ cut off, and her tongue cut out,
Dem. So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak. Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee.***'
Chi. Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so. An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.
Dent. See, how with signs and tokens she can Bcrowl.'^'°*
Chi. Go home, call for eweet water, wash thy hands.
Dem. She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash ; And BO let's leave hei to her silent walks.
Chi. An 'twere my case,'*" I should go hang myself.
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Dem. If thoQ badat hands to help thee knit the cord.
[Exeant Demetrius and Chii-on.
Enter MAUcns. Mar. Who's this, — my niece, — that flies away so fast? — Cousin, a word; where is jour hasband? — '*" If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake mc ! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, That I may elamber in eternal sleep ! — Speak, gentle niece, — what stem ungentle hands Have lopp'd and faew'd and made thy body bare Of her two branches, — those sweet omameutB, Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in. And might not gain bo great a happiness Aa have thy love?*"' Why dost not speak to me? — Alas, a crimson river of warm blood. Like to a babbling fountain stirr'd with wind, Doth rise and &U between thy ros&d lips. Coming and going with thy honey breath. Bnt, sure, some Tereus hath defloured thee. And, lest thou shooldst detect him,'*'' cut thy tongue. Ah, now thon tnm'st away thy face for shame ! And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood, — As from a conduit with three*^ issuing spouts, — Yet do tby cheeks look red as Titan's face Blushing to be encouuter'd with a cloud. Shall I speak for thee ? shall I say 'tis so ? 0 that I knew thy heart !'^ and knew the beast, That I might rail at him, to ease my mind ! Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, Doth bam the heart to cinders where it is. Fait Philomela, she bat lost her tongue, And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind : But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee ; A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met. And he hath cat those pret^ fingers off. That could have better sew'd than Philomel. 0, had the monster seen those lily hands Tremble, like aspen-leaves, opon a lute. And make the silken strings delight to kiss them.
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He would not, then, bare tondi'd them for his life !
Or, had he heard the heavenly harmon;
Which that sweet tongue hath made,'*"
He would haTe dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep
Ae Cerberas at the Thracian poet's feet.
Come, let ns go, and make thy father blind ;
For snch a sight will blind a father's eye :
One boat's storm will drown the fragrant meads ;
What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes ?
Do not draw back, for we will moam with thee :
0 conld onr monming ease thy misery I [^Exeunt.
Scene I. Rome. A ttreet.
Enter Senators, Tribnues, and Officers of Justice, with Martius and QnwTDS, botind, pamng on to the place of exeeution ; Titos going before, pleading.
Tit. Hear me, grave fethers ! noble tribanes, stay ! For pity of mine age, whose yontb was spent In dangeroas wars, whilst yoo secnrely slept; For all my blood in Bome's great qnarrel shed ; For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd ; And for these bitter tears, which now yon see Filling the ag^d wrinkles in my cheeks ; Se pitiful to my condemned sons. Whose Bonis are not corrnpted as 'tis thought. For two-and-twenty sons I never wept, Secanse they died in honour's lo&y bed. For these, these, tribanes, in the dnst I write
[Throwing kimBelfon the ground. My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears : Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite ;*"' My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.
{Exeunt Senators, Ti-ibunes, Ac. with the PrUoners.
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O earth, I will be&ieod thee more with raia, That shall distil from these two ancient urDB,'°°' Than youthful April shall with all his showers : In Bmnmer's drought I'll drop apon thee still ; In winter with warm tears Til melt the snow. And keep eternal spring-time on thy face. So thoa refuse to drink my dear sons' blood.
Enter LcoiUB, vnlk kti sword drawn. O rererend tribones t gentle,*"' ag^d men I Unbind my sons, reTerse the doom of death ; And let me say, that never wept before. My tears are now prevailiDg orators.
Iak. 0 noble father, yon lament in Taiu : The tribunes hear yon not ; no man is by ; And yon recount year sorrows to a stone.
Tit. Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead. — Grave tribones, once more X entreat of yoa, —
Iiuc. My gracious lord, no tribune hears yoa speak.
Tit. Why, 'tis no matter, man : if they did hear. They would not mark me ; or if they did mark. They would not pit^ me. Yet plead I must : And booUesB unto them since I complain. Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones f" "Who, though they cannot answer my distress. Yet in some sort they're better than the tribunes. For that they will not intercept my tale : When I do weep, they hnmbly at my feet Receive my tears, and seem to weep with me ; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Bome could afford no tribune like to these. A stone is soft as wax, — tribunes more hard than stones ; A stone is silent, and offendeth not, —
And tribones with their tongues doom men to death. — [Rtiea. Bat wherefore stand'st thoo with thy weapon drawn ?
Imc. To rescue my two brothers from their death ; For which attempt the judges have pronoonc'd My everlasting doom of banishment.
Tit. 0 happy man I they have befriended thee. Why, foolish Lucius, dost Uion not perceive
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That Borne is bat a wildemeaa of tigers 9 Tigers moBt prey ; and Borne affordB no prey Bnt me and mine : how happy art thon, then. From these deTonrers to be baniebM ! — Bat who comes with ooi brother Manms bete?
Enter Marcus and Lavinia.
Marc. TitUB, prepare thy agM eyes to weep ; Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break : I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.
Tit. Will it consume me 7 let me see it, then.
Marc. This was thy daughter.
Tit. "Why, Marcas, bo she :
Zatc. Ay me, this object kills me !
Tit. Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look apon her. — Speak, my'^" Lavinia, what accarsed hand Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight ? What fool hath added water to the sea. Or bronght a fagot to bright -bnming Troy? My grief was at the height before thou cam'st ; And now, like Nilse, it disdaineth bounds. — Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too ; For they have fought for Bome, and all in vain ; And they have nnrs'd this woe, in feeding life ; In bootless prayer have they been held op. And they have serv'd me to effectless use : Now all the service I require of them Is, that the one will help to cut the other. — 'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands ; For hands, to do Bome service, are bat vain.
Luc. Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyr'd thee ?
Marc. 0, that delightfal engine of her thoughts. That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence, Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage, Where, like a Bweet melodins bird, it snng Sweet-varied notes,*"' enchanting every ear J
Luc. 0, say thon for her, who hath done this deed?
Marc. 0, thus I found her, straying in the park. Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer That bath receiv'd some unrecuring woand.
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Tit. It was 1117 deer ; and he that wounded her Hath hart me mote than had he kiU'd me dead : For now I stand as one npon a rock, Environ'd with a wilderness of sea ; Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, Expecting ever when Bome enviona snrge Will in his brinish bowels swallow him. This way to death my wretched sons are gone ; Here stands my other son, a banish 'd man ; And here my brother, weeping at my woes : Bnt that which gives my sonl the greatest spnm, Is dear Larinia, dearer than my soul. — Had I bnt seen thy picture in this plight, It woald have madded me : what shall I do Now I behold thy lively body so ? Thon hast no hands to wipe away thy tears ; Nor tongne to tell me who hath marl^'d thee : Thy hasband he is dead ; and for his death Thy brothers are condemn'd, and dead by this. — Look, Marcas 1 ah, son Lncias, look on her ! When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.
Marc, Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her hus- band; Perchance because she knows them innocent.
Tit. If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful, Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them. — No, no, they would not do so foul a deed ; Witness the sorrow that their sister makes. — Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy Upa ; Or make some sign how I may do thee ease: Shall thy good ancle, and thy brother Lucius, And thou, and I, sit round about some foantain. Looking all downwards, to behold our cheeks How they are stain'd, as^" meadows, yet not dry. With miry slime left on them by a flood ? And in the fountain shall we gaze so long Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness. And made a biine-pit vrith our bitter tears?
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Of ahall we cat away onr hands, like thine?
Or Bhall we bite oar tongnes, and in damb-ahows
PasH the remainder of onr batefal dajs ?
What shall we do ? let oa, that have onr tonj^ea.
Plot some device of farther misery,
To make as wonder'd at in time to come.
Luc. Sweet fitther, cease joai tears ; for, at your grief, See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps.
Marc. Patience, deai niece. — Good Titas, dry thine eyes.
Tit. Ah, Marcna, Maicas ! brother, well I wot Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine. For then, poor man, haat drown'd it with thine own.
Imc. Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.
Tit. Mark, Marcns, mark ! I onderstand her signs : Had she a tongae to speak, now would she say That to her brother which I said to thee : His napkin, with bis"*' trae tears all bewet. Can do no serrice on her sorrowfal cheeks. 0, what a sympathy of woe is thifi, — As fiur from help as Limbo is from bliss !
Enter Aaron.
Aar. Titus Andronicas, my lord the emperor Sends thee this word, — that, if thoa love thy sons. Let Marcns, Lacins, ot thyself, old Titas, Or any one of yon, chop off yonr hand. And send it to the king : he for the same Will send tbee hither both thy sons alive ; And that shall be tbe ransom for their faalt.
Tit. 0 gracioas emperor ! 0 gentle Aaron ! Did ever raven sing so tike a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the san's nprise ? With all my heart, I'll send the emperor My hand :'"' Good Aaron, wilt thon help to chop it off?
hoc. Stay, father ! for that noble band of thine, That hath thrown down so many enemies, Shall not be sent : my hand will serve the torn : My yonth can better spare my blood than yoa : And therefore nine shall save my brothers' lives.
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Marc. Which of yonr hftnds hath not defended Borne, And rear'd aloft the bloody battie-sse, Writing destrnction on the flnemy's oastle ?'^ 0, none of both bat are of high deBert : My hand hath been but idle ; let it serve To ransom my two nephews irom their death ; Then have I kept it to a worthy end.
Aar. Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along, For feat they die before their pardon come.
Marc. My hand shall go.
Imc. By heaven, it shall not go !
Tit. Sirs, strive no more : snch wither'd herbs as these Are meet for plnckiug np, and tberefore mine.
Imc. Sweet fathe'r, if I shall be thought thy son, Ijct me redeem my brothers both from death.
Marc. And, for onr father's sake and mother's care, Kow let me show a brother's love to thee.
Tit, Agree between yon ; Twill spare my hand.
Luc. Then 1*11 go fetch an axe.
Marc. But I will nse the axe.'^^'
l^Ezeunt I/uciue and Marcus,
Tit. Come hither, Aaron ; I'll deceive them both : Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.
Aar. [aside"] If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest. And never, whilst I live, deceive men so : Bat I'll deceive yon in another sort. And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass.
[Cute off Tiixx'i h/md.
lU-eniar Lrcins and Mabohis.
Tit. 'Sow stay your strife : what shall be is dispatch'd. — Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand : Tell him it was a band that warded him From thoaaand dangers; bid him bniy it; More hath it merited, — that let it have. As for my sons, say I account of them As jewels parchas'd at an easy price ; And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.
Aar. I go, Andronicas : and for thy hand Look by and by to have thy sons with thee : —
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lAtide] Their hetOa, I mean. O, how this TiUany
Doth fat me with the -tbtj tho^bta of it !
Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace,
Aaron -will have his sonl black like his t&ce. lExit.
Tit. 0, here I lift this one hand up to heaven, And bow this feeble rnin to the earth : If any power pities wretched te»8,"®
To that I call !— [To Lav.'] What, wilt thoa kneel with me ? Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear onr piayere; Or with oar sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim. And stain the son with fog, as sometime clouds When they do hug him in their malting bosoms.
Mare. 0 brother, speak with possibility. And do not break into these deep extremes.
Tit. Are not my sorrows deep, having no bottom ? Then be my passions bottomless with them."*'
Marc. Bnt yet let reason govern thy lament.
Tit. If there were reason for these miseries. Then into limits coald I bind my woes : ■When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad. Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face ? And wilt tboa have a reason for this coil ? I am the sea ; hark, how her sighs do blow !**" She is the weeping welkin, I the earth : Then must my sea be moved with her sighs ; Then must my earth with ber continnal tears Become a delnge, overflow'd and drown'd : For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, Bnt like a drnnkatd must I vomit them. Then give me leave ; for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.
Enter a Meesenger, uith ttco heads and a hand. Mess. Worthy Andronicns, ill art thou repaid For that good band tbou sent'st the emperor. Here are the heads of thy two noble sons ; And here's thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back,— Thy griefs their sport, thy resolution mock'd ;"" That woe is me to think upon thy woes
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More than temembrance of 1117 father's death. [Exit.
Marc. Now let hot Mtaa cool in Sicily, And he my heart an eTer-hnming hell ! These miseries are more than ma; be home. To weep with them that weep dotb ease some deal ; \ Bat sorrow flonted-at is donble death. /
Luc. Ah, that this sight Bhonld make so deep a wonnd. And yet detested life not shrink thereat ! That ever death shonld let life bear his name, Where life hath no more interest but to breathe !
[Lavinia Jaeses Titus.
Marc. Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless As frozen water to a staved snake.
Tit. "When will this fearful slnmber have sn end ?
Marc. Now, farewell, flattery : die, Andronicns ; Thoa dost not slumber : see, thy two eons' heads. Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here ; Thy other banish'd son, with this dear sight Struck pale and bloodless ; and thy brother, I, Even like a stony image, cold and namb. Ah, now no more will I control thy'"^' griefs : Bent off thy silver hair, thy other hand Onawiug with thy teeth ; and be this dismal sight The closing up of our meet wretched eyes : Now is a time to storm ; why art thou still ?
Tit. Ha, ha, ha I
Marc. Why dost thoa langh ? it fits not with this hour.
Tit. Why, I have not another tear to shed : Besides, this sorrow is an enemy. And wonld nsnrp upon my watery eyes. And make them blind wiUi tributary tears : Then which way shall I find Rercnge's cave ? For these two heads do seem to speak to me. And threat me I shall never come to bliss Till all these mischiefe be retum'd again Even in their throats that have committed them. Gome, let me see what task I hare to do. — Yon heavy people, circle me about. That I may turn me to each one of yon. And swear unto my sonl to right your wrongs. —
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The TOW is mode. — Come, brother, take a head ;
And in tliiB hand the other will I bear. —
Lavinia, thou shalt be employ'd in these things ;
Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth."" —
As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight ;
Thon art an exile, and thon mast not stay :
Hie to the Gotha, and raise an army there :
And, if yon love me, as I think yon do,
Let's kiss and part, for we have mach to do.
[Exeunt Titus, Marcu», and Laxinia, Imc. Farewell, Andronicns, my noble father, — The wofnll'st man that ever liT'd in Rome : Farewell, prond Borne; till Lncins come again. He leares^' his pledges dearer than his life : Farewell, Lavinia, my noble slater ; O, wonld thoQ wert as then tofore bast been ! But now nor Lncius nor Lavinia lives Bnt in oblivion and hatefbl griefs. If Lncins live, he will reqnite your wrongs ; And make proud Satamine and his empress*" Beg at the gates, like Tarqnin and his qaeen. Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power, To be reveng'd on Borne and Satamine. [Exit.
SoBBB n. A room in Tixos's house. A bancpiet set out. Enter Titus, Marous, Laviku, and Younq Ldoids.
Tit. So, so; now sit: and lookyoa eat no more Than will preserve just so much strength in as As will revenge these bitter woes of ours. Marcns, nnkuit that sorrow-wreathen knot : Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands. And cannot passionate onr tenfold grief "With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine Is left to tyrannize npon my breast ; *
And"*' when my heart, all mad with misery. Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh. Then thus I thump it down. —
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[To Lavinia] Thoa map of woe, that thas doat talk in s^s!
When thy poor heart heats with ontrageoas beating,'*"
ThoQ canst not strike it thns to make it still.
Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans ;
Or get some little knife between thy teeth,
And JQBt agamst thy heart make thon a hole ;
That all the tears that thy poor eyes let Ml
May mn into that sink, and, soaking in.
Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.
Marc. Fie, brother, fie ! teach her not thns to lay Snch Tiolent hands npon her tender life.
Tit. How now ! has sorrow made thee dote already ? Why, Maicns, no man shonld be mad bat I. What violent hands can she lay on her life ? Ah, wherefore dost thon o^e the name of hands ; — To bid £neas tell the tale twice o'er. How Troy was bnmt, and he made miserable ? 0, handle not the theme, to talk of hands. Lest we remember still that we have none.^ Fie, fie, how franticly I sqnare my talk, — As if we shonld forget we had no hands. If MarcQS did not name the word of hands 1 — Come, let's fall to ; and, gentle girl, eat this : — Here is no drink t — Hark, Marcns, what she says ; — I can interpret all her martyr'd signs ; — She says she drinks no other drink bnt tears, Brew'd with her sorrow, mash'd'^ npon her cheeks : — Speechless complainer, I will leani thy thonght ; In thy domb action will I be as perfect As begging hermits in their holy prayers : Thon shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stnmps to heaven, Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign, Bot I of these will wrest an alphabet, And by still practice learn to know thy meaning.
Young Imc. Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep la- ments: Make my aant merry with some pleasing tale.
Marc. Alas, the tender boy, in passion mov'd. Doth weep to see his grand si re's heaviness.
Tit. Peace, tender sapling ; thon art made of tears,
TOL. Ti. T
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And tears will quickly melt thy Hie ftwsy. —
[Marca$ ttriket the dhk wUh a kn'tfe. Wbat dost thoa strike at, Marcus, with thy"** knife?
Marc. At that that I have kill'd, my lord, — a fly.
Tit. Out on thee, mnrderer ! thou kill'st my heart ; Mine eyes are"'^ cloy'd with view of tyranny : A deed of death done on the innocent Becomes not Titns' brother : get thee gone ; I see thou art not for my company.
Marc. Alas, my lord, I have bat kill'd a fly.
Tit. Bnt how, if that fly had a father and mother 7 How would he hang his slender gilded wings,^*' And buzz lamenting doingB"** in the air ! Poor faarmlesB fly.
That, with his pretty bozzing melody. Came here to make ns merry ; and thoa hut kill'd him.
Marc. Pardon me, sir ; it was"** a black ill-&Tonr*d fly. Like to the empress' Moor ; therefore I kill'd him.
Tit. O, d, 0, Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed. Give me thy knife, I will insnit on him; Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor Come hither pnrpoaely to poison me. — There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora. — Ah, eirrah !
As yet,***' I think, we are not brought so low Bat that between ns we can kill a fly That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.
Marc. Alas, poor man ! grief has so wrooght on him. He takes false shadows for true eabstanoes.
Tit. Come, take away. — Lavinia, go with me : I'll to thy closet ; and go read with thee Sad stories chanced in the times of old. — Come, boy, and go with me : thy sight is yonng, And thoa shalt read when mine begins"'" to dazzle.
[Exeunt.
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Scene I. Roine. Tlie garden of Titus's lioutc.
Enter Titus and Marcus. Then enter Young Ldciub, ruiiiiimj, with hooks under hie arm, which he icln fall, ami Lavinia runnimj
Young Luc. Help, grandsirC) help ! my annt Lavinia Follows me eTery where, I know not why: — '
Good nncle Marcas, see how swift she comes. — Alae, sweet aont, I know not what yon mean.
Marc. Stand hy me, Lncins ; do not fear thine aont.
Tit. She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee hann.
Young Lvc. Ay, when my father was in Rome she did.
Marc. What means my niece loavinia by these Bigns ?
Tit. Fear het not, Lncius: — somewhat doth she mean : — ■ See, Lncins, see how mnch she makes of thee : Somewhither wonld she have thee go with her. Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care Read to her sons than she hath read to thee Sweet poetry and Tally's Orator.
Marc. Canst then not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?™*
Young Luc. My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess. Unless some fit or frenay do possess her : For I have heard my grandsire say fall oft. Extremity of griefs wonld make men -mad ; And I have read that Hecnba of Troy Ran mad through sorrow : that made me to fear ; Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did, And would not, but in fury, fright my youth : Which made me down to throw my books, and fly, — Causeless, perhaps. — But pardon me, sweet aunt : And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go, I will most willingly attend your ladyship.
Marc. Lucius, I will. [^Lavinia turns ocer toith lier
itumps the books which Lucius has let fail.
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Tit. How now, Lavinia ! — Matoaa, what tneona this ? Some book there is that she desires to see. — Which is it, girl, of these ? — Open them, boy. — Bat thoa art deeper read, and better stdll'd : Come, and take choice of all mj library. And BO beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens Beveal the damn'd contriver of this deed. — ■ Why lifts she up her arms in seqaence thus ?'*''
Mare. I think she means that there was more than on& Confederate in the fact ; — ay, more there was ; Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge.
Tit. Lucius, what book is that she tosseth bo ?
Young hue. Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses ; My mother gave it me.
Marc. For love of her that's gone.
Perhaps she coll'd it from among the rest.
TU. Soft I see how bosily she tnms the leaves l<*^'
{Helj^ng her. What would she find ? — Lavinia, shall I read ?**•* This is the tragic tale of Philomel, And treats of Terens' treason and his rape ; And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy.
Marc. See, brother, see; note how she qnotes the leaves.-
Tit. Lavinia, wert then thns Burpris'd, sweet girl, Ravish'd and wrong'd, as Philomela was, Fore'd in the mthless, vaBt, and gloomy woods ? — See, see! —
Ay, each a place there is, where we did hant — 0, had we never, never banted there ! — Pattem'd by that the poet here describes. By natnre made for mnrdere and for rapes.
Marc. 0, why should nature baild so fonl a den. Unless the gods delight in tragedies ?
Tit. Ctive signs, sweet girl, — for here are none bnt friends, — What Roman lord it was dorst do the deed : Or slnnk not Satnrnine, as Tarqoin erst, That left the camp to sin in Lacrece' bed ?
Marc. Sit down, sweet niece : — brother, sit down by me. — Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercary,
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Inspire me, tliat I may thia treason find ! — My lord, look here : — look here, Lavinia : This fl&ndy plot is plain ; guide, if thon canat, This after me, when I have writ my name"'"' Withont the help of any hand at aJI. [J7e writes h'ta name with kia staff, and guides it with his feet atid Jmmtli. Gnrs'd be that heart that fbrc'd ub to this shift ! — Write thon, good niece ; and here display, at last. What God""'* will have disoover'd for revenge : Hearen guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain. That we may know the traitors and the truth I
{She takes Hie staff in her mouth, and guides it with her stumps, and writes.
Tit. 0, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ? — " Siupntm — Chiron — Demetrivs."
Marc. What, what ! — the lastfbl sons of Tamora Performers of this heinous, bloody deed ?
Tit. Magne dominator poli,* Tarn lenius audia seelera ? tarn lentui videa *
Marc. 0, calm thee, gentle lord ; although I know There is enough written upon this earth To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts. And arm the minds"*''' of in&nts to exclaims. My lord, kneel down with me ; Lannia, kneel ; And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope ; And sweat with me, — as, with the wofal fere And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame. Lord Junius Bmtua sware for Lucrece' rape, — That we will prosecute, by good advice. Mortal revenge upon these troitoroas Goths, And see their blood, or die with this reproach.
Tit. 'Tis sure enough, an you knew how,"'" But if yoa hunt these bear-whelps, then beware : The dam will wake ; and, if she wind yon once, She's with the lion deeply still in leagne. And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,
• Jla^ne dominator pcli, be.] The old etU-hftTe" Magni ifoDifnatar," &e. — PVom the Hippoli/tiii of Seneca ;
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And when he Bleeps will she do vhat she list.
Ton're a Tonng hnntsmui, Marcas ; let 't alone ;
And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass.
And vrith a gad of steel will write these words.
And la; it by: the aogry northern wind
Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leavei), abroad,
And where's yonr lesson, then ? — Boy, what say yon ?
Young Imc I say, my lord, that if I were a mau. Their mothet'e bed-chamber shonld not be safe For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome.
Marc. Ay, that's my boy ! thy lather hath full oft For his nngntefol conntry done the like.
Young Ltie. And, nnde, so will I, an if I live.
Tit. Come, go with me into mine armory ; Lncias, Til fit thee ; and withal, my boy, Sbalt"*^ carry &om me to the empress' sona Presents that I intend to send them both : Come, come ; thon'lt do thy message, wilt then not ?
Yoaag Luc. Ay, with my dagger in ibeit bosoms, grand-
TU. No, boy, not so; I'll teach thee another conrae. — Laviuia, come. — Marcns, look to my honse : Lttcias and I'll go brave it at the oonrt ; Ay, marry, will we, sir; and we'll be waited on.
[Exeunt Tit^u, Lavinia, «nd YouTig Lucia*.
Marc. 0 heavens, can yon hear a good man groan. And not relent, or not compassion him ? — Marcns, attend him in his ecstasy, That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield ; Bnt yet so jnst that he will not revenge : — Bevenge, ye heavens, for old Andronicua I*"* [E^ilr
Scene n. Tlie same. A rooin in the palace.
Enter, from one suh; Aabon, Dbmetbidb, and Chiboit; from the. other ride, Yodko Lucius, and an Attendant, vnth a liundle of weapone, and verses Krit upon them. Chi. Demetrins, liere's tlie son of Lncius;
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He hath some mesBage to deliver qb.
Aar. Ay, some m&d message from bis mad grandfather.
Young Imc. My lords, with all the hTunhleneea I may, I greet yonr hononrs from Andronieas, — [^8t(ie3 And pray the Soman gods confonnd yoo both !
Dem. Onunercy, lovely Lncina : what's the news ?
Yaunff Luc. [aaide] That yon are both decipher'd, that's the news, For Tillains mark'd with rape. — May it please you,"** My gnuidfiire, well advia'd, hath sent by me The goodheet weapons of hia armory To gratily your hononrable youth. The hope of Bome ; for so he bade me gay ; And so I do, and with his gifts present Yonr lordships, that,"*'* whenever you have need. Yon may he armed and appointed well : And so I leave you both, — [aside] like bloody villains. ,
[Exeunt Young Lucius and AUendant.
Dem. "What's here ? A scroll ; and written round about ? Let's see : — [Jieads] " Integer vike* eceleritque punu,
Non eget M(turi jaeulie, nee areu,"
Chi. 0, 'tis a verse in Horace ; I know it well : I read it in the grammar long ago.
Aar. Ay, just, — a verse in Horace; — right, you have it. — [^ritie] Now, what a thing it is to be an ass t Here's no sontid jest [ th' old man hath found their guilt ; And sends them weapons vrrapp'd about with lines That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick. But were our witty empress well a-foot, She would applaud Andronicus' conceit : But let her rest in her unrest awhile. — And now, young lords, was't not a happy star Led us to Bome, strangers, and more than so. Captives, to be advanced to this height ? It did me good, before the palace-gate To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing.
Dem. But me more good, to see bo great a lord Basely insiunate and send as gifts.
* Inlegtr Vila, Ao.] Horace, Carta, i. sxii. 1.
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Aar. Had he not reason, Lord Demetrias 9 Did yon not nee his daughter very friendly ?
Dem. I wonld we had a thoaeand Roman dames At finch a bay, by tnm to serve oar Inst.
Aar. A charitable wish and fall of loye :"'*' Here lacks bat year mother for to say amen.
Chi. And that woald she for twenty thousand more.
Dem. Come, let as go ; and pray to all the gods For our beloved mother in her paina.
Atn: Pray to the devils ; the gods have given us over.
i^Flourith mthin.
Ikm. Why do the emperor's trumpets floarish thos ?
Chi. Belike for joy the emperor hath a son.
]Jcm. Soft I who comes here ?
JSnter a Nurse, urith a bluekamoor Child in her anas,
Nur. Good morrow, lords :
0, (ell me, did yoa see Aaton the Moor ?
Aar. Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all. Here Aaron is ; and what with Aaron now ?
Nar. 0 gentle Aaron, we are all undone ! Now help, or woe betide thee evermore I
Aar. Why, what a caterwaoling dost thou keep ! What dost thou wrap and famble in thine arms ?
Nur, 0, that which I wonld hide from heaven's eye. Our empress' shame and stately Rome's disgrace ! — She is deliver'd, lords, — she is delivet'd.
Aar. To whom?
Nur. I mean, she's brought a-bed.
Aar. Well, God
Give her good rest! What hath he sent her?
Nur. A devil.
Aar. Why, then she's the devil's dam; a joyful issoe."*"'
Nur, A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue : Hero is the babe, as loathsome as a toad Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime : The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal. And bids thee christen it with thy digger's point.
Aar. Zounds, ye whore t is black so base a hue ? — Sweet blowso, yoa are a beaateous blossom, sore.
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Dent. Yillain, what hast thon done ?
Aar. That which thon canet not undo.
Chi. Thaa hast undone onr mother.
Aar. Villain, I haye done thy mother.
Dent. And therein, hellish dog, thon hast nndouo her. Woe to her chanoe, and damn'd her loathed choice ! Aconrs'd the offspring of so fonl a fiend !
Chi. It shall not live.
Aar. It shall not die.
Nur. Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so. /
Aar. What, mnst it, nnrse? then let no man bat I Do execatton on my flesh and blood.
Dem. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point : — Norse, give it me ; my sword shall soon dispatch it.
Aar. Sooner this Bword shall plongh thy bowels np.
[Takes the Child from the Nurse, and draic$. Stay, mnrderons villains ! will you kill your brother? Now, by the burning tapers of the sky, That shone so brightly when this boy was got, He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point That tonches this my first-bom son and heir I I tell you, younglings, not £nceladuB, With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood. Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war, Shall seize this prey oat of his father's hands. What, what, ye aangnine, shallow-hearted boys ! Ye white-lim'd^"" walls I ye alehonse painted signs I Coal-black is better than another hue. In that it scorns to bear another hue ; For all the water in the ocean Can never tnm the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave tbem hourly in the flood. Tell the empress*"" from me, I am of age To keep mine own, — excuse it how she can.
Dem. Wilt thon betray thy noble mistress thus ?
Aar. My mistress is my mistress ; this, myself, — ""* The vigoor and the picture of my youth : This before all the world do I prefer ; This maugre all the world will I keep safe. Or some of yon shall smoke for it in Rome.
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Dem. By thia our mother is for eyer sham'd.
Chi. Borne will despise her for this foal escape.
Nur. The emperor, in bia rage, will doom her death.
Chi. 1 binsh to thiok upon this ignomy.
Aar. "Why, there's the pririlege your beauty bears: Fie, treaoheroaB hne, that will betray with blashing The close enacts and coaoBels of the heart ! Here's a young lad fram'd of another leer ; Look, how the black slave smiles npon the father, Ab who shoold say, " Old lad, I am thine own." He is yonr brother, lords ; sensibly fed Of that self-blood that first gave life to yoa ; And from that womb where yon impriaoo'd were He is enfranchised and come to light : Nay, he's yonr brother by the anrer aide, Althoagh my aeal be stamped in his face.
Nur. Aaron, what shall I say ante the empress 9
Dem. Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done. And we will all sabscribe to thy advice : Save then the child, so we may all be safe.
Aar. Then sit we down, and let ns all consolt. My son and I will have the wind of yon : Eecp there : now talk st pleasure of yonr safety. [^Tkey $it.
Dem. How many women aaw this child of hia ?
Aar. Why, so, brave lorda ! when we join in league, "'" I am a lamb : but if yoa brave the Moor, The chafed boar, the monntain honesa. The ocean awella not so as Aaron storms. — Bnt say, again, bow many saw the child ?
Nur, Cornelia the midwife and myaelf ; And no one else bot the deliver'd empresa.
Aar. The empress, the midwife, and yourself: — Two may keep counsel when the third'a away : — Go to the empresa, tell her this I aaid : —
[He stabs ker : she screams and dies. Weke, weke I — bo cries a pig prepar'd to the apit.
Dem. What mean'at tbon, Aaron 9 wherefore didst then this?
Aar. 0 Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy : Shall she live to betray this gnilt of onrs, —
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A loDg-tongn'd babbling goasip? no, lords, no : And now be it known to yon my fall intent. Not far one Mali liveB, my countryman j"'* His wife bnt yesternight was brought to bed ; EIb child is like to her, fair as yon are : 60 pack with him, and give the mother gold, And tell them both the circamBtance of all ; And how by this their child shall be advanc'd, And bo receivM for the emperor's heir. And Bubstitated in the place of mine, To calm this tempest whirling in the court ; And let the emperor dandle him for bis ovm. Hark ye, lords ; ye see I have given her physic,'""'
IPoiiiting to the Xiirsc. And yon must needs bestow her funeral; The fields are near, and yoa are gallant grooms : This done, see that yon take no longer days, Bat send the midwife presently to me. The midwife and the nurse well made away, Then let the ladies tattle what they please.
Chi. Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air With secrets.
Dem. For this care of Tamora,
Herself and hers are highly bound to thee.
[Exeunt Dem. and Clii. hearing off the dcmi Xtirac-
Aar, Now to the Ooths, as swift as swallow flies ; There to diE^ose this treasure in mine arms. And secretly to greet the empress' friends. — Come on, you thick-lipp'd slave, I'll bear yoa hence ; For it is you that puts us to oar shifts : 1*11 make you feed on berries and on roots. And feed on curds and whey,'"* snd suck the goat. And cabia in a cave ; and bring yon up To be a warrior and command a camp. [Etil.
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Scene III- The same, A public place.
Enter Titos, hearing arroun with letteri at ths ends o/tkem; with kirn Mabcub, Touko Ldoids, Pubuus, SEMPBONina, Caidb, and other Gentlemea, with bowt.
Tit. Come, MarcaB, come : — kinsmen, this is the way. — Sir boy, now"'" let me see yonr aroliery ; Look ye draw home enongh, and 'tw there etraight. — TetTas Astraa reliqidt ;"
Be yon remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.— - Sirs, take yoo to your tools. You, cousiuB, shall Go eonnd the ocean, and cast your nets ; Happily yon may catch her in the sea ; Yet there's as little justice as at land : — Ko ; Puhlins and Semprosius, yon must do it ; 'Tis yon mast dig with mattock and with spade, And pierce the inmost centre of the earth : Then, when yon come to Pluto's region, I pray you, deliver him this petition ; Tell him, it is for jnstice and for aid. And that it comes from old AndronicuB, Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Borne. — Ah, Kome ! — Well, well ; I made thee miserable What time I threw the people's suffrages On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me. — Go, get yon gone; and pray be careful all. And leaTe you not a man-of-war unsearch'd : This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence ; And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice.
Marc. 0 Publius, is not this a heavy case. To see thy noble uncle thus distract ?
Pub. Therefore, my lord, it highly ns concerns By day and night t* attend him careftilly. And feed his humour kindly as we may. Till time beget some easeful remedy.'' ""
Marc. Kinsmen,*"'' his sorrows are past remedy. Join with the Goths ; and with revengeful war Take wreak on Borne for this ingratitude,
• Ttrmi .Utrtea rrliquit] Ovid, lltt. i. 150.
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And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.
Tit. Pnblins, how now I how now, m; masters ! What, Hare 70a met with her ?
Pub. No, my good lord ; hat Pluto eendB yoa word, If yon will have Revenge from hell, you shall : ' Marry, foi JnBtice, she is so employ'd. He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else, So that perforce yon must needs stay a time.
Tit. He doth me wrong to feed me with delays, m dive into the boming lake below, And pull her ont of Acheron by th' heels. — Marcns, we are bat shrabs, no cedars we. No big-bon'd men fram'd of tbe Cyclops' size ; Bnt metal, Marcns, steel to the very back. Yet wrong with wrongs more than oor backs can bear : And, sith there's jnstice nor"^ in earth nor hell. We will solicit heaven, and move the gods To send down Justice for to wreak oar wrongs. — Come, to this gear. — ^Yon're a good archer, Marcus ;
[He givea them the arroits^ Ad Jovtm, that's for yon : — here. Ad Apollinem: — Ad Martem, that's for myself : — Here, boy. To Pallaa: — here. To Mercury: — To Saturn, Gains,*'*" not to Saturnine ; Yoa were as good to shoot against the wind. — To it, boy. — Marcus, loose when"*" I bid. — Of my word, I have written to effect ; There's not a god left unsolicited.
Marc. Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the conrt ; We will afflict the emperor in his pride.
Tit. Now, masters, draw. \They shoot.'] — 0, well said, Lucius !— Good boy, in Virgo's lap ; give it Pallas.'"^
Marc. My lord, I aim a mile beyond tbe moon ; Yonr letter is with Jupiter by this.
Tit. Ha, ha ! Pablins, Publina, what hast then done ? See, see, thon'st shot off one of Tanrus' horns.
Mare. This was the sport, my lord : when Publius shot. The Bnll, being gall'd, gave Aries sacb a knock
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That down fell both the Barn's horns in tha court ; And who should find them but the empress' villaiD ? She langh'd, and told the Moor he should not choose But giTO them to his master for a present.
Tit. Why, there it goes : God give his lordship joy •
Enter a Clown, with a lianket, and ttco pigeont in it. News, news from heaven t Marcus, the post is come. — Sirrah, what tidings? have you any letters? Shall I have justice ? what says Jupiter ?
Clo, 0, the gibbet-maker? he says that he hath taken them down again, for the man must not be banged till the next week.
Tit. But what says Jupiter, I ask thee ?
Clo, Alas, sir, I know not Jupiter ; I never drank with him in all my,life.
Tit. Why, villain, art not thou the carrier ?
Clo. Ay, of my pigeons, sir ; nothing else.
Tit. Why, didst thou not come from heaven ?
Clo. From heaven ! alas, sir, I never came there : God forbid I should be so hold to press to heaven in my young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the trihnnal Xtlehs, to take up a matter of brawl betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men.
Marc. Why, dr, that is as fit as can be to serve for yoor oration ; and let him deliver the pigeons to the emperor from you.
Tit. Tell me, can you dehver an oration to the emperor with a grace?
Clo. Nay, tmly, sir, I coald never aay grace in all my life.
Tit. Sirrah, come hither : make no more ado, But give your pigeons to the emperor ; By me thou shalt have justice at his hands. Hold, hold ; meanwhile here's money for thy charges. — Give me pen and ink. — Sirrah, can you with a grace deliver a supplication ?
Clo. Ay, sir.
Tit. Then hero is a sapplication for yon. And when yon come to him, at the first approach yoa mast kneel ; then kias
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bis foot ; then deUrei up yonr pigeons ; and then look for jonr reward. I'll be at hand, air ; see you do it bravely ,
Clo. I warrant you, sir, let me alone.
Tit. Sirrsb, hast thou a knife ? come, let me see it. — Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration ; For thoa hast made it like an humble Buppltant : — And when thou hast given it to the emperor. Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.
Clo. God be wiUi yon, sir; I will.
Tit. Come, Marcus, let us go. — Fublias, follow me.
[^Exeunt,
SCEHE IV. Tlte aanu. Before the palace.
Enter Satcrkindb, Tahoha, Dehbtridb, Chibos, Lords, and of/ierg; Saturhimub with the arroiea tn Am hand </iii2 TiToa ehol. Sat. Why, lords, what wrongs are these! was ever seen An emperor in Borne thus orerborne, Troubled, confronted thus ; and, for th' extent Of egal justice, as'd In such contempt? My lords, yon know, as do the mightful gods,"*" However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears, there naught hath pasa'd. Bat even with law, against the wilful sons Of old Andronicus. And what an If His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits, — ■ Shall we be thus aGQicted in bis wreaks,*"" His fits, his &enzy, and his bitterness ? And now he writes to heaven for his redress : See, here's To Jove, and this To Mercury; This To Apollo: this To the god of war;— Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Borne ! What's this but libelling against the senate, And blazoning our injustice every where ? A goodly humour, is it not, my lords ? As who would say, in Borne no justice were. But if I live, his feigned ecstasies Shall be no shelter to these outrages : But he and his shall know that jnstice lives
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In Satmnintis' health ; ^hom, if she sleep. He'll 80 awake, as ehe"**' in fary shall Gat off the prond'&t conspirator that liveB.
Tarn. My graciona lord, my loyely Satnmine, Lord of my life, commaDdei of my thoughts, Calm thee, and bear the faolts of Titus' age, Th' effects of sorrow for his valiant sons, Whose loss hath pierc'd him deep and scarr'd his heart ; And rather comfort his distressed pUght Than prosecute the meanest or the best For these contempts. — [^»ide] Why, thus it shall become High-witted Tamora to gloze with all : But, Titus, I have touch'd thee to the quick. Thy Ufe-blood out:"*'' if Aaron now be wise, Then is all safe, the anchor's in the port. —
Enter Clown. How now, good fellow ! wonldst thou speak with us ?
Clo. Yea, forsooth, an your mistreBs-ship''*" be emperial.
Tarn. Empress I am, but yonder eits the emperor.
Clo. 'Tia he. — God and Saint Stephen give you god- den : I have brought yon a letter and a couple of pigeons here. [Sa^mintta reada the letter^
Sat. Go, take him away, and hang him presently.
Clo. How much money must I have ?
Tarn. Gome, sirrah, you must be hanged.
Clo. Hanged 1 by'r lady, then I have brought up a neck to a fair end. [Exit, guarded,.
Sat. Despiteful and intolerable wrongs ! Shall I endure this monstrous viUauy? I know from whence this same device proceeds : May this be borne, — as if his traitorous sons, That died hy law for murder of onr brother. Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully ? — Go, drag the villain hither by the hair ; Kor age nor honour shall shape privilege : — ■ For this prond mock I'll be thy slaughter-man ; Sly Irautic wretch, that holp'st to make me great, In hope thyself shonld govern Borne and me.
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What newB with thee, Emilias ?
jEmil. Ann, arm, my lord,"**' — Borne never had more cause! The GothB have gatber'd bead ; and with a power Of high-resolved men, bent to the epoil, I
They bitber march amain, under conduct J
Of Lncias, son to old AndronicuB ; /^
Who threats, in course of his""" revenge, to do Ab much as ever Coriolanus did.
Sat. Is vrarlike Lncias general of the Goths ? These tidings nip me ; and I bang the head As flowers with frost, or grass beat down with atorms : Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach : 'Tis he the common people love so much ; Uyeelf hath often overheard"*" them say — ■ "When I have walifid like a private man — That Lncius' banishment was wrongfully, And they have wish'd that Lucius were tbeir emperor.
Tarn, Why should you fear ? is not your city strong ?
Sat, Ay, but the citizens favour Lncius, And will revolt from me to succonr him.
Tarn, King, he thy thoughts imperious, like thy name. Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it ? The eagle sufl'ers Uttle birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby. Knowing that vritb the shadow of his vringe'"'* He can at pleasure stint their melody : Even BO mayst thou the giddy men of Borne. Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou emperor, I vrill enchant the old Andronicus With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous, Slian baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep ; Whenas the one is wounded with tbe bait> the other rotted with delicious feed.
Sat, But he will not entreat bis son for us.
Tarn. If Tamora entreat him, then he will : For I can smooth, and fill bis ag6d ear With golden promises ; that, were his heart
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AlmoBt impregnable, his old ears deaf.
Yet Bhonld both ear and heart obey my tongue. —
[To ^miliua] Go thou before, be our '"*' ambaBsador :
Say that the emperor requests a parley
Of warlike LuciuB, and appoint the meeting
Even at hie father's bouse, the old Andronicna.
Sat, JBmilius, do this message hoDonrabty ; And if he stand on hostage"**' for his safety, Bid him demand what pledge will please him beat.
jEmi/. Your bidding shall I do effectually. [Exit.
Tam. Now will I to that old AndronicuB, And temper him, with all the art I have. To pluck proud Lacius from the warlike Goths. And now, sweet emperor, he blithe again, And bury all thy fear in my devices.
Sat. Then go successantly,"*" and plead to him.
[Exeunt.
Scene I, Plain* near Rome. Enter Lnoros, and an army o/ Goths, with tfmnu and colours.
Luc. ApproTed warriors, and my faithful friends, I have received letters from great Rome, Which signify what hate they hear their emperor. And how desirous of our sight they are. Therefore, great lords, be, bb your titles witness. Imperious, and impatient of your wrongs ; And wherein fiome hath done you any scathe. Let him make treble satisfiMstion.
First Ooth. Brave slip, sprung firom the great Andronicus, Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort; Whose high exploits and honourable deeds Ingrateful Borne requites with foul contempt, Be bold in us : we'll follow where thou lead'st, — Like stinging hoes in hottest Bummer's day.
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Led by their iDMter to the flowerM fields, — And he aveng'd on cnrsM Tamora.
Qoihi.'^*^ And as he saith, bo say we all with him.
Lite. I hombly thank him, and I thank ;oa all. — Bot who cornea here, led by a lasty Goth ?
Enter a Ootb, leading Aasos vith hit Child in hin amie. Sec. Ootk. BenownM Lncina, from oar troops I Btray'd To gaze npon a roinoas monastery ; And, as I earnestly did fix mine eye Upon ihe wasted bailding, suddenly I heard a child cry underneath a wall. I made nnto the noise ; when soon I heard The crying babe controll'd with this discoorse : " Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam ! Did not thy hne bewray whose brat thoa art, Had nature lent thee bat thy mother's look, ViUaio, thon mightst have been an emperor : Bat where the bull and cow are both milk-white. They never do beget a coal-black calf. Peace, villain, peace !" — even thus he rates the babe, — ■ " For I mnat bear thee to a tmsty Qoth ; Who, when he knows thon art the empress' babe, Willjiold thee dearly for thy mother's sake." With this, my weapon drawn, I mah'd upon him, Sarpris'd him snddenly ; and bronght him hither. To nse as yoa think needfiil of the man.
Luc. 0 worthy Goth, this is th' incarnate devil That robb'd Andronicns of his good band ; This is the pearl that pleas'd yonr empress' eye ; And here's the base frnit of his barning InsL — Say, wall-ey'd slave, whither wonldst thoa convey This growing image of thy fiend-ltke face ? Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word ? — ""' A halter, soldieia ! hang him on this tree, And by his side his frnit of bastardy.
Aar. Touch not the boy, — he is of royal blood.
Ltu:. Too like the sire for ever being good. — First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl, — A sight to vex the father's sool withal. —
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HO TJT1TB AHDBOHIOVS. [aot v.
Get me & ladder.
\A ladder brought, which Aaron it made to ascend, Aar. LnoioB, save the child,"**'
And bear it iram me to the empress. If thoQ do this, I'll show thee wondrous things, That highly may advantage thee to hear : If thoa wnt not, befitll what ma; befall, m speak no more but — ^rongeance rot yon all !
Luc. Say on : an if it please me which thoa speak'st. Thy child shall live, and I will see it noorish'd.
Aar. An if it please thee 1 why, assure thee, Lndoa, 'Twill vex thy eonl to hear what I shall speak ; For I most talk of murdera, rapes, and masBacres, Acta of black night, abominable deeds, Complots of mischief, treason, villauies Rnthfnl to hear, yet piteonsly"*" perform'd : And this shall all be bnried in my death, Unless thoa swear to me my child shall live.
Luc. Tell on thy mind; I say thy child shall live.
Aar. Swear that he shall, and then I will begin.
Luc. Who should I swear by ? thoa believ'st no god : That granted, how canst thoa believe an oath ?
Aar. What if I do not? as, indeed, I do not ; Tet, for I know thoa art religioas, And hast a thing within thee called conscience. With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies. Which I have seen thee careful to obserre. Therefore I nrge thy oath ; for that I know An idiot holds his bauble for a god. And keeps the oath which by that god he swears, To that I'll nrge him : — therefore Uiou ahalt vow By that same god, what god aoe'er it be. That thon ador'st and hast in reverence, — To save my boy, to nonrish and bring him ap ; Or else I will discover naaght to thee.
Luc. Even by my god I swear to thee I will.
Aar. First know thoa, I begot him on the empress.
Luc. 0 most insatiate and liixnrions woman !
Aar, Tat, Lacins, this was but a deed of charity To that which thoa shalt bear of me anon.
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^Twas her two Bons that marder'd BuaiaDos; The; cat thy aister's tongae, and raTish'd her, And cut her hoods, and ttimm'd her aa thoa saw'et.
Imc. 0 detestable TiUain I eall'st thoa°*<» that trimming?
Aar. Why, she was wash'd, and cat, and trimm'd; and 'twas Trim sport for them that had the doing of it.
Luc. 0 barbaroas, beastly Tillains, like thyself !
Aar. Indeed, I was their tutor to instnict them : That codding spirit had they from their mother, As BOre a card as ever won the set ; That bloody mind, I think, they leam'd of me, As true a dog as ever fought at bead. — Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth. I train'd thy brethren to that gnilefol hole. Where the dead corpse of Bassianas lay : I wrote the letter that thy father fonnd. And hid the gold within the letter mention'd, Confederate with the qneen and her two eons : And what not done, that then hast oanae to me, Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it ? I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand ; And, when I had it, drew myself apart, And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter : I pry'd me through the crerice of a wall When, for his hand, he had his two sons' heads ; Beheld his tears, and langh'd so heartily, That both mice eyes were rainy like to his : And when I told the empress of this sport, She BwoonM"*'' abnost at my pleasing tale, And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses.
First Qotk. What, canst then say all this, and never blush?
Aar. Ay, like a black dog, as the saying ia.
Lue. Art thoa not sorry for these heinoas deeds?
Aar. Ay, that I had not done a thonsand more. Even now I corse the day — and yet, I think, Few come within the compass of my cnrse — Wherein I did not some notorious ill : As, kill a man, or else devise his death ;
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MS Trrns andbohicub. [act t.
Bsvish a maid, or plot the way to do it ;
Accase Bom« isnoeent, and forswear mysdf ;
Set deadly enmity between two friends ;
Make poor men's cattle stray and break their necks ;'^***
Set fire on hams and hay-etacka in the night.
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft bare I digg'd-np dead men from their gtavee.
And set them opright at their dear friends' doore.
Even when their sorrow almost was forgot ;^*''
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carrM in Boman letters .
" Let not your sorrow die, thongh I am dead."
Tut, Z have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fiy ;
And nodiing grieres me heartily indeed.
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
Imc, Bring down the devil ; for he must not die So sweet a death as hanging presently.
[Aaron is brought down from the ladder.
Aar. If there be devils, would I were a devil. To live and burn in everlasting fire, -So I might have your company in hell, Bat to torment you with my bitter tongne !
iMt. Sirs, Bt(^ his month, and let him speak no more.
lintera Goth. Third Goth. My lord, there is a messenger from Borne Desires to be admitted to yonr presence. Luc. Let him come near.
Elder Muiuxm. Welcome, ^miliuB : what's the news from Rome 7
Mmil. Lord Lucius, and yon princes of the Gotha, The Boman emperor greets yon aU by me ; And, for he understands yon are in arms. Ho craves a parley at your £ather's boose. Willing yon to demand your hostages, And they shall be immediately delivered.
Firtt Ooth. What s&ys oar general ?
Lac. Emilias, let the emperor give his pledges
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TITUS AITDItOKIOUS.
Unto my father and my node Maifius,
And we will come. — March, away ! [FlourUk. Exeunt.'^
SCBKB n. Rome. Before TiruB'fl koaae. Enter Tahora, Cbhbisidb, and CamoH, dUguitecl. Tarn. Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment, I will encoonter with Andronictis, And say I am Serenge, sent from below To join with him and right his heinous wrongs. Enock at his study, where, they say, he keepe. To rominate strange plots of dire revenge ; Tell him Revenge is come to join with him. And work confasioa on his enemies. \They hooch,
Entei- Hum, oiwM.o«>
Tit. Who doth molest my contemplation ? Is it yonr triok to make me ope the door. That BO my sad decrees may fly away. And all my study be to no effect ? Yon are deoeiv'd ; for what I mean to do See here in bloody lines I have set down ; And what is written shall be executed.
Tarn. Titns, I sow"**' am come to talk with thee.
Tit, No, not a word : how can I grace my talk. Wanting a hand to give it action ? ThoQ bast the odds of me; therefore no more.
Tarn. If thoQ didst know me, thoa wooldst talk with me.
Tit. I am not mad ; I know thee well enongb : Witness this wretched stomp, witness"*" these crimson lines; Witness these trenches made by grief and care ; Witness the tiring day and heavy night ; Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well For ooT proad empress, mighty Tamora : Is not thy coming for my other hand ?
'Tarn. Know, thon sad man, I am not Tamora; She ia thy enemy, and I tby &iend : I am Revenge ; sent £rom th' infernal kingdom,
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SU TITUS ANDBONICDa [actt
To ease the gnawing Taitore of thy miod.
By working wreakfnl Taogeance on thy foes.
Gome down, and welcome me to this world's light ;
Confer with me of murder and of death :
There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,
No Taat obscnrity or misty vale.
Where bloody murder or detested rape
Can couch for fear, but I will find them out ;
And in tLeir ears tell them my dreadfal name, —
Berenge, — which makes the foul offenders quake.
Tit. Art thou Revenge ? and art tboa sent to me. To be a torment to mine enemies ?
Tarn. I am ; therefore come down, and welcome me.
Tit. Do me some service, ere I come to thee. XiO, by thy side where Bape and Marder stand ; Now give some surance that thou art Bevenge, — Stab Ibem, or tear them on thy chariot-wheeU ; And then I'll come and be thy wagoner, And whirl along with thee about the globe.''^ Provide two*^"' proper palfreys, black aa jet. To hale thy vengeful wagon swift away, And find out mnrderers in their guilty caves ;"*" And when thy car is loaden with their heads, I will dismount, and by the wagon-wheel Trot, like a servile footman, all day long. Even from Hyperion's""' rising in the east Until his very downfall in the sea : And day by day I'lh do this heavy task. So thou destroy Bapine and Murder there.
Tarn. Theae are my ministers, and come with me.
Tit. Are these thy ministers? what are they eall'd?
Tarn. Bapine and Murder ;"^^ therefore e&Mhd bo, 'Caose they take veageance of such kind of men.
Tit. Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are t And you, the empress ! but we worldly men Have miserable, mad-mistaking eyes.
0 aweet Bevenge, now do I come to thee ;
And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,
1 will embrace thee in it by and by. [Exit ahore.
Tam. This closing wiUi him fits his lunacy :
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'Wbate'flT I toTgo to feed his brain-sick fits. Do 7011 aphold and maintain in Toar speeebes. For now ha firmly takes me for RoTSnge ; And, being crednlons in this mad thought, I'll make him send for Lncias hia son ; And, whilst I at a banqaet bold him Bare, I'll find Bome conning practice out of hand, To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths, Or, at the least, make them his enemies. — See, here he comes, and I mast ply my theme.
£nier Tims, Mow.
Tit. Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee : Welcome, dread Fory, to my woful hoase : — Bapino and Marder, you are welcome too : — How like the empress and her sons you are ! Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor : — Could not all hell afford you such a deyil ? — ■ For well I wot the empress never wags Bnt in her company there is a Moor ; And, would you represent our queen aright. It were convenient you had sach a devil : Bat welcome, as you are. What shall we do ?
Tarn. What wouldst thou have us do, Andronlcus ?
Dem. Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him.
Chi. Show me a villain that hath done a rape. And I am sent to be reveng'd on him.
Tarn, Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong, And I will be revenged on them all.
3^. Look round about the wicked streets of Borne ; And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself. Good Murder, stab him ; he's a murderer. — Go thou with him ; and when it is thy hap To find another that is like to thee, Good Bapine, stab him ; he's a ravisher.— Go thoo with them ; and in the emperor's court There is a queen, attended by a Moor ; Well mayst thoa know her by thy own proportion. For np and down she doth resemble thee : I pray thee, do on them some violent death ;
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Ml TITD8 ASDBONICUB. [iott.
The; hftve been violent to me aod mine.
Tam. Well hiBt thoa lesson'd na ; this shall we do. Bnt would it pleaae thee, good Andronicns, To send for Lncios, thy thrioe-Taliant son, Who loads towards Borne s band of warlike Cloths, And hid him come and hanqoet at thy honse ; "When he is here, even at th; solemn feast, I will bring in the empress and her sons. The emperor himself, and all th; foes ; And at th; mercy shall the; stoop aod kuoel. And on them ahalt thoa ease th; angr; heart. What 8a;8 Andronicns to this dence ?
Tit. Maroas, m; brother! 'tis sad Titns caUs.
IhUer Mabccs. Qo, gentle Marcos, to th; nephew Lnoios ; Thoa shalt inqnire him oat among the Gotlu ; Bid him repair to me, and bring with him Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths ; Bid him encamp his soldiers where the; are : Tell him the emperor and the empress too FeaBt at m; honse, and he shall feast with them. This do thon for m; love ; and so let him. As he regards hia agM fother's life.
Marc. This will I do, and soon return again. [Exit.
Tam. Now will I hence aboat th; business. And take m; ministers along with me.
Tit. Na;, nay, let Bape and Marder sta; with me ; Or else I'll call m; brother back again. And cleave to no revenge bnt LndnB.'^*''
Tam. [rnide to Dem. and Chi.'] What sa; yon, bo;s ? will ;oa abide'**** with him. Whiles I go tell m; lord the emperor How I have govem'd oar determin'd jest 7 Yield to his hamoar, smooth and sp^ him &ir. And tarry mth him till I torn again.
Tit. [aaidej I know them all, thongh they suppose me mad, And will o'er-reach them in their own devices, — ^"^ A pair of cors^d hell-hoands and their dam.
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tarn II.] TITUS ANDB0KI0U8. U7
Dem. [aside to 2'ain.] Madam, depart at pleasure ; leave QB here.
Tarn. Farewell, Aitdronicns : Beveoge dow goeB To lay a complot to betray thy foea.
Tit. I know thou dost ; and, Bweet Beveitge, farewell.
[Exit Tamora.
Chi. Tell ns, old man, how shall we be employ'd ?
Tit. Tut, I have work eitoogh for yon to do. — ■ FablioB, come hither, Cains, and Valentine !
Unter Pubuds, Cahts, and VALBKnira.
Ptth. What is your wUl ?
TU. Know yon these two ?
Pub. The empress' boqb, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius,'^''*'
Tit. Fie, PnbliuB, fie ! thoa art too maoh deceiT'd, — The one is Murder, Rape is th' other's name ; And therefore bind them, gentle Pablius : — CaiuB and Valentine, lay hands on them : — Oft have yon heard me wish for such an hour. And now I find it ; therefore bind them sure ; And stop their months, if they begin to cry. [Exit.
[Publius, ^c. lay hold on Chiron and Demetriits.
Chi. Villains, forbear ! we are the empress' sons.
Ptifc. And therefore do we what we are commanded. — Stop close their months, let them not speak a word. Is be sore bound ? look that yon bind them fast. Se^oiier TrroB, with L&vnriA ; he hearing a knife, and she a batin-
Tit. Come, come, Lavinia ; look, thy foes are bonnd. — Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me ; Bat let them heat what fearfbl words I atter. — 0 villains, Chiron and Demetrius ! Here stands the spring whom yon have staiu'd with mud ; This goodly summer with your winter mix'd. Yon kill'd her husband ; and for that Tile fenlt Two of her brotherB were coudemn'd to death, Uy hand cut (^, and made a merry jest ; Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear Than hands or tongue, her Bpotlesa chastity. Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and foro'd.
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U8 TITDB ANDBOHIOrre. [mt ▼.
Whftt wonld yoa say, if I should let yoa Bpeak ? Villaina, for shune yoa could not beg for grace. Hark, wrotclteB ! how I mean to martyr yoa. This one liaad yet is left to cat yoar tliroata. Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stamps doth hold The basin that receives yoar guilty blood. Yoa know year mother means to feast with me. And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad : — Hark, Tillains ! I will grind yoar bones to dast, And with yonr blood and it I'll make a paste ; And of the paste a cofSn I will rear. And make two pasties of yoar shamefal heads ; And bid that strompet, yoar anhallow'd dam. Like to the earth, swallow her own increase. This ia the feaat that I hare bid her to, And this the banqaet she shall Borfeit on ; For worse thaa Philomel yoa as'd my daughter. And worse than Progne I will be reyeng'd ; And now prepare yonr throats. — Lavinia, come,
[He cuts their ^Aroot*."*" Beceive the blood : and when that they are dead, Let me go grind their bones to powder small. And with this hateful liqaor temper it; And in that paste let their vile heads be bak'd. Oome, come, be every one officious To make this banquet ; which I wish may prove More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. So:—
Now bring them in, for I will play the cook, And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes.
^Exeunt, bearing the dead bodiet.
Scene m. Cotirt q/Titcb's hotue : tablet tet out.
Enter LtJCius, Marcuh, and Gothe, with Aabon priMnei; and hit Child in the at-nu of an Atteitdani ; oilier Attendanii. Luc. Uncle Marcus, since it is my father's mind°**' That I repair to Borne, I am content.
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Fir$t Qoih. And ours with thine, beCall what fortune will.
Imc. Good ancle, take yon in this barbaroas Moor, This Tavenons tiger, this accmBed deyil ; Let him receive no sustenance, fetter him, Till he be brought onto the empress' face. For testimony of her fonl proceedings : And see the ambnsh of onr fiiends be strong ; I fear the emperor means no good to ns.
Aar. Some devil whisper cnrses in mine ear. And prompt me that my tongne may utter forth The venomons malice of my swelling heart !
Laic. Away, inhuman dog ! nnhallow'd slave ! — Sirs, help onr nncle to convey him in.
\_Exeunt some Gotkt, with Aaron. Flourish icWiin^ The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.
Eaier SATCBNiNrs arul Tauora, wilJi ^uiuus, Tribunea,
ScBators, and others. Sat. What, bath the firmament more suns than one 9 Lue. VHiat boots it thee to call thyself a snn ? Marc. Bome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle ; These quarrels most be quietly debated. The feast is ready, which the careful Titus Hath ordain'd to an honourable end, For peace, for love, for league, and good to Bome : Please yon, therefore, draw nigh, and take your phices. Sat. Marcns, we will.
[Hauthoya sound. The Company sit down at table.
Enter Titdb dresttd like a Cook, Latinja veiled, Youua Lucius, and others. TiTrB places the dishes on the table.
Tit. Welcome, my gracious lord ; welcome, dread queen ; Welcome, ye warlike Goths ; welcome, Lucius ; And welcome, all : although the cheer be poor, 'Twill fill your stomachs ; please you eat of it.
Sat. Why art thou thus attii'd, Andronicus ?
Tit. Because I would be sure to have all well, To entertain your highness and your empress.
Tam, We are beholding to you, good Andronious.
Tit. Aq if your highness knew my heart, you were.— -
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860 TITUS ANDBOSICVB. [act t.
My lord the emperor, reBolve me this :
Was it well dona of meh VirgininB
To Bla; his daughter with his own right hand,
Becaaaa she was enforo'd, et&in'd, and deflonr'd 7
Sat. It WEB, AndronicnB.
Tit. Your reason, mighty lord ?
Sat. Because the girl Bhonld not Borvive her shame, And by her presence still renew hie sorrows.
Tit. A reason mighty, strong, and'"" effectnal ; A pattern, precedent, and Urely warrant. For me, most wretched, to perform the like : — Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee; [KUU Lavinia. And with thy shame thy fabler's sorrow die !
Sat. What hast thou done, unnatural and onkiiid ?
Tit. Eill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind. I am as woful as Yirginius was. And have a thousand times more cause than he To do this outrage ; — and it now is done.
Sat. What, was she ravish'd ? tell who did the deed.
Tit. Will 't please you eat ? will 't please your highness feed?
Tarn. Why hast thon slain thine only danghter thns ?
Tit. Not I ; 'twas Chiron and Demetrins : They rayieh'd her, and out away her tongue ; And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.
Sat. Go fetch them hither to us presently.
Tit. Why, there they are both, bak^d in that pie ; Whereof their mother daintily hath fed. Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. 'Tie true, 'tis true ; witness my knife's sharp point.
IKiUa Tamora.
Sat. Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed I
IKUh THiu.
Luc. Con the son's eye behold his father bleed? There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed !
[_KiUs Saturninua. A great tumult. Lucius, Marcui, and tlieir Partisans go up into a gallery.
Marc. You sad-fac'd men, people and sons of Rome, By nproar"*'" seTcr'd, like a flight of fowl Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts.
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0, let me teach yon how to knit again
Tbie soatter'd com into one mntnal aheaf.
These broken limbs again into one body ;
Lest Boms herself be bane unto herself,'"''
And Bhe whom mighty kingdoms conrt'sy to,
Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,
Do sbamefol execntion on herself.
Bnt if my frosty signs and chaps of ago,
Grave witoesseB of tme experience.
Cannot induce yon to attend my words, —
[To lAieiiu] Speak, Rome's dear friend: as erst our ancestor.
When with his solemn tongue ho did disconrse
To lore-sick Dido's sad-attending ear
The story of that haleful-buiniug night
When subtle Greeks Burpris'd King Priam's Trc^, —
Tell OS what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears.
Or who hath brought the fatal engine in
That gives our Troy, our Rome, the ciTiI wound. —
My heart is not compact of flint nor steel ;
Nor can I utter all our hitter grief.
Bat floods of tears will drown my oratory,
And break my utterance, even in the time
When it shoold moTe you to attend me most,
Lending your kind commiseration.
Here is our^**' captain, let him tell the tale ;
Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak.
Luc. Then, noble aaditoiy, be it known to you That curs^ Gbiron and Demetrius Were they that murdered our emperor's brother ; And they it wore that ravished oar sister : For their fell fault our brothers were beheaded ;°^ Oar father's tears despis'd, and basely cozen'd Of that trae hand that fought Rome's quarrel out. And sent her enemies unto the grave. Lastly, myself unkiDdly banishM, The gates shut on me, and tum'd weeping out, To beg relief among Rome's enemies ; Who drown*d their enmity in my true tears. And op'd their arms t' embrace me as a friend : I am Uie tuni'd forth,***^ be it known to you.
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SS3 TITCS ABDK0KICU8. [iw t.
That have pieBarv'd her vel&re in my blood ;
And from lier boBom took the enemy's point,
Sbeatbing the steel in my adTOntaroua body.
Alaa, yon know I sm no Tsanter, I ;
My Bears can witne&B, dnmb although they are,
That my report is jast and fall of tmth.
Bat, soft ! methinks I do digress too much.
Citing my worthleBS praise : 0, pardon me ;
For when no friends are by, men praise themselvefl.
Marc. Now is my tnm to speak. Behold this child, — [Pointing to the Child in the OTma of an Attendant, Of this was Tamora delivered ; The issue of an irreligioas Moor, Chief architect and plotter of these woes : The 'villain is alive in Titns' hoase, Danm'd as he is,"*'' to witness this is tme. Now jndge what canse'"'*' had Titos to revenge These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience. Or more than any living man conid bear. Now yon have heard the tmth, what say yon, Bomans ? Have we done aught amies, — show us wherein, And, from the place where you behold ns now. The poor remainder of Andronici Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast ns down. And on the raggM stones beat forth our brains. And make a mntnal closure of our house. Speak, Romans, speak ; and if you say we shall, Lo, hand in hand, Lacius and I will fall.
^mil. Come, come, thou reverend man of Bome,'^*" And bring oar emperor gently in thy hand, Lucius our emperor ; for well I know The common voice do cry it shall be so.
Romans. Lucius, all hail, Bome's royal emperor t
Mare, [p Attendantf] Oo, go into old Titus' sorrowfdlt house. And hither hale that misbelieving Moor, To be adjudg'd some direfal-slanghtering death, As ponisliment for bis most wicked life.
{Exeunt tome Attendant$.-
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Lucius, Marcus, &c. descend, EomariB. Lncins, all hail, Rome's gracious goTernor I Lite. Thanks, gentle Romans:"**' may I govern so,
To heal Home's harms, and wipe awa; her voe !
Bat, gentle people, give me aim"*" awhile, —
For nature pnts me to a heary task : —
Stand all aloof; — ^bnt, nncle, draw yon near,
To shed obsequious tears npon this trunk. —
0, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips, [Kissing Tittta.
These aorrowfal drops npon thy blood-stain'd face,*"*"
The last trae duties of thy noble son !
Marc. Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss.
Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:
0, were the sum of these that I should pay
Coontless and infinite, yet would I pay them !
Zmc. Come hither, boy ; come, come, and learn of us
To melt in showers : thy grandsire lov'd thee well:
Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee.
Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow;
Many a matter hath he told to thee.
Meet and agreeing with tbine infancy;
In that respect, then, like a loving child.
Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,
Because kind nature doth require it so:
Friends should wsociate friends in grief and woe :
Bid him farewell ; commit him to the grave ;
Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.
Young Luc. 0 grsndsire, grandsire 1 even with all my heart
Would I were dead, so you did live again ! —
0 Xiord, I cannot speak to him for weeping ;
My tears will choke me, if I ope my month.
Se^nter Atteadanta tcitk Aakov.
yfJmtl. Yon sad Andronici,"'^ have done with woes ; CKvo sentence on this execrable wretch. That hath been breeder of these dire events.
/.tic. Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him ; There let him stand, and lave, and cry for food:
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If any one relieves or pities him,
For ihe offence he dies. This is oar doom:
Some stay to Bee bim fasten'd in the eartb.
Aar. 0, why shonld wrath be mate, and fniy dumb ? I am no baby, I, that witb baae prayers I shonld repent the evils I have done: Ten thonsand worse than ever yet I did Would I perform, if I might have my will: If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very eoul.
Luc. Some loving friends convey the emperor hence. And give bim barial in bis father's grave : My father and Lavinia shall forthwith Be closed in our boasebold's monnment. As for that heinous tiger, Tamora, No foneral rite, nor man in monming weeds. No monmfol beU**^ shall ring her burial ; But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey: Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity; And, being so, shall have like want of pity. See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor, By whom our hea'vy hapa had their beginning: Then, afternaids, to order well the state. That like events may ne'er it ruinate. [^ExeaiU.
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P. 285. (i) "Optn tlu galf, and Ut me in.
Bu. TrUmna, and mt, a poor eom^litoT." Hr. CoUier'a Hb. Correotor Babatitates "Open the bnzen gala," See. ; Ur. Collier obaerriog that " ihs epltiiei wm, doubtlssE, aooident&Ity omitted." Bat, if any thing hsB dropiiod out, it was mneb more likely (on acconnt of the next speech) to have been irhst Capell inaertB, — "Open tin gate; tribnneF, and let toe in,"
P. 286. (3) "mg"
The old eda. have "thy." — "Mr. Warbortoii and I concurred to Emepect that the poet mote 'in my monmlng weeds,' i.e. Titns would saj, 'Thoa, Bome, art Tiotoiionfl, though I am a moDmer for those sona which I haTc lost in obtAining that victtny.' " TaB0BAU>. — "Bead'nt^' with Wftrbarton. This seems warranted bj the whole tenor of the speech." W. N. Lbitsou, —with whom I qoite agree, though Johnson says, "we ma; snp^ae the Bomans, in a gratefol oeramony, meeting the dead song of Aiidronicui with moomfnlhabitai" and Steevens, "or that the; were in mouminB for their emperor, who was joet dead" [wUoh note Steerens has partly borrowed from Capell'B strange defeiMM of "thy," viz. that " 'Some' was in ' mourning meidt' at this time, navoktiTELT trsuana, toe an emperor whom she had just bnry'd") .
P. 386. (4) "her"
So the (onrth folio,— The earlier eds. hare " his,"
P. 2B6. (;) " That 10 the thadoiet be not uaappeat'd" " Nat the shadows of the slain Andronici, hut the thadmet in a general sense, Nnifrra, ilanet, t1 idirm, the powers beneath." Walker's Crit. Exam. &c. ToLiiLp. 31S. — Here Walker writes rather hastily: "the shadows" of the dead Androniei >re oertainly meant; and most probably Ur. Collier's Ms. Coireetor is right in reading "their thadoat:" — compare, in the third speech after this,
" T' appeaie their groaning thaiovt that ate gone."
P. 387. (6) " ill her lent,"
"i.«. in the tent where the and the other Trojan oaptire women were kept; for thither Beenba 1^ a wile bad decoyed Polymnestor, in order to pcrpt*-
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tr&la Iier reTsaga. TUa we 11117 kwii Iran EntiindM'i Heeute," fte. Tbbo- BiLD.—TIia old ada.b>Ta "in his Itnt." — Tbsiniha «I thii ipeeeli (oartaiitly not Shakespemre) teenu to liftT* b«en ntlter faaiUu with the clAseiea.
P. 287. (7) "!*«■■'
The <d(l ed>. have "the." — "Read 'her' [with B«we]. or pertutpa 'lk«w.' '' Walker's Crit. Exam. Sic. toI. iii. p. 21<i.
P. 287. (S) " the eoffln laid in the tomb."
So the qaaiiot {" lag the Coffin in theTombt"), — The folio has "the Coffins;" hut compare the earlier stage-direction, p. 28o, " lao ilea bearing a ooffln . , , . $et dmca the etd&n," — From the language naad by Titna while ipeab- Ing 'of hii dead sons. Mr. W. N. Lettsom thinks that "the aathor oonld ■earcely haTe intended onl; one coffin to be produced : the eompanj, no doubt, exhibited otHj one coCBa becaiue they poBKeaed no mora."
P. 287. (9) "repote you here,"
" Old copies, rednndantlj in respect both to Benee and metre, ' repoee yon. here tn reil.' " Btkbiens. Nay, most ridicnional}' in respect to sense.
P. 287. (10) "Here groa no dastjied grudgei, here no ilornu,"
The qoartos and the folio have " here are no ilormri," — The editor of
the second folio omits "art;" which Walker seemH not to have known, when he remarked as follows on the present line; "Qn. 'gmdge';' for the snpernniDeTary syllable is, I think, altogether alien to the metre of this play.
Or did the anthor wiite ' here no ilormt' I 'here' for 'here are,' m
Latlniam." Shakeiptare'i VeriiJIeation, i:e. p. 364.
P. 288. (it) "proclamation*"
Ur. Ctdlier's Ma. C<nTeatoT changes "proclamationi" to "aoolamations:" but compare, in p. 391, the words of Batnrninns, on his being chosen emperor, "Proclaim onr hononrs, lords, with tmmp and dnrai.'"
P. 288. (11) "abroach"
So the tliird folio.— The eariler eds. ban "abroad."
P. 269. (■]] "Tittti, thou ihatt olirain and ait the empery."
'Titns,
Thou Shalt,' lie. Is not Harcns's a broken speech f He is going to add ' for Batuminni,* when be is interrupted by BBtnminns himself. See oonteit. ' Obtain and ask' ia meant for a Latino-poetical Srrfpm rpirifior. The author ot Udi first Bcl, and of the other parts, evidently aims at the classical. '■ Walker's Ctii. iCiam. Ice. voL iiL p. 316.
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P. 3W. (14) •• SaluriUn«."
H«i« the <dd tds. httTS "BatnrninQB;" bnt three timea atterwMdB in the prasent page thej luve "iSntamrnf."
P. 989. (ij) "friendt,"
So the third tolki. — The earlier eds. have " friend."
P. 290. {16) "empreu,"
Bere, m in sotne other pMsagea ot this dranui, " tmpreu" ii to be pro- noimoed aa a tnayllaUe. (Several of the modern editors print "etRperu*," ^-uid incoiuiBtentlj, for in the preaent pla; wliere " brtlJunn" miwt be read ai a triajllable the; do not pint "bretheren.")
P. 290. (17) "Pdrakton"
Bo the aeoond folio.— The earlier eda. have " Pathan."
P. 290. (ig) "Now, madam, are you pritoner to an emperor;" " We ahonld read, I think [Shakeipeart'i VertiJUation, Art ixv*.), ' Now, madam, y'are priaoner to an emperor.' "
Walker'a Crit. Ezam. *o. voL iiL p. 218.
P. 2»L(i9) "euiqut"
"(FoL 'eulquam' [the Itnt qnaito 'oniqnm']). Pronotmee 'euijiw.' Cui and huie — vUch in andent Latin poeti? {with the exception of Seneoa, f.ff. Tro. S61,
' QnoUbet trittia nuaeiaa prooella Hittat, et donet ooiennqne term') are fonnd only, 1 believe, in the earlf and verj late writers — were in the schools of Shakespeare's time pronooneed as diss7llablea, as thej are still, perhaps In aome of the Beotch ones ; and were anppoaed to be admlsaibla in Latin vene composed after the Angnstan models. See, for instanoe, Casimli Barbievins." Walker's Crit. Exam. &e. vol. ill, p. 316.
P. 291. (10)
" Sat. No, Titiu, no; flu enptror need* her not," lie. In the old eila. this ii preoeded b; a stage-direetion, "Eitter aloft tMt Bmp€- rour leilk Tamora and her two KHmet, and Aaron the Hoore." — Hr. OoUier is jaitifled in remarking that "the stage-arrangameiits in this soene are not •aailj' nnderstood."
P. 291. (11) " WaM there non* eUe in Rome to ma)u a ttale,"
80 the aecxmd folio, ezoapt that it has '■ to make a itaU of."— The
-earlier eds. have " Wa* none in Rome to uutke a itaU." — Mr. Knight thinks
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that lie hM set all riglit hj a new unngement (whioh the Batlior eridentlr did not intend] ;
" Wat nont in Rome W ranJ« a »(ab but Saturnine I
Full well, Androiiicui,
Agree thcte detdt," Ice. Walker (Cri(. Exam. ftc. vol. ii. p. 260) proposes >^ What, ma* there noM in Borne" Ice,
P. 3S3. (ii) "emprts,"
See note i6.
P. 292. (13) "Ateeni, fair queen, Tantheon."
As earlier in the present scene we find "the P&ntheon," Walker obeervafl- that here "possililr the KoXtita ■KnAe ' Ateend, fair qvten, ike Fdntheon."' Shalittpeare'i Vertification, &c. p. 216.
P. 393. (14) "He » not Kith hinuel/;"
"Noil e$t petiee leipitim, apud eeipitim." Walker's Crit. Exam. *c. voL iii.
P. 299. (1;) "Dear father, «ouI and lUbtUinee ofui all,—" On this line Mr. Collier, in the second edition othis Shahupeare, remarks, "There is a somewhat similar passage in Marlowe's Baccod Part of ' Tam- borlaine the Great,' where Amyras eiolaims to hla father,
'Thy Eonl giTcs eEsenoe to out wretched sabBtance.'
Marlowe's Works, by Dyoe, L 282, By a sfognlsT, bnt nnqnestionable misprint, ' snlistasce' is lubjeett in the old copies, and so the tsmt is allowed to stand, twice otct, in the reprint of 1850."
The passage of Tamburlaine is;
YoOT Bonl gires OMence to our wretdied tuiyectt.
Whose matter is incorporate in yonr flesh.
Cel. Tovr pains do picroe our sonls ; no hope smriTes,
For by your life we entertain oar lives.
Tamb. But, sons, this nhjeet, not of foroe enongh
To hold the flery spirit it contains,
Unet paif, imparting his imprean«aiB
Bj eqnal port^ns into both yoor breasts," Ac; and "I allowed the speeches to stand" as abore, not only in " the reprint of 1860," bnt in that of 1868, vhm 3fr. Coilin-'i tmtndalion, " anhsUaee,"* tra# not unknown to me; tea the words "luyecli" and "iu\>itet" are c«rto tertivi the laognage of Marbwe, thongh Mr. Collier bo dogoaticaUy pro-
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noancea them to be wrong. CompRre, id the same play, the speech of TkiidiDTlaiiie befoie Idlluig bU eon ColjpluiE ;
"Here, Jove, receire his ftuaticg Boal again ;
A hum not meet to give that tubjiei eessnce
WhoM matter is the fleih of Tarnhnrlune,
VheMin an incorporeal apirit morei,
Hade of the mould whereof thjself oonsiata," An. Act iy. ac. 1. and the ftdlowiog Uoea in Chapman's Continnation oF Marlowe's Hero and
"Then, ho, most strangely-intellectaal fire,
That, proper to my sonl, haat power t' inepiie
Her bnniing faonltiea, and with the wingg
Of thy oiuphergd flame Tisit'st the springB
Of spirita immortal t Ifow (as awitt as Time
Doth follow Motion] And th' eternal clime
Of bis free soul, wkoee living iubjeet stood
Up to the chin in the Pierian flood.
And drank to me half this Mnsieaa story.
Inscribing it to deathless memory," tc. Third Se$tiad,
It only reuMiQB for Mr. Collier boldly to assert that in the two passagea tut cit«d "n^tel" is a misprint tor " snbttanoe."
P. aw. {»6) "and aiie Laertet' ton
Did gracivmly pUadf&r hii fuaerali :•' See note on the passage in Juliut Catar, Ht t, m. S,
" Bis/uRfralf ahall not be in onr camp," Sm.
lit lixei in fame that ditd in vtrtue'i catue." Capell prints
" Lue. There lye thy bones, sweet Mntins, with thj friends. Till we with tropbicB do adorn thy tomb 1 — No man ahed tears for noble Matias ; He lires in fame, that dy'd in virtne'S eanae.
ail. No man, &c. [Tomb cloi'd."
and he obserres in his Notti, Ac. toI. ii. P. iT. p. 103 ; " That the assiatanta, after laying.in Mntins, ahonld aU prononnoe nnpreparedly the laaie aolemn farewell to him {at has been directed Wl now) is not to be oonceiv'd ; bnt a repeating: it by them (after a flnt prononnaing] is aSectiog and natural," tc — The stage- arrangements in this scone are (aa already noticed) soffi- mently pnziUng. Alter the line, "He liva in fatnt that," tie., the qnartoa hare "Exit alt but Marcut and Tilut;" while the folio has merely "Exit." The wota of Titai are on the stage towards the eloae o( this ecene : and we can hardly anppose that they go ont here, to return, only eight lines after, with Basaanins and Lannia.
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P. 294. («l) " that dreary dwrnpi,—"
Bo the qnutofl {"thtte dririe duiH])*"). — The Inliolua "that indden diuv*," JEc; nUab Mr. Collier ad I. ttje "U oridenUj vrgng;" «iid which I for- merlj fin my Rcnarkt on Jlfr. CotUer't and Mr. KnighCi ed*. of Sluitte- ipeare, &o. p. 116) pronounced to be k misprint for " Ihete Bollen JuMpt." I haxe iioee fonad, however, the wme eip«B^on in Spennr'R 62d Sonnet ; " There let no thoagU of ioj, ot pleMnre tidne, D«M to approob, that may mj eolaee breed; Bnt tudden dum|w, and drer; sod diBdkfne Of all wortd* glftdnesse, more my torment feed." — At all erentE, the reading of the qanrtoB is preferable here on aoootmt of the word " tudd^n" in the next line bnt one.
P. 29i. (19) "Uarc. Yci, and iclll iioblij him reiiuintratt." This line, which ii wanting in the qnartoa, fonuj a portion of the pr«cediiig speech in the folio ; but it clearly belongs to Marcns. (" I anspect," obserT«« Halone, "when it was added hj the editor of the folio, he inadTerteuti; omitted to prefix the name of the speaker.")
P. 396, {30) "atUlioT"
" The Latin me of aaetor." Walker's Crit. Exam. te. itA. iU. p. 317.
P. 298. (3.)
"I do remit thete young nun'* ftdnou* fauU*.
[Uarcos and the others rise. Laetnia, though ^ou t^t me likt a churl,'' The old eda. have
"I doe remit theie young meru haynont faulU, BUnd Tp : Laairiia, though you left me like a ehurle ;" where " Stand Tp" ia sTidently a atage- direction th«t hu crept into the text.
P. 297. (31) "ic,'("
In my former edition I reoiarked ; " Though Tamora (as Johnson obserres) is eminent throaghont this play for her 'ait,' yet in the present passage Warbnrton'E alteration of 'ait' tc 'will' (whloh Is also made by Hr. Col- lier's Mb, Corrector) seems to snit the context better." Bnt I now think the alteration a rash one. Tamora owed her advasoement to her "vit," i.e. wisdom, sense, oleTemess. (Compare " onr empreea, with her sacred iril," ftc. p. SOO; "onr tcitty empress," p. 827 ; " Uigh-aitud Tamoim," p. S86; "Whose uinJont hath her fntnne otrnqoerM," p. 292 ; "thembtlt Queen of aetht," p. au.)
P. 287. (jj) " To mount aloft tBith thy imperial mietru; And mount herpUeh." " Perhaps ' To toar aloft.' " Walker's Crit. Exam. tee. vol. L p. 290.
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p. 398. (j4) "graeioiu, thu"
T^ idd eda. b»T« "|iFa«i(nu, or th««."
P. 398. (jj) "AudfUad HI}/ pattioju for Lavinia'4 l«pt." Her* Bofre Bltered "jutMiotu" to " pMiion." — Bnt □ompu'e The Fint Part ^^RingBenry TJ. actv, bo. 6;
"Do breed tove'l settled piuifoni in m; heart."
P. 399. (]6) "BtlUr than he have teom Vntean'i badge." " ' Worn' U here med be k dua;Usble. The modern editon, howerer, ftfter Uie Mocnd folio, read 'bave y<t iron).'" iliLoss.
P. 800. (37) "JWUi,"
Perhapt'T Wai."
P. 800. (]g) " .j fjMAUer count than Ungering languUhmetit
mutt ge jmrtue," The old eds. bsve
"A tpeeditr count thig lingering langaUhment
Xutt we puriut." — Sowe mbsUtnted "than" foi "thu" (wbioh was most probnUj repealed bj miaUke from the preceding line) ; and Huuner altered "we" (0 "Jf*" — oo doabt rightly ; for in tlus sentenee " we" ia not to he defended hj a later part of the present epeeoh, "onr empreaa. . . . Will ae acqn^nt vith all that w« intend" (and aee note 49 tor another example of "ye" miiprinted
P. SO . (39) >> the mam ff bright and gray,"
Hamner and Mr. CoUier'a Mb. Correotor read " bright and gay," &e. ;
most improperly, — " gray" ia«ixdag "bine," "aznre," aa nnmerons paaaagea might be addnoed to show. E.g. Peele, in hia Old Wivee' Tale, has " The day ia clear, the welkin bright and grey," tie.
Worki, p. 416, ed. Dyee, 1861.
P. sol. (40) "Ipromliid your grace a huTiter't peal.
Sat. And you have rang it liutily, my lord;"
The old eda. have " luitily, my Lorda :" bnt Satnminna ia erident^
addreaaing Tltoa alone.
P. WM. (41) "roM&T'
Ur. C<dlier'a Ui. Corrector inbRtitntea "coiled:" bnt oonpare, in the next - apeeoh, " Eten aa an adder when abe doth unroll."
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p. 803. (41) " ShmOd drivt upon," tee.
•"IMtttipon the [lA^] limfet' U an eiprenion whidi loggMt* no iiMiga to U>e ttncj. I shonld Etippow the aotliOTirroU 'S/umldOain upon the [lAyJRMO- traniformid limtn,' that is, after haTinj; torn mi deronred thsm." Hkith. — In mj former edition, donbtfiig if to " drivt (i. e. nuh violently) on luibb" lie A Domhiitatioii of words wbioh would ertr htva pieBenlod itaeU to the mind of a writer, I adopted the reading of Mr. Collier's Ma. Cotreotor, "Shtntlddine upon," lee.
P. 804. (,3) The old ede. haTO " notice."
P. 3M. (^ "haver
So the lecond foliq. — The earlier edi. read " I h>i>e."
P. 80*. (4s) Capell enbgtitnted "bare."
P. 305. (46) "Orbtnot"
The old eds. have "Or 6e ye MOl."— "Dele 'y«' [the word ' cAiWren' in UdB line heing a trisyllable]." Walker's Shakespeare't Venificatiim, fte. p. SB. Bat Capell had already made the oorreotion.
P. 805. (47) " thy"
The earliest qaatto has " the."
P. 806, (48)
"And with thalpainted hope the bravei your mishtintli :" The "the" wag inserted by the editor of the second foUo; and withont tome anoh addition the line is not Tene of any kind. — "Painted hope ii only epe- eioiH hope, or ground of confidence more plaatiblt thaa tolid." Johhboh. — " The rnggedneiB of this line pennades me that the word 'hope' ia an inter- polation, the seiue beinK complete withont it ;
'And with that painted, braTes yoni mightiness.' So in King Eichard III. ;
'PooTfainMii qneen,' &o. 'Painted with' is rpecioutly eatoured with." Btietzrs (whose emendation appeara to me highly improbable). — Ur. Collier'a Hb, Cocreotor reada, with hie nsnal boldness,
"And aith that painted thtige ihe h-««M your might."
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P. -805. (49)
"But vihen yt havt the honey ye deitri, ■ Let not thit Miup outlive ye, both to Iting." Th« two qnartM and the folio re&d
"But ahen ye haue the konny we deiire. Let not thii matpe otit-iiue tb both to iling." — In the first line the editor of the second folio ri^Uy altered " we" to " ye :" bat the Becond line (as far aa I knoir) hoe hitherto remained nnoorrected (and sheer noneenae), thoogh " ub" Lb manifeBtl; an error eonseqaent on the preceding error " we."
P. 306. (jo) " haleh a lark .-"
Walker {CVi(. Exam. tc. vol. i. p. 73) BnapecU that after these words a line has dropt ont.
P. 806. (51) "paiBt'
Altered by Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector to " claws ;" but nnneeessatily. " la the deseriptioa of the Barpies [^ntid. iii. 233] Phaer translates Virgil's fedibut nnel* hj 'crooked paws.'" W. N. Lbttsom.
P. 806. (5») •• I pitileti."
The second fdia has " I no9 pitilei*."
P. 806, (si) "her, me"
Theoldeds. haTe "her, andiuf."
P. 807. (S4) "give"
Am Ht. Collier eipressl]' states that snoh ia the reading of the earliest qoaitOr asd aa aeveral other editor* silently adopt it, I niut oonolnde tfaot ''give" Is to be fonnd in some copy (or copies} of that qnarto, though the tapj of it DOW before me agrees with the later old eda, in reading "hare." (It ia well known that early-printed oopiea of playa of the same edition ooea- ^mally diflbi in their leadings, — alterations having bean made while they were at preaa.)
P. 809. (sj) "grlee'd aiih killing grief."
"I beljete we ahonld read 'gnaa'iT [instead of 'jiriev'd'j." Walker's Grit. Exam. Ac. toI. 1. p. 386.
P. 810. {56) ■' their"
Ur. Collier's Ma. Correotor rahatltates " this :" bnt " their" is qnite right
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P. 310. (S7) "tht"
Mr. CoUier'i Mb. Correotor Robstitates " their."
P. 810. (ji)
" So, now go Ml, an If tby tongue can speak.
Who 'iH>at that cut ihi/ toR|ru« and ravUb'd thee."
" RetA ' Who 'tw that cnt il out uid TSTish'd thee.' ' Cut' for ' ent out' u
nnobjectioDable ; bat It U evident tliat ' thy tongue' intmded from the Una
Abore, ejecting 'ft;' aftcrwuds ' out' seema tohiTe been omitted ob metrum,"
W. K. I.ITTBOII.
P. 810. {59) "teroKl."
60 the qnartoi. — The lelio hu "Eoowle ;" irhioh ii giren ^7 Ckpell, who ob- serres Out " 'tcovl' mckus — ahev her »ng;er: icroicU, a word adopted bj- modems, ig no English one ; nor, ahonld we pronounce it an mtdt uid •erou [ me«at by it, will it then he eligible, tor BorawUag with aigna and tokens ia not English neither." Note; &e. »oL iL P. iv. p. 108.
P. 810. (6o) "cote,"
Though tlie copy of quarto 1600, whi<di ia now before me, agreea hen with the aabteqaeiit tHA eds. in having "oMue," I am not Bare that aome otlier cop7 of that qnuto doea not read "cate;" see note j^..
P. 811. (61) "your htubandr—"
Haimier printed "your hualHitiilf aaj."
P. 811. {6x) " Ajid might not gain $0 great a ha^inett At have thy loveV The old eda. have "Ai halle thj/ loue." — When I, long ago, corrected the ob- vio<u eiTor lo this paeaage, I waa not aware that Theobald had antioipatel me ; tor the Varior. Shakeipeare git es the old reading without any oomment : nor ooold I know that Mr. ColUer'a Ma. Corrector had ohanged (or waa to change] " Iialfe" to " liave." {On looking into Capell'a Notei, Ac, I find that he t^na defenda the old reading; "Where had been the nniUneaa, had Mai- CUB saidin tliia place— ^lan^ part of thy lao^f yet this i* eaid by him; only a certain term is made nae of in room of an nnoertain, after the oaage of poets." Vol. iL P. It. p. 103. " Ant piar of thy love" .'— conld the " tinfit- nOBB" of "half thy lore" be more olearly ahownf)
P. 811. t6j) "him,'-
The old eds. have " then."
P. 811. {64) " lfcr«"
Hanmer'i NffreoUon.— The old eda. have ''theyr" and "their."
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P. 811, (6s) "heaTir
"Sm tlie context. Fol. 'hart' [and bo the qnsrtosj, > common mode ofepell* in^htart. Bead ' hvrt.' 'Hart' occnrB three linos belov; vhenoe the error."' Walker's Grit. Exam. &c. toI. L p. 290.
P. 312. (M) " Which tJiat laiti tongut hath laade," It ia T9TJ onlikelr that the ftnthor intended an imperfect line her«. Sir I. Hanmer printed " Which that neeet tongue of thine hath often made;" Mr. Collier's He. Corrector gir«8 " Which that taect tongue hath made in miit- Btretej' ;" and the reader, if " tha goda haTo made him poetical," can com- plete the line In aome other vay.
P. 812. (67)
"For Uco-and-taenty tont I never Kept, Beeaute they died in houoar'i lofty btd. For then, thete, tribunet, in the dutt Itcrile
[Throwing himself on the ground. Sty heart'i deep languor and my lOuVt tad teart : Xitl my teari itaneb the tarth'i dq/ appetite;" In the third line the iecond " thete" was added bjr the editor of the Eeoood folio: bnt Malone prints "For thete, good Iribunei," Aa. In the foorth line- Walker (Cri(, Exam. &e. toI. I. p. 2SB) jnetlj regards the wori " teart" as yerj inspicioni ; and Mr. Collier's Mb. Corrector reflotB that line thng,
"jtfy heart'i deep HDgai«h in my toiil't tad teart." — Mr. W. N. Lettsom voold read
" For oite-and-tirenly lant I ttever tuepl, Beeauie they died in koaour'i lofty bed. For thete two, tribtinei, ia the dutt I tmite," &e. : and be obgerres; '''Tmo' is the eonjeclnra of Zacharjr Jackson. Titus had 26 Boni, of whom one was tnnrdered by his father, two are here going tv eieention, and Lndns ontlives tho plsj. This leaves 21 to have ' died iu bononr'a lofty bed.' "
P. 818. (61) "unw,"
Banmcr's correction. — Tho old eds. have " mines."
P. BIS. {69) " tribmut! gentle,"
The old ed*. have '■ Tribune*, oh gentle."
P. 818. (70)
" Tit. Why, 'til no matter, man : if the^ did hi They Konld not mark me ; arif they did nark, Thry teould not pity me. Yet plead I mutt :
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ATld bootleit unto tlient linei I eontplain.
Therefore I tell my torrowi to the ilontt ;" In thii pasugo I giTe the rMdii^ of the euliMt qnaiio, adding th« word* " Hntc I eomplaia ;" Bomethitig to that effect hftTing eiidently dropt out. — The qiULTta of 1611 has
" TitoB. Why tit tiD matter man, if tluy did heart
They aottld not marke mt, or if they did marie.
All bootUae vnto them.
Therefore 1 tell my lorToaet booties to the itonw," Ac. The foUo has
"H. Why tie no matter man, if theij did heare
They would >uil marke me: oh if they did heare
They would not piltg me.
Therefore I tell my torrowei hootlM to the ttonei," &o.
P. 81*. (71) "my"
AAieA in the eecoai folia.
P. 8H. (71) " Where, like a itceet meladloai bird, it mnj Sweet-earied tiotei," The "itsMl" in the Arat lino iajnEtlf marked JasBiupieioMbrWatkeF, Crit. Exam. Sec. Tol. i. p. 289.
P. 816. (73) " at"
The old edg. have " in."
P. 816. (74) "hU"
lo the fourth folio. — The aailier eie. have " her."
P. Sie. (75) " With ali my heart, m tend the emperor ily hand:" Sinee " king" and "emperor" are applied to the game personage in this plar (see, for instanoe, the preeeding speech), it seems probable that here the ftothor wrote
" With all my heart, ril tend the king nt^ hand," as Capell printed; and aaWallwr conjeotareB, Crit. Exam. te. toI. ii. p. 381.
P. 817. (76) " the enemy'* cattle f"
Hare "eaitle" is a Torj donbtfol reading indeed, thongh the more recent . editors are satisSedwith it, becanse Grose has said; "The eai[[< was pei- bapt afigniative name for a dote bend-piece, dedaced from its (nclosinganl
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del esdiiig the head, u ■ cutle did the whole body ; or b oonnpUon from the old FrcDoh word eoMquitel, » amall at li^t hebnet." TreatUe on AneieiU ArMOur, &a. p. 243, ed. 1601. — Theobfild printed "the enemies' oosqae." — Wftlker Buje, ' ' Bead ' creit,' or rather, I think, ' the emmiei' erettt.' (I thon^t sJgo of eatke, Le. catqut; bnt this eeeme Ter^ nulikel;)." Crit. Exam. Ibo. vol. ilL p. 219. — "Bead 'the enemies' oaBqneB.' I do not see what made 'eatgue' leem 'very nnlikel;' to Walker; hat, in any case, I think the plural neoeisaTj. Heath seema to me to hare completely demolished Warhnrton. A» to the paasafeB qooted from TrailiM ami Creuida \_' Diomed, Btand fast, and wear a cattle on thy bead.' Act t. eo. S], from Holinshed, and the History of Prinoe Arthnr, they are not to the pnr- poae, H in all three 'cattle' evidently meuui eh£ltau." W. N. Lettbov.
P. ai7. (77) " Sal I leill uu the axe."
" Metre teqnirai Si to read [with Hannier and Mr. Collier'E Mb. Correotor] ' But I win nM ft.'" BTsarsNe.
P. SIS. (7S) "lerttehed tear*,"
Walker reads "ifietchas' lean." Crit. Exam. to), vol iiL p. BIB. (Qy. waa the author of this play here — as sometimes in other pMsages — affecting the (daSBiealF •Di'Otunit i\*>irir i^ i^&n SiKfutr tlBiv- Homer, Orf. iiii.681.)
P. 318. (79) "Art not my iottowi deep, having «o bottomt Xhen be my pauioTu boUomlett with them." The old eds. have " Is not mg sorrow detp," &c. Bnt, on acconnt ol the fol- lowinfi " thaa," the plnral is absolntely required here ; and in all probabili^ the aatkor wrote (aeeordiug to the not nnnsnal phraseology of the Idme) " I« not my lorrotBt deep," toi.
P. 818. (So) "Wow.'"
So the seoond folio. — The earlier eds. hate " flow."
P. 818. (81) " Thy griefi their iport, thy retolution taoek'd .-" The earliest qaarto has " Thy griefe theyr sports ; Thy," £c. : the later eds. read " Thy griefet their sports : Thy," Sic. (In the next page we have " thy tritfi.")
P. 819. (!i) " thf"
The old eds. have " my."
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P. 820. (gj)
" Lavinia, thou thalt be tmploy'd in then Ihitigii Bear thou tay hand, *aett tcfweh, betviten thy Uetk." . The quarto* haTs
" And Lavinia Ihou ihalt be iiaploiid tn thtie umes," to. The folia bag
■■ And Laicinia tkou tkatt be emptof/d tn thete thitigi," SiC. — With the editor of the Hccond folio, I omit the " And," which, in all probft- liilit;, WM repe&ted here from the commencement of the preceding line hf the trftDeariber's or compodtor's miitake. — The reading of the qnartos, "armes," would Bcem to lie an error tor " aims :" and jet " emp}oy'd in aima'' is a very qTMEtionable eipreaaion. (Capell piinta
"Lai-inia, thou ihalt be emploti'd in tJieie ihingi. Bear thou my hand, t-weet vench, helaeea thy anai;" and in Ub Nolei (vol. ii. P. iv. p. lOS] ho calls ''betaten thy teeth" "a read- ing of the greateat ahaiiTdity." But compare what Titaa, in the next pa^e. Hays to Lavinia ;
" Or get some little knife betteeen thy teeth. And JDBt agaiiut th; heart moke thoa a hole," &c. ; an operation, ]iy the b;, which ahe wonld have found more difficult than the ' ■ employment" now assigned to her.) 1SG6. "Bead
' Th«<' tor 'Ihia' was probably the original blunder; ' 4rnu' and * tAiHji*' BO- phisticatioQB to prodnce aomething like aenae." W. N. Lbttsov. — The Cmii- bridge SditoTB (QUibe Sbaietpeare) give
" Lavinia, thoa $haU be etnploy'd : thtteumal Bear," &e, ; which I certainl; do not ondentand.
P. 820. (84} " [(aii«"
The old eda. hare " lones."
P. 820, (85) " And make proud Saturnine onj Aii empreti" Here in the second folio " Saturnine" is altered to " SatnminnB," becansA- the editor did not parceire that the words " and Aii empreti" were to be read " (See Walker's Shalietpeare't Venijieation, &o. p. 68.)
P. 820. (86) "And"
80 Howe.— The folio has "Wboi" which in my former edition I ratunedr with a qy. if the inwahauMa in this paaaage waa not to be referred t« the anthor'a nngnyumatieal nae of the relatira t — This seene Is not fondd in the
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P. Ml. (87)
" WTi^n (Ay poor Aeort btalt with outragtou* beating," Wmlker {Crit. Bxam. Ao. toI. i. p. 389) aaBpeota ui tnot in the word " btaU."
P. 321. (ag) "miuVd"
The folio hu " inMh'd." — Thia sceoe is not in Uw qiurtoa.
P. 882. (I5) Added in the weond folio.
P. 8M. (90) Added in the Beoond folio.
P. S32. (gt) '■ But htm, if thatfiy had a father and mother 1 Haw wouid he hang hii tlender gilded viingl" The pnnotaation of the folio (thi> Boene la not in the qnftrtofl) is "Batf How ; if th>t File had," dto. 1 and H hM been nnderatood u if Tltna were eehcongthe "Sul" otUuonB; irhioh I do not belieTe that the Nithor intended. As to " How wQold he hang hia Blender gilded wings," if wh*t precedes be right, the Buue (bat there ia little tenet thionghont this Boene) would aeem to
require " they hang tbcdx," Ice. ; nnleBB the worda " and mother" ba
emitted, aa was Bnggested by Bteeteiu, who obeerreg that " Titos moat pro- bably oonfinea hia thonghta to the Boffferinga id t, father."
P. 823. (91) " doingt"
''Wrong. Qn., m aome have it, > dolinsi' [Theobald'a emendation]." Wnlker'a Crtl. Exam, &o. Tol. iii. p. 330. —Aooording to BteeTena, " There is no need of change. Sad doingt for any nnfi»ituuite event ia a oommon, though not an elegant, espreaaloti."— Hr. W. N. Lettacm piopoaea " dnmiDgi."
P. Baa. (93) '■ Pardon me, tir; it w
Qy. "FaTdmtmti ttn*"*
P. 823. (94) "Aeyet"
The folio (thia aoene ia not in the qnaitoa) hu menily "r#l."
P. S93. (95) "begitu"
The fdia (thia aaene ia act in the qnartot) haa " begin ;" and ao perhapa tb anthor wrote, oonaidering the pteoeding " tight" as equiralent to " eyea." TOL. TI. BB
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P. S2S. (96)
'' Marc. Canit thou not gnat uhtrefort tht flitt thee Ihtu f" The old edB. make this a portion of tli« preeeding Bpeeoh : bnt the third line ol Lncina'a repl; pFores, bb CapeU uw, that it 1>«1ong8 to Mucns. — 1S66. Walkor is perhaps right In anspeotii^ that not only this line bat the five pre- ceding lines belong to UarcDS. Ctit. Exam. &c. toL iii. p. 920.
P. 8M. (97)
" Eeveal tlie damn'd contriver of tkii deed. — Why lifU ihe up her arnu in lejueiiee thiu t" 80 the qoartoa. — The folio has
" lieueale ths damn'd eontriiur 0/ thii deed. What booke f
Why li/tt ihe vp her arma in uquenee thiar" Perhaps the banBoriher of the 0017 iu«d tor the fiJio haj inadTartently passed on to " Lndne, tcJuit book is that she tossath soT" and when he afterwuds peroeived his mistake, and drew his pen throtigh the mispUeed line, he mtj/ hsTe left two words of it notfnll? blotted out.
P. 824. (jg) " Soft ! tte hoa btitily the tttmt the leave:"' o Howe. — The old eds. have " Soft, so ttwilie," Ico,
P. 831. (99) " [Helidng he
What icoald iliejind f — Lavinia, ihall I read f The old eia. have
" Heipe her, urfiat icoald ihefindet Lauinia thall I read t" another instance of a stage'direction having crept into the text : see n
P. 836. (100) " guide, if ihou catui,
Thie after me, when I have teril my nanu" Tlie'>iiil»n" (*hioh Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector altera to " where") was added by the edited of the second folio, a word having ovidentl; dropped out, — Walker (Crit. Exam. *c. vol. ii. p. 381) conjecttiree
Thit after me: I here have irril my name;" which appears to me to break np the sentence too much.
P. 325. (101) ••God''
Walker (Crit. Exam. JEc.vol. iiL p. 326) regards this as a mistake for "gods" (a mistake which certainly ooeurs in the old eda. ol Fericlet, act v. so. 1); and perhaps it is ■□,— the original reading not to be def*ud«d, beoanse we find elsewhere in the present |^j, " Qod give yon ji^, sir," p. 394 ; " QoA laMA,"" p. 8Si, lia.
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P.826.(i<») "mindt"
" RMd 'months'." W. N. Lnrsoii.
P. 33G. (103) ■■'ri««ur<eHOUffft, niij/ou Jtneio ftojo."
A mntiUtcd line.— Mr. CoUiat'g Ms. Corrector reads '■
to 40 it."
P. 820. (104) The old eds. have " ShaU."
P. 33G. (105) ••Rereage, ye heaitni.for old Andronieiu.'" The old cds. have ■•Reufnge the heaaeiu," Ae. — Johnson aaw that "i/e wm ly the tnnsoriber taken for y', the." — "I believe," Bars Steefens, "theoU reading is right, and signifleB ' may tbe heaTeun rereuge,' ice," But it is proved to be wrong by wliat preoodea ; ■' 0 htai-tm, can you hear," &c.
P. 837. (106) " May it pleatt you,"
Cftpell prints "Kay it pUatf you, lards;" aa most probably the antbociTTate.
P. 827. (107) Omitted in the old ecta.
P. S28. (log) " A eharitabU vtiih and full 0/ love :" Tbia line, which the old ed«. asugn to Chiron, is rightly restored to Aarou by Walker, Crit. E.iam. &c.to1. ii. p. 187.
P. 328. (109) " Well, aod
Give her good rat! What hath he wnt her I
Nor. -* deviU
Aar. Wkji, then the'* thedwWt dam; a Joyful ittvt." Arrnnge rather ;
' Well, Qod gire her good rcBt I What hath ha sent ber ? Nune. A. deviL
Aaron. Why, then she ia the deril'B dam ;
A joyfol iaaae]'"
Walket'B Crit. Exam. £c. Tol. iii. p. 220.
P. S39. (110) "iBhiUHm'd"
The old edi. bafe " tihilc-limbde."
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P.Sae. (tu) "thetn^rat"
To be pnmmiaeed "Ut' enpeteBa:" He note 16.
P. 8B». (ill) " tftiJ, my»el/,— "
Walkn (5Aat«ipnire'( r«nVIciifion, ft«. p. 94) cnggeBto "tbia' aiyielf,"— " this' " being Ui« ooDtntotioii of " thia u ;" irliioh Ibe folio hu in iIea$UTe J«r MtatvTt, wrt T. BO. 1.
P. 880. (113) " ITJir, to, iiMM tonJj .' ieft<™ xe joia in teagve,"
The editor of the seenid folio piinled " Khm we i^joj/iu in Uagne."
But " lonli" is here a diuyllable : see Walker's Shakeiptart'i Virt^fieMion,
P. 831. (t 14) " Not far one Muli liva, my eotattrynian;" The ddeda. have "Notfarre, one MnliUna my Couii(r7-nuwi."—Bowe printed "Not far, one iltxliteuM lives, my eounCrvman."— I a^pt the craijeetaie of SteereDB. — Hr. Collier'a Ha. Corrector reads "Not far hence Hull lirea, my coimtrvDWii."
P. 8BL (115) "Barkyt, lordt: ye tee I have gireH her phytic," TMb line baa been Tarioad? altered ; and Walker {CHt. Exam. fte. vol. ill' p. ee) tnda na read
"Hark, Icrdt; ye tee th^t Z have given het phytic."
P. 831. (116) " I'll make yoa/eed on berriei and on roott, And feed on curdi and ahey," Hannei printed "JiwI feast on," See. — In the preceding line Ur, Collier'a Me. Corrector anbatitnteH " tbriTe" for "feed." — Walker {Crit. Exam. &e. toI. i. p. 290) marks the second "feed^' as wrong. — I baTe na donbt that both the- seoond "feed" and the second >■ on" were repeated by miatake : but wlio can aa7 what word (or worda) on^t to take their place t
P. 888. (117) Added in the second ftdio.
Till tine beget lame eaeeful remedy." The quartos and the folio haTe "*ny Lords;" oorreoted in the second folio. — AH the old eda. hare " < — -~ lomt oanfoll remedte;" eotreeted ^ WalkeTr Crit. Exam. tie. toI. i. p. 288.
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P. 881 (119) ••Kimnun."
■ ■ Einaman,' inrefy; «ee oonteit." Walker's CH(. £xam. &e. voLiii. p. 221. -Not BO, Borelf, if the lut Bpekker l>e Pnbtiiu, who la the present Bp«Ak«i'i
P. S33. (iio) The old eds. have " no iostiee."
P.SSa. (ill) "ToSatnm, Caiut,"
Th« old eds. hare " To Sstoiiiiiie, to (7attu."— Caiaa (u CkpeU flnrt notiewl)
P. 38B. {ill) " UxMt when"
Betifeen these irords Hannier inserted "thooi" Hkkme "fm."
P. 838. (lij) "ffiM it PoUiu."
Eaamer prints "gUit it to PaUm,-" Capdl "ihell ^i» t( PoUiu."
P. 356. (114) " ily Ityrdi, you knuir, a< do tlu might/ul godi," The wordi " « do" were supplied by Rowe to complete the sense. — Mr. Ool*
Uer'sHs.Coirectar nukes hit addition at the end otthe line, " -themight-
Jitl god* no leEs."
P. S36. (1x5) " Sliall tee be tkuM afflUted in hit areakt," Here Hanmer and Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector alter "mreakt" (i.e. fits otaga or violence) to "freaks."
P. 386. {116) "wftom, if the lUep,
He'll 40 cmake, at tht" In both these Uses the old eds. bare " he" instead of " 1
P. 388. (117) " J have toueh'd thie to the quick.
Tits Ufe-blood Ota." The Moond folio has "Th!jIi/« Mood ont."— Iliad ia Mr. CoHier'sone-Ttdnme Bhaketpeare " The life-blood on't."— According to Mr. Btaunton, " loueh'd means pricked: I have Umeed thy life-blood ont;" a loread eiplanatioii. — Kt. Grant White prints " My life-blood on't ;" a Ter; improbable reading. — Walkei {Crit. Exam. *e. vol. i. p. 73) snpposes that a Une, which preoedel '■ TAy life-blood oat," is lort.
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P. 836. (ii8) " mitlrtu-iMp"
The old eds. hxn " Mistcrabip."
P. B37. (119) 'MrHt, arm, mij lord,"
The old nia. Iuts " Armt my Lordi." — (^miliiu ii eeriainlj ftddreBimg Uie^ Emperor.)
P. 337. (ijo) "'"■«'■
The old eds. hare "tbie." — " I enimot doubt tliat the antliorirrote ' Ai*,"' u;s Walker (<7rJt. F.xam. &c. voL ii. p. 32-2), not huoirutg that Roire hod mftde the correctiou .
P. 887. {.31) "often ortrhtard''
Bo Theobald.— The old eda. have " o/Ua heard."
P. 887.(i]i) "uingt"
Altered by Hr. Knight to " wing, "—in order that this line, with the two pre- ceding Uuea and the line which lollowg it, may form a qsatnun- — " Enight'a ' winir' is not Elizabethan English. IthTme, eveii in the ooaplet, ii j«tj rare- in riiu» Andnmicm:' Walker'a Crit. Exam. 4c. vol, iii. p. 858.
P. 838. (133) "before, he our"
The old eda. hare " before to be out" and " before to our."
P. 838. (134) " (land on hoitage"
The old eda. have " »tand in koitage," kc. ; hnt though in iraa fonnerly
tittea nsed for on, it coald hardly hare been bo emplo;ed io a paniage like
P. 888. (135) "n,«««,n«j,,"
Altered by Bowe to "anccesBfally;" bjCapell and Ur.Colliei'B Ml. Cmreotor to "inoesEantlr." — "'Wliethei the anthoi of thia pla; had obj anthorit]- tor (bis word, I know not ; bnt I snapect he had not. In the next act [p. 3M] be with equal lioenge naes ' rapine' for ' rope,' By ' tueeetianttg,' I avi^OBe, he meant meceufulli/." Mu-dhb.
P. SS9. (ije) "Qotba."
So the Kcond foUo {"OinN.").~The earlier edi. omit the prefix.
P. 839. {137) "not a word/ — "
The aeeondfoUo haa "no! Hotateordl" — Bat qy. "what, not a umvff"— In tbs third line above the flnt qnarto haa " hei bmning Itul."
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P.B39. {138)
"A light to vex the father' t »oul icitkal. — Qet me a ladder.
[A ladder Ijionght, which Anran is mode to ucend. Akt. Luciiu, taut tht child," &a.
Theobald's amngemeiit. — The old eds. have
"A $ight to vtxe the Fathen imde mithail,
Aion. Oet roe a ladder, Xuciiu laue the ehitd."
P.a40, (139) •• yet piUouely"
Mr. Coilier's Mi. Corraotca BnbBtitnteB " deapiteoiialf ." — Here, aaya Steevem, " 'piteontly' neftns ' in a manner exciting pity.' "
P. Ml. (140) " thou"
An interpolation t
P.Ml. (141) "MownM"
So the third folio. — The earlier eda. haTe "lonnded." — See note 93 on The n'lnter'i Tale.
P. S43. (143] "Make poor ni«7i'« ealtle ttray andbreak their neek*:" 1 hare here inserted the words " itray and," two Eyllables being eridentlj wanting,— Malone propoBsd " Make poor men'i cattle break their neekt and die" IfiTA, aa Steevena remarked, " il they brokt their necie, it was rather on- neoesuryfor ni to be Informed that tliey died"). — Mr. Collier's Me. Correetor reads " Make poor hmti'i cattle ofttimes break their ruek*."
P. 843. (143) "doon,
.... toTTOK alnuM vat forgot;" So the aeoond f<^o. — The earlier eds. have " dooie" and " Mnrowca almoit
P. 8i8. (144) " March, away! [Flonrish. Eiennt."
Capell (oonsidering " Mareh" aa a atage-direation) printed " Aira;. [JIfareft. Exeunt:" and rightly perhaps.
P. 848. (145) »[The7knoal(.
Enter Tnoa, atwTe."
The old edf, have " They knooln and Titos opens his atodie ioara." — Mr.
Collier obterrea ail.; "From what ensoea, It appeara that Titos oame ont
into the elevated balcony at the back of the stage."
P. 843. (146) "bow"
Not in the old eds.
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87« TITUB ANDBOHICUS. fitoraB.
P. S4B. (147) "witneti"
Q;. Ml int«rpo1«tiaD t
P.8M. (14!) "globe."
Theoldeds.h>re"01cil>«a." Bui Tltiu la oertunlj BpwkLag of tbe globe ot om earth.
P. 8M. (149) " Providt Ueo"
The old eda. have " Frouide Oira (uo."— Walker (Crtl. Exam. &e. vol. iiL p. 933) would put a semleolon at the end of the preceding line ; " tor," he saTS, " I think that Andraniona meana ■ J ufU proTlde thee,' &c."
P. 8U. (150) '• And find out mariwwf in tfceir puiirj com» ." Instead of "natrieren" all the old eds. have "nrnrder;" and inatead of " cava," all before the second folio " carea."
P. 8«. (151) " Byperion't"
So the second foUo.— The earlier eda. hsTo '■ Epeona". and " Eptons,"
P. B41. (i ji) ■■ Tit. An that thy ntinitCm t what art they eaWdf Tarn. Rapint and Murdtr;" ice. The qnartoa and the f<dio hare "Are them tfey," Ao.i the seoond folio haa '* Art they thy," tso. — In the next line the aecond folio rigfatlr snbatitnte* " Jtoptiu" lor >' Bape" of the earlier eda. : before we And " Bo then deatnij Rapine and Unrder there ;" and afterwarda, *' Rapine and Murder, yoa are welcome too,"—" Oood Rapine, stab him," 4o.
P. 846. (,53) "Lucittt."
" Biiret7, 'Lndna'.' " Walker'a Crit. Exam. gse. toL ii
P. 8«. (1J4) "abide"
lo Bowe.— The old eds. have " bide."
P. 8«. (i5j) "devicu.—"
" Bead detiice, to sToid the donble ending, the abtenee of which, bj the way, is obaraoteilatic (aa haa been obsenred by critioa) of a certain time and aoliool, to ^Lloh this play oTidantly belonga." Walker's Crit. Exam. &c. toL 1. p. 84S.
P. S47. (ij6) "I take them, Chiron and Denutrim." The old eda. omit "and;" erroneoaaly, no donbt. Three timea aftenrarda we have " Chiron and Demetrins," pp. M7, 850, SSI.
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P. US. (157) " [He cuts their thKats."
Vm (di «ds. id«M Qkli *Ug«-diTection Kttar the Imst line bnt two ottbeapAeoh (" More iteni And bloody tliui the Centann' feMt") ; and the; ue fdlowsd ij Ifi. Knight, — who onght to have Been that when Titns sajB, " And with Tan hatdlnl liquor tamper it," he had already " ont their thiOAts."
P. M8. (158) " VtteU Marau, linee it U ny fathtr't mitUC' "Perhapi,
' Binoe, nude Mareua, 'tis mi/ /aih^r"* mind,' &e."
Walker's Crit. Exam. tse. vol. iiL p. S22.
P. SCO. (160) "uproar"
So tho third fdio. — The earlier eds. have "TproreB" and " vproree."
P. SSI. (t6i) " Lat -Ronu henclf bt bane mto hertelf," tta. Th« old eda. hare "Let Honu," fto.— To thia line the qnartOB prefix "Soman iMTd;" the toUo hai " Goth. .-" and to the tonrth line after thii (" Bat if 107 frosty eigna," fto.) the fourth folio prefixes " Jfttr." — "I beliere the whole belongB to ManmB ; who, when Lnoina faaa gone thronf^ sneh a part of the nanative as coDoema hia own exile, cUimB his torn to speak again, and re- commenda LneioB to the empire." Steetens. — " As this speeoh proceeds in an uniform tenor with the foregoing, the whole (as Mr. SteeTenB has obserred) probably belonga ,ta HarcQE." Mauiub. — Capell and Mr. Collier'a Us. Cor- rector assign the whole to MarooB ; and no doubt tightly.
P.B61. (i«i) "our"
The old edi. have " a." — " Surely ' our/' for it ia Lwina who immediately proceeds to relate the atoiy. The game corruption, or a similar one — how- ever it is to be aooonnted for — has taken place in other instances," to. Walker's Crit. Exam. Ac toI. u. p. 820.
P. 861. (163) "F«r their fell faiUt our brother* vere bthtaied;"
The oldeds. have " fell/aidt»," 4e.,— wrongly. Compere antt, p. 847,
"for that vile /auU [i.e. the morder of Bassianns], Two of her brothers wen condemn'd to death," &e.
P. Bfil. (164) "lamtht tum'd forth,"
Bo the first qnario (esoept that it has here the spelling " timed," thongh in the fourth line above it has " tumd"). — The second qnarto has " And I an tkt turned /ortA" {the "And" most probably having been repeated by mis- take from the beginning of the preroding line). — The folio has " And I am tnmed /orth."— Walker (who was not acquainted witii the reading of the first qnarto) propoaes "And I'm thns tiimad/arl&." Bhakttpeart'* Ytrt^fUation, to. p. 89.
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STS TITUS AHDBONICUS. [hotss.
P. 862. (i6s) "Damn'd at he U,"
" The old oopiei retd 'And as he ia.' The emendatiaii wu made hj Ur, Theob&ld. The same expreErion (as he obaeired] ia oaed in Othello [act i.
> O thoa foul thief, irhere hast thoa rtow'd m j dangbter T Damn'd at thou art, thou hast onohaDted her.' In the play hefore ni the same epithet i« applied to Aaroa [p. 8M] ;
' Bee jnetice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor.' " U11.OKS. Theobald's emendation has been adopted by all anbeaqnent editors, eieept Mr. Collier, who thinlu it mmecessary: bat I do not well see how we can reject it. (The old reading recelTea no support trooi what oecnra in p. 346, " Bnt welcome, a» you arej" which means — Bnt welcome, even though you art tinafeompanied fry the Moot.) — IB65. The Cambridge Editors (Globt Skakeiprare) giro the original lection, mnrHng it ■' f."
P. 853. (166) "eaute"
So the fonrth folio. — The earlier e3a, have " coorBe."
F. 362. (167) " Come, come, tlioH reverend man ofBome," Capell printed "Come down, come down, thou," &e. — "I beliore the author wrote ' Come, come, thoo rererend man of Borne, com« doan,' " Walker's Crit. Exam. Sic. vol. ii. p. 263.
P. 353. (16I)
" The common voice do try it ihaU be to.
Romans. Xuci'ui, all hail, Rome't royal emperor! Marc, [to Attendants] Qo, go into old Tiivt' torroteful houte. And hither hale Ikat miibelieving Hoar, To be aifjadg'd tome direjul'ilaughlering death. At pmtithment /or hit mott viieked life.
[Eiennt gome Attendants.
Lucius, Habcdb, tee. descend. Boman*. Lueiui, all hail, Bome't graeiov* gmenuir! Lac. Thantt, gentle Bvmant," Ac. The old eds. haTe
" The eomvunt voyce doe cry it ihall be >o.
Uarcni. Luei'iu, oil haile Homti ToyaU Emperour, Ooe goe into old Titvt torrow/tiK houte. And hither hale that miibelieuing Bloore, To be a^udgd [thefirtt quarto adindge] tome direfiiU tlaughl-
ring death. At pamihment for hit mo>t viched lije. iMciut ali haile to Romet graeiovi OeaernouT. Lncias. Thanki gentle Bomainet," ice. ; and Mr. Enight and Mr. Ci^er see uo necessity for any alteration.— (In fol-
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lowing the old copieE here Mr. Knight at least is roDsisteut ; for at the com- menceaeiit ot this act (see p. 330) he adheres to the three enrlieit cds. in mating the speeeli of tlie Vint Ooth conclude with
" well follow where thon lead'st, « Lite atipgiug bees in hottest Btumner'a daj.
Led by their master to the flower'd fields,
And be aveng'd on coraed Tamora :
And, at he laith, la taij \cf ail with hint ;'' tli« prefix to the last line having been tccidentall; omitted in tboae ede.)
P. 853. (169) "gh-ettteaiM-'
"Onunt White eonjeotnrea 'air' for 'aim.' The text can aeareely be explained from Oifford's note on cry aim and give aim [Maaaiiiger'B Worki, vol. ii. p. 37, ed. 1813]." W. N. LEiTsoa.— H the earlieet qaarto (and tlie foHo) had not had the spelling " a'jnif," I should have proposed "gine me ear."
P. 368. (170) "blood-ttain'd/ace,"
Bo the third folio. — The earlier eds. have "blood aUine (and " titoud-elainc") face."
P. 863. {171) " I'ou tad Andronici," &c.
To thii speech the old eda. prefix "Bomaine" aad"Boauuis." — In m; former aditioD I sn^eeted that perhaps it ahonld be given to ^titili'iu ; and to liiin
P. 8H. (1 71) " nor man I'tt mourning tceidi,
No mour«fvll beU," Thia reading, hitherto (I believe) nnnotioed, is that of quarto 1600,-— at least of the cop; of that quarto now before me : see note 54. — The later eds. have " nor man (n monmefall veedt, No mouriiefull beU."— Mr. Btannton conjeetnrea " Nc scdemn beUi" Hr. W. N. Lettsom " No holy btll."
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KOMEO AND JULIET.
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ROMEO AND JULIET.
e at nig^t shftll ahe be fow-teea ;
Tb«i shall the, marr?; I remember 't well.
■Ti* •iiic« the earthquake now eleven jeara ;
Asd she wai wean'd," tie. — ^nrUU remark! ; " But hoir comes the Nime to talk ot an tarthqaake OB Una ocearioD r There is uo voeh drcnmBtanee, I helieve, mentioned in snj of the norde from which ShakeBpeare may be snppoaed to have drawn his Btmy; and therefore it Eeems probable Ihat he had in Tiew the eartliqnake which had really been felt in man; parts of England in hit own time, viz. on the 6tb of April 1680. U eo, one may be permitted to coajeetnre, that Kotmo and Juliet, or this part of it at leaet, was wntten in 1691 ; after tlie 6th ot April, when the tievenyean ivtee the tarthquake were completed; and not later than the middle of July, a fortnight and add dayt before Lammai- tide." Hr. Hnnter, on the other hand, Bnppoaes that the BllnBion is to an Mrtbqoake which occnrrcd during 1570, "in the neighbonibood of Verona, so Eerere that it destroyed Ferrara," Sie.{Ntieniiul.o/Shaktipeare, toI. ii. p, ISO.) Bnt if it be nnlikely, as I think it is, that onr poet had a view to the earthquake in hie own country dnring 1580, it ia atiU more nnlikely that he ■bonld have alluded to that in Italy during 1S70. Mr. Collier " ooincides with Ualone that the tragedy wob probably written towards the dose of 159S" {Itttrod. to Someo and Julifl) : I ara Inclined, however, so far to agree with Tyrwhitt [uii ntpra), that as early as 1501 Sbakespeare may perhaps have heen at work on Bontto and Juliet. It was flret printed in 1E97, 4to ; and when we compare the very Imperfect text of that quarto (nor are its imper- feotione merely those of a piratical edition) with the " corrected, angmented, and amended" text of the second qnarto, 1£99, we cannot donbt that the author greatly improved and amplified the play subsequently to its original appearanoe on the stage. — There are tno celebrated Italian tales on the sub- ject of Borneo and Juliet: liioria nweltamtnte riirtyvata di duinobiii amanti; eon la loro pieUna morte iatervtnuta netia cittfl di Verona, rul Utnpo del Signer Bartolomeo dalla Scala, by Loigi da Porto, tbo earliest edition with a data being that ot 1635 ; and La iforlunata morte di due infelieiiiimi amanti, ehe Tuno di vtleno, e VaUro di dolore morirono : con varii aeeidenti, I^ Ban- dello, — NoveHa 9 ot Parle S«coniIa, which (along with Parl< Prima and Parte Terta) first appeared in 1561. But, even allowing that Shakespeare was able to read them, we are not to suppose that he ever looked into either of those Italian navels. The story ot Borneo and Jnliet had long been very popular In En^knd; and materials for his tragedy lay before him in a poem entitled TA^ TTagieall Hittorye of Romeui and Juliet, written firtt in ItaliiM by Bandell, and tunee tn Engliihe by .ir[thur] ^[oai«}, 1C62 ; and in The goodly hyt- lory of the true and eontlaut Ume betveen Bhomeo and JuUetta, the one of
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B84 BOHEO AHD JUUET.
inAoin died ofpoj/ion, and the other of lorrw and hemmne : tehertm bt com- pryied many adtietOura of lout and oOier devUu touchingt ttu tanu, tonn- ing the Tweuty-fifth SorA ot the Beoond Tolume ol Paintar't Palaa! of Pita- Mr«,— the Dedicatoi? Epistle to which Tolnme is cUied Not. 4th, 1567. (Frooi Biooke'B title-pftge we might infer that he hkd copied Bondello ; hat sncli is not the case : he hu msiiily followed BUtoire de deux amant, dont Tun vtattnU dt vmin, Vatitrt de iriitetie; a Tersion of Bandello'g tale, with na- mennu Tariatioiu, 1^ BoiBtean in Belleforett'* BiiUnrf Tragipitt ; Brooke hM, howerer, oousiderabl; altered the story, and added mnah of his own.) — ■ " It will be ohserred that Brooke, Pajnter, and Bhakespeare, all condade the story in the lame maniMr; Juliet doe* not wake from her trance in the tomb natdl Borneo U dead; bat in Loigi da Porto's narratiTe, and in BandsUo'a norel fonnded npoa it, she reoorers her seuMB in time to hear him ipeak, and to see him expire : instead o( slabbing henelt with his dagger, she dies, as it were, ot • broken heart, on the body of her lorn." Coiukb, 3tutlcapeare'» Library, toL ii. p. Tiii. — " Shakespeare had probably read Painter's noT«l, having taken one eircDmslance from it or aome other proas tranalatiaD of Boiatean ; bnt his play was nndonbtedly formed on the poem of Arthur Brooke. This is prored decisively by the following eirenmstanoes. 1. In the poem the Prince of Terona is called Eicaliu; so ^ao in the plq. In Painter's ftans- latioD from Boistean he is named Signar Eteala; and sometimes Lord Bar- tholomew of Bieala, 3. In Painter's norel the family of Romeo are called the MouUtchei; in the poem and in the play, the Hontaguee. S. The mea- senger employed by Friar Iianrenoe to carry a letter to Romeo to inform hini, when Joliet wonld awake from her bsnae, is in Painter's translation called AntetMt; in the poem and in the play Friar Jokn is employed in this bati- nesB. 4. The circom stance of Capnlet's writing down the names otthe gnesta whom he invites to sapper is fonnd in the poem and in the play, bat is not- mentioned by Painter, nor is it fonnd in the criginsi Italian noreL G. The residence of the Capnleta, in the original and in Painter, is called Villa Frtaiea; in the poem and in the pIayfV«loini. [bat in the play, act i. ee. 1^ " FrteMen" is men^ned by the Prince as " our eommon indgment-place."] 6. Bereral passages of Romeo and Juliet appesr to have been formed on hints. fnrnished by the poem, of which no bwies are found either in Painter's norelr or in Boisteaa, or in the originid; and several eipressuma are borrowed from thence, which win be lonnd in their proper places." MujOia, Frtlim. Bemarkr on Bomto and Juliet. (Among Shakespeare's obligations in minute parti- onlara to Brooke, the following instance is addnced both by Malone Mid Hr> Collier;
"Art thoa amanf thy form cries ont thou art: Thy tears are womanish ; thy wild acts denote Th' unreasonable fory of a beast."
Ji. and X act iiL Bc. B. " Art thoa, qnoth he, a man I thy thape laiik, lo thou art; Thy crj/ing and thy teeping eya denote a woman* hart : For manly resfon is qnite from of thy mynd ontchased. And in her stead sffeotionB lewd and fancies highly placed ; Bo that I stoode in donte this howre at the least. If thou a man or woman win, or tit a iratUh ieatt."
The Tragieall HiUoryt, be.)
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Hw ii it unlikely that Bli*li«epe«Te may haTe made sonu sliglit oae of an eiriier tragedy on tlie same subject ; foi that aneh a play had lieen prodnced before IMS, and irith raceeiB, ve have tlie toetiinony of Brooke in an address " To iJie Beflder" prefixed to his Tragieali HUttnye, Sea. ; " Thongh I sair the «ame aignment lately set loortb on stage with more conunendation then I can \odk» tar (being there mnch better set forth then I hane or can dooe], yet tho lame matter penned be it is may eeme to lyke good effect," kc. No- thing can be nuffe improbable than irhat some have oonjectored, — thatBroolce ia q>eakingcrfBdnunawbiefa he had seen abroad; he evidently alludes to an •pngliah [day. (Brooke's poem is reprinted in Malone'E Shakespeare, by Boe- MeU, vd. TJ. ; also, along with Painter's noTel, in Collier's Shakeipeare'i lAbrar]/, toL ii.)
The " Tragedy of Boiaeo and Juliet acted in Oermany, in the year 1626, iy Englieh playen," wiii be fonnd (both in German and En^ish) in Mr. Albert Cohn's recently published qnarto volmne (1866), entitled Shaketpeare in Qtr- tutny in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth OmCurifs, &c. p. SOG. In this pieoe the bnginesB of Bhabeipeare's tragedy is pretty closely followed, and we ooca- donally recognise the very ezpressianB of onr poet ; but, on Uie whole, it is intolerably dull, and sometimes disgnsting on aooonnt of the gross langosge irtuch is pnt into tho nunith of a " Clown."
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' I' heads of two honsei »t vuiuioe vilb each otlier.
DBAHATIS P&B80H2.
ESCU.C8, prinM of Terona.
Puui, a Tonng nobleman, kingman to the princ«.
MoiruoDB,').
ClPDLBT, J
Aji old Man, of the Capolet family.
ROMio, Bon to Moctagae.
Hebcctio, liinnimLn to the ptioM, and friend to Homeo.
Bbrtouo, nephew to Montague, and biend to Rnnea,
Ttbixt, nephew to Lad; Capnlet.
Friar Licbbmci, a Franciscaii.
Friar Jqbn, of the aame order.
B11.TB1UB, serTBnt to Borneo.
SlKPSOM, )
Petbb, aerrant to Joliet'B ntUEe.
Abbahau, servant, to Houtagne.
An Apothecary.
Three Moddans.
Page to Paris ; another Page ; an Officer.
Liri MoNiAauB, wife to Montogne. Lui Capclet, wife to Capolet. JuLiBi, daughter to Capolet. None to Juliet.
CitizenH of Terona; several Hen and Women, relatfooB to both houses ;
HaakerB, Oaards, Watchmen, and Attendants.
Choras.
ScxKt—Verotta; except once in the fifth act, vhere it U MatUaa,
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Enter Choros.
Chor. Two hoaseholdfl, both alike in dignitj.
Id fair Verona, where we lay oar acene. From ancient grndge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loina of these two foes
A pair of etar-cross'd lovers take their life ; Whose misadventar'd piteous overthrows
Do with their death burj their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage. Which, but their children's end, naaght conld remove,
Ib now the two hours' traffic of oar stage ; The which if yon with patient ears attend. What here shall miss, oar toil shall strive to mend.
lExit.
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ROMEO AND JULIET.
Scekj: I. Verona. A public place. JUtiter Sahfsoh and Greoort, aimed with eteorda and baeJderg,
Sam. Gregory, o' m; word, we'll not cany coals.
Ore. No, for then we ehoold be colliers.
Sam, I mean, an we be in cboler, we'll draw.
Ore. Ay, wbile yon live, draw yonr. neck out o' the collar.
Sam. I Btrike quickly, being moved.
Ore. Bat tboa art not qnickly moved to strike.
Sam. A dog of the honse of Montague moves me.
Ore. To move is to Btir ; and to be valiant is to stand : therefore, if thou art moved, thou rnnnest away.
Sam. A dog of that honse shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montagne's.
Gre. That shows thee a weak slave ; for the weakest goes to the wall.
Sam. True ; and therefore women, being the weaker ves- sels, are ever thrust to the wall ; — therefore I will push Mon- tague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids to the wall.
Ore, The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
Sam. 'Tis all one, I will show mjrolf a tyrant : when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel"' with the maids, and cut off their heads.
Gre. The heads of the maids?
Sam. Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads ; take it in what sense thoa wilt.
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Ore. They muBt take it in eease that feel it.
Sam. Me the; eball feel while I am ahle to stand : and 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.
Ore. 'Tie well thoa art not fish ; if thoo hadst, thoa badst been Poor-John. — ^Draw thy tool ; here comes two of the house of the Montagnes.
Sam. My naked weapon is ont : qaarrel; I will hack thee.
Ore. How 1 tnm thy back and ran ?
Sam, Fear me not.
Ore. No, marry ; I teax thee 1
Sam, Let qs take the law of onr sides ; let them begin.
Ore. I wiU &own as I pass hy ; and let them take it as they list.
Sam. Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thnmb at them ; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
£nter Abbabax and Bu/taABiB.
Abr. Do yoa bite yonr tbamb at as, sir ?
Sam, I do bite my thnmb, sir.
Abr. Do yoa bite your thnmb at ns, sir ?
Sam. laside to Ore.] la the law of our side, if I say ay?
Gre. [aside to Sam.'] No.
Sam. No, sit, I do not bite my thnmb at yon, sir ; but I bite my thumb, sir.
Ore, Do yon qnarrel, sir?
Abr. Qnarrel, sir! no, sir.
Sam, If yon do, sir, I am for yon : I serve as good a maD as yon.
Abr. No better.
Sam. Well, sir.
Ore. {aside to Sam.'] Say " better :" here comes one ofmy master's kinsmen.
Sam, Yes, better, sir.
Abr. Yon he.
Sam, Draw, if yoa be men. — Gregory, remember thy Hwashing blow. [Tlui/Jight.
Enter Bbnvolio. Sen. Part, fools I [Beata down tkeir »word$.
Fat ap yonr swords ; yoa know not what yoa do.
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BOWCO AND JUUET.
En/er TrBALT.
Tyb. What, art thon drawn among theae heartlesa hiude ? Turn thee, Benrolio, look upon thy death.
Ben. I do bnt keep the peace : pot op thy Bword, Or manage it to part theae men with me.
Tyb. What, drawn, and talk of peace ! I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagaea, and thee : Have at thee, coward ! [Tkeyjigkt.
Enter several ofhotli lioiueg, uhojoin the fray; then enter Citizens teilli clubs.
Cltueat. Clnha, bills, and partisans ! strike ! beat them down I Down with the Capnlets ! down with the MontagaeB !
Enter Capulet in hU goien, and Lady Capulft. Cap. What noise ia this ? — Give me my long aword, ho ! La. Cap. A crutch, a crutch ! — why call yon for a sword ? Cap. My sword, I say I — Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in epite of me.
Enter Montaque and Lady Uo^TAauE. Mon. Thon villain Capolet, — Hold me not, let me go.''^ La. Mon. Thoa shslt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
Enter Prince, with Attendants. Prin. Rebellione aubjects, enemies to peace, ProfaneiB of this neighbour-stained steel, — Will they not hear? — what, ho ! yon men, yon beasts. That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins, — On pain of torture, from those bloody hands Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground, And hear the sentence of your moved prince. — Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word. By thee, old Capnlet, and Montague, Have thrice disturb'd the qniet of onr streets; And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast-by their grare beseeming*" ornaments, To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
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Ganker'd mth peace, to part your canher'd hate :
If ever 700 disturb oar streeta again,
YoDT livee shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For thifl time, all the rest depart away : —
Yoa, Gapnlet, Bhall go along with me ; —
And, Montagae, come yoa this afternoon,
To know onr farther pleasore in this case,
To old Freetown, our common jndgmeiit-place. —
Once more, on pain of ^eath, all men depart.
[Exeunt ail except Montague, Lady Montague, and Benvolio.
Mon. Who set this ancient qnarrel new abroach ? — Speak, nephew, were you by when it began ?
Ben. Here were the servants of yonr adrersary. And yours, close fighting, ere I did approach : I drew to part them : in the inatBUt came The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar'd ; Which, as he breath'd defiance to my ears, He swung about his head, and cut the winds. Who, nothing hurt withal, his&'d him in scorn : While we were inte^anging thmsts and blows, Came more and more, and fought on part and part, Till the prince came, who parted either part.
La. Afon. 0, where is Borneo ? — saw you him to-day? — Bight glad am I he was not at this fray.
Ben. Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun Feer'd forth the golden window of the eeut, A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ; Where — underneath the grove of sycamore That westward rooteth from the city's side — So eaily walking did I see your son : Towards him I made ; but he was ware of me. And stole into the covert of the wood : I — ^measuring his affections by my own. That most are busied when they're most alone — Pnrsn'd my humour, not pursuing his, And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled &om me.
Mon. Many a morning hath he there been seen. With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew. Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs ;
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Bnt all ao soon as the all-cheering enn Should in the farthest east b^;iii to draw The shady curtains from Aurora's bed. Away from light steals home m; heaTy son. And private in his chamber pens himself; Sbatg np his windows, locks fair daylight ont, And makes himself an artificial night ; Black and portentoos must this hamoor prove, Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
Ben. My noble nncle, do yoa know the cause ?
Mon, I neither know it nor can learn of him.
Ben. Have you imp6rtun'd him by any means?
Mon. Both by myself and many other friends : Bat he, his own affections' coansellor. Is to himself, — I will not say how true, — But to himself bo secret and so close, So Ear from sonnding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm. Ere he can spread hie sweet leaves to the air. Or dedicate bis beauty to the snn.^*' Could we but learn from whence bis sorrows grow, We would as willingly give cure as know.
Ben. See, where he comes : so please yon, step aside ; I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.
Mon. I would thoQ wert so happy by thy stay To hear true shrift. — Gome, madam, let's away.
lExeunt Montague and iMdy.
Enter KoMBO,'** Ben, Good morrow, coutdu. Bom. Is the day so young?
Ben. But new struck nine.
Bam. Ay me I sad hoars seem long.
Was that my father that went hence so fast ?
Ben. It was. — What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours ?
Rom. Not having that, which having makes them short.
Ben. In love ?
Bom. Out —
Ben. Of love?
B<tm. Out of her favonr, where I am in love.
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Ben. AIbb, that love, so gentle in his view, Shoold be so tyrannous and rough in proof 1
Som. Alas, that lore, whose view is mnffled still, Should, without eyee, see pathways to hie will t — "Where ahall we dine ? — 0 me I — ^What fray wae here ? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, bat more with love : — Why, then, 0 brawling love ! 0 loving hate I 0 any thing, of nothing first created ! O heavy lightness I serions vanity I MiB-ehapen chaoe of well-seeming forms !'^ Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health I 8till-waMng sleep, tiiat is not what it is ! — This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost then not langh ?
Ben. No, coz, I rather weep.
Rom. Good heart, at what ?
Ben. At thy good heart's oppression.
Bom, Why, sach is love's transgression. — *" Oriefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast ; Which thoa wilt propagate, to have it prest With more of thine : this love, that thou hast shown, Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke rais'd with the fome of sighs ; Being pnrg'd,*^ a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes ; Being vez'd, a sea nonrish'd with lovers' tears : What is it else ? a madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. — Farewell, my coz.
Ben. Soft I I will go along :
An if yon leave me so, yon do me wrong.
Bom. Tat, I have lost myself; I am not here ; This is not Bomeo, he's some other where. ■
Ben. Tell me in sadness, who is that yoa love.
Bom. What, shall I groan, and tell thee ?
Ben. Groan I why, no;
Bat sadly tell me who.
Rom, Bid a sick man in sadness make his will, — Ah, word ill arg'd to one that is so ill ! — la sadness, coasio, I do love a vromao.
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Ben. I aim'd bo near, when I Buppos'd yon loT'd.
Bom. A right good mark-man!"' — And she'a fair I love.
Ben. A right fair mark, fair coz, is Booneat hit.
Rom. Well, in that hit yon misB : she'll not be hit With Gnpid'B arrow, — Bhe hath Dian's wit ; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, From love's weak childish how she lives nnharm'd.'"'' She will not stay the eiege of loving terms, Kor bide th' enconnter of assailing eyeB, Nor ope her lap to saint- sedncing gold : 0, she ia rich in beanty ; only poor, That, when she dies, with her dies beauty's store.""
Ben. Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste ?
Rom. She hath, and in that sparing makes hnge waste ; For beanty, starv'd with her severity, Cnta beanty off from all posterity. She is too fair, too wise ; wisely too fair. To merit blisB by making me despair : She hath forsworn to love ; and in that vow Do I live dead that live to teU it now.
Ben. Be ml'd by me, forget to think of her.
Rom. 0, teach me how I should forget to think.
Ben. By giving liberty nnto thine eyes ; Examine otiier beauties.
Rom. 'Tis the way
To call hers, exquisite, in qneetion more : These happy masks^^ that kiss fair ladies' brows, Being black, pnt as in mind they hide the fair ; He that is strnoken blind cannot forget The precions treasure of his eyesight lost : Show me a mistress that is paBslng fair, What doth her beauty serve, bat as a note Where I maj^ read who pass'd that passing fair ? Farewell : thoa canst not teach me to forget.
Ben. I'U pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. [Exeunt.
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SoEME n. Tke same. A street. Enter Capdlet, Pabib, and Serrent.
Cap. Bat Montague ia bound &a well as I, In penalty alike ; and 'tis not hard, I think. For men so old as we to keep the peace.
Par, Of hoDonrable reckoning are yon both ; And pity 'tis yon liv'd at odds bo long. But now, my lord, what say yon to my anit ?
Cap. Bnt saying o'er what I have said before : My child is yet a stranger in the world, She bath not seen the change of fourteen years ; Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Par. Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Cap. And too soon marr'd are those so early made."*^ The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she. She is the hopeful lady of my earth :"** Bnt woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart. My will to her consent is but a part ; An she agree, within her scope of choice Lies my consent and fair- according voice. This night I hold an old-accuatom'd feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I loTc ; and you, among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more. At my poor house look to behold this nigbt Earth -treading stars that make dark hearen light : Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-appareli'd April on the heel Of limping Winter treads, even such delight Among fresh female buds shall you this night Inherit at my house ; hear all, all see, And like her most whose merit most shall be : Whilst on more view of many, mine, being one. May stand in number, though in reckoning none.*''* Come, go with me. — [To the Servant, giving him a paper'] Go^
sirrah, trudge about Through fair Terona ; find those persons out
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WhoBe names are vritten there, and to them say, My bonse and welcome on their pleasnre stay.
[Exeunt Capulet and Paris, Serv. Find them ont whose names are written here ! It is written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with Ms last, the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with bis nets ; bat I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person bath here writ. I must to tbe learned : — in good time.
Enter Bentolio and Eoueo.
Ben. Tat, man, one fire bams out another's baming.
One pain is lessea'd by another's anguish ; Tom giddy, and be help by backward turning ;
One desperate grief cares with another's languish : Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
Rom. Your plantain -leaf is exceUeat for that. Ben. For what, I pray thee ?
Rom. For yoar broken shin.
Ben. Why, Borneo, art thou mad? Rom. Not mad, but bound more t^au a madman is ; Shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipp'd and tormented, and — God-den, good fellow. Sen: God gi' god-den. — I pray, sir, can yon read ? Rom, Ay, mine own fortone in my misery. Serv. Perhaps yon have learned it withoat book : but, I pray, can yoa read any thing yon see ?
Rom. Ay, if I know the letters and tbe language. Serv. Ye say honestly: rest you merry ! Rom. Stay, fellow; lean read. [Takes the paper and readt. " Signior Martino and his wife and daughters ; County Anselmo'^'') and his beauteous slaters ; Tbe lady widow of Vitnivio ; Signior Placentio and his lovely niecea j Mercutio and his brother Valentine ; Mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughten ; My 6iit niece Roealine and<"i Liria; Signior Yalentio and his coiuin I^balt ; Lucio and the lively Heleua.'*
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\Qwu^ back the paper] A fair oesembljr : whither Bhoold they oome ?
Serv. Up.
Rom. Whither?
Serv, To snpper to onr house."*'
Eom. 'Whose honse ?
Serv, My master's.
Horn, Indeed, I should have ask'd yon that before.
Serv. Now I'll tell you withont asking : my master is the great rich Capnlet ; and if yon be cot of the house of Mon- tagaes, I pray, come and crash a cap of wine. Best yon merry ! {Exit,
Ben. At this same ancient feast of Capolet's Saps the fair Rosaline whom thoa so lov'st ; With all th' admirM beauties of Verona : Go thither ; and, with anattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show. And I will make Uiee think thy swan a crow. JRom. When the deront religion of mine eye
Maintains each falsehood, then tnm tears to fires ; And these, — who, oflen drown'd, coald nerer die, —
Transparent heretics, be burnt for liaiB I One &iier than my love I th' all-seeing snn Ke'er saw her match since first the world begun.
Ben. Tat, tut,"^' yon saw her fair, none else being by, HerseK pois'd with herself in either eye ; But in that crystal ecales'*"' let there be weigh'd Your lady-love^'' against some other maid That I will show yon shining at this feast. And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Rom. I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, Bat to rejoice in splendour of mine own. [Exeunt.
SoBHB m. The same. A room in Capulet'b hotise. Elder Lady Capdlet and Nmae. La. Cap. Korse, whete's my daughter ? call her forth to
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Nune. Now, by my maidenhead, — at twelve year old, — I bade her come. — ^What, lamb ! what, lady-bird ! — God forbid !—where'fl this girl?— What, JnHet!
Enter JcuET.
Jid. How now ! who calla ?
Nurse, Yonr mother.
Jul. Madam, I'm here.
What is your will ?
La. Cap. This is the matter, — Nurse, give leave awhile. We must talk in secret : — nurse, come baok again ; I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel. Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age. • Nurse. Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
La. Cap. She's not fonrteeu.
Niirge. I'll lay fourteen of my teeth, —
And yet, to my teen be 't spoken, I have but four, — She is not fourteen. How long is it now To Lammas-tide ?
La. Cap. A fortnight and odd days.
Nurse. Even or odd, of all days in the year. Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she — God rest all Christian souls ! — Were of an age : well, Susan is with God ; She was too good for me : — but, as I said. On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen ; That shall she, marry ; I remember 't well. 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years ; And she was wean'd, — I never shall forget it, — Of all the days of the year, upon that day : For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, Sitting in the sun nuder the dove-bouse wall ; My lord and you were then at Mantua : — Nay, I do bear a brain : — but, as I said. When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple Of my dug, ^nd felt it bitter, pretty fool. To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug ! Shake, quoth the dove-boose : 'twas no need, I trow, To bid me trudge : And since that time it is eleven years ;
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Foi then she could Btand alone ; nay, b; the rood,
She conld have nm and waddled all about ;
For even the day before, she broke hot brow :
And then my husband — God be with his soul !
'A. was a merry man — ^took np the child :
" Yea," qnoth he, " dost then fall upon thy fiwia ?
Thon wilt fall backward when thoQ hast more wit ;
WUt thon not, Jale ?" and, by my halidom.
The pretty wretch left crying, and said "Ay:"
To see, now, how a jest ehall come about t
I warrant, an I Bhoald live a thousand years,
I never shoDld forget it : " Wilt thoa not, Jole ?" qnoth he ;
And, pretty fool, it stinted, and said " Ay."
La, Cap, Enongb of this ; I pray thee, hold thy peace.
Nurse. Yes, madam : — yet I cannot choose bat laugh, To think it should leave ciying, and say " Ay :" And yet, I warrant, it had npon its brow A bnmp as big as a young cockerel's stone ; A parlous knock ; and it cried bitterly : " Yea," quoth my husband, " fall'st upon thy £Bce ? Thou wilt fall backward when thon oom'st to age ; Wilt thou not, Jnle ?" it stinted, and said " Ay."
Jul, And stint thon too, I pray thee, nurse, say I,
Nune, Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace 1 Thon wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nurs'd : An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
La, Cap, Marry, that " marry " is the very dieme I came to talk of : — tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your disposition to be married ?
Jul. It is an honour that I dream not of.
Nurse. An honour t were not I thine only nurse, I'd say thou hadst suck'd wisdom &om thy teat.
La, Cap, Well, think of marriage now; younger than you. Here in Terona, ladies of esteem. Are made already mothers : by my count, I was your mother much upon these years That you are now a maid. Thus, then, in brief; — The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.
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Nurie. A man, jovaig ladyl lady, eaeh a maa Ab bU the world — why, he'a s man of wax.
La. Cap. Verona's aonunet hath not snch a fiower.
Nurse. Nay, he's a flower ; in &ith, a very flower.
La. Cap. What say yon ? can yoa love the gentleman ? This night yon shall behold him at ooi feast ; Bead o'er the rolmne of young Paris' face. And find delight writ there with bettaty's pen; Examine erery married lineament. And see how one another lends content ; And what obacar'd in this fair Tolome lies Find written in the margent of his eyes. This precious book of love, this nnbonnd lover, To beantify him only lacks a cover : The fish lives in the sea ;"*' and 'tis mach pride For fair without the fair within to hide : That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps locks in the golden story ; So shall yon share all that he doth possess, By having him, making yonrself no lees.
Nurse. No less ! nay, bigger; women grow by men.
La. Cap. Speak briefly, can yon like of Paris' love ?
<7ul. I'll look to like, if looking liking move : Bat no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it By.
Enter a Servant. Serv. Madam, the gnests are come, snpper served ap, yoa called, myyoang lady asked for, the nnrse corsed in the pan- try, and every thing in extremity. I must hence to wait ; I beseech yon, follow straight.
La. Cap. We follow thee. [Exit Servant.] — Jaliet, the
county stays. Nurte. Qo, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
[Exeunt,
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SoBHB rV. The same. A street,
Enter Boueo, Mekcctio, Bekvolio, viithfive or six Maskers, Torch-beoreiB, and others.
Bom. What, shall thia apeeoh be spoke for oar ezonse? Or shall we on vithoat apology 7
Ben. The date is oat of sDch prolixity : We'll have no Copid hoodnink'd trith e, scarf, BeariDg a Tartar's painted bow of lath. Soaring the ladies like a crow-keeper ; Nor no without-book prologne, &intl7 spoke After the prompter, for our entrance : Bat, let them measore us b; what they will, We'll measate them a measare, and be gone.
Bom. Give me a torch, — 1 am not for this ambling; Being bat heary, I will bear the light.
Mer. Nay, gentle Borneo, we mnst hare yon dance.
Bom. Not I, believe me : yon have dancing-shoes With nimble soles : I hare a goal of lead. So stakes me to the ground I cannot more.
MeT. Yon are a lover ; borrow Cnpid's wings, And soar with them above a common boand.
Rom. I am too sore enpiercdd**^ with his shaft. To soar with his light feathers ; and so bound, I uannot bomtd a pitch above doll woe : Under love's heavy harden do I sink.
Mer. And, to sink in it, should yoa harden Ioto ; Too great oppression for a tender thing.
Bom. Is love a tender thing ? it is too rongh. Too rode, too boisteroiiB, and it pricks like thorn.
Mer. If love be rough vrith yon, be rough with love ; Piick love for pricking, and you beat love down. — Give me a case to pat my visage in : {Paitmj/ on a tnask. A visor for a visor ! — what oare I What curions eye doth quote deformities ? Here are the beetle-brows shall blush for me.
Ben, Come, knock and enter ; and no sooner in, Bat every man betake bim to his legs.
Bom. A torch for me : let wantons, light of heart, VOL. VI. DD
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Tickle the senseleas raalies with their heels ; for I am proverb'd witli a grandeire phrase, — I'll be a candle-holder, aad look on, — The game was ne'er so fair, and I am dose.
Mer. Tut, dnn's the mouse, the constable's own word : If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire Of this sir-reverence loTe, wherein thon stick'st Up to the ears. — Come, we bum daylight, ho I
Rom. Nay, that's not so.
Mer. I mean, sir, in delay
We waste onr lights in vain, like lamps by day. Take onr good meaning, for oar judgment sits Five times in that, ere once in our five wits.*"*
Eom. And we mean well, in going to this mas([ne; But 'tis DO wit to go.
Mer. Why, may one ask ?
Rom. I dreamt a dream to-night.
Mer. And so did I.
Rom. Well, what was yonre ?
Mer. That dreamers often lie.
Eom. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
Mer. 0, then, I see Qneen Mab hath been wil^ yoa. She is the fairies' midwife ;''" and she comea In shape do bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinnerfl' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams; Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her wagoner, a small gray-coated gnat. Not half so big as a ronnd little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut,**® Made by the joiner squirrel or old grab. Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakets. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
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O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on conrt'sies straight ; O'er lawyers' fingers, vho straight dream on fees; O'er ladies' lips,"" who straight on kissea dream, — Which oft the angry Mah with bUsters plagnee, Beoaose their breatlis with sweetmeats tainted are : Sometime she gallops o'er a conrtier's nose,'*^ And then dreams he of smelling ont a snit ; And sometime comes ehe with a tithe-pig's tail Tickling a parson's nose as 'a'**' lios asleep, Then dreams he of another benefice : Sometime she drireth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats. Of breaches, ambnscadoes, Spanish blades. Of healths five-fathom deep ; and then anon Dmms in his ear, at which be starts, and wakes ; And, being thns frighted, eweara a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in fool slnttish hairs. Which once untangled, mnch misfortnne bodes : This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs. That presses them, and learns them first to bear.
Making them women of good carriage :
This is she—
Rom. Peace, peace, Mercntio, peace I
Thoa talk'st of nothing.
Mer. True, I talk of dreams ;
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but rain fantasy ;
Which is as thin of sabstance as the air ;
And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes
Even now the frozen bosom of the north.
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence.
Taming his face to the dew-dropping soath.
Ben. This wind, yon talk of, blows ne &om onrselves ;
Sapper is done, and we shall come too late.
Rom. I fear, too early : for my mind misgives
Some conseqnence, yet hanging in the stare.
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels ; and expire the term
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Of a despisM life, cloa'd in my breast. By flome rile forfeit of untimely death : But He, that hath the steerage of my coarse, Direct my sail ! — On, Insty gentlemen !
Ben. Strike, dram.*" [Earctinf-
SoEKE V. The tame. A hall in Capulet's htmae. Musicians leaithig. Enter Seirants.
First Serv. Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take «wsy ? he shift a trencher I he scrape a trencher !
Sec. Sen: "When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's hands, and they unwashed too, 'tis a fool thing.
First Serv. iway with the joint-stools, remove the eonrt- eapboard, look to the plate : — good thou, save me a piece of marchpane ; and, as thon lovest me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. — Antony Potpan !''"
Sec. Serv, Ay, boy, ready.
First Serv. Yoa are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the great chamber.
Sec. Serv. We cannot be here and there too. — Cheerly, boys ; be brisk awhile, and the longer lirer take all.
[They retire behind.
Enter Caphlbt, Lady Capdlct, Juubt, Tybalt, and otliers of the house, with the Guests mid Maskers. Cap. Welcome, gentlemen!'"* ladies that have their toes Unplagn'd with corns will have a bout with yon : — Ah ha, my mistresses ! which of yon all Will now deny to dance ? she that makes dainty, She,**" I'll swear, hath corns ; am I come near ye now ? — Welcome, gentlemen ! I have seen the day That I have worn a visor ; and could tell A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear, Such as would please ; — 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone : You're welcome, gentlemen ! — Come, musicians, play. — A hall, a hall ! give room ! and foot it, girls. —
[Mime pUips, and tliey dance. More light, you knaves; and tarn the tables np.
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And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot. — Ah, sirrah, this nnlook'd-for sport comee well. Nay, sit, nay, sit, good consin Gapnlet; for yon and I are past oar dancing days : How long is't now since last yourself and I Were in a mask ?
Sec. Cap. By't lady, thirty years.
Cap. What, man t 'tis not so much, 'tis not so mach : 'Tie Bince the nuptial of Lncentio, Come Pentecost as quickly as it will. Some five-and-twenty years ; and then we mask'd.
Sec. Cap. 'Tis more, 'tis more : hia son is elder, Bir ; His son is thirty.
Cap. Will you tell me that ?
His son was but a ward two years ago.
Bom. {to a Servant] What lady's that, whie^ doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight ?
Serv. I know not, flir.
Eom. 0, she doth teach the torches to bum bright I Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of nighf "* Like a rich jewel in an Ethtop's ear; Beaaty too rich for use, for earth too dear I So shows a snowy do?e trooping with crows. As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done. Til watch her place of stand. And, touching hers, make blessM my rode hand. Did my heart lore till now? fomwear it, sight f For I ne'er saw true beauty till Uiis night.
Tyb. This, by bis voice, shoold be a Montagne : — Fetch me my rapier, boy : — ^what, dares the slave Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and Boom at our solemnity 7 Now, by the stock and honour of my Mn, To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
Ce^. Why, how now, kinfoinT' I wherefore storm yon
BO?
Tyb. Uncle, tbia is a Montague, our foe ; A villain, that is hither come in spite, To scom at our solemnity this night.
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Cap. Yonng Borneo ia't?
Tyb. "Tifl he, that villain Borneo.
Cap. Content thee, gentle cos, let him slone. He be&TB him like a portly geotiemui ; And, to say troth, Teron& hrage of him To be a TirtaonH and well-govem'd yonth : I would not for the wealth of all this town Here in my honse do him disparagement: Therefore be patient, take no note of him, — It is my will ; the which if thoa reBpeot, Show a &ir presence, and put off these frowns. An ill'beseeming semblaDce for a feast.
Tyb. It fits, when each a villain is a gnest : 111 not endure him.
Cap. He shall be endar'd :
What, goodman boy I — I say, he shall ; — go to ; Jim I the master here, or yon ? go to. Yonll not endure him ! — God shall mend my sool, Toa'll make a mutiny among my gnests t Yon will set cook-a-hoop 1 yon'll be the man i
Tyb. Why, micle, 'tis » shame —
Cap. Oo to, go to ;
You are a sanoy hoy : — is't so, indeed ? — This triok may chance to scathe yoa, — ^I know what : Yon most contrfiry me ! marry, 'tis time. — Well said, my hearts ! — Yon are a prinoox ; go : Be qniet, or — More light, more light ! — For shame ! Ill make yoa qoiet ; what ! — Cheerly, my hearts )
Tyb, Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting Makes my flesh tnniible in their different greeting. . I will wiUidraw : bat this intmsion shall. Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.'"' [Exit.
Rom, [to Juliet] If I pro&ne with my nnworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine'*^ is this, — My lips, two binshing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kisa. Jvl, Good pilgrim, yoa do wrong yonr hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do toaeh. And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
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Rom. Have not Baints Hps, and hoi; palmers too ? Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lipB that they muBt ase in prayer.
Horn. 0, then, dear aaint, let lips do what handa do ;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith tarn to despair. JtU. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. Bom. Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yonrs, my sin is pnrg'd.
[Kming her. Jvl, Then haTe my lips the sio that they have took.
Bom. Sin &om my lips ? O trespass sweetly nrg'd 1
Give me my sin again. [Kisair^ her again.
Jul. YoQ kiss by the book.
Nurse. Madam, your mother craves a word with yon.
Rom, What is her mother ?
Nurse. Marrj^ bachelor.
Her mother is the lady of the honse, And a good lady, and a wise and virtnons : I nars'd her daughter, that yon talk'd withal ; I tell yon, he that can lay hold of her Sha' ive the chinks.'*"
J. 'III. Is she a Capolet ?
0 dear accoant I my life is my foe's debt.
Ben. Away, be gone; the sport is at the best.
Bom. Ay, bo I fear ; the more is my unrest.
Cap. May, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone ; We have a trifling foolish banqnet towards. — Ib it e'en so 7 why, then, I thank yon all ;
1 thank you, honest gentlemen ; goodnight. — More torches here ! — Come on, then, let's to bed. [To Sec, Cap."] Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late :
111 to my rest. [Exeunt all except Juliet and Nurse,
Jid. Come hither, nnrse. What is yond gentleman ?
Nune. The son and heir of old Tiberio.
Jul, What's he that now is going 6ut of door ?
Nurse. Marry, that, I think, be young Petmchio.
Jul, What's he that fbllows there, that woold not danea?
Nurse. I know not.
Jul. Go, ask his name : — if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding-bed.
Nurse, His name is Borneo, and a Montague ;
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The only son of your great enemy.
Jvi. My only love sprung from my only hate ! Too early seen auknown, and knovn too late t Prodigious birth of love it is to me. That I must love a loathM enemy.
Nurae. 'What's this ? what's this ?
Jul. A rhyme I leam'd even now
Of one I danc'd withal, [One calls tcitliin, " Jnliet."
Narte, Anon, anon ! —
Come, let's away ; the strangers all are gone. [Exeunt.
Enter Chorus. Chor. Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie.
And yoang affection gapes to be his heir ; That fair, for which love groan'd for, and woald die,
With tender JoUet match'd, is now not fair. Now Borneo is belov'd, and loyea again,
Alike bewitched by the charm of looks ; But to his foe sappos'd he must complain.
And she steal love's sweet bait &om fearful hooks : Being held a foe, he may not have access
To breathe such tows as lovers nse to swear ; And she as mnch in love, her means much less
To meet her new-beloved any where : Bnt passion lends them power, time means, to meet, Tempering extremities with Extreme sweet. {Exit.
ACT II.
Scene I. Verona. An open 'place adjoining the Kail of Capolet'b orchard.
Enter Boueo. Rom. Can I go forward when my heart is here ? Tnm back, dnll earth, and find thy centre oat.
[He elitnhs the waU, and leaps dawn rcitkin it.
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Enter Behvolio and Mbrcutio.
Ben. Borneo t my consiD Borneo !
Mer. He is wise ;
And, on my life, IiAth stol'n him home to bed.
Ben. He no thiB way, and leap'd this orchard-wall : Call, good Mercatio.
Mer. Nay, Til conjoze too. — "**
Borneo 1 hamoars ! madman t passion ! lover I Appear thon in the likeaess of a sigh : Speak but one rhyme, and I am BatieGed ; Cry bat " Ay me !" prononnce but " loTe" and " dove ;" Speak to my gossip Venus one &ir word, One nickname for her purblind son and heir, Toong Adam Capid,'*" be that shot bo trim, When Sing Copbetna lov'd the beggar-maid ! — He heareth not, be BtirreUi not, he moveth not ; The ape ib dead, and I most conjure him. — I conjore thee by Bosaline's bright eyes. By her high forehead and her scarlet lip. By her fine foot, straight leg, and goiTering thigh, And the demeaneB that there adjacent lie. That in thy likeness thou appear to ns !
Ben. An if he bear ibee, thon wilt auger him.
Mer. This cannot anger him : 'twould anger him To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle Of some strange nature, letting it there Btand Till she had laid it and conjnr'd it down ; That were some spite : my invocation Is fair and honest, and, in bis mistress' name, I conjure only but to raise up him.
Ben. Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, To be consorted with the humorous night : Blind is hia love, and best befits the dark.
Mer. If love be bhnd, love cannot hit the mark. Now will be sit under a medlar-tree. And wish his mistress were that kind of frnit As maids call medlars, when tbey laugh alone. — ■ O, Romeo, that she were, 0 that she were An open et-catera, thou a poperis pear I
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Borneo, good night : — I'll to my trackle-bed ; This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep : Come, shall we go ?
Ben. Go, then ; for 'tis in Tain
To seek him here that means not to be foond. [Exeunt.
SCBKE n. The tame. CiSOhBT'a orcluird. Enter Bombo. Bom. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. —
\Jidiet appeaTt above at a window. Bnt, soft ! what light thiongh yonder window breaks ? It is the east, and Juliet is the san 1— Arise, fair snn, and kill the enviona moon, Who is already siok and pale with grief, That thou her maid art &r more fair than she : Be not her maid, since she is envioas ; Her restal livery is bat pale'*^ and green. And none bat fools do wear it; cast it off.-— It is my lady ; 0, it is my love !
0 that she knew she were ! —
She speaks, yet she saya nothing : what of that 9 'Ret eye diBcoarses ; I will answer it. — ■
1 am too bold ; 'tis not to me she speaks : Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven. Having some bnsiness, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their BphereB till they retnrn. What if her eyes were there, they in her head 7
The brightness of her cheek vonld shame those stars. As daylight doth a lamp ; her eyes in heaven Woald throagh the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. — See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand 1 0 that I were a glove apon that hand, That I might toach that cheek I
Jvl. Ay me 1
Rom. She speaks: —
O, speak again, bright angel 1 for thoa art
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As glorious to this night, being o'er m; head, Ab is a vlngM messeiiger of hearen Unto the white-aptnm^ vondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestridoB the lazy-pacing'*** clonds And sails apon the bosom of the air.
Jul. 0 Romeo, Borneo I wherefore art thoa Romeo ? Deny thy father, and refase thy name ; Or, if thou wilt not, be but Bwom my Ioto, And m no longer be a Capnlet.
Rom. [aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this ?
Jul, 'Tis bnt thy name that is my enemy ; — Thou art thyself though, not a Montague.'*^' "Wliat's Montague ? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor &ce, nor any other part Belonging to a man.'^ 0, be some other name I What's in a name ? that which we call a rose By any other name wonld smell as sweet ; 3o Borneo would, were he not Bomeo oall'd. Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title : — Bomeo, doff thy name ; And for that name, which is no part of thee. Take all myself.
Rom. I take thee at thy word :
Call me bnt Iotc, and I'll be new baptiz'd ; Henceforth I never will be Bomeo,
Jul, What man art then, that, thus bescreen'd in night. So Btnmblest on my coonsel ?
Rom. By a name
I know not how to tell diee who I am : My name, dear saint, ia hatefnl to myself, Becanse it ia an enemy to thee ; Had I it written, I woTild tear the word.
Jul. My ears have not yet drank a himdred words Of that tosgne's ntterance, yet I know the soond : Art then not Romeo and a Montague ?
Rom. Neither, fair saint, if either thee diBlike>
Jul, How cam'st thoa hither, tell me, and whezefiSre ? The orchard-walls are high and hard to climb ; And the place death, cimsidering who thoa art,
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If any of my kinamen fiDd thee here.
Bom. With love's light wingB did I o'er-peroh Uiese wtJls ; For Btony limits csnoot hold love oat : And what lore can do, that dares love attempt ; Therefore thy kinsmen are do let to me.
Jul. If they do see thee, they will morder thee.
Bom. Alack, there lies more peril in thine ^e Than twenty of their swords : look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Jul. I woold not for the world they saw thee here.
Bom. I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight ; And bnt thoo love me, let them find me here : My life were better ended by their hate Than death prorognM, waiting of thy love.
Jvi. By whose direction foand'st thon ont this place ?
Bom. By love, who first did prompt me to inquire ; He lent me connsel, and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot ; yet, wert thon as &r As that vast shore wash'd with the furthest eea, I would adventore for each merchandise.
Jul. Thon know'et the mask of night is on my face, Else wonld a maiden hlnsh bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain woold I dwell on form, foin, fain deny What I have spoke : but fitiewell compliment t Dost thon love me ? I know thon wilt say " Ay ;" And I will take thy word : yet, if thon swear'st, ThoQ mayst prove false ; at lovers' perjories. They say, Jove langhs. 0 gentle Romeo, If thon dost love, prononnce it faithfnlly : Or if then think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay. So thon wilt woo ; bat else, not for the world. In truth, &ur Uontagoe, I am too fond ; And therefore thon mayst think my havioar light : But tmst me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more canning to be strange. I should have been more strange, I must confess. But that thou overheard'st, ere X was ware, My true love's passion : therefore pardon me ;
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And not impute this yielding to light love, Wluch the dark ni^t hath bo discovered.
Rom. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear. That tips with silrer all these froit-tree tops, —
Jnl, O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon. That monthly changes in her circled orb. Lest that thy love prove liliewise variable.
Bom. What shall I swear by ?
JvX. Do not swear at all ;
Or, if thon wilt, swear by thy gracious self. Which is the god of my idolatry. And I'll believe thee.
Rom. If my heart's dear love —
Jul. Well, do not swear : although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadris'd, too sndden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say " It lightens." Sweet, good night ! This bad of love, by summer's ripening breath. May prove a beanteons flower when next we meet. Good night, good night ! as sweet repose and rest Come to thy heart as that within my breast !
Rom. 0, wilt thon leave me so unsatisfied ?
Jvi, What satisfaction canst thon have to-night ?
Earn. Th.' exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.
Jul, I gave thee mine before thou didst request it ; And yet I would it were to give again.
Rom. Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?
Jul. Bat to be frank, and give it thee ^ain. And yet I wish but for the thing I have : My bounty is as bonndless as the sea, My love as deep ; the mora I give to thee. The more I have, for both are infinite. I hear some noise within ; dear love, adieu 1 —
[^Witrse eali* within. Anon, good nurse ! — Sweet Montague, be true. Stay but a little, I will come again. lExit above.
Rom. 0 blessM, bless^ night ! I am afeard, Being in night, all this is but a dream. Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.
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Re-enter Jcliet above. Jid. Three wordB, dear Romeo, and good nigbt indeed. If that thy bent of loTe be honoorable. Thy pnrpose marriage, send me word to-morrow. By one that I'll prooore to come to thee. Where and what time thoa wilt perform the rite ; AmA all my fortimes at thy foot I'll lay. And follow thee my lord thronghoat the world. Nurse, [witkiii] Madam !
Jul. I come, anon :■ — Bat if thoa mean'at not well, I do beseech thee —
Nurse, [wit/iin] Madam !
Jul. By and by, I come : —
To cease thy soit,'^ and leave me to my grief : To-morrow will I send.
Rom. So thrive my sonl —
Jul. A thousand times good night ! [^Exit above.
Bom. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. — Love goos toward love, as schoolboys from their books ; Bat love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
[Retiring. Se-enter Jdliki above. Jul. Hist t Bomeo, hist ! — 0 for a falconer's voice, To Inre this tassel-gentle back ^ain ! Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aload ; Else wonld I tear the cave where Echo lies. And make her airy tongne more hoarse than mine,'*°' "With repetition of my Romeo's name.
Rom. It is my soul that calls upon my name : How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongces by night. Like softest masic to attending ears I Jul. Romeo!
Rom. My dear?'**'
Jul. At what o'clock to-morrow
Shall I send to thee 9
Rom. At the hont of nine.
Jul. I will not fail : 'tis twenty years till then. I have forgot why I did call thee back.
Rom. Let me stand here till thoa remember it.
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Jul. I shall forget, to have thee Btill stand there, Bemembering hov I love th; company.
Bom. And Til Btill stay, to have thee still forget. Forgetting any other home but this.
Jill. 'Tis almost morning ; I would hare thee gone, — And yet no further than a wanton's bird, Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner injiis twisted gyres. And with a silk thread plaoks it back again, So loTing-jealons of his liberty.
Rom. 1 wonld I were thy bird.
Jvi. Sweet, so wonld I :
Yet I ehonld kill thee with mnch cherishing. Oood night, good night t parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say good night till it be morrow. ^Exit above.
Bom. Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast ( — Woold I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest ! Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell, His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell. [Exit.
SCESE in. The same. Friar XuWIBBNOb'b ceU. Enter Friar Laurence, with a hatket. Fri. L. The gray-ey'd mom smiles on the frowning night. Chequering the eastern clonds with streaks of hght; And flecked darkness like a dmnkard reels From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels : Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye. The day to cheer, and night's dank dew to dry, I mast np-fill this osier-cage of ours With baleful weeds and precioua-juicfed flowers. The earth, that's nature's mother, is her tomb ; What is her burying grave, that is her womb : And from her womb children of divers kind We sucking on her natural bosom find ; Many for many virtues excellent. None but for some, and yet all different. 0, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
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III herbs, plaota, stones, and tbeir trne qnalities :
For naught so vile that on the earth doth live,
Bnt to tiie earth some special good doth give ;
Nor anght bo good, bnt, strain'd from that fair use,
BeTolta horn tme birth, stnmbling on abase :
Virtne itself turns -vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometime 's b; action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence, and medicine power :
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp'*^ them still
In man as veil as herbs, — grace and mde will ;
And where the worser is predominant,
Fall soon the canker death eata np that plant.
Enter Eomeo,
Rom. Good morrow, father.
Fri. L. Benedicite !
What early tongne so sweet salnteth me ? — Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed : Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. And where care lodges sleep will never lie ; Bat where anbraised'*' yonth with nnstnfTd brain Doth coach his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign : Therefore thy earliness doth me aseore Thou art np-rous'd by some distempetatnte ; Or if not so, then here I bit it right, — Oar Borneo hath not been in bed to-night.
Rom. That last is true ; the sweeter rest was mine.
Fri. L. God pardon sin I wast thoa with Rosaline ?
Rom. With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no; I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.
Fri. L. That's my good son : bat where bast thou b< then?
Rom. I'll tell thee, ere then ask it me agen. I have been feasting with mine enemy ; Where, on a sndden, one hath wonnded me. That's by me wonnded : both oar remedies
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Within thy help mi holy physic lies : I bear no hatred, blees^d man ; for, lo. My interceBsioD likewise steads my foe.
Fri. L. Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift ; Biddling confession finds bnt riddling shrift.
Bom. Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set On ike fail daughter of rich Capnlet : As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine ; And all combin'd, save what thon must combine By holy marriage : when, and where, and how, We met, we woo'd, and made exchange of tow, I'll tell thee as we pass ; bnt this I pray, That thoQ consent to marry qb to-day.
jFH. L, Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here ! Is Bosaline, whom thon didst love so dear. So Boon forsaken ? yonng men's love, then, lies Not trnly in their hearts, but in their eyes. Jesa Maria, what a deal of brine Hath waeh'd thy sallow cheekB for Bosaline I How much salt water thrown away in waste. To season Iotc, that of it doth not taste t The Bun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears ; liO, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet : If e'er thon wast thyself, and these woes thine. Then and these woes were all for Bosaline : And art thon chang'd 9 pronounce this sentence, then, — Women may tail, when there's no strength in men.
Bom. Then chidd'st me oil for loving Bosaline.
Fri. L. For doting, not for loving, pnpil mine.
Rom, And bad'at me bury love.
FVi. L. Not in a grave.
To lay one in, another out to have.
Bom. I pray thee, chide not : she whom I love now Doth grace for grace and love for love allow ; The other did not so.
Fri, L. O, she knew well
Thy love did read by rote, and conld not flpell. Bnt oome, yoong waverer, come, go with me,
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Iq one respect Til ihj asBistant be ;
For this alliance may so bappy prove.
To tnm your honseholda' rancour to pare love.
Som. 0, let Q8 hence ; I stand on sadden haste.
F}-i. L. Wisely, and slow ; they stumble that run fest.
[^Exeant.
Scene IV. The same. A street. Enter Bekvolio and Mkbcutio.
Mer. Why, where the devil Bhould this Romeo be ? — '*** Came he not home to-night?
Ben. Not to his father's ; I spoke with his man.
Mer. Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, Torments him so, that he will sure ran mad.
Ben. Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet, Hath sent a letter to bis father's honse.
Mer. A challenge, on my life.
Ben. Romeo will answer it.
Mer. Any man that can write may answer a letter.
Ben. Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he dares, being dared.
Mer. Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead ! stabbed with ft white wench's black eye ; shot thorough the ear with a love- song ; the very pin of his heart cleft Tvith the bUnd bow-boy's butt-shaft ; and is be a man to enconnter Tybalt ?
Ben. Why, what is Tybalt ?
Mer. More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is the courageous captain of complements,""' He Sghts as yoo sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and the third in your bosom : the very butcher of a silk button, a daelUst, a dueUist; a gentleman of the very first house, — of the first and second cause : ah, the immortal passado ! the punto leverso ! the hay! —
Ben. The what ?
Mer. The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fentasti- coes; these new tuners of accents! — "By Jeau, a very good blade! — a very tall man! — a very good whore!" — Why, »
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not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we shoold Iw thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, tiieae pardonnez-moU, who stand bo much on the new form that they cannot sit at ease on the old henoh ? 0, their hont, theurftoiw.'""
Ben. Here oomee Borneo, here comes Borneo.
Mer. Withont hia roe, like a dried herring : — 0 flesh, flesh, how art thon fishified!— -Now is he for the nnmbera that Petrarch flowed in : Laura, to his lady, was bat a kitchen- wench, — ^marry, she had a better love to be-rbyme her ; Dido, a dowdy ; Cleopatra, a gipsy ; Helen and Hero, hildings and harlots; Thisbe, a gray eye or so, bat not to the parpose : —
KntsT BouEa Signior Borneo, ton jour ! there's a French salutation to your French slop. Yon gare us the counterfeit fairly last night.
Rom. Ctood morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give yon ?
Mer. The slip, sir, the slip ; can you not conceive ?
Bom. Pardon, good Mercntio, my business was great ; and in sach a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
Mer. That's as much as to say, Such a case as years con- strains a map to bow in the hams.
Rom. Meaning, to coart'sy.
Mer. Thoa hast most kindly hit it.
Bom. A most courteous exposition.
Mer. Nay, I am the very pink of eoartesy.
Rom. Pink for flower.
Mer. Bight.
Bom. Why, then is my pnmp well-flowered.
Mer. Well said : follow me this jest now, till thou hasfi worn out thy pump; that, when the single sole of it is wcmh, the jest may remain, after the wearing, solely singular.
Bom. O single-soled jest, solely singular for the single- ness!
Mer. Come between us, good BeuTolio, for my wits fail.
Rom. Switch and spurs, switch and spars ; or I'll cry a match.
Mer. Nay, if thy wits ran the wild-goose chase, I have done ; for thoa hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy
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vitB than, I am eare, I bare in my whole fiVe : was I with yoa there for the goose ?
Eom. ThoQ waBt never with me for any thing when thou waBt not there for the gooae.
Mer. I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.
Jtom. Nay, good goose, bite not.
Mer. Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting ; it is a most sharp sauce.
Rom. And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?
Mer. 0, here's a wit of cheTeril, that Btretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad !
Som. Istretchitontforthat word "broad;" which, added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.
Mer. Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? BOW art thou sociable, now art thoa Borneo ; now art thoa what thoa art, by art as well as by natnre : for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that mns lolling np and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
Ben. Stop there, stop there.
Mer. Thoa desirest me to stop in my tale against the
Ben. Thoa wooldst else have made thy tale large.
Mer. 0, thoQ art deceived ; I woold have made it short : for I was come to the whole depth of my tale ; and meant, indeed, to oconpy the argament no longer.
Bom. Here's goodly gear !
Hiiler IfuisB and Peter,
Mer. A. Bail, a soil, a sail I
Ben, Two, two ; a shirt and a smoclc."^'
Nurie. Peter!
Peter. Anon?
Nurte. My fan, Peter.
Mer. OoodPeter.to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face.
Nurse. Ood ye good morrow, gentlemen.
Mer. Ood ye good den, fair gentlewoman.
Nurse. Is it good den 7
Mer. 'Tis no less, I tell you ; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon.
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Nune. Out upon yoa J what a man are yon I
Bom. One, gentlewoman, that God hath made, for him- self to mar.
Nwr$e. By my troth, it is well said ; — " for himself to jnar," qnoth 'a ? — Ctantlemen, can any of yoa tell ma whero I may find the yonng Romeo ?
Bom. I can tell yoa; hot young Bomeo will he older when yoa hare foand him than he was when yoa songht him : I am the yonngeat of that came, for &alt of a worse.
Nurse. Yon say well.
Mer. Tea, is the worst well? very well took, i' £uth; wisely, wisely.
Nurse. If yon be he, sir, I desire some confidence with jou.
Sen. She will iadite**** him to some sapper.
Mer. A bawd, a bawd, a bawd ! So-ho 1
Rom. What hast thoa foand ?
Mer. Ko hare, sir; nnless a hare, sir, in a lesten pie, ihat is BomeUiing stale and hoar ere it be spent. ISingt.
An old bare boar,*
And on old hare hoar, Is very good meat in lent :
But a hare ihat is hoar
Is too maoh for a ecore. When it boais ere it be spent. —
Romeo, will yoa come to yoar father's ? we'll to dinner thi- ther.
Bom. I will follow yoa.
Mer. Farewell, ancient Udy; farewell, — [nnging] lady, lady, Udy.f lExeunt Mercutio and Benvolio.
Nurae. Marry, farewell ! — I pray yon, air, what saa^ mer- chant was this, that was so fall of hie ropery ?
Rom, A gentleman, nntse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will apeak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
Nune. An 'a speak any thing against me, I'll take him
■ An oJd hart lioar, fte.] " Tliwe Unes appear to have b«en part of an dd flong." HiLom.
t ladf, lady, laiy."] The bnrien of an tU ItaDad: we TtBiiftk-NigM, ToL lU. p. 843 and note,
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down, ftn 'ft were Instier than be ie, and twen^ sach Jacks ; Rnd if I cannot, I'll find thoBO that shall. Scarvj knave I I am none of his flirt-gills ; I am none of his Bkains-mates. — - And thoQ mast stand b; too, and anfier ereiy knave to nse me at his pleaEinte ?
Peter. I saw no man use yon at his pleasure ; if I had, my weapon should qnictly have been ont, I warrant 70a : I dare draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a good qnarrel, and the law on my side.
Nurse. Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about me qnivsrs. Scurvy knave ! — Pray you, sir, a word : and, as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you ont ; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself; but first let me tell ye, if ye shoold lead her into a fool's-paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say : for the gentlewoman is young; and therefore, if yoa should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak***' dealing.
Rom. Norae, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I protest unto thee —
Nurse. Good heart, and, i' faiUi, I will tell her as much : Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.
Rom. Wbat wilt thon tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.
Nurse. I will tell her, sir, — that yoa do protest ; which, BB I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.
Rom. Bid her devise some means to come to shrift This afternoon ;
And there she shall at Friat Laurence' cell Be shriv'd and married.'"' Here is for thy pains.
Nurse. No, truly, sir ; not a penny.
Rom. Go to ; I say you shall.
Nwve. This afternoon, sti? well, she shall be there^
Rom. And stay, good nnrse, behind the abbey-wall : Within this honr my man shall be with thee. And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair ; Which to the high top-gallant of my joy Mast be my convoy in Uie secret night. Farewell ; be trusty, and I'll quite thy pains : Farewell ; commend me to thy mistress.
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Nurse, Now God in heaven bless thee ! — Hark yon, sir.
Rom. What say'st thou, my dear nnrse?
Nurse. Is yoar man secret? Did yon ne'er hear say, Two may keep coansel, patting one away ?
Bom. H^ warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.
Nurse. Well, sir ; my mistress is the sweetest lady — Lord, Loid ! when 'twas a little prating thing,— 0, there is a no- bleman in town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife aboard ; but she, good soul, had as lief see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her sometimes, and tell her that Paris is the properei man ; but, I'll warrant yoa, when I say so, she looks as pale as any clont in the versa] world. Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter ?
Rom. Ay, nurse ; what of that ? both with an R.
Nurse. Ah, mocker ! that's the dog's name; R is for the dog : no ; I know'^^' it begins with some other letter : — and she hath the prettiest sententlons of it, of yon and rosemary, that it wonld do yoa good to hear it.
Rom. Commend me to thy hidy.
Nurse. Ay, a thoasand times. [Exit Romeo.'] — Peter!
Peter. Anon?
Nurse. Peter, take my fan, and go before. [Exeunt.
Scene V. Tke same. Capulet's orchard. Enter Jdliet. Jul. The clock strnck nine when I did send the nurse ; In half an hoar she promis'd to retnm. Perchance she cannot meet him : — that's not bo. — 0, she is lame ! lore's heralds shonld be thongbta, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams, Driving back'"' shadows over loaring hills : Therefore do mmble<pinion'd doves draw love. And therefore hath the wind-swift Cnpid wings. Now is the sun upon the highmost hill Of this day's jonmey; and from nine till twelve Is three long boars, — ^yet she is not come. Had she affeotions and warm yonthfal blood.
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She'd be &s sviit in motion as ft ball ;
My words wonld band; her to my sweet loye,
And his to me :
Bnt old fol^B, man; feign as they were dead;'**
Unwieldy, elow, heavy and pale ag lead. —
0 God, she comes !
Enter Nuiee and Peteb. 0 honey nurse, what news ? Hast thon met with him ? Send thy man away. ■ Nur. Peter, stay at the gate. {Exit Peter.
Jul. Now, good sweet norse, — 0 Lord, why look'st thou sad? Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; If good, thoo aham'st the muBto of Bweet news By playing it to me with so sour a iaoe.
Nur. I am a-weary, give me leave awhile : — Fie, how my bones ache I what a jaunt have I hadl
Jul. I would thoQ hadst my bones, and I thy news : Kay, come, I pray Uiee, apeak ; — good, good nurse, speak.
Nur. JeBU, what haste 7 can yon not stay awhile? Do yoQ not see that I am ont of breath ?
Jul. How art tboa oat of breath, when thoa hast breath To say to me that then art ont of breath ? Th' excase that thoa dost make in this delay Is longer than the tale thoa doet excnse. Is thy news good or bad ? answer to that; Say either, and I'll stay the ciroumBtance: Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad ?
Nur. Well, yon have made a simple choice; yon know not how to choose a man: Borneo I no, not he; thongh his face be better than, any man's, yet his leg excels all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body, — thoagh they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare : he ia not the flower of coartesy, bat, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. — Go thy ways, wench ; serve God. — ^What, have yoa dined at home ?
Jul. No, no : bat all this did I know before. What says he of oar marriage ? what of that ?
Nur. Lord, how my head aches I what a head have 1 1
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It beats aa it would &U in twenty pieces.
My back o' t' other side, — 0, my back, my back ! —
Beshrew yoar heart for Bending me abont,
To catch my death with jannting np and down I
Jid, V faith, I'm sorry that thou art not well. Sweet, sweet, Bweet norse, tell me, what says my love ?
Nut. Your love eaye/**^ like an honest gentleman, And a coorteonB, and a kind, and a handsome, And, I warrant, a Tirtnons, — Where is yonr mother ?
Jul. Where is my mother I — why, she Ib within ; Where shoold she be ? How oddly then repHest ! " Yoar love Bays, like an honest gentleman, — Where is yonr mother?"
Nut. 0 Ood's lady dear !
Are yon so hot ? marry, come np, I trow ; Ib this the ponltice for my aching bones ? Henceforward do yonr mesBages yourself.
Jvl. Here's snch a coil ! — come, what says Borneo ?
Nur. Have yon got leave to go to shrift to-day ?
Jvl. I have.
Nur. Then hie yon hence to Friar Laarence' cell ; There stays a hnshand to make yon a wife : JKow comes the want«n blood np in yonr cbeeka. They'll be in scarlet straight at any news."" Hie yon to chorch ; I must another way, To fetch a ladder, by the which yonr love Mast climb a bird's-nest soon when it is dark : I am the dmdge, and toil in yonr delight ; Bnt yoa shall hear the burden booq at night. do; 1*11 to dinner ; hie yon to the ceU.
Jvl, Hie to high fortone ! — Honest narse, farewell.
[Exeant.
SosNE YI. The eame. Friar Laubbncb's eell. Enter Friar Laubbmcb and Bomeo. Fri. L. So smile the heavens upon Uiis holy act, That after-honrs with sorrow chide as not!
Rom. Amen, amen 1 bat come what sorrow can.
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It cannot coanterrail th' exchsnge of joy That one Bhort minnte gives me in bet Bigbt: Do thoa but close our bands witb boly words, Tben loTe-devooring death do what he dare, — It is enongb I may bat call her mine.
Fri. L. These riolent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder, Which, as the; kiss, consume : the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own delicionsness. And in the taste confonnde the appetite : Therefore, love moderately ; long love doth so ; Too Bwift arrives as tardy as too slow. — Here comes tbe lady: — 0, so light a foot Will ne'er wear ont the everlasting flint : A lover may bestride tbe gosBamer**" That idles in the wanton snmmer air. And yet not fall ; so light is vanity.
Enter JtiUBT.
Jul. Good even to my ghostly confessor.
Fri. L. Borneo shall tbank tbee, daughter, for ns both.
Jul. As macb to bim, else is bis tbanka too much.
Rom. Ah, Jnliet, if tbe measure of thy joy Be heap'd like mine, and that tby skill he more To blazon it, tben sweeten witb thy breath This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue Unfold th' imagin'd happiness that both Receive in either by ibis dear encounter.
Jul. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words. Brags of bis substance, not of ornament : They are hut beggars that can count their worth ; But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.**"
Fri. L. Oome, come with me, and ne will make short work; For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till holy church incorporate two in one. [Exeunt.
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Scene I. Verona. A public place. Enter Msacvjio, Bentouo, Page, and Servants.
Ben. I pray thee, good Mercatio, let's retire : The da; is hot, the Capalets abroad. And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl ; For now, these hot days, ia the mad blood stirring.
Mer. Thoa art like one of those fellows that, when be enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table, and says, "God send me no need of thee!" and, by the operation of the second cnp, draws it on the drawer, when, indeed, there is no need.
Ben. Am I like sach a fellow ?
Mer, Come, come, than art as hot a Jack in thy mood as finy in Italy ; and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved.
Ben. And what to ?'**
Mer. Nay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, for one wonld kill the other. Thou ! why, thon wilt qoarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thoa hast : thoa wilt qnarrel with a man for cracking nnts, having no other reason bnt because thoa hast hazel eyes ; — what eye, but snoh an eye, woold spy ont each A quarrel ? Thy head is as full of qnarrels as an egg is foil of meat ; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for qaarrelling : thoa hast qaarrelled with a man for cough- ing in \he street, becanse he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the snn : didst thoa not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter ? with another, for tying hia new shoes with old riband ? and yet thoa wilt tutor me from qnarrelUog I
Ben. An I were so apt to qaarrel as thou art, any man shoold bay the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter,
Mer. The fee-simple I 0 simple !
Ben. By my head, here come the Capnlets.
Mer. By my heel, I care not.
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Enter Tybalt and others.
Tyb. Follow me close, for I will epeak to tiiem. — Gentlemen, good den : a word with one of yon.
Mer. And bat one word with one of ne ? conple it with something ; make it a word and a blow.
Tyb. Ton shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an yoa will give me occaeion.
Mer. Conld yon not take some occasion withoat giving 7
Tyb. Mercatio, thon consort'st with Romeo, —
Mer. Consort! what, dost thoa make ns minstrels? an thon make minstrels of ns, look to hear nothing but dis- cords : here's my fiddlestick ; here's that shall make yoa dance. Zonnds, consort!
Ben. We talk here in the pablio haunt of men : Either withdraw nnto some private place. And reason'^' coldly of yonr grievances. Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on ns.
Mer. Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gase ; I vrill not badge for no man's pleasnre, I.
Tyb. Well, peace be vrith yoa, bit : — here comes my man.
Enter Rohbo.
Mer. Bnt Til be hang'd, sir, if he wear your lively : Marry, go before to field, he'll be yoar follower; Year worship in that sense may call him man.
Tyb. Romeo, tiie hato I bear thee can afford No better term than this, — then art a villain.
Rom. Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth mach excuse the appertaining rage To saoh a greeting ; — -nllain am I none : Therefore farewell ; I see thon know'st me not.
Tyb. Soy, this shall not ezcnse the injuries That thoa hast done me; therefore torn, and draw.
Rom. I do protest I never injar'd thee ; Bat love thee better than tJioa canst devise, Till thon shalt know the reason of my love : And so, good Capnlet, — which name I tender As dearly as my own, — be satisfied.
Mer. 0 calm, dishonoarable, vile sabmission !
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Alia ttoccata canies it awaj. — '"' [Droit's,
Tybalt, yon rat-catcher, will you walk ?
Tyb. What wooldat thon have with me ? f Mer. Good king of cata, nothing hat one of your nine lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and, as yoa shall use me hereafter, diy-beat the rest of the eight. Will yon plack yooT Bword oat of his pilcfaer by the ears ? make haste, lest mine be about yonr ears ere it be oat.
Tyh. I am for you. [Drawing.
Bom. Gentle Mercatio, pot thy rapier ap.
Mer. Come, sir, your passado. ITTieyJight.
Rom. Draw, Benvolio ; beat down their weapons. — Gentlemen, for ahame, forbear this outrage I Tybalt, — Mercntio, — the prince expressly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streets : — Hold, Tybalt !— good Mercntio,—
lExeunt Tybalt and hia Fnenda. Mer, I am hart ; —
A plagae o' both yonr houses I"" — I am sped ; — Is he gone, and hath nothing ?
Ben. What, art thon hart ?
Mer. Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch ; marry, 'tis enoagh. — Where is my page? — Go, rillain, fetch a snrgeon. \ExitPage.
Bom. Courage, man ; the hnrt cannot be much.
Mer, No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor bo wide as a church- door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I war- rant, for Hda world : — a plagae o' both yonr houses ! — Zonnds, a dog, a rat, a moose, a cat, to scratch a man to death ! a brag- gart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic ! — Why, the devil, came yon between us? I was hnrt under yoar arm.
Rom. I thought all for the beat.
Mer. Help me into some house, Benvolio, Ot I shall faint. — A plagne o' both your hoasea ! They have made worms'-meat of me : I have it, And soundly too ; — yonr houses !
{Exit, led by Benrolio and Servants.
Rom. This gentleman, the prince's near ally. My very fiiend, hath got his mortal hart
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In my behalf; my repntation stain'd"*' With Tybalt's slander, — Tybalt, that an honr Hath been my kinsman : — 0 sweet Joliet, Thy beaaty hath made me effeminate. And in my temper soflen'd Talonr'a steel !
Re-enter Benvolio.
Ben. 0 Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercntio's dead ! That gallant spirit hath aspir'd the clonds, "Which too nntimely here did ecorn the earth.
Rom. This day's black fate on more days doth depend ; This but begins the woe others mast end.
Ben. Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.
Bom. Alive, in triamph t and Mercutio slain ! Away to heaven respective lenity. And fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now !
Re-enter Tybalt. Now, Tybalt, take the " villain" back again That late thou gav'st me ; for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
Tyb, Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence.
Rom. This shall determine that.
lTli£yJight; TyhaltfalU. Ben. Romeo, away, be gone I The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain : — Stand not amaz'd : the prince will doom thee death. If thon art taken : — hence, be gone, away ! Bom. 0, 1 am fortune's fool ! Ben. Why dost thou stay ?
\Exit Romeo. Enter Citizens and Officers. First Off. Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio ? Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he ? Ben. There lies that Tybalt. First Off. Up, sir, go with me;
I charge thee in the prince's name, obey.
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Sttler Prince, atitrtded ; Montaoob, Capclet, Lady Mostaque, I^dy Capulbt, and others.
Prin. Where are the vile beginners of thia fray?
Ben, 0 noble prince, I can discover all Th' unlucky manage of this fatal brawl :. There hes the man, slain by yonng Borneo, That slew tby kinsman, brave Mercatio.
La. Cap. Tybalt, my coasin ! 0 my brother's child ! — O prince !— 0 hosband ! — 0, the blood ia spilt Of my dear kinsman !'**' — Prince, as thon art true, For blood of ours shed blood of Montagne. — O cousin, coasin !
Prin. Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?
Ben. Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay; JKomeo, that spoke him fair, bade him bethink How nice the quarrel was, and nrg'd withal Yonr high displeasure : — all this — uttered With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd — Could not take truce with the nnraly spleen Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast ; Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to point, And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats Cold death aside, and with the other sends It back to Tybalt, whose deiterity Betorts it : Romeo he cries aloud,
"Hold, friends! friends, part!" and, swifter than his tongue, His agile arm beats down their fatal points. And 'twixt them rushes ; underneath whose arm An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life Of stoat Mercatio, and then Tybalt fled : But by and by comes back to Bomeo, Who had but newly entertain'd revenge. And to 't they go like lightning ; for, ere I Oould draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain; And, as he fell, did Romeo tarn and Sy: — This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.
La. Cap. He is a kinsman to the Montagne, Affection makes bim false, he speaks not true :
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Some twenty of them fought in this bl&ck strife, And all those twenty conld bnt kill ona life. I beg for jnatice, which thou, prince, mast give ; Borneo slew Tybalt, Borneo must not live.
Prin. Komeo slew him, he slew Merootio ; "Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe ?
Mon. Not Borneo, prince, he was Mercntio's friend ; His fault concludes but what the law sboold end, The life of Tybalt.
Prin. And for that offence
Immediately we do exile him hence : I have an interest in year hate's proceeding, My blood for yonr rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding; But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine. That yon shall tJl repent the loss of mine : I will be deaf to pleading and ezcnses ; Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses, — Therefore use none : let Borneo hence in haste, Else, when he's found, that hour is his last. Bear hence this body, and attend our will : Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. [Exeunt^
Scene II. Tlte same. Capulet's orchard.
Enter Juubt. JtU. Oallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phcebas' lodging:'™ such a wagoner As Phatithon "would whip you to the west. And bring in cloudy night immediately. — Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, That rude day's eyes may wink, and Borneo Leap to these arms untalk'd-of and unseen. — "" Lovers can see to do their amorous rites By their own besaties ; or, if love be blind, It best agrees with night. — Come, civil night. Thou sober-Buited matron, all in black, And learn me how to lose a winning match, Flay'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods :
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Hood mj onmanii'd blood, bating in my cheeks.
With thy black mantle ; till strange love, grown'"' bold.
Think true love acted simple modeety.
Come, night ; — come, Bomeo, — come, thou day in night ; .
For thoQ wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than enow upon"* a raven's back. —
Come, gentle night, — come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Bomeo ; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cnt him ont in Uttle stata.
And he will make the face of heaven so fine.
That all the world will be in lore with night,
And pay no worship to the garish snn. —
0, 1 have boagbt the mansion of a love,
But not posBess'd it ; and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd : so tedious ie this day,
Ab is the night before some festiTal
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them. — 0, here comes my norse.
And she brings news ; and every tongue that ^eaks
Bat Bomeo'fi name speaks heavenly eloqaence.
Sjiter JTurse, with cords. Now, nurse, what news? What hast thon there? -the cords That Bomeo bid thee fetch ?
Nune. Ay, ay, the cords.
[Throws them down.
JiU. Ay me ! what news ? why dost thon wring thy hands '.'
Nurse. Ah, well-a-day I he's dead, he's dead, he's dead ! We are undone, lady, we are undone ! — Alack the day ! — he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead !
Jul. Can heaven be so envious ?
Nurse. Bomeo can.
Though heaven cannot : — 0 Bomeo, Bomeo ! — Who ever would have thought it ? — Bomeo !
Jul. What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus ? This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell. Hath Bomeo slain himself? say thon bnt "I," And that bare vowel " I" shall poison more Than the death-dartiog eye of cockatrice :'^** I am not I, if there be snch an " I ;" -
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Or tkoB6 eyes Bhnt,'^*' that make thee answer " I." If he be slain, say "I;" or if not, "no:" Brief sonnds determine of my weal or woe.
Nurse, I eaw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes, — God save the mark ! — here on his manly breast : A piteous corse, a bloody piteons corse ; Pale, pale as ashes, all bedanb'd in blood. All in gore-blood ; — I swooned'^^ at the sight.
Jul. 0, break, my heart t — poor bankrupt, break at once ! To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty ! Vile earth, to earth resign ; end motion here ; And thou and Romeo press one he&vy bier !
Nurse. 0 Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had ! 0 courteous Tybdlt ! honest gentleman ! That ever I should live to see thee dead !
Jul. What storm is this that blows so contrary ? Is Borneo slaughter' d, and is Tybalt dead ? My dear-loT'd cousin, and my dearer lord ? — Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom ! For who is living, if those two are gone ?
Nurse. Tybtdt is gone, and Bomeo banished; Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished.
Jul. 0 God !— did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood ?
Nurse. It did, it did ; alas the day, it did !
Jul. 0 serpent heart, hid with a flowering face ! Did ever dragon keep bo fair a caTe ? Beautiful tyraiit ! fiend angelical ! Dove- feather 'd raven !"" wolvish-raTening lamb ! Despised substance of divinest show ! Jnst oppositerto what thou justly seem'st, A damned saint, an honourable villain ! — 0 nature, what hadst thou to do in hell. When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such Bweet flesh ? — Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound ? 0, that deceit Bhonld dwell In such a gorgeous palace !
Nurse. There's no trust.
No faith, no honesty in men ; all perjnr'd, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. —
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Ah, Where's my mao? give me some aqua-viUe: — These griefo, these woes, these sorrows make me old. Shame come to Romeo 1
Jul. Blister'd be thy tongue
. For such a wish ! he was oot bom to shame : Upon hig brow shame is asham'd to sit ; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd Sole monarch of the aniversal earth. O, what a beast was I to chide at him !
Ntirie. Will you speak well of him that kill'd yonr consin?
Jill, Shall I speak ill of him that is my hnsband ? Ah, poor my lord, what tongtie shall smooth thy name. When I, thy three-honrs wife, have mangled it ? — But wherefore, Till&in, didst thon kill my consin ? "That villain consin wonld have kill'd my hnsband: Back, foolish tears, back to yonr natire spring ; Tonr tribntaty drops belong to woe, "Which yon, mistaking, offer np to joy. My hnsband lives, that Tybalt wot^d hare slain ; Asd Tybalt's dead, that wonld have slain my hasband : All this is comfort ; wherefore weep I, then ? "Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death. That marder'd me : I would forget it fain ; Bat, 0, it presses to my memory. Like damned gnilty deeds to sinners' minds : " Tybalt is dead, and Borneo — banished ;" That " banished," that one word " banish^," Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death Was woe enough, if it had ended there : Or, — if 8our woe delights in fellowBhip, And needly will be ronk'd with other griefs, — Why follow'd not, when she said " Tybalt's dead," Thy father, or Uiy mother, nay, or both. Which modem lamentation might have mov'd ? But with a rear-ward''*' following Tybalt's death, "Romeo is banished," — to speak that word. Is father, mother, Tybalt, Borneo, Juliet, All slain, all dead: — "Romeo is banished," — There is no end, no limit, measure, bound.
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In that word's death ; no words can that woe sound. — Where is mj fcther, and mj mother, narae?
Nunc. Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse : Will yoQ go to them ? I will bring yon thither.
Jid. Wash theyhiswoondawith tears: mineshall be spent. When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. Take ap those cords : — poor ropes, yon are begail'd. Both yon and I ; for Romeo is exil'd: He made yon for a highway to my bed ; Bnt I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. Come, cords ; come, unrse ; I'll to my wedding-bed ; And death, sot Romeo, take my maidenhead !
Nurse. Hie to yonr chamber : I'll find Borneo To comfort yoa : — I wot well where he is. Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night :
I'll to him ; he is hid at Laorence' cell. Jul. 0, find him t give this ring to my tme knight,
Aad bid him come to take his last farewell. [Exeunt.
ScEKE m. The same. Friar L&UBEMcB'e cell. Enter Friar Laukekob. Fri. L. Bomeo, come forth ; come forth, tbon fearfEil man : Affliction is enamoar'd of thy parts. And then art wedded to calamity,
Enfer BouEO.
Eom. Father, what news ? what is the prince's doom ? What sorrow craves acqnaintance at my hand, That I yet know not ?
Fri. L. Too familiar
Ib my dear son with snch sour company : I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.
Rom. What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom ?
Fri, L. A gentler judgment vsnish'd from his Ups; — Not body's deatJi, bat body's banishment.
Bom. Ha, banishment ! be merciful, eay " death ;" For exile hath more terror in his look,
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Mnch more than death: do not aay "banishment."
Fri, L. Hencd from Yerona art thon banished : Se patient, for tfae world is broad and vide.
Ram. There is no world without Verona walla, Snt purgatory, tortare, hell itself. Eence-banishM is baniBh'd &om the world, And world's exile is death : — then banishment Xs death mis-term'd : calling death banishment,*'*' Thon cntt'st my head off with a golden axe, And smil'st npon the stroke that murders me.
Fri. L. 0 deadly sin ! O rode nnthankfulnesa ! Thy fault oar law calls death ; bat the kind prince, Taking thy part, hath rash'd**" aside the law, And tam'd that black word death to banishment : This is dear mercy, and thoa seest it not.
Rom. 'Tis tortnre, and not mercy : heareu is here, Where Juliet lives ; and every cat, and dog, And little monse, every anworthy thing. Live here in heaven, and may look on her ; Bnt Borneo may not: — more validity, More honourable state, more conrtship lives In carrion-flies than Borneo : they may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hfmd. And steal immortal blessings from her lipa ; Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin ; Sot Borneo may not, — he is banishM : This may flies do, when I from this mast fly: — And say'st thoa yet, that exile is not death ? Hadst thou no poison mix'd,'*" no sharp-groond knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean. But " banished" to kill me, — ■" banished" ? O friar, the damned use that word in hell ; Howlings attend it : how hast thoa the heart. Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd. To mangle me with that word " banished" ?
Fri. L. Thou fond mad man, hear me a little speak.*'
Rom. 0, thon wilt speak again of banishment.
Fri. L. I'll give thee armour to keep off that word ;
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Adversity'B Bweet milk, philoBophy,
To comfort thee, though thou art bauishtid.
Rom. Yet " banished" ? — Hang up philosophy ( Uiiless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom. It helps not, it prevails not : talk no more'.
Fti. L. 0, then I see tJiat madmeu have no ears.
limit. How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?'
Fri. L. Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.
Rmn, Thou canst not speak of that thou dost uot feel : Wert thoa as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murdered. Doting like me, and like me banished. Then mightst then epeak, then migbtet thou tear thy liafr;. And fall upon the ground, as I do now, Taldug the measure of an nnmade grave.
\Throic8 himtel/on thejloor. — Knocking within..
Fri. L. Arise ; one knocks ; good Romeo, bide thyself.
Rom. Not I; unless the breath of heart-sick groans, Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.
\Knocking within..
Fri. L. Hark, bow they knock ! — Who's there ? — Bomeo, arise; Thou wilt be taken. — Stay awhile ! — Stand up ;
[Knocking tcithin. Kun to my study. — By and by ! — God's will, "WTiat simpleuess is this!— I come, Icomt:! [Knoclcitig icithiu. Who knocks so hard ? whence come you ? what's your will ?
Nvrse, [tcithin] Let mo come in, and yon shall know my errand ; I come from Lady Juliet.
Fri. L. Welcome, then.
Jiiiler Kiirao, N^tirac. 0 holy fiiar, 0, tell me, holy friar, Where is my lady's lord, where's Bomeo ?
Fri. L. There on the ground, with his owu tears modo"
drunk. iVitrec. O, he is even in my mistress' case. Just in her case !
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Fii. L. 0 wofol sympathy I
Piteous predicament !'*"
Nurse. Even bo lies she,
Blabbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. — Stand up, stand up ; stand, an you be a man : For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand; Why should you fall into so deep an O ?
I{om. [rUijig] Nurse ! —
Xurse. Ah sir ! ah sir ! — Well, death's the end of all.
Bom. Spak'st thou of Juliet ? how is it with her ? Doth she not think me an old murderer. Now I have stain'd the childhood of onr joy With blood remoy'd but little from her own ? Where is she ? and how doth she ? and what says My conceal'd lady to our caooell'd love ?
Nurse. 0, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps ; And now falls on her bed ; and then starts np. And Tybalt calls ; and then on Eomeo cries. And then down falls again.
Rom. As if that name,
Shot from the deadly level of a gan, Did murder her ; as that name's cursed hand Murder'd her kinsman. — 0, tell me, friar, tell me. In what vile part of this anatomy Doth my name lodge ? tell me, that I may sack The hateful mansion. [Drawing hi» dagger
Fri. L. Hold thy desperate hand :
Art thou a man ? thy form cries out thou art : Thy tears are womanish ; thy wild acta denote Th' unreasonable fnry of a beast : Unseemly woman iu a seeming man I Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both ! Thou hast amaz'd me : hy my holy order, I thought thy disposition better temper'd. Hast thou slain Tybalt ? wilt thou slay thyself ? And slay thy lady too that lives in thee, By doing damnM hate upon thyself? Why rail'at thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth ? Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet In thee at once ; which thou at once wouldst lose.
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Fie, fie, thon eham'Bt thy shape, thy loTe, thy wit ;
Which, like a Qsarer, abotind'et in all.
And UBest none in that trae use indeed
Which fihonld hedeck thy shape, thy loTe, thy wit :
Thy noble shape is bat a form of wax,
Digressing from the valonr of a man ;
Thy dear love, sworn, but hollow peijnty,
Killing that love which thon haet Tow'd to cherish ;
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Mis-shapen in the conduct of them both.
Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask,
Is set a-fire by thine own ignorance.
And ihou dismember'd with thine own defence.
What, rouse thee, man ! thy Juliet is aliTe,
For whose dear sake thon wast but lately dead ;
There art thon happy : Tybalt would kill thee.
But thou slew'st Tybalt ; there art thon happy too :
The law, that threaten'd death, becomes thy friend.
And turns it to exile ; there art thon happy :
A pack of blessings lights upon thy back ;
Happiness courts thee in her best array ;
But, like a miHhehav'd and sullen wench.
Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love : — ""
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.
Go, get thee to thy lote, as was decreed.
Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her :
But look thou stay not till the watch be set.
For then thou canst not pass to Mantdti ;
Where thon ahalt lire, till we can find a time '
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation. —
Oo before, nurse : commend me to thy lady ;
And hid her hasten all the house to bed,
Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto :
Romeo is coming.
Nurse. 0 Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night To hear good counsel : 0, what learning is ! — My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.
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Rom. Do BO, and bid laj sweet prepare to chide.
Nurie. Here is a ring, sir, that ehe bade me give yoa : Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. {Exit.
Rom. How well my comfort ia reviT'd by this !
Fri. Qo hence; good night; and here stands all yoiv state: — Either be gone before the watch be set, Or by the break of day disgaia'd from hence : Sojoatn in Mantaa ; I'll find out your man. And he shall signify from time to time Every good hap to you that chances here : Give me thy hand ; 'tie late : farewell ; good night.
Eom. But that a joy past joy calls out on me. It were a grief so brief to part with thee : Farewell. lExeuni.
ScEHE rV. Tlie savie. A room in Capclet'b home. Enter Capdlet, Lady Capolet, and Pabis.
Cap. Things hare fall'n out, sir, so unluckily. That we have had bo time to move our daoghter : Look you, she lov'd her kinsman Tybalt dearly, And 80 did I : — well, we were born to die. 'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night : I promise you, but for yonr company, I would have been a-bed an hour ago.
Par. These times of woe afford no time to woo. — Madam, good night : commend me to your daughter.
La. Cap. I will, and know her mind early to-morrow ; To-night she's mew'd-ap to her heaviness.
Cap. Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child's love : I think she will be rul'd In all respects by me ; nay, more, I doabt it not. — Wife, go you to her ere yoa go to bed ; Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love ; And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday nest — Bat, soft ! what day is this ?
Par. Monday, my lord.
Cap. Monday t ha, ha I Well, Wednesday is too soon.
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0' Thnraday let it be : — o' ThuTBday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl. — Will yoa be ready? do yon like this haste? We'll keep do great ado, — a friend or two ; For, hark yon, Tybalt being slEtin so late. It may be thought we held him careleBsly, Being oar kicsmaD, if we reyel mnch : Therefore we'll have some half-a-dozen friends, And there an end. But what say yoa to ThoTBday ?
Par. My lord, I wonid that Tharsday were to-morrow.
Cap. Well, get you gone : — o' Thnrsday be it, then. — Go yon to Juliet ere you go to bed. Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. — Farewell, my lord. — Light to my chamber, ho ! — Afore me, 'tis so very late, that we May call it early by and by : — good night. • ^E^eant.
Scene V. The same. An open gaUeiy to Jouet's chamber, oieriooking the orchard.
Enter Bomeo and Svubv.
Jul. Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : It was the nightingale, and not the lark. That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear ; Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree : Believe me, love, it was the nightingale,
lUmi. It was the lark, the herald of the mom, No nightingale : look, love, what envions streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are bnmt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty moantain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Jul. Yon light ia not day-light, I know it, I : It is some meteor that the sun exhales. To be to thee this night a torch-bearer, And light thee on thy way to Mantua : Therefore stay yet, — thou need'at not to be gone.
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Rom. Let me be ta'en, let me be pot ta destL ; I am content, so thoa wilt have it so. Ill say yos gray is not the morning's eye, 'TiB bat the psle reflex of Cynthia's brow ;•*" Nor that ie not the lark, whose notes do beat The vanity heaven so high abore oar heads : I have more care to stay than will to g,o : — Come, death, and welcome ! Juliet wills it so.— How is't, my soal ? let'a talk, — it is not day.
Jul. It is, it is, — hie hence, be gone, away ! It is the lark that sings so oat of tune. Straining harsh discords and nnpleasing sharps. Some say the lark makes sweet division ; This doUi not so, for she divideth ns : Some say the lark and loathed toad chang'd'^ eyes ; O, now I wonld they had chang'd voices too ! Since arm &om arm that voice doth as afiray. Hooting thee hence with btint's-np to tho day. O, now be gone ; more light and light it grows.
liotn. More light and light, — more dark and dark oni' woes!
Enter Knisc.
Nttrie. Madam !
Jul. Norse?
Nurse. Yonr lady mother's coming to yoor chamber : The day is broke ; be wary, look about. [E^rit..
Jul. Then, window, let day in, and let life out.
Horn. Farewell, farewell ! one kiss, and I'll descend.
[-Deaccnds-
Jul. Alt thoa gone so ? my lord, my love, my friend !'*" I most hear from thee every day in the hour. For in a minote there are many days : 0, by this count I shall be mnch in years Ere I again behold my Bomeo !
liom. Farewell ! I will omit no opportunity That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
Jul. 0, think'st thoa we shall ever meet again ?
Rom. 1 doubt it not ; and all these woes shall servo For sweet disconrses in oor time to come.
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Jttl. 0 God, I have an ill-diTining aool ! Methinka I see thee, now thoa art below. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb : Either my eyesight fails, or thoa look'st pale.
Bom. And trust me, love, in my eye so do yon : Dry Borrow drinks oar blood. Adieu, adien ! [Exit below.
Jul. 0 fortune, fortune ! all men call thee fickle : If thoa art fickle, what dost tbon with him That is renown'd for teith ? Be fickle, fortane; For then, I hope, then wilt not keep him long, But Bend him back.
La. Cap. [icilhin} Ho, daughter ! are jon np ?
Jul. Who ia't that calia ? is it my lady mother ? Is she not down bo late, or np so early ? What unaccnBtom'd cause procures her hither ?
Enter Lady Capelet.
La. Cap. Why, how now, Juliet !
Jul. Madam, I'm not well.
La. Cap. Evermore weeping for your cousin's death ? What, wilt thon wash him &om his grave with teara ? An if thon conldst, thoa conldst not make him live ; Therefore have done : some grief shows mud) of love ; Bnt much of grief shows still some want of wit.
Jul. Yet let me weep for snch a feeling loss.
La. Gap. So shall yon feel the loss, but not the friend Which yon weep for."**
Jul, Feeling ao the lorn,
I cannot choose bat ever weep the friend.
JjC. Cap. Weil, girl, thoa weep'at not so much for his death. As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.
Jid. What villain, madain?
La. Cap. That same villain, Bomeo.
Jtd, [aside] Yillaiu and he be many miles asunder. — God pardon him !^' I do, with all my heart ; And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.
La. Cap. That is, becanse the traitor murderer lives.
Jvi. Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands : — Would none bat I might venge my cousin's death I
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Im. Cap. We vill have vengeance for it, feat tlioa not: Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantoa, — Where that same banish'd rnnagate doth IiTe, — Shall give him &nch an onaccnBtom'd dram, That he shall soon keep Tybalt company : And then, I hope, tfaon wilt be satisfied.
Jul. Indeed, I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him — dead — Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd : Madam, if yon conld find ont bat a man To bear a poison, I would temper it; That Romeo shonld, npoa receipt thereof, Soon sleep in qniet. 0, how my heart abhors To hear him nam'd, — and cannot come to him. To wreak the love I bore my cousin Tybalt***" Upon his body that hath slangbter'd him !
La. Cap. Find thon the means, and I'll find such a man. Bat DOW I'll tell thee j'oyfol tidings, girl.
Jvl. And joy comes well in such a needfal time :**" What are they, I beseech your ladyship ?
La. Cap. Well, well, thon hast a carefnl father, child ; One who, to pat thee from thy heavinesB, Hath sorted ont a sodden day of joy, That thon expect'st not, nor I look'd not for.
Jvl. Madam, in happy time, what day is that ?
La. Cap. Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn, The gallant, yonng, and noble gentleman. The Ck>nnty Paris, at Saint Peter's Chnrch, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
Jul. Now, by Saint Peter's Church, and Peter too. He shall not make me there a joyfal bride. I wonder at this haste ; that I mnst wed Ere he, that shonld be husband, comes to woo. I pray yon, tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet ; and when I do, Z swear It shall be Romeo, whom yon know I hate. Rather than Paris : — these ate news indeed !"**
La, Cap. Here comes yoor fathet ; tell him so yourself. And see how he will take it at yoar hands.
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JEnter Capulkt ajid Nuts&
Cap. When the ann sets, the air doth drizzle dew ;"** Bat for the sunset of my brother's son It raiDB downright. —
How now ! a condnit, giri? what, still in tears ? ETennore showering? In one little body Thou counterfeit' st a bark, a sea, a wind : For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears ; the bark thy body is. Sailing in this salt flood ; the winds, thy sighs ; Who, — raging with thy tears, and they with them, — Without a sndden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tofisM body. — How now, wife ! • Have you deliver'd to her our decree ? *
La. Cap. Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave !
Gap. Soft ! take me with you, take me with you, vrife. How ! will she none ? doth she not give us thanks 9 Is she not proud? doth she not count her bleas'd. Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought 80 worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom ?
Jul. Not proud, you have ; but thankfnl, that you have : Proud can I never be of what I hate ; But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.
Cap. How now, how now, chop-logic ! What is this ? "Proud," — and "I thank you," — and "I thank you not;" — And yet " not proud 1" — mistress minion, you,*" Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds. Bat fettle"*' your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next. To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, yoa green-sickneaB carrion ! out, you baggage ! You tallow-face !
La. Cap. Fie, fie ! what, are you mod ?
Jul. Good father, I beseech you on my knees. Hear me .with patience but to speak a word.
Cap. Hang thee, young baggage ! disobedient wretch ! I tell thee what, — get thee to church 0' Thursday, Or never after look me in the face :
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Speak not, reply not, do Dot aoewer me ;
My fingers itch, — Wife, we scarce tbongbt iia btess'd
That God had sent cs**" but this only child ;
Bat now I see this one is one too mneh,
And that we have a carse in having her :
iiut on her, hilding!
Nurse. God in heaven bless her ! —
Yon are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.
Cap. And why, my lady wisdom ? hold your tongue. Good prndence ; smatter with yoov goasipa, go.
Nvrse. I speak no treason.
Cap. 0, God ye god-den.
Nurte. May not one speak ?
Cap. Peace,*""* yon mumbling fool t
Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl ; For here we need it not.
La. Cap. You are too hot.
Cap. God's bread ! it makes me mad : day, night, late, early. At home, abroad, alone, in company. Waking, or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her match'd i"** and having now prorided A gentleman of princely parentage. Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly traiu'd, Stoff'd, as they say, with honourable parts, Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man, — And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining manunet, in her fortune's tender, To answer — "I'll not wed, — I cannot love, t am too yoaug, — I pray yon, pardon me ;" — But, an you will not wed, I'll pardon you : Graze where you will, yon shall not house with mo : Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest. Thursday is near ; lay hand on heait, adviuo : An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend ; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die m the streett*, For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee. Nor what is mine shall never do thee good : Trust to't, bethink you ; I'll not be forsworn. l^I'Jx'it.
Jill, Is there no pity sitting iu tlie clonds.
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That seeB into the bottom of my grief 7
0 sweet m; mother, cast me not away ! Delay this marriage for a month, a week ; ■ Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed
In that dim monument where Tybalt UeB.
La. Cap. Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word : Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. [ExiK
Jul. 0 God ! — 0 nnrse, how shall this be prevented ? My husband is ou earth, my faith in heaveti ; How shall that faith retorn again to earth. Unless that hnsband send it me from heaven By leaving earth ? — comfort me, counsel me. — Alack, alack, that heaven shonld practise stratagems Upon 80 soft a subject as myself ! — What say'st thon ? hast thou not a word of joy ? Some comfort, nurse.
Nurse. Faith, here 'tis. Borneo
Is banishM ; and all the world to nothing. That he dares ne'er come back to challenge yon ; Or, if he do, it needs must he by stealth. Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,
1 think it best you married with the coonty. 0, he's a lovely gentleman !
Borneo's a dishclout to him : an eagle, madam. Hath not BO green, so quick, so fair an eye As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, I think you're happy in this second match. For it excels your first ; or if it did not, Your first is dead ; or 'twere as good he were. As living here,'^^' and you no use of him.
Jul. Speabest thou &om thy heart ?
Nurse. And from my sonl too ;
Or else beshrew them both.
Jul. Amen !
Nurse. What P"""'
Jill. Well, thon hast comforted me marvellous much. Go in ; and tell my lady I am gone. Having displeas'd my father, to Laurence' cell. To moke confession, and to be absolv'd.
Ntirse. Marry, I will ; and this is wisely done. [Exit-
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Jul. Ancient damnation t 0 most cars^d fiend 1°°" Is it more sin to wish me thns forsworn. Or to dispraise m; lord with that same ton^e Which she hath prais'd him nith above compare So many thousand times ? — Oo, connsellor; Thoa and mj bosom henceforth shall be twain. — ' I'll to the friar, to know his remedy; If all else fail, myself have power to die. (^Exit.
ACT IV.
SoBNB I. Verona, Friar LADaENOE's cell.
Eater Fiiai Ladbenor and Pabis.
Fri. L. On Thursday, sir ? the time ia very short.
Par. My father Capalet will have it so; And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.''"^
Fri, L. YoQ say yon do not know the lady's mind; Uneven is the coarse; I like it not.
Par. Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death. And therefore have I little talk'd of love; For Venna smiles not in a hunse of tears. Kow, sir, her fatber connts it dangerous That she doth give her sorrow so much sway; And, in his wisdom, hastes our marriage, To stop the innadation of her tears ; Which, too mnch minded by herself alone. May be put from her by society : Now do yon know the reason of this haste.
Fri. L. [aaide] I would I knew not why it should t slow'd. — Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell.
Enter Juliet. Par. Happily met, my lady and my wife ! Jul. That may be, sir, when I may be a wife. TOL. 71. aa
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Par. That may be miiBt be, lore, on Tbanday aext.
Jul. What must be shaU be.
Fri. L. That's a certain text.
Par. Come yon to make confession to this father?
Jul. To answer that, were to confess to yon.
Par. Do not deny to him that yon love me.
Jul. I will confess to yon that I love him.
Par. So will yon, I am enre, that yon love me.
JuL If I do BO, it will be of more price, Seing spoke behind yonr back, than to yonr face.
Par. Poor son], thy fa«e is much abns'd with tears.
Jul. The tears h»Te got small yictory by that ; For it was bad enough before their spite.
Par. Thon wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.
Jul. That is no slander, sir, which is a truth ; And what I spake, I spake it to my face.
Par. Thy face is mine, and thou bast slander'd it.
Jul. It may be bo, for it is not mine own. — Are yon at leisure, holy father, now ; Or shall I come to you at evening mass ?
Fri. L. My leisure serves me, pensive danghter, now. — My lord, we must entreat the time alone.
Par. God shield I should disturb devotion ! — Juliet, on Thursday early vrill I rouse ye : Till then, adieu ; and keep this holy kiss. [Exit.
Jul. 0, shut the door ! and when thou haat done so. Come weep with me ; past hope, past care, past help !
Fri. L. Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief; It strains me past the compass of my wits : I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it. On Thursday next be married to this connty,
JuL Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this, Unless tbou tell me how I may prevent it: If, in tby wisdom, then canat give no help. Do thou bat call my resolution wise. And with this knife I'll help it pregently. God joiu'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our bauds ; And ere this hand, by thee to Borneo seal'd, Shall be the label to another deed. Or my tme heart with treacherous revolt
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Turn to another, this shall slay them both ; Therefore, oat of thy long-experienc'd time, ■Give me some present connsel ; or, behold, 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife Shall play the umpire ; arbitrating that Which the commission of thy years and art Conld to no isane of trae honoor bring. Be not so long to speak ; I long to die, If what thon speak'st speak not of remedy.
Fri. L. Hold, daughter : I do spy a kiad of hope» Which craves as desperate an execntion As that ia desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry Gonnty Paris, Thon haet the strength of will to slay thyself, Then is it likely thon wilt nndertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That cop'st with death himself to scape from it; And, if thon dat'st, I'll gire thee remedy.
Jul. 0, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower ; Or walk in thieviali ways ; or bid me lark Where serpents are ; chain me with roaring bears ; Or shnt ma nightly in a charnel -house, O'er-coTer'd qoite with dead men's rattling bones. With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless sknlls ; Or bid me go into a new-made grave. And hide me with a dead man in his shrond ; Things that, to hear them told, have mode me tremble ; And I will do it without fear or doubt. To live on unstain'd wife to my sweet love.
Fri. L. Hold, then ; go home, be merry, give consent To marry Paris : Wednesday is to-morrow ; To-morrow night look that thou he alone. Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber : Take thou this vial, being then in bed. And this distill^ lienor drink thon off: When, presently, through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humour ; for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease : No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou liv'st ;
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The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes ; thy eyes' windows foil,
Like death, when he shots up the day of life ;
Each part, depriv'd of sappte goTemment,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death :
And in this horrow'd likeness of shrank death
Thoa ehalt continue two-and-forty hoars.
And then awake as firom a pleasant sleep.
Nov, when the hridegroom in the morning comes
To ronse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead :
Then, as the manner of onr country is.
In thy best robes, nncover'd, on the bier,
Thoa shalt be home to that same ancient vaolt"""
"Where all the kindred of the Capalets lie.
Id the mean time, against thon shalt awake,
Shall Borneo by my letters know onr drift ;
And hither shall he come : and he and I
Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantoa.
And this shall free thee &om this preaent shame;
If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear.
Abate thy valonr in the acting it.
Jul, Give me, give me I O, tell not me of fear 1*'"" Fri. L. Hold ; get you gone, be strong and prosperous
In this resolve : I'll send a friar with speed
To Mantoa, with my letters to thy lord.
Jul. Lore give me etrength t and strength shall help afford.
farewell, dear father ! lExemit.
SoENB n. The same. Hall in Capolht's kouee. JSnier Capdlet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and Sorvaufa. Cap. So many guests invite as here are writ. —
[Exit First Seiranl. Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks."**'
Sec. Sen: You shall have none ill, sir ; for I'll try if they can lick their fingers.
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Cap. How caQBt thou try them bo ?
Sec. Serv, Marry, sir, 'Us on ill cooktliat cannot lick his own fingers : therefore he that cannot lick his fingers gocn not with me.
Cap, Go, be gone. — [^Exit Sec. Servant.
We shall be much nnfamish'd for this time. — What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence ?
NuTte. Ay, forsooth.
Cap. Well, he may chance to do some good on her : A peevish aelf-will'd harlotry it is.
Nurse. See where she comes from shrift with merry look.
£nler Juliet.
Cap. How now, my headstrong ! where have yon boon gadding?
Jul. Where I have leam'd me to repent the sin Of disobedient opposition To yon and yom' behests ; and am enjoin'd By holy Lanrence to fall prostrate here, And beg yonr pardon : — pardon, I beseech yon ! Henceforward I am ever ral'd by yon.
Cnp. Send for the connty ; go tell him of this : I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.
Jul. I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell ; And gave him what becomM love I might, Not stepping o'er the hounds of modesty.
Cap. Why, I am glad on't; this is well, — stand np, — This is as 't should he. — I^et me see the connty ; Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither. — Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar. All our whole city ia much bound to him.
Jvl. Nurse, will yoa go with me into my closet. To help me sort snch needful ornaments As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow ?
La. Cap. No, not till Thursday ; there is time enough.
Cap. Go, nurse, go with her :— we'll to church to-morrow. [Exeunt Juliet and Nvrse.
La. Cap. We shall be short in our prorision : ''Tis now near night.
Cap. Tush, I will stir about.
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And all thingB shall be well, I warraot thee, wife :
Go thon to Jnliet, help to decknp her j*"*®
I'll sot to bed to-night ; — let me alone ;
I'll play the housewife for this once, — What, ho ! —
They are all forth : well, I will walk myself
To Connty Paris, to prepare him np
Against to-morrow : my heart 's wondroas light.
Since this same wayward girl is bo reclaim'd. [^Eixevnt,
SoBNB m. The tame. Juliet's chamber. Enter Jdubt emd Nnrse. Jul. Ay, those attires are best : — bat, gentle nnrse, I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night; For I have need of many orisons To moTe the heavens to smile npon my state, Which, well thoa know'at, is cross and fnllof ein.
£>iier Lady CiPULET.
La. Cap. What, are yon btisy, ho ? need yoa my help ?"
JtU. No, madam ; we have cuU'd such necessaries As are behoTefol for oar state to-morrow : So please yon, let me now be \efi alone. And let the nnrse this night sit np with yon ; For, I am sore, yoa hare yonr bands full all In this BO sadden basiness.
La. Cap. Good night:
Get thee to bed, and rest ; for thoa hast need.
[Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurt«,
Jul. Farewell ! — God knows when wo shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veinB, That almost freezes up the heat of life ; I'll call them back again to comfort me ; — Nnrse I — What should she do here ? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. — Come, vial. —
What if this mixture do not work at all ? Must I of force be married to the county ?*""*
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No, no ; — this sball forbid it :— lie thou there.—"**'
ILaying down Jter danger. What if it be & poisoD, which the friar Subtly hath minister'd to h&ve me dead, Lest in this marriage he ehould be dishonoiiT'd, Because he married me before to Borneo ? I fear it ia : and yet, methinke, it should not, For he hath still been tried a holy man : I will not entertain so had a thought, — How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Komeo Come to redeem me ? there's a fearful point I Shall I not, then, he stifled in the vault. To whose foal mouth no healthsome air breathes in. And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes ? Or, if I live, is it not very like. The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, — As in a vault, au ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd ; Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, Lies festering, in his shroud ; where, as they say. At some hours in the night spirits resort ; — Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking, — what with loathsome smells; Asd sbiieke like mandrakes' torn out of the earth, That lifiDg mortals, bearing them, mn mad ; — O, if I wake,'*'^' shall I not be distraught, EnviroD^d with all these hideous fears ? And madly play with my forefathers' joints ? And pluck the mangled Tybalt from bis shroud ? And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bono, Aa with a clab, dash out my desperate brains ? — 0, look ! methinka I see my cousin's ghost Seeking out Bomeo, that did spit his body Upon a rapier's point : — stay, Tybalt, stay I — > Bomeo, I come ! this do I drink to thee.'""'
[Drinks, and tkrowt herself on the bed.
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ScBKE IV. The same. Hall in Capdlet'b house. Enter Lad; Capulbt and Norse. La. Cap. Hold, take theee keys, and fetch moro spices,
Barse. Nurae. They call for dates and quinccB iQ the pastry.
Enter Cafulet.
Cap. Come, stir, stir, stir ! the secood cock hath ciow'd. The carfew-bell hath mug, 'tis three o'clock : — Look to the bak'd meats, good Angelica : Spare not for cost.
Nurae. Go, joa cot-qoean, go,""^
Get yoa to bed ; &ith, yonll be sick to-morrow For this night's watching.
Cap. No, not a whit : what ! I have wateh'd ere now All night for lesser caase, and ne'er been sick.
Ija. Cap. Ay, yon have been a moose-hunt in yonr time ; But I will watch you from such watching now.
[Exeunt Lady Capvlet and Nurse.
Cap. A jealons-hood, a jealous-hood t
Enter Servants, teith epiis, togg, and batleta. How, follow, What's there ?
First Serv. Things for the cook, sit ; but I know not what. Cap. Make haste, make haste. [ExitFirst Serv.^ — Sirrah, fetch drier logs : Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
Sec. Serv. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs. And never troable Peter for the matter. [Exit.
Cap. Mass, and well eaid ; a merry whoreson, ba ! Then shalt be logger-head. — Good faith, 'tis day : The county will be here with music straight, For so he said he wonld : — I hear him near. — [Music within. Xarse I — wife I — what, ho ! — what, nurse, I say I
Eeenter Nurse. Oo waken Juliet, go and trim her up :
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I'll go and chat vith Paris : — hie, make haste.
Make haste ; the bridegtoom he is come already :
Make haste, I say. lExeunt.
SoEss V. The same. Juliet's chamber; Jdlibt oil the bed. Enter Nurse. Nurse. Mistress ! — what, mistress ! — Juliet ! — fast, I war- rant hor, she : — ■ Why, lamb I — why, lady ! — fio, yoo slng-a-hed ! — Why, loTo, I say ! — madam ! Bweetlieart ! — why, bride ! — What, not a word ? — you take your pennyworths now ; Sleep for a week ; for the nest Dight, I warrant. The County faris hath set up his rest. That you shall rest but little. — God forgive me, Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep ! I must needs wake her. — Madam, madam, madam ! — Ay, let the county take you in your bed ; He'll fright you up, i' faith. — ^Will it not be ? What, drees'd ! and in your clothes t and down again ! I must needs wake you : — Lady ! lady ! lady ! — AIeui, alas ! — Help, help 1 my lady's dead ! — O, well-a-day, that ever I was born ! — Some aqua-vita, ho ! — My lord ! my lady !
Enter Lady Capolet.
La. Cap. What noise is here ?
Nurse. O lamentable day !
Zm, Cap, What is the matter ?
Nurse. Look, look t 0 heavy day !
La. Cap. 0 me, 0 me 1 — My ehUd, my only life. Revive, look np, or I will die with thee ! — Help, help ! — call help.
Enier Capdlbt. Cap. For shame, bring Juliet forth ; her lord is come. Nurse. She's dead, deceas'd, she's dead ; alack the day ! La. Cap. Akck the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!
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Cap. Ha ! let me B«e her : — ont, alas I she's cold ; Her blood is Bettled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long beon separated : Heath lies on her like an antimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of aU the field.
Nurse. 0 lamentable da; I
La. Cap. 0 woful time !
Cap. Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail. Ties ap my ton^e, and will not let me speak.
Enter Friar Lacrkkce and Paris, with Mnsiciana.
Fri. L. Come, is the bride ready to go to chnrch?""*
Cap. Beady to go, but never to return : — 0 son, the night before thy wedding-day Hath Heath lain with thy wife : — see'"*' there she lies^ Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Heath is my son-in-law. Heath is my heir ; My daughter he hath wedded : I wiU die. And leare him all ; life, living, all is Heath's.
Par. Hare I thought long to see this moiuiug's face. And doth it gire me such a sight as this ?
La. Cap, Accurs'd, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Most miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage I But one, poor one, one poor and loTtng child,"'^ But one thing to rejoice and solace in. And cruel Death hath catch'd it from my sight !
Nurse. 0 woe ! 0 woful, woftil, woful day t Most lamentable day, most woful day. That eyer eyer I did yet behold I 0 day ! 0 day ! O day I 0 hateful day ! Never was seen so black a day as this : 0 woful day ! 0 woful day !
Par. Beguil'd, divorced, wronged, spited, slain I Most detestable Heath, by thee begoil'd. By cmel cmel thee quite OTerthrown ! — ■ 0 love ! 0 life I— not life, but love in death I
Cap, Hespis'd, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd ! — Uncomfortable time, why cam'at thou now To murder, murder our solemnity ? —
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O child ! O child ! — my soul, and not my child ! — ' Dead art thoa, dead I"'*' — alack, my child is dead ; And with my child my joys are buried I
FH. L. Peace, ho, for shame 1 confasion's care lives'"*' not In these confaeious. HeaTen and yourself Had part in this fair maid ; now heaTCn hath all. And all the better is it for the maid : Yonr part in her you coald not keep from death ; But heaTCQ keeps his part in eterDal life. The moat yoa songht was her promotion ; For 'twas your heaven she should be adranc'd : And weep ye now, seeing she is adyanc'd Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? O, in this love, you love yonr child so ill, That yon run mad, seeing that she is well : She's not well marrif d that lives married long ; Bat she's best married that dies married yonng. Dry up yonr tears, and stick your rosemary On this fair corse ; and, as the custom is. In all her best array bear her to church : For though fond'^"' nature bids us all lament. Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.
Cap, All things that we ordained festival Tarn from their ofQce to black funeral : Oar instrnments to melancholy bells; Oar wedding cheer to a sad burial feast ; Oar solemn hymns to sullen dirges change ; Oar bridal flowers serve for a bnried corse ; And all things change them to the contrary.
FH. L. Sir, go you in, — and, madam, go with him ; — And go. Sir Paris ; — every one prepare To follow this fair corse auto her grave : The heavens do lour upon you for some ill; Move them no more by crossing their high will.
[^Exeunt Capulet, Lady CapuUt, Paris, and Friar.
First Mus. Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone.
Nurse. Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put op ; For, well you know, this in a pitiful case. [^Exit.
First Mui. Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.
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Ilnter Pkteh.
Pet. Maaicimis, 0, maBicianB, "Heart's case, Heart's case :" O, an yon will have ma lire, play " Heart's ease."*
First Mua. Why " Heart's ease"?
Pet. O, musiciaDs, because my heart itself plays "My heart is full of woe :"f 0, play me some merry dump, to com- fort me.
First Mtia. X ot a damp ve ; 'tis no time to play now.
Pet. Yon will not, then ?
First Mu». No.
Pet. I will, then, give it yon sonndly.
First Mut. What will you give ns ?
Pet, No money, on my feith ; bat the gleeb, — I will give you the minstrel.
First Mus. Then will I give yon the senring-creatnre.
Pet. Then will I lay the serving-oreatare's dagger on yonr pate. I will carry no crotchets : I'll re you, I'll fa yon ; do yon note me ?
■First Mm. An you re us and/d ns, you note us.
Sec, MttS, Pray you, put up yonr dagger, and put out yonr wit.
Pet. Then hsTe at you with my wit I"'" I will dry-beat you with my iron wit,'"" and put up my iron dagger. — Answer me like men :
"When griping grief the heart doth wound,( And doleful dumps the miad oppress, Then music with her silver sound"—
° " BtarVi etue"] The nune of a popalar tone: see CbappeH'B PopKlnr iltuie 6} the Ot^en Time, &e. viA. i. p. 209, see. ed.
f "Af^ heart i$ fall of woe;"} " Ihu U the Imrden ol the fiiBt itMua of ' A PleRBftut new Ballad of Tvo Lovers ;'
'Heyhael my heart it full of aoe' ." Steetesb. The ballmd jast cited is of confidernble merit ; uid the whole of it ma; bo found in The SJickapeare Soe. Pjpert, vol. L p. 12.
J " When griping grief the luart doth aoiatd," Jbo.} The beginning of a eoug " In eommendation of Mnsicke," b; Richard Edwards, in The Paradite of Dainty Devieet (Snt printed in l£7e), where the lines ma thns :
" Where gripyrtg grief the hart irould wound, and dolfuU dompt the mind apprfne. There Uuiteft tnith htr iHaeriaund is wont with speda tt> gene rtdreite.^' Fiv a difi^rant eopj of the song see Percy's Bel. of A, B. Poetry, toL i. p. I97t
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why "silver Bonnd"? why "mueiawitb her BiWer eonnd"? — What say you, Simon Catling?
First Mue. Marry, sir, hecause silver hath a Bweot sound.
Pet. Pretty !— What Bay yon, Hngh Bebeet?
Sec. Mus. I say, " silver sound," because mnBicians sonnd for silver.
Pet, Pretty too ! — What say yon, Jamos Soandpost ?
Third Mva. Faith, I know not what to say.
Pet. O, I cry yon mercy ; yon are the singer : I will say for yon. It is " music with hor silver sonnd," becanse such fellows as you have seldom gold for soondiog; — """ " Then mnaic with her silver Boand
"With speedy help doth lend redress." [Eiif.""'
Firet Mtis. What a pestilent knave is this same I
See. Mue. Hang him, Jack I — Oome, we'll in here ; tarry for the montners, and stay dinner. [Exmnt.
Scene I. Mantua. A street. Knter Romko. Som. li I may tmst the flattering eye of sleep,""* My dreams presage some joyfnl news at hand : My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne ; And all this day an nnaccastom'd spirit Lifts me above the gronnd with cheerful thoughts. I dreamt my lady came and found me dead, — Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think I — And breath'd such life with kisses in my lipn, That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. Ah me ! bow sweet is love itself possess' d, When bat love's shadows are so rich in joy I
Eater Baltbasab. News from Verona ! — How now, Balthasar !
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Dost thon not bring me letters &om the friar ? How doth my lady? Is my father well ? How fares my Juliet ? that I aak again ; For nothing can be ill, if she be w^.
Bal. Then she is well, and nothing can be ill : Her body sleeps in Capels' monument. And her immortal part with angels liTes. I saw her laid low in her kindred's ranlt, And presently took post to tell it you : O, jMu^on me for bringing these ill news. Since you did leaw it for my office, sir.
S^)m. Is it even so ? then I defy you, stars T — Thon know'st my lodging : get me ink and paper. And hire post-horses ; I will hence to-night.
Bal. I do beseech yon, sir, have patience : Your looks are pale and wild, and do import Some misadventure.
Rom. Tush, thou art deceiv'd :
Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?
Bal. Xo, my good lord.
Itom. No matter : get thee gone.
And hire those horses ; I'll be with thee straight.
[Exit BaUhoMr. Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. Let's see for means : — 0 mischief, thon art swift To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ! I do remember an apothecary, — And hereabouts he dwells,— which late I noted In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, Cnlling of simples ; meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : And in his needy shop a tortoise hang, An alligator stuflTd, and other skins Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Oreen earthen pots, bladders, and mnsty seeds. Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses. Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. Noting this penary; to myself I said.
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" An if a man did need a poison now, "Whose Bale is present death in Mantna, Here lives a caitiff wretch woald sell it him." O, this same thought did bat foreran my need ; And this same needy man must sell it me. As X remember, this shoald be the hoase : Seing holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. — "What, bo ! apothecary t
Snter Apothecary.
Ap. Who calls so load ?
Eom. Come hither, man. — I see that thoa art poor; Hold, there is forty ducats : let me have A dram of poison ; such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself throngh all the veins, That the Hfe-weary taker may fall dead ; And that the trank may be discharg'd of breath As violently as hasty powder fir'd Doth harry from the &tal cannon's womb.
Ap. Sach mortal drags I have ; bnt Mantua's law Is death to any he that otters them.
Eom. Art thoa so bare and fall of wretchedness, And fear'st to die ? famine is in thy cheeks. Need and oppression stareth in thine eyes,'''^ Contempt and beggary hangs apon thy back, The world is not thy Mend, nor the world's law : The world affords no law to make thee rich ; Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Ap. My pover^, bat not my will, consents.
Bom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy will."*"
Ap. Pat this in any liquid thing yon will, And drink it off; and, if yon bad the strength Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
Rom. There is thy gold ; worse poison to men's souls. Doing more murders in l^e loathsome world. Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell : I sell thee poison ; thou bast sold me none. Farewell : bay food, and get thyself in flesh. — Come, cordial, and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave ; for there muBt I use thee. lExtunt.
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ScBHB n. Verona. Friar L&tjbehoe'b cell. Enter Friar John.
FH. J. H0I7 FraDciscan friar t brother, ho ! Enter Friar Laukkkce,
Fri. L. TbU same ahould be the voice of Friar John. — Welcome from Mantua : what saye Romeo ? Or, if his mind be writ, give me hie letter.
Fri. J. Qoing to find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. Here in this city visiting the sick. And finding him, the searchers of the town, Snspecting that we both were in a hoose Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Seal'd up the doors, and would not let ns forth ; So that my speed to Mantna there waa Btay'd.
Fri. L. Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo ?
Fri. J. I could not send it, — ^here it ia again, — Nor get a messenger to bring it tbee, So fearful were they of infection.
Fri. L. Unhappy fortune I by my brotherhood. The letter woa not nice, but fall of charge Of dear import ; and the neglecting it May do much danger. Friar John, go hence ; Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell.
Fri. J. Brother, I'll go and bring it tbee. [£«if.
Fri. L. Now must I to the monument alone ; Within this three hoars will fair Juliet wake : She will beshrew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accidents ; Bnt I will write again to Mantua, And keep her at my cell till Borneo come ; — Poor living cotse, clos'd in a dead man's tomb ! [Exit,
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Scene ni. The same. A ckurckt/ard ; in it a monument belonging to ike Capuiett.
Snier Farib, and Ms Pago hearing floieeit and a torch.
Par. Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof; — Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. Under yond yew-treea"*"' lay thee all along, Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground ; So shall no foot npon the ohnrchyard tread — Being loose, unflrm, with digging-np of graves — Sot thon shalt hear it : whistle then to me. As signal that thon hear'at something approach. Oiva me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.
Page. (_aside] I am almost afraid to stand''^ alone Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventnro. [RetireB.
Par. Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew :'*'^' 0 woe, thy canopy is dnst and stones !
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew;
Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans :
The obsequies that I for thee will keep,
Nightly shall be to sttew thy grave and weep.
[The Page whiatke. The boy gives warning something doth approach. "What cnrs^d foot wanders this way to-night, To cross my obsequies and tnte love's rites? "What, with a torch ! — mnfBe me, night, awhile. [Betireg.
XiUer RouKO, and Balthabab with a torch, mattocA, ^c.
Rom. Give me that mattock and the wrenching-iron. Hold, take this letter; early in the morning See thon deliver it to my lord and &ther. Give me the light ; npon thy life, I chai^ thee, "Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof. And do not interrupt me in my course. "Why I descend into this bed of death. Is partly to behold my lady's face ; But chiefly to take tlMueo from her dead finger
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A precious ring, — a rinfi; that I mnBt ase
In dear employment : therefore hence, be gone : —
Bat if thon, jealons, dost return to pry
In what I farther shall intend to do,
B; heBTCn, I will tear thee joint by joint,
And flirew this bangry charchyard with thy -limbs ;
The time and my intents are savage-wild ;
More fierce and more inexorable far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
Bal. I will be gone, sir, and not trouble yon.
Rom. So ehalt thon show me friendship. — Take thon that: Live, and be prosperona : and farewell, good fellow.
Bal. [aeUle] For oil this same, I'll hide me hereabout : Hie looks I fear, and bis intents I doubt. [Betirei.
Rom. Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Oorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thns I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
[Breaking open the door of ike monument. And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food !
Par. This is that banish'd haughty Montague That morder'd my love's coasin, — witi which grief, It is supposed, the fair creatnre died, — And here is come to do some villanoas shame To the dead bodies : I will apprehend him.— [Advances. Stop thy nnhallow'd toil, vile Montague ! Can vengeance be pnrsu'd further than death ? Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee : Obey, and go with me ; for thon mast die.
Rom. I must indeed ; and therefore came I hither. — Oood gentle yoath, tempt not a desperate man ; Fly hence, and leave me : — ^think upon these gone ; Let them affright thee. — I beseech thee, youth, Put not another sin upon my head, By urging me to taij : — 0, be gone ! By heaven, I love thee better than myself; For I come hither arm'd against myself: Stay not, be gone ; — live, and hereafter say, A madman's mercy bade^*" thee ran away.
Par. I do defy thy conjorations,"**' And apprehend thee for a felon here.
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Rom. Wilt thou provoke me ? then have at thee, ho;!
ITkeyJjght.
Page. 0 Lord, they fight I I will go call the watch.
[ExiL—ParUfalU.
Par. 0, I am slain ! — If thon be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Jnhet. [Di^s.
Rom. Id &ith, I will. — Let me pernse this face : — Mereutio's kinemsn, noble County PariB ! — "What said my man, when my betoseed 8oal Did not attend him as we rode ? I think He told ma Paris shoald have married Jnliet : Said he not so ? or did I dream it so ? Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Jnliet, To think it was bo ? — O, give me thy hand. One writ with me in sour misfortune's book ! I'll bury thee in a triamphant graye ; — A graye ? 0, no, a lantern, slaughter'd yonth. For here lies Jnliet, and her beanty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light. Dead, lie thon there, by a dead man interr'd."*'*
{Laying Paris in the monmnent. How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry ! which their keepers call A lightning before death : 0, how may I Call this a lightning ? — 0 my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath snck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conqner'd ; beaaty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. And death's pale flag is not advanced there. — Tybalt, hest thou there in thy bloody sheet ? O, what more favour can I do to thee. Than vrith that hand that cut thy yonth in tivun To sunder hia that was thine enemy? Forgive me, consin ! — Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thon yet so fair 7 shall I believe That nnsabstantial Death is amorons ;''*'* And that the lean abhorrM monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his poramoor? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee ;
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And neTer from this palace of dim niglit
Depart again : here, here will I remain
With wormB*"" that are thy chamber-maids ; 0, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest ;
And Bbake the joke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. — Eyes, look yonr Uet !
Arms, take yonr last omhrace ! and, lips, 0 yon
Tfao doors of breath, seal with a righteoita kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death ! —
Come, bitter conduct, come, nnsaToury guide 1
Thon desperate pilot, now at once rnn on
The dashing rocks my"** sea-sick weary bark !
Here's to my Ioto! [DrinkaJ] — 0 true apothecary!
Thy drags are qnick. — Thus with a kiss I die. [Diet.
Enter, at ilio other end of the churchyard, Friar Lauukkoe, vrith a lantern, eroic, and spade.
Frl. L. Saint Francis be my speed ! how oft to-night Have my old feet stumbled at graves ! — ^Who's there ?
Bal. Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.
Fri. L. Bliss be upon you 1 Tell me, good my friend. What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light To gmbs and eyeless skulls ? as I discern, It bameth in the Oapela' monument.
Sal. It doth so, holy sir ; and there's my master, Oqo that you love.
Fti. L. Who is it?
Bal, Bomeo.
FVi. L. How long hath he been there ?
Bal. Foil half an boor.
Fri. L. Qo with me to the ^aolt.
Bal. I dare not, sir:
My master knows not but I am gone hence ; And fearfully did menace me with death. If I did stay to look on his intents.
Fri. L. Stay, then; I'll go alone. — Fear comes upon mep 0, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.
Bal. As I did sleep under this yew-tree***" here, I dreamt my master and another fought, And that my master slew him.
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Fri. L. Romeo ! — lAdvancee.
Alack, ulack, what blood is tliis, which stains The stony entrance of this sepnlchre ? — What mean these mastetless and gory swords To lie discolonr'd by this place of peace ?
[Enters the monument. Romeo ! 0, pale ! — Who else ? what, Paris too ? And Bteep'd in blood? — Ah, what an nnkind honr Is gnilty of this lamentable chance ! — The lady stirs. [Jviiet ivakcs.
Jul. O comfortable friar ! where's my lord ? — I do remember well where I shoiild be, And there I am : — where is my Romeo ? [^NdUc within.
Fri. L. I hear some noise. — Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and annatnral sleep : A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted oar intents: — come, come away: Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead ; And Paris too : — come, I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nmia : Stay not to qneation, for the watch is coming ; Come, go, good Juliet [NoUe agaiii], — I dare no longer stay.*""
Jill. Oo, get thee hence, for I will not away. —
lExit Friar L. What's here ? a cup, clos'd in my true love's hand ? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end : — 0 chnrl ! drink all, and leave no friendly drop To help me after J^*® — I will kiss thy lips ; Haply some goison yet doth hang on them. To make me die with a restorative. [^Kisses htm.
Thy lips are warm !
First Watch [ToitAin.]. Lead, boy: — which way?
JiU. Yea, noise ? — then I'll be brief. — 0 happy dagger ! [Sttatching Romeo'a dagger. This is thy sheath (Stabs herself] ; there rest, and let me die."*" [Falls oa Romeo's body, and dies.
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Enter Watch, wilh the Page o/Paris. faye. This is tbe place ; tbeie, where the torch doUt
bunt. First Watch. Tho ground is bloody; search abont the churchyard : do, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.
[Exeant some of the Watch. Pitiful eight ! here lies the county slain ; — And Juliet bleeding ; warm, and newly dead. Who here hath lain these two days buried. — Qo, tell the prince, — run to the Capulets, — Bftise up the Montagues, — some othem search : —
\Exeunt others of the Watch. We see the ground whereon these woes do lie ;"**" But the true ground of all these piteous woes We caimot without circumstance descry.
Be-enler »ome of the Watch, wj'i/t Balthasab. See. Watch. Here's Romeo's man ; we found him in the
churchyard. Firet Watch. Hold him in safety, till the prince come
hither,
Jte-enler others of the Watch, mtk Friar Lauuesce. Third Watch. Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs, and weeps : We took this mattock and this spade from him. As he was coming from this churchyard side.
First Watch. A great saspicion : stay the ^or too.
Eater the Prince mid Attendants. Prince. What misadrentare is so early up. That calls oar person from oar morning's rest?
Unta- CAPUtET, Lady CiFirLBT, and others.
Cap. What should it be, that they so shriek abroad ?
La. Cap. The people in the street cry " Romeo," Some "Juliet," and some "Paris;" and all mo. With open outcry, toward our monument.
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Prince. What fear iatbis which startles in oar""' ears?
First Watch. Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain ; And Borneo dead ; and Juliet, dead before. Warm, and new kill'd.
Prince. Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
Firit Watck. Here is a friar, and slanghter'd Borneo's man; With instruments upon them, fit to open These dead men's tombs.
Cap. 0 heaven ! — O wife, look how our daagbter bleeds ! This dagger hath mista'en, — for, lo, hie house Ib empty on the back of Montague, — And is mis-sheatbed in my daoghter's bosom !
La. Cap. O me ! this sight of death is as a bell, That warns my old age to a sepolchre.
inie)' Montague and olhere.
Prince. Come, Montague ; for then art early np. To see thy son and heir more early down.
Man. Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night ; Orief of my son's exile hath siopp'd her breath : What further woe conspires agunBt my age ?"*°'
Prince. Look, and thou shalt see."*"
ATon. O thon untaught ! what manners is in this. To press before thy &ther to a grave ?
Prince. Seal up the month of outrage"**' for a while, Till we can clear theso ambiguities. And know their spring, their head, their true descent ; And then will I be general of yonr woes. And lead you even to death : meantime forbear. And let mischance be slave to patience. — Bring forth the parties of suspicion.
Fri, Zi. I am the greatest, able to do least. Yet most suspected, as the time and plaee Doth make against me, of this direful murder ; And here I stand, both to impeach and pu^e Myself condemned and myself ezcns'd.
Prince. Then say at once what thou dost know in this.
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Fri. L. I will be brief, for my short date of breath Is not so loDg as is a tedious tale. Borneo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; And she, there dead, that Borneo's faithful wife : I married them ; and their stol'n marriage-day Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from this city; For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juhet pin'd. Yon, to remoye that siege of grief from her, Betroth'd, and would have married her perforce, To County Paris : — then comes she to me ; And, with wild looks, bid me devise some means ' To rid her from this second marriage. Or in my cell there would she kill herself. Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art, A sleeping potion ; which bo took effect Ab I intended, for it wrought on her The form of death ; meantime I writ to Borneo, That be should hither come as this dire night. To help to take her firom her borrow'd grave. Being the time the potion's force should cease. But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stay'd by accident ; and yesternight Betnm'd my letter back. Then all alone At tlie ptefixM hour of her waking, Came I to take her from her kindred's vault ; Meaning to keep her closely at my cell Till I conveniently could send to Romeo : But when I came, — some minute ere the time Of her awaking, — here untimely lay The noble Paris and true Borneo dead. She wakes ; and I entreated her come forth. And bear this woik of heaven with patience : But then a noise did scare me from the tomb ; And she, too desperate, would not go with me. But, as it seems, did riolence on herself. All this I know; and to the marriage Her nurse is privy: and, if anght in this Miscarried by my fault, let my old life
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Be Bacri&c'd, some hour before his time. Unto the rigoar of severest law.
Piince. We still have known thee for a holy man. — Where's Bomeo's mao ? what can he say in this ?
Bat. I brought my master news of Juliet's death ; And then in post he came from Mantua To this same place, to this same monament. This letter he early bid me give hie father ; And threaten'd me with death, going in the vault, If I departed not, and left him there.
Prince. Give me the letter, — I will look on it. — Where is the county's page, that raia'd the watch ? — Sirrah, what made yonr master in thle plaee ?
Page. He came with flowera to strew his lady's gi-ave ; And bid me stand aloof, and so I did : Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb ; And by and by my master drew on him ; And then I ran away to call the watch.
Prince. This letter doth make good the friar's words. Their coarse of love, the tidings of her death: And here he writes that ho did buy a poison Of a poor potheeary, and therewithal Came to this vault to die, and He with Juliet. — Where be these enemies? — Capulet, — Montague, — See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love ! And I, for winkmg at yonr discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen : — all are punish'd.
Cap. O brother Montague, give me thy hand : This ifl my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand.
Mott. But I can give thee more :
For I will raise her statue in pure gold ; That while Verona by that name is known. There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.
Cap. As rich shall Borneo by his lady lie ; Poor sacrifices of oar enmity I
Prince. A gloomy***" peace this morning with it brings ; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head :
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do hence, to have more talk of these sad things ; Some shall be pardon'd, and some ptmished : For never was a story of more woe Than this of Jnliet and her Romeo. [Exetmt.
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P.aeS. (i) "enuV
On UusKiJrdMr. Collier, in the aecond edition otiuE Shaieipeare, has ft note, in which, while he goea ont ol his way to make an attach on me, he only Bhons hi* own ignorance of our old iBngaage : he sbjb, " The misprint ol civil lor ' erael' is Rllowed to remain in Qreene and Lodgo'a ' Looking-Qlait (oc Lon- don and England' [Djce'a edit. i. 71], 'And play the civil wanton' for 'crufl nnton.' " — The pau^e in qaestiim is,
" Uadun, otileaa yon cay it trick and trim, And play the civil wanton ero yon yield," £c. ; where "civil" mesni grave, eober. The same enthor in bis Hfevtr too latt, Bpealdng ol the conrteMma of Troynovant (i.e. London), tella ns that "theii' lo^s are like Inreg that will rcdaime, and like Cyrces apparittons that ean repreaent in them all motioiw ; tliey containe modesty, mirth, chastity, wan- tonness, and what not; and she that holdeth in her eie most ciuility hatii ott tn hir heart most dishoneatie, heing Uke the pyrit atone that i> fler withont sndfnwtwithin." Bee my Aecoiint of Qreene and hit irHfin^s, p.S, ed.1861.
P. 890. (i) - " let me go.''
Walker (CHt. Exwn. &e. Ttd. iii. p. 223) qneries " let go."
P. S90. (3) "grave beiataiag"
Walker wonld print "grave-beseemlDg," i-r- "beaeetning gravity, mfovwfi- nit." Crit. Exam. &o. toI. i. p. 24.
P. 892. (4) " to the lun.-'
Theobald'! emendation.— The old e<ls. have "lu the same." — "Theobald," obeerrea Mr. Knight, "gave as sun; and we could acaroely wish to restore the old reading, evea il the probability ol a typogrsphicsl error, lame for latme, were not so obiiona." See also my Remarte on Mr. CoUier't and Mr. Knighl't rdt. 0/ Sltaketpeare, p. 167.
P. 893. (5} " Enter Boiiso."
The cdd eda. mark hia entraooe acme lines earlier, jost aa previously in the preaeut acene, p. SS9, Ibey make Abraham and Balthasar, and also Beavalio, enter too aoon 1 and only beeanse they foUowed the prompter's book, whieli had the entrances ao aet down, to ahow that tbe performers were to be in madinesa to appear mi the atage. Again, in act ii. ac. 3, p. 416, aaoording to theoldeda. Bomeoenten while the mar haa yet several lines of bis wdiloqnj
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P. 398. (6) " wetl-ieeming form* ."'
The flrst qoarto luB " b«8t teaming thingaa."— The quartos of Ifi9d »nd 1609 hsTs " welix<aa(( /omui." — CorFeetedto " KeU-ieemingformi" in the undated
F. 893. (7) " Bom. Oood Aeart, at what t
Ben. Jt thy good heart'M eppratSoa, Bom. Why, (twft i> Itwe'* tramgraiUm. — " Here the ngnal modem arrangement is,
" Bom. Good heart, at tukatl Bon. At thy good heart't oppretlion.
Rata, Why, tuch ii love't tmiugreiHon. — " ,
and eince printing the text of (hU play, I alntoet regret that I did not retain that arrangement. The passage, however, ma; he rif^t as it stands ; for onr oarlj drantatigta BometimeB introdaoe short rhyming lioei in the midst of Uank- versa dialognes : bo in Loue^i Labour'i loit, act i. ee. 1 [vol. ii. p. IC6), "Long. Marry, that did I. Birott. Sweat lord, and why t" — Mr. Collier adi^ts the reading of his Me. Corrector In the third of these speeches;
" Rom. Why, tuch, BenTolio, it love't trantgreition."
P. 39B. (g) "purg'd."
" The anthor may meao Being pwg'd of imokc; hnt it is perhaps a meaning never given to the word in any other plaoe. I would rather read ' Being «rp'if." JoHNBOH, — Mr. Collier's Hs. Corrector sabstitntes "poff'd,"^ — Mr, Onmt White discovers here an allDsioa to Matthew's Ooipel, iii. 13, ' ' whose fan is in his hand, and he nill throngU; purge his floor," lie.
P. 3S4. (9) "mark-man.'-'
Altered in the third folio to "marks-man."
P. S$4. (10) " From love'i weak cMldtth boa the liva itnAann'd." Here I have not dlBtnrbed the vsnal modem lection. — The first quarto has
"Gainst Cupids childith boa the linet vaharm'd." The oUter old eds. have
"From IdiMi loeak childith boa the liuet vnoharmd." — Mr. Odlier's Ms. Corrector reads " front love'i aeak childith bow ike livej enoharm'd." — Mr. W. K. Lettsom thinks it most probable that Shakespeare wrote "'Qainst love'i leeak childith boa the livei encharm'd;" a reading sug- gested also by Mr. Grant White.
P. 891. (11} "iBith Aer diet beauty't ttort."
So Theobald.— The old eds. have "with heantie dies her ttore."—" The sense required, as is clear from BenvoUo's rejoinder, and even from Malone's note
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pn whioh he defends the old reading], U, tlmt her beantj- diee irith her; but thl* sense oannoi be aqaeeEed oot of the old text ; theiefive IheobaU'i eon- jaotnre is neoesiu;." W. H. IiiTTtoH.
P. SM. (ti) " Thete happy moita"
See note 7a on iUcoiurc /or Heatmre.
P. 396. (13)
" Par. rounfifr than $h« art happy tnothen made. Cap. And loo toon marr'd are ihoie to tarly made."
Theflist qnarto klonc h»B " to tarly maried;" which i« algo the raBding-
of Hr. Colliec'B Mi. Coirector, nnd.which, Mr. Biager sayB, " ie ondonbtedlj the trae one ; as «re haro it in Pnttenham, ' The maid that eoon marritd {iij, •ooD marred ia.'" Shaieipeart Vindicated, &e. p. 231. — Bnt.aa flt«eTeDBadi. abservM, " the jingla betneen marr'd and made is likeiriae freqnent among tbe old writeTB. So Sidnoj,
' Oh, he Ib marr'd, that is for others madef Spenser introdvees it rerj often in his difTerent poems." He might have added, that Bhakeipcaro has it screral times ; to in the present play, p. 421, "that God hath nadr, for himself to mar,-" and in Slaebtib, act it. so. S, "it maket him, and it mart him." And, as Paris has used the word " made," it appears to me moet natnnil that Capolot in his rejoinder should oie " made"
P. 896. (14) " The tarth liatk tnallow'd all my hope* but t}ie. She ia the hopeful lady o/mj/ rarth:"
80 the undated quarto.— These tno lines are not in the first qaarto. — The qaartoa of 1599 and 1609 and the folio hare " Earth hath iwaUowed," &o. — Aooording to Steerens, " lady of my earth" is a OalliciBm,— Jille dt terrt being tbeFrenoh phrase for an heiren: bat BIr.W. N. Lettsom soapects that Qia dose of the second line is Eomtpt
P. 835. (.5)
" JmI like her mott lehae ntrit mott ihatt be: WhiUt 0* more vim of many, mi-M, being arte. May itaitd in number, thouffl^ i^ reekoning nonr." In the second line the flnt qnarto has " Such amonggt ef tie of many," Ice. — The later old eds. have (not more intellifpblr) "Whiob one [and an] more viae, of many," ice- — Johnson eonjeotored "WUhin joia view of many," &e.; Steevens, " Search amongst riev of many," ftc. ; and Dr. Badhan [Cambridge fnayt, Tol. tor 1856, p. 386} wonld nform the pauage thna,
" whote merit mott ihalt be,
Suoh amongst few; of many, mint being one," 4c.— I bna adopted the oorreotiMi of MasMi, who obsoTM, " THth this alteration tha MOM ia dear, and the deriatiini from [the later qnartos and] the folio Twj trifliDg [only the ohange of ' oh' to ' iti']."
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P.SM. (16) ••Aiutlnu''
The <AA eda. hftrc "AncelniA.''
P. 396. (17) "an/f
Not in thedd eix. — " A l*t« miter haa anticipated me in remaAiDg, that tke lilt of inTitations in Bomeo and Jaliri, i. 2, is in rene : in 1. 7 he hu pra- perlf anpplied tha deficient ijUaUe,
, ' H7 fair niece Rosaline and Liria.' In 1. 2, 1 soapeet that for 'Jiuflnu' we ooght to read Miu<I««.' " Walkor's Crit. Exaat. £0. to), i. p. 2. — But Capell had long ago written thna ; " How if Capnlet'i list of inrited he metre tooT odd as it ms; aeem, it is naariy ao now; for readiiuc ' Arutlme' — Aniflmo, aniL giving ' J.iiiia' her epithet i^eMU, for ijutaaee), which are both pioper and something mora, it resolvei iiaeU into Dine m complete lambioks as any in Shakespeare, nor can be made javM without a KTBat deal more altning than goes to making it Tetae." .Vote*, fce. vol. ii. P. iT. p. 4.
P. B97. (il) "Serr. To mpprr to our Jioute."
"The words 'to topper' are in the old copies annexed to the preceding spMcb. The7 ondonbtedl; belong to tho Berraut, to whom they were transteiTed 1^ Ht. Theobald [by Waibarton hjihiI Theobald]." Uuom. — C^ell omita >' to
P. 897. {19) 'Tnl. Wf,"
The seeond ■■ tut" was added io, the soeond folio. —And see Walker'* Crit. Exam, lie, rd. ii. p. 146.
P. B97. (10) "teaUi"
Used here m a nottn singdlar.
P. 867. (11) 'Wa^-Iore"
I did not know that this was Theobald's reading when I proposed it in my Eemaria on Mr. CoIUer'i and J/r. Knigkfi ed>, of Sliaketpeare, p. 109. — The old eds. have "ladyes loue" and "L*aes loiu."—Qtr. araat White says, " I more than donbt that the compoand ' lady-lore' is as old aa the time of Shakegpeare." But it certainly is; compare Olson's Coblen Frophetie, 1694;
" The dialogne done, Uien downe came I my Uidy loue to flode."
Big. D 3.)
P. 400. (11) ■' Thejiih liva in the tea;"
"i.«. Unot yet canghL Flih-skineorers to books anoientty were not maom- UM). Bach li Dr. Farmer's explanation of this passage," fte. Srixtnta, — " The pnrpwt of the remainder of this apeeoli la to show the adrantBge ol
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li&Ting a huidBome perFon to cover i, Tlrtnona mind. It ia evident therebav that, inBte&d of ' tbe fltli liTea in the na,' we ahonld rtM * the fish lives in Mieihett.' Tot the tea cannot be Mldtobeabesatifuloovertok&ah, Uioa^ A theli may. I believe that bj ' the golden itory' is meant no putioolar le- gend, bnt uiy valaable Kiitii^." Mabok.
P. 401. {13) "enpiireid"
Walker (CHt. Exam. ice. vol. iii. p. 23S) treatB this aa " an emtam for ' tm- piereteC." Whyf
Five timti in that, ere one* in oarfiw viti." Var "litt" Walter {Crit. Exam. Ae.vol. ii. p. 124] qaeriee "fltB;"'wUeb Bowe gave. — The old ede. have " — our fine will ;" wbich wae flrat corrected I17 Halono.
P. 409. (15) "tliefairiei' midwife;"
Warborton reads " th* laaoy'a midwife." — '" The fairiet' midwife'' does not mean the midwife to the fairies, bnt that abe was the person iiinon<7 the furies wbose department it woa todeliveTthe foocies of sleeping men of theirdi«anis, those children of an idle brain." Steevenb. — "I apprehend, and iritb no Tidenoe of interpretation, that by ' the fairies' midwife' tbe poet means the aUdiBife among the fairiet, becanse it was ber peculiar employmcDt to steal tbe newborn babe in the night, and to leave another in its place. . . . It would clear tbe appellation to »ead ' tbe fainj midwife.' " T, Waetos.
P. 409. (16) "Her chariot ia an empty hazel-nut,"
■" TUs end tbe two following lines ahonld come immediately after ' Athwui men's noses as they lie asleep ;' for it is preposterous to speab of the parts of the chariot (ench as the wagon-spokes and cover] before mentioning the chariot itself." W. N. Lbttsom.
P. 408. {x7)
"OWeourtlert' kneee, that dream oa emirt'iiei ilralgkl ;
O'er Imeyen' finsen
O'er ladiei' Up$," ETsn if the Orst qnarto bad not bad " O're Cmartieri kneet : who stn^t on curttM dreame," Ite., tbe context ongbt to have shown Ualone and those .other editors who print " On eoartiert' kneee" that " On" is quite wrong.
P. 4M. (sS) "a MHrtur't n
As we have had "eavrtien' knees" on^ a little above, hero is lather an awkward repetitioti, which was probably owing to the alterations made fn (Ida
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fttA h]r tke Httkcr boM toe to time. — The fltA yuiio hn ■*
fen' ■B8ai;''s^m*WarbaTtaiatBcnc«,the " taif mnftiauei a fine i> not a tmil at Imm, bBt i
P. M3. (19) *-a.V'
■' Be«d ' (AaC viUi quarto 1597." W. 5. Lettmii.
P. IM. [30) "Ben. SOiJtc, drwM."
The Hirimil qEUla add* " Tha/ manh mbemX One Slafe, amd Stndmfmat come forth witk KapUn* :" tha anilif itrn IwTiiig to wppnt that tha aeiaa was now tkaaged 1« the haU of Capnlet'a houae.
P. 404. (jij "jMtoiig Potpanr
The oU edi. hare " AnthonU and Potpoa :" an emi iMiaiJiaMil by the in- nudiatelj preceding " Grindstone and MeD." — TliToa;dioat thia aoene PotpAo ia ih» Seeond Strcant ; aamm tnt obaerred br C^wHi — «^in hia text, had wtonglj iBtrodneed a Third Serraal, bnl in hia Xo:ft, Ice. viitea ■• tuUova ; " Tho coene'a idea ia thia : — the enquire aftra' Potpan in 7 [Oit flnt apecehj aeea him not thoogh at hand ; nor heara, when what he ujb ia obaerr'd upon in word* denoting ttaentmeat for the reflection that'* east on him : a aeeond bwTfing ipeech fnMn the enquirer, addrea>'d to different lemmts, doaea with a call to thia Fotpau, adding hia other name ; and thii eall he repliea to in 'Ay, bm/; Ttady,' " te. ToL iL P. ir. pp. 6, 7. — I differ odI; aligfatly from Capell, vbopnoetoatea the wnda tfaoa, "AntonjI Potpan!''
P. 404. (31) " WtUomt, gentlemen."'
' Bead ' You're welcome, gentlemen !' and ao read fire lines below. Fottlier on we hare ' Yourt welatme, gentlemen ! — Come, mniieiana, play.' ¥at • genOtmes.' aa a dlMjlIaUe aee Walker'a Shaketpeare'i Yen^fieatixm, Ac Art.. zxdv." W, N. LnraoM.
P. 404. (11) "She,"
•• Omit * Sht' wiQi Pope." W. N. Letmox.
P. 40S. (]4) "Herbeaats ftan^mipon the cheel of night" In my fonner edition I gare, with the qoartoa and the Aret folio, " It Baemes ■he hanoi vpon the eheeke of night:" bnt I now adopt the reading of the ae- eond folio, — a reading wliieh (whenoeaoeTer the editor at that ftriio maj have proenr^ it) ia aaanredlj a great improrenunt. "The repetitioD of tlie word > btautg' In the next line bnt one, in m; opinion, eonfirma the emendation of onr'wcond folio." BxaERiia.
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P. 40d. [3;) ■• but tkit intnuim Mhall,
N<»a Iteming twtel, convfrl to biUtr gall." Hr. W. N. L«ttRom proposea
" but tJii$ iiUnuion ihall Nov-aeemiog tiettt crnntrt to Utfred [so tto 1699] gall." "I omio^Te," lie Baja, " 'twttt' to be ft BnbstantiTe, mi 'convtrt' ta actiTe
P. «6. {j6) "fint"
Wftrbnrton's oorreotion,— The old eda. have " rinne" (and " aln'').
P. 407. (37) " eJiin*.."
" Tbna th« old oopiei ; for wMoh Mr, Pope ud the iobseqaBiit aditon b«TO ■nbrtitated "«ftfni.'" Halons.
P. 409. (jg) " Nay, Pll eonjwrt too.—"
Ur. Collier od (. is migtRkeii in MTing that all tha old copies {^ve Uiii to Ben- Tolio : tlie flnt quarto bu " Sfer: CtU, nay lU eoniurt too."
P. 409. (39) "I'mMf ^<laii* Cupid,"
Tbe old edg. have "rowvAta«liam: (Tupid" (and'TowvAbrahamCupfir'). — " Bhakeipeare wrote ' Young Adam C7tit>td,' dee. The printer or tmueriber gaw M thia '^trai,' jnirtalring the d tor 6r ; andthiu made a paasage direct □oiuetue nhioh waa undentood in Shakespeare's time I7 all his audience j for thia Admn WM a moet notable arcka; and for bia sldU beoame a proverb. In Much Ado abma Nothing, act i. [ae. 1] , ' And he that hita me, let bim be (dapped on the aboalder, and oalled Adak.' . . . Hia name was Adam Bell [eee Qloaaaiy, nab " Adatn," gee.'] . Bo that here 'Young Adam Cuptd,' &o. ia the aame aa 'Young Oupid, thatnotabU archer,' Ac. ' The archer god,' as Bpenaer [in his Uniopotmoa] calla Mm." nrroK. — In m7 former edition I printed "Young anbnni Cupid," — having made the following remarks on this passage In a Tolnme pnblisbed in 1853 ;
" Upton altered ' Abraham' to 'A4am,' nnderatanding the allusion to be to the celebrated archer Adam Bell ; and, sinoe Upton's time, the alteration has been adopted by all editors, eioept Cspell and Mr. Enight ; the former haurd- ing the strange oonjectnre, that, ' as Cophetna waa a Jeui king of Africa, Shake-. ■paare might make tbe Cn^d that atnck bim a Jeu Cnpid,' Nola, tie. vol. ii. P. Ir. p. 7 ; the latter telling ns that ' th« • Abraham' Capid ia the oheat-the * Abraham man' — of onr old atatntea.'
That Bhakeapeare here had an eye to the ballad of King Cophttua and the Beggar Maid la oertain ;
• The blinded boy that $hooUt to trim.
From heaveo down did hie, He drew a dart, and ahot at him In place where he did Ijre.' TOL. TI. II
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But Qii* hUiiz* ooQtuiu notbing to oonnteiuuiea, in tiie lUghteat degree, Uie reading * ^dant Copid.'
In Soliman andPerteOa, 1599, ve find
'Wlien is the eldest sonne of Ptytta, That oftraAam-oolonred Trcooii I dead.'
Big.HS. in UiddleUin'B Blurt, Matter Coiutable, IBOS,
'A gaodlie, long, thicke, Jfrram-eoIonT'dbeard.' Big.D. and in onr anthor's (UarialoRUj, act ii. ««. 8, aecordiog to the firat tltree folio*, •not that OUT heads are Bome browne, Bome blacks, BOin.<braM,-' there being no reaton to doubt that in tbeie passageH > abraham' (or 'Abrata') ia a oar- mpUon of ■ abron,' i. e. ' auburn.' Is, then, the right reading in the preaent
' Tonng dbram [^avbvni] Ca^d,' fto. ; Shakespeare baTing nsed ' obrant' for ' anbnm-Aafr'iJ,' aa the aathor of SoU- manandPenedabaa naed 'a5raA(un.MlonredTroion'for 'Trojan with anbnni- coloured Aair' f Ereiy body familiar with the Italian poets knows that the; termOnpid, as well m Apollo, 'Dbloiido Dio:' andW. Thomas, in his Prat' eipal SnUt of tlu Italitm Orammar, i:a., gives ' Biondo, ttie abems [i. e. om- bvnt] eolonr, tliat ia betwene white and yelov.' Big. E S, ed. 1667. In onr author's Two GtntUmen of Verona, act iv. sc. 3, ' auburn' means jellowiah ;
• Her hair is auburn, mine ia perfect Tellow.* "
A Few Hotel on Shakapeare, Se. p. 109. — Mi. Collier (in the seoond edition of his Shakeipeare] pronoonoes m; emen- -dation "anlinm Cupid" to be a "wretched conjeotnre :" Mr. Grant White estimatcB it reiy diSerentl;, — he adopts It.
P. «0. (40) "pale"
So the first qnarto. — The later eds. baTe " sioke." — [WhiebeTer epithet we prefer, there win still be a slight awkwardness, as both words ooonr three lineB above: bnt "pale" is donbtleas the more proper epiUiet here.)— Mr. Colliea'a He. Corrector snbstitatea " white ;" whioh Mr. Collier adopts in the leotnd edition of his Shalutpeare, and remarits, "the allusion being, as the words. ' And none bnt fools do wear it,' establish, to the dress of fools and jesters, lAich was then usually motlej, bnt bad formerly been 'white and green.* Snch, it is known, had been the dress of William Bnnimar, the court-jester to Henry YIII. ; and the IteT. Mr. I^oe has shown (Bkelton's Works, i. ilL and 128) that John Skelton boasted of the dress of ' white and green' wbioli had been given to him by the same king."
P. 411. (41) " Uuy-paeina"
So the first quarto ; wbieh I mentioii only becanse two critics hsve recently spokenof this as a modem reading, and prefer "lazy-passing," Enbatitnted 1^ Mr. Collier's Ms. Coneotorfor " lon'c puffing" of the later quartos and of the foUo.
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P. m. (43) " Tlum art thyielf though, not a 2Iontague." " Por th« pment punatiution I ua aooonntable. It &pp«ara to ne to ofibnl a elemr mdm, which the line aa printed in the idd oopies, when we have a coniDUi after ' thijttlf,' and no point *3Mr ' though,' doea not, in m; apprehen-
Thon art, hovievtr, uiji Joiiet, a Iraing nii gtmrii, amiable and perfect, not tainted b; the enmity which ycmr fomi^ beun to mine.
AcooFding to the conunon ponctnatioQ, the adrersatiTe particle is tued without any propriet;, or rather makes the pasaage a
' My legs are longer tJiough, to run away.' Again, in The Taming of the Shrew [act iii. 80. 2J 1
' Wonld Katharine had never aeen him thovgk P ApOn, in Kiag Henry VIII. [act ii. M. 2] ;
' I wonld not be so «i«k though, tot hia place.' Other writera freqaentlj dhb ■ thimgh' for ' hoaever.' ....
Juliet is simply endearoDiing to aeoonnt for Bomee's being amiable and excellent, though he u a Montague. And, to prove this, she aasarts that he merely bears that name, bnt haa oons of the qoalitiea of that bonae." &U- jjotn. — More recently the old pnnctnation of this line hw been brought back, first by Ur. Staonton, and next by Mr. Grant White, who have both defended it in notes which, I mnat oonfeBB, are to me hardly intelligibU.
"In this line and the three following lines wemay, I think, diacem traces of an abortive attempt (peth^s by Sbakeapeare himaeU) to remove the im- propriety of representing a Christian, and not a family, name aa the name to lie got rid of. These lines at any rate intermpt the natural connection of the paauge, and so far fnnn alniring over the impropriety In qneation, they only render It more obtmMve. Shakeapeare conld scarcely have written ' be aome other name:' bntctrnjeotnre wonld be thrown away on these fonr tines." W. N. IiiiraoiL
P. 411. (4]) " Belonging to a man."
" For the sake of mstre, I an willing to snppose onr anthor wrote ' ^Longing to man.'" BnBVUis.— "Qn. 'LongingV a man'T" Walker's Crtt.£iain. ftc. v«L iii p. 336.
P. *H. <44) " mil,"
80 Qie undated qnarto ; and rightly. — Both Mr. Knight and Mr. Collier give the leetion of the other old eds., '■ strife ;" Hr, Knight without any note, and iSx. Collier with a note which may mislead the reader to sappoae that "lutt" is a modem conjectural emendation. — l&BG. Mr. Collier now prints " luil," a<dely on the anthoilty of his Ma. Corrector.
P. 414. (4s)
" And makt her airy tongve VMre hoarte than miM," Mr. Collier gives " airy itAeonwre koartt," &o. ; andrenuAs, "Bo the
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qnuto 1G6T [vhioh, faowerer, has ' — airie voioe u hoarwe,' &o.}, more fltl; tbMt tiie later oojneE, irhioh sabititate tongue for * TiAoe.' " Bat the word "Ttrioe" ia objeotionkUa htnt, htamaie it oooon joBt abore ; and thoo^ thc- cipreMiou, " her airy tongue more hoarae," Ice., in, atriotlj epeaking, inoor- reot, it enrelf maj h« •lloiredii)poeti7. To " airy ttm^ue," at least, Uilton Mw no objection ; for ha recollected the present pasaage when he wnte " And airy bmguet that BjUable men'a names," &c.
P. 414. (46) "Mydtarr
80 the undated quarto [" My Deere"). — The flnt qnarto.haa "Madame." — Theqnartoa of lfi99 and 1609 hare "My Neeoe" {" neeee'' being eridentlra Unnder for " dtere," and by progreiiiTe cormption, — " Deere," " Neere," " Neeoe"). — The folio aUo has " My Kfteee." — The editor of the second fidio ■nbstitsted " Hy eweete."
P. 416. {47) " oppoild kingi eneamp"
80 bU the idd eds. except the first qnarto, whioh has " oppoitd foes tneotHjw;" a reading peHiaps to bo preferred. — " Shakespeare," says Steerans, " might hare remembered the fidlowing paeiage in the old play of The MU/ortunet 0/ Arthur, IfiST [written by Thomas Enghea, -with aome ali^t aauisUnce boBt
'Peaee hath three foti eneatnped in oar breasts, Ambition, wrath, and enrle.' [p. 66, reprint.] "
P. 416.(4!) "unftruWi"
Ur. Ctdlier'a Us. Corrector snbstitntcs *' nnbnsied."
P. 418. (49) " Why, where the devil ihould thlt Romeo be 7—" Here " Why" hfts been properly added from the first qnarto, where the cor- re^MidingwordBaie " Why itlmtsbeoome of BomeaF"
P. 418. (30) " completaenti."
See Oloasary to the present edition.
P. 419. (51)
" thtu pardonnez-moiB . . . . O, their bons, their Ihmu I" The old eds. hsTe " theie pardonmees (uid " thete pardons mees," " pardona-
mees," &e.) O their bones, their bones," — The Cambridge Editras
(Globe Shaketpeare) print " thae perdona-mi's" (bnt snrely Mercntio la here •peaking of afTected FazKCHrnnn gallants), and retain " O, their bones, their bones I" in preference to Theobald's emendation. (Agumtthat emendatiou, by the by, Capell protests, and says ; " ' bonet,' as sereral hare obaerT'd, is • tm aUnsion to that stage of the Freueh disease when it gets into the bones;' the thooght baa it's introdactian from the metaphorical expression jost pie- ceding, of— sitdn; at eiue" Note$, &e. rtH. S. P, It. p. 10.)
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P. 420. (js) " Bom, Hert'i gooiUy gear I
EuUt Nunc uid Petes. Mer. A tail, a tail, a tail .' BeD. Ttao, iieo ; a ihirt and a tmoek." So the flrrt qiurta. — The UAet ede. hare
" Bo. Beeres goodly gaore. EnUr Nurte and her wum.
Mer. Two two, ft sbert sad ■ smooke." which is adopted hj Mr. Onnt White ; irbo objects to the words " Two, two ; ft ihirt and a EUtook" being aaaigned " to the taeitoRi, curreet, and oommon- plaee BeaTolio :'' ;et in his note on the speeoh which preBantlyfoUowe, " fihe wiU indite him to lome Bnpper," Ite obseireB that " BeoTolio can be sl^lj
P. 421. <S3) " iailte"
ProbaUy we ftre to sappose that BenTolio mefl the word " indUt" in lidicnle ol the NDTse'e '^ confidence." (The flret qnarto haa "inoite:" bat in the pre- ceding epeech, instead of " eonjldenee" it has " eontereuoe. ") — 1B6S. I now .find Walker asking, " Is this [' indite'] in imitation of the Noth's ' eoi^id- eneeT Cril. Exam, &e. rol. iiL p. 226.
P. 422. (st) "weak"
Ur. Collier'a Ua. Corrector Bnbstitates " wicked."
P. 423. (55) " Bid her devUe tomt mean* to eonu to thrift
ThU afttnumtt;
And there >ke thall at Friar Laurence' cell
Be ikriv'd and married." IVim the broken metre, but more particnlarly from the word " there," whidi wonld leem to refer to some prerlonely mentioned looali^, I conolnde that this speech is mntilated. (In the first qoarto it is etill ehorter.)
if the second foUo ; wrong];, according to tit. Oraut
P. 42S. (57) ■• R U for the dog ; no; I know," Ac. Tbeoldede. have "B. it for the ne, I know," Ac — I give Tjrwbltt's emenda- tion, which is far mere probable tlian any otber yet propoeecL^Iliteon would retain the old text, regnlating it thns; •'B.iiforthe—m: I knoa," tie.
P. 428. (s8) '• fcocf
Altered to " black" by Hr. CoUier's He. Oonecfan-.
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F. 434.(59) "But old folki, mtmy frign at thtj/ wen dead ;" There ii no doubt some emu'iii the iroiiM "wiany feign" (tlie speUing of Ui» Utter wocd in the old eda. being "fain" and "/atne"J. — Mr. Bmoe (see note in Mr. CoUler'a flnt ed. of Shaketpeart) proposed to kltei " inanji" to " manr;" MkdUr. Orant White priaXa "But oldfotlit,mMnj, ttxaae they vert dead:" bat " tare" hM no pn^rietj hare. (Q7. had the M(. " rnooe j^tb" (" anaue, i' f^th"), «Meh wu oonnpted into "many fain" f)
V. 135. (6o> " I'ouT lore tayt," fte.
Ii thiaapeeeb ili^itlr Mcnpted r oron^t ltt«be printed upnweT
P. 43fi. (6i) " (iroiffhl a( any imn."
Altered b^ Hanmer %dA Mr. C<dlier'a Hi. Coireetor to " atraightira; at 017 TKwi." — Walker [Crit. Exam. &a. toI. ii. p. 266) would lead "ttraighl at mj next neat." Bat, aocording to Capell, the original text ia right: "at encb t«lk [ol lore and Bconeo] , any talk ot that kind, sayt the speaker, 'tii their cOBtom to put on ' learUt'. " NoUi, tee. T<d. iL P. ir. p. 13.— And Mr. Collier, who aUo adhere* to the old reading, aptly enough obeerves that " the NniEo hae alrea^ told the meet important and intet«eting part of her inlomiatiini."
P. 426. (6x) 80 the lonrth folio ("goflgamoor"). — The eadiereds. have " tht goBBamotin,"
I*. 436. (6}) " I cannot ivm i^ ha^ my mm ofvsealth." The old ed«. hare " I eannot turn vp lom (and " *ome"J ol balfa mj wealth.^' —Corrected bj CapeU.
P. 437. (64) "U>!"
The old edB. have "too;" irhit^ Hr. Btannton retains ae right.
P. 428, (6s) "AndTtaton"
Bo Capell, and BO Mr. Colliar'HMe. Correetor.— The old eda. hare "Oireaion'' (a mifitake ocoaaloned hj the " Or" n'hich oommeaoea the next line).
P, 439. (66) " eoTTia U avay.—"
Mr. W. K. Letteom propoEei " aaxrj it aaay ."'
P. 43&. {(7) "A plague 0' both your lunuei.'"
The old ed(. have " .j'poie of your lunuei," " A plague a both houte$," and " A plague a (and " of) both the houiti ," " the" being eridentlr an etror, for presentl; after Merentio tvice eiclaims " A plague 0' both your Aoum* .'"
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P. 480. <68) " mp repatatitiit ttote'd"
Ttr. W. H. Lettaom qoeiieB "vty Ttputatim'a itain'il."
P. «1. (69)
" TybaU, my eoutin! O my brotAfr't child .' — O prinee /— 0 hiuband !—0, the blood U >piU Of my dear kiruinan T' Ao. The fint qauio hu
" Tibalt, Tybftlt, O mir brolhen child, Tnhkpp; light t Ah eA< ilocd it ipilt O/my d(ar« Jtiiwinitn," fto. The later ecU. have
" Tybalt, my Conn, 0 my brother! child, O Prince, O Cozen, )nuban4, O the bloud ii ipild Of my deare kigman (and kiniman)," ice. ; where the eeoond luie ia, no doabt, ooimpted : " cozin" wonld Mem to hare crept into it in conBeqaeuoa of the truuMriber'a or printer's eje baTiDg: caof^t that Kord just abore.
P. 482. {70) "Phalnu' lodging:"
The firet qoarto alone haa " Pbabui manaion :" bnl the oOieT reading ceema pmferable, to sa; nothing of the \iari " mandm" ooenrrlng towaida the end of this speaoh. (Compare Petraioh, Camone t. ;
" Qaando Tode '1 paetor ealare i raggl Del gnut piaseta al side on' egli alberga," fte. ; and Johneo&'B Seven Cbangiion* of Chriitendom, Second Part, itg. Bl rerso, ed. Ito, n. d., " Till golden PAafrui began to nithdniwhinuelte into his accns- tomed lodging," Ae.
P. 482, (71)
" Spread thy elate euriain, love-performiitg niglit. That rude day'* eye* may vink, and Romeo I^ap to thete anni untalk'd-of and unietn. — " The old eds. (in all of vhioh, mth the aicaption of the lint qnarto, thhi paM- age iafonnd) have " TAatmnnavajeinja," JMi. and " That ran-twajen eye*," Ac. — Theobald printed, al Warbnrton'a an^eation, " Thai th' Bon-awiy'B ryei," d^c. 1 " the Bna-awa;" being, m Warborton thought, Fbtebns. — AoMid- ing to Bteereni, here " nmavaj" meana night; aoooiding to Donee, Jnliet; and the late Ber. N. J. Halpin wrote a whole enar {Shakapeare Soe. Paper*, ii. 14) to proTe that it means Capid I— Heath (in his ReeitaPj and Ur. Grant White (in Shakeipeare'i Scholar, tea. p. S74) would read <> That Bnmonr'a ej/ei," Ac ; the latter remarkii^ that " ' Rtuuor' wae spelt rumoure in Bhak*- speaie'a daj, and the poseeBBiTe case runtourei, ot oonrae :" bnt the Ant fcdio ii directly opposed to anoh a condneion; in it the n^tantive "rmnonr,'' wUck occtin tuentg-one timet, iB alwitb bpbli either " mmottr" or " rumor," — in tke plural, either "rtunonn" ot "rtuiiMa;" not oaa I see anjpnilw- Ulitj that " mmonr'a," in whatsoerer maaner spelt, ahonld hsTe been mls-
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taken lor " mimawmjei." BendsB, tbon^ initers frequently make meniian of Bnnumr'g limgve* or tongue (to oar author in the Indnetion to The 8tc, Fan of Henry IV.,
" From RvmmiT'i tojiguei They bring amootliooinfbrtg," ice. and in Sing Jokn, act iv. bo. 3,
" but thii from rumovr'* tottgve I iHjimaxi," tie.], Otej oereT, I beliere, allade to Bnmonr'a lyet, except wben they are dtterib- ittg that penonage in detail. — Mason'a emendation in " TluU Benomy'a eyee," &e. ; Jackton'i, " That onanrea q/M," &o. ; the Ber. J. Mitford'B {OaU. Magazine for Jnne 1815, p. 680), " That Lnna'e egei," tee., — " whentheZioI Ziuna waa changed into J! and made 'iiuna/then Hie Banse iru entirely loat, and, to giveatlaart some meaning to the wi»'d. it was made into 'iluna.vay';'' Walker'B (Crit. Exam. *c. ToL iiL p. 2S7), " ThM Cjntliia's eyet," *o. ; and Hf. Collier'a Mb. Corrector's, " That anemiea' ej/et," Ac.
In my BemarJct on Mr. CMier'e and Mr. Enight'i edt. oj Shakespeare, fto. 1814, p. 173, 1 oflbred two rettorations, — " That mde day's tyt*," £o., and " That soon day'a eye*," it's. ; and in mj Fob Netet, He., 1SS3, p. 119, 1 started a tfaird (me, — " That roving eyei," &o. (Compare " Sanoie nmUng eye. What wispent in my brain that she is faiM?"
Haywood's See. Part of King Edamrd IF. ug. G 4, ed. 1606.) Tbo flrat of these I have now inserted in Uie text ; and I have given it the preference t« all the other readings yet proposed, not from any OTenreening fondness lor my own conjeotore, bnt becanse it indispnlably comes the nearest to tbe dvctue titerarum of the old corruption. I mnst not omit to add, that it also ooonrred to a gentleman, who, not aware that it was already in print, commnnicated it to Nolet and Qaeriee lor Sept. 1S6S, p. SIB. — Mr. Hitfwd, indeed, objects to it (uii nipra] that " ' Day's eyes would wink' whether the nif^t was eloui^or clear; so Uie force of' cloudy' would be lost by this read- ing,"— an objection which carries no wei^^t, for the present address to Night is certainly to be considered as distinct from the lines wbioh precede it. — Again, Mr. Grant White {ubi lupra, p. 378) is of opinion that " all the sug- gestionB, except Buttutr't, ftul to meet the demands of the context, ' untaU'd of and nnseen.' " But I do not allow that sueh is the case with " rvde day'i eyeei" lor poetry represents Day aa an ofBdoasiuteUigeaeeri and wlien once her eyes were closed, Borneo would Dome to Juliet "untoljt'd of," as well as oaaeen, by the citizens of Verona.
Tlie passages in oar eariy poets about Night spreading hor curtains, and Dtj closing her tyei, ace aumeroaa : so in Drayton,
" The sullen Night hath her black Curtainei ipred, Lowriug the Day hath tarried Tp so long, Whotefaire eya eUmng softly ateales to bed," &o.
Baroni Warree, B. iiL at. 17. ed. 8to. (thi* stanza — wbioh goes far to support the reading, " rude day't eye*" — is yvrj difltoent in the foUo ed.) : and I need hardly cite the well-knowa lines in our anUuB's Macbeth ;
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" Coine, Beeliiig night, Souf vp tlie tender eye o/pitifal day," &o. Aot ilL se. 2. KoronghtRjijciietoniigatgaiiiBtaieTeAdiiig, " That rude dt^'t e^M nap trinl, and Jitnuo," JCo.,th>t it mkkei "J!(»n<o"Btnajll«bl«, while afterwuds in ttiii ipMoh that name oectin as a disijllable ; for elaewhere wa find " Ro- ■Ko" med dolh (u a dfMyUobte and a truyliaiteinlhc lamttpeich. So, p. 431, " Ben. Tybalt, here il^n, whom Borneo'* [iliMjll.] hand did el^ ; Jitnuo [diiajlL] that ipoke him lair, hade him bethink
BetortB it : Roimo [ttuyll.J he ories elond,
Bnt bj and by comes back to Borneo [triajlL],
And, aa he fell, did Romeo [diaijlL] tnm and fly," tco. Again, p. U6,
"Jfur. Hie to yarn chamber: I'll And ilomM [triayH.] To oemtort yon : — I wot well wheie he ia. HaA ye, yonr Romeo [diseylL] will be hete at night," tie. And p. 4BS,
•VtO.
Beoanse he manied me before to Botmo [.diaajll.] f
I wahe before the time that itontM [tri^'U.]
And there die stranded ere my Romeo [dii^ll.} oomea f " Ice. — ISftS. Mr. Grant White (note in hii edition ol Shakeipeare) is now inolined to Qdnktbat "tbe true view of the paeaage was tahen by Waibnrton," who (aa mentioned above) nipposed that " runaway" meant Hushns. — The Ber. W. B. Arrowsmith, after aUnding to " the proidigionB gtteesea at a rabeUtnte for * mnawaya' in Romeo and Juliet, and the extravagant specnlations tonoh- ing thepenons to whom it refers," writea thna ; "It is Boppoaed thattowfnjt means only to emniife; whereas, beaides thia its atricter aenae, it also often signifies to olose the eyes in aleep, in aonnd aleep. Bnt boweTW that may be, whether ignoranoe of sneh nsage be at the bottom of their tronble with the recorded text or not, I defy the qneasiest objector of them all to prodoM (me solid reason for qnestioning the propriety of Shakespeare's eipreBdng the de- sired secrecy of Romeo' a Tiait by the darkness, under cover of which mnaways, i. e. fngitivea, may Bleep seeore from aorpriae, that shall not teH with eqnsl focce against the propriety of hia expresaing the quickness of • lover's hear- ingi by what is inandible to the ' suspicions head of theft' {Lovt^i Labovr't lo*t, act iv. BO. S). The oonditione of teereey in that ease, and of ailenoe in this, conld not be exemplified by instances more happy in themselTee, or more neatly allied to each other.'' The Editor of • Kotrt and Queriei' and hit friend Mr. Singer, fte. p. 11. — I have only to add to this already too long note that •' mnnawsyea'' being a gross eorraption remains nnahaken.
P. 488. (7.) The oU eds. have " grow."
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P. 488. (73) " tlum nuns t^on"
Bo Um sndKted qnarto (a reading wbidi, witA Mr. Staanton, I now pnta). — Tbii U not in the fint quarto.— The qnartoa o( 15W and 1609, and the foHe, hBTc " then new mou rpon.'' — The aeeond folio haa " than new mow on."
P. 438. (74) "And that ban vowtl • P ihaU poUon more Than tb (lMtA-<lar1iKf a/e of eoekatrite :" "At hit [Shakespeare's'] time uf da,j the lOrmatiTe adrerb Aj/ waa ganenllr written I : and by this measB it both beoomea a vowel and answms in sobimI to Eyf, upon which the coneeU tnma in the aeoond line." Thxobud.
P. 434. (7j) " ihul,"
The old eds. hare " ahot."
P, 434. (76) "MoeonM"
80 the fourth loUo.— The earlier eda. IWTe "IwoiUMled"aiid"BOimded."—
note 93 on The Winttr'i Tale.
P. 184. (77) " Doveftatker'd raven J"
The old eds. hare " Banenoni eUme/tatherd raven."
P. 435. (7S) " rtar-word"
>■ Pcrhapa OoUier'a conjeetnre, ' rear-uord^ is right." W. N. Litisow.
P. 487. {79)
" Hmee-banUIOd U banUh'd/rom the aorld, AndKorld^t esiU U death: — then baniihment I» death mh-term'd: calling death banithtaeni,'' The first f|iiarto has
"Henee bettiihed, U baniiht fntm the world: And world eiilde it death. Calling death iaTtuhment.''' The later eds. have
" Henee baniehtd, it baniiht front the vorld. And woridt exile it death. Then battighed, I* death, mittermd, tailing death banished."
P. 487. (So) " iTith'd"
Hr. Collier's Ms. Corrector snbatitatea " bnuh'd."
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P. 487. (8i)
" And ttealimraorUii bletiitigi front her lip*; Who, tvenin-pare and vettal modaty. Still hhab, a» Ihinlmig theirown kiaei lin; But Borneo may not, — ht U baniihid : ThU maj/ftie* do, whenlfrom thU miittfiy: — And tay'il than ytt, that exilt it not death I Hadtl thim no poiion mii'd,'' Ice. Bo the totio, exoept tlut in the flnt line it hu "bleBsing" (which wm Rghtly altered to "iI«Niiv" in thetonrth folio) ; wid thatitgiTea "But Bbmto maj/ not, — he is boniiUd" after the line "Aitd lay'it tbon ytt," ice., an arror re- tained fnm the qoartoe of 1S99 and 1609, and the undated qnarto, where the {iMUige atandt thus ;
"And tttale imrnorlaU, blesBing /ran her lift. Who tuen in pure and uettall modettie Still bltuh, at thinking their oume kiltu tin. Thie mayfiyet do, wAcn I from thii muttJUe, Andiayiit thou yet, that exilt ienot deaAt But Romto may itot, he it baniihed. Flies ma; do this, bnt I from this mnst flie : The; are freemen, hat I am baniahed. Badtt thou no poyton wi'il," *o. — Here the flnt qnarto ia much leu full.
P. 197. (S2) " hear me a littleipeak."
I now, with Capell, Mr. Stannton, and Mr. Orant TThite, adopt thia reading bom the qaartos of 1G99, 1609, and the undated qtiarto.—'Die first quarto haa " heart me 'but ipeake a word;" objeotionable od acooont of the oocnirence of " word" in the line immediatel; preceding thii and in the seoondline after it. (The folio has on); " heare me tpeake,")
P. 139.(83) "Fri.Ii. O leofid tympatky !
Pittout predicament/" " The old copies giTB these worde to theNnrse. One ma; wonder the editors did not tea that anch langnage mart neceMaril; beloag to the I^ior." Fui- UKB, — whole alteiatioii is approved of bj Steerens, Malone, Walker, &e.
P. 440. (14.) " Thoiipirut'il upon Ihj/ fortune and thy love : — " So the qnarto of 1687.— Tlie qnartoe of 1599 and 1609 have " Thou pats Tp thy," ftc— The undated qoarto haa " Tlum powts upon thj," Ice. — All the folios bare " Thou patteat vp thy," be. — (In the flnt quarto the line atanda thus, " TAou frownat cpon thyTnXe thatamilea on thee.")
P. 448. (8s) " Cynthia'i brvw ;"
The two Ma. Carraofavs— Mr. ColUer'i and Mr. Singer's— read " CipUhia'i bow;" wbiohmajbe ti^t: bnt, aa Mr. Btannton obaerrea, Bbaheipeare baa •Iwwheie allowed bimaaU gteat latitude in the nae of the word " bnnr."
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P.4i8. (86) "cionff'tf-
The old ad«. hmw " obftuge." — CcaT««ted by If uon.
P. «S. (I7)
" Art Ihmi gem (o r my Eonf, nuf loet, my friatd !" So the flnrt qnuto ; whioh reading I have prefensd to tliat of the later eda. ,
" Artthougoaeto, Loua, Lord, 19 hiuband, /ricnd," beoanie I have great doabta (thoagh Mr. Knight and Hr. ColUer hare ntue) if the " ay" I« to be nnderstood as eqniTalent to " i/u" (tbe nsnal old apeUing •t it in that aenae being " T'}- ^^ editor of the me<nid folio altered it to " ah ;" for whioh perhaps it was intended.
P. 441. (Sg) " Whiek yo« weep for." Tli«ol>ald printed " WMeh you do uetp/or."
P. 44i. (i9) " ««."■
Added in the ondated quarto.
P. 445.(90) •'TovTeakthttoBelbaremjletnuiilTybaU' This line bung imperfect in all the earlier eda. , the editor of the seoond folio added " Tybalt." — Malone sajs that the omitted word waa more probahl; an -epithet to "coutin." — Mr. W. K. Lettsom propoeea "Toartat tlie loaelvm bore my eoiuin."
P. 446. (91) ■' needful Umt ;" " [Approred of b; Walker] is the reading of the qnarto J597, and ot mott modem editiona. The oUker old copies hare ' netiy [tunc] ,' and ao recent editors; bat does not fuci^ rather mean((y^riy,jKnMrly-((rietm r" W. K. l4ZTTW»i,<— note on Wallm'a Crit. Exam, Ac. toL iL p. SO.
P. 446. (91) " tJuie are newi indttd!" Mr. Ccdlier'B Us. Correolor assigns these words to Lady Capnlet. Bat can any Hiing b« plainer than that Jnliet ezolainu, " ttuie are nae* indeed .'" in reference to what her mother has said a little before, " Bat now 111 tell thee joyful tiding*, girl" r
P. 446. (93) " When the lun leU, the air (loth drietU dew ,"
Mr. Collier, who (lihe Mr. Enight) pTos " the earth doth driule dtK,"
■^., observes here ; "MalonesajBUiattheandatedqiiartohaaairfor 'earth.' Saoh does not appear to be the ease, aeoording to Bteevena'a collation of it with the qoarto 1609 ; and certainly ereiy oOier ancient copy has ■ earth,'
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whioli Halone folly jiutiBM (though he printa air) b; th« (oUowIiig lina from B]ukkMp«*re's ' Lnoreoe,'
' Bnt SB the earth doth vttp, tht ran being lel.' " — Tlie nndited qnarto (in the BritiBh Unsenm) is now before me ; and it giTes the line euwtlj tbni,
" When the Sim $eU, the Ayre doth druU tUavi" &c. Ab to the pwBage from iniT anthor'a Luerece, SteerenH showed long ago thAt it did not "justify" (what, indeed, oonldr) nieh an nttet absiudi^ u "the ■AATH DBizzi.iifa dew."
p. 44S. (94)
"'Proud,' — and • I thank you,' — and ' I thank yoa tiot ;' — And ytt ^notpTOvd:' — tnittrtu vAaitat, you," " Bead," «a78 Hr. W. N. Lettsom,
" ' Prond, and yet not prood, and, I thank yon not. And ytt, I thank yon, miitreaa minion yon,' Ikes. A tiknapositioii has taken place, and one ' yiV fallen oat."
P. 448. (9s) "/<[«*"
The Int qnarto, and the seoond, third, and fourth folios hare " settle." — The other old eda. hare "fettle. "-^ee QloBBary.
P. 447. (96) " had ttnt tu"
'' So the fliat qoarto, 1507. The mbseqnent andent oopiea read ' had lent na.' " HaIiOKk. — Though I hare follow the earliest authority, I see nothing obJeetionaUe in the reading of the later old eds.
P. 447. (97) "Peace,"
Perhaps "Feate, peace."
P. 447. (98)
"Ood't bread! it makes mt mad .- day, itight, late, earty. At home, oirdod, alone, in company. Waking, or ileeping, /till my care hath been To hace her maleh'd .-" The flnt qnarto has
" Qodt blessed mother wife it mads me. Day, night, early, late, at home, abroad. Alone, in company, making or tleeping. Still my eare hath beeM to tee her nateht." The Utn eds. hare
"Qodt bread, it make$ me mod. l>ay, night, home, tide, time, woike, play,
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I giT« tbe modeni «ompg«it« reading ; which (bb i> remmrliBd hy Mr. Orutt 'White, who, howeveT, does not «4opt it) " pcoliapi tbtj neaxij BpproMhe* whit Shakeipean wrote, on the reviaion of the pUj."
P. 448. ^9) " A$ living here,"
"Biz Thomaa Hanmer ittAa 'Ax living Ittnee,' OitX ia, at a diBtauee, in baniabiaent ; bnt ' here' ma; tigiuJj ' in thii viorld'." JoHKaox. — I anspect that " here" ia wrong. The line, p. 4S7, " Sence fzom Verona art thmi ban- iehdd," is ootrnpted, in the seoond and third qnartoe and in the folia, to " Here In Vwona," te.
P. 448. (loo) "What!"
Hanmer i«intB " To what T' bnt it ia moro probable that we oo^t to read " What Mj yoD }" for the fint qoatto haa " What tj 709 Hadame t"
P.449. (loi) "eurtid fiend."'
Bo the flnt quarto alone. — On the common reading, " wicked jtmd," Walter remarka, " Almoat M flat as ■ deadly murder,' King BenrjT. iii. 8. 'Wither'd,' I imfflim ; (aoarcelr ' turinkUd^." Crit. Exam. Ico. vol. iiL p. 238.
P. 149. (101) " ^nd I am notAtnjr lUne to tlaeh hit hatte." " If thii kind of phnweolog; bs jnetifiable, it can be jnatifled only by si^ paling the meaning to be, there U within^ 0} iloanett in me, ta indMCemt to tiaeken or abate hi* haite." Uai.ohe. — " The nnae appears to bo, ' and I am not alov Jn my oum preparation* /or llu vedding, to give Mm tu^f reaton to alaoken hia hasty proceedingB." Btiuntoh.
P.4E2. (loj)
" In thy he*t robei, uncomr'd, on the bUr, Thou ihalt bi borne to that tame onciml vaidt" The flnt qnarto haa nothing vhich correspanda with thia except the Hqo,
" And when thon art laid in thy Kindreds Tanlt." — The later eds. have
" In thy but robe* trncouered on the Beere, Be borne to bntiall in thy kindreds grane : Thov ahall (and ehalt) be borne to that $ame anelent vault."
P. 469, (104) " Give me, give me .' O, teU not me of /ear."' Probably the modem alteration, " Give me, 0, give me t If II," Ac, ia what the poet wrote. — Mr. W. N. Letlsom prqpoBea " O, (^et me, giveH me I tell," &e.: bnt IbelieTe that the"it"iaiuuMO0aaar7here; oompaie Jfacb«tA, aeti. ■o. S, " ' Oive me,' qnotb L"
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P, iSi. (105) " twflity cunntfitf eoolti."
" T»attj/eookM for haif-a-dotm gaeiU .' Eitfaet Capulet has altSMi Ida miiul ■trMgel]>, or oni nOiar totgot vhmt he had jaat made him tell na. S«e p. 443." RiTBON. — " This arose from his sometimeE following and atmiedmefl deMrtioff his origiikal. The aeene referred to was his own invention; hnt here he has recoUeoted the poam," tie. tiAiasm.
P. «4. (106) "up Act-/'
*' Three lines b«low we hsTe ' prepare him np,> and in p. 466 ' trim her up.' In the flnt and tidrd eiampIeB the old copies agre« ; in the laoond Qtey are dirided. Should not the prepositioa come last in all these eases, the franonn not being emphatio F" W. H. Ljrisov.
P. 464. (107) "Miutlofforet bt married to the county I" Tkns the quarto of ISOT. . . . The snhseqnant ancient copies read . . [and nnoh more tamelf]
' Shall I be married titen to-moirots morning /' " Uuioke.
P. 455. (laS)
"No,no! — thi* thall forbid it; — lit t)u>u thert. — " ^le flrst qoarto alone luw
" Thit thaU forbid it. Knife, lye thou there .-" «nd Mr. W. IT. Lettsom — who remarks that " the omisBion of ' knLFe' is pecn- liarl; awkward, as Juliet has been addiessiiig the vial just before" — proposes
"^0, no.- — th^ lAoU/orbtitl:— knife, lit thou thtre.^'
P. 4«6. (los) " make,"
So the undated qnarto.— The qnartos of 1699 and 1609, and the folio, have "" walke." — This line Is not in the first qoarto.
P. 466. (no)
" BomeOy I tomt ! thit do I drink to thee." "Bo tte first quarta— The later eda. haTe the prodi(0«u reading,
" ilonuo, Borneo, Bomeo, heeres drinke, I drinke to thtt ;" a stage-direeUou, " Htere drinke," haTing evidently crept Into the tert and become " heeres drinke."
At the eloee of this soUIoqnj the first qnarto has " She fall vpon her bed vilMn the Cvrtaina," i.e. within the tiaTeises : see mj ilentoir of Shake- tptare, p. 4S.
P. 466. (ill) "Horse. Oo, you eot-jtMan, 170,"
"Walker (Oit. Exam. die. vol. ii. p. 184) wwold assign this speedi to I«dj Cspnlet (as Singer does) : bat that alteration it forbidden at least bj the first ^[oarto, where the next speeoh stands thus ;
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P. 158. (ill) "FtL L. Cante, U t?u bridt rtadj/ to go to ehMreht'' Mr. BUnnton follom the Snt qiurto in giTing tiiii apaeeh to Puia : wonld the deepIf-eDftraonred Paris speak of his Juliet merely aa '
P. 468.(113) "•«"
An addition bom the passage as giren in Um &nt qiiarto ;
"Hath Death taint vith thy iftiie, Jtoaer tu the is, D^flmeerd by Aim, tte, where iht lya, Dtaih U ny Sorme in Laic, to him I gine all that I hane."
P. 458. (114) "But one, poor one, one poor and loving child," " PossiUj, * one dear and loving child.' " Walker's Cril. Exam. io. toI. L P.39B.
P. 4G9. (itj) •' Dead art thou, deadr The seoond " dead" was inserted hj Theolwld. — Malone oonjaetaiad "Dead, dead, art thou f" Ac.
F. 459. (ti6) •■ cure liva" The old eds. have "oare EiuM."— Corrceted b; Theobald.— Here too Mr. W. N. Lettsom wonld altar " livei" to " lies." [Live and lie, aa tn have alrtad; seen, «ere freqaently oonfoimded hj tiuiMribers and printers.)
P. 469. (117) "fond" Bo the seoond folio ; whiofa, whether the aathor's word or not, makea at least seaee. — The earlier eds. (except the flrtt qnaito, where thU is not found) hare " some," — which, though it makes downright nonsense, Ut. Sni^t retains and defends.
P. 460. (iiS) "Then have at you with my leit!" This in the old eds. fivms part of the preeeding speech.
P. 460. (119) " with -my iron wit," The first quarto has " with my wodden trtt." — The later ed>. " with an yrm
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"btcatueiachftlUiiei ai you Jiave *eldo!n gold /or tounding : — " "Tbns the quarto 1597. — The othen [othei ede,] read 'beeaiue n [have no gold/or loundiuff}.' I shaold Biupeot that • fiddler made the slter-
P. 461. (,i,) ■' [Eiit."
Uoat edltora print "Exit, sxi^ag:" bat mu^y Potei quotes the MOg ttith- ovt nnguig it.
P. 461. (ill) "thtfiatttring eyeo/iletp,"
Bo the first quarto. — The later eds. hare " the Jlattering trnllt a/ tUepe." — Otiray (in his Caiiu Mariut, which ia parti; tak^n from Romeo atut JulicI) ntda" the Satter; ofittep;" Warborton, " the ftattering rath o/ilefp;" Mr. Collier'B Us. Correotor, " the JtatUring death o/iteep;" Mr. Singer {Shait- tpean Vindicated, &e. p. 294), " thejfattering soother tleep ;" and Mr. Grant White, '* the jlattering sooth o/tleep."
P. 4S3. (iij) " Need and oppreuion itareth in thine eyei," The qoarto of 1699 and the nbEeqaent eds. hare "Need and oppreuion stameth t'n th; eytt" (quarto 1637, " thine et/ei"). — The first qoarto, in the oarresponding paesBge, has " And stomed famiue dwelleth in thj eheekcs." -i.Aec<n^ing to Malone, "tho Kord 'starved' in the first copy shows that ' starveth' in the later copies is right :" bat Bitson well observes that " ' Need and oppreuion' cannot properly be said to ' itarve' in his eyes, though ' itarved famine' ma; be alliwed to dwell in bis c))eekB."— Otway, who hi- trodaced this line into his Caiui tf(iniw,was the first to sabstitate "etareth" tor the oormpUon " starveth," — Otwsy being eudowed with eontmoii sense, as well as with genios.
P. 463. (114) "Ipat) thij poverty, and not thy idHI." A writer in Tft* Wt*tminiter Reniea, toI. iliv. p. 61, says that hero " Mr. Knight very properly restores the reading of the second qnarto and the first folio, ' pray :' the relatios here is between Borneo's eameilly rrp«al<ii j»-ayeT and Qie apothecary's eonirnt; the moment tat paying him is not yet arriTcd." Bnt what docs the writer understand by the conolnding words of Borneo's preceding speech, "take thii"! cnn hs donbt that "thit" means the gold which Borneo holds in his hand, ready to piiy the Apothecary?
P. 466, (iij) " Under yond yew-treet"
The first qoarto has " Vnder this Ew-trco ;" the later edt. have " Vnder yond young (and "yong") tree:"
P. 46S. (ia6) "ttand"
i.e. remain; which I notice beoanse llr. Collier now prints, with bit M». Cor- rcetor, " stay."
TOI- TI. KK
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P. «E. (i»7)
" Sxttt fioicer, tnlthfineeri thy bridal bed I *lrtw" Ac nstead d this qiutnin ud conpkt the first qtutrto alone hM " Stctel FUnrer, Kithjtoiceri I etiev thy Bridals hei : Sweete Tombe that in thy cirenite dost confaune The perfect modell of etomitie : Faire Inliet thftt with AogellB doet remaine, Aocept this latest faoonr at mj handa, That lining honoord tbee, and being dead WIU) fonerall i«alsea doo adonie tliy Tombe."
P. <66. (laB) "bade"
lo qnarto I8S7. — The earlier eds. faaTs " bid."
P. 496, (119) " I dc dtfy thy eonjurationii,"
i.e. (u Malone properly eiplains it] " I refnso to do as thon coDJnrest me to do, i.e. to depart." Of " conjiirnrJEin" in the sense of " earnest entreaty" ws have an example in A PUaiant CommodU, ealted Looke about you, 1600 ;
" Wliat needs more coniuration, gratjons mother f" Sig. D S. — Here the lint quarto reads as above, — The qnarto of 1599 has " I do dtfie tJiy comDuration" (where " commiration" is plainly a misprint for " conin- ration;" the editor of that qnarto preferring the word in the singular). — The later eds. have " I do dejie thy commisseration" (and " commiseration") ; the person who first enbatitnted '* commisseratton" for " commiratian" beingwith- ont an ear for verae, and thli^tiog that he set all right by the change.
P. *fl7. (130) " Dtad, lU tliou there, h\) a dead innii inlerr'd." The old eds. have " Death lie thou," £0.— Bnt snrely the sense demands the veiy sli|^t alteration which is now made, and whieli I owe to Mr. W. N. LettBom; who obaerrei that " in all the old eds. > death' ooenia at the end of the neit line and in the middle of the tbird line after this, — also in all the old eds., except the first qnarto, at the beginning of the fifth line after this."
On the words " by a dead man intetT*d'* Malone remarks, " Borneo being DOW determined to pnt an end to his life, considers himself as already dead." (Cqtell had anticipated Malono in remarking that Bomeo here means him- self. Notet, Ac. voL ii. P. iv. p. 21.)
P. 407. (iji) " Ah, dear JuUet,
Why art thoa yet to fair I ihall I btlteve That uniabitantial Death i» dnurroHf ;''
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" ^'i dtare Juliet Why art thm yet lo faire / I will beleene, Shall I helteue, tliat viuubitantiall dtath it an\ffro where " I irill beliere" and " Shall I teUevt" kre evidently m whicb, by some misUke, have both crept into the text.
P. 468. (.j»)
"And never from tkit palace of dim night Depart again ; hert, here will I revtain With monu," Ac. Here tgtdn the fint qoarto is much less fnll.— The nndated quirU) reads at sbore. — The quartiM of 1599 and 1609 and the folio have
" And neuerfrcm thie pallat (and "pallaee") of dym night Depart agaiae, come Ije thou in mj armo (the /olio "armen''), Heer'B to thy health, where ore thon tambleit in. 0 trtie Appothcoorie t
Thy dmgB are qnicke. Thne with a kiaae I die. Depart agaiite, here, here, tcIII I remaine. With wontei," &c.
P.468. (i3j) ■■my-'
Tha old ods. have "thy,"— "'J/tf' mrely," aaya Walker (Cril.Ejraui. &ctoL lii. p. 338) ; not knowing that the correctian had heen made long ago.
P. 468. (134) " this yea-tree"'
The old eda. have " IhU yong (and " young) ('
P. 4G9. (1 35) " I dare no longer itay."
Capell prints " I dare Btaj no longer.''
P. 469. (136) "OuAiirl.' drink all, and leave no friendly drop To kelp me after t'' The firat qnarto has onlj
" Ah churie drinke all, and Uaue no drop Ua me." The qnsrto ol 1899 has
" O clMrU, dnuike nil, and left no friendly drop To lielpe me after." 7he quarto of 16W, the undated qnarto, and the foUo'haTe
" O ehurle, driiikr aU, and loft no friendly drop. To heipe me after,"
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P. 46», (i 37) " O hujipp dajffirr .'
TAf( ii Ihy thealh (Stabs liereelf); thert rut, an4 let mf dh." , Tbe first qnaiio hsa
" O happy dagger tbon abalt end mj hue, Rett in m; bosoms, thna I come to thee." — The oUier old eds. r«ad »b in Uio text, eioept that thej hare " there nii and let ine dye" (the folio haring beudes " 'Tis in thy tJieath"),—! belierf " nut" to be a decided error : at EDCh a moment the thonghta of Juliet vert not lihe^ to wander stnj to the futwe nulin^ of the dagger ; she onlf wishes it, by rutin; in her bosom as in its aheath, to give her instant death. — Mr. Collier's Ms. Ccarector altars " rust" to " reit ,-" " Trhich nord," bst!! Ur. Collier, " we on, all Mconnts prefer. As tbe Rot. Mr. Djce remarkis. Sm It may be added, that if short-hand were employed in tbe ori- ginal pnbliaatioD of this play, the words ' rest' and ' nut' woold be spelt with the same letters. "^Bnt Mr. Grant White is decidedly opposed to the reading " rest," haying preferred it, be tclla ns, only " wheD he was green <n indgmeot."
P. 170. {13?) " We tie the ground KhereoH thete iroei do lie ,■" " Sorely a line is lost previous to this, rhyming to
> Bnt the tme gronnd of all tbcso piteons woci..'" Walker's Cril. E.cam. &o. toI. i. p. 74. — (Johnson proposed to restore the alternate rhymes in tbe last four lines of tbia speech by making the first of them end with " Saute other* go :" and the third with " all this pileom
p. 171. (.3,) ■•..,■■
The old eds. haye " jonr."— Corrected by Johnson.
P. 471. (140)
"Aim, ray liege, my «ife ii dead lo-uighl; Griff of my lOn't rx'ile luilh rlopp'd her breath : ■ What further irot conspira againet my age ?" The oorrospondiug speech in the first qnsrto is ;
" Dread Bonereigne, my Wife is dead to uigbt. And yong Benaolio is deceased too .- What farther mischicfe can there yet be fonnd V and I am inclined to think that the second of those lines, "And yong Bcn- vtdio is deceased too," onght to be inserted, in a modern text, after " Orirf ofmgton'i exile halli ttopp'd her breath;" for, as Bitson obserres, "the line, which gires an accannt of Benvolio's death, was probably thrown in to aceonnt for his absence from this interesling scene."
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P. 471. ((41) " Look, and thou ihalt lee."
" These words, u tlie; stand, being of no kiudred to metre, wo may fairly huppose that soma others hsTe been csaoRlIy omittod. Perhaps ow aatbor
' Look in Ihit vionajiient, and thon shalt see.' "
Stbevesb. — I Bospeet that ire onght to roa^ " Look hero (or " there''), and thou ihall
P. 471. (14a) " Seal ap the mouth of outrage"
Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector gives " Htal ap the mouth of ontcry ;" which Ur. Cidlier ndoplB in the sooond edition ot bis 3hake$peare, prononneiog the tM rending to be " almost nonaense." Bat compare, in The Fir»t Part of King Ilennj VI. act iv. bo. 1,
" PresnmptooOB TasEals, are yon not asham'd With tl^ immodest olamorona outrdge To trouble and disturb the king and us t" nnd, inaph^written long after Shakeapesre's days, Settle's FrmnfePrdaf^, Ac. I6B0, p. 30,
" fiUeiKe hU outrage in a jayl, awa; with him I"
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TIMON OF ATHENS.
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TIHON OF ATHGNa
FiBSi printed in tlie folio of 1638.— At Trhat date It wu written we euinot aicertBin; probablf abont 1610, to wMoh jearMolone usigna it. — "The atoi; of the Hisanthtope ia told in almost ereiy collection of the time, and partienlai'l; in two books with which ShalcsBpeara was intimately Boqnaiiitad ; Tke Palace ofFleatart [by Fainter,— see the Twentj-ElghUt Norel of ToL i„ — "Of the itraunge and beattlU itatur; ofTimon of Athtnt, aumit to mon- kinde. Kith hit death, burialt, and epitaphe"] , and the English Plntateh [Norih'B traoBlation,— Bee the life of Anton;] . Indeed, from a paaeage in an old play called Jack Drum'a Ealertainmmt, I conjectiiTe that he had before made his appearance on the stage. " Fabubb. " The paauge in Jack Drum't Entertainrnent, or Patquil and Kallterine, 1601, ia this ;
' Come [, oome, now] I'll be as aociable aa Timon of A thou' [aig. B 4] : hnt the allnsion ia ao slight, that it might as well have been borrowed tram Plntaroh or the novel- " Bteetbhr. " There is a Ma. ccmedy now extant, on the anbject ol Timon, which, from the hand-writing and the style, appears to be of the age of Shakeapeare. In thia piooe a steward is introdooed, nnder the name of Lochei, who, like Flaiiaa in that of out anthor, endea- vours to restrain hia master's profusion, and faithfully attends him when he ia forsaken by all his other followera. Here too a mock-banqaet is given by Timon to hia false friends; bnt, instead of warm water, stones painted like artichokes are lerred ap, which he throws at his gnests. From a line in Siiakeapeaie's play [the last line of act iii.] one might be tempted to think that sometbiog of this sort was introdooed by him ; thongh, through the omiasion td a marginal direction in the only ancient copy of ttiis piece, it bas not been eoatomary to exhibit it ; ' 2d Senator. Lord Timon's mad. 3d Sea. I feel 't npon my bones.
it\ Sett. One day he gives as diamonds, next day ttonca.' [On which passage Bteevens notes ; " Aa Timon has thrown nothing at his worthleaa gaesta except warm water and empty dishes, I am indnced, with Mr. Malone, to brieve that the more ancient drama Iiad been read by onr anthor, and that he snpposed be had introduced from it the ' painted $t<ma' as part of his banquet; thon^ In reality be bad omitted them. The pre- sent mention therctore of sodh missiles appears to want proprielj;."^] This comedy (which ia evidently the prodncUon of a scholar, many lines of Oreefc b^g introdnced into it) appears to have been written after Ben Jonson's
* IM6. " It hafl boon InfnYcd ft^m iho mantJon ttt atann In tlUs Hue [' Ona dAj ha llva ■» dlMDOndi. nrn day imiki'] Uiat Sbakupgare va> not nnaaqnaliited vith tlw old Aoatenla drama noticed fa tbo iDfmdaotSon, whera 'palntrd nlon«* form |Mrt of the bangnat; taut tba eraonaf ■ fseUn band tban hia ara » evldEnt and ao fraqsent In tlu pRamt pUf , Uiat we think, with Hr. Knight, tha dlnlogoo which oondnda thl* aotwaa prohablf a portion of tfaa old plna, which, meait and Impninl b; Miskcainre, fonu tlv Ingedy bdoreiu. Vhsi, In remoddUag tba (tago-tnilneia, he cinKd tba fcait toeooaM of warm water in Uni ol nonea, ha partial neglected to cancel the Una absTe," BTAOiiTOK.
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TIMOH OF ATHEHB. mv,
Kvery Hart out of hit Humour (1599), lo vtidi it contains n reteronco ; bnt I liare not diseorerod the predae Ume when it was compoaed. If it were Moertainad, it might be some guide to ob in fixing the date of oar author's Tlmoit of Athetu, which, on the gntonda that have been alnad:^ stated, I mippoee to have been posterior to this anonTmonH play." Hai.ose, Life of Shaketpeare, p. 466. The same writer {Prelim. Remark) lo Ttmon ofAthent) obaerreB, that in the pla; jnat deecribed Shakespeare slso found " the Btorj- ot Timim's being posseised of great gnms of gold which he had dng np in the woods ; a mienmstance whioh he could not have had from Lndan, there being then no tranalation of the dialogne that relates to this subject." — The Ms. of the anoQTinonH Tititon hafing fallen into m; poesesdoD, it was printed for the Shakespeare Soeletj in 1643. That onr poet had aaj ftcqnaintance with it, I mnch donht ; for it eertainly was never performed in London, — being a drama intended solely tor the amnaement of an aoademic andienoe.
Bnt that there was loint old drama now lost, of which Shakespeare made use for this tragedy, and of which not a few fawses may be fonnd in it, is, I think, snfBciently manifest, thoQ^ Coleridge, speaking of onr anther's play in his Leotnros, declared that " he saw the same rigorone hand si work thrOQ^iOnt."
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DRAMATIS PERSONS.
TiuoR, a noble AthenUn.
Ldcids, \ Lucou-ns, [ '
SaWBOHIDB, '
Vbhttskts, one of Tinon's bJ«e friends. Alcibusib, mQ Athenuui general. AruusTUB, A chnriiih philoBopher. FUTiDB, Btevard to Timon. Poet, Painter, Jeweller, and Merohant. An old Athenian.
FliUUKIUB, 1
LuciLive, [ aervants to Timon. Skbtiuub, '
Fhiloios, I
TnvB, V eerTant« to Timon's orediton.
HoBTmeicB, I
And othsn, /
A Page. A Fool. Three Strangera.
Phbthu, TnuxpBA, i
\ miatreBBes to AldUadea.
Cnpid and Amazons in the masqae. Other Iiords, Senators, Offioers, SoldierB, Banditti, aod Attendante. ScSHi — Athtru and the woodt attaining.
* " OvAii DUf U OipH." Wtlkcr'a Oil. Exam. tsc. toL U. p. II.
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ScBHS! I. Athens. A hall in Tqion's liouse. EaierPotit, Fainter, Jeweller, Merchant, and othen, at eeveral doors.
Poet. Good day, bit.
Pain. I am glad you're well.
Poet. I have not seen yon long : how goes tlie world?
Pain. It wears, sir, as it grows.
Poet. Ay, that's well known :
Bat what particolar rari^? what strange. Which manifold record Dot matches ? See, Magic of bounty ! all these spirits thy power Hath conjar'd to attend. I know the merchant.
Pain. I know them both ; th' other's a jeweller.
Mer. O, 'tis a worthy lord.
Jeic. Nay, that's most fi&'d.
Mer, A moat incomparable man ; breath'd, as it were, To an nntiiable and cootinaate goodness : He passes.
Jew. I have a jewel here^
Mer. 0, pray, let'a aee't : for the Lord Timon, sir ?
Jew. If he will tonoh the estimate : bat, for that —
Poet, [reading from his poem] "When wa for recompense have praie'd the Tile, It Btains the glory in that happy Terae Which aptly ainga the good."
Mer. 'Tis a good form. [Looking at the jeivel.
Jew. And rich : here is a water, look ye.
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Pain. Yoa're rapt, eir, in some work, some dedication To the great lord.
Poet. A thing elipp'd idly ttom me.
Oor poeej is as a gam, which oozes'" From whence 'tis nonrish'd : the fire i' the flint Shows not till it be etrnck; oor gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the cnrrent, flies Each bound it chafes.'^' — What have yon there ?
Pain, A pictnre, sir. — When comes your book forth ?
Poet. Upon the heels of my presentment, sir. — Let's see yonr piece.
Pain. Tis a good piece.
Poet. So 'tis : this comes off well and excellent.
Pain. Indifferent.
Poet. Admirable : how this grace
Speaks hia own standing 1 what a mental power This eye shoots forth 1 how big imagination Mores in this lip 1 to the dambaess of the gesture One might interpret.
Pain. It is a pretty mocking of the life. Hero is a touch ; is't good ?
Poet. I will say of it,
It tutors nature : artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life.
Enter ceiiain Senators, an'l jpags over.
Pain. How this lord is follow'd !
Poet. The senators of Athens : — happy man !'"
Pain. Look, more !
Poet. You see this conflaence, this great flood of visitors- I have, in this rough work, shap'd out a man. Whom this beneath-world doth embrace and hug With amplest entertainment : my free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax :'^ no levell'd malice Infects one comma in the course I hold ; Bat flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, Leaving no track behind.
Pain. How shall I nnderatand you ?
Poet. I'll unbolt to you.
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YoQ see how all conditions, bow all minds —
Ab well of glib and Blippery creatnres as
Of graTe and austere quality — tender down
Tbeir serricea to Lord Timon : bis large fortane.
Upon his good and gracions nature hanging,
Subdues and properties to his love and tendance
All sorts of hearts ; yea, from the glass-fao'd flatterer
To ApemtiiituB, that few things loves better
Than to abhor himself : even he drops down
The knee before him, and retnrns in peace
Most rich in Timon's nod.
Pain. I saw them speak together.
Poet. Sir, I bare upon a high and pleasant hill Feign'd Fortune to be thron'd : the base o' the mount Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures. That labour on the bosom of this sphere To propagate their states : amongst them all. Whose eyes are on this soTereign lady fiz'd. One do I personate of Lord Timoa's &ame. Whom Fortune with her iyory hand wafts to her : Whose present grace to present slaves and servants Translates bis rivals.'"
Pain. 'Tis conceiv'd to scope.
This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methink?, With one man beckon'd from the rest below, Bowing his head agaiast the steepy mount To climb his happiness, would bo well express'd In onr condition.
Poet. Niiy, air, but hear me on.
All those which wcro bis fellows hot of late, — Some better than bis value, — on the moment Follow bis strides, Iiis lobbies fill with tendance. Bain sacrificial whisperings in his ear. Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him Drink the free air.
Paiii. Ay, marry, what of these ?
Poet. When Fortune, in her shift and chaogo of mood, Spuma dawn her late holov'd, all his dependants, Mliich laboQr'd aftor him to the mountain's top.
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Even on their knees and bands, let him slip down/** Not one accompanying his declining foot.
Pain. 'Tis common : A thoQsand moral paintings I can show. That shall demonstrate these qnick blows of Fortune's*'' More pregnantly than words. Yet 70a do well To show Lord Timon that mean eyes hare seen The foot above the head.
Tmmpets ttmnti. Enter TiuoN, attended; a Servant o/Ventidiub tqJking with him ; Lccilius mid oilier Attendants follmoing.
Tim. Imprison 'd is he, say yon ?
Ven. Serv. Ay, my good lord ; five talents is his debt ; His means most short, his creditors most strait : Your honourable letter he desires To those have ahnt him np ; which foiling him*"* Periods his comfort.
Tivi. Noble Ventidins !— WeU ;
I am not of that feather to shake off My friend when he most needs me.**' I do know him A gentleman that well deserves a help, — Which he shall have : I'll pay the debt, and free him.
Ven. Serv. Yonr lordship ever binds him.
Tim. Commend me to him : I will send his ransom ; And, being enfranchis'd, bid him come to me : — 'Tis not enough to help the feeble op. But to support him after. — Fare yon well.
Ven. Serr. All happiness to yonr hononr ! {^Exit.
Eitier an oil Athenian.
Old Ath. Lord Timon, hear me speak.
Tim. Freely, good father.
Old Atii. Thon hast a servant nam'd Lncilins.
Tim. I have so : what of him ?
Old Atk. Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.
rim. Attends he here, or no ?— Lucilius !
Luc. [comintj fortpard] Here, at yonr lordship's service.
Old Ath. This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature. By night ^equents my house. I am a man That from my first have been inclin'd to thrift;
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And my estate deserves an heir more raia'd Than one wHch holds a trencher.
rim. Well ; what farther ?
Old Ath. One only danghter have I, no kin else, On whom I may confer what I have got : The moid is fair, o' the yoasgest for a hride, And I have bred her at my dearest cost In qualities of the best. This man of thine Attempts her love : I prithee, noble lord. Join with me to forbid him her resort ; Myself have spoke in vain.
Tim. The man is honest.
Old Ath. Therefbre he will be,"" Timon : His honesty rewards him in itself; It most not bear my daughter.
rim. Does she love him ?
Old Ath. She is yomig and apt: Oqt own precedent passions do instmct as What levity's in yonth.
Tim, [to iMcUitu] Love yoa the maid ?
Luc. Ay, my good lord ; and she accepts of it.
Old Ath. If in her marriage my consent be missing, I call the gods to vritness, I will choose Mine heir &om forth the beggars of the world. And dispoBBess her all.
Tim. How shall she be endow'd,""
If she be mated with an equal hoaband ?
Old Ath. Three talents on the present ; in fatare, all.
Tim. This gentleman of mine hath serv'd me long : To build his fortune I will strain a little. For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter : What yon bestow, in him V\l connterpoise. And make him weigh with her.
Old Ath. Most noble lord,
Pavm me to ttiis your hononr, she is his.
Tim. My hand to thee ; mine honour on my promise.
Luc. Hombly I thank yonr lordship : never may That stote or fortune fall into my keeping. Which is not ow'd to yon t
[ExeiiTit Lucilitia and OUl Athenian,
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Poet. [j>resentiiiff hit poevi] Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship !
Tim. I thank yon ; yon Bhall hear from me anon : iio not away. — What haye yon there, my friead ?
Pain, [^pretenting hit painting] A piece of painting, wbicli I do beseech Yoar lordship to accept.
Tim. Painting is welcome.
The painting is almost the natural man ; For since dishonour trafGcs with man's natnre. He is but ontsido : these penciU'd fignres ate Even sach as they give oat. I like yoar work ; And yon shall find I like it : wait attendance Till yoo bear further from me.
Pain. The gods preserve ye !
Tim. Well fare you, gentleman : gire me your hand ; We must needs dino together. — Sir, your jewel Hath snfier'd under praise.
Jew. What, my lord ! dispraise ?
Tim. A mere satiety of commeodations. If I should pay you for't as 'tis extoll'd, It would anclew mo quite.
Jew. My lord, 'tia rated
As those which sell would giTe : but you well know. Things of like ralnc, differing in the owners, Are priztid by their masters : bolieye 't, dear lord. Yon mend the jewel by the wearing it.
Tim. Well mock'd.
Mcr. No, my good lord; he speaks the common tongue. ■\Vhich all men speak with him,
Tim. Look, who comes here :
Will yon be chid?
Jiii/er Apemantus.
./<■«-. We'll bear, with"** your lordship.
Mer. He'll spare none.
Tim. Good morrow to tbec, gentle Apemantns.
Apem. Till I bo gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow ; When thou art Timon's dog, nod these knaves honest.
Tim. Why dost thou call them knaves? thou know'st them not.
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Apem. Are the; not Athenians 9
Tim. Yes.
Apem. Then I repent not.
Jew. Yon know me, Apemantos?
Apem. Tbon know'st I do; I o&ll'd thee by thy name.
Tim. Thon art proud, ApemantOB.
Apem. Of nothing bo much as that I am not like Timon.
Tim. Whither art going ?
Apem. To knock oat an honeat Athenian's brains.
rim. That's a deed thon'lt die for.
Apem. Bight, if doing nothing be death by the law.
Tim. How likest tboa this pictore, Apemantas?
Apem. The best, for the innocence.
Tim. Wrought he not well that painted it ?
Apem. He wrought better that made the painter ; and yet he's bnt a filthy piece of work.
Pain. Yon're a dog.
Apem. Thy mother's of my generation : what's she, if I be a dog ?
Tim. Wilt dine with me, Apemantns ?
Apem. No ; I eat not lords.
Tim. An thoa shouldst, thoa'dst anger ladies.
Apem. 0, they eat lords ; so they come by great bellies.
Tim. That's a lascivionB apprehension.
Apem, So tboa apprehendest it : take it for thy labour.
Tim. How dost thou like this jewel, Apemantus?
Apem. Not bo well as plain- dealing, which will not cost*"* a man a doit.
rim. What dost thou think 'tis worth ?
Apem. Not worth my thinking. — How now, poet !
Poet. How now, philoBOpher 1
Apem. Thoa liest.
Poet. Art not one ?
Apem. YeB.
Poet. Then I lie not.
Apem. Art not a poet?
Poet. Yes.
Apem. Then thoa liest : look in thy last work, where thou bast feigned him a worthy fellow.
Poet. That's not feigned, — ^he is so.
TOL. TI. LL
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Apem. Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy labour : he that Iotos to he flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. HeaTens, that I were a lord !
Tim. What wouldst do then, Apemantna ?
Aptm. E'en ae Apemantns does now, — hate a lord wlUi my heart.
Tim. What, thyself?
Apem. Ay.
Tim. Wherefore?
Apem. That I had no angry wit to be a lord.^**— Art not thoa a merchant ?
Mer. Ay, Apemantna.
Apem. Traffic confonnd thee, if the gods will not 1
Mer. If traf&o do it, the gods do it.
Apem. Traffic's thy god ; and thy god confound thee! Trumpet tounds within. Enter a Servant.
Tim. What trumpet's that ?
Serv. 'Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse. All of companionship.
Tim. Pray, entertain them ; give them guide to us. —
{Exeunt some Attendants. Yon must needs dine with me : — go not you hence Till I haTe thank'd yon ; — yon, when dinner's done,"" Show me this piece : — I'm joyful of your sights.
Enter Alcibiadeb and hU Company, teith Attendants Most welcome, sir I \Tkey salute.
Apem. So, so, there ! —
Ach&s°^ contract and starve yonr supple joints! — That there should be small love 'mongst these sweet knaves. And all this conrt'sy ! The strun of man 's bred ont Into baboon and monkey.
Alcih. Sir, yoa have sav'd my longing, and I feed Most hungerly on your sight.
Tim. Right welcome, sir!
Ere we depart, we'll share a bounteous time In different pleasurea. Fray you, let as in.
[Exeunt all except Apemanhu. Enter tieo Lords.
Fir»t Lord. What time o' day is't, Apema&tns ?
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Apem. Time to be honest;.
Firtt Lord. That time seires etil!,
Apem. The more'"* accareed thon, that still omitt'st it.
See. Lord. Thoa art going to Lord Timon's feast ?
Apem. Ay, to see meat fill knares, and wine heat fools.
Sec. Lord. Fare thee well, fare thee well.
Apem. Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice.
Sec. Lord. Why, Apemantns?
Apem. Shonldst have kept one to thyself, for I mean to give thee none.
Firtt Lord. Hang thyself 1
Apem. No, I will do nothing at thy bidding : make thy reqaeats to ihj friend.
Sec. Lord. Away, nnpeaceable dog, or I'll epum ihee hence!
Apem. 1 will 6j, like a dog, the heels o' the ass. [Exit,
First Lord. He's opposite to homanity. — Come, shall we in. And taste Lord Timon's bonnty 7 he oatgoes The very heart of kindness.
Sec. Lord. He pours it out ; Plutns, the god of gold. Is but his steward : no meed bnt he repays Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him Bat breeds the giver a return exceeding All use of quittance.
First Lord. The noblest mind he carries
That ever govem'd man.
Sec. Lord. Long may be live
In fortanes ! — Shall we in ?
First Lord.""* I'll keep you company. [Exeunt.
SCEHB n. The tame. A room qfstaU in Timoh'b liovse.
Ilamthoya playing loud music. A great ban^utt teroediii ; FiAViott and others attending; then enter Ti)i0M,<**' Alcibudes, Lords, Senators, and Ventidius. l^ieneomei, dropping after all, Ars- UIITQS, ditconteniedli/. Yen. Most bonoar'd Timon,
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It hath pleas'd the gods to remember my father's age.
And call him to loDg peace.'^ ,
He is gone happy, and has left me rich :
Then, as in grateful virtae I am bonnd
To your &ee heart, I do retnm those talents,
Doabled with thanks and service, &om whose help
I deriv'd liberty.
Tim. O, by no means.
Honest Yentidins ; yon mistake my love : I gave it &eely ever ; and there's none Can tmly say he gives, if he receives : If oar betters'*'^ play at that game, we mnat not dare To imitate them ; faults that are rich are fair.
Ven. A noble spirit !
[The;/ ali stand ceremoniously looking on Timon.
Tim. Nay, my lords, ceremony
Was bat devis'd at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Becanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown ; Bat where there is trae Mendship, there needs none. Pray, sit ; more welcome are ye to my fortanes Thau my fbrtnnes to me. [They tit.
First Lord. My lord, we always have confess'd it.
Apem. Ho, ho, confess'd it ! hang'd it, have yon not ?
Tim, O, Apemontns, — yoa are welcome.
Apem. No ;
Yon shall not make me welcome : I come to have thee thrust me ont of doors.
Tim. Fie, thon'rt a chnil; yon've got a hnmoor ^ere Does not become a man ; 'tis mnch to blame. — They say, my lords, Ira furor brevis est; Bat yond man is eyer**" angry. — Op, let him have a table by himself; For he does neither affect company. Nor is he fit for it, indeed.
Apem. Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon : I come to observe ; I give thee warning on't.
Tim. I take no heed of thee ; thon'rt an Athenian, there- fore welcome : I myself would have no power; prithee, let my meat make thee silent.
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Apem. I Bcorn thy meat j"** 'twould choke me, for I shoold ne'er flatter thee. — 0 yon gods, what a number of men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not ! It grieves me to see So man; dip tiieir meat in one man's blood ; And all the madneas is, he cheem them up too.**^ I wonder men dare trast themselves with men : Metbinks they shonld invite them witboat knives; Good for their meat, and safer for their lives. There's mnch example for't ; the fellow that sits next him now, parts bread with him, pledges"^ tbe breath of him in a divided dranght, is the readiest man to kill bim : 't has been proved. If I
Were a bnge man, I shonld**^' fear to drink at meals ; Lest they sboald spy my windpipe's dangerous notes : Great men shonld drink with harness on their throats.
Tim. [to a Loid who drinliS to him] My lord, in heart ; and let the health go ronnd.
See. Lord. Let it flow this way, my good lord.
Apem. Flow this way !'"' A brave fellow ! he keeps bis tides well. — Those healths will make thee and thy state look ill, Timon.—
Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner,'*^ Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire ; This and my food are equals ; there's no odds : Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods.
Apemanlm' grace.
Immortal goda, I crave no pelf;
I pray for no man but royaelf :
Grant I may never prove so fond,
To truBt man on his oath or bond ;
Or a harlot, for her weeping ;
Or a dog, that sceme a-sleeping ;
Or a keeper with my foeedom ;
Or my friendB, if I should need 'em.
Amen, So fall to 't :
Eich men ain, and I eat root. [Eata and drinks,
Mueh good dicb**" thy good heart, Apemantns !
Tim. Captain Alcibiades, your heart's in the field now. Alcib. My heart is ever at yoor service, my lord.
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Tim. Yoa haA rather be at a breakfast of enemies tban a dinner of friende.
Aleib. So tbey were bleeding-new, my lord, tbere'a no meat like 'em : I could wisb my best friend at snch a feast.
Apem- Would all those flatterers irere thine enemies, then, that thou'*" mightst kill 'em, and bid ma to 'em !
First Lord. Might wa bnt have that happiness, my lord, that yon would once ase oar hearts, whereby we might ex- press some part of our zeals, we should think ouTBelveB for erer perfect.
Tim. O, no doubt, my good friends, bat the gods them- selves have provided that I shall have much help from yon : how had yon been my friends else ? why have you that cha- ritable title from thoasands, did not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told more of you to myself than yon can with modesty speak in your own behalf; and thas far I con- firm yoo. 0 yon gods, think I, what need we have any friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'era ? they were the most needless creatures living, should we ne'er have use for *em; and would most i-esemble sweet instruments'^" hangup in cases, that keep their sounds to themselves. Why, I hare often wished myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We are bom to do benefits : and what better or pro- perer can we call oar own than th*c riches of our friends ? 0, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brotiiers, commanding one another's fortunes ! 0 joy,"^ e'en made away ere 't can be born ! Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks : to forget their faults, I drink to you.
Apem. Thon weepest to make them drink, Timon.
Sec. Lord. Joy had the like conception in oar eyes, And, at that instant, like a babe sprung up.
Apem. Ho, ho ! I laugh to think that babe a bastard.
Third Lord. I promise you, my lord, you mor'd me mach.
Apem. Much ! [Tvcket smmde^ icifhin.
Tim. What means Uiat trump?
Enier a Servant
How now ! Serv. Please you, my lord, there are certain ladies most desirous of admittance.
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Tim. Iiodies ! what ore their wUIb 7 Serv. There comes with them a forertmner, my lord, vhich bears that office, to signify their pleasm^s. Tim. I pray, let them be admitted.
E/tier Cdpid, Cup. Hail to thee, worthy"*" Timoa ; — and to all That of hie boimtiea taste ! — The five best senses Acknowledge thee their patron ; and come freely To gratolate thy plenteous bosom :"" Th' ear, taste, touch, smell, pleaa'd from thy table rise ; — These only now come but to feast thine eyes.""
Tim. They're welcome all; let 'em have kind admit- tance:— Mnsic, make their welcome !'"'' [JSa^ii Cupid.
First Lord.'"' Yon see, my lord, how ample yon're be- loT'd.
Music. Se-enter Cupid, tsiih a Mastpie o/Ladies as Amaxous teith lutea in tlteir handt, dancing and pfaijing. Apem. Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way ! They dance ! they are mad women. Like madness is the glory of this Ufe, As this pomp shows to a Uttle oil and root.'°^ We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves ; And spend onr flatteries, to drink those men. Upon whose age we void it np agen. With poisonoos spite and envy. Who lives, that's not deprav&d or depraves ? Who dies, that bears not one spurn to their graves Of their friends* gift ?»" I shonld fear those that dance before me now Woold one day stamp upon me : 't has been done ; Men shot their doors against a setting son.
Z^t Lords rite from table, with niiicA adorijigof7iuoii;aniltoa!iow their loves, each singlet out an Amazon, and all dunce; men Kith vxfmen, a lofty strain or two to the liauthoijs, and eeasf,
Tim. Yon have done oar pleasures mnch grace, fair la- dies,'**
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Set a fair fashion on ova eutertainment, Which was not half so heantifiil and kind ; YonWe added worth onto 't and lively**" lustre, And entertain 'd me with mine own device ; I am to thank yon for 't.
First Lady}**^ My lord, you take ns even at the hest.
Apem. FalUi, for the worst is filthy ; and woold not h<M. taking, I donbt me.
Tim. Ladies, there is an idle banqnet attends yon : Please yon to dispose yoorselves.
AU Lad. Most thankfolly, my lord.
lExevnt Cupid and Ladies,
Tim. Flavins, —
Flat;. My lord ?
Tim. The little casket bring me hither.
Flav. Yes, my lord. — [^sidc] More jewels yet! There is no crossing him in 's hnmonr ; Else I should tell him,— well, i' faith, I should,— "» When all's spent, he'd he cross'd then, an he could. 'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind, That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind. [Exit.
Fint Lord. Where be oar men ?
Serv. Here, my lord, in readiness.
See. Lord. Our horses !
Be-enter Flaviob mth the casket.
Tim. 0 my friends,
I've one word to say to you : — look you, my good lord, I mast entreat you, honour me so much As to advance this jewel ; accept and wear it,'** Kind my lord.
First Lord. I am so far already in your gifts, —
All. So are we all.
Enter a Servant.
Serv. My lord, there are certain nobles of the senate Newly alighted, and come to visit you.
Tim. They're fairly welcome.
Flav. I beseech your honour,
Vouchsafe me a word ; it does coiieern you near.
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Tint. Near ! why, then, another time I'll hear thee : I prithee, Let's be provided to ehow them entertainment.
Flav. [aside] I scarce know how.
JEnter a second Servant.
Sec. Sen. May it please your honour, Lord Lncine, -Out of his free love, hath presented to yoa Four milk-white horses, trapp'd in silver.
Tim. I shall accept them fairly : let the presents Be worthily entertain'd.
E/tter a third Servant
How now ! what news ?
Third Serv. Please you, my lord, that honourable gentle- man, Lord Lncallns, entrees your company to-morrow to hunt with him ; and has sent your honour two brace of grey- hoimds.
rim. I'll hunt with him ; and let them be receiv'd. Not without fair reward.
Flav. {aside'] What will this come to ?
Be commands as to provide, and give great gifts, And all out of an empty coffer : Nor will he know his purse ; or yield me this, To show him what a beggar his heart is, Being of no power to make his wishes good : His promises fly so beyond his state. That what he speaks is all in debt ; he owes For every word : he 's so kind, that he now Pays interest for 't ; his land 's put to their books. Well, would I were gently put out of oflSce, Before I were -forc'd out ! Happier is he that has no friend to feed Than such that do e'en enemies exceed. I bleed inwardly for my lord. [Exit.
Tim. Yon do yourselves
Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits : — Here, my lord, a trifle of our love.
Sec. Lord. With more than common thanks I will re- ceive it.
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Third Lord. 0, he's the \ery Bonl of botmty !
rim. And now I remember,^*" mj lord, jou gave Good words the other day of a bay courser I rode on : it is yoara, becaaae yon lik'd it.
First Lord. 0, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, In that.
rim. Yoa may take my word, my lord ; I know, no man Can justly praise but what he does affect : I weigh my friend's affection with mine own ; ril tell you true. — I'll call to you.'*®
All Lords. 0, none so welcome.
Tim, I take all and your several Tiaitations So kind to heart, 'tis not enough to give ; Methinks, I could deal kingdoms to my friends, And ne'er be weary. — Alcibiades, Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich ; It comes ia charity to thee : for all thy living Is 'mongst the dead ; and all the lands thou hast Lie in a pitcb'd field.
Alcib. Ay, defil'd land,"" my lord.
First Lord. We are ho virtuously bound —
Tim. And so
Am I to you.
Sec. Lord. So infinitely endear'd — ■
rim. All to yoo. — Lights, more lights !
First Lord. The beet of happiness.
Honour, and fortunes,'^ keep with yon. Lord Timon I
Tim. Ready for his friends.
l_Exeunt aU except Apemantus and TimoR.
A2>em. What a coil 's here !
Serving of becks, and juttiug-out of bums ! I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums That aie given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs : Methinks, false hearts should never have sound legs. Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'eies.
Tim. Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen, I woitld be good to thee.
Ajiem. No, I'll nothing; for if I should be bribed too, there would be none left to rail upon thee ; and then thou wouldet sin the faster. Thoa givest so long, Timon, I fear
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me thoD wilt give away thjrself in paper sliortly :**^' what need these feaetB, pompB, and Tain-glories ?
Tim. Nay, an yon begio to rail on society once, I am Bwom not to give regard to yoa. Farewell ; and come witb better music. [Exit.
Apem. So ; tboa wilt not tear me dow, — Thoa Bhalt not then, I'll lock thy heaven from thee. — O that men's ears shonld be*"^ To counsel deaf, bat not to flattery [ [^Exit.
Scene I. Athens. A room in a Senator's houte. Enter a Senator, witli paperg in his Jiand. Sen. And late, five thoueond ; — to Yarro and to Isidore He owes nine thousand ; — besides mj former sum, Whicli makes it five-and-twenty. — Still in motion Of raging waste? It cannot hold ; it will not. Id want gold, steal but a beggar's dog, And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold : If I wonld sell my horse, and buy ten more Better than be, why, give my horse to Timon, Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me straight Ten able horses :**" no porter at his gate ; But rather one that smiles, and still invites All that pass by. It cannot hold ; no reason Can found his state in safety.'*'* — Caphis, ho t Caphis, I say !
Ihiier CAvma.
Caph. Here, sir ; what is your pleasure ?
Sen. Get on yoar cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon ; Impdrtnne him for my moneys ; be not oeas'd With slight denial ; nor then ailenc'd when — " Commend me to your master" — and the cap Plays in the right hand, thus : — but tell him, sirrah,^'*
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My nsee cry to me, I must serve my tarn Oat of mine own ; his dtiys and times are past. And my relitmceB on bis fracted dates Have smit my credit : I love and hononr him ; Bnt must not break my back to heal his finger : Immediate are my needs ; and my relief Mnet not be toss'd and toru'd to me in words, Sat find snpply immediate. Get yoa gone : Pat on a most importnnste asp^, A vieage of demand ; for, I do fear, When eveiy feather sticks in his ovn wing, Lord Timon will be left a naked gall, Which flashes now a phcsnix. Q-et yoa gone.
Caph. I go, sir.
Sen. Take the bonds along with yon,
And bare the dates in compt.'**'
Caph. I will, sir.
Sen. Go. [Exeunt.
Scene II. The tame. A kaU in Tnros's haute. Enter FLivius, teitk many bOla in hU hand. Flav. No care, no stop ! ho senseless of expense, That he will neitiier know how to maintain it, Nor cease his flow of riot : takes no aceonnt How things go from Mm ; nor resames no care Of what is to continae : never mind Was to be so nnwise, to be so kind.**" What shall be done ? he will not hear, till feel : I must be round with him, now he comes from banting. Fie, fie, fie, fie !
EnUr CAPma, and tJie Servants of Ibisobe and Vabbo/'*' Caph. Good even, Varro : what,
Yon come for money?
Var. Serv. Is't not your business too 9
Caph. It is : — and yours too, Isidore ?
Isid. Serr. It is so.
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Caph. Would we were all discliarg'd t
Va7; Serr. I fear it.
Caph. Here comes the lord.
Enter Tihok, Aloibiades, «nrf Lords, ^r.
Tim. So soon as dinner's done we'll forth again. My Alcibiades. — With me ? what is yonr will ?
Caph. My lord, here is a note of certain dnes.
Tim. Dues ! Whence are yon ?
Caph. Of Athens here, my lord.
Tim. Qo to my steward.
Caph. Please ityoar lordship, he hath pnt me off To the snccession of new days this month : Hy master is awak'd by great occasion To coll Dpon his own ; and hnmbly prays yon. That with yonr other noble parts you'll snit In giving him his right.
Tim. Mine honest friend,
I prithee, bat repair to me next morning.
Caph. Nay, good my lord, — ■
Tim. Contain thyself, good friend.
Var, Serv. One Varro's servant, my good lord, —
Isid. Serv. From Isidore ;
He hambly prays yoar speedy payment, — ^'*
Caph. If yon did know, my lord, my master's wants, — -
Var. Serv. 'Twas dae on forfeitare, my lord, six weeks And past, —
Itid. Sen: Yonr steward pnts me off, my lord ; And I am sent expressly to yont lordship.
Tim. Give me breath. — I do beseeoh yon, good my lords, keep on ; m WMt apon you instantly. [Exeunt Alcibiades and I^rds.
[To Fiav.'] Come hither : pray yon. How goes the world, that I am thns enconnter'd With clamorons demands of date-broke bonda,"^ And the detention of long-aince-dne debts, Against my honour 9
FUtv. Please yon, gentlemen,
The time is unagreeable to this bnsiness : Your impoitunacy cease till after dinner ;
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That I may make hia lordship understand Wherefore you are not paid.
Tim. Do BO, my friends. —
See them well entertain'd. [£Jxi(.
Flav. Pray,"" draw near. [Exit.
Caph. Stay, Btay, here comes the fool wiih Apemontna : let's hft' some sport with 'em.
Var. Serv. Hang him, he'll ahnse as.
laid. Serv. A pUgne npon him, dog !
Enter Apeuantus and FooLf"
Var. Sen. How dost, fool ? -
Apem. Dost dialogue with thy shadow?
Var. Serv. 1 speak not to thoe.
Apem. Ko, 'tis to thyself. — [To the Foot] Gome away.
laid. Serv. [to Var. Serv.'] There's the fool hangs on your back already.
Apem, No, thon etand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet.
Caph. 'Where's the fool now?
Apem. He last asked the question.'"' — Poor rogues, and usnrers' men ! bawds between gold and want t
All Serv. What are we, Apemantas ?
Apem. Asses.
AUServ. Why?
Apem. That yon ask me what you are, and do not know yourselves. — Speak to 'em, fool.
Fool. How do yon, gentlemen ?
AU Serti. Gramercies, good fool ; how does yonr mis- tress ?
Fool. She's e'en setting on water to scald snch chickens AS yoa are. Would we could see you at Corinth !
Apem. Good ! gramercy.
Fool. Look you, here comes my mistress"*" page.
UnierPagB.
Page, [to the Foot] Why, how now, captain! what do yoa in this wise company? — How dost thou, Apemantas?
Apem. Would I had a rod in my month, that I might answer thee profitably!
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Page, Prithee, Apemantna, read me tlie Bnperacription of tlieae lettere : I know not which is which.
Apem. Canst not read ?
Page. No.
Apem. There wiU little learning die, then, that day thon art hanged. This is to Lord Timon ; this to Alcibiadea. Go ; then wast born a bastard, and tbon'lt die a bawd.
Page, Thon wast whelped a dog, and thon shalt (amish, a dog's death. Answer not, I am gone.
Apem. E'en BO thon oatranneBt grace. [Exit Page,"} Fool, I will go with yon to Lord Timon's.
Fool. Will yoa leave me there ?
Apem. If Timon Btay at home. — Yon three Berre three aBorers?
AU Serv. Ay ; wonld they served na !
Apem. So wonld I, — as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.
Fool. Are yoa three nsarers' men ?
AU Serv. Ay, fool.
Fool, I think no asTirer bat has a fool to his servant : my mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come to borrow of yonr masters, they approach sadly, and go away merrily;"* bnt they enter my miBtresa'"*' house merrily, and go away sadly : the reujon of this ?
Var. Serv. I oonld render one.
Apem. Do it, then, that we may acconnt thee a whore- master and a knave ; which notwithstanding, thoa shalt be no lesB esteemed.
Var. Serv. What is a whoremaster, fool ?
Fool. A fool in good clothes, and something like thee. 'Tib a spirit : sometime 't appears like a lord ; sometime like a lawyer ; sometime like a philosopher, with two stones more than 's artificial one : he is very often like a knight ; and, generally, in all shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
Var. Serv, Thou art not altogether a fool.
Fool. Nor thon altogether a wise man : as mnoh fbolery M I have, so mnch wit thon lackeat.
Apem. That answer might have become Apemantos.
All Serv. Aside, aside ; here comes Lord Timon.
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Re-tTiier Timon and Flatiub.
Apem. Come witli me, fool, come.
Fool. I do cot always follow lover, elder brother, and wo- man ; sometime the philosopher.
\Exeunt Apemanhu and Fool.
Flav. Fray yon, walk near: I'll speak with yon anon.
[Exeunt Servants,
Tim. Yon make me marvel: wherefore ere this time Had yon not folly laid my state before me ; That I might so have rated my expense As I had leave of means ?
Flav, Yon wonld not hear me.
At many leisares I propoa'd.'"**
Tim. Go to:
Perchance some single vantages yon took. When my indisposition pat yoa back ; ■ And that onaptaess made your minister,**^ Thus to excuse yonrself.
Flav. 0 my good lord,
At many times I brought in my accounts. Laid them before you ; yoa wonld throw them off, And say, yoa foand them in mine honesty. When, for some trifling present, yon have bid me Betam so mncb, I've shook my head and wept; Tea, 'gainst tb' anthority of manners, pray'd yoa To hold yonr hand more close : I did endure Kot seldom, nor no slight checks, when I have Prompted you, iu the ebb of your estate. And your great flow of debts. My dear-lov'd"" lord. Though yoa hear now — too late — ^yet now's a time,'*** The greatest of your having lacks a half To pay yonr present debts.
Tint. Let all my land be sold.
Flav. 'Tis all engag'd, some forfeited and gone ; And what remains will hardly stop the mouth Of present dues : the future comes apace : What shall defend the interim ? and at length How goes our reckoning ?
Tim. To Lacedfemon did my land extend.
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Flav. 0 my good lord, the world ia bat a word : Were it all yonrs to give it in a breath. How quickly were it gone !
Tim. You tell me trae.
Flav. If yon suspect my husbandry or ftUsehood, Call me before th' oxacteet auditors, And set me on the proof. So the f;ods blesa me, When all our offices haye been oppress'd With riotous feeder^ ; when our vaults have wept With drunken spilth of wine ; when every room Hath blaz'd with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy ; I have retir'd me to a wasteful cock, And aet mine eyes at flow.'"'*
Tim. Prithee, no more.
Flav. Heavens, have I said, the boanty of this lord ! How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants This night englutted ! Who is not Lord Timon'a?"'" What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is Lord Ttmon's? Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon ! Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made : Feast-won, fast-loat; one clond of winter showers, Tbeue dies are conoh'd.
Tim. Come, sermon me no farther:
No villanouB bounty yet bath pass'd my heart j^' Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given. Why doat thou weep ? Canst thou the conscience lack, To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart; If I wonld broach the vessels of my love. And try the argument of hearts by borrowing. Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use As I can hid thee speak.
Flav. Aasaranoe blesa your thoughts !
Tim. And, in some sort, these wants of mine are crown 'd. That I acconnt them blessinga ; for by these Shall I try friends : you shall perceive how yon Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my Mends. — Within there ! Flaminias I'™ Senrilius !
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.Enier Flahiniits, SEftviLlua, and other SerTantr.
Sen-ante. My lord ? my lord ? —
rim. I will dispatch you severally : — [to ServU.'] yon to Lord LnniaB ;— [(o Flam.'] to Lord LnonllaB yon ; I hnnted with hie honour to-day ; — [to another ServJ] you to Sempro- nins : commend me to their loves ; and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have found time to use 'em toward a supply of money : let the request be fifty talents.
Flam. As you have said, my lord.
[Exit tEith ServUiita arid another Servant.
FUiV. [atide'l Lord Lucius and Lucullus ? hum !
rim. [to another Sei-v.'] Go you, sir, to the senators, — Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have Deserv'd this bearing ; bid 'cm send o' th' instant A thousand talents to me. [Exit Servant.
Flat: I have been bold —
For that I knew it the moat general way — To them to use your signet and your name ; Bt^t they do shake their heads, and I am here No richer in retom.
Tim. Is't tme ? can 't be ?
Flat: They answer, in a joint and corporate voice, That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot Do what they would ; are sorry — ^you are honourable — Bot yet they could have wish'd — they know not what — *"* Something hath been amiss — a noble nature May catch a wrench — would all were well — 'tis pity ; — And so, intending other serious matters. After distasteful looks and these hard fractions, "With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods They froze me into silence.
Tim. Yon pods, reward them ! —
I*^^ prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows Have their ingratitude in them hereditary : Their blood is cak'd, 'tis cold, it seldom flows ; 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind ; And nature, as it grows again toward earth, Is hahion'd for the journey, doll and heavy. —
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[To another Sen:'] Go to VenticlioB,— [to Flav.'] Prithee, be
not sad, Thoa art trae and hooeet ; ingenioasly I speak, No blame belong to thee : — [to the §ame SeroJ] Yentidius
lately Baried hia father; by whose death he'a stepp'd Into a great estate : when he was poor, Imprison'd, and in scarcity of friends, I clear'd him with five talents : greet him from me ; Bid bim sappose some good necessity Tonohes his friend, which craves to be remember'd With those five talents. [Exit Suit,
[To Flav."] That had, give 't these feUowe To whom 'tis instant dae. Ne'er speak, or think. That Timon's fortnoes 'mong his friends con sink.
Flav. I would I Goald not think it : that thought is bounty's
foe : Being free itself, it thinks all others so. [Exeunt.
SoEHB I. AtJienB. A room in LuovLLua' house. Flauinius waitinij. Eater a Servant to Mm. 8ero. I have told my lord of you ; he is coming down to yoa. ■
Flam. I thank you, sir.
Enter LuoniiLus.
Sent. Here's my lord.
ImcuI. [aaide'l One of Lord Timon'a men ? a gilt, I war- rant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver basin and ewer to-night. — Flaminins, honest Flaminius ; you are very resptwtively welcome, sir. — Fill me some wine. [Exit Sen.'] — koA how does that hon»arabIe, complete, freehearted gen- tleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord and master?
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Flam. His health is well, air.
Lucid. I am right glad that hiB health is well, sir : and what bast thon theio under thy cloak, pretty Flamiuins ?
Flam. Faith, nothing but an empty bos, sir ; which, i» my lord's behalf, I come to entreat yonr hononr to snpply ; who, having great and instant occasion to use fifty talents, hath sent to your lord&bip to furnish him, uothing doubting yonr present assistance therein.
IaicuI. La, la, la, la, — "nothing doubting," says he? Alas, good lord ! a noble gentleman 'tia, if he would not keep so good a hoase. Many a time and often I ha' dined with him, 'and told him on't; and come again to supper to him, of purpose to have him spend less ; and yet he would embrace no counsel, take no warning by my coming. Every man hag his fault, and honesty is his : I ha' told him on't, bat I could Do'er get bim &om 't.
Ho-cider Servant, v^iili itine.
Serp. Please your lordship, here is the wine.
ImcuI. Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here's to thee. [Drinks, aiid then gives him wiiic
Flam. Your lordship speaks your pleasure.
LvchI. I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt spirit, — give thee thy due, — and one that knows what belongs to reason ; and canst use the time well, if the time use theo well : good parts in thee. — [To Sen:'} Get yon gone, sirrah. '[Exit Serv.l — Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord's a bonntifnl gentleman : but thoa art wise ; and thou knowest well enough, although thou comest to mo, that this is no time to lend money ; especially upon bare friendship, with- out security. Here's three solidares for thee : good boy, wink at me, and say thon sawest me not. Fare thee well.
Flam. Is't possible the world should so much differ. And we alive that liv'd? Fly, damned baseness. To him that worships thee ! [Throwing the money back.
Lucid. Ha ! now I see thoa art a fool, nad fit for thy master. [Exit,
Flam. May these add to the number that may scald theet Let molten coin be thy damnation, Thon disease of a friend, and not himself 1
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Has friendship sach a faint and milky heart,
It tarns in less than two nightB ? O yon gods,
I feel my master's passion ! This slave
Unto his bononr has my lord's meat in him :*""
Why should it thrive, and tnm to nutriment,
When he is tum'd to poison ?""
0, may diseases only work apon't!
And, vhen he's sick to death, lot not that part of nature
Which my lord paid for, be of any power
To expel sickness, but prolong his hour! [Exit.
Scene 11. The savie. A public place. Enter LuCius, with three Strangera.
Luc. Who, the Lord Timon ? he is my very good fiiend, and an honourable gentleman.
First Stran, A^e know him for no less, though we arc but strangers to him. But I can tell you one thing, my lord, and which I hear from common ramours, — now Lord Timon's happy hours are done and past, and his estate shrinks from him.
Liic. Fie, no, do not believe it ; he cannot want for money.
See. Stran. But believo yon this, my lord, that, not long ago, one of his men was with the Lord LucuIIus to borrow so many talents ;"'* nay, urged extremely for't, and showed what necessity belonged to't, and yet was denied.
Ltic. How !
Sec. Strait. I tell you, denied, my lord.
Luc. What ft strange case was that ! now, before the gods, I am ashamed on't. Denied that hononmble man! there was Tei7 little honour showed in't. For my own part, I must needs confess, I have received some little kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels, and snch-Iike trifles, nothing -comparing to his ; yet, had he mistook him, and sent to me, I should ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents.*'^'
Enter Servilivb. ^ercil. See, by good hap, yonder'a my lord ; I have swet to see his hanonr. — [ To Lucius] My hononred lord, —
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Xuc. SerriliuBl yon are kindly met, air. Fare theo well : commend me to thy hoDOnrable TirtnouB lord, my Tery ex- qnisito friend.
Senil. May it please your hononr, my lord hath Best —
Luc, Ha ! what has he sent ? I am bo much endeared to that lord; he's ever Bending: how shall I thank him, thinkest thou 9 And what hns ho sent now?
SerrU. *Has only sent his preBent occasion now, my lord ; requesting yonr lordship to supply "his instant cBe with so many talents.''''
Luc, I know his lordship is but merry with me ; He cannot want fifty-five hundred talents.
Servil. But in die mean time he wants less, my lord. If his occasion were not virtuous, I should not urge it half so faithfully.
Lve, Dost thou speak serioosly, Servilius ?
Servil. Upon my soul, 'tis true, sir.
Luc. What a wicked beast was I to disfuroish myself against such a good time, when I might ha' showii myself honourable ! how unluckily it happened, that I should pur- chase the day before for a little part, and undo a great deal of honour l"** — Servilius, now, before the gods, I am not able to do,"" — the mote beast, I say : — I was sending to use liord Timon myself, these gentlemen can witness ; but I would not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done 't now. Commend me honntifull; to his good lordship ; and I hope hie honour vrill conceive the fairest of me, because I have no power to be kind : — and tell him this from me, I count it one of my greatest afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an hon- ourable gentleman. Good Servilius, will you befriend me so far, as to use mine own words to him ?
Senil. Yes, sir, I shall. ,
ZiiK. I'll look you out a good turn, Servilius.
[Exit Senilhig, Tree, as yon said, Timon is shrunk indeed ; And he that's once denied will hardly speed. [Exit.
Eint Stran. Did you observe this, HostUias ?
Sec. Stran. Ay, too well.
First Stran. Why, this Is the world's soul ; and just of the same piece
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Is every flatterer's spirit.*"' Who can call him His friend that dips in the same dish ? for, in My knowing, Timon has been this lord's &ther, And kept his credit with his parse; Supported his estate ; nay, Timon'a money Has paid his men their wages : be ne'er drinks, Bnt Timon's silver treads npon his lip; And yet — 0, see the monstronsness of man'"' When he looks oat in an nngratefnl shape ! — Ho dees deny him, in respect of his, What charitable men afi'ord to beggars.
Third Stran. Beligion groans at it.
First Stran. For mine own part,
I never tasted Timon in my life, Nor e'er**" carae any of his bounties o'er me. To mark me for bis friend ; yet, I protest, For his right noble mind, illustriotts rirtne. And houonrable carriage. Had his necessity made nse of me, I would have pat my wealth into donation. And the best half should have retnm'd to him, So mnch I love his heart : bnt I perceive Men must learn now with pity to dispense ; For policy sits above conscience. [^Exeunt.
Scene HI. The same. A room (k Seupronius' house. Enter SauPBOKlDS, and a Servant o/Timon's.
Sem. Must he needs trouble me in 't, — hum ! — 'bove all Others ? He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lncullus ; And now Ventidias is wealthy too, Whom he redeem'J from prison : all these three'*** Owe their estates nnto him.
Serv. My lord, they
Have all been touch 'd, and found base metal ; for They've all denied him.
Sem. How ! have they denied him ? .
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Have Youtiditis and LTicuIlns denied him ? And does he send to mo ? Three ? hum !— '*" It ahowa bat little love or jndgmeDt in him : Most I be his last refuge ? His friends, like ph^Bicians, Thrice give him over:"" mast I take the enre apon me? 'Has much disgrac'd me in 't ; I'm angr; at him, That might have known my place : I see no sense for 't. Bat his occasions might have voo'd me first; For, in my conscience, I was the first man That e'er receiv'd gift from him : And does he think so backwardly of me now, That I'll reqnite it last ? No : So it may prove an argument of langhtor To the rest, and 'mongst loi-ds I^ be tbonght a fool. I'd rather than the worth of thritfe the som, 'Had sent to me first, bnt for my mind's sake ; rd snch*"' a conrage to do him good. Bnt now retam, And with their faint reply this answer join : Who hates mine honoar shall not know my coin. [ExH.
Serv. Escellent t Yoar lordship's a goodly villain. The devil knew not what he did when ha made man politic, — he crossed himself by 't : and I cannot think bnt, in the end, tho villanies of man will set him clear. How fairly ihia lord strives to appear fonl ! takes virtnoas copies to be wicked ; like those that, nnder hot ardent zeal, wonld set all realms on fire:
Of such a nature is his politic love. This was my lord's last"*" hope ; now all are fled. Save the gods only:"" now his friends are dead. Doors, that were ne'er acquainted with their wards Many a honnteoas year, must be employ'd Now to guard sure their master. And this is all a liberal coarse allows ; Who cannot keep his wealth mast keep his hoaae. [A'xit.
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Scene IV. The same. A kail in Timon'b house.
Enter two Servants o/Vabbo, and the Servant o/Luciub, meeting TiTDS, HoRTBKBiuii, and other Servants o/Tiuon's crediton, waiting hii coming out.
First Var. Serv. Well met; good morrow, Titna and Hor- tensias.
Tit. The like to yon, kind Tarro.
Hor. Lncias !""
Wliat, do ve meet together ?
Luc. Setv. Ay, and I think
One baeinesa does command us all ; for mine Ib money.
Tit. So is theirs and oars.
Enter Fhilotds.
Lac. Sen: And Sir FhilotDB too !
Pfii. Good day at once.
Luc. Serv, Welcome, good brother.
What do yon think the hoar ?
Phi. Lnboniing for nine.
Luc. Serv. So moch ?
Phi. Is not my lord seen yet?
Luc. Sere. Not yet.
Phi. I wonder on'i ; he was wont to ehiue at seven.
Luc. Serv. Ay, bat the days are wnx'd shorter with him : You must consider that a prodigal courae**" la like the bqq'b;
But not, like bis, racoverable. I fear 'Tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's parse ; That is, one may reach deep enoagh, and yet Find little.
Phi. I am of your feai' for that.
Tit. I'll show yon how t' obaerro a strange event. Your lord sends now for money.
Hor. Host trae, he does.
Tit. And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift, For which I wait for money.
Hor. It is against my heart.
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Luc. Sen'. Mark, how strange it sbons,
Timott in tbis should pa; more than he owes ; And e'en as if yonr lord Bhoald wear rich jewels. And send for money for 'em.
Hot. I'm weary of this charge, the gods can witness : I know my lord hath spent of Timon's wealth, And now ingratitade makes it worse than stealth.
First Var. Serv. Yes', mine 's three thousand crowns : what's yonrs ?
Liic. Serv. Five thousand mine.
First Var. Serv. 'Tis much deep : and it should soem by the sum Youi' master's confidence was above mine ; ,
£lBe, surely, his had equall'd.
Enter Flauinius.
Tit. One of Lord Timon's men.
Luc. Serv. Flaminius 1 — Sir, a word : pray, is my lord ready to come forth ?
Flam. No, indeed, he is not.
Tit. We attend his lordship ; pray, signify so mach.
Flam. I need not tell him that ; he knows you are too diligent. \^Exit.
Enter FLAviira in a cloak, muffled.
Luc. Serv. Ha ! is not that his steward muffled so 2 . He goes away in a cloud : call him, call him. ■ Tit. Do you hear, air ?
Both Var. Serv.'**' By your leave, sir, — •
Flav. What do ye ask of me, my friends ?*"*'
Tit, We wait for certain money here, sir.
Flav. Ay,*"
If money were as certain as your waiting, 'Twei-e sore enough.
Why then preforr'd you not yonr sums and bills When your false masters eat of my lord's meat ? Then they coald sniile, and fawn upon his debts, And take down th' interest into their glnttonoas mawa. Yon do yourselves but wrong to etir me up ; Let mc pass quietly:
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BeHeve % my lord and I have made aa end ; I hare no more to reckon, he to spend.
Luc. SeiT. Ay, bat this answer will not serve.
Flav. If 'tnill not serve, 'tie not so base as yon ; For yoa serve knaves. [^Exit.
Firat Var. Serv. How ! what does his cashiered worship mutter ?
Sec. Var. Serv. No matter what ; he's poor, and that's revenge enough. Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in ? such may rail against great buildings.
JEaicr Sebvilius.
Tit. 0, here's Servilins ; now we shall know some an-
Servil. If I might beseech yon, gentlemen, to repair some other hour, I should derive mnch from 't ; for, take 't of my sonl, my lord leans wondronsly to discontent : his comfort- able temper has forsook him ; he's mnch out of health, and keeps his chamber.
Luc. Serv. Many do keep their chambers are not sick: And, if it be so far beyond hie health, Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts. And make a clear way to the gods.
Servil. Good gode!
Tit. We cannot take this for an answer,'*" sir.
Flam, [within] Servilius, help ! — My lord ! my lord !
EiUer TiKON, in a i-agt; 'Fluuisivb follomng.
Tim. What, are my doors oppoa'd against my passage ? Have I been ever free, and mnst my honse Be my retentive enemy, my gaol ? The place which I have feasted, does it now. Like all mankind, show roe an iron heart ?
Luc. Serv. Pat in now, Titns.
Tit. My lord, hero is my bill.
Luc. Sen'. Here's mine.
Hor. Serv. And mine, my lord.'*"
Botk Var. Serv. And ours, my lord.
Phi. All onr bills.
Tim. Knock me down with 'em : cleave me to tlie girdle.
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Lac. Serv. Alas, my lord,—
Tim. Cut m; heart in bhiub.
TU. Mine, fifty talents.
rim. Tell out my blood.
Luc, Sem. Five thousand crowns, my lord.
Tim. Five thousand drops pays that. — What yours ? — aad
yonra? Firgt Var. Serv. My lord, — Sec. Var. Serv. My lord, — Tim. Tear me, take me, and the gods &11 upon you !
Hor. Faith, I perceive oar masters may throw their caps at tlleir money : these debts may well he called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. - [Exeiini.
He-enter Twos and Flavius.
Tim. They have e'en put my breatli from me, the slaves. Creditors I — devils.
Flav. My dear lord, —
Tim. What if it should be so ?
Flav. My lord,—
Tim. I'll have it so. — My steward !
Flo,v. Here, my lord.
Tim. So fitly ? Oo, bid all my friends again, Lucius, LacolluB, and Sempraniua ; all i*"" I'll once more feast the rascals.
Flav. 0 my lord.
You only speak from your distracted soul ; There is not so much left to fnrnish oat A moderate table.
Tim. Be 't ivot in thy care ; go,
I charge thee, invite them all : let in the tide Of knaves once more ; my cook and I'll provide. [Es^eunt.
Scene V. The same. The seitate-hottse. The Senate sitting. First Sen. My lords,"*" you have my voice to it ; the fuult 's
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Bloody ; 'tis necessary be shonid die : Xoihiug emboldeos sin so macb as mercy.
Sec. Sen. Most trae ; the law shall bmise him."""'
Eaicr Alcibiaoes, attendcH.
Alcib. Honour, health, and compassion to the senate \
First Sen. Now, captain ?
Aleib. I am an btimblo suitor to your viitnes ; For pity is the virtue of the law. And none but tyrants use it cruelly. It pleases time and fortune to he heavy Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood, Hath etepp'd into the law, which is past depth To those that, withont heed, do plunge into 't. He is a man, setting bis fault aside,''*^' Of comely yirtaes :
Kor did be soil the fact with cowardice, An"°*' honour in him which bays oat hia fault; But with a noble fury and fair Bpirit,'""* Seeing bis reputation totich'd to death. He did oppose bis foe : And with such sober and unnoted passion He did behave"'^' his anger, ere 'twas spent. As if he had bat prov'd an argament.
First Sen. Yon undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair : Yosr words have took such pains, as if they labonr'd To bring manslaughter into form, and set QoarrelUng upon tho bead of valour ; which Indeed is valonr misbegot, and came Into the world when sects and factions "Were newly bom :
- He'a truly valiant that can wisely suETer The worst that man can breathe ; and make his wrongs His outsides, — to wear them like his raiment, csielessly : And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. If wrongs be evils, and enforce as kill, What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill !
Alcib. My lords,—"""
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First Sen. Yon cBnnot make groBS Bina look clear:
To revetige is no valonr, bnt to bear.
Alcib. My lords, then, under favour, pairdon me, If I speak like a captain : — Why do fond men expose themselves to battle. And not endure all threats ? sleep npon 't, And let the foes quietly cat their throats. Without repugnancy?""' If there he Such valour iu the bearing, what make we Abroad ? why, then, women are more valiant That stay at home, if bearing carry it ; And the ass more captain than the lion ; the felon*"" Iioaden with irons wiser than the judge, If wisdom be in snffering. 0 my lords, Ab yon are great, be pitifully good : Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood ? To kill, I grant, is sin's extromest gust ; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most jnst. To be in anger is impiety ; Bnt who is man that is not angry ? Weigh but the crime witli this.
Sec. Sen. Yon breathe in vain.
Alcib. In vain ! his service done
At Laoedtemon and Byzantinm Were a sufficient briber for his life.
First Sen. What's that ?
Alcib. Why, I say,""" my lords, 'has done fair service. And slain in fight many of your enamies : How full of valour did be bear himself In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds I
Sec. Sen. He has made too much plenty with 'em,""" he Is a sworn rioter : he has a sin that often Drowns him, and takes his valoar prisoner : If there were no more foes, that were enough"'" To overcome him : in that beastly fury He has been known to commit outrages And cherish factions : 'tie inferr'd to ns His days are foul, and his drink dangerous.
First Sen. He dies.
Alcib. Hard fate ! he might have died in war.
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My lords, if not for any p»rtB in him, —
Thoagh hifl right arm might parcbase hia own time.
And be in debt to none, — yet, more to move yon.
Take my deserts to bis, and join 'em both :
And, for I know yonr reverend lages love
Secnrity, I'll pawn my Tictories, all
My honours to you, npon hia good letnrn."'^
If by this erime he owes the law his life,
"Why, let the war receive 't in valiant gore ;
For law ie strict, and war is nothing more.
First Sen. We are for law, — he dies ; nrge it no more. On height of our displeasnre : friend or brother. He forfeits his own blood that spills another."'"
Alcib. Mast it be so? it mnst not be. My lords, I do beseech yon, know me.
Sec. Sen. How!
Aldh. Call me to year remembraDceB.
Third Sen. What !
Aleib. I cannot think bnt yonr age has forgot me; It eonM not else be I shonid prove so base To sne, and be denied sach common grace : My wonndfi ache at yoa.
Mrst Sen. I>o yoa dare our anger ?
'Tis in tew words, but epacions in effect ; We banish thee for ever.
Alcib. Banish met
Banish yonr dotage ; banish nsary, That makes the senate ngly.
First Sen. If after two days' shine Athens contain thee. Attend onr weightier judgment. And, not to swell oar
spirit,"^* He shall be ezecated presently. [Exeunt Senators.
Alcib, Now the gods keep yoa old enough ; that yoa may live Only in bone, that none may look on yon ! Tm worse than mod : I have kept back their foes, While they have told their money, and let ont Their coin npon large interest ; I myself Rich only in large hurts ; — all those for this ? Is this the balsam that the asaring senate
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Fours into captains' wonode ? Ha, banishment !'"^
It comes not ill ; I bate not to be banieh'd ;
It is a cause worth; my epleen and fary,
That I may strike at Athens. I'll cheer ap
My discontented troops, and lay for hearts.
'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds;"**'
Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods. {Exit-
Scene VI. The aavic. A mt^ificent room in Tiuok's house.
Music. Tahliv set out: Bervt^ts attending. Enter, at several doort'r
divers Lords.*" ^—Lucina, Lhcollcs, Sehfrokiuh, — Senators,
&C. ; and Ybntidids.
First Lord. The good time of day to you, sir.
Sec. Lord. I also nish it to yoa. I think this honoarable lord did bat try ns this other day.
First Lord. Upon that were my thoughts tiring when .we encountered : I hope it is not so low with him as he made it seem in the trial of his several &iends.
Sec. Lord. It should not be, by the persuasion of bis new feasting.
Fimt Lord. I should think so : he hath sent me an earnest inviting, which many my near occasion e'^'^' did urge me to put off; but he hath conjured me beyond them, and I must needs appear.
Sec. Lord. In like manner was I in debt to my impor- tunate business, but he would not hear my excuse. I am sorry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my provision was out.
First Lord. I am sick of that grief too, as I understand how all tilings go.
Sec. Lord. Every man here's so. What would he have bor- rowed of you ?
First Lord. A thousand pieces.
<SVi;. Lord. A thousand pieces !
First Lord. What of you ?
Sec. Lord. Ho sent to me, sir,""' — Hero he comes.
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Enter Tihok and Attend&nts.
Tim. With all my heart, gentlemen both : — and how fare yoa?
First Lord. Ever at the best, hearing well of yonr lord- Bhip.
See. Lord. The swallow follows not BOtntner more will- • ingtuo) jIj^q ^q ygm lordship.
rim. \a»ide\ Nor more willingly leaves winter; such snmmer-birds are men. — 0-entlemen, onr dinner will not recompense this long stay : feast yoar ears with the music awhile,*^'" if they will fare bo harshly. 0, the trumpets sound ; we shall to 't presently.
Firtt Lord. I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship, that I returned you an empty messenger. Tim. 0, sir, let it not tronble you.
Sec. Lord. My noble lord, —
Tim. Ah, my good friend, — what cheer J"™
Sec. Lord. My most honourable lord, I am e'en sick of shame, that, when your lordship this other day sent to me, I was BO unfortunate a beggar.
Tim. Think not on 't, sir.
Sec. Lord. If yoa had sent bat two hooTB before, —
Tim. Let it not cumber your better remembraDce.— Come, bring in all together. [The banquet brought in.
See. Lord. All covered dishes I
First Lord. Royal cheer, I warrant you.
Third Lord. Donbt not that, if money and the Beason can yield it.
Fint Lord. How do you ? "What's the newa ?
Third Lord. Alcibiades is banished : hear you of it?
First and Sec. Tjord. Alcibiades banished I
Third Lord. 'Tie bo, be sure of it.
First Ijord. How! howl
See. Lord. I pray yon, npon what ?
Tim. My worthy friends, will you draw near ?
Third Lord. I'll tell yon more anon. Here's a noble feast toward.
Sec. Lord. This is the old man still.
Third Lord. WiU 't hold ? will 't hold ?
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Sec. Lord. It <Io«b : but time vill — and so—
Third Lord. I do conceiTe.
Tim. Each mau to his stool, with that spur as he would to the lip of Ms BQistreBB : yoar diet shall be in all places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let the meat cool ere we can agree npon the first place : sit, sit. The gods reqoire oar thanks. —
Yon great benehctors, sprinkle onr society with thank- falness. For your own gifts, make yonrselveB praised : but reserve still to give, leat yonr deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that one need not lend to another; for, were yonr godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the godB. Make the meat be beloved mote than tbe nun tiitti gives it. Let no aaseuibly of twenty be withont a score of villains : if there sit twelve women at Uio table, let a doien of them be — as they are. The rest of yonr foes,*"** O gods, — ihe senators of Athens, together with the common lag"*^ of people, — what is amiss in them, yon gods, make snitable for deBtmetion. For these my present &iends, — as tbey are to me nothing, so in nothing bless them, and to nothing are they welcome. —
Uncover, dogs, and lap.
[The diahei are uncovered, and seen to beJ«U of narm water.
Some apeak. What does his lordship mean ?
Some other. I know not.
Tim. May yon a better feast never behold. Yon knot of month-friends ! emoke and Inkewarm water Ib yonr perfection. This ie Timon's last ; Who, stack and spangled vrith yonr flattery,**"' Washes it off, and sprinkles in yonr faces
[Throicing the water in their facet, Yonr reeking viHany. Live loath'd, and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Conrteons destroyers) affable wolves, meek bears. Yon fools of fortnoe, trencher-friends, time's flies. Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks ! Of man and beast the infinite malBdies"**" Crast yon quite o'er ! — What, dost thoa go ?
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Soft 1 take th; pbysic first, — tlion too, — &nd tboa ; — Stay, I will lend thoe money, borrow none, —
[Throws the dishes at iliem, and drives them oitt."*" What, all in motion ? Henceforth be no feast "Whereat a villaiu'a not a welcome gaest. Bum, house! sink, Athens! henceforth hated be Of Timon man and all hnmanity ! [Exit.
He-enter Ike Companyfi^'
First Lord. How now, my lords 1
Sec. Lord. Know you the qnality of Lord Timon's fory ?
Third Lord. Pnab ! did you see my cap ?
Fourth Lord. I have lost my gown.
First Lord. He's bat a mad lord, and naught bnt bam- ont"*** sways him. He gave me a jewel tb' other day, and now he has beat it out of my hat : — did yon see my jewel ?
Tliird Lord. Did you see my cap ?
Sec. LordJ-*^ Here 'tis.
Fourth Lord. Here lies my gown.
First Lord. Let's make no stay.
See, Lord. Lord Timon's mad.
Third Lord. I feel 't upon my bones.
Fourth Lord, One day be gives ns diamonds, next day stones.""' [Exei/,nt.
ACT IT.
Scene I. Without tlie waUs of Athens. Enter Timon. Tim. Let me look back upon thoe. O thou wall,- That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth. And fence not Athens I Matrons, tarn incontinent ! Obedience foil in children ! slaves and fools. Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench. And minister in their steads ! to general filths Convert o' th' instant, green virginity, — Do 't in your parents' eyes ! bankrupts, hold fast ;
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Bather than render bsck, otit with yout knivea,
And cat your trnBters' throats ! bound-BerTants, steal !
Lorge-huided robbers your grave masters are,
And pill by law : maid, to thy master's bed, —
Thy mistress is o' the brothel 1 Bon^*"^ of sizteeo,
I^aok the lin'd crotch from thy old limping sire.
With it boat ont his brains ! piety, and fear,
Beligion to the gods, peace, justice, tmth.
Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbonrhood,
Iiutmction, manners, mysteries, and trades.
Degrees, obserrances, cnstoms, and laws,
Decline to yonr confonndin^t contrarieB,
Asd let confaeion live l''^ — Plagues incident to men.
Year potent and infections fevers heap
On Athens, ripe for stroke t thou cold sciatica,
Cripple onr senators, that their limbs may halt
As lamely as their manners ! last and liberty
Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth.
That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,
And drown themselves in riot ! itches, blaina.
Sow all th' Athenian bosoms ; and their crop
Be general leprosy ! breath infect breath ;
That their society, as their friendship, may
Be merely poison ! Nothing I'll bear from thee
But nakedness, thou detestable town !
Take tbon that too, with multiplying bans !
l^on will to the woods ; where he shall find
Th' nnkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
The gods confound — hear me, you good gods all —
Th' Athenians both within and out that wall 1
And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
To the whole race of mankind, high and low !
Amen. lExil.
ScsHB n. Atltens. A room in Tikon's Iwute. Enter Flavids, mth two or three Servants. Fint Serv, Hear yoo, master steward, — where's our mas-
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Are we imdoDe ? east off 7 nothing remaining ?
Flav. Alack, my fellowB, what shoold I say to jon ? Let me be recorded by the righteoas gods, I am as poor as yoa.
Firtt Sere. Sach a house broke 1
So noble a master fallen I All gone ! and not One fiiend to take his fortune by the arm. And go along with Mm 1
Sec. Sero. As we do tnm our backs
From onr companion thrown into his grave. So his familiars from his bnried fortunes Slink all away ;°*** leave their false tows with him. Like empty parses pick'd ; and his poor self, A dedicated beggar to the air. With hia disease of all-shnnn'd poverty, Walks, like contempt, alone.-~More of onr fellows.
Enter other Servants.
Flav. All broken implements of a ntin'd honse.
Third Serv. Yet do oar hearts wear Timon's livery, — That see I by oar faces ; we are fellows still. Serving alike in sorrow : leak'd ia oar bark ; And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck. Hearing the surges threat : we must all part Into this sea of air.
Flav. GrooA fellows all,
The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst yoa. Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake. Let 's yet be fellows ; let 's shake our heads, and say, As 'twere a knell unto oar master's fortunes, " We have seen better days." Let each take some ;
[Giving them money . Nay, pat oat all your hands. Not one word more ; Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.
[Servants embrace, and part leveral wayi. 0 the fierce wretchedness that glory brings as ! Who would not vrish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery and contempt ? Who 'd be so mock'd with glory ? or so live Bot in a dream of friendship ?
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To hare his pomp, and all what state compoands,"*"*
Bnt odI; painted, like bis rarniah'd friendB?
Poor honeat lord, broagbt low by bis own beart.
Undone by goodness ! Strange, nnnstial blood,"*"
When man's worst e^d is, bo does too mncb good !
Wbo, then, dares to be balf so kind agen ?
For bounty, that makes gods, does""' still mar men.
My dearest lord, — bless'd, to be most accars'd,
Eich, only to be wretched, — tby great fortones
Are made tby chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord !
He's flnng in rage frcm this iugratefal seat
Of monstrons friends ; nor bns be with bim to
Supply bis life, or that wblcb can command it.
I'll follow, and inquire bim ont :
I'll erer serve bis mind with my best will ;
"Whilst I hare gold, I'll be bis steward still. [Exit,
Scene m. The wooilg. Before Timon's care. Enter Timon. Tim. 0 blessed -breeding gun, draw from tbe earth Botten bnmidity ; below tby sister's orb Infect tbe air ! Twinn'd brothers of one womb, — Whose procreation, residence, and birth. Scarce is diridant, — touch tbem with several fortnnes, The greater scorns the lesser : not natare,"'*' To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune, Bat by contempt of nature. Baise me this beggar, and deny 't that lord ; The senator shall bear"*" contempt hereditary, The beggar native bononr. It is tbe pasture lards the rother's"*"' sides, The want that makes bim lean. Who dares, who dares^ In purity of manhood stand npright, And say, " This man's a flatterer" ? if one be, So are they all ; for every grise of fortune Is smooth'd by that below : tbe learned pate Docks to the golden fool : all is oblique ;
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There's nothing level in our curs&d natures. But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr'd All feaeta, aocieties, and throngs of men ! His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains : Destruction fang mankind ! — Earth, yield mo roota !
[Digging. Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate With thy most operant poison ! — What is here ? Gold ? yellow, glittering, precious gold ? No, gods, I am no idle Yotariat z"^"' roota, you clear heavens ! Thus much of this will make black, white ; foul, fair ; Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; coward, valiant. Ha, you gods! why this? what**"' this, yoa goda? Why, this Will lug your priests and servants from yonr sides ; Plack etout"^* men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave
Will knit and breek religions ; bless th' accurs'd ; Make the hoar leproay ador'd ; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation. With senators on the bench : this is it"** That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ; She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices To th' April day again. Come, damned earth, Tboa common whore of mankind, that putt'st odds Among the rout of nations, I will make thee Do thy right nature.— [Mnrc/t wit/iin.] Ha! a drum? —
Thou'rt quick, But yet I'll bury thee : thoa'lt go, strong thief, When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand : — Nay, stay thou oat for earnest. [^KeepiTtg some gold.
Enter Alcibiades, with tli-vm and fife, in warlike manner; Phrtnu and Tihakdiu.
Alcib. What art thou there ?
Speak.
Tim. A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart. For showing me again tho eyes of man !
Alcih. What is thy name ? Is man eo hateful to thee,
That art thyself a man ?
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Tim. I am misantkropos, and liate mankuid. For tby part, 1 do wish tlion wert a dog, That 1 might love thee something.
Aka. I know Uiee wdl ;
Bat in thy fortaoes am nnleani'd and Btrange.
Tim. I know thee too ; and more than that I know tiiee, I not deaire to know. Follow thy dmm ; With man's blood paint the gronnd, gules, gnles :"** Beligioas canons, civil laws are cmel ; Then what should war be ? This fell whore of thine Hath in her more destruction than thy sword. For all her cherubin look.
Phry. Thy lips rot off!
Tim, I will not kiss thee ; then the rot retnrns To thine own lips i^ain.
Alcib. How came the noble Timon to this change ?
Tim. As the moon does, by wanting light to give : But then renew I could not, like the moon ; There were no anns to borrow of.
Alcib. Noble Timon,
What friendship may I do thee ?
Tim. None, but to
Maintain my opinion.
Alcib. What is it, Timon ?
Tim. Promiee me friendship, bnt perform none : if thou wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art a man ! if thou dost perform, confoand thee, for thou art a nton ]
Alcib. I've heard in some sort of thy miseries.
Tim. Thou saw'st them, when I had prosperity.
Alcib. I see them now; then was a blessM time.
Tim. As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots.
Timan. Is this th' Athenian minion, whom the world Voic'd so regardfuUy?
Tim. Art thon Timandra ?
Ttman. Yes.
Tim. Be a whore still : they love thee not that use thee ; Giye them diseases, leaving with thee their lust."*" Make use of thy salt hours : season the slaves For tubs and battis ; bring down rose-cheek'd youth to The tub-fast"*" and the diet.
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Timan. Hang thee, monster !
Aldb. Pardon him, sveet Timandra ; for his wits Are drown'd and lost in his calamities. — I have but little gold of late, brave Timon, The want whereof doth daily make revolt In m; pennrioiiB band : I've heard, and griev'd. How carsbd Athens, mindless of thy worth, Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states, Bnt for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them, —
Tim. I prithee, beat thy drum, and get thee gone.
Aldb. I am thy friend, and pity thee, dear Timon.
Tim. How dost thoa pity him whom thou dost troable ? I had rather be alone.
Aldi. Why, fare thee well :
Here's some gold for thee.
Tim. Keep *t, I cannot eat it.
Aleih. When I have laid proud Athens oa a heap, —
Tim. Warr'et thoa 'gainst Athens ?
Aleib. Ay, Timon, and have cttuse.
Tint. The gods confonnd them all in thy conquest ; and Thee after, when thon'st conquer'd I
Aleib. Why me, Timon ?
Tim. That, by killing of villains, thou wast bom to conquer My countiy."*"
Put up thy gold : go on, — here's gold, — go on ; Be as a planetary plague, when Jove Will o'er some high-vic'd city hang his poison In the sick air: let not thy sword skip one : Pity not honour'd age for bis white beard, — He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron, — It is her habit only that is honest, HerselTB a bawd : let not the virgin's cheek Make soft thy trenchant sword ; for those milk-paps. That through the window-bars"*" bore at men's eyes. Are not witJiin the leaf of pity writ. Bat set down"**' horrible traitors r spare not the babe. Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy; Think it a bastard, whom the oracle Hath donbtfolly pronoanc'd thy°*" throat shall out, And mince it sans remorse : swear against objects ;'^*^
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Put anuonr on thine ears and on thine eyes ; Whose proof^ nor yells of mothers, maids, nor bahes, Kor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding. Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay thy soldiers : Make large confosion ; and, thy fary spent, Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone.
Alcib. Hast ttion gold yet? I'll take the gold thoQ giv'st me, Not all thy connsel.
Tim. Dost thon, or dost thou not, heaven's cnrse upon thee]
Phr. aiid Timan. Give as some gold, good Timon : hast thon more ?
Tim. Enoagh to make a whore forswear her trade, And to make whores, a bawd.*"** Hold np, yon slnta, Yonr aprons moantant : yon are not oathable, — Although, I know, you'll swear, terribly swear. Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues, Th' immortal gods that hear you, — spare your oaths, I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still; And be whose pious breath seeks to convert you. Be strong in whore, allure him, bum him up ; Let your close fire predominate his smoke. And be no turncoats: yet may your pains, six months, Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs With burdens of the dead ; — some that were hang'd, No matter: — wear them, betray with them : whore still ; Paint till a horse may mire upon yout face : A poz of wrinkles !
Phr. and Timan. Well, more gold : — what then ? — Believe 't, that we'll do any thing for gold.
Tim. Consumptions sow In hoUow bones of man ; strike their sharp shins. And mar men's spurring.""* Crack the lawyer's voice. That he may never more fEdse title plead, Nor Bound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flameu, That scolds'*") against the quality of flesh. And not believes himself: down with the nose, Down with it flat ; take the bridge quite away Of him that, his particular to foresee,
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Smells from tlie general weal : mitke curl'd-pate mffisns
bald; And let the nnscair'd bra^arts of the war Derire some pain from you : plagne fill ; That your activity may defeat and qnell The Boorce of all erection. — There's more gold : — Do you damn others, and let this damn you. And ditches grave yon all !
Pkr. and Timan. More coansel with more money, boun- teona Timon.
Tim. More whore, more mischief first ; I've given you
Atcib. Strike up the drum towards Athens! — Farewell, Timon: If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again.
Tim. If I hope well, I'll never see thee more.
Alcib. I never did thee harm.
Tim. Yes, thon spok'st well of me.
Aleib. Cali'et thon that harm?
Tim. Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take Thy beagles with thee.
Alcib. We but offend him. — Strike !
iDmm beats. Exevnt Alcibiades, Pbryaia, and Timandra.
Tim. That nature, being sick of man's nnkindness, Should yet be hungry ! — Common mother, thon, [^Digging, Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite breast. Teems, and feeds all ; whose*"" self-same mettle, Whereof thy proad child, arrogant man, is pufTd, Engenders the black toad and adder bine. The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm. With all th' abhorred births below crisp heaven Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine ; Yield him, who all thy human sons doth bate,""' From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root ! Ensear thy fertile and conceptions womb, Let it no more bring out ingratefnl man ! Oo great vrith tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears ; Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face Hath to the marbled mansion all*"** above
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Never presented ! — 0, & root, — dear thanks ! — Dry op thy marrows, vines, °**' and plough-torn leas ; Whereof ingratefol man, wiUi liqnorish draoghta And morsela unctuous, greaees his pore mind, That from it all consideration slips ! —
EtUer AFEKAtiTV& More man ? pli^e, plagoe !
Apem. 1 was directed hither : men report Tbon dost affect my manners, and dost nse them.
Tim. 'Tis, then, becanse thon dost not keep a dog. Whom I would imitate ; consumption catch thee I
Apem. This is in thee a nature but infected j*"^ A poor unmanly melancholy sprung
From change of fortune."*" Why this spade ? this place ? This slave-like habit? and these looks of care ? Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft ; Hag their diseas'd perfumes, and have forgot That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods, By putting on the cunning of a carper. Be thoa a flatterer now, and seek to thrive By that which has undone thee : hinge thy knee, And lot his very breath, whom thou'lt observe, Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain, And call it excellent : thou wast told thus ; Tbon gav'st thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome**^ To knaves and all approachers : 'tia most just That then tarn rascal ; hadst thou wealth again, Baacals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness.
Tim. Were I like thee, I'd throw away myself.
Apem. Thon'st cast away thyself, being like thyself; A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberhuD, Will put thy shirt on warm ? will these moss'd'*'*' trees, That have outliv'd the eagle, page thy heels, And skip where"**' thou point' st out ? will the cold brook, Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste. To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit ? Call the creatures, — Whose naked natures live in all the spite Of wreakfal heaven ; whose bare unhoused trunks.
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To the conflietiDg elemants expos'd, Answer mere nstnre, — bid them flatter thee ; O, thoo ahalt find —
Tim. A fool of thee : depart.
Apem. I love thee better now than e'er I did.
Tim. I hate thee woree.
Apem. Why?
Tim. Thoa flatter'et miaery.
Apem. I flatter not ; bat say thou art a caitiff.
Tim, Why dost thou seek me oat ?
Apem. To vex thee."'*
Tint. Always a villain's offiee ot a fool's. DoBt please thyself in't ?
Apem. Ay.
Tim. Wbat I a knave too ?
Apem, If thou didst put this sonr-cold habit on To castigate thy pride, 'twere well : bnt thoa Dost it enforcedly : thoa'dst conrtier be again, Wert thoa not beggar. Willing misery Ontlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before : The one is filling still, never complete ; The other, at high wish : best state, 'oontentless. Hath a distracted and most wretched being. Worse than the worst, content. Thoa shoaldst desire to die, being miserable.
Tim. Not by his breath that is more miserable. Tboa art a slave, whom Fortane's tender arm With favoar never clasp'd ; bat bred a dog. Hadst thon,'like as from onr first swath, proceeded The sweet degrees that this brief world affords To sach as may the passive dregs of it Freely command, °^ thoa woaldst have plang'd thyself In general riot ; melted down thy yoath In different beds of last; and never loarn'd The icy precepts of respect, bat follow'd The sagar'd gome before thee. Bat myself. Who bad the world as my confectionary ; The months, the tongaes, the eyes, and hearts of men At duty, more than I conld fhune employment ; That namberless apon me stack, as leaves
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Do on the oak, have with one wioter'a brush
Fell from their boughs, and left me open, bare
For every storm that blows ; — I, to bear this.
That never knew but better, is some burden :
Thy nature did commence in safferance, time
Hath made thee hard in 't. Why shoaldat thou hate men ?
They serer flatter'd thee: what hast thou given?
If thon wilt curse, — thy father, that poor rag,"*^'
Must be thy subject ; who, in Bpite, put stuff
To some she-beggar, and compounded thee
Poor rogne hereditary. Hence, be gone ! —
If thou hadst not been bom the worst of men.
Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.
Apem. Art thou proud yet?
Tim. Ay, that I am not thee.
Apem. I, that I was
No prodigal.
Tim. I, that I am one now : Were all the wealth I have shat np in thee, I'd give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone. — That the whole life of Athens were in this I Thus would I eat it. {Gnawing a root.
Apem. Here ; I'll mend thy feast.
{Offering him tomething,
Tim. First mend my***^ company, take away thyself.
Apem, So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine.
Tim. 'Tis not well mended so, it is bat botch'd ; If not, I would it were.
Apem. What wouldst thou have to Athens?
Tim. Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thon wilt. Tell them there I have gold ; took, so I have.
Apem. Here is no use for gold.
Tim. The best and truest ;
For hero it sleeps, and does no hir^d harm.
Apem. Where ly'st o' nights, Timon ?
Tt»t. Under that's above jne.
Where feed'st thou o' days, Apemantns ?
AjKm. Where my stomach findu meat; or, rather, where I cat it.
Tim. Would poisdn were obedient, and knew my mindt
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Apem, Where vooldst thoa Bend it ?
Tim. To sauce thy disbes.
Apem. The middle of hamanity thoa Berer kneveat, but the extremity of both ends : when thoa wast in thy gilt and thy perfume they mocked thee for too mnch cnriosi^; in thy rags thoa knowest none, but art despised for the cod- trary. There's a medlar for thee ; eat it.
Tim. On what I hate I feed not.
Apem. JkitA hate a medlar ?
Tim. Ay, thongh it look like thee.
Apem. An th' hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou ehonldst have loved thyself better now. What man didst then ever know antfarift that was beloved after his means ?
Tim. Who, withont those means thoa talkeet of, didst thou erer know beloyed ?
Apem. Myself.
Tim. I understand thee ; thoa hadst some means to keep A dog.
Apem. What things in the world eonst thou nearest com- pare to thy flatterers ?
Tim. Women nearest ; bat men, men are the things tbem- selves. What wonldet then do with the world, ApemantuB, if it lay in thy power ?
Apem. Oive it the beasts, to he rid of the men.
Tim. Wonldst thoa haye thyself fall in the confiiflion of men, and remain a beast with the beasts ?
Apem. Ay, Timon.
Tim. A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t' attain to ! If thoa wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee : if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee : if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when, peradren- tare, thou wert accused by the ass : if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would torment thee ; and still thon livedst bat ae a breakfast to the wolf : if thou wert the wolf, thy greedi- ness would afflict thee, and oft thou ahooldst hazard thy life for thy dinner : wert thon the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee, and make thine own self the conquest of thy fary : wert thou a bear, thoa wonldst be killed by the horse : wert thou a horse, thon wonldst be seieed by the leopard : wert thon a leopard, thon wert gennan to the
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lion, and the apots of thy kindred were jarors on thy life : all thy safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What beast conldst thou be, that vete not subject to a beast ? and vbat a beast art thou already, that seest not thy loss in trans-
Apem. If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou mightst have bit npon it here : the commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
Tim, How has the ass broke the wall, that thoa art oat of the city ?
Apem. Yonder comes a poet and a painter :^^ the plagne of company li^t upon theel I will fear to catch it, and give way : when I know not what else to do, I'll see theft again.
Tim. When there is nothing living but thee, tboa sbalt be welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Ape- mantus.
Apem. Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.
Tim. Would thoa wert clean enough to spit npon !
Apem. A plague on thee, thou art too bad to curse !
Tim. All villains that do stand by thee ate pare.
Apem, There is no leprosy but what thoa speak'et.
Tim. If I name thee. — 1*11 beat thee, but I should infect my hands.'*"''
Apem. I would my tongue could rot them off!
Tim, Away, thou issue of a mangy dog ! Choler does kill me that thoa art alive ; I swoon""' to see thee.
Apem. Would thou wouldst burst !
Tim. Away,
Thoa tedious rogae t I'm sorry I shall lose A stone by thee. [Tkrow» a ttone at him,
Apem. Beast !
Tim, Slave !
Apem. Toad !
Tim, Bogae, rogue, rogae !
[^Apemantus retreats backward, at going, I'm sick of this false world ; and will love naught But even the mere necessities upon 't. Then, Timou, presently prepare thy grave;
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Lie where the light foam of the sea may beat Th; grave-stone daily: make thioe epitaph, That death iu me at others' lives may laogh. 0 thoQ Bweet king-killer, and dear divorce
ILooking on the gold. Twixt natural son and sire I'"^ then bright defiler Of Hymen's poreet bed t thon valiant Mars I Thoa ever yoong, fresh, loVd, and delicate wooer, Whose Uaah doth thaw the consecrated snow That lies on Diao'a lap 1 thon visible god. That Bolder'st close impOBflibilities, And mak'st them kiss 1 that speak'et with every tongae, To every purpose ! 0 thon tonch of hearts I Think, thy slave man rebels ; and by thy virtue Set them into confoonding odda, that beasts May have the world in empire 1
Apem. {coming forward] Wonld 'twere so ! — But not till I am ^ad. — I'll say thon'st gold : Thon wilt he throng'd to shortly.
Tim. Throng'd to!
Apem, Ay.
rim. Thy back, I prithee.
Apem. Live, and love thy misery I
Tim. Long live so, and so die I lExit Apemantut.'] 1 am qnit.— ''^» More things like men ? — Eat, Timos, and abhor them.''^^
£nta' BandittL <
Firtt Ban. Where should be have this gold ? It is some poor fragment, some slender ort of his remainder : the mere want of gold, and the &lling-from of bis friends,'^''* droTe him into tins' melancholy.
Sec. Ban. It is noised he hath a mass of treasure.
Third Ban. Let as make the assay npon bim : if be oare not for 't, he will supply ns easily ; if be covetously reserve it, how shall 's get it ?
Sec. San. Trne ; for be bears it not about bim, 'tis bid.
First Ban. Is not this he?
Banditti. Where?
iS'ec. Ban. 'Tia bis description.
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Third Ban. He ; I know him.
Banditti. Save thee, Timon.
Tim. Now, thievea?
Banditti. Soldiers, not thieves.
Tim. Both too ; and women's sons.
Banditti. We are not thieveB, but men that much do want.
Tim. Your greatest want is, you want much of meat.""' Why shonld yon want ? Behold, the earth hath roots ; Within this mile break forth a hundred springs ; The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips ; The bonnteons hoasewife, natnre, on each bash Lays her fall mess before yon. Want ! why want ?
First Ban. We cannot liTe on grass, on berries, water, As beasts and birds and fishes.
Tim. Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes; Yon mnst eat men. Yet thanks I must yon con, That yon are thieves profess'd ; that you work not In holier shapes : for there is boimdleBS theft In limited professions. Bascal thieves. Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape. Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth, And so scape hanging : tmst not the physician ; His antidotes are poison, and he ala^ More than yon rob : take wealth and lives together ; Do villany,*"" do, since yon protest"™ to do't. Like workmen. I'll example yon with thievery : The snn's a thief, and with his great attraction Bobs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief. And her pale fire she snatches firom the sun : The sea's a thief, whose liquid snrge resolves The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a compostnre stol'n From general excrement: each thing's a thief: The laws, yonr curb and whip, in their rongb power Have nncheck'd theft. Love not yonrselves : away. Bob one another. There's more gold. Cut throats ; All that yon meet are thieves. To Athens go : Break open shops ; nothing can you steal, but thieves Do lose it : steal not""" less for this I give yon;
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And gold confound joa howaoe'er ! Ames.
[Timon retires to kU caic.
Third Ban. 'Has almoHt charmed me from m; profession, b; persuading me to it.
First Ban. 'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thns adviseB as ; not to have ns thrive in oar my Bt«ry.
See. Ban. I'll believe him ae an enemy, and give over my trade.
First Ban. Let as first see peace in Athens : there is no''^' time so miserable bnt a man may be tme.
[Exeunt Banditti. Enier Flavidb.
Flav. 0 yon gods ! Is yond despis'd and minons man my lord ? Fall of decay and &iling ?
0 monament and wonder of good deeds Evilly bestow'd 1
What an alteration of hononr
Has desperate want made I
"What viler thing upon the earth than &iende
Who can bring noblest minds to baecBt ende !
How rarely does it meet with ^his time's guise,
When man was wish'd to love his enemies !
Grant I may ever love, and rather woo
Those that would mischief me than those that do I~
*Ha8 canght me in bis eye : I will present
My honest grief nnto him ; and, as my lord,
Still serve him with my life.
Timon comee/oricard/rom hit cave. My dearest master ! Tim. Away I what art thoa?
Flav. Have yon forgot me, sir?
Tim. Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men ; Then, if thou grant'st thon'rt man,'"" I have forgot thee. Flav. An honest poor servant of yonrs. T\m. Then I know thee not :"^
1 ne'er had honest man abont me, I;
All I kept were knaves, to serve-in meat to vilUinn. Flav. The gods are witness, '
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Ne'er did poor steward wear a tnier grief For his nndone lord than mine eyes for yon.
Tim, What, doBt thon weep? — come neiu«r; — then I h>Tfr thee, Beeaase thou art a woman, and dieclaim'st Flinty mankind ; whose eyes do never give Bat thorongh Inst and laughter. Fi^'s sleeping : Strange times, that weep with langMng, not with weeping t
Flav, I beg of yon to know me, good my lord, T' accept my grief, and, whilst this poor wealth lasts, To entertain me as year steward still.
Tim. Had I a steward So true, so jnst, and now so comfortable ? It almost tnms my dangerons nature mild.^*" Let me behold thy &ce. Snrely, this man Was bom of woman. — Forgive my general and ezceptlees rashness. Yon"**' perpetnal-Bober gods ! I do proclaim"*" One honest man, — mistake me not, — bnt one ; No more, I pray, — and he's a steward. — How fain would I have hated all mankind ! And then redeem'st thyself: bnt all, save thee, I fell with carsee.
Methinks thon art more honest now than wise ; For, by oppressing and betraying me, Thoa mightst have sooner got another service : For many so arrive at second masters. Upon their first lord's neck. Bnt tell me tme, — For I mnst ever doobt, thongh ne'er so sore, — Is not thy kindness snbtle-covetoas. If not a nsaring kindness,"^ and, as rich men deal gifts. Expecting in retnm twenty for one ?
Flav. No, my most worthy master ; in whose breast Donbt and suspect, alas, are plac'd too late : Ton should have fear'd false times when yon did feast : Sospect still comes where***" an estate is least. That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love, Z>Dty and zeal to your nnmatched mind. Care of your food and living ; and, believe it, My most honour'd lord,'"*'
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For any benefit that points to me,
Eiiber is hope or present, I'd exchange"*"
For this one wish, — that yoa had power and wealth
To reqnite me, by making rich yoaraelf.
Tim. Look thee, 'tis so ! — Thoa singly honest man, Here, take : — the gods, ont of my misery, Have sent thee treasure. Qo, live rich and happy, Bat thns condition'd : — thoa shalt boiid from men ; Hate all, corse all; show charity to none ; Bat let the bmiah'd flesh sUde from the booe. Ere thoo relieve the beggar : give to dogs What thou deoy'st to men ; let prisons swallow 'em, Debts witiier 'em to nothing : be men like blasted woods, And may diseases lick ap their false bloods ! And so, farewell, and thrive.
FUw. 0, let me stay.
And comfort yon, my master.
Tim. If thoa bat'st
'Canes, stay not ; fly, whilst thoa 'rt blessed and free : Ke'er see thoa nan, and let me ne'er see thee.
[Exit Ftavitu. Timon retiret to hit cave.
ACT V.
SOEKE I. The woods. Before Twoii'b cave. EiUer Poet and Painterjl*" Tikon tealehiag themjrom Am enif.
Pain. As I took note of the place, it cannot be tax where he abides.
Poet. What's to be thoughtof him? does the rnmoar hold for tme, that he's so fnll of gold 9
Pain. Certain : Alcibiades reports it ; Fhrynia and Tim- Andra had gold of him : he likewise enriched poor straggling soldiers with great quantity : 'tie said he gave onto his steward a mighty snm.
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Poet. Then thiB breakiiig of hie baa been bat a try fiir his friende.
Pain. Nothing else : you shall see him a palm in Athen* again, and flonrlBh with the highest. Therefore 'tis not amiss ire tender our loves to him, in this snpposed distreBS of his : it will show honestl; in ns ; and is very likely to load oar purposes witii what they travail for, if it be a jnst and tme report that goes of bis having.
Poet. What have yon now to present nnto him?
Pain. Nothing at this time bat my viBitation : only I will promise him an excellent piece.
Poet. I must serve him so too, — tell him of an intent that's coming toward him.
Pain. Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the time ; it opens the eyes of expectation : performance is ever the duller for hie act ; and, bat in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is qnite out of ase. To piomiBO is most conrtly and fashionable : performance is a kind of will or testament which argnes a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [Timon advances a little.
Tim. [aside'] Excellent workman ! thon canst not paint a man so bad as la thyself.
Poet. I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for him : it mast be a personating of himself ; a satire against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery of the infinite flatteries that follow yooth and opalency.
Tim. [aside] Mast thoa needs stand for a villain in thine own work? wilt thoa whip thine own faalta in other men? Do so, I have gold for thee.
Poet. Nay, let's seek him : Then do we sin against oar own estate, "When we may profit meet, and come too late.
Pain. True; When tJie day serves, before black-comer'd night,"'" Find what thon want'st by free and offer'd light. Come.
Tim. [aside'] I'll meet you at the turn. — What a god's, gold, That he itf worshipp'd in a baser temple Thau where swine feed I
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'lis thoQ that rigg'st the bark and ploogh'st the foam ;
Settlest admired reverence in a slave :
To thee be worship I""* and thy saints for aye
Be crown'd with plagnes, that thee alone obey ! —
Fit I meet them. ICotnea forward.
Poet. Hail, worthy Timon !
Pain. Our late noble master t
Tim. Have I once liv'd to see two honest men ?
Po€t. Sir, Having often of yoar open bonnty tasted, Hearing yon were retir'd, your friends fall'n off. Whose thankless natures — 0 abborrM spirits ! — Not all the whips of heaven are large enough — ^*^ What! to yon,
Whose star-like nobleness gave life and inflaenoe To their whole being ! — I'm rapt, and cannot cover The monstrons balk of this ingratitude With any size of words.
Tim. Let it go naked, men may see 't the better : YoQ that are honest, by being what you are, Make them best seen and known.
Pain. He and myself
Have travaii'd in the great shower of your gifts. And sweetly felt it.
Tim. Ay, you're hoDest men.
Pain. We're hither come to offer yoa our service.
Tim. Most honest men ! Why, how shall I requite yon ? Can yoa eat roots, and drink cold water? no.
Both. What we can do, we'll do, to do you service.
Tim. Ye're honest men : ye've heard that I have gold ; I'm sure yon have : speak truth ; ye're honest men.
Pain. So it is said, my noble lord : bnt therefore Came not my friend nor I.
Tim. Good honest men 1 — Thon draw'at a counterfeit Best in all Athens : thon'rt, indeed, the best ; Thon counterfeit'Bt most lively.
Pain. So, so, my lord.
rim. E'en so, sir, as I say. — And, for thy fiction, Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth, ^ That thou art even natural in thine art. —
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But, fot all this, my honest-natar'd Mends, I most needs say yon haTfl a little &nU : Many, 'tis not monBtrons in yon ; neither wish I Yon take mnch pains to mend.
Both. Beseech yonr hononr
To make it known to ns.
Tim. Yon'U take it iU.
Both. Moat thankfally, my lord.
Tim. Will yoa, inde«d ?
Both. Bonbt it not, worthy lord.
Tim. There's ne'er a one of yon but tmats a knare, That mightily deeeives yoa.
Both. Do we, my lord ?
Tim. Ay, and yon hear him cog, see him dissemble, Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,"*** . Keep in your bosom : yet remain assnr'd That he's a made-np villain.
Pain. I know none snch, my lord.
Poet. Kor I.
Tim. Look yoa, I love yon well ; 111 give yoa gold. Bid me these vUlains from yoor companies : Hang them or stab them, drown them in a dranght. Confound them by some oonrse, and come to me, I'll give you gold enongh.
Both. Name ^lem, my lord, let's know them.
Tim. Yon that way, and yon this, — bnt two in com- pany :"•" Each man apart, all single and alone. Yet an arch-villain keeps him company. [To the Pain.] If, where thon art, two villains shall not be. Come not near him. — [To the Poet] If thon wouldst not re- side Bat where one villain is, then him abandon. — Hence, pack! there's gold, — ^yon came for gold, ye slaves: [To the Pain. J Yon have done work for me, there's payment:
hence !— ""^ [To the Poet"] Yon are an alchemist, make gold of that: — Oat, rascal dogs 1
[Beats and drives them out, and then retires to hie cave.
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JSrUer Flayics ajtd Uoo SeoatoTe.
Flav. It IB in vain''"' that yon wonld Bpeak with Timon ; For he is set so only to himself, That nothing hnt himself, which looks like man. Is friendly with him.
First Sen. Bring ns to his care :
It is onr pact""" and promise to th' Athenians To speak with Timon.
Sec. Sen. At all times alike
Men are not still the same : 'twas time and griefs That firam'd him thas : time, with his feirer hand. Offering the fortnnes of his former days. The former man may make him. Bring qb to him, And chance^**' it aa it may.
Flav. Here is his caTe. —
Peace and content be here l"""" Lord Timon ! Timon ! Look ont, and speak to friends : th' Athenians, By two of their most reTerend senate, greet thee : Speak to them, noble Timon.
TiHOK comet from his eavt.
Tim, Thoa san, that comfort'st, bum! — Speak, and be hang'd : For each true word, a blister! and each false Be as a cauterising'"" to the root o' the tongne, Cottflnmisg it with speaking 1
First Sen. Worthy Timon, —
Tim. Of none but aach as yon, and yoa of Timon.
Firat Sen. The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.
Tim. Ithankthem; and would send them back the pUgoe, Conld I bnt catch it for them.
First Sen. 0, forget
What we are sorry for oarseWes in thee. The senators with one consent of Ioyo Entreat thee back to Athens ; who have thoaght Oa special dignities, which vacant lie For thy best nse and wearing.
Sec, Sen. They confess
Toward thee forgetfulness too general-gross: And now the pnblio body, — which doth seldom***
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Play Uie recanter, — feeling in itaelf
A lack of Timon's aid, bath sense withal
Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon ;'**
And send forth ns, to make their sorrow'd render,'*''*'
Together with a recompense more frnitfnl
Than their offence can weigh down b; the dram ;
A7, even such heaps and sams of love and wealth
As shall to thee blot oat what wrongs were theirs.
And write in thee the figures of their love.
Ever to read them thins.
Tim. You witch me in it ;
Surprise me to the very brink of tears : I^end me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes, And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.
Firit Sen. Therefore, so please thee to return with ns. And of onr Athens — thine and oars — to take The captainship, thon shalt be met with thanks, Allow'd with absolnte power, and thy good name Live with anthori^: — so soon we shall drive back Of Alcibiades th' approaches wild ; Who, like a boar too sav^e, doth root np His conntiy's peace.
Sec. Sen. And shakes his threatening sword
Against the walls of Athens.
First Sen. Therefore, Timon, —
Tim. Well, sir, I will ; therefore, I will, sir ; thos : — If Alcibiades kill my countrymen. Let Alcibiades know this of Timon, That Timon cares not. Bnt if he sack fair Athens, And take onr goodly aged men by the beards, Giving onr holy virgins to the stain Of contamelioae, beastly, mad-brain'd war, Then let him know, — and tell him Timon speaks it. In pity of our ag^ and oar yoath, I cannot choose bnt tell him tiiat I care not. And let him take 't at worst ; for their knives care not^ While yon have throats to answer : for myself. There's not a whittle in th' nnroly camp Bat I do prize it at my love, before The reverend'st throat in Athens. So I leave yon
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To the protection of the prosperoas godB, Ab thieves to keepers.
Flav. Stay not, all's in Toin.
Tim. "Why, I wna writing of my epitaph ; It will be seen to-morrow : my long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all Uiings. Go, live still ; Be Alcibiades yonr plagae, yoa his. And last 80 long enongh t
First Sen. We speak in vain.
Tim. Bat yet I love my country ; and am not One that rejoices in the common wreck, As common bniit doth pat it.
First Stm. That's well spoke.
Tim. Commend me to my loving countrymen, —
First Sen. These words become yonr lips as they -pass thoroagh them.
Sec. Sen. And enter in onr ears like great triompliorB In their applauding gates.
Tim. Commend me to them;
And tell tbem that, to ease them of their griefe. Their fears of hostile strokes, their achis, losses. Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That natore's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's ancertoin voyage, I wiU""" Some kindness do them, — I'll teach them to prevent Wild Alcibiades' wrath.
First Sen. I like this well : he will retam again.
Tim. I have a tree, which grows here in my close. That mine own use invites me to cat down, And shortly mast I fell it : tell my friends. Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree, From high to low throughout, that whoso please To stop affliction, let him take his haste, ''^ Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe, And hang himself: — I pray yon, do my greeting.
Flav. Troable him no forther ; thas yon still shall find him.
Tim. Come not to me again : but say to Athena, Timon hath mode his everlastuig i
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Upon the beached verge of ihe salt flood; Who once a day'*'" with his «mboB6ed froth The torbolent Borge shftll cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your orftole. — ■ Lipe, let soar**"*' words go by, and langnage end : What is amiss, plagne and infection mend ! Gravee only be men's works, and death their gain ! San, hide thy beams ! Timon hath done his reign.
[^ReUrea to kis care.
First Sen. His discontents are anremovably Conpled to nature.
See. Sen. Oar hope in him is dead : let as return. And strain what other means is left nnto ns In onr dear peril.
First Sen, It requires swift foot. [Exeunt.
Scene II. B^ore the waUt ofAtkeru. Enter tico Senatora and a Messenger.
Fir»t Sen. Thou'et painfully discover'd : are his files As fhll as thy report ?
Mess. Fve spoke the least :
BesideB, biB expedition promisee Present approach.
See. Sen. We stand much hazard, if they bring not Ti- mon.
Mess. I met a courier, one mine aninent friend ; Whom, though in general part we were oppos'd. Yet oar old love had a particnlar force. And made ns speak like friends :**"** — this man was riding From Alcibiades to Timon's cave, With letters of entreaty, which imported His fellowship i' the cause against your city. In part for his sake moVd.
First Sen. Here come our brothers.
Enter Senatois/rom Ximom. Third Sen. No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect. —
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The enemies' dram U heard, and fearfnl scouring
Doth choke the air with doBt : in, and prepare :
Otm iB the fall, I fear; oar foes the snare. [^Exeunt.
Scene m. The woods. Twon'b care, and a rude tomb seen. Enter a Soldier, teeking Tmoir. Sold. By all description this should be the place. Who's here? apeak, ho! — No answer? — What is this? Timon ib dead, who hath outstretcb'd his span : Some beast rear'd this ; here does not live a man.""** Dead, Bare ; and this hie grave. — What's on Uiis tomb I cannot read ; the character 111 take with wax :
Oar captain hath in ever; figure skill, An ag'd interpreter, though young in days : Before proud Athens he's net down by thiSj Whose CeJI the mark of his ambition is. \ExU.
SCBHB IV. Brfore the tcalls of Athens. Trumpele sound. Etder Aloisiadbs and Forces. Alcib. Sound to this coward and lasciTions town Our terrible approach. {A. parley sounded.
Enter Seoaton on the vtdU. Till now you have gone on, and fiU'd the time With all licentious measure, making yonr willa The scope of justice; till now, myself, and Buch Aa slept within the shadow of yonr power. Have wander'd with oar travera'd arms, and breath'd Oar sufferance vainly: now the time is fluah. When cronching marrow, in the bearer atroog,'*"' Cries, of itself, " No more :" now breathlesa wrong Shall sit and pant in yonr great chairs of eaae; And pursy insolence shall break hiB wind With fear and horrid flight.
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SU TDHOH OF ATHBH8. [ici
Firtt Sen. Noble and young,
When iby first griefs were bat & mere conceit, Ere thou hadst power, or we had cause of fear, We sent to tbee ; to give thy rages balm. To wipe out oar ingratitades with loves Above their qaantity.'*"'
Sec. Sen. So did we woo
Transformed Timon to oar city's love By humble message and by promis'd means i"^" We were not all unkind, nor all deserve The common stroke of war.
Fir$t Sen. These walls of onr«
Were not erected by their hands from whom You have receiv'd yoar griefs ;*"*' nor are they such That these great towers, trophies, and schools shoald fall For private &ults in them.
Sec. Sen. Nor are khey living
Who were the motives that you first went oat ; Sbsme, that they wanted cnnning, in excess. Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord. Into onr city with thy banners spread : By decimation, and a tithed death, — If thy revenges hunger for that food. Which nature loathes, — take thoa the destin'd tenth ; And by the hazard of the spotted die Let die the spotted.
First Sen, All have not ofiended;
For those that were, it is not sqnare to take On those that are revenges i"'" crimes, like lands. Are not inherited. Then, dear coantryman, Bring in thy ranks, bat leave without thy rage : Spare thy Athenian cradle, and those kin Which, in the bluster of thy wrath, mnet fall With those that have offended : like a shepherd. Approach the fold, and cull th' infected forth. Bat kill not all together.
Sec. Sen. What thoa wilt,
Thoa rather ehalt enforce it with thy smile Than hew to 't with thy sword.
Firit Sen. Set bat thy foot
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Agfunst our rampir'd gates, and they sliall ope ; So thoa ynlt send tbj gentle heart before, To Bay thoa'lt enter friendly.
See. Sen. Throw thy glove,
Or any token of thine honoor else. That thoa wilt nse the wars aa thy redress, And not as our confasion, all thy powers Shall make their harbour in onr tows, till we Have seal'd thy fnll desire.
Aleib. Then there's my glove;
Descend, '*"" and open yoar nncharg&d ports : Those enemies of Timon'e, and mine own, Whom yon yooraelTeB shall set oat for reproof. Fall, and no more : and — to atone yoar fears With my more noble meaning — not a man Shall pass his qaarter, or oSend the stream Of regular justice in yoar city's bounds, But shall ba rendet'd to yoar public laws'"" At heaviest answer.
Senatore. 'Tie most nobly spoken.
Alcib. Descend, and keep yoar words.
{The Senators deicend, and open the gatet.
Enter a Soldier. Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead ; Entomb'd npon the very hem o' the sea ; And on his grave-stone this insculptnre, which With wax I brought away, whose soft impression Interprets for my poor ignorance."'''
A Icib. [reads] " Here lies a wretched coise,* of wretched soul bereft: ■Seek not my name : a plague consume you wicked caitiff left !
* " Here Uei a aretehed eont," ice.'] TliiiepiUphconiUtaof twodiitJact «piUpIu, wMoh Btukeipekra fonnd in Korth'iPIulareft: "Kowb it ohnaiiMd M, Out the Ma getting in, it oompused hli tombe tonnde kboat, that no man ooolda oome to it : andvpon the same vaiwTTttenthia epitaph*;
Hetrt lytt a vretelud eon*, of mrttehed loulc bereft.
Seeke not my naiM .■ aplague eonmptt ysu aielctd uretefkM left! It i» reported that Timon him uUe, when he lilted, made this epitaphs; for
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Here lie I, XimoQ ; wlm, alive, all living men did hate :
Paaa by, and curse th; fill ; but pass, and stay not beie thy gait."
These well express io thee thy latter Bpirits :
Though thou abhorr'dst in tie oni hmnui griefs,
Scom'dat oar brains' flow,'"^ and those oar droplets whieb
From niggard natnre foil, yet rich conceit
Tanght thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye
On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Bead'**'''
Is noble Timon : of whose memory
Hereafter more. — ^Bring me into yonr city.
And I will oBe**"* the olive with my sword :
Make war breed peace ; make peace stint war ; make each
Prescribe to other, as each other's leech. —
Let our drams strike. [Exeunt.
Hurt lyt I, Timon, wAo aliut oil liuin; men did hate.
Paat by, and eartt thy fiU ; but fottt, tatd ttay not lurt tkjf gait."
lAfe ofAnttmiiit, p. lOOS, ad. IR*.
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TIHON OF ATHENS.
F. BOO. (i) " ai a gum, ahieh ooze*"
The folio bu "at a Oowne, which neB :" — "gmn" i " oottt" of JohDBon.
P.608. (i) "ehaftt."
The ftdio hu " obasei."
P. 60e. (3) " Pun. How thU lord u/olltm'd!
Poet. The lenalor* of Atbetu : — Aoppymon.'" So Theobald. — The folio hw " — ■ — happy msn;" wbiob (tbon^ JUtMn BSMrti that it "i« risht The Poet eaniee or admireB the felicity of ths senators In being Timon'e friend," tea.) the whole context proolaima to be wrong. The preoeding plural, " jendton ," led the tranEcriber or printai into the mistake.
P. 609. (4) " In a aide $ta ofaax .-"
If the text be right, there is, of oonne, an allusion to the practice <rf wri&ig
"What is tba foree of [the aecond] 'priieTU't Bead'^Moiont slaTes,' Ao." WaUsT'i Crit. Exam. fto. Tol. L p. 801. — I cannot reooncile mywlf to this emendation; — I oaonot help thinking that Shakespeare wonld rather hare repeated the word "prtMent" than hare written " prtient" and " peasant" in the same line ; thcngb we iod, in act iL so. 3, p. 629,
" How manr prodigal bits have tIatiM and jxafiinf* This night englntted !" and in Hamltt, aetU. m. 3,
"0, what at<^eandi)«aiant tlav< am 1 1"
P. 510. (6) " and hand*, I«t him tlip domi,"
The folio has " and band, let him lit dotojie." — The editor of the aeo. foUo snbetitnted " kandt," and Rowe " ilip."
P. 510. (7) " blowt of Fortmu'i*
Here the seoond folio has " hloKi of Fortune," ke. — Halone defends the former reading as the pbraseologr (rf Shakespeare's time; while Steeren* TOL. VI. PP
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67S TIMON OF ATHBNS. IwtKt.
otwerret that our poet i» not coostant in nrnng lliat mods of speecli.— Onn- pare, kt p. G76, "Tlioae eoemiM of Timon'i," Ac- — It is, howerer, eertun that in the flnt folio the final j ia freqnenUy terf siupiciiDm, and aometimeB manifeitlj wrong.
P. 610. (g) "faiUng him"
The folio ha« marel; "/ailing." — The second lolio has " fatUng to Mm."
F. 610. (9) " wAcn he moit neidi me."
The folio hae " wIcti he mnst neede me" (" i. «.," aaja Btaerena, " iriien be is compelled to hare need of mj aadBtanoe ; of, »a Ur. Malone has more happily [t] explained the phiaae, ' oannot bnt irant mj aadrtaiwe' "). — Gor- reoted in the third folio.
P. 611. (10) •< Tturefbn ht wia be,"
Heana " Therefore he will oontinne to be honeat," — if nothing haa diopt Oat hera ; which ig donlitfiil.
P,611. (11) " Bow ihall the be endoK'd," ioi.
" The players, thoae arowed enemiee to even a common ellipaia, hare here again diaordered the metre by interpolation. Will a ein^e idea of onr author's hate been loet, if, omitting the nseleas and repeated words 'ihe be,' we thonld regnlate the passage thus ;
' Bow shall she be Endov'd, it mated with an eqnal hnsbandf "
P.filS. (11) ••bear,¥>Hh."
Probably " bear it, with."
P. 6la. (ij) "Mj("
Bo the third folio. — The earlier folios Itave " caat."
P. 614. [14) ■■ That I had no angry iril tobta li>rd." Warbnrton'a reading is, "That I Aod so hnngry a nrft lo b^ a lord;" Haaoa'a, " That I bad an angry wish to be a lord:" Mr. Collier's Hs. Cometor's, " That I had so hangiy a wish to be a lord;" and (w<K«t of all) Hr. Singer's Ms. Corrector's, " That I had an empty stt to be a lorA"— Johnson eiplaini the old text to mean, '■ I should hate mjttiU for patientljf enduring to be 9 lord."
P. 6H. (i 5) " thank'd you ; — pou, wften diumtr't done," The folio hM " thanlityoit: ahendiuneri done ;" the second folio, " r'MNltt you .' and when dlnnen done,"
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TOION OF ATHSHa £79
" So, to, thert .' —
Thd folio (whiah prea thii Hpeeoh as praae) has " So, to; theti Aehet," Ice. (H«r« " Aehet" ia k diss/llmble, of oodibo.)
P. 615. (17) "m^*"
The tblio hu "most." — Conectsd b; Htniner; ftnd «a Ur. Colliei'a Ml. Corrector.
P.5W.{ig) "WrrtLoKL"
OmiUed in Ui« folia.
P. GUi. (19) " entw Timon," tee.
Capell obaerrea; "B7 all modem mms [copiei] «e the two *£onIt' that enter to Apenuatoa at I. 37 [lea the preoeding page] ohriiten'd ^>J names apeoifls — Lucivt and LneulUu, and imder tluwe names are bronght on again in the aoese that eomea next [the present soens} : letters denoting mte of their names are fOimd before a ipeeoh of that scene in old eopiea [wliich, in p. 519, hare ' Lue. Ton see, mf lord, how ample,' Ice.] , and are the lole anthotitieB from them for their appearance in either : and from reason we hare as litUe ; the7 sre address'd no where, and the onl; mention there is et them [see p. 531] proToi them absent ; bnt for tliis, the parties that bring them in, have foond a salro, by a well-tim'd dismisBion of them some nine lines before the mention comes in [i.e. to the speeoh in p. 620, • AU. Bo ue we sH,* the; add 'Exe. Lueim and XucuUiu']. A serrant coming from them with presents the moment they are withdrawn, aoModing to these editors, will be allaw'd an oddnesB," fto. HoUt, fte.Tal. ii.P. ir. p. 74 — Here the more recent editors mark the eotranoe of " LucEiu" and " Liieul- Itu" (and of " Sempronita" too) : bat at p. 620 they da not adopt from thdr predecesBors the " Bxe. Luciia and Lucultut .■" ftad they therefore snppoaa Lneins and Lncnllns to be on the stage when the Becond and Third Ser- vants bring in the mesBsges about the preEents, — which, to nae CapeU'i language, *' will be allow'd an oddnesB." — 18C5. From " the more recent edi- tors" JDst mentioned I haie now to except Mr. Staunton, Mr. Qrant Wliitc, and the Cambridge Editors {Olobt SItakeipeare),
P. 516, (10)
*' ,lf oil ftoRour'd Tf nun, It Jiatb pUat'd the godt to remtmbtr as fathtr't agt. And call him to long peace." Bnoh is the arrangement of these lines in the folio : bat the passnge i* doubtless mutilated. It was altered b; Pope to
" Uoat hdRour'd Timon, it hath pleai'd the god* To call my father's ago unto long peace." And by Capell to
" jUott honour'd Timon, ' T hixth pleat'd the godt in kindness to Te)aember My father't age, OMdeaWhiatto long peace."
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(80 TDfON OF ATHEHB. [ao
P. S16. (ii) " J/ our Utten," Ao.
" If I would make Mty alterKtmi, it bIwqM be onlj to i«form the
' Onr betten plaj Uuit game ; we nuwt not Jare T' 'ytnt' tliem>' Iso." Johbhoh. " PoMiblj JiAnson is right." Walker'a Crit. Exam. Ice. toI. iu. p. 231.
P. E16. M "««■"
Bo Bowe (an obWoni eorreatiini). — ^The folio has " tetie."
P. 617. (13) "iKom ihy wiat,'' tee.
The folio gives onlj three lines of this speech (" I wonder men," Ice., and the next two lines) ss verse. Mr. Collier, I apprehend, le qoite right in enp- poging that the whcde speech wu originallT measnra, bnt that mnoh of it has lost that character in pissing from one manoaoript to another, and nltimatel? from manoscript to print .-~" the same remark,'' he adds, " will apply to Tsiions other XKirtions of this play."
P. 617. (14) ■■»«."
" ' To'l,' I think." Walker's Crit. Exam. lie. vol. iii, p. 381.
P. 517. (15) "pUdgu"
Here Halone, Mr. Ccdlier, and Mr. CIrant White print silently (with most of the earlier edittffs) " ttoi pUdjfti."
P. S17. (»6} "JthauU"
"I believe "ihoulir [a oontraotioD of 'J ttumld"] is the proper reading." Walker's 8lia}i«*peare'» Venifieation, fto. p. 3SB.
■ P. 617. (»7) " Floa thli ao]/," &6.
' How this way 1 a bravo fellow 1
He keeps his tides well. Timon, tboee healtiis will make Thee, and thy state, look ill. Here's that which is Too weak to be a sinner, honest water. Which ne'er left man i' th' mire,' to."
Walker's Oil. Exam. &o. vol. ill. p. 231.
P.617. (i!) •■liniKT,"
Ur. Collier's Ms. Cmrector snbstitateE "Are."
P. 617. (ij) "ii«k"
"Appaieatly," says Hares, "aoomption of do il, or may it do." Glou. in v.
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ironi.1 TXUOH OF ATHENS. «1
P. 61S. (30} " Iftm, tluU tftou"
The idOo hM " thtn, that then thoa ,-" a maiuleit error.
P. 618. (]i) " And Koald mott retenibU twett inttrumentt" " I strongly BDRpect ' and would reiembU moit vweet insbumenta*." Wilker'B Crit. Exam. Ac. T<d. iL p. 360.
P.,5le. (3i) "joy,"
The tblio haa " ioyes."
V. 519. (33) " thti, iMTlfly"
^. " the aortky"!
P. 61S. (34) , "andeomtfrttln
To gratvlaU lAy pEenUoM bMom ,■" Tbeohald printed
" and do conu Frttly to ^otuloto tAgr jifonCfout boiMt /' an arrangement followed by Capell, bat with the milMtita&Hi of " ate" for " do." — These linee and the preoeding pMt of the speech stand m prose in
P. 619. (3s)
" Th' ear, tattt, tovth, tiiuili,p'Uiu'd from thy ta3>U rite; — Thtte only now eone but tofttut thine ti/et." The folio has
" There (oiC, touch all, pl^ot'd /rom thy Table rite : They onely now come but to Featt thine He*." — '" The Incomparable emendation, with which the text ii here snpplied, I owe to my ingenioaa friend Mr. WarlniTtoD. The five BenaeB, aa he obaerrai, are talked of by Cnpld, bnt only three of them made ont ; and those in a Yerj heavy, nnintelligible manner. Bnt now yon have them all, and the poet's sense, complete, Tis. The five Senses, Timon, acknowledge thee their patron; (oar of them, Uie Hearing, the Touch, the Taste, and Smell, are all regaled at your board; and these Ladies come with me to entertain your Bi{^t in presenting a masqoe." Thbobau). — Malone (Var. Shake.) awkwardly (and in direct oppositioD to the fuUo) remorcs " Th' ear" from the beginning of the first line of the oonplet to tiie end of the preoeding line ; and, not sedng that Warborton had rightly enbatitnted " meW for Uie old word " aD," he interpolates " tmelV and also retains " all," thus ;
•• the ear, Tatle, touch, imell, tS pleai'd from thy table rite." — The Cambridge Editors [Qlobe Bhaletpeare] retain Malone's arrangement, hut throw ont " all" and interpolate '' and," thns ;
" th' ear, Ttute, Umeh and tmeJI, pUa*ed/r«M thy UM« rite."
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TIUON OF ATHENS. ^koiu.
" 3£vH«, naft* t)uir welcome /"
lake knoun their Tslcome,'" bbjb Bteereiu, h wu CapeU'B remdiiig t
P. E19. (37) "KTBtLoTd."
Here the folio lus "Lno." See nol« 19.
P. 519. (38) " <U IhU pomp thov* to a little oil and root." " Ib Dot wnnethiiig lent titer thia line ?" Wilker'a (Ml. Exam. ie. toI. L p. 76.
P. 619. (39) " OZ-lhtirfricndi' giftt"
Wmlker {Crit. Exam. lit. toL i. p. 77) tbinlu that these wor<la onj^t to tic fdlowed liy Bometliiiig like " Tifaon, were I bb then,"
P. S19. (40) " Yim have done our plearaTtt Trruah grace, fair ladia," " I iboold nish to read, for the sake of metre, 'fairett ladiea.' ' Fair,' how-
eter, rtstj be here used as a dlSBjll&Ue." STaarExs.— Capell printed "
pUatKTtt a math grace," lie. — I itrongly Baepeot that "fair" i» not the poet's trord ; that the BOribe or oonpositor caught it from the next line.
P. 620. (41) " Uvelg"
Added in the Boooud fdUo,
P. 630. (41) "nrstl*dy."
The folio has " 1 Lot-iI."
P. fiSO. (43) " There it no erouing Mm fn '* fttimoHr ;
BUe I f AouU tell hini.—atU, i' faili, I aAouU," "Bead 'Theie ig no croesing Mm in thit his hmnonr.' " Bitsok. — Hgtc Mr. Statmton retains the punctuation of the folio, " Elie I ih/ndd tell him well, i' faith, I thould;" and ondentiuda " ItlV in the sense of rate, coU lo
P. 680. (44) "aeeept and »ear t(,"
io the Beeond folio. — The flrst folio has " accept it and w
P. 522. (45) " remembej;"
Perhaps " remeTitbeT me :" hnt the text of this play is tmlj wretahed i.
xtuy i^oes.
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KOtMM.] TOfON OF ATBENB. 688
P. 689. {46) •• rami you true, ru eaU to you." "Dr. JahnMiii [Hmuubt] reads 'Itenjon,- As., ia which he h&B been heed- laMl7 f dlDwed ; ttr thoo^ the ahtnge does not ftffaat the sense nf the pus - age, it ia quite umeoeBiuy, u m^ be proved b; nnmeroOB inetanoeB in bur anthia's dulogne. Thos in the Snt line of King Henry V., ' Hj lord, ril tell 7011, that BeU bill is oiK'd — ' Again, in King John,
' ru tell thee, Enbert, h&U my power tbig night — .' "
Stsztshs. — It mnit be allowed, boweTer, that the two " PU't" aonnd intJier nnpleaoiiiglj. — Hr. Sandys remarkg IShaketptare Soc. Paptn, vol iii. p. 33) that the ei- preuum, " I'll oall to [i. e. at) 7011T house," is still oommon in the Weit.
P. 622. (47) " Ay, dtJU'd land."
" ' I' Is the old reading, whioh appai^ntly depends Da a terj low quibble. AloibiadeB is told that ' his estate lies in a pitch'd field.' Now pitch, aa lUstaff B^s, doth dtflU. Alcibiades therefore replies that his estate lies in deJUed land. This, as it happened, was not ondentood, and all the editors [fallowing the editor of the seoond iolioj pnblisbed ' I defy land.' " JoanBOM.
P. 633. (48) CompaM, p. 616,
" Long may he lire In fortmut ."'
P. 533.(49) "ff>«< ateay thyielf in paper ihorHy :" " i. e. be mined by his teonritieB entersd ioto. But this sense, as Mr. War- Inrton obienes, is cold, and relishes very little of that salt which is in Ape- mantns' other refleotions. He proposes ' give away thyeetfin propoi iliortly,' I.e. in person, thy proper self." Thbosajj).
P. 623. (50) " 0 that men'$ eart $}umld be," &e.
I have already nmarked, that frequently, when oni early dramatists intro- dnoe a ooaplet, they make (he Jint line tliorter (sometimes much thorter) Ihan the second : see note j7 on Uiaiurefor Meaturt.
Tenahle hortti:" In the first of theso lines the folio has " bny twenty moe ;" in the seoond, "And able Hona." — The former eorreetion was made hy Pope, the latter by Theo- bald.—Walker writes ; " ' T#n' is botii places. > 10 more' was miEtaken tat ■30 more.'" Crit. Exa». ke. vol. iii. p. 981.— Here Mr. Collier's Ms. Cor- rector makes only one ohange; "A stable o'AorM*."
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CmJovrA hit tlait in tafety." 1. t. " Reatott otimat find hii fcstiiiis to hare B117 tafe or lolid /ownJotua.'' JoHKBoK. — Tha folio hu " Can soaiid ftti ttaU," fto, ; ks obrions airoi, yat retained uid defended b^ Uf. Knf^t and Ur. Colliei, (Afterwsrda, p. 638, the Iblla hu the Teiy Bkioe miitkke ;
P. 638. (5j) •' riiraft."
Added bj the editor of the seoond folio.
P. 631. (54} ■■ Caph. J ga, tir.
Sen. Take the bondt along with you.
And have the daUi in eompl." Xhe fdio hM
"Ca. Igoiir. Sen. IgoKit Take the Bimd* along with y<m, And hau* the dat^ in. Come." Kov, whether ire mftlie the Senator Bay, aa in the old oopj, " I go, sir T" or, aa Haaon reconunendB, " Aj, go, tir," the mnda are equally nnintellii^blei and at Tariance with the whole of the context. Feeling confident that they were repeated by a mistake of the transdriber or compoaitor, I hare omitted them without any hesitation. — The error of the folio in the laat line waa eoi- reoted by Theobald.
P.6a4.{ss) ■■nwr«««.«noMW
Of what it to continue : neeer mind
Wat to be to unaite, to bt to kind." The folio has "nor resnme no tare," tie.; whiah, even when altered ae abore. li far from satiafaotory. — Mr. Collier's Ma. Correotor sabstitntes " no reserre ; no tare," ice. In the last line he reads " Wat snrely 10 unaiie," &e. ; while Ur. Singer's Mb. Corrector givea ' IFiu trtUy >e unuiw," lia. (which ocomed also to Mr. Qtant White, Sbaketpeare'i Scholar, &e. p. 889).— 1865. Accord- ing to Mr. Collier's sec. ed. of Shakeipeart, his Ms. Corrector reads " no re-
P. S34. (5«)
" Eater Catbib, and the Sertjantt at Ismosa and Tuno." Tbe folio has " Enter Caphit, leidore, and Tarro." — Bnt here the Berrants otlaidoTe and Terra are called by the names of their ceapective masters. » In like manner," obaervea Malone, " in the Fotnth Boene of the next Act the Berrant of Lnoim ia called by bin master's name ; bnt our anthor'a in- tention is Eoffldently manifested by the stage-direction in the Foorth Scene of the Third Aot, where we find in the firat folio (p. 86, ool. 3] ' Sntec Varro's nun, meetinfiothers'." — We hare had Caphis already, in the preceding soene.
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P. 536. (57) " Be humbly pragt your tpetdj/ payment, — "
BtoeranB propoMa " ymtr lordiUp's [loidihip T] tpetiy jxiyiiicnl — ".'
Wmlker btcIiiu to hsTs thought that in tliia line "your" wm ti error ti "yon:" «ee his OriUBxan. to. toL ii. p. 199,uid ths editor's note there.
P. (RIS. (5!) " of daU-broke hondi,"
The folio has "a/ debt, brokenSoiub." — "Ur. HaloneTeryjndicioaBlyreada ' dtUt-brokai,'' [oonfiiming that reading b; the line at p. 634, > And mj teli- anoea on hla fracted datei,' &o.] . For the lake of measnre, I have omitted the iMt letter of the second word. So in Jtfuefc A4o about Nothing [act iL fO. IJ , ■ I hare broke [Le. broken] with lier father.' " SnnvsKB, — irho might hftve dted from the present play, p. BiO,
" Snah a honse broke I So noble a matter fallen t"
P. 6M, (59) "Pray,"
Malone'B SAakMiMim, 1831, has "Ipray;'' rightly perhaps.
P. 63G. {60) " Enter Apehuitcb and f o«I."
" 1 SDipeot some scene to be loat, in wluoh the entnuoe fi the Fool, and the Page that followa Iiim, iras prepared by some introdnctoiy dialogne. In wbioh the andienoe waa informed that they wore the Fool and Page of Phrynla, Tinl- andra, or soma other eonrteaan, npon the knowledge of which depends the greater part of the ensuing joenlari^." JomsoH. — Are we not to anppose this pair to be the serrants of some bawd ?
TberewoDld saemto be aome oonfnaion of aoane presently; forln thenext page Apemantna aaya, " Fo«d, I will yo with yo» la iMrA rimon't," — where tliey are already.
P.62«.(Si) "Caph. irWc'a t^/ooItiotBr
Apem. St loit lakei the queition," •• I think ■ He that last,' Ac." Walker's Crit. Exam. tea. vol.lL p. 259 ; where, in a note, Hr. W. H. Lettsom says, " Shoold we not read ■ Wha'i the tod
P.flae. («i) "tiUtreu'"
Tlia fidio has '■ HMten."
P. 537. (63) " merrily r
The folio baa "merry;" which Uie oontezt shows to be wrong. — Corrected in
P. £37. (64) Tlie folio has '■ Maaten."
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P. 538. (65) "pnpot'd."
80 the Koond ttiio. — The flnt tdiio hu " pit^KiM."
P. 628, (66) " made your minUter,"
The •eoond folio bu "mode yon mlnitUr." — "The oonatmetion is, 'And idmIa that luwptneis jonr miiuater.' " MuiOhi,
P.62B. (67) "dear-lov'd"
So the BeeondfoUo. (In the preceding play, p. 481, nebvre " b^ dtar-loe'd conain.") — The flrat folio h»a marelj " lon'd." — Walker (Cril. Ex<Mt, A«, vol. iii. p. SSI] qnerisB " beloT'd."
P. 6i8. (68) " Thmighytni hear turn — too late — yelnott't a time," " i, e. ThoDgh it he now too late to retrieve your fanner fortnnea, jet it il not too late to preteut, by the asaUtanoo of your friends, your future iniMriei. Had the Oxford editot [Sir Thomas Haomer] nndentood the sense, ha would not haTe altered the text to
* Though you bear now, yet now'a too late a tioie.' "
WUBUBTOK. —
" I think Sir Thomaa Hanmei ri^i, and haTe reoeiTed hia emendation.'' JoBMBOR. — *' The old reading is not properly expluned by Dr. Warburton. * Thoogh I tell you thia (aaya Flarina) at too late a period, perhaps, for ths information to be of any serriee to you, yet, late ae it la, it is neeesaaij that you shonld be aoqnainted with it.' It ia erident that Uie steward had 107 little hope of aaaiatasce from his master's friends." BtisoH.— ~" Tbongh yoa now at lait listen to my remonstranoea, yet now your afbirs are in audi a state that the whole of yonr remaining fortune will aoaice pay half yonr debts. Yon are therefore wiae too late." Hu.onb. — " Warbnrton's explana- tion is the right one." Walker's Crit. Exam. Ac. toI. iiL p. 233.— Mr. Col- lier's Hs. Coneetca snbstitnteB " Tlumgh you hear noir, yet now's a time too
P. 639. (69) " I have retir'd nu to a ictuUftU eoei,
Aiti »eX mine lyet atJio«." In this mnob-diaputed passage one thing ia quite olear, — that "woitf/nl «oet" oan only mean "a pipe with a taming stopple running to waste,'* whether we refer it (aa I beUere we ought) to the "spilth of wine," or understand it in the sense of " cock of water," with Capell ; who well ob- serres, that " the thought of retiring to snch a eotk is suggested I^ what was paaaing within doors." Noiei, Ao.toI. ii. P. iv. p. 81.
P. 639. (70) " Who if no! Lord Timon'* r
Bme "Lord" is an addition proposed hy Steerens, which the next line ahnoat prorea to be right. — The earlier emendation was " Who now i« not
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P. 529. (71) "^0 viUanout bounty yet Itath pau'd my heart ;" " Heart oeeaa three lines below, likewiie at the end of a line. Bead ' htmd,' ot'hande;' thehUtw, I think." Walker's <7rit. fixan.Ao.foL i. p. 301.
P. 629. (71) "Flaminiiur
The folio bai " Plauim."
P. 680, (73) " mJkdt— "
Not in the folio.
P. 630. (74) "r-
Not in the fdio.
P. 683. (75) " ThU tlave
Vnlo hit honour hat mjf lortfi meat in him .-" Pope printed
" TMt tiave Unto this honr Aim," fie, ; ftnd Mr. Ccdliec'B lb. Coirector Bnbfltitatea
" Thit ilave Onto his hamoDT hai," Ae. Bnt qy. it here the error liee in a word not hitherto Bcspected t It is «er. tain that Bometimei in earlj-printed booki (from what oaiiBe I know not) "■lave" and " Blander" are confonnded; ao in Middleton'g No H'it,no Help like a Woman'e,
" Then tor the indifferent world, faith, thej're apter To bid a etave [read Blander] welcome then a trath."
p. 6S, ad. 1667. and in The Travailet of the Three Englieh Brothert, by Day, W. Bowleg, andWiUdna,
" Benenge and Death Uke tkutder [read aUrea] attend the aword of Cnlrmath."
Big. C 1, ed. 1607. There is theretore a probaUli^ that the trne reading in the preBent ■gu%' BgeU
" Thit slander Unto hit honour luu," fto. (CfHupare our anthor elsewhere ;
" Till I have told f Mi tlander at Ma blood," fte.
Biehard II. aot I. ic. 1. " ThoD lUmder at Ihj mother's heary womb," Ice.
Richard III. act i. se. 3.) — 1866. Mr. Qrant White saya; "I think that the old teit needs do ehange, vA that it is merely an inTsrsion of, Unto hia honoor thin slave has my lord's meat in him, t. e. iMcvSue waa hononred by sitting at Timon't table." Bat (without taking into oonsidsration the riolent InTorsion) ii not that a wretched sense r
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P. 638. (76) " Whtn ht U titm'il tc poUim," Ac. " Fo«aibl7 ;
When be ii tmn'd to poiaoii ? — O, m^ rliniiBrwi Only work un't ; and, when he's siok to death, Let iiot tlut pKii of natare, TVliieh mj lord pud for, be of anj power,' &o. Or;
'0,
Uaf dittma only work Qpoa't ; mud when Ee'B Bick to de»th, let not that pui of okture,' Ac."
Wftlker'B CHt. Exatt. &e. toL iiL p. 233.
Pp. S8S, 681. (77) (7S) (79) " to many lalenU," " The modeni editma read arbitrarily ' fifti/ taleoti.' ■ So many' Ib not an nncouniuni etdloqoial expreuioii for an indefinite number," obserreB SteeTHna OB the drst of these paaeageB. — " That is, certain talentB," Bays Hr. Btsnnton, who oomparei the words in p. 628, " Betnm bo mnoli." — But I have little donbt that in all these plaee* the words " <o Tnany" (thongh they may have been loond in the prompter'B eopy) are not thou of the anthor, who anrely mnet hate intended a speeifto snm to be mentioned. — Hr. W. N. Lettaon remarka; "Matone misapplied his knowledge in interpreting '10 many' aa he did. The same words, three timei occurring, show that a definite anm waa the Stthject of ODnveraation, and it ie dear, from thii and the two pre- ceding BoeneB, that that definite sum was Ji/ti/ taUiUt. The earlier editors Baw this." Note on Walker's Crit. Exam. ftc. vol. iii. p. 2S3.
P. BU. (to) ■■ that I tbould parehaie the day be/ore for a little part, and undo a great deal of honour !"
Theobald printed " for a little dirt [i.e. land]," &c.; Johnson pro- poses " for a little pail," &e.\ Mason believes that the anthor wrote
" ■■'■—for a little port," lie. (and, as there was Bome danger of the reader's BOppoBing that " port" meant wine, he explains it — show or magnificsnee) ; while Mr. Grant White recommends Jackson's transposition, " that I sAouZil pUTChate the day before, and, tor a little part, undo a great deal of honour."
P. 5M. (81) "do"
FeihapB " do't."
P. 6S£. (S3) '•Jndj/et—0,*eethtim)netrojuneiiofman,"tcii. "For 'O, ne.'read periiaps 't«tee.' 'He does deny him,* ie.i.e. 'hedenies him that which, when compared with his (Lncins's) fortnoe, is as trifling •■ the slms which men giro to beggars.' " Walker's Crit. Sxam. See. vol. Si,
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P. 636. (g^ "<'er"
Added bj CftpoIL
P. 686. (85) "tirtt"
Added by Pope.— "CeTtainlj 'tkrte.'" Walker'i Crit. Exam, &o. t<>1, iiL p. 338.
P. 636. (86)
Compted. The name " Lueim" onf^t ftsmredlr to ooonr here.
P. 686. (87) " Thriee give him over :"
The folio h«8 " Tiaiuegiue," Ac; the second totio, "That thrin'd, give," &o. —I adopt the emandatios ol Johnson, which le also adopted by Mr- Knight, Ur. Collier, Mr. BUonton, and (tUenUr) bj Mr. Gnnt WUte.— " U < thrive'' be not an Inteipolatioii, originating in some vay or other from ' give,' John- ■on'i ■ tkriet' ia perhaps the beet ot tlte raggeeted emendations." Walker's Crit Exam. £0. Tid. iiL p. 38S.
P. 636. (88) "F"
Was Inserted by the editor of the seoond folio. — Bnoh is the ^ginal arrange - ment of the passage: bnt perhaps the following is better;
"ThatrilTiquiUitltuttSo: to it Taay prove An argvMtnt of laitghttr to the rat. And amongst lordt I be tluntght a fool:" " lonlt" In tLe last line being a dissjUable, m
P. 636. {89) 'Tdrathtr ....
n meh" I mar notice that so the lolio, in both plaoei, oontraota " I lud."
P. 638. (90) " lust"
The foUohas •• best."—" Bead, of MorM, ' iMt :• see eootext" Walker's Crit. Exam. Ao. vol. iiL p. 233.
P. 636. (91] "thegodtmly:"
The folio has " onely the gods."
P. 637. fei)
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P. 687. (sj) " a prodigal eoune"
la oppootion to the nodem tltenktion, " a prodigal'* court«," Hal<Hie dtM, from ili« eoQ^t whudi olooes the preoading ocene, "a UhenJ omne." Bnt^.r
P. US. {9^ " Both Tar. Boy."
The folio hM " 3 Taini. ;" vhiah the modem editon hare minuidentood. It eertainlj mcana " the tiro BGrraiita of Tairo :" see note gS.
P. 686. (95) "fHeittUr"
The IbUo bM '■ Friend."
P. 688. (ge) " Ay," Ao.
The nana! modem amngemeDt of tMa speech i« veif different ; »nd, thongk Walhei (Skakaptart't Vtri^fiealion, ^. p. 101) qaotea that azrangMnent aa tho ri^t ons, I atill greatly prefer the old regolalioa.
P. 680. (97) "for on antwer,"
Tie folio has "/'"' a'wws''."— " The artlole ma doobtieu omitted aeddeBt- ■Uj before a word beginniiig with Hie lane two letton." Cou-isb.
P. 689. (98) " Hot. Ben. And mine, ny lord."
" In the old oqpy this apeeoh ia ginn to Yairo [to ' 1 T*f.'] . I hare girea it to the MTTant of Hortenaiiia (who would natorallj prefer his claim among the rast), heeaoM t« the (oUowing gpeech ia the old copy is preftied 9 Var., wUoh, from the worda apokan [< And ouri, my lord'J , me& two ierranta of Twro'." Malohe, who bad been anticipated in thi tionbyCapelL
P. m. {99)
" Lvciut, LucuIIui, and Semfronitu ; aU," tea. So the third folio. —The flnt folio has
"Iiaciut, Lueidlat, aiid Sempronitu Tllorxa: AU," lie. ;
"Iiiwiu*, XucuUiM, addSamproTiaa: All," &o. — 1666. The Cambridge Editon {Olebe Shakupeare) give " Lueiia, Laeulliu, and Semproniut : AU, lirrab, aU : ra once moreftut tht rateaU."
P. 640. (100) " lordi,"
Tho folio has " Lord."
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P. 541. {<oi) " Jam."
The Icdio bM " am."
P. Sll. (lox) " letHug hit fault atiie,"
Tlie t(^fa»a"Mt(in; hU Fate atide." — " PalpKblj irrong ; read, m Mme of theoritics IwTe inggtgted [Pope and Mr. Ctjlier'a Ma. ConecUn-], '/ouU.' Pedi^iB Uie printer was deeeired b; the then ordliuiT7 pronnnoUtion of /mlt, whieh WM not obsolete eren in the tine of Pi^," Ao. Walker's Crit, Exam. Sse. toI. iii. p. 107. (SteeTene'a forced eiplanation of the old reading, "letting bit fate a$ide," la quite amnaing: it metuia, be gniTely teUa na, "putting this aetion of hia, irhich waa predeterminsd by fate, out of the qnestion.'')
P. Ml. (103) " An."
The folio hu 0 And."
P. 541. (104) " and fair ipirit,"
" ' Pair,' except in a modem sense, is inadnussible here. I aospeot that tm 'fatre' we ehonld read 'frie,' i.e. lingle-hearttd, generout, uC paiHm ap. IfM- trvm." Walker's Crit. Exam. ^. vol. i. p. SIS.
P. Ml. {105) " behave"
8a Bows; vhieh, it the right reading, must be aaderstood In the sense of govern, managt. — ThefoUo has " beboone." — Mr. Collier's Mb. Corrector anb- etitotei " reproTo ;" and in the next line alters " jn-oc'd" to " mor'd."
P. Ml. {io«) ■' My lordt,—"
Bm the totio has " My Ziord ;" bnt in the next two pages Aloibiades nsea the Address " sty lonb" no leaa than ftre timea.
P. Ma. (107)
" Why do fond sun ezpo» thtmttUiti Co battU, And not endart all threati I tleep upon'l. And Ut thefoe$ quUtly eat their throaU, Without repugnancy r If there be Such valour ia the bearing, uhat male us Abroad l" *' Tnlg. [in the aeoond line] ' all thriat'ningi,' to salve the metre, instead of the folio's 'threaU.' Bnt snrely ' cndurt' reqairea a different word." Wal- ker's Crit. Exam. fto. vol. i. p. 301. — In the fourth line Capell inserts " or" hetoie " J/."— Walker (in the work just quoted, toL iL p. 48) declares that, in the fifth line, ■> (Ae" onght to be omitted ; and he snggests ; " quietly eut their throale TFfthout repugnance T If there be eueh valour In bearing, what ituke ve abroad f
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P. G49. (lo!) "ftUm"
JohsBon'i eamMott. — The folio luu "fellow" (vhiolt Btww«l] detetdibr otneTTiiig that " FellotB U ft oonmoii Unn of oontempt" I).
P. 542. (109) " Whjl, I lay,"
80 the Meand folio— The flnt folio has " Why lay."— Wallrar (CHt. Ex»m. Ice. vol. lii. p. 284) qneriea the omisdon of " Why ;" irhioli wm mi etaiy altentiea.
P. 643. (no) "■«»,"
80 the second fcdio. — The flnt folio h*s "him."
- P.H2.(iii)
" JJlhere wtrc no viorefott, that teert enmigh" The folio hu " If there aere no Pott," tso.\ • niitilated line, iriuch hu bMit vaiioiuly amended bj the adilora. — I adopt the reading of Walker {Grit. Exam. tea. toL iL p. 2G9], who, to aeewut t<a the omiation ot the word in tlie folio, obMrrei that " ' Uore' was written ' mo*."
P. 543. (ill) "Aononrt rthtr*."
lite folio has " Hononi" (whidi is ooiracted in the second folio) and "
P. 643. (113) •' friend »r brother,
HeforfeiU hit own blood thatipilU another." See note 45 <hi Coriolamu, p. 245 of the present Tolnne.
P. 648. (114) "no( to laell our ipirit,"
" I believe means ' not to pat oortelTes into anj tnmonr of rage, take our deflnitiTe TSBolntion'." Stxitxnb. — Capall prints "not loiaeU joai ipirit."
P. 644. (iij) "aoundt I Ha,banUhmetit.'"
Bo the second folio. — The first folio omits "ffn."— StesTens eomparea. In Romeo and JvHel, aotiii. H. 8, "Ha,banUkment! bemmnfiil, sa; * death'."
P. 644. (116) " 'TU honour wilh noit lande to be at oddi ;" Here Warbortoa snb«titnted{andJolmBonthoQ{^t " Teryproperlj") "handi" for " lamfi." — Malone proposed to salntltate " lords." — Heath explains the line to mean, " Gk>TemmentB are in general ao- ill administered, that there are Tory few whom it is not an honoDr to oppose."
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P. Bii. (117) "Enter, atseTsral doors, direri Lorda," fto. Here the folio hiui merelf " Enter diaera Friendt at leiteraU doorei ;" while otterwardi, p. 617, ithaa " Enter the Senaton, vith other Lords," knd " Ei- oaat the Senators ;" kndpreflxeB to the TeepeativeBpeeohea of thegaeets " 1," "3," "3," "4."
P. 644. (iig) "many iHg ntarocceuloni"
"Wu this ['ntonjf vty' instead id '1117 nuuif'J ererEn^iihr I doubt it." Wilkar'f CHt. Exam. &a. toL ii. p. 250.
P. 644. (i 19) "He*tMto me, tlr,"
" Qa. ' He wnt to me for' *" Walkei'i Crit. Exam. *o, nd. ii. p. 395,
P.646.(iio) "willing"
ProbtiHj "williaglj," as in the next ipeeoh.
P. G16. (laij "/edit your tan Kith th« nauie aiehile," See. So Walker {Crit. Exam. fto. T(d. ilL p. 336), eioopt th>t he omits " O."— The passage stands la the folio thiu j " Feast your earea with the Maeioke awhile: If they will tare bo harshly o' th' Trumpets sound: we ahall too't presently."
P. MS. (ill) " Tim. Ah, mg gtwd fTiend,~-yihal cheerl" After this the folio has " Tlu Banlcet brought iit,"^marldng the ataj^-direO' tlon prematurely (aa is often the case in dramaa printed tram the prompter's IxxA. ; that the property-man might be ready with the artioles required for the soene). Jneed hardly add, tliat the words "irAol (h«rf" hare no reference to the baoqnet.
P. 546. (.13) "your foil,"
So Warbnrton ; and go Mr. Collier's Ms. CnreetMr. — Tbe folio has "your Fees ;" whioh Capell {Notti, te, toI. it P. It. p. 86) mo<t ncddntly interprets "fivfeits to your Tsngeance."— "What can '/eef' meant ' Poo,' sorely." Walker's Crit. Exam. ie. toI. iil. p. 336.
P. 546. (114) "lag"
So Bowe.— The fdio hsa "legge."— Mr. Ccdlier's Ma. Coireotor aobaUtates " tagi" rightly perhaps.
P. 546. (us)
" Who, $tutk andtpangUd with yottr fiattery" The fidio has
" Who ttankt ani tpangUd yon with Flatteries;" and bo it is given by the more reoent editors (without any note), tfaoo^ the TOL. TI. QQ
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correetlon vMch the paawge m endentlr demudB, " with your,'' ma to be fonnd in thaeds. of Huimar, Wu-lmrtoii, knclCkpeU.— 1666. " ' JTnEleric' ia potitivBl; required by the Bense." Walker's Crit Eiam. 4o. Tol. L p. 250. — Ht. Slannton, Mr. Grant Wliite, and the Ctunbiidge Editors {GUM Skalt-
iptare) print " «ilh i/our."
P. 546. (iifi) " (i{r!nfl< maladia"
Th« folio hu " infinite Malodie j" which JohnMB explaina " Evei7 kind of disease Incident to man and beast." — Coireetsd b; Haniner. — " For' vutotia' read 'nulodjcj.' ' Itifimte,' L e. innuiaerdlile, at uepe." Walker's Crit. Ezam. Ao. vol ilL p. 386.
P. G4T. (117) [" Throws the dishes at them, and drires them oat."
This stage -direction was inserted by Bows. — " Ooght we not to nibstitate ' Ptlti ttum mith ttonei' t see line nit. of the scene, and Tar. notes ; kUo the
' Bta;, I willlend tbee money, borrow none 1' Stones being tnore like money than dishes are." Wslker'a Cnt. £f(im.fte.TaL in. p. 28S.— See InirodKctian to this pUy, p. 501.
P. 647. (tiS) " Be-enter the Company."
Bere (as already remarked) the folio bcs " Enter the Senators, with other Lords;" lorwhieh in the more reeentediUima [1B6S. that of Mr. Grant White andtheOIobc 5AaJt««p«iu-< excepted] is sabstitnted "Be-enter the Lords, with other Lords and Senators ;" Malone informing as in a note that the next two ■peeohea " are spoken by th* nttely axTiietdI.ori»" — as if Timon were giTing an evening-party as well as a dinner. But, though the old stage-direolion is awkwardly worded, it certainly was intended to have no other meaning than (bat the gaesU who bad been driTon oot by Timon now retnra to the stage.
P. 647. (119) "fluinoKr"
The folio has " hnmors." — Corrected in the third folio.
P. H7. (ijo) "Third Lord. See. Lord." The folio has
Bat nee what precedes.
P. 547, (131) "One day he gitiet iti diamonds, next da]f$l He* Introdactian to this play, p. 504.
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P. MS. (ij») ■'«»»"
The fCdio hu *' Borne." — Corrected in the second toiio.
F.IUe. (113) •• And let conftulon Uce r
So Hanmer; ftod so Hr. CoUiei'B Mi. Corrector. — The lolio hu "^nd yet Confiuioji live;" which it eeema to mc qnite aatonisblng that any editor «hoiiId attempt to delend.
P. G49. (134) " Alice do turn our bacii
FrojH our companion thrmca into liU grave. So hit faTailian from hit bnried fortanti Slink oil aaay ;" Id this pasMge the folio has " So hit FamiliaTi to hii buried Fortunei," Sia.~- The alteration was made hj Hanmer ; and Uaaon wonld also read, in the pre- ceding line, "To OTir companion," &c,— Walter (Crft, Exam. Sic. 70I, i. p. 501) citea the text of the folio, " So hii Familiart to hit," &a., imd asks " What ii the conBtmctioD ? Qu«r«. ' So tAe faimliarB to Mb,' &c. ; thoBevho were familiar to Mb — now buried— fortanes." Bnt the error of the folio ia manifeatl; in the " to" (repeated probably by miatahe from the " iRlo" jnat abore), not in the " his ;" and the conteit plainly requires "from .-" — So hia familiar* (hit familiar frieitdt) ilink all aaay from hit buried fortune*.
P. W9. (13s) '•oriolUe
Butin a dream of friendthipf
To have hi* pomp, and all what ilate eompouiid*," The folio haa "or to tfue," &c. — Bowe gare "aa to live," &e.; and so Mr. CoUier'a lie. Corrector. — I adopt the readii^ of Mr. Btannton (which also -occurred to Mr. Grant White).— Walker [Grit. Exam. Ac. lol. iii. p. 2S7) aajB, "Ferhape [in the aeeond line] the rhyme la eontinned;" and he eoB- jectorea " To have hii pomp, and all atate comprehends :" «o too Hr. Col- Jier'i Ms. Corrector, who fills nptba second line with the words "and revise."
P. 560. (136) "blood,"
" Is here anppoaed to %igmty prnpentily 01 diipoiltion ; haX ve tnspect it lobe «ne of BCTcral miaprinta by which this speech ia depraved." SxiVKTOK.
P. B60. {137) "doe,"
The folio has " do." — Corrected in the fonrth folio.
P. ESO, (13!) "Taimi'd brother* .
. not nature," *c. " The meaning I take to be this ; ' Brother, when hia fortone ii enlarged, will
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sooRi l>rottier ; for tbli is the general depraritj of Lammii zutsre, irMcb, be- sieged u it ii by miiery, adnuHUBhed u it is of wutt imd imperfection, -when eleralcd t^ iMtnne will deBptse beings of natnre like its own.' ■' Johmsoh. — " 1&. H. Maaon obeerrea that this paaaage ' bat by the addition of % Bin|^ kltermajbe rendered clearly in telliRible, by merely reading naturtt inatead sf nature, ' The meaning will then he ; > Not eren beinga reduced to the nt- MMt extremity of wretohednesi can beu good fortune without oontemning their fellow-oreatoTeB.' The word natiirti is afterwardB used in a rimiltr scnee by Apemantas;
' Call the creatnreB,
Whose nalced naturti live in all the spite
Of wreaUnl hearen,' &o, PeAapB, in the preient inatanoe, no onght to complete the metre by reading
■ not tlicit natnrea .'" Stbbtxki. —
*' ' But by' ia here used for ' Without.' " Mai.oiie. — Walker declares that this paeaage " pnzzlea" him (Skakapeare't Veri^/icalioii, &o. p. ISS).
P.660. (ij9) "Saiumetl The itnalor
Here ^'deny't," — which Warborttm alters to "denude," Hanmer to "d^rade," Ur. Cirilier'a Ha. Coireotor to " decline," and Mr. Staunton to " demit," — ia, I believe, right after all, the " it" meaning (to nse Bteerens's words) " a pro- pcctiwiable degree of elevation." — The folio haa " The Senators," lie.
P. 650. {140) "rolher'i"
So Hr. Singer; and do Mr. Collier's Ma. Corrector. — The folio has "Brothers'* (and in the next line the obrions misprint "leane").
P. 661. {14O " idU volaritt ."
Mr. Cfrilier's Ms. Corrector rabstitatea "idol-vof pluned " insincere or inconstant" by JohuHiti ; by Mr. Staunton.
P. 6*1. (141) " akat"
Qy. " why" t
P. E61. (14.3) ••ttotil"
"i.e. men who have strength yet remaining to struggle with their ^jtemper. This allndea to an old onatom of drawing away the pillow from under the heads of men in their last agonies, to make their departore the easier. Bnt the Ox- ford editor [Hanmer] supposing 'itont'losignify'Afalffry,' alters it to 'net."* WuienBTOH. — " Hanmer was surely right in snbBtitnting'ffel:' tor 'atont.'" Stauhtoh.
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P. MI. {144) " tkU U U"
" Some woid U here WMitiiitt to the metre. We might either [with Hanmer] repeat the pronoon ' thlt,' or avail onrMlvea of cor anthor'B oommon introdoc- toTj adretb, emphatloiUj used, ' ahff, thia is it.' " Stuvzhb.
P. 563. (145) " ffulti, gula :"
C»ifA prints "giiUi, total gxUa." Compare HawUt, aet iL BO. 3, " Kowithe total gvltt " ka.
P. 6B3. (146] " Qhe th<jn diieoMtM, Itaoing vith thee their huL." AlteraaV^-OnwtWUteto-LeaTing with Owe tbdr lart. (Hre then
P. 653. (147) " tu6-/aft"
The foBo ha* "f 116/4*1."
P. G6S. (14!)
" TA« god* ton/ound (ton oil In thy eongvett ; and Thet after, when lAon'it eoKquer'd !
Aldb. Wh]) me, Tiutont
Tim. That, fry kiUtitg of vlUaint, thou watt born to eanqiicr Uy couKtrj/." There i« manlleatl? some error in thia lim^g paaaags. Walker (Cril. A'.ra Jca. ToL iii. p. 328) proposes ;
" Warr'st thou 'gaimt Athens f
Aleib. Aj, Timon, and have oaoae. Tim. The godj eonfonnd them
AH, in thjoooqneiti and thee after, when Th' haat oonqner'd t
Akib. Why me, Timon?
Tim. That hy UBing
Of Tillaina, thon wait bom to [ ] thg eonntry.''
-"'Conqtttr,'"hetMai, " is not the word re^nired; poaiiUy '*eourge.'"
P, 568. (149) " itiiidow-bart"
The folio liu"B>i><Ia» Bame."
P. 668. (150) " tet down"
The folio has " til them ituicn."
P.««.(ist) The folio has " the."
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P. B63. (151) "o!y«(»,"
i. t. " objects of ohuitr uid compMsion. So, in TrM'liu end Crtalda, UIjbscb
; For Hector, in hii bUse of wntli, Bnlnaribes To tender objfct:' " Mabos. —
Hr. Collier'i Ml. Carrector entntitntei " ■'bjecls."
P. 5S4. (153} " CnoujfA fc mnil-F a uhor'/onu^ar Arr trade, And to make tchorei, a baad." An obecure pMMge, which, Mcording to Johnson, netns " Enough to malLO- K irboieleaTe whoring, and a baird leave making vhores." — Mr. CoIUer'a Mt. CoRectoriabatitotei "And (0 maitwboret abhon-'di" but, m Mr. Singer per- tineiitlj uks [Shakeipeart Vindicated, iia, p. 313), " Why ahonld abnndwice- ot gold make Thorel abhorr'd f"
P. E5i. (15+) " Conmnvptioju to«
la hoUoK btmti of man t itri\t Iftet'r tharp ihint. And mar men't ipurring," Walker {Crit. Exam. &c. toI. ill. p. 230) reads ;
*' ConaompUonB sow In hollow bonei of vun; atrike their sharp afain?. And mar their ipnrring."
P. 664. (ijs) "«<roM("
The folio has " tcold'at."
P.E56.(i56) ••ahoit"
In all pTob«bilitj the nsnal modem addition (an obTioni one), " 0 thOD ir/io«r,'' ia righl.
P. G66. (157) •' tebo all thy human loni doth hate," The folio ha* " tcho nil the humane Sonnet do hate."
P. 666. (158) "mowionoH"
Walkir, mtintftining that "all" haa here no meaning, wonld rtaA " mamion- hftU" {Crit. Exam. See. toI. iU. p. 239).
P.S6S. (159) "miHToiM,"
The folio has " Marroieet ;" qj. If amiBtskefor "toarrowie" ("marrowj") as- an epithet to " vinei" ! CotgraTe, in hia Diet., gives " MoUUenx. Marrmtiie, plthle, tnll of strength or ilrong <ap."
P. 556. (160) ■' Tftu 11 lit thee a nature but infected;" HereBowe chaii.%^ " infetted" \a "affected;"— bnt, anraly, Ihe old reading^ (in the senw of disessed) snlts better with what immediatelr follows.
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P. 6M. (i6j) "forUmf:'
The tollo has " lature."— CoRMted by Bowe.
P. GS6. (161) " like Utptttrt that bid tetl&me"
Bo tha second folio. — The flrat folio hu " {Utn Tauten, that bod w«Eeoni] ;" Khioh Ur. SUnnton reUins 1 " bod," be tells as, mekSE " the bad ol sociBty, bad fto^."
P. 666. (i6j) "mo»8Vr
So TTmimnr — The foUo bos " mofst."
p. 666. (164) "«•;««■'
The foUo bu " when." — Coireeted hj Wallier, Crit. Exam. See. rtiL ui. p.
P. 667. (1*5) •' To B*r tlite."
Huunex prints " Only to vex thee."
P. 667. (166) " To tueh as may the pattice drugt 0/ it Frail/ command," Tbe l<ilio bft«
" To tuch at may ike paeiiue dmggee of it Freely conunind'st."^ —
Mr. CoUiei's and Hr. Singer's Hs. CiaTecton read " the paiave dugs of
if,"fte. Bnt I think there ean hmrdlf be ft donbt tbst bere " drugs" is eqaiTA- lent to drudges. Todd (JoAiutfn'i Diet, snb Drvg) oitestroin Holoel, " Drodge, or drugge, a serrant -whieb doth all tbe Tile Berrice;'' and from Barret, ''Dmdge, a drufiOrkitohen-slaTe:" towhioh other eiamplea might easilj bo
P. 568. {167) "poor rag,"
"If," obserreB Jobnaon, '> we read 'poor rogne,' it will oorrespoiidratlier bet- ter to what follows;" and Mr. Singer {Shaktipeare Vindicated, &o. p. 343) saja that bere the "ragga" of tbe fidio is erideatl}' a miipriat loi " rogae." Bat " rag" oooan elsewhere in our antbor as a term of contempt ; and it was fonoerly a very CMunon one.
P.SeS. (iS!) "my"
Tbe folio has " U^."
P. 660. (169) " Yonder comei a poet and a painter .-"
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600 TIHON OF ATHENS. {moram.
P. 660. (170) " ru btat thte, hut I thoHJd inftct my huatdt." Hen "I'U^hMbeen dtsrad to "I'd:" bat in EttobMatanoeaonr oMwiUws frequently me utU mnd thoali (joat u they (Lh) nae uiU, after ■hnild/ see note 17 on King Henry VIII. imd note 55 on CorioUmu*.
P. 660. (171) "neoon"
Tbe folio liM " BirooDd ;" frbLch epelHng ia altered to " Bwonnd" in tlie tUrd folio. — See note 93 on TA« Winter'* Tale.
P. 661. (171) "Kmandiirer
The toUo hu " Bnime oriI fire."
P. 661. (.73)
" Long live to, and to die ! [Exit ApemantsB.] I am fait. — " Hamner prints "Long live ta or*o die, ioZan ^it ;"C^iell, "L«nglio*ti <ind to dj/e ! — So, 1 ant juff."
P. 661. (,74)
" 3Iort thingt Wke men I — Eat, Timon, and ahlior tktBt," The folio preBiea "Apt." to tiuB line, Mid hus " abhorre then."
F. 561. (175] " Ike falling-from of hit fritndt," Altered b7 Pope to "the/allittg OS of friendi i"" and b; Hr. Collier'aUs. Cm- reotorto " tht falling fromhha of hi* friende."
P. 663. <i7G)
" Tow greatett aant it, you tcanl much of miat."
Altered by Theobald to " much of meet ;" by Haniner to " mueh
o/men." Btoereni oonjeetarei " mucAD/me;" and Pawner wonld print
(aooording to SteerenB, " with no nnall probability" I)
" Tour greateflt wuit iB, yon want mnch. Of meat ^?hy ahonld yon want V
V.SKt. (177) "ta\eweaUhandUvit together;
Do villany," The foHo hM " So TilUne." — Altered in the SMOiid folio to
" lake aealth, and Hto tegeth^, Do VaUine." Banmer prints
" takes wealth and life together. Do villany,"
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P. fifia. (178) "protaV
Altered b; Tb«oIniM to " profess ;" Toiyn
P. BSa. (,79) luaerted tif Bmre.
P. MS. (iSo) " then ii »o," Ae.
<}iTeii hy Warbnrton to Sec. Son.
P. 668. (igi) " 1/ Ihou grant'tt tJiou'Tt man,"
The loUo li«a " if thoa gnmt'at, th'art a nun."
P. 668. (iSi) " Thtn I kaoie thee not," to.
Sometlilng trnmg here.— Capell pvea
" N»y. Iken I jbnov (fe<« Rol .- I fu'er ftiul honeit man .4&au( DM, J; oU thftt 7 bpl «>«» tnacM, To ttne in l««t to of Uamj." —
— Aoiuil men," Ac. CrJE. £j;aiR. Ac vol. iii. p. HQ.
V. 664. (18]) " It alntotl fumi my danjieroiu notim mIM.'' The folio hM " Natun wilde ;" which hu been deteiid«d \
P.S64. (184) "Fou"
An inleipolaUon ?
P.664. (igj) " 1 do froelaita,'' Ae.
*' Amnge, if the text i« oorrect,
' I do proolum One honest mRn : —
Uiitkhe me not,— bat one ; no more, I pn^, — And he'e ft steward.' "
Wslker'B Crit. Exam. to. vol. ill. p. 3J0 ; where Walker'! editor, in a note, prononneei "Ipray" to be wrong, andoon- jMtnrea " I U7-"
P. 564. (1S6) " If not a murinff IrtndnMs," ie. " ' If not' [wlileh iKoe ol the earlier editors omitted] aeemB to h»e slipt in hen, by an error of the pretB, from the preceding line. Both the aenio and metre wonld lie better wtthont it." Tybwhitt. — " Haj not Sbkkeapeare have written aomewbat as tollowa 1
' A naaring kindness, and aa rich men deal
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OiftB to eateh giJU, eipeotiiig in retnm
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P. EU. (187) <• where"
Altered by Haniner and Mr. ColUer't Ui. CtHrector to " when."
P.BU. (iSS) " Mji mott AonoHr'd lord,"
These irords stand in a line bythemselrea in the foUo; bnt that Bhakespesre ioteuded them to form a Terse is not to be imagined : lomething has dropt ont
P. 666. (i!)) "exchaagt"
Hastaer print* " exchange it."
P.SM. (190) "Enter PMlandPainKr,"
" The Poet and the Painter were iritbin Tieir irhon Apecoantns parted from Timon [see p. 660] , and might then hare seen Timon, since Apemantos, stand- ing by him, oonld see them : bntthe scenes of the Thieyes and Stowud bare passed befcra their arriral, and yet passed, as the dntnu is now eondncted, within th^ new. It might be gnspected that some acenes are tnmsposed, for all these difficnlties would be remored by introdneing the Poet and Painter flist, and the Thieres in this place. Yet I am afraid the Boenea mnst keep (heir present order, for the Fainter allades to the Thievea, when he saja, >he like- wise enriched poor slnggling aoldiera with great qnantit;.' Thia inproprie^ ia now heightened by placing Uie Thlevea in one act, and the Poet and Painter in another ; but it mast be remembered, that In the original edition this play is not divided into separate acts, so that the present distribution ia arbitrary, and may be changed it anyconrenience can be gained, or impropriety obviated by alteration." Johhboh. — "la the immediately preceding acene, Flarins, Timon's steward, hu a conferenoe with hia mostei', and reeeifea gold from bim. Between this and the preaeut seene • aini^e minnte cannot be anpposed to pass ; and yet the Painter tells hia companion, ' 'Tia said he gave Ai'i #tnranf a mighty snm.' Where wag it said 7 Why, in Athens, whence, it mnet there- fore seem, they are bnt newly come. Here then ehoold be fixed the commence- ment of the Fifth Act, in order to allow time for Flavios to retDin to the city, and tar mmoor to pnhlish his adTentnre with Timon. Bat how are we in this case to acoonnt for Apemantua's annonnoing the approach t£ the Poet and Painter in the last scene of the preceding act, and before the Thieves a^^arf It ia poeuble that when this p1^ was abridged for representation, all between this passage and the entranoe of the Poet and Painter m^ have been omitted by the players, and these words pnt into the month of Apemantns to intro- dace them; and that when it was published at large, the interpolation waa nn- noticed. Or, if we allow the Poet and Painter to see Apemantna, it may be conjectored that they did not think his presence neceaaary at their interriew with Timon, and had therefore returned back into the city." BrrsoH. — "lam afraid many of the diffionlties which the commentators on onr anthw hare
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employed tbeir abilities to remore, tiise from the negligeneo of SlukespMre |ili^B«lf,iFhoaippeuBtohftTetwenIeaB nttentive to the cooDeetioiiofliiBMeiieB than n lesa hutj irriter maj be inppoEed to hftve been. On the prenent ooea- eion I have cluuiged the begimiiug of the Mt. It ii bat JQEtioe to observe, that the same regulation has already been adopted bj Hi. Cap«ll." Rekd. — "IpereeJTenodiffienltr [-—UAlone seldom does!]. It is easy to snppose Ihat the Poet and Painter, after haTing been seen at a distance bj Apemantns, have wandered about the woods separately in search of Timan's habitation. The Painter might have heard of Timon's having given gold to Aloibiades, Sm. be- ttxpe the Poet joined him ; for it does not appear that the; set ont tram Athens together; and hie iutelligenee coneeming the Thieves and the Steward might have been gained in his rambles : or, having searched for Timon'a habttation in rain, the; might, alter having been descried by Apemaotna, have returned again to Athens, and the Painter alone have heard the particnhuB of Timon's bonnty. But Shakespeare woa not very attentive to these minnte partionlars i and it ht and the auditnct hnew of the several persons who had partaken of Timon's wealth, ha would not somple to attribute this knowledge to persons who perhaps bad not yet an opportnnity of acqmring it. The news of the Steward's having been enriched by Timon, thongh that event happened only in the end of the preceding seeno, has, we here find, reached the Painter ; and therefore here nodoabtedl; the Fifth Act oagbt to begin, that a proper interval may be supposed to have elapsed between this end the last." Mauiiis.
P. B06, (191) "blaeJi-eorHtr'dnight:'
Which Stesvens explains to mean " night which ia aa obacnre as a dark eoy- tttr [f]," haa been amended to " blaclt-con'd night," " Mact-crown'd night," " 6(aclr-cover'd night," Sib. — Qy, " J/oet-oartain'd nighfJ — " Thia cooplet in nil the editions iap'.acedtotbe Painter; but, as it ia in rhyme, and asequelof the sentiment begnn by the Poet, I have made no scrapie to ascribe it to him." Theobald.
P. 687. (191) "Konhiii!"
The folio has " worshlpl."
P. GST. (193) " Whott thauk\ea natura—O abhorrtd gplHU .'— Not all the vhipt of heaven are largt enimgk — " i. e. For whose thankless natures, ke. Compare Tht Tempett, act i. so. i ; " Me, poor man, my library Waa dnkedom large enough," Sea.
P. 568. (194] '• Know hi$ grott patckery, U>vi Mm, feed hint," A sli^tly-mutilated line ; which haa been mended in two ways (and not rerr
BuocMafoIly) ; Pope nadlng " lore hin, and /Md Mm ;" and Capell,
" yet loee him,fttd him."
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P. 54S. (igj) "bia two in caaipang .-"
" ThBre u« not two wordi more frequently mistaken to eftch ot&er, in the printing of theso pla;B, than but and not. I have no doubt bot that miftake «btainB In this pM«age, and that we «banld read It thm ; ■ not two in com- pany' [Hanmer'a emendatioul." Miion. — The old reading is eiplvnod " Each man, being himself a TiUun, will take a villain along mth him, and ta eadi of fon will hare two in oompany."
P. Efts. (196}
" you have done vtork for me, tken't paymeiU: hatet!—" The folio has " You liaue Korkefor m«," tt.—l adopt Uilone'
P. 6B9. (197) ■' It U in vain,"
So the third folio.— The eariier fidioa hare " It ii vaine." (AftOTWajda, p. 671. the uuneBpeakeriajs to the Mmepenona, " Stay n«t,«ll'aiM Tain.")
P. 669.(198) "A it OKI- fact"
The(oliohaa"/(uoitrpait.'' — Corrected b7WBlker(<7ril. Emm. £e. Tol. ii. p. 376). See note 7I OD rft« Taming of the Sltrew.
P. 669. (199) ■' ehanet"
So the Moond folio. — The flnt folio haa " ohanc'd."
P, 569. (100) " Ftaei and content hi htre !" &e. -"This Bpeeohwoold be moie appropriate to one of the Benaton." 8*AiiinoH.
P. 669. (aoi) ■' eauterUino"
The folio has >' Cantherizing ;" the eecond folio " Catherizing."— Mr. W. N. Lettaom would read " eanter."
P. 569. (101) "And now the public bod]/, — tchich duth teldem" The reading of the folio ia " Which now the pubtike Body, uihich," Ae. ; and Halcoe, the ehampion of error, after defending it, adds ; " Sir Tbomai Haa- mer and the Babseqaeut editors read here more oometlj ' And now the pnV lio bodj,' Ac [;C^>eU pTes 'Bat now,' fte.J: bat by what oTeraight ooold Which be printed instead of And f'—Tbe flret " Which" crept in by mistake, the eye of the acribe or tlie eompodtOT having glaaoed to the ■eeond one.
P. 670. (loj) "fetling in iltelf
A tack <tf Tinion'i oiif , hath $ente withtU Of itt oumfail, rtttraining aid to rinon;" The folio haa
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" luUk ^M iritAoI
Of it oitnt fall, rulrafnfn;," Ao. Runner kUered "ttH" to "fftolt :" CiipeU printed "fail," — which U muii- featlj the gennine reading: the Senator meam to tty; "At the tame time (hat the; feel a lack of Timon's aid, they feel also how they failed (or, how fanl^ they were) in withholding their aid from Timon." — The labataatiTe "fail" waa formeriy eommon : in The Wmter'i TaU, mot ii. le. S, we have " Mark, and perform it, — seeat thou f for the /ail
Of any pinnt in 't," Ae. •nd in Cymhtline, act iii k. i, " From thy great fail." (Johmon eiplidiiB , " hath ttntt of iU mm fall" to mean " The Athenian! had terut, that If, felt the danger of their tnanfall by the anna of Aleibladog :" bnt tAaf \m HoffleientlT implied in the preoeding deelaraUon, "feeling a lack of Timon's aid;" and be- sides it haa no fltoeu when taken in connection with what Immediately fol- low!, " restraining aid to Timon." — Malone " onoe snepected that onr anthn' wrote 'fail':" he, howBTer, erentnally persaaded himself that the old reading wag fnlly supported by the occnmnee of the word " fall" in two tnbseqnent paaaagea of the play.)
P. S70. (104) "xTrovi'd rmdfT,"
" ' Rtnriet' it eoj\fttnim [acconnt] . Bo in Cymbelint, act It. so. 4 ; ' may driTe ns to a render Where we have liT'd.' The modem editors read ' tender.' " SiaEmKB.
P. 571. {J05) "7wiir
" Powtbly Shakespeare wrote 'tay.lwlll.'" Walker's Crii. Exam. Ac. toL iiL p. 341.
P. S7I. (ao6) " laie hit haite,"
Altered by Hr. Collier's Hs. Crareotor to " tat« Ai« halter."— The origittalleo- tlott i* snpported by the following passages (the first two of wUeh I dted in the Add. and Corr. to my former ediUon, and the third in my Strietmrtt m Mr. ColUer't ed. of Shaletpeart, 1868) ;
" If on my credit yon dare bnild so far To make your tpeed to Dorer," to.
King Ltar, act iit. so. 1. " and, with all Ai'j hail, Infoimd .£gisthos."
Chapman's Somer't Odguei, B. It. p. 61, cd. foL
" Rise ye np, take yourjovme]/, and pass orer the rlTor Amon," &«. Deu- leroiwpij), chap. il. 24 :
and it derires sifll tnrtlier sapport from the following lines (addnoed here hf Mr. Grant White);
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" With thu field-d«« eaiiB««r«te, Everjr fury lake hit gait."
Vidmmmer-Nigbi'i Dream, act t. laat aeene. — I mmld oliaerve, too, Uiftt the eipresgion " take h» halter," almott implies thit ererj nun in Athena (" from high to low thronghoot") waa prorided irith a halter for hie otfh eepecinl Die in oue of need.
P. 678. (107) " Who mute a iay," Ice.
Altered in the second folio to " Which once a day," &a. — Mnlone printed "Whom OMt a dajf," Ac, referring " Whom" toTimon. — Bat there emn be no doBbt that here " )rAa"'^<c>Aoni, i. e. ahich, ia tlie relatire to " CTerlaatinft manwon." (Ai to the nseof "irha,'' oompare;
" a brare venMl, TFAo had, no donbt, some noble oreatiirei in her," Ice.
The Temft*t, vtd. i. p. 177. " the elements, Of irbna your iwords are temper'd," tee.
Id. ToL i. p. 916. " a poaeeod .... from uhom I took two oodi," Sea.
At ifou like it, Tol. ilL p. ei.
"Thatejea
Who ahnt their coward gates on aUimies," Ac.
Id. ToL Hi. p. 61. " Nothing ao eettoia bb joor ancliorE ; trAo," be.
The Winler't Tale, to^ iii. p. 482. " Till be behold them (ortoid in th' applanae Where they're extended; ieh>, like an aroh, rererberatea," £c. Troiiiu and Creuida, p. 66 of the present rolnine- " Fame, at the which he aims, — In Kkom already he's well giac'd," Ac
Coriolaniu, p. U2 of the preaent Ttdnme. " my arm'd kneea, Who how'A bmt in my atirmp," Ae.
Jd. p. IW. " Therefore I tell my aorrowa to the efones ; Who, thoDgh they cannot," &e.
Tiitu Andronicm, p. 813 of the preaent TolanM.)
P. 673. (iog) " war"
" Papio I ' your.-" Walker's Cril. Ejcam. Ac. toI. iiL p. 2*1.
P. G78. (109) " Whojn, though in general part ic^ were ofipot'if, Yet our old lore had a partieutar force, And made ui apeak tike/riendt ,-" This irregular constmction — or rather, no con stmction — "Whoa," ie defended bj Malone. — Haiimer printed "And, thotighin general part," *o.; and Mr.
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>0TB8.] TIMON OF ATHENS. 607
Binget wonld read " When, thm^h on Bevertkl part," Ao.— In the second Une the folio haM " Yet our old loue mads apartieatarforee ;" the tranBuriher or printer IisTiiig oaoght " made" from the next line : Huuner Bobetitnted
P. 67B. (ho)
" Sold. By aU deteriptioi
Somt btMl rtar'tl thit ; here doet not lice a nian," &e. So the passage iras oorreoted by Tfaeobald at Warbnrton's snggestioD (and Mr. Collier's Us. Carreetor aleo glres "Tear'd"). — Thefoliohss " SomeBeatt reade thit ; There do'* not tiu< a JkTan."
In Ut. Btiniitoii's edition this speech and the annotation on it stand aa
' ' ' Bold. Bj all desoription this shonld be the place. Who's here 1 apeak, ho I— No answer r What ia this r [Rtadel TmaH la dkis I — who* hath oublralcA'd hit $pan, — So«4 beatt — read thie ; there does not live a nion.'' Dead, snre, and this his grnTs : what'e on this tomb I eannot read ; the character I'll take with wsji ; Onr eapt^n hath in evcrj fgnre skill, '°&e. ■ Who hath, Ae.] That is, whoever hath, &e. * Tmoir IB DBij> I — telle hath ontitrttch'd hit epan, — Sonebeatt — readthie: there doei not live a nun.] Of the many emme- -eas Interpretations of SbakeqieaiB's text for which his oommentaton are re- ■ponsible, none perhaps is so remarkable, and, at the sftme time, so snpremely ridlcolona, as that into which theyhaTe lapsed with regard to the abore pasa- age. Not peroeiring — what it seems scarcelf passible from the lines them- BelTes and their context to miss — that this oonplet is an inscription by Timos to indicate his death and p<nnt to the epitaph on his tomh, they hare inrari- ably printed it as a portion of the soldier's speech, and thns represented him as tnitwithropieJ as the hero of the piece 1 Nor was this absurdity ■nffident : OS, says Warbnrtos, ' The soldier had yet only seen the rude pile of earth heaped np for Timon's grave, and not the iniaiption npon it,' we shonld read
' Some beast rear'd this ;' and he prints it accordingly. And becanse ' onr poet certainly wonld not nmke the soldier call on a heast to read the inscription before he had informed the andjence that he could not read it himself ; which he does a/I<rwardi,' Halone Adopts Warbnrton'a reading, and every editor since follows his jndldoDs ex- ample I What is still more amusing, too, Ur, Collier, who has claimed for his mysterions annotator tbree-tonrtfas of the most aonte of modem emenda- tions, assigns this preaions > restoration' to him also I We are oniiona to know whether he derived it from some mannscript copy of the play, or merely from the traditions of the stage.
' Oar eaplain hath in eiier]/ figure liiU;] We are ohvionsly to ander- sland that the insonlptnre on Uie tomb, lyilike the inscription which he haa jnst read, is in a langnage the soldier was ntiaeqnaiuted wilh.''
1. I certainly have no pleasure in maintaining ano^nion directly opposed
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1« Uukt ot Ur. SUnntOD : but J differ from'Um lohi eato in the peenlur view 1m tftkei of the premiit pasasge. I beliefs that the two litiM, — whioh the folio- ItiTM pointed exactly tAiu, and printed (with the eioeption of the dmm) to Roman, not in ilalie type, —
" Tynum is dead, who hath ont-itretcht hii apan, SwDe Beast leado thia ; There do's not line a Maa,"^ are a portion of the Soldier's speech, not an inacriptioii ; and, rooreorer, that Warborton and the Ha. Corrector were qnite ri^t in anbatitnting "rcor'iT'far "reade" (a miapmit which might haTO been ooeasiDDed bfthe Kribe'a or tlio eompoeitor'fl eye retting do the word " read" jnst below, in the next line but
S. As here the Boldier aajs to himself,
" I'lman it dead, who hath ontstretch'd his span," BO in the next scene, when he deliTen to Aldbiades the impresaoo cf tlift epitaph taken in wax, he says,
" Uj noble general, Timon ii dead."
t). Besides this couplet {and its qnaintness might lead ns to suppose that Shakespeare adopted it, as he appears to have done other passages ot the plaf, from some older drama on the stoiy of Timon), we have a second couplet at the close of the i^sent speech, ehoct u it is.
4- I interpret the words of the Soldier thne ; " B; aD description this shotdd be the place Mhn-«7niii ilirvctAJ to JlndTimon.— Who's here? speak, hoi — No answer*— Whstis Qtisf a lepulchral mound of earth .' TAra Tinum is dead, who has ontstretched his span : and ft wtmU ofiMMt letai that some beast reared this mound, for here does not lire a man to have done lo. Yet, Ac if dead, iore, and this bis grvve," fto.
G. The lines which Shakespeare makes Aldbiades read in the oonolnding speech ot the play, " Here litt a icrttched cone," Ae., are found, teith the Sif~ ference of a tingle aord ("wretohes" instead o/' " caitiA"), inThe Life ofAn- rcnv apod Kotth's PIntareh ; but neither in that Life, nOT in the noral on the anhject of Timon in Painter's Palace of Pleasure, — with which also Shake- speare was donbtless acquainted, — is there the remotest bint of " an inscrip- tion hj Timon to indicate his desth and p<nnt to the ejdtaph on his tomb,"
fl. I think it qnite plain that the insanlptnte on Timon's tomb is in the cMnmon language ot the coonti?, and that it is nnlntelligible to the Boldier onlf beoauso he cannot read an; sort of writing (in the next scene he eonf esses his ''poor ignoranee"). Why should Timon engraTe his ej^taph in charac- ters which were to be deciphered by the learned alone T
P. fi73. (ill) •'itrong,"
Walker proposes " stntig" (C7rif. Exam. Ao. vid. iL p. 167).
P. 674. (iia) " To tcipe out oar ingratiludtt uiith lovei Above (AWr gnantily." The folio has " Ingratitude. "—" Read [with Capell] •insratitadei ;' for it Is fc> this thai ' Ihrir' refnv, not to ' nvei.' " Walker's Crit. Exan. ice. vol. i.
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BOTBH.] TIMON OP ATHENS. 609
p. 263. (WuIniTton referred " thtir" to " ragei ,-" IStitme, most sbinrdlj, to " griefs.")~hi Tteihtt and Crettida, t- 67 of thepresenl volnme.waliiTe tiie plnral " ingratiludtt."
P. 67*. {ii 3) " nwan* ."
Altered by Theobtld to " 'meaili."
P.674.(»i4) "grUf,:"
" The old eopj has > grief;' bat, as the 8eiut(^ in liis preeeding Bpeeoh luw the plan], 'griff wm probkUy here ui enor of the preM [or of the tnui- ■eiiber]. The correction wu made bj Ilr. Theobald." Mu.OHS.
P. 671. (iij) "Ttvenga:"
"Olioopj'revtTige' CotT«at«d by Ur. SteeTena. See the preceding apoeoh."
P. 676. (»i6} "Dtteend,"
So the second folio. — The flnt folio has *> Defend."
P. S76. (117) "rendtT'd to your public lav»"
The foUo has " remedied (a (our," fto. ; which the editor of the second (olio altcKd to "remedied bj your," &o. — Mason saw (what the earlier critioa onght to have seen) that here "remedied" was an error for "rmder'd."
P. 676. (lit) " InttrpTeU for my poor igtioranet,"
Pope printed " loterpreteth /or," Ike. — Malone de(d»ret that here "]>oor"ig »
disajllable. — " FQasiblj ' poorer ignorance ;' thongh this seems most
improbable." Walker's Crit. Exam. *o. toI. ii. p. 64 ; where Walker's editor ohserTM in a note ; " Bnt compare Mawinger, [Unnatural Combat, ir. 1, Oif- ford, Tol. L p. 193;
' Or twine mine arms abont her softer neck,' and GifTord's note."
P. 576. (119) " our braini' flow,"
Here, sajs Walker (Crit. Exam. ice. vol. ii. p. 109), " ' brain' tot • braiat' wonld be modern, not Elizabethan, English."
P. 576, (110) "On Iky Jm) grave, on faulu forgiaen. Dead;* tea. "Inspect that we ought to read ' [On thy low grave.] Ons/ault'i forgiTen. — Dead,' Ac. One faalt [fii. the ingratitade of the Athenians to Timoo) ia fOrgiTen, i. e. exempted from pnnishment by the death of the injured per- son." TiBWHiTT. — "Tyrwhitt'B emendation is nnqoestionably right. Ho TOL. TI. BB
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610 TDION OF ATHENS. [nous.
HttsbetoTj expUuiktion eaa be f^en of the wocdi ' on faulU forgiven-' 0» tot one la frequent in the folia. ... In the pteMut inetanoe the ' On' at fbe beginning of the line mej haTe facilitated the eiror. Timon'B injnriea had been ooe of the two impelliiiR motiTei ot Alcibiadea's attack on Athena, t. 3 ;
From AleiMadeg to Timan'a caTe,
With lettera of entreaty, wbioh Imported
Hii feUomhlp i' the came against yonr city,
la part for his sake mov'd.' And ag^n, a litUa preriona to the paaaage before na ;
* TboM enemieB of Timou'a, and mine own.
Whom yon yonreelyes ihall set ont for reproof.
Fall, and no more.' Hence it was natural and neoemarj that, on reoeiTing the newa of Timon's death, he ahoDld make acme inch obecrration BB the preaenL It may be added, that, many of the ofTendera being already removed by death, (' nor are tliey liviag
Who were the matiTes Uiat yon flret went out,') Timou'B death atiil farther ditniniaheg the nnmber of victimB reqiured, and bringa the cataatrophe atill nearer to that repose — a 'glooming* one in Uiis case, it ia tme, for none other was posaible"— with nbiefa Shakespeare always oondades hia dramas. The rhythm, too, ia improred by the change." Wal- ker'a Crit. Exam. £c. toI. ill. p. 341.
P.E76. (Ml) "vM"
" We ihonld, I think, read ' ttritw.' " Walker's Crit. Exam. fte. T<d. ilL p. 218.
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JULIUS C^SAR.
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JULIUS C£SAB.
Final printed in the folio of 1623. — Mr. CoUiet [Introd. toJaUut Ca$ar} has gone tax to pnrre that thia plaj was acted ^fore 1603. In tliBt J««r Drafton pnbHahed his Banmi' Wan, — a complete Hfacimtnto of his ilorti- lueriadot, 1596,— luid in Book iii. of the reoBt poem is the folloving stanza ; " Snch one he itbb, of >iim we boldjj say, la wboie lich boqI bU BOrereign porers did snit, In whom In peMe the eUmenli all lag So mix'd, aa none oonld Borereigntj impnte ; As all did garem, yet all did obey : Bis livelr temper was ao Hbeolate That 't seem'd, when hearen hia model first began, In him it Bhow'd]m/(etion in a man." Nov the abore linea bear snch a reeemblancc to a posBBge in Jufi'iu Cittarr
" Hia life wu gentle ; and ilit elemtnti So mix'd in him, that Nature night stand np And say to all the wwld, ' Thie wat a man.'' "^ that one of the two poets mnst have borrowed from the other; and few wiU dissent from Mr. Collier's opinion Uiat the borrower was Draj^a, who had become acquainted with Shalieapeare's play either by haTing heard it at the theatre, or b; having read it in manuBcript : this is rendered the more likely, aa Mr. Collier obeeires, by " the fact, that in the anbaequent impiesaions of ' The Barons' Wars,' in 1605, 1607, 1608, 1610, and 1613, the stanza re- mained precisely as in the edition ol 1G03 ; hat in 1619, after Shakeipeare'e death and before ' Jnllns Cnaar' was printed, DraytoD made even « nearei- approaoh to the words of his original, thus ;
' He was a man, then boldly dare to say. In whose rich soul the virtnes well did suit ; In whom (o mix'd the eitmtnti did lay. That none to one conld sovereignty impute ; As all did goreni, so did all obey : He of a temper was so ahsolnte. As that it Bscm'd, when Nature him began. She meant to show all that might be in man.' " — It appear* from Henslowe's Diarg (p. 921, ed. Shakespeare Boe.), that iu Uay 1603 (at which time perhaps Bhakespeare had prodnced hia tragedy), " Antoney Monday and Mihell Drayton, Webester, Mydett«n and the Best" were employed on a piece called Caiar'i l-'atl. As to Lord Stirling's Jittiut Caiar, which was first printed in 1604, Mr. Collier (uiii tupra] remarks ; " the resemhlanceB [between it aud oar anther's Juliai Ccnar] ate by no means Btimerons or obrioas, and probably not more than may be aooonnted for by the fact that two writers were treating the same snbjeot." — Thr*ngh- ont Uiii play Shakespeare is mainly indebted to Iforth's Ptvtarch (trans-
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JUUU8 CiESAR GU
lated &om the Fioaoh of Amlot) : bat it is not improbable that there was s maeh earlier English druaa aboat Julius Cesar, from whieh he may have ilerived something.
18GS. According to Mr. Hallinoll [Inlrod. to Jaliui Caiar), this play iTBB written by Shakeepeare " in or before the year 1601, as appears from the following linea in Wecver's Mirror of MaHyn, printed in that year, — lines which nnquGstionably are to be traced to a reoollectioil of Shakespeare's (trama, not to that of the history as given by Plntareh ; ' The nmiiy-headed mnltitnde were drawne By Brntos' speech, that Cwaar was ambitions( When eloqneDt Mark Antonio had showne His Tortnes, who bnt Bratns then was Tioione?' "
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MU^nton i^^unat Joliiu Ctecar.
DRAHATIB PEB80K£.
Jduds Cxur.
ocmtius cxmx, \
HiscDs Ahtonidb, ( tiinmTiia After the death of Jnlios G
ClCIBO, 1
PcBUCB, I seuton.
POFIUDS LSHA, J
Uaxcdb BSVTUI, CUBIUB,
Cuci,
TUBOICICS,
Iiioixtva, Deciub Bbiticb, Hbtbllds Cikber,
Flavidb uid MutoLLva, tribnnei.
AxiBHiDOBVS, « eophiat of CnidoB.
A Bootha^jrer.
CimiA, a poet.
Anotber Poet.
Ldciucs,
TniHius,
Yonng CiTO,
VOLDHSICS, TiBEO,
CL&tmiira,
PlMDiBVB, MTTlUlt to CBBaiDB.
CurHDBHU, wife of Cicsar. PoBTU, wite to BrotoB.
Benatora, Citiiens, Guaida, Attendants, Ac.
BcEHS — during a grtat part 0/ tht play at Bome; aflerteardt titar Sor<ft<- and near FMlippi.
■ friends to Bratoa knd Caedos.
Beiranta to Brntna.
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JULIUS C^SAR.
ACT I.
Scene I. Rotne. A street. Enter Flatiob, MAUDLLoa, <" and a rabble 0/ Citizens.
Flav. Hence I home, yoa idle creatorea, get yon borne : la UiiB a holiday ? what ! know yon not. Being mechanical, yon onght not walk Upon a labonring day withont the sign Of yonr profeBsion ? — Speak, what trade art then ?
Firet Cit. Why, sir, a carpenter.
Mar. Where is thy leather apron and thy mle ? What doBt thou with thy best apparel on ? — Yon, sir, what trade are yon ?
Sec. Cit. Tmly, sir, in respect of a fine worknaan, I am bat, as yon would say, a cobbler.
Afar. Bnt what trade art thoa ? answer me directly.
Sec. Cit. A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad boIab.
Mar, What trade, thon knave ? thou naughty knaye, what trade?®
See. Cit. Nay, I beseech yon, sir, be not ont with me : yet, if yon be ont, sir, I can mend yon.
Mar. What meanest thon by that ? mend me, thon saacy fellow t
See. Cit, Why, sir, cobble yon.
Flav. Thon art a cobbler, art thon ?
Sec. Cit, Tmly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl : I meddle with** no tradesman's matters, nor women's matters.
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616 JULIDS C^BAB. [ici t.
but with awl. I fttn, indeed, sir, a snrgeon to old Bhoes; when they are in great daoger, I re-cover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neats-Ieather have gone npon my handiwork.
Flav. But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day ? Why doBt thou lead these men about the streets ?
Sec. Cit. Truly, sir, to wear out their shoea, to get my- self into more work. Bat, indeed, sir, we make holiday, to - see Cieear, and to rejoice in bis triumph.
Mar. Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings be home? What tributaries follow him to Bome, To grace in captiyo bonds his chariot-wheels ? You blocks, yon stones, you worse than senseless things ! 0 you hard hearts, yon cmel men of Borne, Knew you not Pompey ? Many a time and oft Have you cllmb'd up to walls and battlements. To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Yonr infants in your arms, and there have sat The hve-long day, with patient expectation. To see great Pompey pass the streets of Bome : And when yoa saw his chariot but appear. Have yoa not made an universal, shout. That Tiber trembled underneath her banks. To hear the replication of your sounds Made in her concave shores 9 And do you now put on yonr best attire ? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood ? Be gone t
Bun to your houses, fall upon your knees. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Flav. Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault. Assemble all the poor men of yonr sort ; Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. ^Exeunt Citizens. See, wber their basest metal be not mov'd ! They Tanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. Go yoa down that way towards the Capitol ;
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This way will I : disrobe the images. If jon do fiod them deck'd with c
Mar. Ma; we do so ? Yoa know it is the feast of Lnpercal.
Flav, It is no matter ; let no images Be hnng with Ctesar's trophies. I'll abont, And drive away the Tolgar from the streets : So do yoa too, where yoa peroeire them thick. These f^wing feathers pitick'd from Ctesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch ; Who else woald soar above the view of men. And keep as all in servile fearfolness. \^Exeunt.
Scene II. The same. A public place.
Enter, in proeeseion, willi Tnusie, GJESAit; Astosy, for the eourte ; Calpburnia,** Portia, Decidb,'" Cicero, Brdtus, Cassios, aiul Casca; agreat crowd follMeing, among t/iem a Soothsftycr.
Cos. Calpharnia, —
Catea. Peace, ho ! Cesar speaks.
\^Music cea»et.
Cat. Calpharnia, —
Cal. Hero, my lord.
Cat. Stand yoa directly in Antonias'"' way. When he doth ran his coarse. — ^Antonias, —
Ant. Ctesar, my lord ?
Caa. Forget not, in yonr speed, Aatonins, To tonch Calpharnia ; for oat elders say. The barren, touched in this holy chase. Shake off their sterile corse.
Ant. I shall remember :
When Ctesar says " Do this," it is perform 'd.
Caa. Set on ; and leave no ceremony oat. [iU tuic.
Sooth. Cfflsart
Cas. Ha ! who calls ?
Caaca. Bid every noise be still : — ^peaoe yet again I
[Music eeatet.
Ctet, Who is it in the press that calls on me ?
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I hear a tODgue, shriller than all tha muaic. Cry " Gieaar." Speak; Cresar la tnra'd to hear.
Sooth. Beware the ides of March.
Caa. yihst man ia that ?
Bru, A soothsayer bids you heware the ides of March.
C'as. Set him hefore me; let me see his face.
Cass. Fellow, come from the throng; look npon Casar.
Cos. What say'st thou to me now ? speak once again.
Sooth. Beware the ides of Maj-ch.
Cas. He is a dreamer ; let ns leare him : — pass.
[Sennet. Exeunt aU except Brutus and Caaaius.
Cass. Will yoa go see the order of the course ?
Bru. Not I.
Cass. I pray yon, do.
Bru. I am not gamesome : I do lack some part Of that quick spirit that is in Antony. Let me not hinder, Cassias, your desires ; I'll leave you.
Cass. Brutus, I do observe you now of late : I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have : Yoa bear too stubborn and too strange a Hand Over your friend that loves you.
Bru. Cassiufl,
Be not deceiv'd : if I have veil'd my look, I turn the troable of my conntenance Merely upon myself. VexM I am. Of late, with passions of some difference, Conceptions only proper to myself, Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviours ;^ Bat let not therefore my good friends be griev'd, — Among which number, Cassias, be you one, — Nor construe any further m^ neglect, Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war. Forgets the shows of love to other men.
Cass. Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion ; By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations. Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face ? Bru. No, Caseins ; for the eye sees not itself
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■cuts u.] JULUB csa&s. 01»
Bat l^ reflection from some other thing.*^'
Catg. 'TisjoBt: And it is very mach lamented, Bratns, That you have no each mirror* as will torn Yoor hidden worthinees into yonr eye, That yon might see yonr shadow. I have heard, Where many of the best respect in Bome, — Except immortal Ccesar, — speaking of Bmtas, And groaning nndemeath thia age's yoke, Have wish'd that noble BmtuB had his eyes.
Bra. Into what dangers wonld yon lead me. Cassias, That yon wonld have me seek into myself For that which is not in me ?
Catt. Therefore, good Bmtns, he prepar'd to hear : And, since yoa know yoa cannot see yoorself So well as by reflection, I, your glass. Will modestly discover to yonrself That of yoorself which yon yet know not of. And be not jealous on me, gentle BrntoB ; Were I a common laugher,""' or did Qse To stale with ordinary oaths my love To eTery new protester ; if yon know That I do fawn on men, and hog them hard. And after scandal them ; or if yoa know That I profess myself in banqneting To all the roat, then hold me daogerons. [Flourish and about.
Bra. What means this sbonting? I do fear, the people Choose Cffisar for their king.
Caia. Ay, do you fear it ?
Then mast I think yoa wonld not have it so.
Bra. I wonld not, CassioB; yet I lore him well. — Bat wherefore do yoa ho^d me here so long? What is it that yoa wonld impart to me ? If it he aoght toward the general good, Set honoar in one eye, and death i' th' other. And Z will look on both indifTerently ; For, let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honoar more than I fear death.
Can. I know that virtae to be in yon, Bmtas, As well aa I do know yoor outward favoar.
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Well, bonoar is the sabject of my story. —
I cannot tell what yoa and other men
Think of this life ; ba^, for my single self,
I had as lief not bo as lira to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
I was bom free as Csesar ; so were yon :
We both have fed as veil ; and we can both
Endnre the winter's cold as well as he :
For once, npon a raw and gnsty day,
The tronbled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Ctesar said to me, " Dar'st thon. Cassias, now
Leap in with me into this sngry flood.
And awim to yonder point ?" Upon the word,
Accontred as I was, I plunged in.
And bade him follow: so, indeed, he did.
The torrent roar'd ; end we did bnffet it
With Insty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controTersy:
But ere we could arrive the point propos'd,
Cffisar cried, " Help me, Cassias, or I sink !"
I, as ^neas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy npon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waveB of Tiber
Did I the tired Cteear : and this man
Is now become a god ; and Cassias is
A wretched creature, and mast bend his body.
If Cffisar carelessly bat nod on him.
He had a fever when he was in Spun,
And, when the fit was on hioi, I did mark
How he did shake : 'tis trae, this god did shake :
His coward lips did from their colonr fly ;
And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world,
Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan :
Ay, and that tongue of bis, that bade the Bomana
Mark him, and write his speeches in their books,
Alas, it cried, " Give me some drin^, Titinins,"
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me,
A man of snch a feeble temper shoald
So get the start of the majestic world.
And bear the palm alone. IFlourish and shout.
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Bni. Another general Bhoat ! I do belieTO that these applaoBea are For Bome new honours that are heap'd on Cnsar.
Cass. Why, man, be doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossns ; and we petty men Walk nnder his huge legs, and peep abont To find oarselves disbononrable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fanlt, dear Bratns, is not in oar stars, Bnt in oorselres, that we are nnderlings. Brntns, and Oiesar : what should be in that Cesar ? Why should that name be soanded more than yonrs ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ;"" Soand them, it doth become the month as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'cm, BmtQB will start a Bpirit as soon as Cffisar. Now, in the names of all, the gods at once. Upon what meat doth this oar Ciesar feed, That he is grown so great ? Age, tbon art sham'd ! Bome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, Bnt it was fam'd with more than with one man ? When conld they say, till now, that talk'd of Bome, That her wide walls encompass'd but one man ?"*' Kow is it Bome indeed, and room enough. When there is in it bnt one only man, O, yon and I have heard our fathers say. There was a Bmtas once that would have brook'd Th' eternal devil to keep his state in Bome Ab easily as a king.
Bru. That you do love me, I am nothing jealous ; What you wonld work me to, I have some aim : How I have thought of this, and of these times, I shall recount hereafter ; for this present, Z would not, BO with love I might entreat you, Be any further mov'd. What you have said, I will consider ; what you have to say, I will with patience hear ; and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things. Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this ;
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Brutus had rather bo a villager Than to reptite himself a son of Rome Under these hard conditiona as this time Ib like to lay apon us.
CasB. I am glad
That my weak words have etrnck bnt thns mnch show Of fire from Bratns.
Bru. .The games are done, and Cteaar is retaming.
Cass. Ab they pass by, plack Casca by the sleeve ; And he will, after his soar fashion, tell yoa What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
Ee-eaier CiBSAS lotth his Train.
Brti. I will do ho : — but, look yon, Cassins, The angry spot doth glow on Cfesar's hrow, And all the rest look like a chidden train : Galphnmia's cheek is pale ; and Cicero Looks with sach ferret and snch fiery eyes As we have seen him in the Capitol, Being crosa'd in conference by some senator."**
Case. Casca will tell ns what the matter is.
C<S8. Antonins, — •
Ant. Cesar?
Cirs. Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and snch as sleep o' nights : Yond Cassias has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too mnch : snch men are dangerons.
Ant. Fear him not, Ceesor ; he's not dangerons ; He is a noble Roman, and well given.
Cat. Wonld he were fatter I — but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassias. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no playa, Aa thou dost, Antony; he hears no muatc: Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in sach a sort As if he mock'd himself, and scom'd his spirit That could be mov'd to smile at any thing. Such men aa he be never at heart's ease
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Whiles they behold a greater than themselveB ; And therefore are they very dangerons. I rather tell thee what is to b6 fear'd Than what I fear, — for always I am CfBsar. Come OQ my right hand, for this ear ia deaf, And tell me tmly what thon tbiok'st of him.
[Exevnt Caaar and aU Ma Train, except Catca,
Caaca. Yoa poll'd me by the cloak; wonld yon speak wiUl me?
Bra. Ay, Casoa; tell as what hath ohanc'd to-day, That Cffisar looks so sad.
Caaca. Why, yon were with him, were yon not ?
Bru. I shodld not; then, ask C&bco, what had chano'd.
Caaca, Why, there was a crown offered him ; and being offered him, he pnt it by with the back of his hand, thus ; and then the people fell a-ebooting.
Bra. What was the second noise for?
Caaca. Why, for that too.
Caas. They shouted thrice : what wan the last cry for ?
Caaca, Why, for that too.
Bru, Was the crown offered him thrice ?
Caaca. Ay, marry, was't, and he pnt it by thrioe, every time gentler than other; and at every pnttinj^-hy mine honest n«ghboars shouted.
Caas. Who offered him the crown ?
Caaca. Why, Antony.
Bru. Tell na the manner of it, gentle Gasca.
Caaca, I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it : it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown ; — yet 'twas not a crown neither, 'twas one of these coronets; — and, as I told yon, he pnt it by once: bat, for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again ; then he pnt it by again : bnt, to my thinking, he was vety loth to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered it the third time ; he pnt it the third time by : and atill as he refnsed it, the rabhlemeut shouted,''*' and clapped their chapped hands, and threw np their sweaty nightcaps, and nttered snch a deal of stinking breath be- caose Cssar refused the crown, that it had almost choked CieBar ; for he swooned,''*' and fell down at it : and for mine
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own part, I durst not langh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
Com. Bat, aoft, I pray yon : what, did Cieaar swoon ?
Caaca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at month, and was Bpeechlees.
Bru. 'Tis very like ; — he hath the falling-sicknesB."*^'
Caaa. No, CieBar hath it not : hnt yon, and I, And honest Cases, we have the folling-sickness.
Caaca. I know not what yon mean by that; hnt, I am Bnre, Csesar fell down. If the tag-tsg people did not clap him and hiss him, according ae he pleased and displeased them,, as they o&e to do the players in the theatre, I am no tmo man.
Brti. What said he when he came unto himself?
Caeca. Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope his donblet, and offered them his throat to cat: — an I had been a man of any occupation, if I wonld not have taken him at s word, I woald I might go to hell among the rognes : — and so he fell. When he came to himself again, he said, If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or fonr wenches, where I stood, cried, " Alas, good soul !" and for- gave him with all their hearts : bat there's no heed to be taken of them ; if Cssar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.
Bra. And after that, he came, thus sad, away ?
Caaca. Ay.
Cass. Did Cicero say any thing ?
Casca. Ay, he spoke Greek.
Cass. To what effect?
Casca. Kay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you i' the face again : but those that understood him smiled at one another, and shook their heads ; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more news too : Marol- Ins and Flavius, for pnUing scarfs off Cfesar's images, are pat to silence. Fare you well. There was more foolery yet, if I could remember it.
Cass. Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?
Casca. No, I am promised forth.
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Cms. Wai you dine with me to-morrow?
Casca. Ay, if I be alire, and yoar mind liold,^" and yoar dinner worth the eating.
Com. Good ; I will expect yon.
Catca. Do bo : farewell, both. [_E3^t.
Bru. What a blaot fellow ia this grown to be ! He wae quick mettle"" when he went to school.
Cats. So is be now, in ezecation Of any bold or noble enterpriae, However be pots on this tardy form. This rudeness is a sance to his good wit. Which gires men stomach to digest"*' hia words With better appetite.
Bru. And so it is. For this time I will leaye yos : To-morrow, if yon please to speak, with me, I will conle home to yon ; or, if yon will, Oome home to me, and I will wait for yon.
Cass. I will do so: — till then, think of the world.
[Exit Brutus. Well, BrntoB, tboa art noble ; yet, I see. Thy bononrable metal may be wrongbt From that it is diapos'd : therefore 'tis meet That noble miuda keep ever with their likes ; For who so firm that oannot be aedao'd ? Ciesar doth bear me hard; bat he lores Bmtns : If I were Brntna now, and be were Cassina, He shonld not bnmonr me. I will this night, In several hands, in at hia windows throw, As if they came from seyeral citizens. Writings, all tending to the great (pinion That Rome holds of hia name ; wherein obacorely Cseaar's ambition shall be glancM at : And, after this, let Ctesar seat him sere ; For we will shake him, or worse days endure. lExit,
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Scene m. The same. A street.
TTtunder and lightning. Enter, Jhmt opposite sides, CiSOA, with his sumrd drawn, and Ciokbo.
CU. Good even, Casca: brought yon Caasar home? Why are yon breathlesB ? and why stare yon bo ?
Caeca. Are not yon moy'd, when all the away of earth Shakes like a thing nnfirm ? O Cicero, I have Been tempeetB, when the scolding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaka ; and I have seen Th' ambitions ocean swell and rage and foam, To be exalted with tho threatening clonds : Bnt never till to-night, never till now. Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. Either there is s civil strife in heaven ; Or else the world, too sancy with the gods, InceoseB them to send deetmction.
Cie. Why, saw yon any thing more vronderfnl ?
Casca. A common slave — yon know him**** well by sight- Held np his left hand, which did fiame and bnm Like twenty torches join'd ; and yet his hand. Not sensible of fire, remain'd nnscorch'd. Besides, — I ha' not since pot op my sword, — Against the Capitol I met a lion, Who glar'd**" upon me, and went surly by. Without annoying me : and there were drawn Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women. Transformed with their fear ; who swore they saw Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets. And yesterday the bird of night did sit Even at noonday upon the market-place. Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say, " These are their reasons,"" — they are natoral ;" For, I believe, they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon.
Cic. Indeed, it is a strange-disposM time : But men may construe things after their fashion.
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Clean &om the purpose of the things themselveB. -ComeB Ciesar to the Oapitol to-morrow ?
Catca. He doth ; for he did hid Antocina Seed word to yon be would be there to-monon.
Cic. Good night, then, Casca : this distnrbM sky Ib not to walk in.
Gatca. Farewell, Cicero, [Exit CicerOf
Enter Cassius.
Cass. Who's aiere ?
Catca. A Boman.
Cats. Casca, by your Yoioe.
Caxta, Your ear is good. CaBsias, what night ia thia V"*
Cats. A very pleaeing night to honest men.
Casca. Who ever knew the heaTens menace so ?
Caaa. Those that have known the earth bo fall of faults. For my part, I have walk'd about the streeta, Submitting me unto the perilous night; And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see. Have bar'd my bosom to the tbander-stone : And when the crosB blue lightning aeem'd to open The breast of heaven, I did present myself Even in the aim and very flash of it.
Catca. But wherefore did yoa so much tempt the heavens ? It is the part of men to fear and tremble. When the tnoat mighty gode, by tokens) send Sncb dreadful heralds to astonish as.
Cats. You are dull, Caeca ; and those ^arka of Ufe That should be in a Roman yoa do want. Or elBe you use not. Yon look pale, and goae. And put on fear, and case yourself in wonder,***' To see the strange impatience of the heavens : But if yon would consider the trne caase Why [dl these Srea, why all these gliding ghoata, Why birds and beasts from quality and kind ; Why old men fool,'**' and children calculate ; Why all these things change, from their ordinance. Their natareB, and pre-formed faculties. To mouBtroua quality; — why, you shall find That heaven hath infus'd them with these spirits.
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To make them ittBtmmeatB of fear and wanung
Unto some monstrons state.
Now coold I, Casca, name to thee a man
Most like this dteadftil night,<**>
That thtrnders, lightene, opens graTes, and roars
As doth the lion in the Capitol, —
A man no mightier than thyself or me
In personal action ; jei prodigioas grown.
And fearfnl, aa these strange emptions are.
Casca. 'Tis CieBar that jon mean ; is it not, Gassins ?
Cast. Let it be who it is : for Romans now Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors ; Bat, woe the while ! our fathers' minds are dead, And we are goTem'd with our mothers' spirits ; Onr yoke and sufferance show ns womanish.
Catca. Indeed, they say the senators to-morrow Mean to establish Geesar as a king ; And he shall wear his crown by sea and land. In every place, sare here in Italy.
Cats. I know where I will wear this dagger, then ; Cassins from bondage will deliver Cassias : Therein, ye gods, yoa make the weak most strong ; Therein, ye gods, yon tyrants do defeat : Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass. Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. Can be retentive to (he strength of spirit ; Bat life, being weary of these worldly bars. Never lacks power to dismiss itself. If I know this, know all the world besides. That part of tyranny that I do bear I can shake off at pleasare. \Tkunder ttiU.
Casca. So can I :
So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.
Cast. And why shonld Geesar be a tyrant, then 7 Poor man I I know he would not be a wolf, Bat that he sees the Bomans are but sheep : He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. Those that with haste will make a mighty fire Begin it with weak straws : what trash is Borne,
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Wh&t rnbbiBh, and what o£hI, when it serreB For the baee matter to illominate So vile a thing as Ctssai! Bst, 0 grief, Where haat thoa led me ? I perhaps speak this Before a villing boodman : then I know My answer mnst be made ; bat I am arm'd. And dangers are to me indifferent.
Caeca. Yoa speak to Casca ; and to such a man That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand ;^" Be factions for redreae of all these griefs ; And I will set this foot of mine as far As who goes farthest.
Cats. There's a bargain made.
Kow know yon, Casca, I have mov'd already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To nndergo with me an enterprise Of hononrable-dangeronB couseqnence ; And I do know, by ibis, they stay^for me In Pompey's porch : for now, this fearfal night, There is no stir or walking in the streets ; And the complexion of the element In tsTonr's like'*^ the work we have in hand, Most bloody-fiery^*' and most terrible,
Casca. Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.
Cass, Tis Cinna, — I do know him by his gait; He is a friend.
Enier Cirma. Cinna, where haste yon so ?
Cin. To find oat yoa. Who's that? Metellas Cimber?
Cass. No, it is Casca ; one incorporate To oar attempt.**" Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?
Cin. I'm glad on't. What a fearfal night is tiiis ! There's two or three of as have seen strange sights.
Cass. Am I not stay'd for ? tell me.
Cin. Yea, yoa are. — ■
G Cassias, if yoa conld Bat win the noble Brntas to oar party —
Cass. Be yon content : good Cinna, take this paper, And look yoa lay it in the pnetor'a chair. Where Bratas may bat find it;'"' and throw this
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In at hiB window; set this tip with wax
Upon old Bratna' atatae : all this done,
Repair to Fompey'a porch, where yon ahall find ne.
la DecioB Bmtns and Treboniua there ?
Cin. All bnt Metellns Ciinber; and he'a gone To Beek yon at your honae. Well, I will hie. And ao beatow these papers as yon bade me.
Cass. That done, Tepair to Pompey's theatre.
[Exit Cinva, Come, Casca, yon and I will yet, ere day. See Brntna at bis honse : three parts of him Is onrs already; and the man entire, Upon the next encounter, yields him onra.
Casca. 0, he sita high in all the people's hearts : And that which wonld appear offence in na. His countenance, like ticbeat alchemy. Will change to virtae and to worthineaa.
Oati. Him, and hia woptb, and onr great need of him, Yon have right well conceited. Let ns go. For it is after midnight ; and, ere day, We will awake him, and be snre of him. \ExeimU
SoxNE I. Rome. Brutus'b orchard. Enter Bhutub. Bru. What, Lncins, ho !— I cannot, by the progresa of the stars, Give gneas bow near to day. — ^Lucins, I say! — I wonld it were my fanlt to sleep ao soundly. — When, Lncias, wbeo ? awake, I say t what, Lncina I
Enter Lucius. hue. Gall'd yoa, my lord ? Bra. Get me a taper in my study, Lacias : When it is lighted, come and call me here.
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Lae. I will, my lord. [Exit.
Bra. It must be by hia death : and, for my part, I kuow no personal canse to spam at him. But for the general. He would be crown'd : — How that might change his nature, there's the qnestion : It is the bright day that brings forth the adder ; And that craves wary walking. Crown him ? — that ; — And then, I grant, we pat a sting in him. That at his will he may do danger with. Th' abnae of greatness is, when it diBJoins Remorse from power ; and, to speak truth of Caesar, I have not known when his affections sway'd More than hie reason. But 'tis a common proof. That lowliness is young ambition's ladder. Whereto the climber-apward turns his fece ; But when he once attains the upmost round. He then unto the ladder tarns hie back. Looks in the oloads, scomiog the base degrees By which he did ascend : so Cfesar may ; Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the qaartel Will bear no colour for the thing he is, Fashion it thus ; that what he is, augmented. Would ran to these and these extremities ; And therefore think him as a serpent's egg. Which, hatch'd, wonld, as his kind, grow mischievous ; And kill him in the shell.
Se-enter Lucius.
Luc. The taper bnmeth in your closet, sir. Searching the window for a flint, I found [Givinff him a paper. This paper, thus Beal'd up ; and, I am sure. It did not lie there when I went to bed.
Bru. Get you to bed again ; it is not day. Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March ?""
Ltie. I know not, sir.
Bru. Look in the calendar, and bring me word.
I/ac. I will, sir. [^ExU.
Bru. The exhalations, whizzing in the air, Give so much light, that I may read by them.
[C^na the paper and readt.
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"Bratns, thou Bleep'et: Bnake, and see thyselL
Shall Borne, &c Speak, strike, redieas !" —
"Brutns, thou sleep'st: awake!" —
Such instigations bare been often dropp'd
Where I have took them ap.
" Shall Borne, &c." Thaa must I piece it oat ;
Shall Kome etand nnder one man's awe ? What, Rome ?
My ancestor^ did from the atreete of Rome
The Tarqoin drive, when he waa call'd a king.
" Speak, strike, redress !" — Am I entreated'**'
To speak and strike ? O Borne, I make thee promise.
If the redresB will follow, thon receirest
Thy fall petition at the hand of Brntas !
Se-enter Looins. Luc. Sir, March is wasted fourteen'*'' days.
[^Knocking within. Bru. 'Tis good. Qo to the gate; somebody knocks.
[Etdt Lucius. Since Caseins first did whet me against Crasar, I bare not slept.
Between the acting of a dreadfnl thing And the first motion, all tbe interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream : Tbe Oenina and tbe mortal instmments Are then in coancil ; and the state of man,"*' Like to a little kingdom, enfiera then Tbe nature of an insurrection.
Re-enter Logics.
Lac. Sir, 'tis your brother CaBsins at the door, Who doth desire to see yoa.
Bru. Is he alone ?
Ltic. No, air, there are more with bim.
Bru. Do you know them ?
Luc, No, sir; their bats are plnck'd abont their ears, And half their faces buried in their cloaks, That by no means I may discover them By any mark of favour.
Bru. Let 'em enter. [Exit Lucius.
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The; ftre ih« foetion. 0 eoDspiraey,
Sbam'st thoa to show thy dftngeroas brow by night.
When evils are most bee ? 0, then, b; day
Where vilt thon find * cavern dark enongb
To mask tby monstrous visage ? Seek none, conspiracy ;
Hide it in smiles and affability :
For if thon put thy native semblanee on,**"
Not Erebns itself were dim enough
To hide thee from prevention.
Enter Cassius, Casga, Deoios, Cinna, Meiellus Cimbeb, and
Cata. I think we are too bold npon your rest : Good morrow, BmtnB ; do we trouble yon ?
Bru. I have been np this hour ; awake all night. Know I these men that come along with yon ?
Cats. Yes, every man of them ; and do man here Bat honours yon ; and every one doth wieh Yoa had bat that opinion of yourself Which eveiy noble Boman bears of yon. This is TrehonioB.
Bru. He is welcome hither.
Cats. This, Decins Bmtns.
Bru. He is welcome too.
Cass. This,Casca; this, CHnna; and this, Metellus Cimber.
Bru. They are all welcome. — What watchfnl cares do interpose themselves Betwixt yoor eyes and night ?
Cass. Shall lentreat a word? [Brutus atulCatsiatwhitper.
Dec. Here lies the east : doth not the day break here 9
Catca. Ko. ' Cin. 0, pardon, sir, it doth ; and yon gray lines That fret the clonds are messengers of day.
Casca. Yoa shall confess that yoa are both deceiv'd. Here, as I point my sword, the sno arises ; Which is a great way growing on the sonth, Weighing the yoathM season of the year. Some two months hence, np higher toward the north He first presents his fire ; and the high east Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.
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Bm. Give me yoor hMida all over, one by one.
Cast. And let as awetuc our reBolution.
Bru. No, not an oath : if not the face"** of men. The Bofferance of our souls, the time's abuse, — If these be motives weak, break off betimes. And every man hence to his idle bed ; So let high-sighted tyranny range on, ■ Till each man drop by lottery. But if these, As I am sure they do, bear fire enough To kindle cowards, and to steel with valour The melting spirits of women ; then, coantrymen. What need we any spur, but our own cause, To prick us to redress ? what other bond Than secret Eomans, that have spoke the word. And will not palter ? and what other oath Than honesty to honesty engag'd, That this shall be, or we will fall for it ? Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelooB, Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls That welcome wrongs ; unto bad causes swear Such creatures as men doubt: hut do not stain The even virtue of our enterprise, Nor th' insnppressive mettle of our spirits. To think that or our cause or our performance Did need an oath ; when every drop of blood That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, Is guilty of a several bastardy. If he do break the smallest particle Of any promise that hath pass'd from him.
Cass. Bat what of Cicero ? shall we sound him ? I think he will stand very strong with us. Casca. Let us not leave him out. Cin. No, by no means.
Met. 0, let as have him ; for his alver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion. And buy men's voices to commend onr deeds : It shall be said, his judgment ml'd onr hands ; Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, Bat all be buried in his gravity.
Bru. O, name hira not : let ns not break with him ;
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For he will never follow any thing That other men begin.
CasB. Then leave him ont.
Caeca. Indeed be is not fit.
Dec. Shall no man else be touch 'd hat only Cffisar ?
Ca^a. Decius, well tirg'd : — I think it is not meet, Mark Antony, so well belov'd of Ciesar, Should outliTe CteBar: we shall find of him A shrewd contriver ; and, yon know, his means, If he improve them, may well stretch so far As to annoy ns all : which to prevent. Let Antony and Caesar fall together.
Bru. Our coarse will seem too bloody, Gains GassinSr To cnt the head off, and then hack the limbs, — Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards ; For Antony is but a limb of Cesar : Let's be sacrificers, bat not butchers, Caius. We all stand up against the spirit of Ciesar ; And in the spirit of men there is no blood : O that we, then, could come by Creaar's spirit. And not dismember Cassar! But, alas, Cffisar must bleed for it ! And, gentle friends. Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds :"*' And let our hearts, as subtle masters do. Stir up their servants to an act of rage, And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make Our pnrpose necessaiy, and not envious : Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be call'd pni^ers, not marderere. And for Mark Antony, think not of him ; For he can do no more than Cnsar's arm When Geesar's head is off.
Cats. Yetlfeorhim;'*"
For in th' ingrafted love he bears to CEBsar-^
Bru. Alas, good CaseiuB, do not think of him : If he love Ciesar, all that he can do Is to himself, — take thought, and die for Ctesar: And that were much he should ; for he is given
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To Sports, to vildnesfl, and much company.
Treb. There is no fe&r in him ; let hiin not die ; For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. \Ch}ck ttnket.
Bru. Peace ! coont the clock.
Cms. The clock hath stricken three.
Treb. 'Tis time to part.
Com. But it is doabtM ;et,
Whether Ciesar will come forth to-day or no ; For he is enperstitiouB grown of late ; Qnite from the main opinion be held once Of Cutasy, of dreams, and ceremonies: ■ It may be, these apparent prodigies. The nnaccnstom'd terror of this night. And the persnasion of his angurers, May hold him from the Capitol to-day.
Dec. Never fear that : if he be so resoWd, I can o'ersway him ; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betray'd with trees, And bears with glasses, elephants with holes. Lions with toils, and men with flatterers : But when I tell him he hates flatterers. He says he does, — being then most flatter^. Let me work ;
For I can give his humour the true bent. And I will bring him to the Capitol.
Casa. Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.
Bru. By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?
Cin. Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.
Met. Caius Ligarius doth bear Cssar bard. Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey : I wonder none of you haTO thought of him.
Bru. Now, good Metellus, go along by him :'*" He loves me well, and I have given him reason ;'**• 'Send him hut hither, and I'll fashion him.
Caie. The morning comes upon 'a : we'll leave yon, Brutus : — And, fidends, disperse yourselves ; but all remember What you have said, and show yourselves true Bomans.
Bra. Oood gentlemen, look fresh and merrily; Xet not our looks put on our purposes ;
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Bat bear it as oar Boraan actors do. With untir'd spirita and formal constancj : And BO, good morrow to yon every one.
{Exeunt ali except Brutus. Boy ! LndnB ! — Fast asleep ? It is no matter ; Enjoy the heavy honey-dew of slamber :'*• Tbon hast no figures nor no fontasies, Which busy care drawe ia the broins of men ; Therefore tbon sleep'st bo sonnd.
JSnler Fobtia.
Por. Brntus, my lord !
Bru. Portia, what mean yon ? wherefore rise yon now ? It is not for yonr health thus to commit Yoar weak condition to the raw-cold morning.
Por. Nor for yoorB neither. Yon 've nngently, BrntoB, Stole from my bed : and yesternight, at snpper. Yon snddenly arose, and wolk'd aboat, Masing and sighing, with your anna across ; And when I ask'd yon what the matter was. Yon star'd npou me with nngentle looks : I org'd yon fmther; then yon scratch 'd yonr head. And too impatiently etamp'd with yonr foot : Yet I insisted, yet yon answer'd not; Bnt, with an angry waftare of yonr hand, Gave sign for me to leave yon : so I did ; Fearing to strengthen that impatience Which seem'd too mnoh enkindled ; and withal Hoping it waa bnt an effect of hnmonr, Wbich sometime hath his honr with every man. It will not let yon eat, nor talk, nor sleep; And, could it work so mnoh npon yonr shape, Ab it hath much prevail'd on yonr condition, I shonld not know yon, Bmtoa. Dear my lord, Make me acquainted with yonr cause of grief.
Bru. I am not well in health, and that is all.
Por. Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health. He woold embrace tlie means to come by it.
Bru. Why, so I do. — Good Portia, go to bed.
Por. Is Bmtus siok, — and is it physical
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Bru. Eoieel not, gentle Portia.
Por. I should not need, if you were gentle Brntos. Widiin the bond of marriage, tell me, BmtuB, Is it excepted I should know no secrets That appertain to you ? Am I yourself But, as it were, in sort or limitation, — To keep with you at meals, comfort yonr bed. And talk to yon sometimes ? Dwell I but in the Bnbnrbs Of your good pleasure ? If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.
Bru. YoQ are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy dropB That Tisit my sad heart.
Por. If this were true, then should I know this secret. I grant I am a woman ; but withal A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife : I grant I am a woman ; but with&l A woman well-reputed, — Cato's daughter. Think you I am no stronger than my sex. Being so father'd and so husbauded ? Tell me your counBels; I will not disclose 'em: I hsTe made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a Toluntary wound
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Here, in the thigh : can I bear that vith patience. And not my haaband's secrets ?
Bru. 0 ye gods,
Bender tne worthy of this noble wife I [Knoeking within. Hark, hark t one knocks : Portia, go in awhile ; And by and by thy boBom shall partake The secrets of my heart : AH my engagemeatB I will oonstrae to thee, AH the char&ctery of my sad brows : — Leave me with haste. [Exit Portia.^ — Lncins, who's that knocks?
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Luc. Here is a sick man that would speak with yon.
Bru. CaioH Ligarins, that Metellne spake of. — Boy, stand aside. — Cains Ligarins, — how !
Iaq. Vonchsafe good-morrow from a feeble tongne.
Bru. 0 what a time hare yon chose oot, brare Cains, To wear a kerchief ! Would yon were not sick !
Lig. I am not sick, if Bratna hare in hand Any exploit worthy the name of bononr.
Bru. Such an exploit have I in band, LigaHns, Had yon a healthful ear to hear of it.
Lig. By all the gods that Romans bow before, I here discard my sickoese I Soul of Borne ! Brave son, deriv'd from honourable loins ! Thon, like an exorcist, bast conjnr'd np My mortifi^ spirit. Now bid me run, And I will atrire with things impossible ; Yea, get the better of them. What's to do ?
Bra. A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
Lig. But are not some whole that we must make sick ?
Bru. That must we also. What it is, my Cains, I shall unfold to thee, as we are going To whom it mnat be done.
lAg. Set on yoor foot;
And, with a heart new-fir'd, I follow yon. To do I know not what : but it safficeth That Bmtas leads me on.
Br». Follow me, then. [Exeunt.
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ScBHB n. The same. A hall in CasiB's palace. Thunder and lightning. Enter CmiS, in his nightgown. Cat. Nor heaTen nor earth httTs bean at peace to-night : Thrice hath Galphnmia in her sleep cried out, " Help, ho ! they nmrder CsBBar !"— Who's within ?
Enter a Serrant. Serv. My lord?
Cos. Oo bid the priests do present sacrifice. And bring me their opinions of snccess.
Serv. I will, my lord. \Exit,
Enter Calfhubnia.
Cal. What mean you, Ctesar ? think yon to walk forth ? Yon shall not stir ont of your house to-day.
C<zt. Cfflsar shall forth : the things that threaten'd'*" mo Ne'er look'd bat on my back ; when they shall see The iiaoe of Cffisar, they are vanished.
Cal. Cesar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet now they fright me. There is one within, Besides the things that we have heard and seen, Seoounts moat horrid sights seen by the watch. A lioness hath whelped in the streets; And graves have yawn'd, and yielded ap their dead ; Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds. In ranks and squadrons and right form of war. Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol ; The noise of battle hurtled in the air, Horsvs did neigh, and dying men did groan ; And ghosts did shriek and sqneal about the streets.'** O Ceesar, these things are beyond all use, And.I do fear them I
Caa. What can be avoided
Whose end is pnrpos'd by the mighty gods ? Yet Cffisar shall go forth ; for these predictions Are to the world in general as to Ciesar.
Cal. When beggars die, there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
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Cce». CowardB die many times before their deaths; The Taliant never taste of death bat once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Se-enler Servant
What Bay the aagoiers ?
Serv. They wonld not have yoa to stir forth to-day. Plucking the entrails of an offering forth. They coold not find a heart within the beast.
Cas, The goda do this in ebamo of cowardice : Cffisar shoold be a beast withoat a heart. If he shonld stay at home to-day for fear. No, Ctesar shall not : danger knows fall well That Cesar is more daogeroas than he : We ore two lions'^'' litter'd in one day. And I the elder and more terrible : — And Ctesar shall go forth.
Cal. Alas, my lord.
Tour wisdom is consnni'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day : coll it my fear That keeps yoa in the honse, and not yonr own. We'll send Idark Antony to the Benate-hoose ; And he shall say yoa are not well to-day : Let me, npon my knee, prevail in this.
Cat. Mark Antony shall say I am not well ; And, for thy hnmonr, I will stay at home.
£nier DxciDS. Here's Decins Bratns, he shall tell them so.
Dec. Cnsar, all hail t good morrow, worthy Ctesar : I come to fbtch yoa to the senate-bonse.
Cas, And yoa are come in very happy time, To bear my greeting to the senators. And tell them that I will not come to-day : Cannot, is false ; and that I dare not, blser: I will not come to-day, — tell them so, Decins.
Cal. Say he is sick.
Cat. Shall Ctesar send a lie ?
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Have X in conquest etretcb'd mine arm so far To be afeard to tell graybeards the trnth ? Decina, go tell tbem Gnear will not come.
Dec. Most mighty Cesar, let me know some caoBe, Lest I be langh'd at when I tell them bo.
Cat. The canse is in my will, — I will not come ; That is enongh to aatiefy the senate. But, for your private satisfaction, Beoanee I love you, I will let yon know, — Calphnmia here, my wife, stays me at home : 8he dreamt to-night she saw my statna,*^ Which, like a fountain with as hundred Bponta, Did ran pure blood ; and many lusty Bomane Came smiling, and did bathe their bands in it: And these
Does fihe apply for warnings and portents Of evils imminent ;'**' and on her knee Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.
Dec, This dream is all amiss interpreted ; It was a vision fair and fortanate : Your Btatoe eponting blood in many pipes, In which so many smiling Bomans bath'd, Signifies that from you great Bome shall sack Beviving blood ; and that great men shall press For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance'. This by Calphumia's dream is signified.
C(e$. And this way have you well expounded it.
Dec. 1 have, 7'hen yon have heard what I can say: And know it now, — the senate have concladed To give, this day, a crown to mighty Ctesar. If yon shall send them word yon will not come. Their minds may change. Besides, it were a moek Apt to be render'd, for some one to say, " Break up the senate till another time. When Ciesar's vrife shall meet with better dreams." If GsBsar hide himself, shall th^ not whisper, "Lo, Cfesar is afraid"? Pardon me, Cssar; for my dear dear love To your proceeding bids me tell you this ; And reason to my love is liable.
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Cos. How fooliah do ;oar fear^ seem now, Calphnrnia ! I am ashamM I did^eld to them. — Oiye me my robe, for I wUl go : —
Eutei- Fdbliub, Brctds, LiaABius, IIetellub, C&bca, Trbboxius,
and CwsA. And look where Pnhlias is come to fetch me.
Pub. Good morrow, Ctesar.
Cae. Welcome, Pablina. —
"What, BratnB, are yoa stirr'd bo early too ? — Good morrow, Casca. — Caias Xjigarios, Cesar was ne'er so mnch yoar enemy As that same agne which hath made yoQ lean. — "What ifl 't o'clock ?
Srtt. Cesar, 'tis stniokea eight.
Cat. I tiiank yon for yoar pains and coartesy.
Enter Amtont, See ! Antony, that revels long o' nights, Is notwithstanding up. — Good morrow, Antony.
Ant. So to most noble Cesar. -
Cas. Bid them prepare within : —
I am to blame to be thns waited for. — Kow, Cinna : — now, Metellas : — what, Trebonias ! I have an hour's talk in Btore for yon ; Beniember that yoa call on me to-day: Be near me, that I may remember yon.
Treb. Cfesar, I will: — [twuZe] and so near will I bo, That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
CeBS. Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me ; And we, like friends, will straightway go together.
Bnt. {tuide} That every like is not the same, O Cesar, The heart of Brntas yearns to think upon .' [Exeuut.
Scene QI. The tame. A ttreet ntar the Capitol.
Elder Abtbxidobds, reading a paper. Arf. " Ctesar, beware of Bratus ,■<*' take heed of Casaius ; come
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not ueoT Caaca ; hKve an eye to Cinna ; trust not Tielxmius ; mark well Metellns Cimber : Decina Brutus loves thee not : tlioa hut nTonged Cains Xigaiius. There is bnt one mind in all these men^ and it is bent against Ciesar. If thou beest not immortal, look about yon : Becuritf gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee I Thy lover, Arteiiidobc8 "
Here will I stand till CieBar pass ttlong,
Aod as a suitor will I give him ibis.
My heart laments that virtue cannot lire
Out of the teeth of emalation.
If tkoa read ibis, 0 Cnsar, tboa mayst live ;
If not, thfi Fates with traitors do contrive. {Exit.
SCEKE IV. The tame. Anotiier part of the same street, before the house of Bbutub.
Enter Portia and Lucius.
For. I prithee, bo;, run to tbe senate-bonse ; Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone : Why dost tboa stay?
Luc. To know my errand, madam.
Par. I would have had thee there, and here again. Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there. — [ABidel 0 constancy, be strong npon my side. Set & huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue ! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might. How hard it is fur women to keep counsel ! — Art tboa here yet ?
-^uc. Madam, what ehoald I do ?
Bun to the Capitol, and nothing elae ? And so retom to you, and nothing elae ?
For. Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well. For he went sickly forth : and take good note What Cffisar doth, what saitors press to bim. Hark, hoy I what noise is that ? Luc. I hear none, madam. For- Prithee, listen well :
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I heard a bnetling rnmoar, like a fray. And the wiad brings it from the Capitol. Imc. Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.
Eater SoothBayer.«'>
Por. Come hither, fellow: which waj hast thou been ?
Sooth, At mine own hoaee, good lady.
Por. What is 't o'clock?
Sootk. About the ninth hoar, lady.
Por. Ib Cteaar yet gone to the Capitol ?
Sootli. Madam, not yet : I go to take my stand. To Bee him pass on to the Capitol.
Por. ThoQ hast some eait to C»Bar, haat thou not ?
Sootk. That I have, lady : if it will please Caesar To be so good to Cesar as to hear me, I shall breech him to befrieud himself.
Por. Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?
Sootk. None that I know will be, mach that I fear may chance."*" Good morrow to yon. — Here the street is narrow : The throng that follows Crasar at the heels, Of senators, of prsetors, common Buitore, Will crowd a feeble man almost to death : ril get me to a place more void, and there Speak to great Ciesar as he comes along. [Exit.
Por. I must go in. — [^sufe] Ay me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is ! 0 Brutus, The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise ! — Sore, the boy heard me. — Brutus hath a suit That Cffisar will not grant. — 0, 1 grow Mat. — Bun, Lucius, and commend me to my lord ; Say I am merry: come to me again. And bring me word what he doth say to thee.
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BoEKB I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate iitting.
A croird o/ people in the ttreet leading to the Caj>ilol; among then*
Artemidordb atul the Boothsayer. Flourish. Enter Cssar,
Brutus, Cassius, Cahca, Deciub, Metrllcs, Trrbokids, Cikxa,
AxTONT, Lepidub, Popiliub, Publius, and others.
C<eg, Tbe ides of March are come.
Soottt. Ay, Gebbrt; but not gone.
Art. Hail, Cffisar ! re^ this schedule.
Dec. Trebonins doth desire yon to o'er-read. At yoor best leisure, this hia hamble soit.
Art. 0 Ciesar, read mine first ; for mine's a suit 'J'hat toQches Ctesar nearer : read it, great Ciesar.
Cat. What toaches as oorself, ahall be last serv'd.'^'
Ari. Delay not, CsBsar ; read it instantly.
Cas. What, is the fellow mad 7
Pub. Sirrah, give place.
Cass. What, arf;;e yoa your petitions in die street ? Come to the Capitol.
f.SSAB enlen the Capitol, Oie rest JolloKi'iig. All the Senators rite.
Pop. I wish yonr enterprise to-day may thrive.
Cass. What enterprise, Fopilins?
Pop. Fare yon well. [Adrancea to Ca»ar.
Tint. What said Popilins Lena ?
Cast. He wish'd to-day onr enterprise might thrire. I fear our purpose is discoTeiM.
Bru. Look, bow be makes to Cesar : mark him.
Cats. Casca,.
Be BTidden, for we fear prevention. — IBrntas, what shall be done ? If this be known, CasainB or Cfesar never shall tnm back. For I will slay myself.""'
Bru. CassiuB, be constant :
Popilins Lena speaks not of oar purpose ;'^ For, look, he smiles, and Cnsar doth not change.
Cats, Trebonins knows his time ; for, look yon, Brutus^
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He draws Mark Antony out of the way.
[Exeunt Antony and Trebonius. Camr and the Senators take their teats.
Dec. Where is MetelloB Gimher ? Let him go, Ajid presently prefer his eait to Cesar.
Bi-u. He is address'd : press near and second him.
Cm. Casca, yoQ are the first that rears yonr hand.
Casca. Are we all ready 9""*
Cies. What is now amisa
That CfBsar and his senate mnst redress ?
Met. Most high, most mighty, and most pnissant Cieaar, Metellns Cimber throws before thy seat An hnmble heart, — {Kneeling.
Cas. I mnst preTent thee, Cimber.
These couchings"'^ and tiiese lowly conrtesies Might fire the blood of ordinary men. And turn pre-ordinance and first decree - Into the Uw"^ of children. Be not fond, To think that Ceesar bears snch rebel blood That will be thaw'd from the truo qaallty With that which melteth fools ; I mean, sweet words. Low-crooked"'' cnrt'aies, and base spaniel-owning. Thy brother by decree is banished ; If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him, I spnm thee like a cnr oat of my way. Xnow, Ceesar doth not wrong ; nor without cause Will he be satisfied.
Met. Is there no voice more worthy than my own,**"* To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear For the repealing of my banish'd brother ?
Bru. I kias ^y hand, hat not in flattery, Otesar ; Desiring thee that Pablios Cimber may Hare an immediate freedom of repeal.
Cas. What, Brutus I
Cass. Pardon, Cffisar ; Cesar, pardon:
As low as to thy foot doth Casfiius fall. To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber,
Cces. I could be well moT'd, if I were as yon ; If I could pray to move, prayers woald move me : But I am constant as the northern star,
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Of wh(^e troe-fix'd and reeting quality There is no fellow ia the firmameDt. The skies are painted with nnnnmber'd Bparks, lliey are all fire, and every one doth shine ; But there's bat one in all doth hold his place : So in the vorld, — 'tis furniah'd well with men, And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensiTe ; Yet in the number I do know bnt one That nnsBsailable holds on his rank, Unshak'd of motion : and that I am he, Let me a little show it, even in this, — That I was constant Cimber shonld be banish'd, And constant do remain to keep him so. Cin. 0 Ctesar, —
Cat. Hence ! wilt thon lift up Olympus ?
Dec, Great Ctesar, —
Cas. DoUi not Brntne bootless kneel ?
Catea. Speak, hands, for me !
. [Caica ataba Ctetar in the neck: Casar catches hold of kit arm. He is tlten stabbed by several other Contpirators, and last bp Marcus Br!Uus. Cm. Et tu, Brute ?*— Then fall, Cffisar !
[Dies. The Senators and People retire in confttsion. * Et tu, BniUII After ^noting Snetonina in Holluid'a feraiaii, Mid Plntarcb inNortli'i tnuiBlation, HkloDe obterrsa; "Heitlier of tlies« writers, therefore, we see, fnniiahed Slukeipeftre with thii eiclunation. Hia antho- ri^ appeals to hare been a liue in tb« old plaj entitled TA« True Troftdit ofRiehardt Duke of Yarke, bo., printed in IGOO [IfiOej , on which he formed hia Third Part oj King Henry VI. ;
■ Et Ea, Brvte t Wilt thon aUb Caaar too V
[p. 176, Shftke. Soo. reprint.] This line Shakespeare rejected when he wrote the piece ahore mentioned ; bnt it appears it had made an impreation on hia memoiy. The aajne line is alao tonnd in AeolattUM hit A/lerwitte, a poem, b; S. Ifloholaon, printed inieOO;
' Et tu, Brvtt r Wilt thon atab Ceaar too t Thon art my friend, and wilt not aee me wrong'd.' So in Caaar'a Legend, Mirror for ilt^itiratti, 1E87 ;
' O this, quoth I, ie Tiolenee : then CftiBias piera'd my bniaat ; And iJruAu Iftou, mj lonne, qnoth I, whom erst I loved heat.' The Latin words probablj appeared originally in the old Latin pUy on this ■iil)jeet [written by Dr. Eedei, and acted at Chiist-Chnroh, Oxford, in
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Cin. Liberty I Freedom ! Tyranny is dead ! — Bon hence, proclaim, cij it about tbe streets.
Casa. Some to the common polpitB, and cry ont, ■"Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement !"
Bru, People, and senators, be not affrighted ; fly not; stand still : — ambition's debt is paid.
Catca. Oo to the pulpit, Bmtns.
Dee. And Caseins too.
Bru. Where's Pnblins ?
Cin. Here, qaite confoanded with this mutiny.
Met. Stand fast together, lest some friend of Ceesar's ■Should chance —
Bru. Talk not of standing. — Publias, good cheer; There is no barm intended to your person, Nor to no Boman else: so tell tbem, Pnblins.
Cau. And leave us, Publins ; lest that tbe people, Ruahing on ns, should do your age some mischief.
Bru. Do BO : — and let no man abide this deed. Bat we the doera.
Be-^nter Trebokius.
Cats. Where's Antony ?
Tre. Fled to his boase amaz'd :
Men, wives, and children stare, cty ont, and run Jis it were doomsday.
Bru. Fates, we will kfiow year pleasures : —
That we shall die, we know ; 'tis but tbe time. And drawing days out, that men stand upon.
Caas."" Why, he that cuts ofif twenty years of life ■Cuts off so many years of fearing death.
Bra. Grant that, and then is death a benefit: ^o are we Csesor's friends, that have abridg'd His time of fearing death. — Stoop, Romans, stoop. And let ns bathe onr hands in CiEBar's blood Up to the elbows, and besmear oar swords : Then walk we forth, even to the market-place. And, waving onr red weapons o'er our beads. Let's all cry, " Peace, freedom, and liberty !"
Colt. Stoop, then, and wash. — How many ages hence Shall this out lofty scene be acted o'er***" In states"" unborn and accents yet unknown !
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Bm. How many titueB Bhitll Cfesor bleed in sport. That now on Pompey'B basis lies**** along No worthier than tlie dast I
Cats. So oft as that shall be.
So oflen shall the knot of ns be call'd The men that gaTo their conntr; liberty.
Dec. "What, shall we forth?
Caag. Ay, every man away :
Brutus shall lead ; and we will grace his heels With the most boldest and best hearts of Home.
Brti. Soft ! who comes here ?
Enter a Servant.
A friend of Antony's.
Serr. Thus, Brntns, did my master bid me kneel; Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down ; And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say : — ■ Brutas is noble, wise, valiant, and honest; Cssar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving : Say I love Bratas, and I honour him ; Say I fear'd CieBar, honour'd him, and lov'd him. If Bmtus will Tonchsafe that Antony May Bofely come to him, and be tesolv'd How Cssar hath deserv'd to lie in death, Mark Antony shall not love CieBar dead So well as Bmtne living ; bat will follow The fortunes and affairs of noble Bratns Thorough the hazards of this antrod state With all tme faith. So says my master Antony.
Bru. Thy master is a wise and vaUant Boman; I never thonght him worse. Tell him, so please him come tiuto this place. He shall be satisfied ; and, by nty honour, Depart'untoDch'd.
Sen: I'll fetch him presently. ^Ezit.
Bni. I know that we shall have him well to friend.
CasB. I wish we may : but yet have I a mind That fears him much ; and my misgiving still Falls shrewdly to the purpose.
Bru. But here comes Antony.
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Reenter Aktomv.
Welcome, Mark Antony.
Ant. 0 mighty Caasar ! dost thon lie so low? Are all th; conquests, glories, triamphB, spoils, Shmnk to this Uttle measnre ? Fare thee well. — I know not, gentlemen, what ;oa intend. Who else mast be let blood, who else is rank : If I myself, there is no honr bo fit A.B Cffisar's death's hoar ; nor no instrament Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich With the most noble blood of all this world. I do beseech ye, if'yoa bear me hard. Now, whilst your pnrpled bands do reek and smoke. Fulfil your pleasore. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die : No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Csesar, and by you cut off. The choice and master spirits of this age.
Bni. 0 Antony, beg not your death of us. Tboagb now we mast appear bloody and cruel. As, by our bauds and this oar present act. Yon see we do ; yet see yon bnt oar hands. And this the bleeding basiness they have done : Our hearts yon see not, — they are pitifol; And pity to the general wrong of Borne — As fire drives out fire, so pity pity — Hath done this deed on Cfesar. For yonr part, To yoa oar swords have leaden points, Mark Antony, Our arms no strength of mahce ; and our hearts,**''* Of brothers' temper, do receive yon in With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.
CasB. Your voice shall be as strong as any man's In the disposing of new dignities.
Bru. Only be patient till we have appeas'd The maltitade, beside themselves with fear, And then we will deliver you the cause, Why I, that did love Cnsar when I strack him. Have thus proceeded.
Ant. I doubt not of your wisdom.
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Let each man render me his bloody hand :
First, M&rcns BrnttiH, will I shake with yoa ; —
Next, Gains Cassias, do I take yonr hand ; —
Now, Decins Brutus, yonrs ; — now yours, Metellns ;
Yours, Ginna ; — and, my valiant Cases, yours ; —
Though last, not least in loye, yours, good Trebonius.
Gentlemen all, — alas, what shall I say?
My credit now stands on such slippeiy ground.
That one of two bad ways yoa most conceit me.
Either a coward or a flatterer. —
That I did lore thee, GEesar, 0, 'tis true :
If, then, thy spirit look upon us now.
Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death.
To see thy Antony making his peace,
Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,
Most noble I in the presence of thy corse ?
Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,
Weeping as fast as tbey stream forth thy blood.
It would become me better than to close
In terms of friendship with thine enemies.
Pardon me, Julius t — Here wast thou bay'd, brare hart ;
Here didst thou fall ; and here thy hunters stand,
Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe.— ***
0 world, thou wast the forest to this hart ;
And this, indeed, 0 world, the heart of thee. —
How like a deer, strucken by many princes.
Dost thou here He !
Caaa. Mark Antony, —
Ant. Pardon me. Gains Cassias :
The enemies of Csesar shall say this; Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.
Cait. I blame you not for praising Cffisar so ; But what compact mean you to have with us 9 Will yoa be prick'd in nnmber of our Mends ; Or shall we on, and not depend on you?
Ant. Therefore I took your hands; but was, indeed, Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Ceesar. Friends am I with you all, and love you all ; Upon this hope, that yon shall give me r Why and wherein Ceesar was dangerous.
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Bra. Or else wete this a savage spectacle : Our reasons are so fall of good regard, Tliat were yon, Antony, the son of Cesar, Yoa shoold be satiaGed.
Ant. That's all I seek :
And am moreover anitor that I may Prodace hia body to the market-place ; And in the pnlpit, as becomes a friend, Speak in the order of his faneral. Bm. Yon shall, Mark Antony.
Coat. Bmtns, a word with yoa.
[Aside to Bru.'} You know not what yon do : do not consent That Antony speak in his faneral : Know yon how mach the people may be mov'd By that which he will atter ?
Bru. [aside to Cass.^ By year pardon ; —
I will myself into the pnlpit first. And show the reason of onr Cesar's death : What Antony shall speak, I will protest He speaks by leave and by permission ; And that we are contented Cesar shall Have all dae'"" rites and lawfhl ceremonies. It shall advantage more than do ns wrong.
Cass, [aside to Bru.'] I know not what may foil ; I like it
not. Bru. Mark Antony, here, take yoa Cesar's body. Yoa shall not in yoar funeral speech .blame ns. Bat speak all good yoa can devise of Cesar ; And say yoa do 't by oar permission ; Else shall yoa not have any hand at all Aboat his faneral : and yon shall speak In the same palpit whereto I am going. After my speech is ended.
Ant. Be it so ;
I do desire no more.
Bru, Prepare the body, then, and follow ns.
[Exeunt aU except Antony. Ant. O, pardon me, then bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these batchers 1 Thoa art the rains of the noblest man
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That OTer lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the bandfl^*" that abed this oosti; blood !
Over thy wonada now do I prophe^, —
Which, like dumb moothB, do ope their niby lipe, I
To beg Uie voice and ntteranee of my tongue, —
A cnrae shall light npon the minds of men ;"" I
Domestic fnry uid fierce civil strife j
Shall comber all the parts of Italy; ;
Blood and destruction shall be so in nse, j
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall bat smile when they behold .'
Their infants qo&rter'd with the hands of war ; |
All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds: i
And Cffisar's spirit, ruiging for revenge, I
With Ate by his side come hot from hell, I
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Ory " Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war ; i
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth I
With carrioD men, groaning for borial. j
Enter a Servant. >
Yoa serve Octaviua Cesar, do yon not ? j
Serv, I do, Mark Antony. >
Ant. Cffisar did write for him to come to Borne.
Sen; He did receive bis letters, and is coming; '
And bid me say to yon by word of month — O Ciesar ! — [^Seeing the body.
Ant. Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep. Passion, I see, is catching ; for'"" mine eyes, ',
Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, Begin'"' to water. Is thy master coming ? i'
Serv. He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome.
Ant. Post back with speed, and tell him what hath
chanc'd : • ;
Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome, K
No Rome of safety for Octavins yet ; Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhUe ;
Thon shalt not hack till I have borne this corse I
Into the market-place : there shall I try. In my oration, how the pec^Ie take 'j
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The crnel issae of tlieae bloody men ;
According to the which, thoa Bhalt diacootse
To yonng OctaviaB of the state of things.
Lend me yonr hand. [^Exeunt with Cteear's body.
Scene II. The mme. The Forum. Enter Bbdtos and CABsitB, and a throng of Gitixena.
Citizens. We will be satisfied ; let ns be gatisfied.
Bra. Then follow me, and give me andience, friends. — 'CasBias, go yon into the other street, And part the nnmbere. —
Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here ; Those that will follow Cassina, go with him ; And public inasona ahall be rendered Of Cffisar'a death.
Firtt Cit, I will hear Bmtna apeak.
See. Cit. I will hear Casaius ; and compare their reasons, When sererally we heat them renderM.
[^EtH Cattius, witk some of the Citixenf. BruUu goe$ into the rostrum.
Third Cit. The noble Bmtns is ascended : silence !
Bra. Be patient till the last. Romans, conntiymen, and loTora ! hear me for my canse ; and be silent, Uiat yon may hear : believe me for mine hon- onr; and have respect to mine honour, that yoo may be- lieve : oensare me in yonr vriadom ; and awake yottr senses, that yon may the better jndge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Ctesar'a, to him I aay, that Bmtna' love to Ciesar was no less than his. If, then, that Mend demand why Bratna rose against Csaar, this is my answer, — Not that I loved Ceeaar less, bat that I loved Borne more. Had yon rather Csesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Cesar were dead, to live all free men ? As Ciesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortnnate, I rejoice at it ; aa he waa valiant, I hononr him : bat, aa he waa am- biUons, I slew him : there is tears for his love ; joy for his fortune ; honoar for his valonr ; and death for his ambition.
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Who IB here so base that woold be a bondnuui ? If any, speak ; for him hare I offended. Who is here bo rode that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I of- fended. Who is here bo vile that mil not love his country ? If any, apeak ; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
CitizettB. Kone, Bmtua, none.
Bru, Then none have I offended. I hare done no more to Csesar than yoii shall do to Brntns. The qaestioQ of his death is enrolled in the Capitol ; hie glory not extenoated, whereiD he was worthy; nor hia offences enforced, for which he suffered death. Here conies his body, mourned by Mark
Enter Antony and otkert, teilh Casab's bodi/. Antony : who, though he had no hand in hia death, Bhall re- ceive tiie benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart, — that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Borne, I have the fbme dagger for myself, tvhen it shall please my coontiy to need my death.
Citizens, Live, Brutns ! live, live !
FiTtt Cit. Bring him with triumph home unto his house.
See. Cit. Give him a statue with his ancestors.
TJtird Cit. Let him bo Cesar.
Fmirth Cit. Csesar's better parts
Shall now*^' be crown'd in Brutus.
First Cit. We'll bring him to hia hoase with shonta and clamours.
Zfni. My countrymen, —
See. Cit, Peace, silence ! Brutus speaks.
First Cit. Peace, ho !
Bill. Qood countrymen, let me depart alone. And, for my sake, stay here with Antony : Do grace to Ccesar's corpse, and grace his speech Tending to Ceesar's gloiy ;""* which Mark Antony, By our permission, is allow'd to make. I do entreat you, not a man depart, Sare I alone, till Antony have spoke. {_Exit.
First Cit. Stay, ho ! and lot us hear Mark Antony.
Third Cit, Let him go op into the public chair ,' We'll hear him. — Noble Antony, go up.
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Ant. For Bratas* soke, I am beholding to yon. [Goes up.
Fourth at. Wliat does he say of Bratas?
Third at. He sayB, for Bratos' sake.
He finds himself beholding to qb bU.
Fourth at. 'Twerebeet he speak no harm ofBrntns here.
Fi^it Cit. This Ceesar was a tyrant.
Third at. Nay, that's certain :
We are blees'd that Bome is rid of him.
Sec. at. Peace ! let ns hear what Antony can say.
Ant. Yon gentle Bomaas,—
atizeTis. Peace, ho ! let as hear him.
Ant. Friends, Bomans, coontrymen, lend me yonr ears; I come to bury Cffisar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Cesar. The noble Brntas Hatb told yon CsBsar was ambitions : If it were so, it was a grieyous fanlt ; And grievonsly hath Cesar onswer'd it. Here, under leave of BratoB and the rest, — For Brntas is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men, — Come I to speak in desar's funeral. He was my &iend, faithful and jaat to me: Bat BratuB says he was ambitious ; And BrutuB iB an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Bome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill : Did this in Cteear seem ambitious ? When that the poor have cried, Ceesar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus ie an honourable man. Yon all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse : was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Bratus spoke. But here I am to speak what I do know.
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Yoa all did love him once, — not witbont canse : What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him ?
0 jodgment, thon art fied to brutish beasts. And men have lost their reason ! — Bear with me ; My heart is in the coffin there with Cffisar,
And I maat panse till it come back to me.
First Cit. Methinks there is mach reason in his sayings.
Sec. Cit. If thou consider rightly of the matter, Csesar has bad great wrong.
Third Cit. Has he not, maaterB?"*'
1 fear there will a worse come in hia place.
Fourth Cit. Mark'd ye his words 9 He would not take the crown ; Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.
First Cit. If it be found so, some wilt dear abide it.
Sec. Cit. Poor soul ! his eyes are red as fiie with weeping.
Third Cit. There's not a nobler man in Borne than An- tony.
Fourth Cit. Now mark him, he begins again to speak.
Ant. Bat yesterday the word of Cfesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
0 masteiB, if I were dispos'd to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
1 should do Bratua wrong, and Cassins wrong. Who, yon all know, are honourable men :
I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you,
Than I will wrong such honourable men.
But here's a parchment with the seal of Ceesar, —
I found it in his closet, — 'tis his will :
Let hut the commons hear this testament, —
Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read, —
And they would go and kiss dead Cesar's wounds,
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ;
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory.
And, dying, mention it within their wills,
Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy.
Unto their issue.
Fourth Cit. We'll hear the Tfill : read it, Mark Antony.
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Citizens. The will, the will ! we will hear CsBar's will.
Ant. Have patience, gentle frienda, I mnat not read it ; It is not meet you know how Csaar lov'd yon. Yon are not wood, yon are not stones, bnt men ; And, being men, hearing the will of Ciesar, It will inflame yon, it will make yon mad : 'Tie good you know not that you are his heirs; For, if yoa should, O, what wonld come of it !
Fourth Cit. Bead the will ; we'll hear it, Antony; Yoa shall read us the will, — Cssar's will.
Ant. Will yon be patient? will yon stay awhile? I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it : I fear I wrong the hoaonrable men Whose daggers have stabb'd Ciesar ; I do fear it.
Fourth Cit. They were traitors : honourable men !
Citizens. The will ! the testament !
Sec. Cit. They were villains, murderers : the will ! read tho will.
Ant. Yon will compel me, then, to read the will ? Then make a ring about the corpse of Cfesar, And let me show you him that made the will. Shall I descend ? and will yon give me leave 7
Citizens, Come down.
Sec. Cit. Descend.
Third Cit. You shall have leave. l^Antony comes down.
Fourth Cit. A ring ; stand round.
First Cit. Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.
Sec. Cit. Eoom for Antony, — meet noble Antony.
Ant. Nay, press not so upon me ; stand far' off.
Citizens. Stand back ; room ; bear back.
Ant. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. Yon all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Giesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's eveniDg, in his tent. That day he overcame tho Nervii : — Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through : See what a rent the envious Gasca made : Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd ; And, as he pluck'd bis cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Cesar follow'd it.
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As raslmig oat of doors, to be resoWd
If Bratns so onkmdly knoek'd, or no ;
For BmtnB, as yoa know, was CiBBar's angel :
Jadge, 0 jroQ gods, how dearly Gtesar loT'd him !
This was the most nnkindeat cat of all ;
For when the noble Cssar saw him stab,
Ingratitade, more strong than traitors' arms.
Quite yanqnish'd h'Tn : then bnrst his mighty heart ;
And, in his mantle muffling up his face,
ETen at the base of Pompey's Btatna,"**
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
0 what a fall was there, my conntrymen ! Then I, and yon, and all of ns fell down. Whilst bloody treason flonrish'd over ns. 0, now you weep ; and, I perceive, yon feel The dint of pity: these are grscions drops. £ind soals, what, weep yea when yon bat behold Ont Cffisai's vesture wonnded ? Look yoa here. Here is himself, marr'd, as yon see, with traitors.
First Cit, 0 piteons spectacle t
Sec. Cit. 0 noble Cssar !
Third Cit. 0 wofiil day !
Fourth Cit. 0 traitors, villains !
Firtt Cit. 0 most bloody sight I
Sec. Cit, We will be revenged.
Citizens. Bevenge, — about, — seek, — bam, — fire, — kill, — slay, — let not a traitor live !
Ant. Stay, conntrymen.
First Cit. Peace there ! hear the noble Antony.
Sec. Cit. We'll hear him, we'll follow Mm, we'll die with him.
Ant. Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir yoa np To such a sodden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honourable ; — What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do 't ; — they're wise and honourable. And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.
1 come not, friends, to steal away your hearts : I am no orator, as Brutus is ;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
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That love my friend ; and that they know fall well
That gave ma pablie leave to apeak of him :
For I have neither wit,"** nor words, nor worth,
AotioQ, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,
To stir men's blood : I only speak right on ;
I tell yon that which yoa yonrseWes do knowj
Show yon sweet Caesar's wonnds, poor poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me : bat were I Brntns,
And Bmtos Antony, there were en Antony
Would mffie ap yoar Bpirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Csesar, that should move
The stones of Borne to rise and mutiny.
Citizens. We 11 mutiny.
First Cit. We '11 bum the house of Brntua.
Third Cit, Away, then ! come, seek the conspirators.
Ant. Yet hear me, countiymen ; yet hear me apeak.
Citizens. Peace, ho ! hear Antony, — moat noble Antony.
Ant. Why, irienda, you go to do yon know not what : Wherein hath Ctesar thus deBerr'd yonr loves ? Alas, you know not, — I must tell you, then : — You have forgot the will I told you of.
Citizens, Most true ; the will : — let's stay and hear the will.
Ant. Here is the will, and under Cesar's seal : — To every Roman citizen he gives. To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
Sec. Cit. Most noble Ciesar t — we '11 revenge his death.
Third Cit. 0 royal Cwsar !
^n^ Hear me with patience.
Citizens. Peace, ho 1
Ant. Moreover, he hath left you all his walks. His private arbours, and new-planted orchards. On this side Tiber ; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, — conmion pleasures. To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Csesar ! when comes snch another ?
First Cit. Never, never. — Come, away, away ! We '11 born bis body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors' hoosea. Take up the body.
Sec. Cit. Oo fetch fire.
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Third Cit. Plnok down benches.
Fourth Cit. Plnck down forms, windowe, any thing.
[Exeunt Cituens tvith the bodi/. Ant. Now let it work : — mischief, thou art afoot, Take thoa''^' what eonrse thon wilt I
Enter a Servant
How now, fellow t
Sen\ Sir, OctaTina is already come to Bome.
Ant. Where is he?
Sen: He and Lepidus"" ate at Ctesar's house.
Ant. And thither will I straight to visit him : He comes upon a wish. Fortane is merry, And in this mood will give us any thing.
Serv. I heard 'em'"^ say, Bmtns and CaBsius Are rid like madmen throngb the gates of Eiome.
Ant. Belike they had some notice of the people How I had mov'd them. Bring me to OctarinB. [Exeunt,
Scene m. The same. A street. Enter Cinna the poet. Cin. I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Casar, And things unlucky charge my fantasy :""' I have no will to wander forth of doors, Yet something leads me forth.
' Ertier Citizene. First Cit. What is your name ? Sec. Cit. Whither are you going? Third Cit. Where do you dwell ? Fmirth Cit. Are you a married man or a bachelor? Sec. Cit. Answer every man directly. First Cit. Ay, and briefly. Fourth Cit. Ay, and wisely. TJiird Cit. Ay, and truly, you were beet. Cin. Wbat is my name ? Whither am I going ? Where do I dwell ? Am I a married man or a bachelor ? Then, to
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aoBwer every man directly and briefly, wisely and tmly : — wisely I say, I am a bachelor.
Sec. Git. That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry : — ^yoa'U bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed ; directly.
Cin. Directly, I am going to Ceeaar's funeral.
First Cit. As a friend or an enemy f
Cin. Ab a friend.
See, Cit. That matter is answered directly.
Fourth Cit. For your dwelling, — briefly.
Cin. Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.
Third Cit. Yonr name, air, tmly.
Cin. Truly, my name is Cinna.
First Cit. Tear him to pieces ; he 's a conspirator.
Cin. I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.
Fourth Cit. Tear bim for his bad Terses, tear Mm for his bad verses.
Cin. I am not Cinna the conspirator.
Fourth Cit. It is no matter, his name's Cinna ; plnck bat his name ont of his heart, and turn bim going.
Third Cit. Tear him, teur Mm ! Come, brands, ho ! fire- brands: to Bratas', to Cassias'; burn all: some to Decins' house, and some to Casca's ; some to Ligarins' : away, go !
{^Exeunt.
Scene I. Borne. A room in Antony's hotue.
Antoht, OcTivius, and Lbfidds, seated at a taUe. Ant. These many, then, shall die ; their names are prick'd. ' Oct. Yonr brother too mnst die; consent yon, Lepidas? Lep. I do consent, —
Oct. Prick him down, Antony.
Lep. Upon condition Pablius shall not Hve, Who is yonr atster'a son, Mark Antony.
Ant. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
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Bnt, Lepidns, go yon to Ciesar'B honse ; Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine How to cut off some charge in legacies.
Lep. What, shall I find 70a here ?
Oct. Or here, or at
The Capitol. [Exit Lepidut
Ant. This ia a slight nnmeritftble man. Meet to be sent on errands : is it fit. The threefold world divided, he should stand One of the three to share it ?
Oct. So yon thought him ;
And took his voice who shoald be prick'd to die, In onr black sentence and proscription.
Ant. Octavins, I have seen more days than yon : And thongh we lay these honours on tbia man. To ease onrselves of divers slanderous loads, He shall but bear them as the asa beara gold. To groan and sweat nnder the basiness. Either led or driven, as we point the way ; And having brought our treasure where we will, Tben take we down his load, and torn him off, Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears. And graze in commons.
Oct. You may do yonr will :
Bat he 's a tried and valiant soldier.
Ant. So is my horse, Octavins ; and for that I do appoint him store of provender : It is a creatore that I teach to fight, To wind, to stop, to run directly on, — His corporal motion govem'd by my spirit. And, in some taste, is Lepidns bnt so ; He must be tanght, and train'd, and bid go fbrth ; — A barren-spirited fellow ; one that feeds Od abject orts and imitations, "Which,*" oot of nse and stal'd by other men, Begin his fashion : do not talk of him Bat as a property. And now, Octavius, Iiisten great things : — Bmtns and Cassins Are levying powers : we must straight make head: Therefore let onr alliance be combin'd.
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Onr beet friends made, and oar best means stretoli'd ont;"^ And let as presently go sit in council, How covert nutters may be beet diselos'd, And open perils snrest onswerM.
Oct. Let ns do BO : for we are at the stahe, And bay'd about with many enemies; And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear. Millions of mischiefs. [Exeunt.
Scene II. Before Bbcttis' tent, in the camp near Sardit.
Drum. Enter Bkotus, Luciuus, Titinids, and Soldieie ; FiKDAitve
meeting them; Looina at some dtdartce.
Bra. Stand, ho!
ImcU. Give the word, ho t and stand.
Bra. What now, Lncilias ! is CassiaB near?
Lwal. He is at hand ; and FindoraB is come To do yoa Balntatioo firom his master.
[Pindarue gives a letter to BrutOB,
Bru. He greets me well. — ^Yoor master, Pindams, In his own change, or by ill officers. Hath given me some worthy caase to wish Things done, ondone : bnt, if he be at hand, I shall be satisfied.
Pin. I do not donbt
Bat that my noble master will appear Such as he is, fall of regard and hononr.
Bra. He is not doabted. — ^A word, Lncilias ; How he receiVd yon, let me be resolv'd.
Lttcii. With conrtesy and with respect enongh ; Bat not with snch familiar instances, Kor with sach free and friendly conference, As he bath ns'd of old.
Bru. Thon hast describ'd
A hot friend cooling : ever note, Lncilias, When love begins to sicken and decay. It nsflth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple &ith : Bat hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
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Make gallant show and promise of their mettle ; Bnt when they shoald endure the bloody epar, They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades. Sink in the trial. Comee his army on ?
Lucil, They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd ; The greater part, the horse in general. Are come with Cassins. [March mUdn.
Bru. Hark ! he is arriv'd : —
March gently on to meet him.
Ejtter Cassiub and Soldiers.
Cass. Stand, ho !
Bru. Stand, ho ! Speak the word along.
Within. Standi
Within. Stand!
WitUn. Stand!
Cass. Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.
Bru. Judge me, you gods ! wrong I mine enemies ? And if not so, how should I wrong a brother ?
Ca»s. Bratna, this sober form of yours hides wrongs ; And when you do them —
Bru. Cassias, be content ;
Speak your griefs softly, — I do know you well : — Before the eyes of both onr armies here, Which shonld perceive nothing but love from as, Let UB not wrangle: bid them move away; Then in my tent, Gassius, enlarge your griefs. And I will give yon audience.
Cass. PindaruB,
Bid our commanders lead their charges off A little from this ground.
Bru. Lucius, do you the like ;"" and let no man Come to onr tent till we have done onr conference. Lucilins and Titinias guard the door. [Earctmt."**'
Scene m. Within the tent of^&vrvs.
Enter BanTna and Casbids.
Cass. That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this,-
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YoQ have coQdemn'd and noted Lucius Pella For taking bribes here of the Sardians ; Wherein my letters, praying on bis eide, Because I knew tbe man, vere sUgbted off.**^
Bru. Yon wrong'd jonrsalf to write in sncb a aase.
Ca^i. In BQcb a time as this it is not meet That eyeiy nice offence should bear bis oomment.
BruJ^ And let ma tell yon, Cassins, yon yoaraelf Are mnch condemn'd to have an itching palm ; To sell and mart yonr offices for gold To nndeservers.
Caaa. I an itching palm !
Yon know that yon are Bnitaa that speaks this, Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
Bra. The name of Cassias hononre this corniption. And chastisement doth therefore bide his head.
Cats. Chaatifiement !
Bru. Bemember March, the ides of March remember: IMd not great Jalins bleed for jastice' sake 9 What Tillain tonch'd his body, that did stab. And not for jnstice ? What, shall one of as. That stnick tbe foremost man of all this world Bat for snpporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes. And sell the mighty space of onr large honoars For so mach trash as may be grasped thus ? — I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon. Than sach a Roman.
Cats. Bmtas, bay not me, — "'''
I'll not endnre it : yoa fo^t yonrself, To hedge me in ; I am a soldier, I, Older in practice, abler than yoorself To make conditions.
Bru. Go to ; yon are not, Cassias.
Caag. I am.
Bra. I say you are not.
Cats. TJzge me no more, I shall forget myself ; Have mind npon yoor health, tempt me no farther.
Bru, Away, slight man !
Cau. Is 't possible ?
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Bru. Heat me, for I will speak.
MuBt I give way and room to your rash eholer ? Shall I be lighted wheo a madman stares ?
Com. 0 ye godB, ye gods I must I endnre all this ?
Bnt. All this ! ay, more : fret till yonr proud heart break ; <}o show your slaTos how choleric yea axe. And make yonr bondmen tremble. Must I bodge ? Mast I observe yon ? mnst I stand and crouch Under yonr testy hnmour ? By the gods, Yon shall digest the venom of yonr spleen, Though it do split you ; for, from this day forth, I'll nse yon for my mirth, yea, for my laughter. When yoa are waspish.
Cass. Is it come to this ?
Bra. Yoa say yon are a better soldier : Let it appear so ; make yonr vaunting true, And it shall please me well : for mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of abler men.''^
Cass. Yon wrong me every way ; you wrong me, Brntos ; I said, an elder solder, not a better : Did I say " better" ?
Bru. If yon did, I care not.
Cats. When Ctesar liv'd he dnrst not thus have mov'd me.
Bru. Peace, peace ! yoa dorat not so have tempted him.
Cass. I darst not !
Bm. No.
Cass. What, dnrst not tempt him 1
Bru. For yonr life you durst not.
Cass. Do not presume too much upon my love ; I may do that I shall be sorry for.
Bru. Yon have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Gassins, in your threats ; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, ^That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I reapect not. I did send to you For certain snms of gold, which you denied me ; — For I can raise no money by vile means : By heaven, I had rather coin my heart. And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the luurd hands of peasants their vile trash
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By any indirection ; — I did send
To yon for gold to pay my legions,
Whicli you denied me : was tliat done like CasBins ?
Bhoold I have answer'd Cains CasainB so?
When Marcns Bmtns grows so oovetODB,
To lock such rascal counters firom his Mends,
Be ready, gods, with all yonr thnnderbolte,
Dash him to pieces !
Cass. I denied you not.
Bru. You did.
Case. I did not : — he was but a fool that brought My answer back. — Brntas hath ri?'d my heart : A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, Bat Brutus makes mine greater than tbey are.
Bru. I do not, till yon practise them on me.
Cass. You love me not.
Bru. I do not like your faults.
Cass. A friendly eye could never see such faults.
Bru. A flatterer's would not, though they do*^' appear As huge as high Olympus.
Casa. Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves aloBe on Caesins, For Cassius is a-weary of the world ; Hated by one he loves ; brav'd by his brother ; Check'd like a bondman ; all his fanlts observ'd, Set in a note-book, leam'd, and conn'd by rote, To cast into my teeth. 0, 1 could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Platus""" mine, richer than gold : If th^t thou be'st a Boman, take it forth ; I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart: Strike, as thoa didst at Csesar; for, I know, When thoa didst hate him worst, thou luv'dst him better Than ever thou lov'dat Cassius.
Bru. Sheathe yonr dagger :
Be angry when you will, it shall have scope ; Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour. 0 Cassius, yon are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ;
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Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Cagg. Hath Gassins li-v'd
To be bnt mirth and laughter to his Bratas, "When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him ?
Bru. When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.
Cass. Do yon confess so mnch ? Give me yonr hand.
Bru. And my heart too.
Cass. 0 Brains,—
Bru. What's the matter?
Cass. Hare not yoa Ioto enough to beat with me, When that rash humour which my mother gave n>e Makes me forgetful ?
Bru. Yea, Cassias ; and, from henceforth,
When yoa are OTer-esrneat with your Bruins, He'll think your mother chides, and leave yon so.
Poet. [wiUiin] Let me go in to see the generals ; There is some grudge between *em, 'tis not meet They be alone.
Iaic'iI. {ivithiTt] Yoa shall not come to them.
Poet, [icithin] Nothing but death shall stay me.
Enter Poet, foUotced bt/ Luciucs aiid Titinius.
Cass. How now! what 's the matter ?
Poet. For shame, you generals ! what do you mean ? Love, and be friends, as two snch men should be; For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.
Cass. Ha, ha I how vilely doth this cynic rhyme !
Bni. Get yoa hence, sirrah ; saucy fellow, hence !
Cass. Bear with him, Brutus ; 'tis his fashion.
Bru. I'll know his humour, when he knows his time : What shoald the wars do with these jigRing fools ? — Companion, hence !
Cass. Away, away, be gone ! lExit Poet.
Bru. Lacilius and Titinias, bid the commanders Prepare to lodge their companies to-night.
Cass. And come yonraelves, and bring Messala with yoa Immediately to us. lExeunt Lucilhia and Titii^t$.
Bru. Lucius, a bowl of wine !
Cass. 1 did not think yoa could have been so angry.
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Bru. O CaBsins, I am sick of man; griefs. Cass. Of yoQT philosophy you make do tib6, If yon give place to accidental evils.
Bru. No maa beara Borrow better: — Portia is dead.
CasB. Ha ! PortU I
Bru, She is dead.
Cass. How Bcap'd I killing when I cross'd yon so ? —
0 insupportable and touching loss ! — Upon what sickness ?
Bra. Impatient of my absence.
And grief that yonng Octavins with Mark Antony Have made themselves bo strong ; — for with her death That tidings came ; — with this she fell distract, And, her attendauts absent, swallow'd fire.
Cass. And died so ?
Bru. Even so.
Cass, 0 ye immortal gods I
Enter Lucius, with wine and taper.
Bru. Speak no more of her. — Give me a bowl of wine. — In this I bnrjj all onkindness, Oassins. [Drinks.
Cass. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. — Fill, Lacina, till the wine o'erswell the cnp;
1 cannot drink too much of Brntns' love. [Drinks.
Bru. Come in, Titinins ! [Exit Lucius.
Re-enter TiTiNirs, tcith Mbssala.
Welcome, good Messala, — Now sit we close about this taper here, And call in question oar necessities.
Casa. Portia, art thou gone ?
Bru, No more, I pray you. —
Messala, I have here received letters. That young Octavins and Mark Antony Come down upon ns with a mighty power. Bending their eqiedition toward Fhilippi.
Mes. Myself have letters of the selisame tesour.
Bru. With what addition ?
Mes. That by proscription and bills of outlawry, Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,
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Have put to death an hnndred senators.
Bru. Thereio onr letters do not well agree ; Mine speak of seventy senators that died By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.
Com. Cicero one !
Mea. Cicero is dead.
And by that order of proscription. — Had yon your letters from your wife, my lord ?
Bra. No, Messala.
Mes. Nor nothing in yonr letters writ of her?
Bru. Nothing, Messala.
Mes. That, methinks, is strange.
Bru. Why ask yon ? bear yon aaght of her in yonrs ?
Me». No, my lord.
Bru. Now, as yon are a fioman, tell me tme.
Mes. Then like a Roman bear the tmth I tell : For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.
Bru. Why, farewell, Portia. — We mast die, Messalft : With meditating that she must die once, I have the patience to endnre it now,
Mes. Even bo great men great losses shonld endoie.
Cass, I have as much of this in art as yon, Bnt yet my nature coald not bear it so.
Bru, Well, to onr work alive. What do yon think Of marching to Philippi presently?
Cass. I do not think it good.
Bru. Your reason ?
Cass. This it is : —
'Tis better that the enemy seek ns : So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. Doing himself offence ; whilst we, lying still, Are full of rest, defence, and nimbleness.
Bru. Good reasons mnst, of force, give place to better. The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground Do stand but in a forc'd aifection ; For they have grudg'd us contribution : The enemy, marching along by them. By them shall make a fuller number up. Come on refresh'd, new-ttided,"*" and encourag'd ; From which advantage shall we cut him off,
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If at Fbilippi we do foce him there, These people at our back.
Cagg. Hear me, good brother.
Bru. Under your pardon.— Yoo mast note beside, That we have tried the ntmost of our frieDda, Oar legions are brim-fiill, onr canse is ripe : The enemy inoreaBeth every day ; We, at the height, are ready to decline. There is a tide in the ofifkira of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortnne ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On snch a fnll sea are we now afloat ; And we must take the current when it serves. Or lose oor ventures.
Cast. Then, with your will, go on ;
We'll along onrselvea, and meet them at Fbilippi.
Bru. The deep of night is crept npon onr talk. And natnre must obey necessity; Which we will niggard with a little rest. There is no more to say ?
Ca88. No more. Good night :
Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence.
Bru. Lncias, my gown ! — ^Farewell,®" good Measala: — Good night, Titinins : — noble, noble Cassins, Good night, and good repose.
Cass. O my dear brother 1
This was an ill beginning of the night : Never come such division 'tween our sools ! Let it not, Bmtas.
Bru. Every thing is well.
Cass. Good night, my lord.
Bru. Good night, good brother.
Tit. Mes. Good night. Lord Bratas.
Bru. Farewell, every one.
\Exeunt Castius, Titiniua, atid MeiBtUa.
Se-enter Lucnts, wiih the gotrn. Give me the gown. Where is thy instrament ? Luc. Here in the tent.
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Bru. Wliat, thoa speak'et drowsily ?
Poor knave, I blame thee not ; thou art o'er-vatoh'd. Call Clandina***' and some other of m^ men ; m have them steep on caahions in my tent.
Luc. YsTTO and Clandins I
Enter Tabbo atid OLAimnja.
Var. CaUa my lord ?
Bru. I pray yon, sirs, lie in my tent and sle^ ; It may be I shall raise yon by and by On bosinesB to my brolJieT GassiaB.
Var. So please yon, we will stand and watch yoor plea- sare.
Bth. I will not have it so : lie down, good sirs ; It may be I shall otherwise bethink me. — Look, Lacins, here's the book I aonght for so ; I pnt it in the pocket of my gown.
[Varro and ClaudiuM Its down.
Lue. I was sure yonr lord^p did not give it me.
Bnt. Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful. Canst tbon hold np thy heavy eyes awhile, And tonch thy inBtmment a strain or two ?
Luc. Ay, my lord, an't please yon.
Bru. It does, my boy :
I tronble thee too muoh, bnt thon art willing.
Luc, It is my daty, sir.
Bru. I shoold not nrge thy duty past thy might ; I know yonng bloods look for a time of rest.
Luc. I have slept, my lord, already.
Bru. It was well done ; and thon sbalt sleep again; I will not hold thee long : if I do live, I will be good to thee.
[Mime, and a song, towardt th£ end of which LaeiuM fails atleep. This ia a sleepy tnne : — O mnrderons slnmber, Lay'st thon thy leaden mace npon my boy, That plays thee mnsic ? — Gentle knave, good sight ; I will not do thee so mnch wrong to wake thee : If thon dost nod, thon break'st thy instmment ; I'll take it &om thee ; and, good boy, good night. —
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Let me see, let me see ; — is not the leaf tnrn'd down Wteie I left reading ? Here it is, I think.
Enter the Ohoat of C^aAs. How ill this taper bnniB ! — Ha ! who comee here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrona apparition. It comes npon me. — Art thon any thing ? Art thon some god, some angel, or some devil, That mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to stare ? . Speak to me what thoa art.
Okoat. Thy eyil spirit, Bmtns.
Bm. Why com'st thou ?
Okoit, To tell thee thoa ahalt see me at Philippi.
Bru. "Well; Then I shall see thee again ?
Ohoet. Ay, at Philippi.
Bru. Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then. [EwU Oho$t. Now I have taken heart thoa TaniBhest : III spirit, I would hold more talk with thee. — Boy, Lacins ! — Varro I Glaadins 1**' — Sirs, awake ! — Clandins I
I^. The strings, my lord, are false.
Bru. He thinks he still is at his instnmeni. — Lacins, awake I
Luc. My lord?
Bra. Didst thoa dream, Laoias, that thon so criedst ont?
LUc. My lord, I do not know that I did cry.
Bru. Yes, that thoa didst : didst thoa see any thing ?
Lmc. Nothing, my lord.
Bru, Sleep again, Lacios. — Sirrah Claadias t — [2*0 Var."] Fellow thoa, awake I
Var. My lord ?
Clan. My lord?
Bru. Why did yon so cry oot, sirs, in your sleep 7
Var. Clau. Did we, my lord ?
Bru. Ay : saw yon any thing ?
Var. Ko, my lord, I saw nothing.
Clau. Kor I, my lord.
Bru. Go and commend me to my brother Casmns;
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Bid hi'm set on hia powetB betimoB before, And we will follow.
VaT. Claw. It ahall be done, my lord. {Exeunt.
ACT V. SoekbI. The plaint of Philip.
Enter OcTAVios, Amtoht, and their Arm;.
Oct. Now, Antony, onr bopea are anBwerM : Yon said the enemy woald not come down, Bat keep the hills and upper regions : It proves not so ; their battles are at hand ; They mean to warn ns at Philippi here. Answering before we do demand of them.
Ant. Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it : they could be eontent To visit other places ; and come down With fearM braTery, thinking by this face To fasten in oar thoughts that they have coorage ; Bat 'tis not so.
Eitler a Messeiiger.
Mess. Prepare you, generals :
The enemy comes on ia gallant show; Their bloody sign of battle is hung oat. And something to be done immediately.
Ant. Octavius, lead yoar battle softly on, Upon the left hand of the even field.
Oct. Upon the right hand I ; keep thon"" the left.
Ant. Why do yoo cross me in this exigent?
Oct. I do not cross you ; but I will do so. [March.
Drum. JBnter Bbutus, Cassiub, and their Axjnj ; Looujos,
TiTisius, MxaoiUi, and othert. Bru. The; stand, and would have parley. Cass. Stand fast, Titinins : we mast oat and talk.
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Oct. Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle ?
Ant. No, Cffisar, we will answer on their charge. Make forth ; the generals would have some wordB.
Oct, Stir not until the signal.
Bra. Words before blows : — is it bo, cotintrymen ?
Oct. Not that we lo7e words better, aa yon do.
Bni, Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavina.
Ant. Lt yoor bad strokes, Bmtas, yoa give good words ; Witness the hole yon made in Grasar's heart. Crying, "Long live I hail, Csear !"
Cobb. Antony,
The posture of yoat blows are yet unknown ;*'^ Bat for year words, they rob the Hybla bees. And leare them honeyless.
Ant. Not stingless too.
Bru. 0, yes, and sonndless too ; For you have Btol'n their buzzing, Antony, And very wisely threat before you sting.
Ant. YillainB, yon did not so, when yonr vile daggers Haok'd one another in the sides of Ctesar : Yoa show'd yonr teeth like apes, and fawn'd like honnds. And bow'd hke bondmen, kissing Cieear's feet ; Whilst damn^ Casca, like a car, behind Strnck Cfesar on the neck. 0 flatterers l'^^
Cati, ^Flatterers! — ^Now, Brutus, thank yourself : This tongae had not offended so to-day. If Gassins might have ml'd.
Oct. Come, come, the cause : if arguing make us sweat. The proof of it will tnm to redder drops. Look, —
I draw a sword against conspirators ; When think yoa that the sword goes np again ?— Never, till Cesar's three-and-thirty wounds Be well aveng'd ; or till another Cesar Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.'*''^
Bm. Ctesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands, Unless thou bring'st them with thee.
Oct. 8o I hope ;
J was not bom to die on Brntos* sword.
Bra. 0, if thoa wert the noblest of thy strain,
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YoDDg mui, thoa conldst not die more honourable.
Caaa. A peerieh echoolbo;, wortbloBs of aach hononr, Join'd with a masker and a reveller I
Ant. Old CasBioB Btill !
Oct. Come, Autony; away! —
I>efiaBoe, traitoie, hurl we in your teeth : If yon dare fight to-day, come to the field ; If not, when yon have Btomachs.
[Exeunt Odavivs, Antony, and Iftrir Army.
Cass. Why, now, blow wind, BweU billow, and awim bark! The storm ia up, and all ia on the hazard.
Bra. Ho, Lncilins 1 hark ; a word with yon.
LucU. My lord?
[BTvtoB and iMcUius converse apart.
Cats. Meaaala, —
Mes. What Baya my general ?
Cass. Messala,
Thia is my birth-day ; as this very day Was Casaias bom. Give me thy hand, Messala : Be thoa my witneas that, againat my wiU, As Pompey was, am P** oompell'd to set Upon one battle all our libertiea.
Yoo know that I held Epicnme atrong, ^
And his opinion ; now I change my mind. And partly credit th. .^^ that do presage. Coming from Sardis, on onr former'"'^ ensign Two mi^ty eaglea fell ; and there they peroh'd. Gorging and feeding &om onr aoldiers' hands ; Who to Philippi here consorted na : This morning are they fied away and gone ; And in their ateada do ravena, orowa, and kites, Fly o'er onr heads, and downward look on us. As we were aickly prey : their shadows seem A canopy most fatal, under which Onr army lies, ready to give np the ghost.
Mes. Beliere not so.
Cass. '' I but believe it partly ;
For I am fresh of spirit, and resolv'd To meet all perils rery constantly.
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Bru. Even so, Lncilias.
Cass. Kow, moBt noble Brutus,
The gods to-da; Bfand friendly, that wa may, Lovera in peace, lead on our days to age I But, flinoe th' affitiis of men rest etill incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall. If we do lose this battle, then is this The very last time we shall speak together : What are you, then, determined to do ?
Bru. Even by the rule of that philosophy By which Z did blame Cato foi the death "Which he did give himself: — I know not how,'""' But I do find it cowardly and Tile, For fear of what might Coll, ao to prevent The time of life :°^* — arming myself with patience To stay the proridence of some'"''' high powers That goTem ns below.
Cass. Then, if we lose this battle,
IToa are contented to be led in triamph Thorough the streets of Borne ?
Bra. No, Gassins, no : think not, thou noble Soman, That ever Brntus will go bound to Borne ; He bears too great a mind. But this same day Must end that work the ides of March began ; And whether we shall meet again I know not. Therefore our eTerlasting farewell ti" "■■ — For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassias ! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; If not, why, then, this parting was well made.
Com. For ever, and for eyer, farewell, Brntus! If we do meet again, well smile indeed ; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.
Bru. Why, then, lead on. — 0, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come ! Bui it sofficeth that the day will end. And then the end is known. — Come, ho ! away I \Exeunt.
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SobnbII. The game. The field of hatOe.
Alaninu. JSnter BBnrpa and Muswat.a. Bru. Bide, ride, Messala, ride, and gire these bills Unto tlie legions on the other side : Let them set os at once ; for I perceive Sat cold demeanoor in Octavias'"'*" wing. And sadden pneh gives them the overthrow. Bide, ride, Messala : let them all come down. [^Exeunt.
Scene m. The same. Another part of the field. Alarums. Enter Cabbiub and TrnKioa.
Coat. 0, look, TitiniiiB, look, the villains flj ! Myself have to mine own tnm'd enemy : This ensign here of mine was tnming back; I slew the coward, and did take it from him.
Tit. 0 CassinB, Bmtns gave the word too early ; Who, having some advantage on Octavins, Took it too eagerly : hia soldiers fell to spoil. Whilst we by Antony are all endos'd.
ErUer Pindabos.
Pin. Fly further off, my lord, fly further off; Mark Antony is ia your tents, my lord : Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far' off.
Case, This hill is far enongh. — Look, look, Tittuius ; Are those my tents where I perceive the fire ?
Tit. They are, my lord.
Cass. Titinias, if thou lov'st me.
Mount thon my horse, and hide thy spurs in him. Till he have broaght thee up to yonder troops. And here again ; that I may rest aeeur'd Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.
rift I will be here again, even with a thought. [Exit.
Caaa. Go, Findarns, get higher on that hill;
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My Bight waa ever thick ; regard Titiniaa, And tell me what thoa not'st abont the field. —
[Pindanu goes up.^"" This day I breath&d firet : time ie oome round. And where I did begin, there shall I end ; My life is ran hia eompasB. — Sirrah, what news ?
Pin. [above] O my lord !
Cats. What news ?
Pin. [above] Titinias is enoIosM roand abont With horsemea, that make to him on the spot ; — Yet he spars on. — Now they are almost on him ; — Now, TitiniuB ! — Kow some light : 0, be lights too : he's ta'en ; [Shout} and,
harkl They shont for joy. '
Cats. Come down, behold do more. —
0, coward that I am, to live so long. To see my best &iend ta'en before my fiice !
PiNDARUs descends. Come hither, sirrah : In Parthia did I take thee prisoner ; And then I swore thee, saving of thy life. That whatsoever I did bid thee do, Thoa shonldsfc attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath ; Now be a freeman ; and, with this good sword. That ran tiiroagh Cssar's bowels, search this bosom. Stand not to answer : here, take thoa the hilts ; And, when my face is corer'd, as 'tis now, Guide thon the sword, — Cesar, thoa art rereng'd, Even with the sword that kill'd thee. \pie$.
Pin. So, I am free ; yet would not so have been, Durst I have done my will. 0 Cassias 1 Far from this ooontry Pindaras shall mn, Where never Boman shall take note of him. [Exit.
Met. It is bat change, Titinias; for Octsvina Is overthrown by noble Brutas' power, Aa Cassias' legions are by Antony.
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Tit. These tidings will well comfort Casnas.
Mes. Where did 70a leave him ?
Tit. All disconsolate,
With PindaniB his bondBman, on this hiU.
Mes. Ib not that he that lies npon the ground ?
Tit. He lies not like the living. O m; heart !
Mes. Is not that he ?
Tit. No, this was he, MeBSala,
But CaBsinB is no more. — 0 setting sun, As in thy red rays thoc dost ednk to night, So in his red blood CaseinB' day is set, — The Bim of Borne is set I Oar day is gone ; Clonds, dews, and dangers come ; oar deeds are dcme I MiBtmst of my succcbb hath done this deed.
Met. Mistrust of good success hath done tiiia deed. 0 hateful Error, Melancholy's child, Why dost thou show to the apt thooghts of men The things that are not ? O Error, aoon conceiT'd, ThoQ never com'st onto a happy hirth. But Mll'st the mother that engender'd thee !
Tit. What, Pindams I where art thou, Pindanw ?
Mes, Seek him, Titinias, whilst I go to meet The noble Bnttua, thmsting this report Into his ears : I may say, thmsting it ; For piercing ateel, and darts envenom^. Shall be as welcome to the ears of Bratus As tidings of tius sight.
Tit, Hie yon, Measala,
And I will seek for FindaruB th« while. [ExU Meaiala.
Why didst thoa send me forth, brave Cassins ? Did I not meet thy friends ? and did not they Put on my brows this wreath of victory, And bid me give it thee ? Didst thon not hear their shouts ? Alas, thou hast miBconstru'd eveiy tiling I But, hold thee, take ibis garland on Uiy brow ;<^<*> Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I Will do his bidding.— Bmtns, come apace, And Bee how I regarded Caius Gassins. — By your leave, gods : — this is a Soman's part : Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinias' heart. [Z>t«f .
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JULIUB CSBAB.
Alarumg. Be-enier Mesaua, with BRnrtrs, i/oawj Cato, Strato, VoLUMNics, and Lncinua.
Bru, "Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie ?
Met. Lo, yonder ; and TitiniuB monimng it.
Sra. Titinina' face ia npward.
Cato. He is slain.
Bru. O Joliua Cesar, thou art mighty yet ! Thy spirit walks abroad, and tarns onr swords In OUT own proper entrails. [Low alarumt^
Cato. Brave Titinins !
Look, wher he have not crown'd dead Cassias !
Bru. Are yet two Bomans hving such aa these ? — Thou last of all the Bomans, fore thee well l'^'^' It is impossible that ever Some Shoold breed thy fellow. — ^Friends, I owe more tears To this dead man than yoo shall see me pay. — I shall find time, Cassios, I shall find time. — Come, therefore, and to ThassoB send his body : His fnnerals shall not be in onr camp, Leet it discomfort us."*" — Lncilins, come ; — And come, yonng Cato ; — let ns to the field. — Labeo and Flavins,""** set our battles on : — 'Tie three o'clock ; and, Romans, yet ere night We shall try fortone in a second fight. [Exeunt..
SoENS IV. The tame. Another part oftkeJUld.
AlaniTW. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies; than BanrtrSr yourtg Cato, LoonJUB, and othert. Bra. Yet, countrymen, 0, yet hold np yonr heads 1 Cato. What bastard doth not ? Who will go with me 9 I will proclaim my name about the field : — I am title son of Maroas Cato, ho 1 A foe to tyrants, and my oonntry's friend; I am the son of Harcas Cato, ho 1 [Charget ike enemy,
Bru. And I am Bmtns, Marcns Bratns, I ;
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Srntna, my coantty's friend ; know me for Brntne I
[Exit, charging tite enemy. Young Cato it over- powered, andfaUt. ImcU. 0 young and noble Gate, art thon down 7 "Why, now thoo dieet as brarely as Titinina ; And mayst be hononr'd, being Gato'a son. First Sold. Yield, or thon diest. Lacil. Only I yield to die :
There is so macb that thon wilt bill me atniight ;
[Offering money. "Kill BrotoB, and be hononr'd in his death.
Fint Sold. We mnst not. — A noble prisoner !
Sec, Sold. Boom, ho I Tell Antony, Bmtns is ta'en.
Fint Sold. I'll tell the"'"* news : — here comes the general.
£nier Aktont. Bmtns is ta'en, Brntas is ta'en, my lord.
Ant. Wliere is he ?
LucU. Safe, Antony ; Bmtns is safe enoogb : I dare aesnre thee that no enemy Shall ever take alive the noble Bmtaa : The gods defend him &om so great a shame ! "When yon do find him, or alive or dead. He will be found like Bmtns, like himself.
Ant, This is not Bmtns, friend ; bat, I assnre yon, A prize no less in worth : keep this man safe, Give him all kindness : I had rather have Snch men my friends than enemies. Go od. And see wb^ Brntos be alive or dead ; And bring ns word onto Octavics' tent How every thing is chanc'd. [Exeunt,
SoBNB v. The tame. Another part of the Jield. Enter Bbutus, Bahdakics, Clitus, Stkato, and VoLiiiiNitra. Bru. Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock. CU. Statilins show'd the torch-light ; bnt, my lord, Se came not back : he is or ta'en or slain.
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Bru, Sit thee down, Glitns : alaying is the word ; It IB a deed in fsBhioa. Haik thee, Clitas. iWkispen him.
Cli. What, I, my lord ? No, not for all tlie world.
Bru. Peace, then, no words.
CH. I'll r&ther Mil myself.
Btu. Hark thee, Dardaniaa. [Whupert him.
Dar. Shall I do such a deed ?
Cli. 0 DardanicB 1
Dar. 0 CUtna !
Cli. What ill request did Bmtns make to thee ?
Dar. To kill him, Clitas. Look, he meditates.
Cli. Now is that noble vessel fall of grief, That it rnns over even at his eyes.
Bru. Come hither, good YolumniDS ; list a word.
Vol. What says my lord ?
Bru. Why, this, Yolnmnias :
The ghost of GiBBar hath appear'd to me Two Boreral times by night, — at Sardia once, And, this last night, here in Philippi fields : I know my honr is come.
Vol. Not 80, my lord,
Bru. Nay, I am snre it ie, Volamnias. ThoQ seest the world, Tolumnins, how it goes ; Onr enemies have beat as to the pit : [Low dlarujna.
It is more worthy to leap in onrselTes, Than tarry till they push as. Good Yolnmnins, Tboa know'st that we two went to school together : Kven for that onr love of old, I prithee. Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I mn on it.""'
Vol. That's sot an office for a iEriend, my lord.
{^Alarmis BtiU.
Cli. Fly, fly, my lord ; there is no tarrying here.
Bru, Farewell to you ; — and yon ; — and yon, Volum- nins. — Strato, thoQ faaet been all this while asleep ; Farewell to thee too, Strato. — Coantrymen, My heart doth joy, that yet, in all my life, I found no man hut he was true to me. I ahall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony
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By thia vile oonqoeHt*"*' shall attain nnto.
So, taie yon well at once ; for Bmtaa' tongae
Hath almoBt eiided his life's hiatoiy :
Night hangs npon mine eyes ; my bones woold rest.
That have bat laboor'd to attain this hour.
[Alarwiu. Cry within, " Fly, fly, fly t"
CU. Fly, my lord, fly.
Bru. Hence ! I wiU foUow.^'*'
[Exeunt CUtus, Dardanitu, and Volwnmut, I prithee, Strato, stay thon by thy lord : Thou art a fellow of a good respect ; Thy life hath had aome smatch of honour in it : Hold, then, my sword, and tnm away thy face. While I do ran upon it. WUt dion, Strato 9
Stra. GiTo me yonr hand flrst : fare you well, my lord.
Bra. Farewell, good Strato. — Gfesar, now be still : I kill'd not thee with half bo good a wilL
\He rtrna on hia iword, and diea.
Alarums. Retreat. Enter OcTATins, Antony, Mbsbai^, LnciLios, and Army.
Oct. What man is that ?
Met. My master's man. — Strato, where is thy master 7
Stra. Free from the bondage yon are in, Messala : The eonqoerors can bnt make a fire of him ; For Brntas only overcame himself. And no man else hath honour by his death.
LmH. So Brntas should be fonnd. — ^I thank thoe, Bratas, That thon hast proT'd Lnciliae' saying tme.
Oct. All that eerr'd Bmtns, I will entertain them. — Fellow, wilt thoo bestow thy time with me ?
Stra. Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.
Oct. Do so, good Messala.
Me$. How died my master, Strato ?
Stra, I held the sword, and he did rnn on it.
Met. OctaTins, then take him to follow thee. That did the latest service to my niMter.
Ant. This was the noblest Soman of them all: All the conspirators, save only be. Did that they did in envy of great Cjesar ;
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He on!;, in a genersl-honeBt thought,
And common good to all,'^'^ made one of them.
His liie was gentle ; and the elements
So mix'd in him, tiiat Natnre might stand ap
And Bay to all the world, " This vas a man !"
Oct. According to his virtne let as use him, With all respect and rites of bnrial. - Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie. Most like a soldier, order'd hononrahly. — So, call the field to rest : and let's away, To part the glories of this happy day. [^Exeunt.
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P. 61S. (i) "MuHiLura,"
In tlie ItHio he is Mlled " HotgUiib" throngliont Ute pis; ; eioept in one in- atanw, where it hw " Mmrellaa."
P. fllS. (a)
" What tradt, thou latavt t thoa naughty knavt, mhat trade I" This ii giren in the folia to " Fla. :" bnt the next speech of Marnlliia ("mend nb, thoD SMioy fellow I") diatbwtlj prores that A« is the spealier
P. S16. (3) "Imeddle with," Ao.
" This ihonld be, ' I meddle with no trade, — msn'e maUers, nor womui'a matters, bat nth owl.' " FuutkB.— " Surely this is at least ■ atep to the right reading." Walker's Crie. Exam. &a. vol. iu. p. 241.
P. 617. (4) " Ciiwnwoi," ,
•' Bach is the name she bean in North's ■ Plntaroh,' 1679, p. 769, both In the body of the book and in the margin. [So too in ed. 1612,ji. 713, now before me.] We only meutimt it beo&iiM Hr. Craik, in his ' English of Shako- ■peare,' p. 60 [p. SB, see. ed.] , by mistake atyt the Teverae [and so safa Mr. Orant T^hite] , and objects that Shakespeare ought to have etLU«d her Cal- purnia. See Flnlaroh's ' late of Antonins'. " Coluib.
P. 617. (s) "Dscros,"
" The name of the person called Decitu Bratns thronghont the play was Dieimui Bmtni. Dteiiu is not, like Dtaiitau, a pranomen, but a gentilitial name. The error, however, is as old as the edition of Plntarch's Qreek text I^odnoed by Heniy Stephens in 1573 ; and it ooonrs likewise in the aoeom- panying I^tdn tavulatiim, and both in Amyot'a and Daoier's Freseh, as veil as In North's English," fto. Ctv^'a EnglUh of Shakuptart, &a. p. 67^
P. 617. (6) "jtntoniw"'
" The old copy generally reads — AiO/mio, Octavio, Flavio [and Clavdlc] . The pliers irere mme aooQitomed to Italian than Bonan tsrminatioDS," fto.
P. 618, (7) " bthavitmr* ,"
See note 4a on AW* weU that Mib meU. VOL. TI.
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V. 619. {I) " But by Ttflectionfrom tome other thing."
The folio hM " by aone other thingt." — The flnt of tl
WM made hy Pope, tho aeoond by W»lker, CHt. Exam. *o. vol. L p. 344. — (Hers the >> by" wu eridastly repeated by mistake, and ( added to " thm^" by a terj freqoeut error of the folio.)
P. 619. (9) "nim>r"
The folio has " Uiirora" (another iaotance of i wrongly added to a mvd). — Con«ct«d by Walker, CHt. B*tan. fte. vol. i. p. 244.
P. 619. (lo) '■ lavghtT,"
The folio has " Laughter."
P. 631. (ii) " yonr* U a* fair a namt;"
"Wtikm {Sha)tapeare'i VmificatioB, &o. p. 98) soggeita " yonrs' at fair « iiamt," — the apostrophe Tn..TMiig the ehsioii of " tt."
The folio has " rA<it htr vide Walkee," Ac. ; whioh is retained by most of th« recent editon, thoogh the ernx had been eorreeted long ago. — " Un- doobtedly > walU.' The error, protuiUy, origloatod in ' tatk'd.' " WalkWa CHt. Exam. &e, Tol. iii. p. 244.
P. 622. (13) "lenator."
The folio has ■' Senston."— Oorreoted by Walker, Shakttptart'i Ven^fiea- tiOR, £0. p. 98. (Bee antt, notes S, 9.]
P. 62S. (14) " ihtmted,"
The folio has "howted" (the iiutial letter haling dropt oat).
P. 638. (is) "laooMd,"
Eere the folio has " iwoonded," and in the next speech "siroimd." — See note 93 on The Winter'i Talt.
P. 624. (16) " 'Ti« very Uku—h* halh the falUiig-tiekneu." The folio tuts no point after " Ukt;" and so Hr. Collier gives the line. Bnt Bmtns oertunly does not mean to say " It is TOiy likely that Cnsar hath the fslling-giekness :" — Brntus knew that Csaar was snbjeot to it. Compare Horth's Plutarch; "he [Ctecai'] was leane, white, and loIt-ikiDned, and often subitet to head-aohe, and otherwhiis to the falling tickenet (the which tooke him the first time, as it is reported, la CordTbs, a mtie of Bpayne)," Ao, p. 771, ed. 1679.
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p. 626. (17) " and ymtr mind bold,"
" Boraly, * and ai|r mind kold.' ' Four' is kbgnrd." Walkra'i Orit. Exam. ^. Td. iiL p. 24S.
P.62E. (ig) "mettle"
Mr. Collier's Ml. CoiMotoi Tesda " mettled." — " TSmaoage. ' Mttal.' Com- pare the line preoeding, '^liat a blunt fellow i« this grown to be 1'" Walker's Ctit. Exam. tee. toI. ill. p. 246.
P. 631. (19) ••digat"
Here the folio baa "diageBt;" birt afterwards, p. 668, it has "Ton sluU dl^eie," to.
P. 636. (10) " you fcnoiff him," Sea.
Q7. "TOa'd Know Mm" [{. «. jon wonld reoogniss him for a oommon slare), Aa.r
P, 636. {11) " glar'cP'
The (olio hoa " glas'd"
P. 636. (11) <■ ' Theie are tfteir niuoiu,' "
" Ii it possible that Mr. Collier ean hold the new reading wbioh he gives as on the anthoritj' of his Ms. annotator, ' These are their leuonf ,' to be what Sbakespeare reaUf wrote t ThU U their leaian might hare been ooneeiv- able ; bnt who erer heard it remarked of any desoription of phenomena that thet4 are their leatoiu t" Cuis.
P. 637. (»3) " mftat night U thii ."'
The folio has an intarrogation.paiat alter these words, and the modem editors retain it ; most erroneonsljr. Oasoa is not patting a qaastion, bnt uttering an eiolamation of anrprise : here " vihat night ii thU .'" is equiva- lent to "what a night ie thiiP' — In snob exclamations it was not mmsoal to . omit " a." Bee note 1 1 on The Two aenOemtn of Verona, voL I, p. 826.— I86E. Binoe I wrote what precedes, Hr. BUnnton and Mr. Orant White have very properly substituted here an exclamation-paint for the interroiKa- tlcm-point. — Hr, Craik (tn both editions of hta Englith oj Shakeipeare, &c.) prints, with disregard M the metro and of the old phraseology, "what a ittght it thU ."'
P. 637. (»4) " eois yoarteif in wonder,"
The fcdio has "cast your telfe in wonder." — Gcneeted by Mr. Swjnten Jervla ; who compares, itaeh Ado about Nothing, act iv. so. 1, "For my part, I am so attir'd in wonder," fto. (The same oorreetion oeoorred to th* Ute Mr. W. W. Williams : see Tht Parlhenm for Jime T, 1863, p. 18G.}
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p. 827. (15) " Why old mm fool,"
The folio bM " Why Old m«n. Fooles.'*— CoReoted hj Hr. ' note en Wslkei'a Crit. Exmn. Ac. toL i. p. 300.
P. 638. (16) "UntoiowuBuirutroiuitali.
Now could I, Caiea, namt to th^t a man Moil like tMi dread^ mght," Ao. Bddi ia the Bmatgemeut in the folio. But C&pell, by omitting " the Unet ran in regnlar metre ;
" Unto Bome mouatroita etate. Now eoaU I, Cmca, Name &ee ■ man moat lihe Qtia dreadful nif^t," fte.
P. 639. (17) "ifold, ny bind .-"
In moat of the modem editions the ctmuna after " Hold" is iinproper)jr omitted. The expreidon is «lliptteal : if oomplete, it wonld be, " Holdr there'a my hand," See. ; like
" Eolit, that's 07 Ewoord, and with taj swoord 107 heut."
A PUagant CoTimodie, called Looke ahout you, 1600, tig. E i,
" Holdt ihee, Oeorge Bettes, ther's 1117 hand and my hart."
iSIr Thomtu More (a play printed from a lis. for &a Bhakospeaie Soe.), p. 6.
P. 6a». (18) " rn/apour'i like"
Ho JohnsoQ. — Tbefidio has "laFavori, JiJte."— Bore printed "Iifear'rons, like;" Capell, "Ib faTont>d lift;," with which reading Walker (Oit. £.cani. See. vol. L p. 33) dies the passage.— Mr. Honter (New lUutt. of Shaketpeare, ti. 148) wonld re»d " It (ayotirB like," lie. , and obserrBs, " ft favoun ia a common EngUah phrase, now degraded into the nuifa of Tnlgarlsiiw, denoting the same thing as it re$embiei. In some parts of the ooimtr7 the7 still saj'' of aehildthat it/ocEiun o/soma nncle or other rehition," dre. Bntdo they ever ss7 — it favoun uzx some nnde, &e, 7
P. 629. (19) " Molt htcodji-fifry"
The folio has " iloit Uoodie, flerie." — ■■ Bead ' Most bloody-fiery,' Ae., altii. ^\e(, as a Greek tragedian might have expreEsed it, or, in Latin poetical langna^e, lati^inrvm ardeni; covered orer with flery meteors of a blood- red CDlonr." Crit. Exam. Siv. toI. i. p. 3S.
P. 630. (30) "attempt."
The foUo has " Attempts." — Corrected b7 Walker, Crit. Exam. &e, toL i. p. 946 ; and so Mr. Brant White silentl;. (Bee ante, notes S, 9.)
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P. 639. (]t) " When Bnitui may but find it i"
" If hut be the bae word (ana be not & niBpriol for bett), the neaoiag mnst Ira, Be core joa lay it In the pmtor'g etudr, only taking cara to jdaee It to tlut Bratnfl m»j be cure to fln4 it." Cuik.— See tbe oeuoliisiokor note 146 on AW* wtU that end* leeli.
P. 681. (3») " tft< idet o/Manhr
So Theob4ld.— The folio haa " the Qnt 0/ Mv*h P'
P. 688. (3j) '■ My aneettor"
The tdlo haa " Jfy Auceston." (Bee ante, uotei S, 9.}
P. 683. (34) >' • Speak, ttrike, redrau r—Ant I tiUreMed" Tq tUa line '■ then" was added by Pope. — Mr. Cnik printa it aa twa kemi-
P. 683. (35) "fovrtetH"
So ThaobaU.— The foUo has ■< fifteens."
P. <83. (3S) ■■ Ihe ttate t/aon,"
80 tha aeoond folio.— The first folio has " the itaU 0} a ntmt,^' &e., which Malooe, Hr. Kni^t, £0. defend, thongh the "a" eridently inept in by the miatake of the tranBoriber or oompoaitor. If Mr. Eaight will torn to hla HaxUmal Edition of Shake*ptan, he will find that, in act It. ao. S of the pre- sent pla7, hii printer has thos falsified the text br inaartlng the article ; " I said en elder soldier, not a better: Did I sa; ^ better?"— 1865. Walker noUoee as fault; the reading of the folio haie, " tht ttate ofn Buut," — "qnod reatitoemnt Eqnes et CoUieriiiB, jnre a Dyoio repnhena]. Remark*, p. 186." C7rft. Exam. ice. toL L p. 90.
P. 688. (37) " For if thou put thy native tetublaiiet on," The folio haa " For if thou path thy," ice., iriileh oemmentatan ha>a vainlj eadearonred to explain. The alteration now adopted waa made by Soathem (in hia sepy of the fourth folio) ; waa propoaad by Coleridge alio ; and is pronouioed to be " aertainly" right by Walker, who obserres ; " Path ooonn. indeed, in a diilteent Banae, Drsyton, Epi*tle of Duke Humphrey [to Elinor Cobhaai] ,
' Patlung yoiLog Henry'i nnadrisM w^fs,' £c Again, PotgoOnoB, iL, aomewbat differently,
'Where, from the neighbouring hills, her passage Wey datk path,^ i. e. tiMcib her way. Hares qnotes these two pasaagea, In v., as inatanoas of the signifloatlon whioh he attribntea to the word In Oio plaee of BhakeEpeare ; the Tariomm also quotes aae or both of them for the aame pnipoee [Bteerena Jipod the Tar. quotes both ; and from the Tar. Narea bonowed them] ; Col-
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lier refers to Dnyton, without mj qootation. Tet it is quite dear that neitbei of tham ia to tlie point." Crit. Exam. ico. vtd. iii. p. 316 — Mr. Btann- Uta lEki " who for m momeitt conld admit the pOBsibili^ thatyui trae the genuine wcffdf" Bnt earlier in thi« plaj (p. 6SG) we hare "HoweTsr he put* on OiiE tacdy form." — Mi. Qnnt 'White obeerrefi that the quarto of 1691 reads " For if thou hath (Ay native letnbhatce on j" and he is indinel to think that " path" ia a mJsptlitt for " badst."
P. 6S4. (38) "faee"
Warbnrton reads " fate ;" Masoa propo«fl " laith ;" and Ualooe eonjeotucs
" faithi."
P. eas. (35) "fit for the godt,
fit for komtdt :"
Walker {Crit. Exam. Sio. vol. i. p. 294} dtes thiB repetition of the word "Jit"
as BOipioionE.
P. 836. (40) "YttlftarMm:"
Pope printed " Yet I do fear him :" and Btoeveia compares, in Slaebeth, act iu. EC, 1, " Whose being I do fear."
P, 686. (41) "byhtiai"
" That is, b7 hia hoaie. Make that ;our way home. Mr. Pope labstitDted
to for by; and ill the subsequeiit editors have adopted this nnneoesaary change." Malokx.
P. B86. (41) "given him reaton;"
The folio haa " giuen him Beasona." — Corrected bj Walker, Crit. Exam. ice. yd. i. p. 360. (See ante, notes S, 9.) Here oasaredly the old reading is not to be defended b; a later pasaage, p. 653,
' ' yon shall give me reaeom Why and wherein Cnsar was dangerous."
P. 637. (43) "tlie heavy honey-dea oftbimber:"
The folio has "the hony-heany-Dtu of Slumber." — The two Ms. Cocrootors ^-Ur. Collier's and Ur. Singer's — make the transposition.
P. 883. (44) "charm,"
" lb. Pope and B
That, from mf muteat oooacienae, to m; tongoe,
Charm* this report ont.' " STXBnHS. Bnt the passage jast dted does not support " eharwt" in the pwwcirt on«.— • " I think, ' charge'. " Walker's Crit. Exam, fto. TtL m. p. 340,
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P. 640, (45) " threatat'd"
" ^n. ' threaten' t Me context." Walker's Cril, Ezam. 4o. toI. ia. p. 2W.
P. MO. (46)
" Fierce fiery warriort fought upon the cloudt.
In ranki and tgvadnm* and right form of var,
Which driizled blood iipon the Capitol ;
The node of battle hvrtUd in the air,
Eortet did neigh, and dying men did groan ;
And ghoete did ihriek and tqneal ahemt the itreeti." In the flnt line I htre fmbtHtaUi "fought" for Uie reading of the folio "flght," which is ihoirn by what followa {"dxiixled blood," &b.) to be an eiTor, sinoe we cannot sappose that here the poet used "Jight" as a paet tenle. In the fifth line the folio haa "Hontei do ntigh," &b., whiob the editor of the leoond folio properly ootteeted. (" The tenBai," aay« Mr. Enight, "we have no dovbt, are pmpofMly eoatotmded, in the vagae terroi of the gpeaker" I). — 1865. Here the reading "/oi^M," which was originally pro- posed by me, has lieeu adiqtted by Hr. Qnutt White and the Cambridge Editors {Globe Shakeipeare) : bnt Mr. Craik adheres to, and moat weakly deteude, the cormption " fight."
P. 6il. (4,7) " We are (iro Horn"
Bo Upton (and Mr. Collier's Ma. ConrectorJ.— The folio has ■' We heare tvo Lyon*." — Theobald printed " We were (ifo lion*."
P. 642. (48) " ttatua,"
The folio has " statue."— See note loion The See. Part of King Henry VI. Tol. V. p. 214. — Since the Tolmne jnst referred to was published, Mr. Arrow- smith [Shaieipeare't Editori and Commentalon, p., 4) has shown that Eey- wood in his Traja Britanmca always prints "statne" with a dinreais (" statue"). But in so doing Heywood, I beliere, was aingular. And it by no raeans follows that where the word was to stand as a trisyllahle, Shake- speare did not write "itataa;" a form which, both in his days and long after, was commMi, not only in verse, bat in the moat Tulgat prose. Nor will any one TBntnre to assert that the fdio haa prescrred to na the very spelling of Shakespeare, — made np aa that folio undoubtedly was, partly Irom plsybonae transcripts, partly from printed copies, and pressating thzoof^ODt the greatest inconsistency of spelling {e.g. " Tilde" and "vile," " ctnster" and "eotutriK," "bankeront" and " Nmfrrupt," Ao. £c.].
P. 643. {49) "Andthtte
Doe* the apply fm^ waminfft andporUnt* Of evil* inaninent;" This passage seems almoet to defy any satisfactory urangemant. — The folio has"AndeuJI( immineRti" which was corrected l:^ Hamner,
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P. 618. (ja) " Caiar, bevare ofBruba," fto. Walker (Cril. £xam. Ha. toL L p. 13] endMTonn t« Hnnge tbu " p^et" m Tone 1 uninoocBifnllf , I tWnV.
P. 64S. (ji) " Entar Soot&ioi/rn-."
Here Bowe ftlt«retl " Sooauu7er" to " ArtemHorxu.^' — " The inbodoeibm of the Soothg^er here ia mmeceuu?, and, I think, improper. AH that he ia made to aaj ahonld be given to Artenudoraa ; who is aean and Mooated b; PortU In hia paaaage triHn hia first itMid to one more cosTOniaDt."
P. 6iS. (51) "may cAohm."
An interpolation T
P. 646. (53) " What touelia ut otvitif, iJiaU be tait lerv'd." le mzeij right, thongh Hr. Craik lolloirB Ur. Collier's Ha. Correotor in reading
" Tbti touehei V4 1 Ouruif iJioU ht latl lerv'd."
P. 646. in) ■' Cotriuf or Catar nevtr thaU turn back. For I will *Uig mfteV." Halone'a oonjeotnre, "Ciuiituon.CitiarjievtrthaU turn bad," &a, ia adopted (Tei7 inoonaideratelr, I think) hoth bj Hr. Craik and by Ur. Grant White ; who probablj had forgotten that " turn" was formerly not nnoommon in the aenn of " return." (See Gloesary, in tum].^" The editor [Malone] belierBs that Bhakeapeare wrote
' CaediM on Cnsmr never ahkll tntn bMk,' and aaya, the next line strongly anpporta thia ooiijeotiire. He mnat mean, it ia preBonied, la the Irish way; aa a mere EugUsh reader would oonelade that the next line totally destroya it. . . . Caaaina aaya, if the plot be dia- corered, at all eventa either he or Cnsar ahall never return alive ; for, if the latter cannot be killed, he is determined to slay himself. The aense ia aa plain, as the alternative la jnat and neeeaaary, or the proposed reading ig- norant and absurd." Ritboh,
P. 646. (j5) " oar purpoii ;"
The folio faac " our pnipoaea ;" whioh wnds. Indeed, luve oomnred eariier In the play, p. 686 ; but the plural ia anrely an error here, oinoe only a few lines above Caasina has said, " I fear our purpose ia diacorerid." (Bee ante, note* 8, 9.)
P. 647. (56) " An at da ready /"
In the folio theae words stand as the oommenoement of the next apeeeh. — Biteon saw the impr^rie^ ol their being nttered by Caaar ; and propoaod
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nuking them > portiou ol the pieoeding speech.— Wtib Mr. CoUica'a Ub. CoiTeotor, I hmve truuferred them to Caera, in wboae month thej loim * Tery nstonl rejoinder to wbkt Cinna hu jnat eeid.
P. 647. (S7) "eotteWnffi"
Huuner and BIr. Collier'B Ms. Corrector sahititute " anmehingi ;" an ilteia- tion whloh, Moording to Ur. Creik, " does not admit of a donbt."— But Hr. SingerirsU obtarreB; " Couching had the same meaning aaerouehbig; thus Hnloet : eovche, like t, iagga ; Proonmbo, Prostemo." Skakeiptar* Pindi- -eattd, &o. p. 248. And compare " luaobar ie a itrong asi amehiaff doim betveen two bnrdena." Qtnetit ilii. 14.
P. 647. (58) ■' tou"
£0 JcAmacn sod lb. Collier*! Hs. 0<areotor.—Th« folio hai ■■ lane."
P. 647. (ss) •' LoK-erooki^
Ur. Collier's Mb. Correator reads " Low-cnmohed ;" irhioh Mr. Craik adopta,
— Bat hear Mr. Singer again ; '-' Iiow-erooktd is the tame as \ow-erouehtd ;
for Hnloet has n-ooii-baoked or eroweA<-backed, and to croot mti to tow." Shaluftart Vijulicated, &b. p. 246.
P. 647. (60)
" Tf Ifcou dMt beni, and pray, and faum /or Afm,
I tpvm thte tike a ckt out of my way.
JTfURO, Catar doth not wrong ; nor teitbovt carut
Will he be taUiJUd.
Met. It there no voice more aorthy tktm my #wn," Ac. "" I remember," tajs Ben Jonion in hia Diicaveriei, " the platen have often mentioned it as an honour to Bhakeapeare, that in his writing (whataoerer he penned) be never blotted ont a line. M7 answer hath been, Wonld ho had blotted a thonsand I Whioh thej thought a malerolent apeeoh. I had not told posterity this, bnt for their ignoranoe, who ehose that eiroiunatanoe to coDunend their friend hj, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own oandour ; tor I lored the man, and do honour his tDemory, on tide side idolatry, ai mnoh ob aaj. He was (indeed) honeet, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent pbantaa;, braxe notions, and gentle eiprestiona ; wherein be flowed with that faoili^, that saoietimes it was necessary he -should he stopped : SMjlaminandiu erat, as Aagnttns said of Haterins. His "wit was in his own power : wonid the mle of it had been Bo too 1 Many time* he fell into those things could not eseape laughter ; as when he ssid in the penon of Cesar, one speaking to him, ' Casar, than dost me wrong,' he rqiUed, ' Cnsar did nerer wrong but with jnst eause,' and soeh like ; which were ridionlons. Bnt hs redeemed his Tiaes with his rirtnes. Thrae was erer more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." Worke, toI. ii. p. 176, ed. GifTord. Again, in The Induction to The Stapit of Newi, Jonson makes ProIo^M saf, "Cry fon meroj, yoa never did arong frni wftAjutt etaae." Worki, toI. t. p. 163, — where Oiffbrd observes ; " The attacks on Jonson tor this ^notation, which are multiplied bejond erediUlity, are
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fannded on two chargeE, first, that he hM folded tlia paseaga ; mi4 Beoondlf , th&t he irkB twtnated b7 malignit; In adTertiiig to it at all. I caonot believe that the pasEage ia ' quoted (as SteeTem st-yt) anfaith fully.' It is Boffloient to look at it in the piinied copy, to he convinced that it neret aame, in this form, from the pen of Shakstpeare. One of the oon- gpiiaton, MeteUoB Cimher hj name, kneela at the feet of Cieaar, vith Ihii short addreu,
< MelelloB Clrabet Cbrowa before thy leat
An humble heart.' And what is Caiar'a reply 1
' Enow CoMar iath not taronf, nor frittiont oaose
Will he he eatiafled.' How aatia&ed, and of whatf Here is no oongniitr, and the poetty is as mean as the sense. In Jonson it atands thns ; ■ Met. Cosar, t/itnt doit me terong.
Cat. Casar did never wnmp but with jnet caose.' Here is, at least, a Mterenoe to Bomething. The tact leenLs to be that this Terse, which closely borders npon absurdity without beiog absolutely absonl, escaped the poet In the beat of composition, and being unluckily one ol those qu^nt slips idiich are readily remembered, beoame. a joenlar and familiar phrase for reproving, as here, the perverse and imreasonable ex- pectations of the male ra female gossips nf the day. To siqipose, with Steevens and Malone, that Jonson derived ell his knowledge of Sbake- speara from his printed works, is not a little ridicolons ; those gentlemen choose to forget that he passed his life among playhouses and players, and that he must have frequently seen Juliut Caiar on the stage. There he undoubtedly heard the expression which he has quoted. He tells tu himself that, till he was past the age of forty, he could repeat every thing that be had written. His memory therefore was most ret^tive, and as his veracity was never oalled in question, but by the duumvirate jost mentioned, I osnnot but believe that he has faithfuUy given the words as they were nttered. When the Staple of Nemi was written, cannot be told, but it was acted in 1626, nine years after Shakespeare's death ; it seems, however, not to have been published till 1641, when the author VimjnH lud long been dead ; though the title-page hears date 1631. Jvlitu Ciriiir was printed in 162S 1 but It does not necessarily follow from this, that Jonson consulted the players' copy. He had no oooaaion to look into it for what he already knew ; and if he had (^ned it at all, the probability is, that he wonld have paid no attention to th^ botohery (for theirs I am peisnaded it was), when the gennine words were already so familiar to him. He wrote and spoke at ■ time when he might easily have been pat to shame, if his quotation had been nutaithfol." Let me add (for it may eseqra the reader) that OiSbrd snp- posee Shakespeare to have written thus ;
" If thoa dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him, I spurn thee like a our out of my way.
Sf«t. CMsar, thoB doet me wrong.
Cia. Cnsar did never wrong but with just cause.
Met. Is there no voiee more worthy than ray own," &o. — In The PartlKnon for August 3, lB6a, p. 442, the late Mr. W. W.Tnilianw
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writes thiiH ; " In an earlier put of the icene [i. e. the first soene of the third aot ol Meantre for SIetuurt,Tol. i. p. 4T7| Clendio] hod expreued to the Doke his readineia to die ; and the latter, orerheariug the anbaequent dia- logne between Clandio and Isabella, reoommends him, not to allow anj falae hi^iea to thake his preriona determination ;
' Do not latUfy ;onr resolntion with hopes that are fallible.' The obrionB drift ol these words is to the effect that Clandio shanld not uiutltU his resolntion by eneonraging eipeotationa of reprieve. The word ' Mtisfy' does not, either etymologieall}' or according to known usage, oonrey this meaning, and henae t^ perplexit; occasioned b; the text. But does not Shakespeare so employ it elsewhere r If I am not mistaken, he does, and in a remarkable iustanaa. In ' Jnling Ceesar,' act iii. so. 1, apon Cnsar's taking his seat in the Capitol, HetellUB Cimber kneels before tiim, peUtioning for the rsoall of his brother pQhlins from banishment. CraEar replies to his inpplioation bj a somewhat ostentatioDB display of his own flminess of cha- racter. He doeB not
' hear snoh rebel blood
That will be thaw'd tram the tnie ijnality
With that which melteth fools ;' and he eondndes with,
* Know Cnaar doth not wrong ; nor without oanse
Tnil he be laOtJUd.' Mr. Craik, in his Commeiitary ou this play, obserres that the words ' nor withont cause wiU he be satisfied' have ' an especiall; anspidoos look,' and his dilBenlty appears to lie in the word ' Batisfled.' But CieBar's speeches are deolarative of his detertnioabon oot to remit the sentence on Pnblins Cimber, or soffer his resolDtion to be shakea or unsettled withont adequate MtDse. Accordingly, he responds to the intercession of CasBios by Tanntjng that be ia ' constant as the northern star,' ' nnshak'd by motion ;' and winds
' I was constant Cimber Bhonld he banish'd, And constant do remain to keep him so.' The whole speech t« Cassius is a rmming commentary on the last words ad- dressed to Helellna Cimber. Upon comparing the passage in ' Measure for Heasore' with this in ■ Jnlins Cnsar,' we find the same word apparently in the same sense, and translatable only hy the aame modem eqairalent. What precise shade of meaning Shakespeare may hftTe attached to it is another matter ; hnt we must pause before tampering with either passage, when each is so aonflrmatory of the other." — Again, in The PorlAcnon for Not. 1, 1863, p. 849, the same eritie,— after citing from Alt'i trell that tnd» tetU, act V. so. 8,
" But when I had . . . Infotm'd her fully
I otmld not answer In that ooorae of tumonr
As she had made the orertore, she oeaa'd
In heavy lorM/octfon, and would never
Beeeive the ring again," — obserres; "Note the expression ■ heavy satisfaction.' In ' The Parthenon'' of Aug. 3, I ventured to vindicate the old text in the c*se of the words ' satisfy' and ' satlslledi' as found respeotively in * Measuro for Measure' and
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' JolioB Giesir.' The present pusage !■ enUrely ooafamMlOTy of toj opinion, then eiprsBied, tliat Bhakeapeue oooaaionsllf employed the word ' Batis^' in Bome aatsL dgnifloation u to ditturb or uruttUt." — With aU mj nspeot tor tha usntenew of the l»ta Hr. Willianu, I mnat oonfeM that his praMnt reinariis b^ no means '■ latiify" me.
P.M9. (6i) "Cws."
The folio has " Cask."
P.6M.{6a) "oV
The loBo haa " oniir."— " The Hot reqnlrei ' o'er.' Over for o'er is a frequent error In the folio." Wallter's Crit. Exam. £a. vol. iii. p. 347.
P.649. (6j) "itata"
lo the seoond folio.— The first folio has " State."
P. 660. {(4) •' iiVi"
80 the sewmd lolio.— The first folio lias " lye."
P. 661. (65)
"For pour part, To yon oar tmordt havt leaden poinU, Mark Antony, Our drmt no itretu/ih of malice ; and our hearte," The folio has
" MarJit Antoitg :
Out Anaa in itrength of vialice," Ae, I giTB Capell's reading, as preferable to an; other yet proposed. — Mr. C<A- ller's Ms. Corrector, mthont altering the ponatoation, changes " vaUee" to a word irtiioh no *ra; resembles it in the duetut literamm, " welcome ;" and irMoh to m; thinking (thongh Mr. Craik eageriy adopts it) makes almoat nonsense. — Hr. Singer propoaes " amity" for " malice f and Dr. Badham i^Camlrrtdge Et$ay$, vol. for 1866, p. 3En) oonjectnres " Our ami nnstnng their malice," Ao.
P. 663. (66) " Uthe.—"
Spelt in the folio "Lethee." — C^eU, Olon. snb "Lethe," says that here it is -" a term ns'd by banters, to stgnil^ — the blood shed by a deer at its fall, irith vbioh it is stjll a onstom to mark those who coma in at the death." According to Steerem, " Lethe is used by many of the idd tranilaton of novels for d^atk." And Nares, Oloit. snb " Lethe," obBorree that the word when Qsed, as it is here, In the sense of death, "must be formed frcm lethvm, not letht." — Bnt Theobsld and Mr. Collier's Ms. Corrector read ■" death."
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P. 663. (67) "due"
The folio hu " troe." — " BMd ' dut' [with Pope ftnd Mr. Collier's Hb. Cor- ractor] ." WaUer'B (Ml. Exam. &e. toL IL p. 239.
P. 654. (68) " Woe to iht haniU"
The folio has " Woe to (he huid." Bnt Antony has prsTionaly (p. 6SI) BtiS.
" Now, whiltt your poipled Aandi do leek," &c.
P. 6fi4. (69) " tAc mindi of mm ,-"
Tbe folio hss " tA< limbei of men;" which is defended by Capell, SteevenBr uid Maltxia; Bteeretu dting from Fh&er'i ^neid 'Himmei of men," ta if the words were not eamly to be found in a hundred other books. — Huuner reads " tAc kind 0/ ni«n ,-" Warburton, " Ihe line □/ nun," and Mr. Collier's Ua. CorreotoF, " the loina of mm" (a most Tile alteration, whioh neTertfaeleBS is adopted with high praise by Mr. Croik, who tells na that " the Eoinj of men means, or oonEsx, the ganerattona of men"). — Johnton's oonjectore ia " (fc« lireB 0/ mm ,■" Walker's (Oil. Exam. &e. toI. iil. p. 347), " the times of men;" vLi. BtanatoD's, " (*< tombs 0/ m«i ;" and Hr.Oraot While's, " the turns of men." — I gire, at the BQggestion of Hr. Bwynfen Jerril, " the mindi of men;" a reading which Bnita the context excellently: and " timbes" wu % not nnlikaly mistake for " niindei ." In an earlier passage of the ph^, p. 626, where Cassins oomplaina that " onr fathers' mini* ta« dead," the folio baa " minde:"
P. 664. (70) "/or"
o the seoond folio. — The first folio has "from,"
P. 854.(71) "Begin"
The folio has " Began" (a manifest eirot).
P. 666. [71) "nom"
Added by Pope.
P. 856. (73) " Caaar't glory .■"
The folio has " Ceetari Glories." — Corrected by Walker, Oril. Exam. Ac. TOl. i. p. 360. — The author's Ha. moat probably had " Olorie :" abore, in the present page, Bmtua speaks of " his [CMsar's] glofy not extenuated."
P. ess. (74) " JETfli he not, mctten r'
The folio has merely "Ha'i hee Haitent" — "Pechq« we should read 'Haa be, my masters V " Walker's Crit. Exam. *e. vol. ii. p. 359.— The " no(" i« the addiUon of Hr. Or^k.
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P. 660. (7s) ".tatua."
See note 4S.
P. 661. {76) "teit,"
The folio hM " writ" (whioh more th«ii one editor h«a letKined, — meuiing " peimad or prameditated onitioa" I). — The cotreetiMt «u n
P. 663. (77) " thm"
Ur. Crailt pn^koses " now ;" an ftlteration, quite nimeoeuaiy, and even objec- tionable, on aeeonnt of the inunedititelj praoeding and following " now."
P. 66a. {7S) '■ Ht and Lqrfda."
"Perhapi, >He andXoriLei^dni.'" Walber'B(7rtE.£zaiit. &c. ToLiLp.SGl.
P. 663. (7,) '•'tm"
The folio has >' him."
P. S62. (So) " I dreamt to-night that I didftatt vitk Ctfaar, And thingi unbuky charge ray }aKtavf .-" In the Moond line the folio has " mlnohily;" whioh Warborton altered ta " tuiiuefc!/."— Mr. Collier's Hi. Coireotor Hnbstltnteg "nnUkely!" of whit* Ur. Collier approres, beoAoee " Whr shonld Cimut oonsider It nnlnoky to dream of teaitiiae with Cnsai 1" Steerena haa giren the reason, ad I. .- " I learn," he bs7b, " from an old blftek-letter treaUie on F<»tane-telling, Ac that to dream ' of being at longtwb, betokeneth miBtortnne, &a.' " — I86S. " Dndoubtedly ' unlwet^.' " Walker's CHi. Sxam. fto, toL iiL p. 247.— Mr. Crailc approves and sdopta the Ma, Correolor's reading; while Mr. Btannton piononnoes it to be " certainl; wrong."
P. 664. (St) •■ on« thatfted*
On aigtet orti and imilatiooM, Which," fto. Tbe folio hM " On Obieete, Arti, and ImitatioTu," &e.—I adopt Theobald'a oorrection, '^ On abject orU" &c., — *' i. t. on the sorapa and fragments of things rejected and daapised bj others,"— a correction which CapeU (Nottt, Ac. Tol. f. P. ii. p. 110) calls "deoiaiTe" on aeoonat of the preoedinB "fudt," and which at least is atrongly lapported hj that word. (Shalceapeare else- where has
" The fractions of her faith, orli of her lore," Ac
TroiUu and CretHda, p. 88 ot the present vol. " It is some poor fragment, Rome slender ort of bii remainder," dio. Timoii ofAtlum, p. 661 of the present toI.
« Let him hare time a beggar's ortt to crave," &o. Lvertet.) —
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SteereiiB, irho brought back the old roadiiig, flnt »u«rtB that "objeeta" neanH " ipeailativt knoviUdge," uid that " arts" means " meehanie opera- tiotuj" and then adds, "objtett, faoireTBr, maj mean tbioga objected or thrown ont to him :" but of what IoDowb,—
"and imitatioJU,
WhUsh, oat ofvtt-' 40,— he prsdentl; takes no notice, for if la quit* enfflolent to prore that hia ex- planationa are wrmg.^Malons too adburea to the original text : " digeeu,'" J>e aaja, " means, in Shakeapsare'B langnage, vhaterer la preaented to the eye [whioh it generally means in every bodt/'t language] . flo, in Timtm of Athttu, ' Swear against otjectt,' " Ao. — Mr, Collier and Ui. Eni^t aim re- tain the leodon of the folio ; Hr. Collier, without any remark ; and Mr. Ei^gbt, with a note, in whioh, after deolaiilig that the whole difflenl^ of the pawage has been created hj the modem editors pirtting a anmieolon, inatead of a oonuna, alter " imitaUmu," he prooeeda thna ; " it la marrelloiis -that the editors haTe not seen that Lapidna is eaUed barren, beoanse, a mere (cfiower of otbera, he feeda
■ On objeeta, arte, and imitationa,
Whioh, out of tue, and itaVd by otJier men,
Begin hU fmhion.' " And can Mr. Knight aerionaly believe that the sabstita&ni of a oomma for a semioolon materially aSecta the aense ol the passage, or rendera It a whit more intelligible ?— Mr. Grant White (Shaktipeare'e ScAoIar, Ae. p. S98) irooldread
"out thalfteA On aigetl arts and itxitationi," &e. : hot " alijeet u^," I apprehend, eonld only mean " a^tet arti&eea ;" and that meaning does not anit the context. — X866. Mr. Orant White now ^ his edition of Shakeipeare) adherea to the folio, dropping ell mention ol his oonjeotnre. — Mr. Stannton and the Cambridge Edilota {Qlohe Shakitpeare)
" one that feed! On ahjecta, orti, and imitatiom," Sit. — Hr. Craik ia qnite aatiafled with Mr. Knight's oomma, " which alight ohange fiflifaM ererj thing plain and easy."
P. fl«6. (8a)
"Our beitfrUndt BUtde, and our bat mecmi itreteh^d oat ;" a the eeeond folio. — In the firat lolio the line ataads matilated thns, ' Ml Friendi made, our meami itrtleht."
P. 606. (83) " LuciiM, do you (fu liti
'■ The ori^nal text ia,
' Lndlliaa, do yon the like, and let ui
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To onre tha pnModr in the flnt Un«, Bteeveoi Mid oUmt modem edlbm- ■trlke oat the you. It ii Btraoge tliftt no one shoiild hare been strnak witli tha ftb«aidi(7 of meh tax UBOcaa,Uaa ai Laehit and Titlnltu for the enwditig of the door — an officer of rank and a urraiit bo; — the boy, too, bdng named. flnt. The foDotion of Lneina was to cany mesaagea. Aa Caaaina aenda hi*- aerrant Pandaroa with a m««Mge to his Aiiaion ot the fM«e, Bratoi aandi hit laiTant Loeina with a limilar meaaage to Ma diflBion. Nothing oan ba clearer than that iMciliut in the firat line is a misprint for Ijiteiut, and Lueittt in the third a misprint for liueilau. Or the error may hare been in the copy 1 and the inaertion of the Let was probably an attempt of the printer, or editor, to sare the prosody of that Uoo, as the omission of the you is of the modem editmv to save that of the other. The present reatoraUon. seta ereiything to rights. At the olose of the conference we have Bmtna, in p. 670, again addiesaing himself to Lneiliiu and Titinins, who had eridently kept together aU Iha time it lasted. Lncins (who in the ori^nal teit is- commonly oalled the Boy) and Titinins are nowhere meotioDed togethA."' Craje, — who omits to notice that the " oar doort" at the folio was long ago properly altered to " the door;" the " oni" hafing been repeated by mintafcn from the pieoeding line.
BcEMS m.," See.
Manet BruCui and Ca*iiiu ;" — on which lit. Eciight remarks ; " In the Bhakespearean theatre Bmtos anf CaaainB evidently retired to the secondary stage." Bat the " Mantt" of the- folio shows, I thinli, that Mr, Knight is mistaken, and that here the audience were to mppoie (as they frequently had to lappote) a change of scene.
P. 667. (8s) "eUghledof."
Mt. Craik — yibo mentions that some of the modem editors print " sUgbted i^," and that " at a date considerably later than Shakespeare we have >tilL tlighUd over {for to treat or perform carelesBly)" — seetos to be at a loss for an example of iliffkt used with q/. Here is one ;
" Braas Bhalaaa Bohor, »11 this while Onr eye has followed yoms, and seens it smile (As twere in soorae) of what these men eonld doe, Which made ts tlight them off," Ac.
Dekker's J/ it be not good, ttie Diael U fn it, 1612, Big. E a.
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P. 667. (86) "Jnd"
iDBeited bj CkpeH.— An ewliw iniertitHi WM " Xet. "^Walker (SAalinjware'i Veniflcation, fte.p. 1S6) " fMlikli but certain" Ui»t this Una ia mDtiUt«d in tli« flrtt ijUable.
P. 667< (17) " I bad ralhir ba a dog, and bay tht noan, Than ttteh a Baman.
Cos. Brutui, bay not nu, — "
The folio hu "Bnttiu, b>it« not im;" whiah, thoDgh coireotedb^ThMbkld, ii ret^ned liy Hftlone in direct oppodtion to oomnum seoM ; for the Tetiett oblld ndght percelte that the anthor intended Castins to eoho tlie mml nsed by Bratna. Here, vith t, vletr to aooli a repetiticin, the editor of the second
folio printed " and baite the iloone," Ico.: bnt asanredlj the eiror Ilea,
not in the flr«t apeeeh, but ia the seoond (where "baite"gre« ontoCiafe").
P. 668. (gg) ■■oilersun."
Bo Ur. Collier's Ma. Gorreolot (and oompate what Cauias has aald a
" Older la prsotiee, <tA(«r tliau ^onneU To make oonditioiis"). — TiM folio hM " Noble nun."
P. 669. (l9) "do-
Mr. CoUier'a Hs.Cotrector reads "did," — andrightl7p(irhapB; for "do" maj have been repeated hj miatake from the line bat one above.
P. 669. (90) "PiBni*'"
TfaefoUofau "Unto'a." — Bee note lojonTVaitiu and Creuida.
P. 673. (91) "n*ie-oW«i,"
The folio has "n«w added." — The emendation " ntiB-aid^^' ooenrred bofli to Hr. Unger (aeejSAai<(p«ir(Fin<fieaKil,Ao.p. 947) and to tajself (see J f «B NoteM, £e. p. 116J ; nor do I think it the lets certalii beeanae a oritie in lilaek- vtMNTi Uagaiitie for Oet. I8I>B, p. 469, ia pleaaed to declare tjiat " no obange if neoeaaarj." — Mr. C<^lier'i Ma. Corrector aabititntes atrangel? >>n««- hearted."— 1866. Sb.C(dlier, in the aeoondediticai of hie £batf(pcar«, adopts the Ms. Corrector's reading, " rmd- hearted ;" and remarks, " ' New-afJc^' whioh ia the Bev. Mr. Dtoo'i emendation, is only s»7iiig the same thing orer again that appear* In the line jnst above,
' B7 them shall make a foliar nnmber ap.' ■ New-hearted' is a strong and expreMdve aompoaad, and, aa Mr, Craik ob'
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■eireB (£ngl. o/SAakcip. p. 360), 'theTCrr tort of word that one vonU ex- pect to Bad vliere it ttuidB, in uBoeiktiMi nit^ refrtth'd ud titeoUTag'd.' "
I. The word sabstitnted hen liy the Uf . CoTTector, " hearted," bean not the meet dietknt reaembhuioe, either in spelling or in Bound, to the origin^ Toid, "added;" fromvhich thenocdmbBtitntedbyme, " aidtd,"i^enimiy in % single letter.
9. Mr. CoUin dedaret tlut " 'aem-aidtiT ia onlj ujlng the tame thing over agi^ that appears in the line just above :" bat hair came it to escape him that
" new-hearted, and enoonrag'd," art ij/Konj/trnMU temu t —
" To EEUT. To enoonrage ; to hearten."
Todd's Johiuon'4 Dictionaiy,
B. Hr. Craik's note on the passaf^ wonld seem to show that he was not aware of m; ooDjectnre, " aan-aided ;" though the reader would be apt to conolnde, from what Mr. ColHer aaya above, that it wse known to llr. Craik, and had been oondemaed b; him ; in whioh ease, let me add (withont anydis- reapeot to Hr. Craih), I should not have thought the worse of it.
P. 873. (91) "FartictU,"
" Perhaps ' Fart you mell.' " Walker's Shakeiptare'i Ven^fieatian, See, p. lU. — Hanmer prints "Now,/ar<»rH,"
P. 674. (91) " Claudiut"
Here the fcdio ha« "Clandio;" and in the next Bpoech and ttage-direcUon " Varros and Clandio." See note 6. — " ' I'arrut,''as tha loUo aalls Bnitns'a attendant ia JtUivi Catar, u. 8,— mlg. ■ Farro,'— is, if this form be the right one, ' Varvt;' of oonrse, nattA«Tsriis. Iratherthink, however, thatTorro' is the tme reading." Walker's CriU Exam. te. vol. ii. p. 938.
P. 676. {94) " Varro.' Claadiiur
Here again the foUo haa "Tarms, Clandio;" and in the fourth gpeeoh of Bmtui after thig " Clandio."
P. 676. (95) " thou"
" The tenonr of the conversation evidently requires ns to read ' you.' " Jtrr- •OM. — "' Fou' Kenui to be required. See context. Qn." Walker's Cril.fxaat. to. vol. liL p. U9.
P. 6T7. (96) " Thtpoiture <^ymtr bloat are yet unlnoirn;" See note 116 on Love't I^outU lo*t.
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P. 677. (97) "OfiaUerenP'Ict.
" The did eopUa eoimptly read ' 0 jrou Flatteren ;' u error which Hahne wu th« fltft to reatore, to the ruin of the metre." W. N. Lettsou (note on Walker'tSiakaptart'iVtnifieatiim.Sx.p.'l^). — Mr. Cnik, haweTer, is qnite MUefled with the old rending : he informa ns that in this line " there ia the common prowdiafti irregnlarity of a aaperflooaa ahort ajIUblG.^' — Walker (ubi tiipra, p. 136) mjt, " We ought to [read amd] arrange ;
■ O flatterer! 1
CoHiiw. Flattarars 1
Now, Bmtu, thank joumU ;' a six-syllable line."
P. 677. (98) " Never, lill Caiar't Ikree-and-thirtg voundt Be ireU aueng'd; or till aaotber Cttiar Have added ilaugtUer U Ihetword oftraitort." Here Theobald altered " ttiree-and-thirt]/" to " tArce-atwI- twenty. "—Bitaoa adTooatea the old reading, obeerringthftt Fletcher and [ . . . .?] Iutc fallen into aaimilar "li'ta-fc" in their Nobl^ Gentleman, where they apeak of " CnMr'a twQ'and-thiTly woonde." — In the last line Mr. CoUier'a Ma. Corrector reada
" (0 tlieiiorio/traitort," — a most nnbaippj alteration. Surely, Ootavioa
means — "or till yon, traihwa, have added the crime of alajing me (another CBsar] to that ol having murdered Jolina."
P. 878.(99) "Jom';" Walker's Crif. £x<ini. &
P. 678. (100) "/omer"
Bowe anbatitnted " loremoat ;" and Mr. CoHier*! Ua. Correetor givea " for- ward."— " ' Fomttr' is rightj and the meaning ■ onr /ar« ensign.' So, in AdlTngton'a Apuleiui, IG96 [originally printed in 1666] : ' First hee inatmcted me to ait at the table vpon my taile, and howe I should lea{ie and dannee, holding Tp my /ornwrteete.'" BnBOH.
P. 679. (101) " Even by the rule 0/ that phitotopkg
By which I did blame Catofor th4 dtalh Wlueh he did give himtelf: — I knoie not hoa," lio. According to Mi. Craik, " The conatmeUon plainly ia, ' I know not how it ia, bnt I do find it, by tliernleot that philoeophy, Jic,oowardtf and vile," tie. — Bnt <ff. r
P. 679. (io«) " The tm4 of life ."
"I^'NMe'ismeantthefDllandeampIeletime, the period." Maloxi.—
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ei^et^oa,' time, of life,' lot dantion of life, ooeara Kgain In 'Heazj IT.' Part it Aot T. Bo! 3,
' O, gantlemen, ttie time of life !■ short ;' a fMt Hr. Cndk must httve tergaiUn when he adopted the spwiom modemi- mUoh, ■ tern of life,' from OapriL" Btadktor.
P. 878. {103) "eome"
Mr. CoUier'B Mb. Correotor resdi " thoae ;" wUeh Mr. Ci^k Inconaidenttdj
P. eSO. (104.) " OeUvim' '•
The folio has " OcUnio'B." Bee note 6.
P. tas. (105) " [PtaidKraB goes np."
Here the folio luu no (Uge^dlreeUon ; bnt to the next ipaech of PindiLms it prefixes " Alxnie," — which proTea that, when this play wu origmslly acted, Pindanu took hie station on the nppeT-stage.
P. S63. (to6) "Bat, hold line, take thii garUindonthy brov;" Mr. Cnik tella na that " ' But, hold thee,' Is equivalont to onr modem ' Bat hold,' or ■ hot stop' ;" k wttj erroneone interpretation. II is eqniTolent t« " Bat, have thoD, reeeiTe thon :" gee note 4 on ileatart for Heatun, toL i. p. 628, and note 17 on the present play : compare too, in The WitUer't Taie, yol. ilL p. 481, the words of Cunillo when he giveB money to Aniolycns ; " thoagh the pennyworth on bis fdde be the worst, yet hold thte, tbere'a some
P. «8S. (107) " Thou last of all the Bomam, fare thee veil. "* 80 Rowe. — The folio has " The loit," lea., — the He. most protwbly having had the oontraotion " y," which the oompositor mistook for " y." — If ever a critio showed himself pnudebeaded, Milone bos done bo in bis note on this passage. To soy nothing of his monstrous assertion that " Thou last," ibc, " was not the phraaeology of Shakespeare's age,"'-he defends the old reading by dUng from North's Flnlarch; "80, when he [Brntus] was come thither, after he had lamented the death of CasBiai, calling him ihk Uut ofaU the Bometu, being impoiHbU that Rome ihould ever breede againe to ncbU attd valiant a man at he, he oansed his bodie to be bnried," &o. Bat, as Steevens Temarka, " the passage cited from Plntaroh can hare no weight on the present oooasion. The biographer is only relating what BnituB had taid. In the text Bratos is the tpeaker, and is addretting hivuelf, prDpria pertona, to Casains."~And see note t6l aa The Third Part of King Henry VI.
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P. S8S. (lol) " Conte, therefore, and to Thattot tend hit bodg ; BUfaneraU thall not be in our camp, Lett it diicomfort lu." Here Theobald waa the first to inUtitste " ThaMo$" tor the " Tharsna" ot the folio. — The more correct form of the nuns ia Thaiot : bat, as SteeTGoa ob- serree, "tt ia Thauoe In Sir Thomaa North's traaBlation [of Plulareh]:" — where the votd* are; " wid sent it to the dUe of Thaitot, fouring leat hii fiinemU within the campe ihoald oaiue great disorder." p. 1DT6, ed. 1679- This forbida onr altering "/aneraU" (Le. obBoquiea) in the text to " fnnentl" (though Walker prefers here the Utter, CHt. Exam. &o. vol. ili. p. 349) ; rad compare Titui Aiidronicvi, act i. ec. 1,
" and wiBe Laerte*' eoa Did graciouslj iilead for ]de /unerait." The fi'arre* c/ Cgria King of Penia, to. 1584, aig. G S,
" We rescned turn [i.«. the dead bodj of Abradates] , and bronght him to your grace, Here to reeeine anch woTtbieyruMrati Ac Bt8 the honooT of so great a lord." and Beanmont and Flet«her's VaUHtitOaa, aet t. sc. 3, " an hundred pilaa Already to mjfnntrah are flaming."
P. 68S. (tof) " Labeo and FlarHiu"
The folio hai >' LaUo and Flanio." Bee note 6.
P. 684. (no) Thefolioha«"thee.''
P. 686. (in) "nBord-hilU, vrltiUt I nut on it." In the third folio >' tword-hilu" ie altered to ■■ Birords hilt ;" withont regard to the older phnueolog;.— Compare in p. 681.
By (Am rile eonquat" "Q7. 'By their viU eottqveet't The repetition eeenu iihakeapeiian." Walker'e Crit. Eiam. ±c. toL L p. 303.
P. 686. litj) Pope added "thee."
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