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WORKS 

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SHAKESPEARE: 

VOLUME the THIRD. 

CONTAINING, 

All's Well, that Ends Well. 
Twelfth-Night: Or, What you wilh 
The Comedy of Errors. 
The Winter-Night's Tale. 
The Life and Death of King John. 

LONDON: 

Printed forC. Bathur((> J. Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. and F, Rirsng* 
ton, J. Hinton, L, Davis, Hawcs, C!a<ict yi|d CoIlinSf 
R. Horsfield,.W. Johnlliop^ W. O^ci, tyCadon/E; Johnfoii, 
S. Crowdcr, B. White, T,'i.pngmiri; B. Lav, fe. and C. Dilly, 
C. Coibett, W, Griffin, T. Cadcll, W. W^odfall, G. Keith, 
T. Lowndci, T. Davies, J. kcVort, T^^Bccjc«t, F, Ne*bery, 
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KING y* France. 

Duke of Florence. 

Bertram, Count of Roufilloo. 

l,2kf&\X9 atk^ld Lord. _^_, ^ ^ 

ParolleSj a p or apical fotlonuer of Bertfam ;^ 4 «*« 

but njaifiy and a great pretender to *vaIour, 
Several young French Lords^ that fervt 'with Bcr 
in the Florentine nuar. 

^wtfr , 1 Zervanti to ihi Countefi of Roufillon. 



tountefs of Roufillon, mother to Bertram; - 
Helena, daughter to Gerard de Narbon, a famous 

Jician^ fome titpeftnce dead* ^ , ^ ^ 
Jn^ old^wido^v of Flore|ic«. , -« 4 ^ ^ ^ ^ 

Diana, daughter to the twido*u), 

10 en , 1 j^gj^^lQf^yj^ and friends to the ividow* 
Mariana, J 

Lords aftending on the King j Ojparsp Stldters, Sci 

iS C £ N £ lies partly in France i and, part 
in Tufcany. 



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All's well, that Ends well. 



AC T I. 

S C E N E, the Countefs of Roufilloif% 
Houfe in France, 

Sttttr £tertnm, ib* Cmntifs tf RoufiHon, Helena, 
' and I^fev, aU in Mournit^. 



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Countess. 

N delivering my fon from me, I bory z fcconi 
hafbaixd. . 
JL ,, Ber. And I in goting. Madam, weep oVr my 
fkther's death anew; outl muft attend his Majefty's^ 
command, to whom I am now in ward> evermore ia 
fuhjeftion. - 

Laf. You (hall find of the King a hufband, Ma^amj^ 
you. Sir, a father. He, that fo generally is at alf 
times good, mufl of nece^ty hold his virtue to you; 
(i) whofc Worthinefs would, ftir it up were it wanted^ 
rather than flack it where there is fuch abundance. 

(l) ff^ofe wortbmeft yoouldfitrituptuberthwdiHtedt rather than: 
lack it xoheri tbtn is fuch abimdafice.^ Aft oppofitien of terms It vifi- 
bly.defi^*d in this fentenccf iho* the oppoTition is oot vifiUe, as the- 
terms now ftand. Wanted and jibundatue are the oppofites to one 
anotht-r ;' but how is lack a contraft to^xV uff The addition of a 
fiogle letter gives it, tnd the very fenfe requires it* Mr. WarhuHon. 
A3 Cwtrt% 



* AliV "WeH, that Euv^ #ejf. 

CmmT. What K0f)c it there of hit KIa|c1ty^s ametiiu 

-iient? 

£tf/ He hafh abandoir^d his Pby£aasv MadaMi»« 
ttncier whofe pra£Vkei he hath ; p^ijectited time with 
hope; ^lid fifids no 6ther advaata^ in |he proCer»» 
hue oolv the lofifig of hope hy ts^e. 

C«»a/. This young Gentl^oman had a Father^ (0^ 
thskt haJi how fad a paiTage 'tis I) whofc &ill was 
a!|noft as great as his hqpeSy y had it ftretch'd lb faj^ 
it would hafe marde natufe nhlnortalf ^n^ deiyth'fh^iikl> 
have play for 4ack of work. Would, for the Kiag'a 
(ake«. he. were iiiing 1 4^4hinfc, it wottld. 4>a> the d aa tlt 
of the King's difeafe. 

La/, How caird yon thf mafljron i^eak of, Madam I 

Count, He was famous/ Sir, in his profeffion, and it 
was his great right to be fo : Gerat^ de Nttrkut. ^ ^ 

taf^ Re-was extellent, indeed, Midam*; the Kin^ 
\try lately fpoke o£<hini adknii1>ngly) -^nd mourningly ;^ 
he was Mlful enoogh to have liv'd Mil, if knqwledgo 
conjd W (tfi Ui(> ^gaiSn mo^ialityr ^' i , ^^*i I ^ ^ I^ 

Ber, What is it, jAy gOpd tdrdi Ae King lan-» 
guifhes of? 

Laf, A fiftula, my Lord. ■ ■ - ) x 

j^#r. I heard not of it before. - 

tef. I wOiild, it were not notoifoas. t^aa th)| 
Gen tlewoman ^the^dfiu^cr o(| Gi^rtfrd ^e Nftritn^^ 

Count, iHis 'folfc child,' vAji Lorf, and bequeathed ta 
is y overlooking* I have thofe hopes oi hc^ good, that; 
her education proinifet her; diipofition. Ihe inherits^ 
which makes £air. gifts fairer; for where an uncivil 
ttind carries vistuons qualities, there cozntnendatio)iaL 
^ with pity, they are virtues and traitors* too: in her 
my are t^e hetter for their fjznplener&; Jhe derivca 
Icrhonefty, and atchreves her good nefs. ,, ji 

Laf, Your coixiincndations, Madain,' get from hcV 

Count, 'Tb the heft brine a maiden can feafon her 
praife ia. Tht remembrance of hier father nevier ^p- 
J^roaches her h^ai^, but the tjrranny of her fptrOwa 
tSaket all livelihood from hair cheelc. j^omofc o]f..thisjL 

HdetiAt 



AtiVi welf^ Ait EitBs^^k. 7 

IMr/ui ; go to, Ao aoitj. Mbit be m]Mr dxMigbt yoo 
ft&aaiorrow, tlua to htiCi' < ■ ■ > 

A/. I do 9§ML^(onMi,,udetd,^hut l-l»tToitt0Oh 

Irtf/T. Moderattf haoBUAsn ii the right 4)ftJie dMd# 
ttceffive grief the-cnemy to the living. 

CetMt. (2) If;tht Hiriiig be'aot cnemf tothc grie^ thr 
tjkcefs makes it foos mortik 

£ir» MadKtt, t defiie yoor holy wiihes* 

La/. How underftan^ we that?' 

CouMt. Be thoa bleft> Mmrwih and faoeetd thy faihir 
£1 manners as in finpei thy blood and virtue 
Contend fpr BajMue ki thee, and thy goadnefS" 
Share with thy birth«-r%h«i Love aU, troU a fieir^ 
"So wroag to none; be able for tlniie entmr 
Rather in power^ liutn nfe ; and keep thy friend 
Under thy odko lifers key.: be cheek'd iof fil^ce. 
But never tax'd for (peech. What hcav'n more will. 
That, thee mny. fnrniflr/ andf^my pfa^ers pkck dow». 
Fall on. thy h^iidl fare#eU Imfy hatd ; ^ 

^ris an unfeafonM cottrtier^ good my Lordi 
Advifehini.' 

Laf. He .cannot want the beft. 
That (hail atifnid Us lovr. 

Coihu. Heav'n bkft him \ Favc^l> Biftram. 

Ber. [r<» Hel] The bed.wifliM/ that can be for^d 
in your thoughts, be fcrvants to yon : be comfortable 
to my mother, your Miftrtfs, and make much of her.. 

Laf, Farewel, pretty ^ady, youmfift hold the credit 
of your father. [Smmt Her* tauiL^£, 

Hei. Qht were that alU--^I think not on my fatl^er ; 
Aad thefe g<<f at tears grace his'remcxiibrance more ; 
Than thofe I ihed for him. What wai he Hke ? 
I have forgot him. My imagination 

if) Utht Ihfi^t ^ «MV9 » /^ ir\0/, tU em$[i a<I» Uftttmon^ ] 
"fhit leeas very obfcure; bat uie addidon of a iiegatite pcrfedly^ 
difpels all the jnift, ff tbetsvuifbt not enemyi ftc. CxceiTive grief 
i# m ioeifty to the Hnng, fays Xi^ r Vet, replks the Coofitefe; 
sad if the living be not eaeai^iD tke grki; [4. ^ ftrive t# coft^uer it,) ' 
tha «Ktfr nilh^l^ii Ib09 MttaL Mic* Ifdr^Mr/fiii. 

A 4 Caidt^ 



8 All's:wc1T, that Ekds WclK 

Carries no favoar in it» bar my J?#r/rkr«iV ' '^ 

I am undone^ there i« no Imng, is^ne, . ' 

If Bertram be ^way. It were all one 

That 1 ihoald love a bright particular ftar, 

And think to wed it; he is fo above me: 

In his bright radiance and collateral light ' 

Muft 1 be comforted, not in his fphere. ^ 

Th' ambition in my love thus plagues itfelf; 

The hind, that would be mated by the lion, 

Muft die for love. *Twas pretty, tho* a plague. 

To fee him t\try hour; to fit and draw 

His arched brows, his hawking eye, his cttrls» 

In our heart's table : heari,! too capable 

Of every line and trick of his fweet &vour \ • 

But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy 

Muft fandtify his relicks. Who comes hevef 

Enter Parollcs, 

One that goes with him : I love him for his fake> 

And yet 1 know him a notorious liar ; 

Think him a great way fool, foiely acowafd ; 

Yet thefe fix'd evils fit fa fit in him. 

That they take place, when virtue's Ibeety bonei 

Look bleak in the cold wind ; full oft we fee 

Cold wifdom waiting on fuperfluous folly. 

Far. Save you, fair Queen* 

HeL And you, Monarch. 

Far. No. 

M, And, no.—— 

Far. Are you meditating on virginity f 

HeL Ay : you have fome ftain of foldier in you ; let 
me a(k you a.quefUon. Man is enemy to virginity, 
how may we barricado it againft him I . 

Far. Keep him out. 

HeL But he aflails ; and our virginity, though va- 
liant, in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us fome^ 
Warlike refiftance. 

Far. There is none: man, fetting down before you, ^ 
will undermine you and blow you up. 

HtL Blefs our poor virginity from underminers zr^' 

blowers 



-All's wcI/, that 5n»>« well.. ^ 

bIow€rs up !-^Ir there no military policy, how virgins, 
jnighc blow ap men / 

Par, Virgioi^y beiiig ^)own dowo^ ;msin will quick* 
iier be blown up: marry, la, blowing ^im down again^ 
with the breach yourfelves made» you lofe your city. 
(3} It is not politick in the commonwealth of nature*. 
to preferve virginity. Loft of virginity is rational 
iocreafe ; and there was nevet virgin got, 'till virginity 
was £rft loft. That, you were made of, is metal ta 
make virgins. Virginity, by being once loft, may be 
ten times Co^ipd : by being ever kept, it is ever loft;, 
'tis too cold a companion ; away with't. - 

Hgl. I will ftand foF't a little, though therefore I die* 
a virgin. 

Par, There's liule can befaidin't; 'tis ;^aiirft the 
rale of nature* To ip^ak on the part of virginity, is- 
to accufe your mother f which is mpft infallible dif«^ 
obedience. He, that hangs himfelf, is a virgin : vir- 
ginity murders itfelf, and ihould be buried in high-^ 
ways out of ^l^^^andj^d limit, as a defperate oiSendrefa* 
ag^inU natiiM'e. Virginitjf ^breeds: mites ; much- like a^ 
cheefe ;. confumes itfelf to the very paring,^ and (b diea- 
^with feeding its own ftomach. Befides, virginity is 
peevith, proud, idle,, made of fclf-love, which is the^ 
noft prohibited fin in thf canon. ELeep it not, you< 
cannot chnfe bat lofe hy't. Out with't; within lew 
yeara it will make itfelf two, which is-a gpodly iacreafe^ 
and the principal itfelf not mnch. the worte.. Awaj^ 
with't.. 

HeL How might one do. Sir, to lofe itto hei^ owa« 
Htinfef 

Par. Let me fee. Many, ill, to like hiin that ne'et 
it likes^ 'Tis a commodity^ wUl lofe the- gloiV witb 
^iog. The longer kept, the lefs worth ; off with't, * 
whik 'tisc vendibk.- Anfwei^ th& time of reque& Yk^ 

fj) // hitot folitkk'in the ewmnonwealtb of nature it j^Jfrvevirginitfm 
Jiofg of vlrgmity is rational tncrtafe ; and there was never virgin get,, 
m vir^ty vaijhji Itfii Ttte context' fccms-to me rather td fc* ' 
\alixt — national iocreafe ^ tho' I have not ^entur^d to difturh the itis%. 
i»tlie. other readijig,wiU*aiiinic of a me#in^- 



phtty, like wi dl citmitKr, iw^kB iler cap tj^lr 6f 
fti&iott; lichly faited, but unfuitabl^^ jott Hke the 
brooch tbud tlilt too^-piclc, Wh^Ik #e Wckir hdt hoV; 
your diate li bettCT hi yottrpye mid y6uT pbWid-gc^ th)n^ 
ih y6uT cheek; fttid yot»T Viirgrintt)r, yoUrold vir^inlty^ 
]| iKe bnie of oo^ JV^^^ Wi'th^rl! pd^;: it liOdks ill, its' 
^:its driiy ; mtfrry, *ri» a Wiftet^d p^ar : it ^ai fthiiicrl^ 
better ; indfrfy» yet *tk a'wTtheir'd |^iur. #iA you an^ 
tWng withH? 

i&. NotuajrVii-glnitVyet. ^ 

thefe ftidl yoa fliafter haVe « thbuiaiid liMf^ 
A mother, aad a miHrers, and k friehdp 
A^ho^niXy captain, atid an eitemy, 
A guide, agoddef^, a&d a Sovereign^ 
, A counfelkJr, a ttaitrbfs, and !& dear; 
His hatnble ambitidn, ptdtl^ htnttllityi 
His jarring COntord ; and hiH dtfcord duFceti: 
HJs faith, his fweet difiiflbri with a i^ofi& 
Of pretty fohd adbptfmis ciirltttiddiis,. i - - 

irhat blinking C«///gt)iRps. IfcW lEtdi ht-»i^-i^ ^ 
i know hot, what he Ihalh— <3oB f<i8d htm ti^^fll-^^^^ 
The e6art*6 a le^nin^ p1ac:e^--^nd ht is ok^^-^-^ 
i»i7r. What one, i^ faith? 
Hel that 1 wSik well— ^i» ^-**— 
far. "Whkespkyt 

ml That^vitllng n^rell had i^o< k body ih^t,. 
Which DMght be felt; tha;t We the pog^rer hci^tr> ^ 

Might with effects of theoi follow oat friends ; 
And ihew wh^e wfe ktoaib Initt (hiifk^ Which itev^ 
Retoriis us thaaka. 

i^age.'Monlicjdr Farolbs, • 

Tidy Lord calls for y 66. '{Sj^if ^4^*v 

Far. little ^#&a, farewe); if I can remember thce^ 
1 will think b( thee at coon:. ' ' . 

ffd, Monfieur PmrJbit yoii were }iw:k nnder a cWa* 
attabk fiar» 

^^. under Matj^ I» 



Alx's .wd?, that Bmds well. u. 

HeL I efpecially think, under Mars. 

HfL The wars have kept you fo under, that yov 
ihtiff needs be born under Mars^ 

Far, When he was predominaDt. 

Hal ^fhktn hetfra^s^rttrogradc, 1 thtnk, rather; 

^M '^^^'tlii^l: ybii^.f 

Sel. Yoa go. fo much backward, when you fight. 

Par. That's for advantage. 

IM: So ts tdnniug away, when fcju* propofc fafety % . 
but the compbfttton, thfatyour valour and fear makei;, 
in you, is t vtrtltfc bf a good wmg, and i lilte ihe vvcar« 
well. 

Par, I am fb f)il! ^f bnfeefieii, as^ I cannot infwcr. 
tbee acutely : I will return pcrffeft courtier; in the 
which, my inftrudion (hirll (trvt to nataralize thee, fo > 
tbou wilt be capable 'ofxourticrs counsel, and under-. 
Hand what advice ihall thraft upon thee; elfe thou^ 
dlefl in thine unthahkfuhrefs, ^nd thine ignorance 
makes thee away; farcwd. When tbon hail Ifeffore,^ 
fay thy prayers ; ^hen thou hirfl none, remember ihy 
friends; get thee i good huftand, and ufe him as he 
iifes thee : fo farewel. \^ExUm . 

HeL Our remedies oft in oiitfehes do lie. 
Which we afcribe tb heav'rt. The fatal flcy 
Gives us irct fcope ; only, doth backward pull 
Our flow deiigns, when we bttrfelvcs are dtrll.* * 

What power i^'wt ^kh rtfoulits my love fo high, , 
That makes one fee, and cannot hsA mine eye ,^ 
The mightieil fpace in fortone nature brings 
To join likelikis^ and kifs, like native thingj, , 
Impoffible be ilrange attempts, to thofe 
Tha^ weigh their pain in fenfe ; and do fuppofe,^ 
What hath been, cannot be. Who ever llrovc 
To fhew her merit, that.did raifsher lave? 
The Ki^'s difeafc— my ;prqje)ft jnay deceive me. 
But my intents are iix'd, ;aiid will not leave me. [Exit*:, 



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12 . All's vrcU, that End*s well. 

SCENE changes to the Court of Franu. 

Fhurljb Cornea, Enter the King of France njuith feiUr^^ 
, and diyers Attendants^ 

King,^ I ^ H E Florentines and ^en^t- are by th* ears ;- 

JL Have fought with eqaalfortBae, andcontiniie: 
A braving war. . . ^ 

I Lord* So *tis reported, Sir. 

King. Nay, 'tis moft credible f we here receive it^ 
A certainty voucK'd fcoiaouircouiin Auftria\ 
With caution* that the Fkrmaine will move us ^ 
For fpecdy aid ; wherein our deareft friend. 
Prejudicates the burners,, and would feeoi^ ; 
To have us make denial, 

1 Lord. His love and wifdom,. 
Approv'd fo to your Majpfty, may plead; 
For ample credence. 

King. He hath.arm'd our anfwer; 
And Florence is deny'd, before he comes l, 
Yet, for our^entlemen that mean to fee 
The Tu/fun fervice, freely have they UaMt 
To Hand on either part. 

2 Lord, It may well, ferve 

A nurfery to. our gentry,, who are fick 
JPor breathing and exploit. 
J^g* What's he comes here?. 

£;i/^r Bertram, Lafeu a«^ Paroll^Sk 

t Lord. It is the Count Rou/illon,. my good I^ord^ 
Young Bertram* 

King. Youth, thou bcar'ft thy father^S face.. 
Frank nature, rather curious than rn haftc,. 
Math weH compos'd thee. Thy father's^ moral -parti 
May'ft thou inherit too 1 Welcome to Paris. 

Bet. My thanks and duty are your Majefly's. 

King. I would, I had that corporal fonndnefs iiow> 
As when thy father and myfelf m friendftip 
Fird tryM our foldierlhip : he did look far< 
Into the fervice of the xiwc^ and was 
Xlifcipledof the brav'ft. ile lafted lonj^ 

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AllV wcir, that Ends weirj ij 

But on u» both did ba^gifli age (leal on^ 

And wore us out of aS. it rouch repairs^me- 

To talk of your good father ;: in hi« youth 

He had* the wie^ which h can well obferve 

To da)K.i»^ur young Lords ; but they may jeft^ 

Till their own fconi>reti|rn to them unnoted^. 

£re they can hide thoirll^ity in honour : 

So like 4 courtier^ b9 conlteinpt or.bitcernef8i(f): 

Were in himt;. pride or (harpneTs^ if there w«rej^ , -■ ^ 

His equal had awak'dthem; and- ht» honour, ^ i 

Clock to itfelf, knew the true miaixe when 

Exceptions bid hrm. i^ak ; and at that tiine / 

His tovgue obeyed his. hand.. Who vnaie below hioR^ 

He us'd as creatures of anotheff place,, * 

And bow'd his eminent top to tneir low raaks^f^ 

Making them proud of his humility. 

In their poor praifc he humbled : Such a man' 

Might be a. copy to thcfe younger times ; * ' 

Which, fdlow^d well,: would, now demonfirate-theflik' - 

But goers backw-ar^ . . 

Ber, His good rememhraQcei Sir, > 

Lies richer imyour thoughts,, than oahis tomb-;. 
So in appxoof lives not his epitaph,. 
As HI your royal fpcech. 

Kin^* Would,. I were with him L he would alwajp^ /ay^ 
(Methmks, I hear him now; his plauiive words 
He icatteHd no^ imears, bat grafted them 
To grow there and to bear {) Let me not live^r^. 
(Thus his good melaacholy^ oft began, 
On the cataftrophe and heekof' paftime^ > 

(4) ^0 lik* a courtier, np fniempt or hhttrnefi' 

Wert in his pride or Jbarpueji j if they were, 

Hii'equai'bad avfok'd tbvtiur^^ 
Thit paffage feemi-fe very inconeftW. pointet)^ tbat the-totllorts^ 
meaning is^loft in the carekflhefi. A*^ the teat and ftops are rf« 
fonn'd, thefe are nioft beautiful- liDei, and the (ienfe tkis— ~«* He 
<* had no cotuempi or bi'termefi\ if he had any thing that looked like 
** pride or JbarpwefSf (of which ^alitiea contempt and bitteroefi arf 
** the exceirei,) hie eqaal had awak*d> then, not his aofeiioi:^:to 
^ whom he fcorn*d to dikofcr any tlMsg that bore the ihadow of 
** fitide Off (k$t^{a%** Mr» HUrifurMn* 

6 Whr% 



When it was out,) let the not ltTe>. (cpMk he») 

After my ilftme lacks oil ; to be. the (tmff 

OF younger fpLrtts^. wfao(«^ppHehtniire ienfes , . 

All but new thkig^ difdaio ; whtofe judgments^ire 

Mere facl#rft of their gamleBts;. WhoTe GonftMiciet 

Expire befort their famions r— this ihe wiAitd*' = ' 

I, after him, do -after hi«i wtfiito^:. 

(Since I Mr iv*^, nflrhoney^ o«D bfliq^>hoBK^)^ 

1 quicl:l)F;i!«ere itiflbrved ferns Jiiji h»v«^ 

To give foQie iabdurets! fOOiHi 

They, that k»ft; bnd it ^ :flial4 lack i|^6ii frA^ 

JCb^.' I'i61l<i |»fawev i >kno\i'<. Hofw^lotif >i»'(tt Couofji 
Since the phyfician««t yourfiatbtt'ldie^i 
He was n^o^ thoMi . 

^/r. Some fix moothi^ iinc«^ my Lord. 

ir/»^. If rhe vftnt lifting, I would try kin |ret ^-^ . 
Lend me an arm f^^f^the reft have wtiro; me out 
Widi^ftvefal appticMioeB;. hAtwreaiidfi^feDd^. ,< 
Debate it at their leifure. Welcome liJoinit^ : <i. 
My fon's no dearer, Ir.^ ,i.] . 

Jrr. TUaafcyMrMajdflyo ' [iNoMnfiti Exeuvtd 

SCENE changes to the CounieTs's at, kot^llan. 

Cmnt.. T Will dfiow hear y wiwit . f*^ yoa of tjiis gei^tki*> 

Jj. woxtlafi ? 

Stew. Madam, th^e care I h^ve i^ad to even y^dur 

content, I wifii pnkht be fcand io.the caliendar, Qf;i)fi}r 

paft endeavbars ; (5) for then we wound our modeily, 

aad 

(5I Tor then we wdttnd our mode%, 4Htd moke foul ibe ckarnifs tf 
l^^'Mervnillt, «*l)rti' ^^•arfeiiHn ^c pobliOi r^^.J 1 hii fcntineat 
otr tfoth^r hvs tiiiRift'MC«iiQat«d in hi« 9Vl»/ii» aad iirefida* . , 
T4ie Wortknafefs «f i^fAife 4i3il4xa9 Ills w4ilAk, 
ir4i«> ibat'tpravs'd, himtfelf bring th«pra'<t forth. 
I ««ii*t pretdnd, \\t9kX Bhake^an it kcre Creading 4o the A^ of 
jHB/riylM^ bat tbat^ft bat iutocthing ih Ims jigammfiPBt which 
Ikiifht v^ry veil U a ftroa^alioa to whaieas auAhw hhi advanced ia 
iMh diift^paai%es« i ... 



I 



A'tt^s mXf^ drat Eiirs^ WelF; »jp 

asit nabe fctol the ckamefii cf omr ]4cieryi»^if;;^w^ft 
c C^ar;^.: Wliftt'd^s tbi^' kiMrv;^ here? >^ yoa gbne^^ 

yon liiciE iBOtivfcdi^itQt;6i»mit ihefn> attd' kanre. ibilicjc 
flttobgh lo iilido^fufc^icib^ri»iydaT^^ ^ 

Oi^. ^it Bot vnloiowB to.yoo^ M«dsiD» ii an fli 
voerfeHoW. t » . 

. C»««i. Wdfv Sin - 

€U^. Ka# Madame ^tn^ioe ib we)Y that I aofi pwny 
|)io' many o£ tke nch: a#t ^nuiM'$t bat if I itavc your 
tadyfhif^ jg^d v»iii tb |^o te^ 4ftiK wacld,' ^/ die 
woman and I will ^ ak ^iHNiyv 
• C^«ar/ WBbidumiRMI^ be4[i ^gi^ I - ' ■ 

Clo. I do be? joar good will ia this caTe. 

Cstrar; la w^ticafel . • ' 

Ck. In j^/*s cafe^ and mine own-; femce it nia 
kerftaye) mifi ltbiiyk|-lt>4»l^«w^ kava<i^^ bhAog 
of God, 'till I have iflae q^ my bddy>; ifor they fay^ 
fceafhsioiii»4»iB»g^. ' ' 

Covta, Tell Bie thy reafon why thdii will mkttj. 
' do. My^^eot kkidy, Madanv r^qairel it. I km 
driven on by the fleih ; and he muft needs go, ikH 
the devil dAvt9. 

Count, h this all pmr, w«HI»{)1s Teafbn ) 
: €A. Smk, ^MUiiWibi >r)i^e«Rhd#iioly i^&nay fiich 
asL they are* . { \ 

.1 €h, % have been, MaJam, a wkked creature, as 
]foa< ^Ad all £e(h and blood are ; and, indeed, I da 
Siarry, that I may reft^. 

^. QouMt. Jhy Bfiawiie, ibpner fhan {h)f #irtedii^fi. 
' u%7..I,am 6ut of friend^ J^adam, and 1 lipf e tn 

^Oanf.-Sudi'friendB «re tlAii« enetekai ka«Va« 

i nMn -i iaai*»at#^utir ♦■■ 

B«t to be praii*d with hononr, u a triMfc . i 

7k»r B«ft Ibc MiA «• ^a aaodM^itM|ad» i 



J 5* All*s weW, that Ends weH. 

C/^. Y' are fl»aUowy Madam^ in great friends > for: 
the knaves come to do that for me, which I am weary 
cl; hcr that earn m^y tend, fpares my tearn^ and gives 
me leave to inne the crop; if I b< his cnckold, he'st 
jny drudge;; hc^ that comibrts my wife,.' is thel chep^: 
niher of my flelh and blood ; he, that cherifliethi oiy^^ 
fie(h and blood, loves mj^ flefh and blood ; he, that 
kves my fkib'and bkod^ xs my friend; grg$, he, that 
kiiTes my wife^ is my friend. If men ^ould 1>ecofii» 
tented to be what they are, there .were no fear in 
inarriage; for yoiiog Ckgff6om.\}» puritan, ind old 
Pay Jam tli^ pap&i howfoe'eir t'heir hearts are fevcar'd iib 
Kligion^ their, heads are both one;^th^ may jont. 
horns together, like any deer i* th* hend- ' / 

Count , Wilt thbft ever be a £9iiL;motttii'd and calum- 
Bious knave t 

do, A prophet^ I,. Madam ;. and I fpcak the tratb 
the next way;-— ^ 

«f For i the ballad will repeat,, ^hich nleit foil tm^ 
, . " (hall find;: ; .^ , ; , 

^* Your marriage comes by defliny, your, Oickow fingi 
"bykincV 

Count. . Get yon. gone, Sir,. VU talk with yon more 

MOB.. 

Stew. May it pleafe yo», Madam, that he bid HeUm^ 
come to you j of her t am to fp^ak. 

Cowtt^. Sirrah, teU..my gentie^oman I wottU .£^ak. 

with her, Heien I mean. : a 

Ch. ^* Was this:ft^ &ce the qaiufe^. quOlh Oie (6)» 

, [St0gfng^ 

"Why 

(6) If^as tbitftttrface ibe cat^e, ptotbjhit 
fnyibe^CrtciAntfackedTroj} 

IVas tbh King Priam'* j^ f J A« t»>e llanxa, thit ^How*. !^ 
hi alternate -rhyme, »»d as a rhyme is here wantiDg tojbein the ift* 
Verfe ; *tis evident, the 3d Itpe is AAantingi The oldyWM*»givt iit4 
part of it.^ boti )iow to.lu^ly the Ipft p^rt, yr9^\ |he qacftjoi^^ .Mr* 
Jlowc has given us the fragment honeftly, as he found it : but M«b 
Mftti Tather than to feem foundered, has fnnk it upon, us.— -I com- 
tnuoieated to my ingfMCiui ftiend Mr, JV^rburton how Ltiottad the* 
jaflage in the old books, . i 



A L J.*s well^ that Ends wdt i7i 

«« Why the Grecians facked Troy A 

*< Fond done, fond done ; — for ParU he 

•* Was this King Pr/tf«*s joy. 

•f Wxthitfaat ihe figbcdas.ihe.lUiod (7), 

Ao^ from bim I received tbtt fupplfment,. wbrch I- hive given t» 
the ceit, and the following Juilification of it. **\ will firft proceed ' 
*' to jaftifj mf ien^ ai)^ emendation, and then account for the cor* 
•< ruption. In fbe firft place^ *tiv plain, the laft line -Aoold not 
** have' been read with an intenogatioB t For wai Hehn Kiny 
** Priam^% Joy ? No, furely, Ae waa not. Wbo then ? why, th» 
«< hifioiians tell us it wat Pttrit, who wai bis favourite (on. And , 
«<^how nattiti^ wis ft, when this fie (whoever flie waa,) had faid^ 
•* was this the face that ruin*d 7r^ f to fait into « moral reflect ion »- 
•^ ttd fay^ whftt » iiMid deed waa this \ Ftiam*t mHery proceeded 
<< from him, that was his only Joy* This ia exaflly agreeable t». 
^ the ^ntplicity of thoie ancient iongs 1 as the phrafci. For Parit 
" £^--is to their mode of locution* So far we have the genius o£. 
** the Ballad, biftory, and the context)^ to make it probable. Aft 
«« obfervation upon the enfiiiog/tfuM may make it dear to demon* ' 
*« ftratton.** 

I will only fubjoin, in confirmation of my fri«nd*i ingenloM co»» 
Jeaoae^ that» in The Maid in the Mill by Beaumnt and Fkicber., I 
£nd a fcrap of another old baJlad opon thf fame fub)f6A| moft acar|g^ 
CorreTponding with oat a. 
^' Jlod here fair Piirff comest 

The hope^l youth of Troy } 

Queen 0tfii^a*8 darling foo. 

King Priaint only joy, 
\j)fyith that ^fffbedy as fie floods 
•And gmve ibis fintence then ^ 
Among nint had if 9ntM£9td, 
Tbere*syetontgoodii$ten»'] 
Tl^t ttd flanza la a ioke tura*d*opon the women i t^ eonfe/fion thal^ 
there was erne good in test. Upon which the Countefs fays,,'" What t 
^*^ one good in ten ! you corrupt the foog,firrah/* — This fliews, that 
the ienfe of the foag was, one bad only in ten ; or, nine good in ten »: 
and this clears up the mylUry; The ad ftaaza was ccrtaialy ihoi i% ' 
the eld ballad. 

ff^ith that ^figbed as fie floods 

And ga^ ibis fentence then \ ^ 

If out be bad atnongjt tvint good^ 
There* s But ont hid in ten, 
A vifible continuation of the thought, »» amended^ in th^ "hitter part 
wf the Utit ftanta : and it relates to the ten Tons of Priam, who all 
behaved themfeWet well except thia Paris, But why Priam'* ten- • 
ibntj mayit a«t be ailL*dj when uaifei^al tmduion loif gi^en Kitn ' 



*^ And gave this ienteifce then f 
^ Among nine biid if Cuie be good^ 
^ ThereVyet one good in .ten." 

Cwnt. Whaty.One ^ood, ior ten^f Yoa. fxnnipl (h^ 
t^fkt$ firrah. 

CIo. One good woman in ten, MAdan|« wbith ih Mf 
jfWrffyiftg o* tlr* f6ng: would, God w'odlJ (ervc the 
Wbrld ib. all this year! we'd find no fault with th^ 
tithe-wofiant if I w^re the parfon i oae kk ten, qiiothv^ 
a' I an vpe n^ight have a good wonan bom bst ere^' 
blazing ikit, or at an eitrthq^iake, 'twould meCid tixe* 
li*ttery well; a man ftlajr draw Us heart Ottt, ere hxt: 
jjjl'uck bne.^ 

, doiuit, Vou^U be i^ney Sir, knare^ and do.aa^I oom* 
2»aBd yom 

Cib. That man that: ihoald be at a> woman^ tonkr 
niand, and yet no hurt done l; tlio*^ bonefty be no* 
puficaQy. yet it will donphurt^. U will wear the vforpiia. 
of humility over the black gowjv of a, bk; h^Mu-t :^ I* 
am goitig, Ictfom^t fbtr bufinefs it' fot HeSir to cottkt 
Mthvf. ' Iffcih. 

^tJ^i?;*?; WeMv Adit. 

Ste'w^ I. know^ Mada^, you feve y#fir ge«tilei«oiu»( 
intirely* 

Count. Faxth^ li do; ller fathelr benei«rtbM her t(h 
me ; and fh? herielf, without other advantages, maf 
lawfully make citle to slb much love as ihe iad$ } thel^ 
is more owing h^r, than it paid ; and. naore fliaU be- 
paid her, than fhe'll dsmandt 

J^rt?*!*;. Nbdshn, I Wzi vciry late hiore near her, thati^. 
I. think,, file Wi(h^d ttkCy alone fl^e wa$. and 4id comr 
BVunicate taherf^Jf h«r own woros to her owji ear$ %■ 
Awe Ihonghfi^ I dare vem fof Jberi, tiief tpucbM not any,> 

J^yf Ta.thii I reply, that) »t th^ tuaeo ^ thfts uniTonuAatf part 4>r 
ikis reigfi, hie had but ten » To theie this: ('on^d«r alludes. T^eyv 
^ere, Aratbon^ Ant'tp^ofif Dtiphohu$, JOivt* BeSiTt Uelenut, .ifypO' 
tifiist P4mno/i, Paris* anjl.. Foji etw tt (tttoa particalatly huawMnou^i 
in thre clown, (aad I'uitHi^ with cbe licence of hU chaca^ei^ M %> 
jfjierj,) all at once to depraf e thc^t^at of the baUad> and turn it to a 
UfSMn ^i9n^^ yiVrn^A. t/^» ttarturfu* , 

\ iiranger 



All's weUi thu B^^s^'WctK tft 

ftranger fenfe. Her matter was»^fte lov^d y^or rfptiff 
Fortune, (tie {a|(I», was no ^ddeU (8)» that bad pot 
fuch dmerenc^ t>ejtw]it tlurir, p^d eiiates; Love« sa 
godU |h3t Vfp^i not e;f tepd 1^1^ ,oigiit» oiil^ wliero 
qualities werfi. jdvel; ,piana no (^ueeq of virsinat Uia| 
would fufer hen; poor O^nljglit te bc-farpix'd witkput 
reicue in the fir^ aflaoT^ ojr tSLn&nxi afterward. TJtia 
iie deliverM in the nokoft bitter . touch of forrow, that 
e*ei I heard a virgin exclaim in ; which 1 held it my 
duty fpeedily to ^quaint tyoa withal ; fithence, ia 
the lolsthat xhay happen, it conccriu you foBwthinn.ta 
Icnow'it. . .. " • ,/. ' .'I ;•_ 1^ « ,. : ^,. '; 

Ceuttt, Vbu fcave diiTchargM th^s,hqne|iiy^ keep^ it to. 
yourielf ; many likelihoods infotm'd me of thU before^' 
which hunelR} tottering in the balance, th«t I could 
neither b^iieve nor mirdottbtn pray you, leave met; 
ftall this in yo^r bofom, and I thank ybu for your 
lioneft cafe ^ I will /peak with yo^ further anon. 

JSV'^:He}en». : ; , 

CcfUfU* Ev'n fo It wis with ille^ when: i xiriit j'oimig f 
If weatanatare^^ tkefe ar^ ohr^^ :xhfo thmi : ' ' 
poth to our Tofe of. yoiith rigfad^ belong f 

Our blood to us, this to oar bloody i^ bolii ^ 

(8) Foftiim,/kefdid, vtM no goddefs, ke^ L^e, m j|«4JleCi V^m«^ 
^Uin^d againft U]« ^utei^ tf^vitsgiftt. Ice ^JT hit padf^^c ftaai)»ihlli; 
lo the oU copiel. 

Z^ovtf. no M, ihot ^oit^ tot exttriA kfi nifghl thfy ktftire "quaVtriti. 
noerelrtfd, ^ea tf vhfiksi ^0 %fc>,Ufi(jf^ iet, 

*Tis evident to e^eryl ftfnfible rtadvr ^t iomitthin% niuil hii»t '(t^% 
out here, by whicKtbje nfeanio^ of the coiUMf i»reiifder'4 df A£HiA}4 
There are no tracer for the words, tc§9flaig*dagaiwfi tiu] which- ^ 
take to have been firft conJei^ura% fypply'^ tiy' WI4-. itow^. BuJ the 
form of the feptence is sntirely alter'^'lry tht!^ InfeAion j abd tKey, 
ntJMI,«o«llft^tnit li«itchrTii«blwa^i«i^aKLJg4liihi6- fiery wtrdt 
be orethtaHl iilltbei jroiiag Vedy/i /on^nc <waa be #(ideft>: tffk fftt^i^ 
lor ofie^ m/e{i^ J^ve no 9^,; (or j^nothsri— Mrhat;fceuk fr§ (hf4 



more naturally fuDJoin,, than as f ha vie amftnaed in t(ve cisxt?, 

Diana no Slueen VJr WK^tni, i^as 'Ufoiitdfujpr h'er'poor'kh^Et'io bi^ 
fiirprix' d wtbmt refdii^' itt, ' ' • 

For ia-poeticJi h\1ktif DfMtt wra^ lis Well ki^6w;i>C« '^efid^ *«^ 

V^j^tkeuinfiantu^ '* l^ 



so All's well, that Ends wcir. 

It is the fhow and leal of nature's trath. 

Where love's ftrong paffion is impreft in youth ; 

By our refnembriinces of days foregone. 

Such were oar faalts, or then we raonght them none* 

Her eye is fick On*t ; 1 obferve her now.— 

HeL Whtt'is yoar pleaforc, Madam ? 

Count. Hehn^ you know, I am a mother to yoi|. 

Hel\ Mine honourable millrefs. 

C0«ff/, Nay, a mother 5 ' 

Why not a mother? when I faid a mother, ' • 

Methought, you faw a ferpent ; what's in mother^ 
That you ftart iat it ? I fay. Fro your mother.; 
And put you in the catalogue of thofe, 
That were enwombed minej *ti$ often feen. 
Adoption ftrives with nature; aiid choice breeds 
A native flip to as from foreign feeds. 
You nc*er Ojpprcft me ^ith a mother's groan. 
Yet I cxprcfs to you a mother's care t 
God's mercy ! maiden, do's it cur^i thy bloody 
To fay, I am thy mother ? what's the matter^ 
That this dtftemper'd meifenger of wetj 
The many-coloar'd /rxV, rounds thine eyes I 
Why, — -that you are m/ daughter \ 

HeL That I am not. 

C^unt^ I fay, [ am your mother* 

HeL Pardon, Madam. 
The Count Jtoupllon cannot be my brother ; 
J am from humble, he from honour'd name ; 
No note upon my parents^ hi« all noble. 
My mailer, my dear Lord he irr and I 
His fervant live-, and will his vafTal die : 
He muft not be my brother. ■ ■ ' 

Ceunt, Nor 1 your mother I . 
. HeL You are my mother. Madam; would you were, 
(So that my Lord, yoor Am, were not my brother) 
indeed, my mother!— or were you both Our mothers 
I care no more for, than I do tor heav'n. 
So 1 were not his il(!er: can^t no other. 
But I your daughter, he maft be my brother ?—-* 

.C«i»«r.Ye8j //^Zr)iiyottmsghtbem/daiightcr-iD4aw r 

God 



All's wclL that Ends. wclK 21 

God (hield, you mean it not, daughter and mother 

8o^ftnv« upon year pulfe ! what, pale again ? 

My fear hath catchf*d your fondncfs. — Now I fee (9) 

The myft'ry of your lonelinefs, and find 

Your fait tears head ; now to all fenfe 'tis grois. 

You love my fon ; invention is afham'd, 

Againft th^ proclamation of thy paflion. 

To fay, thou doft not; therefore tell me true; 

But tell me then, -tis fo. For, look, thy cheek%. ^ 

Confefs it one to th* othcfr ; and thine eyes 

See it fo grofly (hown in thy behaviour. 

That in their kind they fpeak it: only ila 

And htlllfii obftinacy tie thy tongue. 

That truth fhould be fufpefted ; fpeak, is*t fo ? ^ 

If it be fo,i you've wound a goodly clew : 

If it be not, foffwear't; howe'er, I charge tliee« 

As heav'n fliall work in me for thine avails 

To tell me 'truly. 

HeL Good Madam, pardon me* 

Count • Do you love my fon I 

Hek Yourpffrdon, noble miflrefs. ' 

Cotaa. Loy^ you .ray fon ? 

HeL Do not yoa I6ve him, M^dam ? 

Count. Go not about i tdy love bath in*e a bond, ' . 

f9) ^ . — —Nov (/« 

^bf mj^ry if your loyelftwft, and find 

The myftery ^f her lov^MtftMih^QoA my mmpahniiion,t The tAi 
Coontefi it iPiylng nqtWo^ if fnieal, nothing uurKii^i pr in K^roick* 
that thu nrqijd^ ^puii $|id a *p^ape ^ere ; which it coold not, uAltft 
farraffically ^mplojtcl,' an^. wit K ibke (pleen. . 1 dare warrant, the 
p^t meainr, his'old xa(}y AMiId fay no'ihore than this : ^ I noy iH^d 
V ihk kij1tp^4fj^i 4r4M;pifig:ii*to. ^drnert, and we^ng^ and 
** pining tn fecret.** For thisreafon I have amended jtbe ten, loak» 
Ufiefs, The fteward, in the foregoing; (ctfnr, where he gives the 
Counteft intelligence of Helen & b^aviou'r fjiys ; ^ 

Alone Jbe vfotf euidJid cmmunicate to berfclfber own toor^t to her 
own eaft. - ' ' , .'■'''' •':•''' ' ' ' 

The auih«rh4t«fed^^Cheworidi»i^Mir/i, tofignt^ a ^UfiCt bang 
^one, again (in bHH<>iR/#t4 .:'■',,,.> i ■ i .: r . 

"We will bcfto?r ^rfei;refl : read on thif .book { 

That ikew -of /tic^ an exerciie may colour 

rWl^nettkifu 

^ • VfV«t«ll 



trti *All*s wett^ that kNoi w 

Whereof the WU talces nptes cpm^ ^^ofae, iUfiMb 
Thf ft 4.(56 pf voi>r jUFcdion ; i^^f )Wr paftw 
Ha^ to the full appcach*^. 

^if/. Then, I corSois, 
Here oii my i:nfifd> before high ^e^iy^os ^^id ,)c(M||» 
That before yoii^ and, next iip^ l|i^'|^ivv^n» 
I love yoaxton *: : 

My friends \vere poof, bMt ^on^ ; foV »y J^rc | 
Be not offended ; for it Hurts MPt }ii|]i» \ 

That he is lov'd of me ; I follpw Hi<^ npt 
By any token of pf ^fiigiptuoii^ fnit ; 
Nor would t have him, VU I do deserve )uqIi| 
Yet never -^9<^^, fiQW that 4M^; fi^ll be: . - 
I know, I love jLn vaii^ ;. ilrivc .ag^ipft hpp^'^ 
Yet, iikljli|s ,ca;pti9ns a^ ii^tenil^le fi^ve^ , 
I ftill pour in t^ water 9f n^y ifpvc, 
.And lack not to lofe (lill; thus, ludtan-Vjac^ 
Religious in mine erxor, X fdcii^ 
The fun that looks apon h\^ wOjr$MppfU'» 
But knows of him r^^qw. My ^fmfcft jM*4*Dj^ 
Let not your hate mcounter >vi|h,t^y loyt^ 
For loving whene ^9Pj;^o ; tftt |f yp^rftlfy . ^ 

Whoff?^^.*W^3V':!Ci^«^ ayirtM^flrjs^^ 
Dicf ever in fo true a ^me jof liking 
Wi(h chaftely, and k)ye dearly, xhttys^x XUq$ 
Was both herfelf and love; O. thcfl, igW IMW 
hTo her, >»kofe<il«te it fudi, that caniioc chute 
.Batiend, and ^i,v*e, where file is fure to loft $ 
^hat fecfes not .tiDf find that, wjhich feafch implj^ ^ 
i^J^U i;i^dl^-Ji\tte, Ujw iwetty, )w\^t Wp ^ffls.' ! 

CdMii^. Had ycMi aot latf)!^ aa iatfnt» ^ak itrvl^» 
To^to^W«»f . " 

/f]f/. Madam, I had. 
. i^tiunt. Whcr^orei tell tijfe. 
"^'^ Hei iv/\\\ tell truth; by grace Itfelf* t fweaf^ 
•cVouikmw^ Aigriliithtf Jb&itieifoae pR^piioa^ 
'Of rare and provM effe^s ; fuch m 'm» fctdin^ % 

And manifeft^ experience had co!lefte4 ' ' 
For general fov^reignty; and that'he ^wUPd 2^ 
^Jji^)pp|lfuirft refervation to beflow tlicm» 



JIi^lVWI, that 'Evd^ iirA. iq 

Asuotcsy whofe facalties indafi^e wefe^ 

There is a remedy^ approv'd* fet down, 
^o care the defpefate laagorfiiiifgt, whereof 
The King is retfder'd loft. 

Count. Thi| wgs your qiotiv^ torp^i/, wa|1t. (peak F 
^^/. Mf Lord year fbn made me to think or this $ 
Slfe Parh^ and the medicine, and the King, 
4H^ from the coftT«cir«tioii .of^y^ ^KMighti 4 

fiaply^teen^fcnt ohea. 
. CffMtf* But think ycNiy JMns 
If yoo fhoald tender yoar fuppofed aiJ, 
He would receive it ? he sani %is phyfciant 

Arfrrf*! vfimh kt» that thajr cttulpi hrip Mn^^ 
T^, tthat ihey eamiMi he^. How.iMi tbiiyc >ctedU. 
A poor unjeirned vdrgin> whfim the khooV^ 
£mbowellM qf thoif dearine, ktmMt^oiE 
The danger to itfelf ? 

»/. There's foroething,iii?t 
More than my fatbi;r^|jull,.<ffr]ukk wus^g^HVt \ 
Ofhisprofeffion») that hit igMdraoBipi 
Shall ffU" itiy 4fgacy be ^ft^fied > 
By th' Inckieft law^ h«aar% ; Mmip cwaM poiir)HitMUr 
But giye)die4€iiMre to wjr iiice^, Vd yantiire 
The well-loll lifb €S Bttne onliis ,Ottfie's «oflef 
By fuch a^y and hoftr* / 
; £piiMt. Doft thou believe't f 

Heu Ay, Madim,^ kapwhigty. 

Cquttt. Whjry^i?&«,thor(hiMtWemy4etre|mdlor» 
."Meana and attend4hKs ; aiid my loving Ereetip^s ; 
* To tk<^.of iniAC iji^ CQUtt* lUl ft^y at homi^. 
.Andupmy God's bleflkg into thy attempt : 
&g0iiC9 to* morrow; uid be (ore #f thisf 
fffhwit cai^ ^el^ tfa^e to, thoji flialt notimrs* ys^^ettm. 



AC^ 



•aij. All's well, that ^nds wdt 
A C T IL 

SCENE, the Courrof Franct. 

Enltr the Kit^f mtith divers young Lords faii^g leave Jht 

the Florentine <war, Bertram and Faroiles. 

FloitrlfiCorntu* 

Hi^i N.o, : 

FArewel, yoting; Lords,; th«fe warlike principles '- 
Do^not throw from you : yon, my Lords, larewel; 
Share the advice betwixt you. If booh gain. 
The gift doth Arctch^tfclf as *tis rcceiv'd. 
And IS enough for both. ^ 

I Lord, 'Tis our hope, i Sir, 
Aiiel^ ^^Ucbtef 'd lb(diei>, . to return 
And find your grace*in health* 

King. No, no, it cahnbt bcf and yet my heart 
*: Wlir Tot couf^fs) it owns the malady 
That doth my life befiege ; farewel, young Lords ; 
Whether i live 0T«die, be. you the fons 
Of worthy French men ; { i o) \tx, higher lt€ih 

J ' , ^ " (Thofe 

(lo) .—^—4ff*i**r Italy 

.. iQfhfftJfaiid, tbatA^befJt but tU^fAU 



Of the leffi monarchy. \) fee, &c.] This (cf mi to me one of the very 
ebfcure paffaees ol Shokefpeart, ahd which therefore may very wdl 
demand explanation. Jtaly^ at the time of tTiU fccinej was under three 
very different tenures* Ihe Emperor, as i^icceiibr of Xht Roman Bm« 
perors, bad one part j the Pope, by a pre '«nded. donation from Cpw- 
^tffffffle, another j and the third was connpos'd of ^ee.ftates. N<^ 
by the hji monarthj is meant the 'Roikah, the laft cf the four general 
monarchies. Upon the fall of this monarchy, in the fcrainbJe, feveral 
cities fet up for themfelves, and became free ftatcs : Now thcfe might 
be faid properly to inherit the fali of the monatchy. But the Emperor 
could not be faid to inherit the fail of the monarchy, any more iharf 
a fon. who inherits an impaired edate, could be faid to inherit the 
fall of his father *s eft^e : Tho* thofe, who had defrauded the father, 
snijht be faid to inherit the fall of his eliate. Much left could the 

Pope, 



All^s well, that Ends well; fig 

(Thofc bated, that inhcrk btlt the fall 
<>f the laft monarchy ;) feei that you come 
Kot to WOO; honour, but to wed it^ when j 

The braveft queftant fhrinks, find what you feekf 
^hat fame may cry you loud : I fay, fareweh 

2 Lord. Health at your bidding ferve your Majefty ! 

King, Thpfe girls of Italy, take heed of them ; 
They fay, our French lack language to deny> 
if they demand : beware of being captives. 
Before you fervc^ 

Both, Our hearts receive your warnings. 

iHT/'/f^. Farewel. Come hither to toe. [To Atiendanti^' 

\Exit. 

1 Lord. Oh, my fwectt Lord, that you will ftay be- 

hind us ! ■ 
Far. 'Tis not his fault; the fpark — — 

2 Lord, Oh, 'tis brave wars. 

Par. Moft admirable ; I have fcen thofe wars. 

Ber. I am commanded here, and kept a coil with, 
^9oyoung\ and thi next year , and '/// too early. 

Par, An thy mind (land to it, boy, fteal away 
bravely. 

Ber. Shall I ftay here the forehorfe to a fmockt 
Creeking my ihoes on the plain mafonry, 
'Till honour be bought up, and no fword worn 
But one to dance with ? by heav'n, Pll fteal away# 

1 Lord. There's honour in the theft. 
Par. Commit it) Count. 

2 Lord. I am your acceitary, and fo farewel. 

Ber. I grow to you, and our parting is a tortur'd 
body. 

1 Lord. Farewel, Captain. 

' Pcpe by a donation in the times of its duration, be faM to do {b« 
This being prcmifcd, now to the fenfe. The King fays, higher Italy j— • 
giving it the rank of preference to France ; but he correfts himfelf 
and fays, I eicept thofe from that precedency, who only inherit the 
fall -of the laft monarchy ; as all the little petty iiates $ for inftance, 
Fhrence to whom \hefe voluntiers were going. As if he had faid,. I 
gave the place of honour to the Emperor and the Pope, but not to the 
free ftates. All here is clear ; and *tis exadtly Sbahjptare'^ manner, 
yilio lovM to fliew kis reading on fuch otcafioas. Mr. Warhurton^ 
VOL.IIL B zLurd^ 



i# All's well, that Ends wdlL 

^twi. Sweet Mon^eur ParoIIes f 

Far. Noble heroes, my fword and yours are kiii;^ 
fgood fparks :and luftrous. A word, good metals, 
(ii) Yoo ihallrfiod in the regiment of the Sphii, one 
Captain Stuno with (his cicatnce, zti emblem of war* 
here on hit iinifler cheek ; it was this very fword en« 
trench'dit,; fay tohim, liive, and obfesve^his report 
of me. 

J £orif. We fh^, nobleCaptMn. 
Tar. Man do3itx>n yoa for his novices'! what wifll 
ye do ? 

Bir. Stay; thelCing— ^^Exeunt Lwdsl 

Par* Ufe a mod fpacious ceremony to the noble 
LordsL, you have reftrain'd yourfdf within the lift of 
too cold an adiea ; be more expreflive to them, fox 
they wear themfelves in the cap or the fimc:; there, da 
mufter true eate, eat, fpeak, and move ander the in- 
fluence of the moft -receiv'd "ftar ; and thd* the devH 
lead the meafure, fuch are to be followed:: after thedi# 
and take a more dilated farewel. 
Ber* Andlrwilldofo. 

Par. Worthy fcUow^^ And Hke to prove moft finewy 
iword-inen. [Exeunu 

Sfttfr the Kmgf ^tnd Lafen* 
t^. Pardon, my Lord, for me and for mf tidinga^* 
King. VW fee thoe to Hand up. 

{i\)Tqu JbaUfnd in the regimtntof tbt%y\fk\i one Captain Spuri«, 
h\^ ucatrice^ with an tmblem rf mar ^are on bit fintfttr cheek ;] it M 
Xurprizing, none of the editofs could fee that a flight tranfpofitiofl 
vas abfoIutely'n^e(raf7 bere> •when thertii not common fenfe In the 
pafTtge, as it ftands without tfuch traafpofition* ParoUes only meant, 
•• you ihall find one Captain Spurio in the camp with a fear on hi« 
•* left cheek, .a mark of war that my fword gave him.** Our post 
liaa emp)oj*d this word, to fignify fear, in other «if his .plays s S«^ 
he£ire, in ;^i you like it} 

I. lean but upon a rufh, 

The deatrice and capable impwfittre 
Thy palm fome moment ikeepu ■ 

4od in Hamlet i 

Since yet thy cic^tt^ce looks raw and r«d 
> After the Panifi fword j— — 

taf. 



AxL^3 wctl, that Ends Well. *)? 

^mf. Tfa€ti her€*t a ilian Randt, that lutli bought bit 
pardon. 
\ would, yon had IcneePd, my Lord, to aflc ne mercy | 
And that at my bidding you could fo ftaad >ip. 

Kin^. I would, 1 had ; fo I had broke thy pate, 
^And a&'d thee -mercy for't. 

L^z/l'&Cfodfaitht acrofsf— bat^ my goodLord^ *tis thus; 
"Will you be cur'd of your iofirmity X 

King. No. 

Laf. O) will yom tA to grapes, my royal fox I 
Ves, but you will, my noble grapes; an if 
My royal fox could reach them ; ( 1 2) I have feen a mid^ciwi 
That*s abfo to breathe life into a done ; 
Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary 
With fprightly £re and mouon ; whofe fimple touch 
Is powerful to araife King Pffin^ nay. 
To give great Cbarlemam a pen in's hand^ 
And write to her a love-line* 

King. What her is this ? 

Laf. Why, Dodlor-ihe: my Lord, there's one ariivMiJ 
If yott will fee her : now, by my faith and honour^ 
Xf ferioufly I may convey my thoughts 
In this my light deliverance, I have fpoke 
With one, that in her fex, her years, profeffion^ 
Wi(d»m and dt>niUncy, hath amaz'd me more 
Than I dare blame my iveaknefs ; will you (ee herj; 
For that is her demand, and know her bufinefs I 
That done, laugh well at me. 

Kin^. Now, good Lafeuf 
Bring in the admiration, diat we with thee '"^ 

May fpend our wonder too, or take off* thinet 
By wond'ring how thou took'ft it. 

Laf. Nay, 1*11 fit you. 
And not be all day neither. [ExU Lafeo} 

(1%) I bavt Citn M MedecineJ La/eu ddes hot tttan thit he hit 

htn a remedy, but a perfon bringing fuch remedy.^ I tberefMre ima« 

giae, our author ufed the t'renclk word, wudecin, i. e, a PhyBcian; 

this agreet with what he fobjoins immediately in reply to the King* 

M^t Do£tor-She]<vand— «;rff< to her t^«-/!NN 

B z Kini. 



if All's wcif, that Ends wcill. 

King. Thus he his fpecial notkiog ever proIogueSf 

Zaf. [Ritwms] Nay, come your ways. 

Bringing in^AtVAi. 

King. This'harfte hath wings, indeed. 

Laf. Nay, come ydur ways. 
This is his Majefty, fay your mind to him.y 
A traitor you do look like; but fuch traitors 
His Majefty feldom fears ; I'm Cnffid^t uncles 
That dare leave two together; fare you well. [2xf^ 

King. Now, fair one, do^ your bufine&ibllbw us \ 

HeL Ay, my good Lord. 
Gerard de Narbon was my father. 
In what he did profefs, well found* 

King. I knew him. 

Heh Therather will 1 fpare Toy yxSXe towards him^ 
Knowing him, is enough.: on's bed of death 
Many receipts he gave me, ^chiefly one. 
Which as the dearcfl iffue of his pra£lice. 
And of his old experience ih* only darling, 
^e bade me ftore up, as a triple eye. 
Safer than mine own two: ;more dear 1 have Ib^ 
And hearing your high Majedy is touched 
With that malignant caufe, ^wherein the honour 
Of my*dear father's gift ftands chief in powez^ 
I come to tender it, and my appliance, 
Witli all bound humblenefs. 

King. We thank you, maiden;; 
But may not be fo credulous of cure. 
When our mofl learned do£lors leave us ; and 
The congrc|ated college have concluded. 
That labouring art can never ranfom nature 
From her unaidable eftate : «we muft not 
So fuftain our judgment, or corrupt our hope» 
To proftitute our paft-curehaalady 
To emptricks ; or to diifdver fo 
' Our great felf and our credit, to efteem 
A fenfclcfs help, when help pafl fcnfe we deem. 

HeL My duty then fhall pay me for my pains ; 
I will no more enforce mi'^f ^office on you ; 

Humbly 



All\ well; that JSn^b well;* i^ 

Bambly intreating from yoisr royal tl^oiigbu 
V modeft one to bear me b^k! ag^n. 

King, I cannot give tfaee lef^ to be call'd grateful ; 
rhoa chought^ft to help me* and fuch thanks I give*. 
\s one near death to thofe that wi(h him live; 
^ut what at full I know,, thop know'il nq.part fi 
[^knowing all my peril, thou no art. 

HeL What I can do,^ can do no hurt to tr|^ 
Since you fet up your reft 'gaind remedy ; 
He that of greateil works is finiflier, '. 

Oft does them by the weakeft minifter: 
So holy writ in babes hath judgmentrfhowQ^ 
When judges have been babes; great floods have flowil# 
From fimple fburces ; and great iea» have dry'd. 
When mir'cles have by th* grcateft been deny'd*. 
Oft expedlation fails, and mod ofc there 
Where mod it pix>mifes^:: and oft it hits 
Where hope is colded, and defpair moil (its. 

Kingi Imuft not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid| 
Thy pains,, not us'd, muft by thyfelf be paid : 
Proffers, not took, reap thanks for their rewards 
Hel. Infpired merit fo by breath is barr'd : 

It is not fo with him that all things knows. 

As 'tis with us, that fquare our gueA by ihows : 

But mod it is prefumption in us, when 

The help of heav'n we count the^aft of men. 

Dear Sir, to my endeavours give confent, 

Ofheav'n, not me, make an experiment. 

I am not not an impoftor, that proclaim 

Myfelfagainfl the level ^f mine aim. 

But know I think, and th^k I know inpft fure. 

My art is not paft power, iior you paft cure. 
King. Art thou fo confident ? within what fjpae^ 

Hop'ft thou my care ? ^ 

/&/. The greateft grace lending grace. 

Ere twice the horfes of the fun ihall bring 

Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring ; 

£|^ twice in murk and occidental damp 

Moift Hefftrus hath quench'd his fleepy lamp; 

Or four and twenry tunes the pilot's e\a(^ 

B 3 U^^ 



go All's well, that End^ wclf. 

Hath told the thieviffi minutes how they pafs ;l 
What is infirm from yonr found parts ihall fly^ 
Health ihall live free, and fieknefk freely die. 

Kifi^. Upon thy certainty and confidence^ 
What dar'it thou venture ? 

IleL Taxofimpudence, 
A Urumpet's boldnefs, a divulged fhame 
TradocM by odious ballads : my maiden'^ name 
Sear'd otherwife, no worfe of worft extended ; 
With vilefl torture let my life be ended. 

King. Methinksy in thee fomeblefled fpirit dothTpeaft: 
His powerful found, within an organ weak ;, 
And what impofiibility would flay 
Jd common fenfe, fen& faves another wayi 
Thy life is dear ; for all that life can rate 
Worth name of life, in thee hath eilimate r 
(13) Youth, beauty, wifdom, courage, virtue, alt 
That happinefs and prime can happy call ; 
Thou this to hazard, needs mud intimate 
'Skill infinite, or monflrons defperate. 
Sweet praftifcr, thy phyfick I will try t 
Thilt minivers thine own death, if I die. 

HeL If I break time, or flinch in propertyr 
Of what I fpoke, unpitied let me die. 
And well defervM ! not helping, death's |ny fccf 
Sut if I help, what do you promife me f 

ICne. (14} Make thy demand. 

jm 

(13) ToMibf hunty^ wfifm, cetntagft all &e.] ;Tbit vtrie Ja too 
ftolt'l)]r a foot i and apparently fomedi fly liable Is dropM-out by inir* 
chance. Mr. fFgrburtw cojicurr'd with me in conjeAote to ftipply 
the ^tr(t that s 

JTrnv/ifr, huKtff wifihm, toapagu irirtue, aU Sef. 
JJiUna had laid a^uticnUr ftrcfa on her maiden reputation { mnd the 
King, afterwar4t. when he cornea to fpeak of her to Btrtram^ fays j 

. IfAebe 

^ i^ll that 18 virtues, (fave, what then diflik*ft, 

A poor pbyiici%o*8 daughter ;) Ulon difllk'ft^ 

Of 'virtui for her name i— — 

(14) -King. Afah thy demand, 
HcU But wiiiyoumakt fiesta f 

Kiag, jiy, ^^[^^^^ ««* J»J bo^t of 1mS^»\ 



Atc^s weir, that Ends wclf. ji 

tfef. But will yott mJikc it even ? 

King. Aj, b)nnyfccpter, and m;r hopes of ItetT^n. 

Hei. Then fhalt thou give mc, with thy kingly handy 

What hoftand in ikf power I ^Ml command. 

Exempted be from me the arrogance* 

To cEufefrom forth the royal blood of Franetf 

My low and humble nam'e to propagate 

With any branch or image of thy date : 

But fuch a one thy vaiTal, whom I know 

Js free for me to afk, thee to beftow. 

King, Here U my Hand, the premifes obferv'd^- 

Thy will by my performance fhall be ferv'd : 

So, make die choice of thine own time; for h 

Thy rcfolv'd* patient, on^ thee fliir rely. 

More fiionldlaueftion thee, and more I mud ; 

(Tho' more to know, could not be more to truft :) 

fronv whence thoivcam'ft, how tended on, — bntreft^ 

UnquefUon*d welcome, and undoubted bleft» / 

Give me ibme help here, hoa ! if thou proceed' 

A» high as word, my deed ihall match thy deed. [Exntnt* 

& C £ K £ cHanges to lUufilleff. 

JShtifiSmitefif. mud CUnwn 

e^unt.t^ OME on. Sir; Ifliall now put you to the 
V> heighf of your breeding; 

Clo» I will fhew myielf highly fed, and lowly taught; 
I know, my bwfinefs is but to the court. 

Ceunt. Bat to the court ? why, what place make you 
f^eciaU when you put ofF that' witH iuch contempt? 
but to the court ! 

Clo. Truly, Madam, if God have lent a man any 
manners, he may eafily put it off at court: He that 
The King could have but a very flight hope of Iflp from her, fcatie 
enough to fwear by i and therefore Hiltn might fufped,, |ie nieaot to 
equivocate with her. Be6des, obferve, the greateft part of t^e £:ene 
it ftri£liy in rhyme : And there is no ihadow of reafon why it ihooia 
be Ifltemipted here. I rather imagine, the poet wrote ; 

Dr. nirUy. 

B 4 ^ ^"Mcwj^ 



I 



3* , All's well, that Ends welfc 

cannot make a leg, pat of s cap, kifs his hand, an^ 
fay npth^g, has neither kg, hands,. Hp, norxap ; and,, 
indeed, fuch a fellow^ Kv fey precifely,. were not for 
the coart : but for^me, I have an anfwer will ferye all 
men. 

Cottnf, Marry f that's a boontifid aniwef that fits all 
queftions. 

Clo. It is like a barber's chair, ^at fits all buttocks;, 
the pin-buttock» the quatch-bttttock» the brawn-but^ 
lock, or any buttocks 

Count. Will your anfwer ferve fit to all queftions > 

C/fl. As fit aa ten groats is for the hand of an attorney, 
as your frenck crown for ydiir taffiaty punk, as T:Ps^ 
rufh {or Tom* s fore-finger, as a pancake for Shro've* 
Tuejday^ a morris for M^zy-^^, as the nail to his hole, 
the cuckold to his horn, as a fcoldinj^ quean (o a. 
wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the mar's mouth ; 
nay, as the pudding to his ikin« 

Counts Have you^ I fay, an anfwef of fuch fitncfs for. 
all queftions ? 

Clo. From below your Duke, to beneath your con- 
liable, it will fit any queftion. 

Count. It muft be an anfwer of moft monftroos iize» 
that mufi fit all demands. 

Clo* But a trifle neither^ ui good faith, if the learned 
ihould fpeak truth of it : here it is, and all that be- 
longs to't. Aik me, if I am a courtier j-^it fliall dp yoa. 
no harm to learn. 

Count. To be young again,^ if we could: I will be a. 
fool in a queflion, hopmg to be the wifer by your an- 
fwer. I pray voii, Sir, are you a courtier ? 

Clo. O Lord, Sir,— there's a fimple putting oiF: more,, 
snore, a hundred of them. 

Coimt. Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves- 
you. 

CU. O Lord, Sir,— thick, thick, fparc not me. 

Count. I think, Si^ you can eat none of this homely. 
meat. 

do. O Lord, Sir,— nay, put me to't, I warrant you. 

Counts You were lately whip'd,. Sir> as I think. 



All's well, that En^s wclj. ^jj 

€h. OLprdy Sir< — fparenotme. 

Count. Do you cr^y O Lord, Sir, at your wbippin^,. 
snd Jfpare not me ? indeed, your O Lord, Sir, is very^ 
fequent to your whipping : voo would anfwer very weU 
to a whipping, if yoa were but bound to*t. 

Clo. I ne'er had worfe luck in my life, in my — O 
I«ord, Sir; I fee, things may ferve long,, but not ferve 
ever. ^ 

CifUfttT 1 phy the noble hufwife with « the time, to 
entertain it fo merrily with a fool. 

CIo. OLord, Sir — why, there' t ferves well agun. 

Counf, An end,. Sir; to your buiinefs : give££r/r«xhis|. 
And urge her to a prefent anfwer back. 
Commend me to my kinfmen,.. andmy fon;: . 
This is not much. 

CIo. Not much commendation to them t - 

Count. Not much imployment for you, yott und^ 
fiand me.. 

Clo. Moft fruitfully, I am theit before my legs** 

Count. Hafle you again* lExeimii. 

SCENE changes to the Court of Fraace. 
Enter Bertram, . Lafeu^ and ParoUes. . 

'J?^.(iS)nr^HEY fay, miracles are pad; and we 
JL have our philofophical perfons to make 
modern, and familiar, things fupernatural and caufe- 
lefs. Hence is it, that we make trifles of terrors; 
enfconfing ourfelves into (eeming knowledge, when we 
Ihonld fttbmit ourfelves to an unknown fear. 

Par, Why, 'tis the raJeft argument of wonder that- 
]iath ihot out in our later times,. 
Ber. And fo 'tis« 

(15) l^bef fay miracUt artfafiy and 'COt have our philofophical perfent' 
4»-^ki moeurn and familiar things fup&natural and . caufelefs*] Tnis, 
aa it has hitherto been pointed, is dire6^1y oppofite to our poet^s, and 
bis fpeaker^s, meaning. At I have ftopM it, the fenfe i^tiadratet 
vrith the context : and, farely^ it is one unalterable property of 
p^ilofopby, to make feeming flrange and frtt^tMini^l Pbanmind 
'" kr, aoi reducible to caufe and reafoo* 

B 1 Lfifi. 



^4 All's well, that Ends well; 

Laf. IlO be relinqaiihM of tlic artifts— 
Far. So I fay, both of Galen and Paracelfus, 
Laf. Of all the learned and authentick fellows**** 
Par. Right, fo I fay. 
Laf. That gave him out incurable,—* 
Par, Why, there 'tis, fo fay 1 too. 
Laf. Not to be help'd,— — 
Par. Right, as 'twere a man aflbrM of an-** 
Laf. Uncertain life, and fure death,— • 
Par, Jud, you fay well : fo would I have faid. 
Ldf, I may truly fay, it is a novelty to the world. 
Par. It is, indeed, if yon will have it in (hewing, 
you (hall read it in, what cio you call there— 

Laf. A ticwing of a beav'nfy effed in an earthly 
adlor. 

Par. That's it, I would have faid the very fame. 
La/. ^ 1 6) Why, your dolphin is not Inftier : for me^ 
I fpeak in refpeft— 

Par. Nay, 'tis ftrange, 'tis very ftrange, that is the 
|)rief and the tedious of it ; and he's of a moft facine- 
xious fpirit, that will not acknowledge it to be thc-^ 
La/. Very hand of heav'a. 
Far. Ay, fo I fay. 
Lr/. In a moft weak— 

(i6) fHy, y»ur dolphin u not lufikri] I haVe thought it very pr^-' 
Hble, that, as 'tis a Frtncb man fpeaks, and as 'tis \iit¥rencb King.. 
'Ike 18 fpeakiiig of. the poet might have wrote, 

. Wi>y, your Dauphin is not lufiier t 
' i. M. the King is as hale and hearty as the Prince hia fen. And thkt 
the King in this flay it fuppofed to have a foo, ia plaiA from what he' 
lays to^iEfrr/r^ffl ib (he firft aa. 

■ Welcome, Count, 
"My fnC% no dearer. 
Befides, Dauphin in the old impreffionv is c^nflantly fpelt it the fift, 
dolphin. But then confidering on the other hand. At found an aroacb, 
jiittfhoUas afifh, ate provetbiai expreAons : and confidetiji| too thac 
cur author elfewhere makes the dolphin ao inftance or emblem of 
luftihood and activity. 

■ ' hrt delights 
IVer^ dolphin-like^ they ihew^d hi| back above 
The element they liv'd in* Anu, and CUoft 

Ihave not thought proper to difturb the text. Nor would, iad«edf 
^ ftoft of the padage he affc^d by aay altfratioii» 

S P^i 



All's well, that Ends well. 35 

Par. And debile minifter, great power, great tran- 
fcendence; which (hould, indeed, give us a further uie 
to be made than alone the recov'ry of the King ; as to 

Laf^ Generally thankful. 

Enter Kingi Helena, ahd Attendants. 

Par, I would have faid it, • you faid well : here comes 
the King. . . . , , 

Laf, Luftick, as the Dutchman fays : I'll like; a maid 
the better; while I have a tooth in my head? why,' 
he's able to lead her a cdrr^toJ 

Par. Mori dtt Vinaigrty is nprthis £f//r)i^ 

Laf. 'Fore God. I think fo; 

King. Go, call before me all the Lords in court*' 
SSt, my prcferver, by thy patient's fide ; 
And with this heahhfol hand, whofe baniih*d fenfi}-* 
'f'lvbtt haft repeaPd, a fecond time receive' 
Tne confirmation of my pfbmis'd gift; > 
Which but attends thy naming. 

Biettr three or four Lwds* 
I^ir maid, fend forth thine eyb ; this youthful jpftrcel^ 
Of noble bachelors ftand atiny beftowing, * 
O'er "whom both fov'reign power and father's voice 
I '^ave to ufe ^ * thy frank eledlion make ; 
Thou haft power to chafe, and they'none to forfakje. 

HeL To each of you, one fair and virtuous miftrefs ' 
Fall, wheii MVe^pleafe I maxfy, - to each but one.— 

, Ztf/^.. I'd give bay curtal and his furniture. 
My mouth' no mbre were broken than thefebby^^^' 
And writ as^ little beard. 

iff /r^« Perufe them well : ' 
Not oneof thofe> but had a noble fslther* 

\ , \jSheaddteJfesherrelftoaLoriJ' 

I^el. Gentlenien, heaven hath, through'me^' reftor'cl ' 
't'he King to health. 

Mi, We underftand it; and thank heaven for you* 

Hel. I am a fimple maid, and therdin weahhieft, 
rtba^ I protefti I fimply am a maid««— » 

Bi5 ^ PfeWfe' 



26 All*s well, that Eiros welT-. 

Pleafe it your Majefty, I have done already : 

The blufhes in my cheeks thns whifper me, 

** We bluih that thou fliould'ft chufe, but be refus^Tj. 

'* Let the white death fit on thy cheek for ever, 

•* We'll ne*cr come there again, 

K:n£. Make choice, and fee. 
Who muns thy love, fhvms all his love in me* 

HeL Now, Dtatt^ from thy altar do- 1 fly, 
/nd to imperial Lc*ve, that god moft high. 
Do my fighs ilream : Siiv will yon hear my Caiti 

1 Lord, And grant it. 

. HeL \\i) Thanks, Sip;— all the left is mute. 

Laf, I had rather be in this choice^ than throw 
Ames-ace for my lif(?» 

HeL The honour. Sir, that ffames in your faireyev 
Before I fpeak, toe threatningly replies : 
Love make your fortunes twenty times above 
Her that fo wiihes, and her hwnblelovc^ 

2 Lord* No better, if you pleafe, 
HeL My wifh receive, 

Which great Lo've grant ! and fo I take my leave. 

Laf, Do ail they deny her I if they werefons of nnB€»^ 
Td have them whip'd, or I wotild fend them to the 7w^ 
to make eunuchs of. 

HeL Be not afraid that I your hand fhould take^ 
ril never do you wrong for your own fake : 
Bleflinj; upon your vows, and in your bed 
Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed \ 

l,af. I'hefe boys are boys of ice, they'll Bone of' 

(17) Thanh, Sir\ all the reft are mutt."] All the reft are nrate^ 
§kt had ff oke to but one yet.. Thi« it a noafenfical tlteration (^ 
Mr. Pe)/f*8 from the old copies, ia which, I doubt not, bot he 
thought hiflofeu ^ittj wife and iag^ciouf*. 7hf geouiae reading ii^v 
as I have reftor'd ia the text \ 

-* — jSl the reft is mute* 
(!. e. as in Hamlet^^^fbe reft i> J^hice) tpd the meaaiag, thl«» 
Helena finding a favourable anfwer from the firft gallant fhe addrefs'd 
t», Itut not defigniBg to fix her choice there, civilly fays, Ithank 
yoo, Sir $ that is all I have t» advMce. I am oblig*4 to you foc< 
jr^vr coiBpliaAce : bvt my tyc aad heart hate asother aia» 

berr 



f 



All\ wett; that Enot wcIK 37^ 

her r fure» they are bafiards to the EngUJh, the Frnu^' 
Bc'er got 'em. 

Hel. You are too youngi. too happy, and. too-good^. 
To make yourfclf a Ton out of my blood.. 
4 Lard. {iB) Fair one, I think not fo. 
Laf. Hiwe's one grape yet. 
Far. I.am fui*>^ thy faiher drnnk wine— ?- 
Laf. But if thott be'eft not an afs,. I am a 
'TfToath of fourteen* lihave known.thee already*- 

HeL I dare not fay> I take you ; but I givo^ 
Hie and myfervice, cverwhilft I live,. 
Into your guiding power : this is^he man. [Ti Bertrami- 
iCf»^. Why then,. youngi?^r/r/j'«r, takeher; (he*s thywife*. 
Ber* My wife,.my Liege? lihallbefeechyourHlghBefi^* 
Ih fuch a bufinefs give me leave to uie 
The help of mine own eyes^ 

ICing. Know'ft thou not, Beriramt. 
What (he hath done for me ?r 
Ber% Yes, my good Lord,, 
But never hope to know why TiKould marry Ken 
King, Thou know'ft^ fhe has. rais'd me from nqfi 

fjckly bedi 
Ber, But follows iti my Lord,, to bring me downs 
Muft anfwer for. your raiftng I I know her well : 
She had her breeding at my father's charge : 
A poor phyiician's daughter my. wife J4— Difdain- 
Rather corrupt* me ever ! . 

King. 'Tis only title thou difdain^ft in her, thewhiclij 
^ can build up r Grange is ir,. that our^bloods, 

(18) 4 Lord. Fair oney. J think mt p, 

Laf. There' t one grape yet t I am juu my father drunk v\nt\ 
bat If thou be* eft ^ not , an afsy I a^n a youth of fourteen i I have knowm 
thee already,^ Surely, this is moft incongruent ftuff, Lafeu is angry 
vith thfe other noblemen, for giving Htf/p»fl th'e repulfe : and is he 
angry too, and thinks the fourth noUeman an aftf, becaufe he*s for 
ombracing the match ? The whole, certainly, can*t be the fpeech • 
«f' one month. As- 1 have divided the fpeech, I think, clearnefs- 
and humour are reftor*d. And if Parolhs were not a little pert 
and impertinent here to Lafeu, why fhould he fay, he had found 
bim out already? Qt, why^ il^uld he quarrel with him in the 
Y«ry next iceae h 

Of 



3^' All's wdl^ that Ends welf; 

Ofc6l6ntf weight, and heat, pour'd all together^' 

Would qtiitc confound diftShdion^ yet ftand off ^ 

Hi diffbrenWS, fo mighty, ifiliiete ' i 

All that is virrurous, (fave what thoa diflik*ft> * 

A poorphyfician*s daughter,) thoudiflik'ft 

Of virtu[i6 for the name: but do not fb 

{ig) From Ibweft place when virtuoUs thiigjj ptOCSedj< 

The plii<:c is dignify*d b/ th* doer's deed. 

Where great addition fwelfs, and VirtiJ^ none, > 

It is a dropfied honour ; good alone,* 

Ifl good without a yrame. Vilenefs is ie* t ' 

The property by what it is fhould go, ' 

Not by the- title; She h young,.- wife, fair; 

lA thefe, to nature flie's indmediatfJ heir I 

And thefe breed honour v That is honouir's fcom, • 

Which challenges itfelf as honour's bOrn; 

And is not like the fire. (20^ Honour's befl ih^ivci > 

When rather from our adls we ^hem derive 

Than our fore-goers : the mer^f word's a llavcr' 

JJebaucht on every tOmb; otr every grave ; • 

A lying trophy; (21) and as oft is dumb. 

Where duft and damn'd oblivion is^ the tOmb'^ 

(19) From iowtftplate^ whence virru6tii tthtg^ proceed,' 

The place is dignijied by tb* dters deed,] 'Tis ftrafnge, <Htt hone^ 
ef the editors could perceive, that both the fentiment and^rammar' 
ate defeftivc here. The ' eafy corred^ie'n, which I have ^tven, way » 
prefcribed to me by the ihgenioui Dr. Thhl^ye ■ 
(lo) ■ ■ ■ ' Honours heft ihrhe/ 

H^ben rather fi*om our ads wi tbemdervve 

Tban our f^tgoen.\ *How oeAly does 'this feiitim^t' of otir'* 
attthor*8 refemble the following paflfage of Jitvenal! 
Ergo ut miremur te'^ nan tua, pr'imum aliquid da ' 
^od pojfim txtuTn inctderey praefer honores 
S^oi ilUs damusy ^-dtdmui^ ouibut omidi debes; 

&Ct.vm.ver.6«.- 
fit) '■"'^■^-^a/id as oft is dumb/ 

fyhere duft,bnd kamrfd oblhulon is tbt tsmb^' 

Cfbonour'd boHts, indeedi'wbat Jbould be faid'f] Thfi is 'fdch ' 
pret^ ftuflf, indeed, as is only worthy of its accurate editori ! the ' 
traafp«fiti(tn of an inaocent ft6p, or two, is a.taik above their- dili- * 
genee;, efpecially, if common kn(t is to b<.the refuU of it. Thub ' 
zegulation, Ibavegiven^ mbft ftvlke every rcidti fo' at firift glance^ • 
<]|«t it needs aot a wori ia c«Afi]fmati«o«' 

Oft 



All*s well, tKat Ends well: 3§) 

efUoiiour'dbofie^ bdted; What (hould be faicl ? * 

IF thou caaft^like this^creatare as a miid^. 

I can create thet^fi : virtoe and- (he, 

l» her own dow'^;* lito^iMur and wealth f>om me*- 

Bir. I cannot lofveii^> dor will ftrire tado't; 

King. Thoi»wrong'il tlijnMf,. if thou fhOiild*ft flriV9- 
to chttfe. 
' HOI That yon are well reflor'd j ^itfjr Lord, I'm glai t ' 
liCt the red go. — 

Kiftg. {^2) M}rhonocrr's attheftike ; whic!^'t# defend^* 
I'muft pnKtuce my; powV. Here, take her hand,^ ' ' 
Proud icornful boy» anworthy this good gift ! 
That doft iir vile mtfprifion (hackle up 
My love, and her deferf; that canft not dream; « 
We poizing us iff her defedire fcale, 
Shall weigh thee to the beam ; that wilt not know/t 
It is in* us to plant thine honour, where* 
We pleaie to have it growi Check thy. coniempi^- 
Obey « our will^ which travels in thy good ; ; 
Believe not4hy diidain, but prefencly 
Do thine own fortunes that obedient right,% 
Which both thy duty owes, and our powerclaimtt • 
Or 1 will throw thee from my care forever 
Intathe (lageers,. and the carelefs lapfe 
Of youth and ignorance ;'my^ revenge and hate* 
Jjoofing upon tnee in the name of juftice^ . 
Without all terms of pity. Speak thine anfwer^ 

Ber. Pardon, my gracious Lord ; for I fub^iit^ 
My fancy to your eyes. When I coniider. 
What great creation, and what dole of honour. 
Flies where you bid ; I find, that (he, which late * 
Was in my nobler thoughts moft bafe, is now 

fp^y My bowur^s at tbtfaki 3 which t6 defeat 

Iwuft product ny fow'r.ytht pocr Ki-ng of France is again 
made a mai\ ot Gotham, by our unmerciful editors : • What they make 
him (^y, ir mere mock reafonijig. The paflage nfuft either be 
rellor*'d'» as-t hate conjeauralljr corrected ;. or elfe the King muA 
be fop|K)s*d to brttk off abruptly from wlnit h« mn going to fay, and 
determine tkat he will interpofe his authority. Ae tbuf ^ 
Mj honour* s at the flake i vfhich to defeatf^'mm 
•— — / mt^ frcdgft my /iwVt 

Th« 



jfO} All^s welly that Ends wdli. 

^he praifcd of the King j wHo,. fo cnobled, 
h, as '^were, born fo.. 

King. - Takt her by the hand. 
And tell her, ihe is thine : to whom tprosufc 
A counterpoize; if not in thy eftate^, 
A ballance more repleat.. 

£er. Itake her hand. 

Kif^. Good fortune, and the favour of the Ein|g 
Smile upon this contradt ; whofe ceremony : 

Shall feem expedient on the now-born brief. 
And be performed to-night; the folemn feaft: . 
Shall more attend upon the coming fpace, 
Bxpe6ting abfent friends. As thou lov'il hev 
Thy loveV to me religious ;; elfe does err*. lExeuMh. 

MonetuFarolles and Laftu*. 

Laf. D0 3«u hear, Monfieur? a word with yovi 

Par. Your pleafure. Sir ?. 

Laf. Your Lord and matter did well, to make his re^ 
fiantatiDn*. 

Par, Recantation ?^— my Lord ? mymafter?r 

Laf. Ay,, is it not a language I fpeak ? 

Par. A moft harih one, and not to be^ underftooi 
untbout bloody fucceeding. My matter ? 

Laf. Are you companion to the Count Roujilhn ? 

Par. To any Count ; to all Counts ; to what is man* 

Laf. To what is Countfs man ; Count's matter is of 
another ttile. 

Par. You »ie too old. Sir; let it &tisfy you, you axe^ 
too old.— — 

^ Laf I mutt tell thee,, firrah, I write man;, to whidii 
title age cannot bring thee. 

Par. What I dare too well do, I dare not do. 

Laf I did think thee,, for two ordinaries,, to be a^ 
pietty wife fellow; thou didtt make tolerable vent of: 
thy travel, it might pafs; yet the fcarfs and the ban* 
nerets about thee did {nanifoldly diil^ade me from be- 
lieving thee a voflel of too great a burden. I- have- 
now found thee ; when r lofe thee again, Icare not:. 
yet art thou good for nothing but taking up, and that 
thou'rt fearcc worth. Egr. 



A LL*^s well, that Ends well. 4> 

Par. Hadft thou not the privilege o£ antiquity upon 

*^ 

Laf, (23) Do not plunge thyfelf too far in anger^ 
kft thou haften thy tryal ; which if, --Lord have mercy 
on thee for a hen ! fo, my good window, of lattice^. 
Care thee well; thy cafement I need, not open, I loot 
through thee. Give me thy hand. 

Par, My Lord, you give me mofl egregious indignity.. 

Laf. Ay, with all my hearty and thou art worthy 
©f it. 

Par, I have not,, my Lord, deferv'd it. 

Laf. Yes, good faith,, cv'ry dram of it; and I wilt 
not bate thee afcruple. 

Par. Well,. 1 fhall be wifcr 

Laf., Ev*n as foon as thou can*l(, for thou haft X^> 
pull at a fmack o* th* contrary. If ever thou beeft 
bound in thy fcarf and beaten, thou (halt find, what it 
is to be proud of thy bondage. I have a deiire to^ 
hold my acquaintance with thee, or rather my know- 
ledge, Uiat I may fay in the default,, he is. a man- 
I know. 

Par. My Lofld». yoo: d» me^ moft infiipportabler 
vexation. 

• Laf. I would, \% were hell-pain s^ for thy fake,, 
imd my poor doing eternal: fordoing, I am paft ;; 
as I will by thee, in what motion age will give 
me leaver ' \Exiu 

(a3) Z>« wt fUttigt tlyftlftwpir in anger, kjttbou haflen tby tryal i, 
which it, Lwd have mtrcy en thee for a btM ;] Mr. Rowe and Mr. 
Pope, either by inadfertence, or fome other fatality, have blander*4« 
this pafTage into ftark nonfenfe. I have reflor'd the reading of the- 
oU folic, and-by^fubjoinidg the mark to ihew a break if neceilary, 
have retrievM the poet'i genuine (enk s 

tobich if'^Lord have mercy on thee for a hei^ f . 
The fequel of the fentence is imply 'd, not exprefs^d : This figure the- 
rhetoricians haire callM 'Kva-wwnirtf. A remarkable ioftante wt- 
have of it in the firft book of Pirpr* ASneii. 

Qoos f,%o^fed motos frajfat compoatre Fbt^ns* 
So Jikewife in Terenee j- 

Mala nuns, malus animui j fnem quidem-Egofi fenfero, » 
Sed quid opus efi verbis f A ndr. ji9 I, Sc. J* . 

Bat I (hall have 0£(iifion. to remark again upon it, wheal come to 1 



^ AllVwcII, that Emcs wein 

Par. Well, thou^ haft a fon ihall take> this diigracer 
•fFmc; fcurvy, old, filthy, fcurvy Lord !— well, 1 muH 
be patient, there is no fettering of anthofity. TU beat 
him, by my life, if I can meet him with any conveni*- 
ence, an he wei-e double and double a Lord4 JPll have 
no more pity of his age, than L would haveof*— •ril 
beat himyb an if JD could but meet him again* 

Re- inter Lafeu«- 

Zaf^ SirraH, your Lord and mafter's married, there^ 
news for you: you hav&a new-mifh-efs^ 

Bar. I moil unfeignedly befeech yoar Lord (hip tO' 
make fome refervation of your wrongs.. He, my- good 
Lord, whom I ferve above,, is my miSer. 

Laf. Who? God? ' 

Par. Ay, Sir. 

Lafi The devil' it is,, that's thy maft'en Why doft 
thou garter up thy arms^ e^this fafhion ? doft make 
hofe of thy Kleeves ?- do other fervants fo ? thou wert 
beft fet thy lower part where thy nofe ftands. By mine 
Monour, if I were but two hours younger, I'd beat 
thee;, methinks,^ thouiart a general oiFence, and every 
jnan ftiould beat thee. I think, thou^ waft created for 
men to breathe themfelves upon thee. 

Par.' This is hard and undeferved meafure, my Lord. 

taf. Goto, Sir; you were beateh in //^i^ for pick- 
ing. a. kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vaga- 
bond, and no true traveller: you are more faucy with^ 
Lords and honourable perfonages, than the com mifBon 
•f your birth and virtue gives you heraldry. Vou>are 
not worth another word, elfe I'd^ cdll you knave. I 
leave yott4 {Exit. 

Entir Bertram; 

Par. Goodi very good,- it is fo then;— Good, very 
good, let it be conceard awhile; 

BifN, Undone,, and. forfeited to cares forever? 

Par, What is the matter, fweet heart ?' 

Bir. Although before the folemn prieft I've fwora,^ 
Cwillnot bedhen 

Pari 



AcL^irwclT, thatE^NDS^wcIl; '4i 

far. Whatf what, fwcet heart ? 

Btr, OmyParolIes, they have married' me r 
Fll to the Tu/can wars, and never bed her; 

Par. France is a dog-hole, and it no more ments Ae 
tread of a man'^ foot : to th' wars. 

Bir, There's letters from- my mother f what the im- 
port is,. I know not yet. 

Far, Ay, that would be known : to Ui' war»^ m]^ 
boy,, to th' wass. 

He wears bis honour in a box unfeen,. 
That hugs his kickfy-wickfy here at homef 
Spending his manly marrow in her arms^ 
Which mould fuflain the bound and high curvet: 
Of Mar j^ fiery deed: to other regions 
France i» a liable, we that dwell in*t jade^»^ 
Therefore to th*^ war. 

Ber. It fhall be fo, Fll fend her to my houfi^ 
Acquaint my mother with my hate to her. 
And wherefore I am ilbd-; write to the King 
That whrch I durU not fpealt.. His prefent gift 
Shall furniih me to thofe Italian^ Bclds, 
Where nobiie fellows (h-ike,. War i» no fbife- 
To the dark hi>ufe,. and the detefled wife. 

Par. Will this capricio hold in thee, art fureT 

Ber, Go with me to my chamber,, and advife me«> 
V\l fend her ftraight away : to-morrow 
ril to the war4, fee to her fingle forrpw; 

Far. Why,, thefe^ balla bounds there's noife in it.?— 
•Tis hard ;. 
A young- roan, married, is a man that's mar r'd : 
Therefore- awayv and leave her bravely ; go. 
The King ha» done you: wrong : but,, huih !. 'tis fo. 

Enter Helena aml'Cbwm. 

^ SeL My modier greets me kindly, is (he welL^ 

CU. She is not well„ but yet (he has her waltk;. 
Ihe's very merry,, but. yet file is not well : but, thanka 
be given, (he's very, well, and wwta nothing i- th,^ 
woijd ;, but yet (he is not w«ll*. 

. • * ttlU 



j^ AtL^s welT, that Fnx» Wcif^ 

HeL If file be very weU^ vs4iat> d#es fhe ail> that flkt^ 
not very well ? 

Clo, Truly, ihe's very wcll^indeed,. bat fbr two rhings* 

/^<?/. What two things?. 

Clo, One, that fhe's not in heav^,. whither God fend 
her quickly ; the other,, that ibe's in earth,, flrom- whence 
God fend her quickly !. 

Enter Parollcs. 

Par, Blefs you^ my fortunate Lady; 

Hel. I hope,. Sir, I have your good will to havf 
mine own good fortune. 

Par. You had my prayers to leadithem on; and to 
keep them on, have them IHIL O, my knave, how 
does my old Lady ? 

Clo, So that you had her wrinklea and I her^ moneyit 
Iwould,. fliedid, asyou*fay» 

Par, why, I fay nothings 

Cto,^ Miarry; yoa are the wifir 0ian ; kt many a^ 
nan's tongue fhaker otit fair mafter^s andoing : to fay 
BOthing> to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have 
nothing, i» to be a great part of your title.;, which p 
within a very little of nothing. 

Pan Away, thou'rt a knave.. 

Clo, You (hould have faid, Sir,^ before a knave, 
th'art a knave ; that's, before me th'art a knave :. this 
had been- truth. Sin 

Par. Go to, thou art a witty fool, I have found thee. 

Clo. Did you find me in yourfelf. Sir? or were you 
taught to find me ? the fearch, Sir, was profitable, and 
much fool may you find in you^ eve^ to the world's 
pleafure, and the encreafe of laughter. 

Par, A good knave, i'faith, ah d well fed. 
Madam, my Lord will go away to-night, 
Ifi very fcrious bufinefs calls on him. . . 

TThcareat prerogative and rite of love, 
WhiCT, as your due, time clairps, he does acknowledge \ 
*But puts it off by a compell'd reftraint : 
Whofe want, and whofe delay, is ftrew'd with fweats 
Which ihQT diHilnow in the curbed time,, 



Axt's well, that^KDS wel!; |3 

To make tlie cemiiig hour o^efflovr with jogr, 
And pleafore drown ihc brinj. . ^ 

Piir. That70uwintake7<mr;ijDS8]itIeBiireD*th*Kfaif^ 
And make this haHe as ycuir own good proceedings 
StrengthenM with what -apdlog]!:, youthink, 
May make it probable neM« ' * f 

HeL What more comnuinds he f 

Far. That having this bbtainM, you prelentljr 
Attend his farther pleafure. 

Mil. (24.) In every thing I wait upon his will. 

Far. I ihall reportit To. [ExitVtoPi 

' :IieI^ I pray you.— Come &rah, jyi Clown* 

[Exiunii 
EnftrLsfcaafufBtrttutu 

Laf. Butt I ho^y your liordlhip thinks t&ot him C 
•Ibldier. 

Ber. Yest my Lord, and of very valiant approof* 

Laf. You have it from his own deliverance. 

Ber. And by other warranted teilimony. 

Laf. Then my dial, goes not true; I took this laiic 
fe a bunting. . 

j5^r. I do alTure you, my Lord, he is Tcry great in 
knowledge, and accordingly valiant. 

Laf. I have then £nned again ft his experience, and 
tranigrefs'd againft his valour.; and my ftate that way 
is dangerous, fince I cannot yet find in my heart te 
repent : here he comes ; I pr^ you, make us friends, I 
wHlpurfue the amity. 

£«//r ParoUe*. 
; Par^ Thefe things ihall be done. Sir, 

(«4} Hel. In every thing Itoait upvnbh fffill* 
Par. IJball rtptrt it fo, 

HeK I pray you come, firrah,] The poInHi^ of BeUn^t U9t 
'ftort rpeech ftands thus ahfurdly, through all the editioBt. My 
regulation reftores the true meaning. Upon PardHu iaying, Jhe ihall 
^port it fo ; Helena it intended to reply, Jfr,ay ycu, Jo fo $ aid then^ 
turning to xht Clown, ihe ■MrefaniUtfly additflcs bim, aad kids hi a 
^ome aloog with hert 

Laf. 



^^ ']^hCs well, that Ends weH* 

la/. 1 pray yoih Sir, who's his taylor ? 

Par* Sir r 

£^. 0> IlfnowhhnweH.; 1, Sir, be, ^Ir's, ^gooi 
jirof kmaiiy a very good taylor. 

Btr. Is flie gone to the King^ f^4^ toPar(dles» 

Par. She is. 

Ber. Will fhc «way to-nigbt^ 

Par. As you'll have her. 

Bir. 1 have writ my letters, cafketed my trea&re, 
.given order for our horfes ; and to-night, when I 
. ibould take poiTe^ion of the bride — and ere I do begin— 
/ Laf. A good traveller is fomething. at the latter end 
of a dinner; but one that lyes three thirds, and ufes 
a known truth to pafs a thoufand nothjngs with, 
ihould be once heard <and thrice beaten— God uve yon, 
Captain. 

Ber. ts there any \mklndnefs between my Lord and 
you, Monfieur? 

Par. I know not, how I have deferved to mu into 
sny Lord's difpleafere. 

Laf. (25) You have made ihift to rUn into't, boots 
ond ipnrs and all^ like him that leapt itito the cuftard ; 
and out of it you'll run again, rather than fuKTer qudT* 
tion for your residence. 

Ber. It may be, yoit h&ve miftaken h!ttl> my Lord. ' 

La/. And Hull do fo ever, tho' I took him at*s 
prayers. Fare you well, my Lord, and believe this 

(^5) Tou have madejhift to mn wte^t, boots and fpurs and aff, ^h 
him that leapt into the cuftard.] This odd allufion is noC infroducM, 
ivithout a view to fatire. It was a foolery pradisM at city-emertaln- 
snents, whilft the yefier or Zany was in vogue, for him to jump into 
a large deep caftant; fet for the purpofe, to fet on a quantity of 
barren fpe^ators to laugh ; as our poet fays io his Hamlet. I do not 
advance this without fume authority : and a quoution from Bttf 
Jonjon will very well explain it. 

He ne'er will be admitted there, where Vennorxfimtt. 
He may> perchance. In tail of a Sherrfff's dinner, 
Skip with a rhyme o*th* table, from new-nothing ^ ■ 
And take his AlmatneJeap into a cufiard. 
Shall make my Lady Mayorefs and her fifters 
I.augb all their hoods over their ihouidei^.«r— ^ 

DemTi to jSft, A^ t, St. I* 
of 



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All's well, that Ends -welf; S|4ff 

«ftne» theve can be no kernel in thk light ant: the 

' ifoul of this man is his clothes. Truft him not in 

onatter of heavy confeqaence:: I have kept of them 

tame, and know their natures. Farewel, Monfieur, I 

have fpoken better of you, than you have or will 

i idefenre at ti^ hand, but we onafi do g«od againft 

I eeviL X^^'^ 

I Far* An idleXord, I fwear.— — ' 

4 :Ber. I thbkib^ 

J Far. Why, do^yoniksow him'i • 

"T JBer» Yes, I do know lum well* and common ijpee<4i 
Cives him a worthy pafs. Here comes my clog. 

£nter Htienz. 

4 '^l' I have, Sir, as I was commanded from yoo^ 

] Spoke with the King, and have procured his leave 
l^or pret'.^t jlLrting ; only, lHe.<le£res 
Some private fpeech with you. 
Ber. I fliall Ol)ey liis will. 
i Vovt-muik not marvel, HeleM, at my courTe, 
H Which 'holds not colour with the time ; nor doef 
t;l .The miniilration and acquired office 
h On my particular. Prepared I was not 
t For fuch a bufineft ; therefore am I found 
I ."So much nnfettled : this drives me to intreat yoo^' 
'sf That prefently you take your way for home. 
And rather mnfc, than afk, why 1 intreat you $ 
For my refpe^s arel>ecter than they fcem. 
And my appointments have in them a need 
heater than (hews itfelf at the firft view. 
To yoii that know them not. This to my mother. 

iGi'vinga ktUfl 
^Twill be two days ere I (hall fee yo«, fo 
1 leave you to your wifdom. 

HeL Sir, 1 can nothing fay, 
But that I am your moft obedient fervant* 
Ber. Come, conle, no more of that. 
Hel. And ever fliall 
With true obfervance feek to eke out th^t, 
Wherein towVd mc my homely fiars have failed 



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j^ All's well, that Ends welL 

To equal my great fortune. 

Bit. Let that go-: 
tMy hafte is irer)r great.* f arewel ; hie home*, 

Hel, Pray, Sir, yourpardoiK 

Ser. Well, what would you fay ? 

HeL I am not worthy of the wealth I owe; 
I^or.dare I fay, 'tis mine, and yet it is ; 
But, like a tim'rouMhief, moft fain would ftes^ 
What law does vouch mine own. 

£er. What would you have ? 

Hel. Something, and fcarce fi> much-— ^notli}n|^ 
indeed—*— 
1 would not tell you what I would, myLord^'fsath, yet: 
^Strangers and foes do funder, and notUfs. 

J5#r. I pray you, ftay not ; but in hafte to horfe. ^ 

HeL (26) I ihall not break your bidding, good mf 
Lord : 
Where are my other men'? Monficur, farewel. [MxH. 

JSer. Go thou toW'rd home, where I will never como^ 
Whilfl I can (hake my fword, or hear the drum : 
Away, and for our flight. 

Par. Bravely, couragio ! [Exeujif^ 

(a6) Hel. T /bail not hreakyour bidding, goodf^Ldrde 

Where arc my other men ? Monfieur, farewel, 
Ber. Go tbou toward home, where I will never eome,"] 
Whit other men is Helen here enquiring after ? or who is Ihe fuppoiM 
to a/k for them ? The old Countefs, 'tis certain, did not fend her to 
the court without Tome attendants : but neither the Clown, nor any 
of her retinue, are now upon the fiage ! I have not difturb'd the 
text, tho* 1 fufpeA, the lines ihould be thus pUc*d, and pointed. 
Ber, fn>ere are ny other men, Mmfieur /—[To Par.'i Farew^ t 

[To HeL who goes out. 
Co tbou towards bomet'—'wberi I See* 
Bertram, obferving Helen to linger fondly, and wanting to fhift her 
off, puts on a ihew of hafle, aiks ParoUa for his fenraats, and this 
gins hit wife an abrupt diiJBu0k»ii« 



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ACT 



All's well, that En d^ well* 49 



ACT III. . ' 

S C £ N £, the Duke's Court in Florence. 

Thurtjh. Enter the Duke so/'Florcncci tvo9 French Lords^ 
*witb/cldiefs. 

Duke. 

SO ihatv from point to point, now have you heard 
The fundamental reafons of this war, 
Whofe jreat decifion hath much blood let forth* 
And more thirds after. 

1 Lord. Hol/^eems the quarrel 
Upon^our Grace's part; but black and fearful 
On^he oppofer. 

Duke. Therefore we marvel miUch, our coufm Frand 
Would, in fo juft k buiinefs, (hut his bpfom ' 
Againft our borrowing prayers. 

2 Lord, Good my Lord, 

The reafons of our ftate I cannot yield. 

But like a common and an outward man. 

That the great figure of a council frames 

By felf-unabled motion ; therefore dare not *^ 

Say what I think of it, fince I have foand 

My felf in my inceriain grounds to fail 

As often as 1 gueft. 

Duke. Be it his pleafure. 

2 L6rd But I am fure, the younger of our nationf 

That furfeit on their eafe, will day by day 
Come here for phyfick. 

Duke, Welcome fliall they be : 
And ail the honours, that can fly from us. 
Shall on them fettle. You know your places well. 
When better fall, for yoiir avuih they fell j 
To-morrow, to the fiwld. fZf.i- '^j*. 



50 At-t's well, that Ends well. 

SCENE changes to RouftUon^ in I^ranct. 
Enter Coimtefs, 4md Clown. 

tkunt.'T^ hath happened, all as I would have had it; 
JL ^ave, that he comes not along with her. 

Clo, BjT my troth, I take my young Lord to be a 
^rery melancholy man. 

Count* By what obfenrancey I pray you ? 

do. Why, he will look upon, his boot, andfingi 
mend his ruiF, and fing ; afk queflions, and iing ; pick 
his teeth, and fing. f knew a man that had this trick 
of melancholy, fold a goodly manor for a fong. 

CaiHt. Let me fee what he writes, and when he meant 
to come. [Reads the Letter. 

Clo, I have «o tnind to JJbeU Ance I was at courts 
Cur old ling, and our IJbels o'th' country, are nothing 
like your old ling, and your JJBels o'th' court : the 
brain of my Cupids knock'd out ; and I begin to love, 
as an old man loves money, with no fiomach. 

Count. ^ What have we here ? 
.do. E'en that yon have there. [Exk* 

Coutrtefs reads a Letter. 

1 ban)e fent you a daughter -in^ann : fie hath recovered 
the Kingj and undone me. I have ^wedded her^ not bedded 
her \ andpworn to make the not efemal. Ton fiall heart 
I am run auuay ; knofw //, before the report come. If there 
be breadth enough in th^ tworJdp I ivW hold a long difiancem 
Mj duty to you* 

Tour w^ortunaiefon^ 

Bertranu 

This is not well, raih and unbridled boy. 
To fly the favours of fo good a king, 
To pluck his indignation on thy head ; 
By the niifpri^ing of a maid, too virtuous 
For the contempt of empire. 



All^s vtdU that Ei^DS well. Qi 

He-entirClown. 

iHb, (y Madatn> yonder is heavy neivs Within be« 
tween two foldier s and my yoang Lady. 

CoHtti. What is the matter f 

Cic. Nay, there is fome comfort in the news, fome 
comfort ; yofaf fon wiH not be killM fo foon as I 
thought he would. 

Counf. Why (hould he be killM f 

Cio. So fay I^ Mada^^ if he run away^ as I hear he 
does ; the danger is in ftanding to't ; that's the iofs of 
inen, though it be the getting of children. Here 
they come, will tell you more. , for my part, I only 
hear> your fon was riin away. 

Enter Helena and two Gtntlimen\ 

1 Cen^ Save yoti; good Madam. 

HeL Madam, my Lord> is gone, for ever gone.— • 

2 Gen, Do not fay fo. 

Count. Think upon patience : *pray you. Gentlemen^' 
I've felt fo many qtkirks of joy and gHef^ 
That the firft face of neither, on the fbrt, 
Can woman me unto*t. Where is my fon ? 

2 Gen. Madaiii, He*8 gohe to ferve the Duke offUfenal 
We met Jiim thitherward, from thence we came; 
And ^fter fome difpatch in hand at court. 
Thither we bend a^ain. 

Hel, Look on his letter, Madam; here's my pafF* 
port. 

IVhen thorn ca^fl get thi ring upon myjinger^ tvbicb m^ 
fver. JhaU come off\ and Jhew me a child begotten of 
thy body that I am fathef tOf then call me hujband: 
but infuch 4 then / write a never. 
This is a dreadful fentcnce. 
. Coun$. Brought you this letter^ Gentlemen ? 

1 Gen, Ay, Madam^ ahd^ for the contents fake^ 
are forry for our pains. 

Count. I pr'yihee, Ladjr, have a better cheer* 
If thou engrofleft all the griefs ^s thine. 



J5a All's well, that Ends wcJU 

'tkou robb'ft me of a moiety : he was my (on, 
^ But I do wa(h his name out <if my blood, 
And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he? 

•2 Gen. Ay, Madam. 

Count, And to be a foldier ? 

2 Gen. Such is his noble :purpofe ; and, believe't. 
The Duke will lay upon him all the honour 
That good convenience claims,' 

Count, Return you thither ? , 

I Gen, Ay, Madam, with the fwifteft wing of fpced. 

*flir/. '7/7/ / Jbatje no ivj/e, I have nothing in Prance. 
*Tis bitter. [Reading, 

Count, Find you that there ? 

*HeL Yes, Madam. 

1 Gen, 'Tis but the boldnefs of his hand, happ'Iy, 
which his heart was not confenting to. 

Count. Nothing in France^ until he have no wife ? 
There's nothing here, that is too good for him^ 
But only fhe ; and fiie deferves a Lord, 
That twenty fuch rude boys might tend upon* 
And call her hourly miftrcfs. Who was with him ? 

I Gen, A fervant only, and^a gentleman^ 
Which I have fome time known. 

Count, Pareiiest was't not ? 

1 Gen, Ay, my good Lady, he. 

Count, A very tainted fellow, and full of wickednefs : 
My fon corrupts a well-derived nature 
With his inducement. 

' 1 Gen.Xzy) Indeed, good Lady, the fellow has a 

deal of that too much, which holds him much to have; 

Count, Y'are welcome. Gentlemen ; I will intreat 

you, when you fee my fon, to tell him, that his fword 

(17) Tfidfpd good Lat^y, the fellow has a deal of that too much, 
v/hicb boldt b'm much to baie.] This is fcmcwhat obfcure in the ex- 
prefllon ; but the meaning muft be this, The fellow, indeed, has 
a deal tio much vanity,'lying, boaflttng; but it holds him much to 
b^ve foch qualities; i, e. it ftandaliim i'n.great (ifad, is of great 
fervice t6 hirp, and what h* cannot do wi.thpqt', Fcr tbcfe were thtf 
arts thai Par»Iles ufed to get ipto Bertratf^y favour j and when once 
they weredifcover*d, he was ftt a-drift, and un^ionct 

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All*s well, that Ehds wclL 53 

can never win the honour that he lolei : more Til in* 
treat yoo written to bear along. 

2 Gen, We ierve you. Madam, in that and all your 
worthieft affairs. ' 

Count. Not fo, but as we change ouf courtcfies. ^ 
Will you draw near ? [Exeunt Count, and Genthmin. 

Hcl.' ^Tilll have no naife^ I have nothing in France. 
Nothing in France^ until he has no wife ! 
Thou fhalthave none, Rou/iUoit, none in France \ 
Then haft thou all again. Poor Lord ! is't 1 
That chafe thee from thy country, and expofe 
Thofe tender limbs of thine to the event 
Of the none-fparing war ? and is it I, 
That drive thee from the (portive court, where thoa 
Waft (hot at with fair eyes, to be the mark 
Of fmoaky mufkets ? O you leaden meftengers. 
That ride upon the violent fpeed of fire. 
Fly with falfe aim ; move the ftill piercing air. 
That fings with piercing, do not touch my Lord : 
Whoever ihoots at him, I it\ him there. 
Whoever charges on' his forward breaft, 
I am the caitiff, that do hold him to it ; 
And tho' I kill him not, I am the canfe 
His deatii w^ fo effe^ed. Better 'twere, 
I m^ the rav'ning lion when he roar'd 
With fharp conftraint of hunger : better 'twere. 
That all the miferies, which Nattu-e owes. 
Were mine at once. No, come thoa home, RoufiBon^ 
Whence honour but of danger wins a fear ; 
As oft it lofes all. I will be gone : 
My being here it is, that holds thee hence. 
Shall I ftay here to do't ? no, no, although 
The air of Paradife did fan the houfe, 
And angels officM aill ; I will be gone : 
That pitiful rumour may report my flight. 
To confolate thine ear. Come, night ; end, day ! 
For with the dark, poor thief, Pll fteal away. lExit* 



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54 AiL*s well, that Endsi well. 

SCENE changes to the Duke's Court ia 

Flonnce. 

fkvrifr, JSfiter tht Duki of Floreiice, Bertram, Drum 
andTrumpeis^ SoUiers, Pargllcs. 

Dtf^^.'T^H E general of oar horfe thou art, and we^ 
X Great in car hope, lay our beft love and 
Upon thy promifing, fortune. [credere* 

Ber. Sir, it is 
A charge too heavy for my ftrengtb ; but yet 
We'll ftrive to bear it for your worthy fajccji 
To th* extreme edge of hazard. 

Duki, Then go forth, 
And fortune play upon thy profp^rous hxXm, 
As thy aufpieious miftrefs I 

Btr. This very day, 
Great H^/, I put myfelf into thy £le; 
Make me but iike my thoughts, and I fliall prove - - 
A lover of thy drum ; hater of love, \lMiwU$ 

SCENE changes to Roujillon in Frantic 

Enter Countefs and Steward. 

€ount. A Las ! and would you take the letter of her I . 
jHL Might you not know, ftie would do,, as fti^ 
has done. 
By fending me a letter ? R'ead it again. 

LETTER. 

I am St. Jaques^ pilgrim, thither gone % 

Ambitious love hath fo in me o^ended> 
That bare- foot plod I the cold ground upOfi, 

With fainted vow my faults to have amended. 
Write, write, that from the bloody courfe of war 

My deareft mafter, your dear fon, may hie ^ 
B^lefs him at home in p6ace, whilft I from far ' 

fiis n^me with zealous fervour fandify. 



' All's welt, that Ends wc1I> / 55 

His taken labours bid him me forgive ; 

I, his defpightful Junc^ fent him forth 
From courtly friends, with camping foes to live ; 

Where death and danger dog the heels 6f worths ^ 
He is too good and fair for death a»d.ine» 
Whom I rcyfelf embrace, to fet him free. 

Ah, what fharf) llings are in her miWeft wotds ? 
Mynafdo^ jcti did never lack advice fo mnch. 
As letting her pafs fo ; had I fpoke with her, 
I cold have well diverted her intents. 
Which thus fhe hath prevented. 

Stenv. Pardon, Madam,' • 
If I had given you this at over-night 
She might have been o'er^ta'cn ; and yet (he writes, - 
Purfuit would^e but vain. 

CotMt. What angel fliall 
Blefs this unworthy hufhand ? he cajinot thrive,. 
Unlefs her prayers, whom Heav'n delights to hear^ . 
And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wf ath 
Of greateftjuftice. Write, write, Rynaldo^ 
To' ihis unworthy hufhand of his wife; ; 
Let every word weigh hcivy of her worth. 
That he does weigh too light : my greateft grief> 
Tho' little he do feel it, fet down iharply. 
Difjatch the mofl convenient melTenger ; , 
When, haply, he ihall hear that fhe is gon«. 
He will return \ and hope I may, that Ihe, 
Hearing fo much, will fpeed her foot again, 
Led hither by pure love. Which of them bothf- . 
Is dearefl to be, I'ye no fkill in fenie . 1 

To make diftindion ; provide this meflengei:; 
My heart is heavy, and mine age is weak ; 
Grief would have tears^ and torrow bids me fpeak. 



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S6 All's well, that Ends well. 

SCENE changes to a publick place in Fhrenei. 

A Tucket afar off. 

Bntif MM M mnsfoyf rf Florence, Diaira, ViolcnU, aui 
Mariana, with other cithuns, 

l^i^.T^T A y, come. For jf they do approach the 
X\l city, we fiialt lofe all the fight. 

T>ia. They fay, the French Count has done moft ho- 
nourable kxvvx, 

Wid. Itbreported» thathe has ta'cn their greatcft 
cominan^er ; and that with his own hand he flew the 
Duke's brother. . We have loft oar labour, they are 
gone a contrary way : hark, you may know by their 
trumpets. 

mar. Come, let's return again, and ftiffice oqrfelf«s 
with the report of.it. Well, Diana^ uke heed of this 
French Earl ; the honour of a maid is her name, and nO 
legacy is fo rich as honeHy. 

ff^id. I have told my neighbour, how you have been 
foUicited by a gentleman his companion. 

Mar. I know that knave, (hang him!) one Parolles; 
a filthy o^cer he is in thofe fuggeilions for the young 
Earl ; beware of them, Dtana ; (a8) their promifes, 

(7^) Their pr«mifei, entUemtnts, oathg, tokens, and all tbefe en£h/t 
ofUJl, are not the things they go nndrr;] i.e. They are not in 
reality fo trne »nd fincere, as in appearance they feem to be. Thti. 
vf!)l be beft explained by another paflage in Uamlet, wkere Pohniai it 
counfelling hU daughtei. 

. . I do know, 

When tbe blood burns, how proc^igal tlie foul 
Lends the tong;ae tows« Thefe Classes, oh, my daughter. 
Citing more light than heat, extin£^ in bctk 
Ev*a in their promifc as it it t making, 
TW wttfi not take for Jire, 

———111 few, OpheTta^ 
Pa not beliere his vows, for they arc brrkert 
J^ot of that dye which their inxtepmenti fliew, 
But mere implorers r^^ unholy fuits. 
Breathing, like fan^lificd and holy bawds, 
The better to beguile* 

cnticcmepts* 



All's well, that Ends well. sf 

enticements^ oaths, tokens, and all thefe engines of* 
luft, are not the things they go under; many a maid 
hath been feduced by them, and the mifery is, exam- 
ple, that (o terribly ihews in the wreck of maidenhood,, 
nnot for all that difTaade fucceflion, but that they 
Hmed with the twigs that threaten thehi. I hope, 
ed not to advife you further ; but, I hope, your 
grace will keep you where you are, tho* there 
; no further danger known, but the modefty which 
loft. 
z. You ihall not need to fear m^. 

Enter Helena, dtfguu^d likeji Pilgrim ; 

.nd. I hope fo. Look, here comes a Pilgrim ; I 

low, fhe will lie at my houfe ; thither they fend one ■ 

oth^r ; ril queftion her : God fave yoa, pilgrim ! 

lither are you boand ? 

HeL To St. Jacques le Grand. Where do the Palmers ' 

Ige, I do beftech you ? 

fFid, At the St. Francis, befide the port, 

Hil. Is this the way ? [J march afar of, 

Wid. Ay, marry, is^t. Hark you, they come this way.. 
If you will tarry, holy Pilgrim, but 'till the troops 
come by, 

1 will condufl you where you (hall be lodg'd ; 
The rather, for, I think, I know yourhodefs 
As ample as my (elf. 

HeL Isitypurfelf? 

^/^. 'IfyouflikUpleare fo, Pilgrim. 

Hcl. I thank you,.'and will flay upon yourleifure. 

Wid, Vou came, I think, from Traust P - 

Hel I did fo, 

WiJ. Here you Aiall fee a countryman«of yoors, . 
i That has done worthy fcrvice. 

HeL His name, I pray you ? : 

Dia, The Count Roujillcn : know you fuch a one .^ 

HeL But by the ear, that hears moft nobly of him ;> 
His face I know not. 

Dia^ Whatfoe^er he is^ 
He's bravely taken here. He RoU bC:x^ France, 

Cs A%^ 



^8 Alii's well, that Ends well* 

As 'tis reported ; for the King had fliaiikd him 
Again ft his liking. Think yon, it is fo ^ 

HeL Ay, furejy, mere the truth i I know kis Lady, 

Di^. There is a Gentleman, that fervcs the County 
Reports bat coarfely of her. 

Hel. What's his nanac ? 

Dia, Monfieur P«frf/Zr/» 

Hel. Oh, 1 believe with him^ 
In argument of praife^ or to the worth 
. Of the great Count himfelify ihc is too mean 
To have her name repeated ; all her defervin|» 
Is a Yt(tr\t6. honeftyj and that 
1 have not heard examined. 
' Dia. Alas, poor Lady t 
^is a hard bondage^ to become the wife 
Of a deteAing Lord. 

Wid. Ah I right J good creature I wherefoe'er flie Jf„ 
Ifer heart weighs fadly ; this young maid migbt do het 
Aihrewd turn, if (he pleas'd. 

HeL How do you mean ? 
May bcj t^ie am'rous Coimt follicits her 
In the unlawful purpofe. 

Wid. He docs, indeed ;^ 
And brokes with all, that can in fuch a fuit 
Corrupt the tender honour of a maid ; 
But (he is arm'd for him, and keeps her guard 
In honeflell defence. 

Drum and CoUwrs. Enter Bertram, Parolles, Ojpan 
and SMiers attending. 

Mar, The gods forbid elfe 1 

J^/d, ' So, now they come : 
That is Antonio, the Duke's elded fon ; 
Tb3it E/calus. 

HeL Which is the Frencbuj^n ? 

Dia. He« 
That with the plame ; ^tis a mod gallant fellow ; 
I would, he lov'd his wife ! if he were honefter, 
He were much goodlier. Is't not a handfome gentleman 1 

UiL I like him welL 

Dia. 



All^s welf, that Ends well. 59 

Dia. Tis pity, he is not honeft ; yond's that fama' 
knave, (29) 
That leads him to thefe paces ; were IhifLady, 
I'd poifbn that vile rafcal. 

Hel. Which is he ? 

Dia. That jack-an-apcs With ff affs." Why is he me* 
lancholy ? 

HeL Perchance, he's hurt i' th' battle* 

Par, Lofe our drum t well.- 

Mar» He's fiirewdly vex'd at fomething. Look, he 
has fpied us. 

WU. Marry, hang you f J[Ex$imt Ber. Par. ife. 

Mar, And your curtefy, for a ring^-carrier !— 

^/i/.The troop is paft i come. Pilgrim, I wiilliringyou^ 
Where you fliall hod : Of injoyn'd penitents 
There's four or five, to great St. Ja^^s bounds 
Already at my houfe. 

HeL T humbly thank yowr 
Pleafe it this matron, and this gentle maid 
To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking: 
Shall be for me t and to requite you further/ 
I will beflow fomc precepts on this virgin 
Worthy the note. 

Beth. We'll take yous offer kindly. \ExtuHr. 

Enter Bertram, and the Pvto French Lords. 

1 Lard, N'ayy good my Lord, put him to^t :: let him;' 
have his way, 

2 Lord, If yobr Lordihip £nd him not ahiMing> hold! 
me no more in your refped. . . ,. 

1 Lord, On my life, my Lord, a biri>b]e« 

'Ber. Do yod think, I am fo far deceiv'd in him ^ ,; 

(*9) '^Tond't that fame ftUaWt • 

7'bai Uadt bim to tbtfe Place*. J What fla:eif Hie Jid not I 

lead htm to be gentrai of horfe oader the Duke of Florence, fures 

Nor have they been talking of brothels ; or, indeed, any particular' 

Locality. I make no queftion, but our aothor wrote j ■ '" 

Tbat ieaJt bim to tbefe paceSk 
K e. to fuch irregular^ fteps, to courfes of debauchtry, toi not lovinf^ 

C 6 1 Lttr<^ 



^p All^s wrfl, that Ends welL 

i Lord. Believe it, my Lord, in mine own direft 
knowledge, without any malice, but to fpeak of hnn 
as my kinfman ; he's a mofl notable coward, an in- 
finite and endlefs liar, an hourly pro mife- breaker, the 
owner of 'no one good quality worthy your Lord(hip*S' 
* entertainment. 

1 Lord, It were fit you knew him, leH;, repofingtoo 
far in his virtue, which he hath not, he might at fomev 
great and trulfy buftnefs irt a main danger fnl you. 

Ber, I wottld„ 1 knew in what particular adion to 
tfy him. 

2 Lord. None better than to let him fetch off hi» 
drum ; which you hear him fo confidently undertake 
to do. 

I L^rd. I, with a troop of Florentinety will fuddenly 
furprize him ; fuch I will have, whom,. I am fure, he 
knowp nqt firom the enemy : we will bind ^ and hood- 
wink him fo, that he fhall fuppoie no other but that- 
ht is carried into the leaguer of the advcrfaries, when 
jve bring him to our own tents ; be but your Lordfhip 
prefent at his examination, if he do not tof the promife 
of his life, and in the higheft compulfion of bale fear,, 
offer to betray yo», sfki deliver all the intelligence in 
his power againft you, and that with the divine forfeit 
of ^is foal upon oath9. never inift my judgment in aay 
thing. 
/ 2 f^d, O, for the k>ve of laughter, let kinv fetch 
Ais ^tvtiOfk I hie %Si be has a ftratagen^ Cor'i -^ (30). whf n. 

yow*. 

(30) Whin your tdr^Jhtfifies tht loftam of h}s fuccefs im*t, and to 
^h^t mitwi tb'a counterfeit hmp of •ore will be melted, if you give him 
f§$ John DnsmV tnttnaitment, yeni' incrming cannot be rento-u*J,]l 
fofijeftaiM,— tbit counterfeit lamp 4f osr^ when \. publilh*d my 
SlIAKisrvAKE reJUr'^ds Thus it bean a confbnancy with the otber 
>icrf&s iccompanyinf , (ids. metal, Inmpt and wulted) and helps ch« 
,*yf9pricty. of tb^ Poet*s thought & For fo one metaphor is kept up, 
411^ all the words are proper and fuitable to it. But, what is the 
s^aiiiag of JvbnDrum* 9 entertainment ? Lafeu feytral times afccr- 
Wtrds calls fmrolUi, ^Tom Drum, Bot tbc difference of tha Chf ifUan. 
name will make none in the explanation. There is an old motley 
lac«tM!S> (ipriatei ia ^fj caU*d y^ik Dram't tnt^uinrntut y ov 

ihA 



All's welK that Ends well. 6x 

yont Lordihip fees the bottom of his fuccefs in't, tnd 
to what metal this counterfeit lump of oar will be 
melted, if yott give him not yoJbn Drum*s entertain* 
menty your inclining cannot be removed. Here he 
comes. 

Eater Parolles. 

1 Lor J. O, for the. love of laughter, hinder not the 
humour of his defign, let him fetch off his drum in an/^ 
hand. 

£er. How now, Moniieur? this drum fiicks forely in* 
your difpofition. 

2 Lord, A pox on^y let it go, 'tis hpt a driim. 

Par, But a drum ! is't but a drum ? a dram fo loft ! 
there was excellent command ! to charge in with oar 
horfe upon our own wings^ and to fend our own M- 
diers. 

2 Lori^, That was not to be blamed in the con^. 
mand of the fervice ; it was a difaller in war that C^Jkr 

the Comrdy of Pafyuatl zad Katiarhn, In tbt», Jack Drum is a fer* 
vant of intrigue, who ii ever aiming at proje^» and alwayt foiTd, 
and given the drop. And there if another old piece (publiih*d in 
16x7} calPd AroLio, Jbrovine, in which I And theie expreflioDs. 

^hunger. Thou L :zeJ, harh Shg infe£led you ?- 

Why do you give fuch kind entei tainment to that tobweb^' 

Seopas. It ihall have Tern Drum\ entertainment j 1 flap with ^. 
fux-tai). 
B«t both tbefe pieces are, perhaps, too fate In time, to come to the 
afliftsnce of our author : fo we muft Jook 1 little higher. What it. ' 
faid here to Btrtram is to this eflfedl. <* Mv Lord, as yon bare taken 
** thia fellow [Parolles] into fo neara confidence, if, upon his beings- 
« found a counterfeit, you don*t cafheer hioo fronn your farour^ then 
*' your attachment i» not to be remov'd**. — Vll now fubjoin a 900*. 
talioo from Hotrtng/bed, (of whofe books Sbakeffnare was a moft di]i« 
wi'l pretty well afcertain Drum^t hiftory. Thi 



g^t reader) wbicb wi'l pretty well afcertain Drum\ hiftory. This 
chroBologer^.sn bis defcription of /rr/oM/, fpeakingof^u/nViSciir/r* 
field, (Mayor of Dublla in the year 1551) and of his extravagant hoU 
pitality, fubjoins, that no gueft had ever a cold or forb dding look 
from any part of his family : fo that bhpor/er, or any other offitert 
durftnotffor botb'bh ears, pve the fimpleji man^ that refirted to brr^ 
boufe, Tom Drum*8 entertainment, which is, to hale a maaioby* 
tb( ikzti^ aa4 thruft hio) Ajat by bptk the ihctoi4erf . . 



C^ AllV wcH, that Enm wel?^ 

himfelf could not have pievcatr^^ if ^e hdd beet 
there to command* 

Bir. Well, we cannot grealtly condemn oar (uccefs ; 
ftffttt diftonoor we had in the lofs of diat dnmi, but 
it is not to be recovered. 

Par. It might have been recoVer'd, 

J/r. It lisightt but it it net now.^ 

Par. It is to be reooTcr'd i bot that the merit 6l 
l^rvice is ieldom attributed to the true and cxaA per« 
former, I woold have diatdriim or another, or iic 
Jacet"-^^ 

Ber. Why, if yQB have a floniach to't, Monfienr; if 
you think your myfiery in ^titz^juti can brin^ this in* 
nrament of honour agsdn into his native quarter, be 
sn^naniAOtts in the enterprise and go on ; I will grace 
the attempt for a worthy exploit : if yoa fpeed wdl in 
it, the Duke fhall both fpeak of it, and extend to yon 
what further becomes his greatneft,^ even to the ntmod 
i^llable of your worthinefs. 

Par, By the hand of a foldier, I writ undertake it. 

Ber.^ Bat you mull not now dumber in ic. 

Par. V\\ about it this evening; and I wilJ prefently 
pen down my dilemma's, encourage myfelf in my cer- 
tainty, put myielf into my mortal preparation ; and, 
by midnight, look to hear further from me. 

Ber, May I be bold to acquaint hrs Grace, yoa ar^ 
gone about it? • 

Par: I know not what the fuccefs wiH be, my Lord j 
but the attempt I vow. 

Bsr^ I know, thwart valiant; and to the poffibility of 
thy foldierfhip, will fubfcribe for thee 5 fareweh 

,Par. I love not many words. [ExiK 

.1 Lor J. No njore than a fi(h loves water.' Is no.t 
this a ilrange fellow, nry Lord, that fo confidently 
feems to undertake this bufmefs, which he knows is 
not to be done; damns himfdf to do it, and dares bet- 
ter be damn'd than to do't ? 

2 Lord, You do not know him, my Lord, as we doj 
certain it is, that he will Ileal himfelf into a man's fa- 
vour, and for a week efcape a great deal of difco- 
5 veriesf 



teries ; but when yon'fitid htln oat» yoa hare Mia ever 

after. 

Ber. Why, do vo» think, h^ will ittake no deed at 
all of thb» that i» Jfefioofiy he does addrefs himfelf 
unto? 

2 Lord. None in tbe 1^^1(1^ bat retttrn With an in. 
vention» and cla{> ojpOB you two or thrbe probable lies^; 
but we have almoft imbofs'd him, yon (hall fee his fall 
to-night; for, indeed, he ia itot for your Lordfhip's 
Tcfp^* 

1 Lord, We*ll make yon Come fport with the foxv 
ere we cafe him. He was fir ft unoakM by the Old 
Lord La/eu ; wben hU difgttife and he i& parted, telt 
3ne what a fprat yoa fhall find him^ which yon fhall {be> 
this vejcy night. 

zLprd. 1 mod go and look xay twigs ^ he fhall be 
e^ght. 

£er. YoKT brother he (hall go along with me, 

2 f,ord. As't pleafc your Lordlhip. V\\ leave yoti. 

[Ex/u. 

^er. Now wiM I kad yon to the houie, and ihew yoa 
The lafs I fpoke of. 

J Lord. Bat you fay, fhc*s honeft* 

Ber. That's all the fi^alt : T fpoke with her biK once. 
And found her wondrous cold ; but 1 fent to her,. 
By this fame coxcon»b that we have i' th^ the wind. 
Tokens and letters, which flie did refend ? 
And this is all I've done : ihe's^ fair creature. 
Will you go fee her f 

I Lord. With all my heart, my Lord. [Exeunt, 

SCENE changes to the Widow's Hotife. 

Enter Helena, and IFidonv. 

Hel.T? you mifdodbt tne that I am not (he, 

X 1 know not, how I fhall allure you further. 
But 1 fhall lofe the grounds I work upon. 

^id. Tho' my eftate be fallen, I was well born. 
Nothing ac^ainted with tbefe bufmeffes. 



64 ALt.*s w^V that Ends well. 

And would not put my reputation now 
In tny ftaining a£i. 

HeL Nor would I wifK you. 
FirH, givemetruft, the Count he is m/. Imfband^ 
And what to your (Worn counfel I have (poken. 
Is fb, from word to word ; and then you canabt» 
By the good aid that I of you ihall borrow. 
Err in beftowing it. * 

TFU. I fliould believe you. 
For you have fliewM me that, which well approves 
Y'are great in fortune. 

Hfl, Take this purfe of gold. 
And let me buy your friendly help^hua far. 
Which I will over-pay, and pay again 
Whqn I have found it. The Count wooes your daoghteiv 
Lays down his wanton fiege before her beauty, 
Refolves to carry her ; let her confent. 
As we'll diredl her how 'tis bed to bear it. • . 

Now his important blood will nought deny, 
That fhe'll demand : a ring the Count does wear. 
That downward hath fucceeded in his honTe 
From fon to fon, fome four or five defcents, 
Since th^ firft father wore it This ring he holdi 
In mpil rich choice ; yet in his idle fire. 
To buy his will, it would not feem too dear, 
Howe'cr repented after. 

^U, Now! fee the bottom of your purpofe* 

Jtiel, You fee it lawful then. It is no more> 
But that your daughter, ere (he feems a& won, 
Defires this ring ; appoints him an encounter ; 
Jn fine, delivers me to fill the time, 
Herfelf moil chaftely abfent : after this. 
To marry her. Til add three ihoufand crowna 
To what is paft already. 

Wid. I have yielded : 
Inftruit my daughter how ftie (hall perfevere, 
That time and pjace, with this deceit fo lawful,^ ^ 
May prove coherent. Every night he comes 
With muiick of all forts, and fongs composed : 
"To her unworthineis : it nothing (leads us- 

To: 



All's well, that Ends well. 65 

i'o chide him from our eaves, for he perfifb, 

is if his life lay on't. 

. HeL Why then, to-night 

^et us afiay our plot ; wnich if it fpeed, 

s wicked meanine in a*lawful deed ; 

\nd lawful meaning in a lawfd ad, 

^here both not fin, and yet a ilnful fad. 

Sut let's about it— [Exeuni* 



AC T It. 

S C E N E, part of the Frtmh Camp in FkrmH 

Miter OM of thi French Zar /i, nntthfivi %fjtx SoiMm m 
amhujh. 

Lord. 

HE can come no other way but by this hedge-cor* 
ner; when you (ally upon him, fpeak what ter- 
rible language you will ; though you underftand it not 
yourfelves, no matter ; for we muil not feem to under- 
^nd him, unlefs feme, one amongft us, whom we muft 
produce for an interpreter. 

SoL Good Captain, let me be th* interpreter. 

Lord* Art not acquabted with him? knows he not 
thy voice? 

SoL No, Sir, I warrant you. 

Lord, But what lipfy-woolfy hail thou to fpeak to 
us again I 

SoL Ev'a fuch as you fpeak to me. 

Lord, He muH think us fome band of Grangers i'th* 
adverfaries entertainment. Now he hath a fmack of 
all neighbouring languages, therefore we mufl t^try^ 
one be a man of his own fancy ; not to know what we 
fpeak one to another, fo we feem to know, is to know ^ 
firaigbt our .purpofe; chough's language, gabble 



C6 All's well, that Ends well. 

enough, and good enough. Aa for you, interpreter^ ^ 
you muft fecm very politick. Bite couch, hoa I here \^ 
he comes, to beguile two hours in a ileep, and then 
to yc^urn and {w^ar the lies he forges. 

Enfer ParoUes. 

. Pan Ten a clock; within thefe three hours *twjll 
fee time" enough to go home. What (hall I fay, I have 
done ? it muft be a very plaufible invention that carries 
it. They begin to fmoak me, and difgraces have of 
late knock'd too often at my door; I fmd, ny tongua 
is too fool- hardy ; bat my heart hath the fear of Mars 
before it and of his creatures, not daring the reports of 
my tongue. 

Zflr/. This is the firft truth that e*er thine owa 
tongue was guilty of. [^^» 

Par, What the devil fliould move me to undertake 
the recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the 
impofibility, and knowing I had no fuch purpofe? I 
mufl give myielf fome hurti!» and fay, I got them, io 
exploit'; yet flight ones 'will not carry it. They will 
lay, came you off Avith fo little ? and great ones J dare 
upt give ; wherefore what's the inftance ? (3 1) Tongue, 

(31) Ton^uit Itnufl put y9u hto a buittr tuowmnU mouthy ^nd huy • 
fnyplfMtotkero(Bi}aiztt's mule, i/yw prattle me into tbefe perils,] yflfhy 
of Bajazet*s mule, any more than any other mule ? Is there any par* 
ticuUr conceit, any P cry on record, by which that £mperor*t mule 
is fignalix'd ? If thcte be, I fineely ow» my ignomnce. Tho* I have 
not alter*d the textj^ Mr. WarburtM concurred with ne in thinking 
that the Poet probably wrote ; 

,-.^m^ani buy wtyfeif atntbtr 0/ Bajazet*« m«t»^ 
Le. of a Turki/b mute, $0 in Henry V, 

Either oor hiftory fliall witb/ari/ moutk^ 

Spesk freely o# our ad*; or clfe tmr grave, 
• Like Turk^ mute, ihaJI have %49nguelep momtb^ See* 

Befl4et, as my friend obferved to me, tiM anitthcfit between a tuiter- 
wmam and a mute it tolerably well. If theft be any 4 flieuHy i€- 
aiaiof, it is to know, why tfie Poet hat ohefen to fay BajaxeCt 
anute* To this it may be anfwered, that Bajaztt the Great, (who 
vat at bft overthrown by Tamerlani }) by hit prodigioot exploits be* 
«MBing very famoot, for a long time after, amoiigll u» Eurepeamp 
bit fuccefibra were called bf his naflu^ wkea they were %oke of. 



All's well, that Ends welt. &y 

I maft pat you into a butticNwoxhan's mouth, atid bu^ 
my k\£ 2Lnotiep'o( Ba/atui^s moky if you prattle me in- 
to thefe perils. 

Lor^f. Is it poffibk> he fliould know what he is* and 
be that he is ? [jf/U^. 

Par. I would, the catting of my gafihents would 
ferve the turn, or the breaking of my Spanifi fword. \ 

Lord, We cannot afford you To. [JJtde^ 

Par^ Or the baring of my beard, and to fay, it was^ 
in flratagem. 

Lord. 'Twould not do. [Jfide^ 

Par. Or to drown my cIoatb»> and &y, I was flript. 

hvrd. Hardly ferve. [Jfide. 

Par. Thoifgh I fWdre, I IcapM from the windovy of 
the citadel— - 

Lord. How deep ? [4fide* 

Par, Thirty fathom. 

Lord. Three great oaths would fcarce make that be 
believed. [uifide^ 

Par. I would I had any drum of the enemies ; I 
would fwcari I recovered it. 

J^^M You (hftli hear one atiini. [Jjfde» 

,Par. jA drum now of the enemies ! [A/arm nvitbin*^ 

Lord. Throco movou/ust cargo^ cargo^ cargo. 

jilL Cargo, ^argo, njoUiakda par corhoy catgo. 

Par. O ranfom, ran Tom : — do not hide mine eyes. 

[^^^y M^ ^'« ^^^ blindfold binit» 

Inter » Bojkoi thromvldo bojkos. 
\Ptfr. I kiJow, );ou Arc the JWi^i?j regiment, 
And I (hall-lofe my life for Want of language. 
If there be here GermaM, or Dane, low DuUb, 
Jtalian, or French, let him fpeak to me, 
ril difcover that 'which (hall Undo the Flotentine. 

Initr. B^MiMu^vado ; I undcrftand thee, and caa 
fpeak thy tongue ; Kereiy6onto,'-'''*Siry betake thee ta 
thy faith, for ^ventecn poniards are at thy bofom* 

^or. Ohr 

/nt. Oh, pray, pra^, prayi 



£8 All's wetl, that Ends well. 

L^rd. OJceonii dulcbos <oelivoree. 

Int. The General is coBtent to fpare th^e yet, 
An3, hood-winkt as thou art, will lead thee on 
To gather from thee. Haply, thou may 'ft iafom \ 

Something to fave thy life. 

Far. Oh let me live» 
And all the fecrets of our camp i*ll ihew y 
Their force, their purpofcs ; ftay. Til fpeak that ' 
Which you will wonder at. 

Int. But wilt thou faithfully ? 

Par. If I do not, damn me. 

Int. Acwdo linta. 
Come on, thou art granted fpace. ^ Exit* 

Ijfjhrt mlarm ijoithin. 

Lord, Go, tell the Count Rmfiuon and my brother, 
WeVe caught the woodcock, and will keep kirn fltuAcd 
•Till we do hear from them. 

Bol. Captain, I will. 

Lord. He will betray us all unto Ottrfelret« 
Inform 'em that. 

Sol So I will, Sir. 

Lord. 'Till then Til keep him dark and fiifcly lockt. 

SCENE changes to the Widow's Houfes 

Eiaer Bertram, and Diana. 

itr.^^T^ HEY told me, that your name was FontihtU. 
X l^ia. No, my good Lord^ Diana. 

B^. Titled Goddefs,^ 
And worth it with addition ! but, fair foul. 
In your fine frame hath love no quality ? ^ 
If the quick fire of youth light not your mind. 
You are no maiden, but a monument : 
When you are dead, you ihould be fuch a one 
As you are now, for you are cold and ftem ; 
And now you (hould be as your mother was,. 
When your fweet felf was* got. 

Z7/4. She then was hone^. 



AtL*s well, that Ends wdl. 69 

Ser, So ihould you be. 
Via. No. 
My mother did but duty ; Aicbj my Lord, 
As yoo owe to your wife. 
Brr, No more o* that ! 
I pr*ythee» do not ftrive againd my vows : 
I was compell'd to her» but I love thee 
By love's own fweet conftraint, and will for ever 
I>o thee all rights of fervicc. 
Dia* Ay, fo you fervc tis. 
Till we fervc you : but when yoa have oar rofes; 
Yoo barely leave our thorns to prick ourfelves, 
Atid raock us witb our barenefs, 
Ber. How have I fworn ! 

Dia. 'Tis not the many oath«, that make the truth ; 
Bat the plain Angle vow, that is vow'd true ; 
What is not holy, that we fwear not b/. 
But take the digh'il to witoefs : then^ pray tell me. 
If I ihouhl fwear by J^e*s great attributes 
I lov'd you dearly, would you believe mv oaths. 
When 1 did love you iU ? this has no hoidiDg, 
To fwear by him whom 1 proteft to love. 
That I will work againft him. Therefore your oaths 
Are words, and poor conditions but unfealM ; 
At lead, in my opinion. 

Ber. Change it, change it : 
Be not fo holy-cruel. Love is holy. 
And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts. 
That you do charge men with : (land no more oflT, 
But give thyfelf unto my fick defires, 
Which then recover. Say, thou art mine ; and ever 
My love, as it begins, (hall To perfevcre. 

Dia. I fee, that men make hope in fuch affairs 
Tbat^ve'll forfake ourfelves. Give me that ring. 

Ber. ri\ lend it thee, my dear, but have no power 
To give it from xne. 

D/a, Will you not, my Lord ? 
Ber. It is an honour 'longing to pur houfc, 
Bequeathed down from many anceftors ; 
Which were tlic greatell obloquy i'th' world 



7Q ALL^s.wetti that End^ w^li 

Inmetolofe. 

Dia» Mine hononr*s fuCh a ring ; 
My chaility's di^ >ewel of our houfe* 
Bequeathed dbwn from many anceilocs % 
Which were the greateft obloquy i'th* world 
In me to lofe. Thu3 your own proper wifdost^ 
Brings in the champion honour on my part, 
Againft your vain au^ult. 

Bet. Here, take my ring. 
My houfe, my honour, yea> my lift? be,thin09 
And ril be bid. by thee. [window} 

D/a. When midnight comest knock at. my chambei; 
ni order take, my mother (hall not hear. 
Now will I charge you in the band of truth » |i 

When you haye conqupr'd my yet maiden bed, 
Remain there but an hoUr, nor fpeak to met . ^ 

My reafons are mod flrong, and you fliall knowlhenijr 
When back again this ring ihall be delivered j 
And on your finger, in the night, I'll put 
Another ring, that, what in time proceeds, |)l 

May token to the future our paft deeds. 
Adieu, *till then ; then, fail nojt : you have woh 
A wife of mc> tho' there my hope be done. 

Ser. A heav'n on earth I've won by wooing thee. 

Exih 

Dia. For which live long to thank both hcav'« and me* 

You may fo in the end*- 

My mother told me j ufl.hQw he would wpo> 
As if fhe fate in*s heart; fhefays, all men 
Have the like oaths : he had fworn to marry me,. 
When his wife's dead ; therefore I'll lie, with him. 
When I am buried. (32) 31 i nee Frent/^men ^re {q braids 
Marry 'em that will* Td live and di^ a maid ; 

Only, 

{3a). —5/«« Frenchmen «rf/o3rtf it/,' 

Many that will, Vll live and die a maid,]. This is cettamljr 
the nwft cruel refelution, that er^r p«or wench made, \yhat ! bc- 
caufe Frenchmen were falfe. fhff that was ara Jtalnfn, woold matry 
nobody. But it li plain, as refined as this reafoning is, her mother 
diUAut onderiland thedelicacj of iht conclaiiooj for afceiwaTdi 

... flie 



All's well, that Ends well. JH 

nly, in this difguife, I think*t no fin ^ 

o cozen him, ^hat would unjuftly win. Exsfh 

SCENE chtflgea to the Fnmh Camp in 
FUrence. 

Enter the ttvo French Lorilif and two wr three /Mitrs. 

xLord*'^^ O U have not given him his mother^s letter f 
X ^Lord. I have deliver'd it an honrfince; 
fhere is ^omediing in't, that fHngs his nature; for, oiii 
the reading it, he changM almpl^ into another man. 

^i Lord. He has much worthy blame laid upon him. 
for fhaking offfo good a wife, and fo fweet a Lady. 

s Lord. Efpecidly, he hath incttrr'd the everlaiUng 
diipleafure oi the King, who had even tun'dhis bounty 
to' ting happinefs to him. 1 will tell you a thing, butr 
you ihall let it dwell darkly with yoa. 

\ Lord. When you ihave fpoken it, 'tis dead, and I 
am the grave of it. 

2 Lord. He hath perverted a young gentlewoman 
here in Flotence^ of a moil chaile renown i and this 
night he flefhes his will in the fpoil of her honour ; 
he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks 
hiinfelf made in the unchafle compofition. 

\ Lord. Now God delay oar rebellion,; as we are 
onrfelves, what things are wq ! 

2 Lord. Merely our own traitors ; as jn the common^ 

ike comes into Helen's proje£t, on the proiDire of a food round 
^oilv*ry of 3000 crowns, to help her daughter to ,a hufband. In 
tkott, the text isj with'Oot all queflion, corrupted s and we (Bould 
read it thus. 

■ ^ ■ ■ Since Frenchnien anfi Iraid, 
Marry *em that will, Td I'yve end die a maid. 
1. e. iince Frenchmen ^rovt fo crooked and perverfe in their inannersi . 
kt who will marry thexn, |, had rather live and die a maid than 
venture upoA them. This ifhe fays with a view to He/en, who ap- ' 
peared fo fond of her hufband, and went through fo many difficulties 
to obtain him. I dare fay, the fair fex will think this emendation 
moft agreeable to the rulea of iogicki aa well as to the left erring 
dilates of mature. * Mt, H^arlfurtwi. 

' CQtttfc 



^1 All^s well, that Ends well. 

courfe of all treafons, we dill fee them reveal them« 
felves, 'till they attain to their abhorr'd ends ; fo he, 
that in this adion contrives againd his own nobilityi 
in kis proper ilream o'erfiows himfelf. 

1 Lcrd, Is it not meant damnable in us to be the 
trampeters of our unlawful intents ? we fhall not then 
have his company to-night i 

2 Lord. Not*tiil after midnight; for he is .dieted to 
bis hour. 

- I Lord, That approaches apace : I wonld gladly have 
kirn fee his company anatomiz'd, that he might take 
meafbre of his own judgment, wherein fo curioufly he 
liad fet this counterfeit. 

2 Lord. We will not meddle with him 'till he come; 
for his prefence muft be the whip of the other. 

2 Lord. In the mean time» what hear you of thefe 
wars? 

2 Lord. I hear, there is an overture of peace. 

1 Lord. Nay, laiTureyou, a peace concluded. 

2 Lord, What will Count Roufillon do then ? will he 
travel higher, or>return again into France? 

1 Lord. I perceive by this demand, you are not altc 
gether of his council. 

2 Lord. Let it be forbid. Sir ! fo ihould I be a great 
deal of his a£l. 

1 Lord^ Sir, his wife fome two months ftnce fled 
from his houfe, her pretence is a pilgrimage to St. 
Jacques It Grand; which holy undertaking, with moft 
auflere fandimony, ihe accomplifh'd ; and there refid- 
ing, the tendernefs of her nature became as a prey to 
her grief; in fine, made a groan of her lafl breath, and 
now (he fings in heaven. 

2 Lord. How is this juftified ? 

1 Lordt The ftronger part of it by her own letters, 
which makes-her ftory true, even to the point of her 
death ; her death itfelf (which could not be her office 
to fay, is come) was faithfully confirm'd by the redor 
of the place. 

2 Lord, Hath the Count all this intelligence? 

I Lord. 



All's well, that EiJds well. 75 

1 Lord, Ay, and the particular confirmations, point 

►m poiht> to the full arming of the verity. 

t Lord, i am heartily forry, that he'il be glad of 

s. 

1 Lord, How mightily fometimes we make ns com« 
rts of our lofTes ! 

2 Lord. And how mightily fome other times we drown 
r gain in tears ! the great dignity, that his valour 
th here acquired for him, (hall at home be encountered 
Lth a fhame as ample. 

1 Lord, The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, 
)0d and ill together : our virtues would be proud, if 
ir faults whipt them not ; and our crimes would de«i^ 
air, if they were not cherilh'd by our virtues. 

Enter a Servafttm 

ow now ? where's your mafter i 
Ser. He met the Duke in the ftreel, Sifj of whom 
; hath taken a folemn leave : his Lord (hip will next 
orning for France. The Duke hath offered him let- 
rs of conwnendations to the King. 

2 Lord. They ihall be no more than needf«l there, 
they were more than they can commend. 

Enter Bertram. 

1 Lord^ They cannot be too fweet ibr the King's 
rtnefs : here's his Lordlhip now. How now, my 
ord, is't not after midnight? 

Ber. I have to-night difpatch'd fixteen bufinefles, a 
onth'sjength a-piece, by an abllradi of fuccefsj I 
ive congied with the Duke, done my adieu with his 
jareft ; buried a wife, mourn'd for her ; writ to my 
dy mother, I am returning ; ectertain'd my convoys 
ad, between thefe main parcels of difpatch, eiFeded 
lany nicer needs: -the laH was the greatelt, but that 
have not ended yet. 

2 Lord. If the bufinefs be of any difficulty, and thig 
\oming your departure hence, it requires halte of 
our Lord (hip. 

Ber. I mean, the bufinefs is not ended, as fearing to 
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74 All*s well, that Ends well. 

hear of It hereafter. But (hall we have this dialogue 
brcwcen the fool and the foldier f come» bring forth 
this counterfeit module ; h'as deceivM me, like a doa- 
Li'.-mcanln]^ prophefier. 

2 Lori/. Bring him forth; ha's fate in the ftocks all 
r;:?!it, poor gaUant knave. 

Jer. No matter; his heels have defervM it, in uforp^ 
}nri[ his fpurs fo long* How does he carry himfelf ? 

1 Lcy^. 1 have told your Lordfiiip already : th< 
a^r: ks carry him. But to anfwer you as you would be 
ui.rlcrilood, he weeps like a wench that had Ihed her 
rnill:; he hath cohfeft himfelf to Jlfi9r^<zir, whom he 
f\}rp'){tts to be a friar, from the time of his remembrapce 
fo thh very in dan t difaller of his fetting i'th* ftocks ; 
tjni what, think you, he hath confeft f 

£,^r. Nrihtng of me, has he ? 

2 Lcre/. His confeflion is taken, and it ihall be read 
to his face ; if ycur Lordlbip be in't, as I believe yott 
are, you muft have the patience to hear it. 

Ey2!er Parolles, luit/j his Interpreter. 

Uer. A plague upon hkn, muffledl he can fay no- 
thing of me ; haih \ hufh! 

1 LorJ, Hoodman comes : Portotartarojfa, 

Int. He calls for the tortures; what will you fay 
Vvithout *em ? 

Par, I will confefs what I know without conftraint; 
if ye pinch .me like a pafty, I can fay no more. 

////. B'Ji.o Clunurcho, 

2 Lord. Biblibindo chicurmurco, 

hit. You are a merciful General : our General bids 
you anfwer to what I Ihall a(k you out of a note. 

Par, And truly, as I hope to live. 

Int. FLrlf demand of him, how many horfe the Duke 
is Ihong. What fay you to that? 

Par. Five or fix thoufand, but very weak and un* 
fer viewable ; the troops are all fcatter'd, and the com- 
ix /inJers y^rj poor rogues, upon my reputation and 
lireilit, and r,s I hope to live. 

hu* Shall i fet down your anfwer fo ? 

Par. 



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All*s well, that Ends well. 75 

Tar. Do, ril take the facrament on't, how and 
which way you will : all's one to me. 
B£r. What a paft-faving Have is this ? 

1 Lord. Y'are deceived, my Lord, this is Monfieuf 
ParoUest the gallant militarift, that was his own pHrafe, 
that had the whole theory of war in the knot of his. 
fcarf, and the pradice in the chape of his dagger. 

2 Lord. I will never trwft a man again for keeping 
his fword clean ; nor believe, he can have every thing 
in him by wearing his apparel neatly. 

Int. Well, that's fet down. 

' Far. Five or fix thoufand horfe I faid, (I will fay 
true,) or thereabouts, fet down ; for I'll fpeak truth. 

1 Lord, He's very near the truth in this. 

Ber. But! con him no thanks for't, in the nature he 
deli vers it. 

Par. Poor rogues, I pray you, fay» 

Int. Well, that's fet down. ' 

Par. I humbly thank ycu. Sir; a truth's a truth, 
the rogues are marvellous poor. 

/«/. Demand of him of what ftrength they are a-foot» 
What fay you to that ? 

Par. By my troth. Sir, if I were to live this pre-i 
fent hour I will tell true. Let me fee, Spurio a hun- 
dred and fifty, Sehaftian fo many. Cor ambus fo many, 
Jacques fo many ; Guiltian, Co/mo, Lodo^wick^ and Gru" 
tit, two hundred and fifty each ; mine own company, 
Chitophery Vaumondy Bentiiy two hundred and fifty 
each ; fo that the mufter file, rotten and found, upon 
my life amounts not to fifteen thoufand Poll ; half of 
the which dare not (hake the fnow from off their caf- 
focks, left they (hake themfelves to pieces. 

Ber. What fhall be done to him ? 

1 Lord. Nothing, but let him have thanks. De- 
mand of him my conditions, and what credit I have 
with the Duke. 

Int. Well, that's fet down. You (hall demand of 

him, whether one Captain Dtimain be i'th' camp, a 

Frenchman % what his reputation is with the Duke, 

what his valour, honefty, and expertnefs in war; or 

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76 All's well, that Ends well. 

whether he thinks, it were not poflible with well- 
weighing Turns of gold to corrupt him to a revolt. 
What fay you to this ? what do you know of it ? 

Par* 1 befecch you, let me anfwer to the particular 
of the interrogatories. Demand them fingly. 

Int, Do you know this Captain Dumain ? 

Par. 1 know him ; he was a ^botcher's prentice in 
Parity from whence he was whipt for getting the ihe- 
rifF^s fool with child, a dumb innocent, that could not 
fay him tfoy, 

Ber» Nay, by your leave, hold your hands ; tho' I 
know, his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls. 

Int. Well, is this Captain in the D\xkt oi Florertciz 
camp ? 

Par, Upon my knowledge he is, and loufy, 

I Lord, Nay, look not fo upon me, we ihall hear of 
your Lordfhip anon. 

/«/. What is his reputation with the Duke ? 

Par, The Duke knows him for no other but a poor 
cfHcer of mine, and writ to me the other day to turn 
Mm out o'th' band. I think, 1 have his letter in my 
pocket.* 

Jnt, Marry, we'll fearch. 

Par, Jn good fadnefs, I do not know; either it is 
there, or it is upon the file with the Duke's other let- 
ters in my tent. 

Int. Here 'tis, here's a paper, fhall I read it to you? 

Par. I do not know, if it be it or no. 

Ber. Our interpreter does it well. 

I Lord. Excellently. 

Int. Dian, the Count^s afooU and full of gold. 

Par. That is not the Duke's letter. Sir; that is an 
aivertifement to a proper maid in Florence^ one Diana^ 
to tak heed of the allurement of one Count Roufillon^ 
a t(^oli(h idle boy ; but, for all that, very ruttifli. I 
pray you. Sir, put it up, again. 

Int. Nay, I'll read it firft, by your favour. 

,Par. IV3y meaning in't, I proteft, was very honefl 
in the behalf of the maid; for 1 knew the young Count 

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All's well, that Ends well. 77 

to^be a dangerous and lafcivious boy, who is a whale to 
virginity, and devo^irs tip all the fry it finds. 
j2^r. Damnable! both fides rogue. 

Interpreter rtads the Utter. 

When he fwears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take St. 

After he fcores, he never pays the fcore : 
Half won, is match well made ; match, and well make it : 

He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before. 
And fay,, a foldier {Dian) told thee this : 
(^3) Men are ro mell with, boys are but to kifs. 
For count of this, the Count's a fool, I know it. 
Who pays before, but not when he does owe it. 

TbinCi as be vo^d to thee in thine ear^ 

Par OL L E s. 

Ber, He ihall be whipt through the army with this 
ihime in his forehead. 

2 Lord, This is your devoted friend. Sir, the mani- 
fold lifiguifl and the armi- potent foldier. 

Ber, I could endure any thing before but a cat, and 
now he's a cat to me. 

Int, I perceive. Sir, by the G^eral's looks> wfe 
ihall be fain to hang you. 

Par, My life. Sir, in any cafe ; not that I am afraid 
to die ; but that my offences being many, I would re- 
pent out the remainder of nature. Let me live. Sir, in 
a dungeon, i'th' ftocks, any where, fo I may live. 

Int. We'll fee what may be done, fo you confefe. 

(33) Men are to mell with, hoys are not to kifs*"] All the cditOM 
have obtruded a new maxim upon>us her«, that boys art not to kifs.--^ 
Livia, in Beaumont and Fletib^r^ Tamer'tam'dt is of a quite oppofiie 
opinion. 

For boys were made for nothing but dry kiffes. 
And our Poet*s thought, I am perfuaded, went to the fame tune ; 
that boys are fit only to kifs ; men to mingle with, and give more 
fubrtantial pleafures. To mell^ isderiv*d from the Irencb wprd, me* 
kr\ \^ mingle. I made this correAion when I publi/h'd Shaxb- 
iPSAitE refiordy and lAt^Pope has thought fit to adopt it in his 
lift iraprelTion. 

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7? All's well, that Ends well. 

ftcely; therefore, once more, to this Captain Dumain: 
}'( u have anfwer'^ to hii reputation with the Diike, 
ard to his valour. What is his honefty ? 

Par, He will ileal. Sir, an tg^ out of a cloifter: 
for rapes and ravifhments he parallels A^^j. He pro- 
fefTes not keeping of oaths ; in breaking them he is 
ftiongcr than Hercules, He will Jye, Sir, .with much 
volubility, that you would think, truth were a fool : 
drunkennefs is his heft virtue, for he will be fwinc- 
drunk, and in his fleep be does little harm, favc to his 
bed-cloalhs about him ; but they know his conditions, 
and lay him in flraw. I have but little more to fay. 
Sir, of his honefly, he has everything that an honcft 
man (hould not have ; what an honed man ihould have^ 
he has nothing. 

I Lorii, I begin to love him for this. 

Ber. For this defcription of thine honefty? a po» 
upon him for me, he, is more and more a cat. 

/«/, What fay you to his expertnefs in war ) 

Par. Faith, Sir, h'as led the drum before the En^ 
lijh tragedians: to belie him, I will not ; and iftore 
of his Toldierfliip I know not ; except in that country, 
he had the honour to be the officer at a place there 
call'd MiU-endy to inftrud for the doubling of files. I 
would do the man what honour I can, but of this I am 
aiot certain. 

I Lord. He hath out-villain*d villainy fo far, jhat the 
larity redeems him. 

Bir, A pox on him, he's a cat ftilL 

hit. His qualities being at th's poor price, I need 
not to a(k you if gold will corrupt him to revolt. 

Par, Sir, for a ^art-d^ecu he will fell the fee-fimplc 
of his falvation, the inheritance of it, and cut th* in- 
tail from all remainders, and a perpetual fucceffion for 
it perpetually. ^ 

Int, What's his brother, the other Captain D^wtf/zr ? 

% Lord, Why does he aflc him of me ? 

Int, What's he ? 

Par, E'en a crow o'th* fame neft ; not altogether fo 
^reat as the firft in goodnefi, but greater a great deal 



All*s well, that Ends welt. 79 

^nevil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his 
brother is reputed one of the be ft tliat is. In a retreat 
lie oat-runs any lacquey ;. marry, in coming en he has 
the cramp. 

Int. If your life, be faved, will you undertake to 
betray the Florentine ? ^ 

Par. Ay, and- the Captain of his horfe, Count Rck* 
filhn. 

Int. I'll whilper with the General and. know his 
pleafure. 

Par. I'll no more drumming, a plague of all driimj ! 
Only to feem to deferve well, and to beguile the fupv 
poiition of that lafcivious young boy the Count, have 
I run into danger; yet vvho would have tui'pei^kd iii 
ambufh where 1 was taken ? ^ [j^Jii^e. 

Int. There is no remedy. Sir, but you inuft die; 
the General fays, you, that have fotraiteroufly difco- 
vered the fecrets of your army, and made fuch peflifc- 
rous reports of men very nobly held, trab ferve the 
world ifor no honeft ufe ; therefore you muft die. 
Come, headfman, off with his head. 

Par. O Lord, Sir, let me live, or let me fee my 
death. 

Int. That Ihail yo\i, and take your leave of all your 
friends. [Unbinding hintm 

So, look about you ; know you any here ? 
Ber. Good morrow, noble Captain, 
i Lord. God blefs you, Captain Parolks. 

1 Lord. God fave you, noble Captain. 

2 Lord. Captain, what greeting will you to n-^y 
Lord Lafeu ? I am for Trance. 

I Lord. Good Captain, will you give me a copy of 
that fame fonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the 
Count Roi^Ilon ? If I were not a very coward, I*d com- 
pel it of you ; but fare you well. [£xiUi;j^'. 

Int, You are undone, Captain, all but your fcarf; 
that has a knot qn't yet. 

Par. Who cannot be crufh'd with a ^lot ? 

Int. If you could find out a country where but wo- 
Sien were that had feceiv'd to much fhame, you 

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8o All's well, that Ends well. 

might begin an impadent nation. Fare yoa weH, S 
I am for France too, we fhall fpcak of you there. 

Par. Yet am I thankful : if my heart were great, 
*T would burft at this, Captain Til be no more. 
But I will eat and drink, and flcep as foft. 
As Captain (hall. Simply the thing I am 
Shall make me live : who knows himfelf a braggarti 
Let him fear this ; for it will come to pafs. 
That every braggart ftiall be found an afs. 
Ruft, fword ! cpol, bluflies ! and^ Parolles^ live 
Safeft in fhan\e ! being fool'd, by fool'ry thrive ; 
There's place and means for ^v^t^ man alive. 
ril after them. \Ex 

SCENE changes to the Widow's Houfe, 
Florence. 

Enter Helena, Widow and Diana. 

^r/.'Tr^Hat you may well perceive I have not wrong 
X One of the greateft in the chriftian world [yoi 
Shall 'be my furety ; *fore whofe throne 'tis needful. 
Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneeh 
Time was, I did him a defired office 
Dear almod as his life ; which gratitude 
Through flinty Tartars bofom would peep forth. 
And anfwer thanks. I duly am inform'd. 
His Grace is at Marfeilles^ to which place 
We have convenient convoy ; you muftknow, 
I am fuppofcd dead ; the army breaking, 
My hufband hies him home ; where, heaven aiding, 
And by the leave of my good Lord the King, 
We'll be before our welcome. 
» trid. Gentle Madam, 
You never had a fervant, to whofe truft 
Your bufinefs was more welcome. 
► HeL Nor you, Miftrefs, 
Ever a friend, whofe thoughts iHore truly labour 
To recompenfc your l©ve : doubt not, but heav'n 

Hat 



All's vrell, that Ends welf. 8i 

Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower. 
As it hath fated her to be my motive 
And helper to a hulband. But, O ftrange men ! 
That can fuch fweet ufe make of what they hate. 
When faucy trufting of the cozen'd thoughts 
Defiles the pitchy night ; fo lull doth }>lay 
With what it loaths, for that which is away. 
But tfiore of this hereafter. You, Diana^ 
Under my poor inftruflions yet muft fuffer 

Something in my behalf. 
Dia, Let death and honefty 

Go with your impcfitions, I am your$ 
. Upon your will to fuffer. 
HeL Yet 1 pray you : 

But with the word the time will bring.on fammer 

When briars fhall have leaves as well as thorns, . 

And be as fweet as Iharp : we muft away, 

(34) Our waggon is prepared, and time revives, us ; 

(35) Jll^s <wml that endsiAtelli ftill the fine's the crown 5 
Whate'er thecourfibj the end is the renown. [Exeunt. 

(34) ^^ w^ggof '* prepared, and time revives ui \ ] The word re» 
vittfx conveys fo little4de|i of iehfe here, that it feems very liable to 
fufpicioB. How C00I4 time revive thefe travelling adventurers ? Hden 
could not have £9 poor a thought as to mean, «tho* we were tir'd 
<* laft night, yet repofe has given us frefh vigour, and now time rc- 
** vives us for a new fatigue.'* Can it then have this meaning ? 
The confequences of our enrerprize, and the happy iflue that may 
crown it in time, revive our fpitits, and animate us to a chearful 
profecution.*— — Mr. Warhurton very ceafonably coiije^lures, that we 
ftould read, * 

and time revyes ai ; 
i. e. looks QS in the face, calls. upon us to" haften. 

{l^) AlPftotUt $hae ends weH i /J// that finds^ //>e rrwon ;] ff^at 
finds ? There is no fubftantive in the preceding branch of the fcntmce 
to anfwcr to this relative. But this is the reading only of Mr. F'^^oe- 
and Mr, Pofe^. I have rcftoiM the genuine text from the fiirtl Foiio* 
bur author is alluding to the Latin proverbial Gnome ; Finis cornhai 
M»<. And he elfc where ufes thc/«^ to fignify, the end, the ifluc. 
ifi.Sentdiik, in Much Ado about Nothing, 

and the Jine is, (for the which I may ge tht finer,) I will- 

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SCENE changes to Roujilkn in France* ^ 

Enter QoMx^ttki Lafea, aW Clown. 

Zfl/'.''VTO, no, no, your Ton was mlf-led with a foipt- 
XNI taffata fellow there, whofe vaillainons faiFroa 
would have made all the unbak'd and dowy youth of a 
nation in his colour. Your dauighter-in-law had been 
ali^e at this hour, and your fon here at. home more ad- 
vanc'd by the King than by the red-tail'd humble-bee 
I fpcak of. 

Count, I would, I had not known him ! it wis the 
death of the moil virtuous Gentlewoman that ever Na* ' 
ture had praife for creating ; if fhe had partaken of my 
fleih, and coft me the deareft groans of a mother, I 
could not have owed her a more rooted love. 

Laf, 'Twas a good Lady, *twas a good Lady. We 
may pick a thouland fallets ere we light on fuch and-' 
Aerherb. 

Clo, Indeed, Sir, fhe was the fwect marjoram of the 
fallet, or rather the herb of grace. 
' Laf, They are not fallet- herbs, you knave, they are 
nofe-herbs. ^ 

Clo. I am no great Nebuchadnezzar ^ Sji*,^ I have npt, 
much fkill in grafs. 

Laf. Whether doft thou profefs thyfelf, a knave or 
a fool ? 

C/o„.A^fo6\, Sir, at a woman's fervice ; andaknavei 
at a man's. 

Laf. Your diftinftion ? 
^ C/p. I wouldcpi^ the man of his wife, and do his 
fervice, '"'^ . ' , - 

Laf. So you were a knave at his fervice, in(feed» 

Cio, And I would give his wife my bauble. Sir, t«i, 
do her fervice. 

La/, I will fubfcribc for thee, thou art both knave 
^d ibol. 

Clo. At your fervice. 

Zaf\ No, no, no. 

% Chi 



All's irdf, that Erf ds wdf. ^3 

Ch. Why, Sir, if I Cannot ferve ydu, I can fcive 
as great a prince as yon are. 

Laf. Who*s that, a Frenchman ? 

Ci9^ J^^tk, Sir, he ha^ an Englijh name ; but ht$ 
phifnomy is more hotter in France than there, 

Laf. What Prince is that ? 

C/f7. The black Prince, Sir, alias Ah^ trince cf 
Djarknefs, tf/r'^j the Devil. 

Z/j/I Hold thee, there's my purfe; t give thee not 
this to fednce thee from thy riiafter thou talk'fl of^ 
fcnre him ftill. 

Cfo. I am a woddland fellow, Sir, that always lov'd 
a great fire ; and the mafter I ())eak of ever keeps a 
good fire; but, fure, he is the Prince of the world, 
let his nobility remain in's court. I am for the houfe 
with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for 
pomp to enter : fome, that humWe themfelvesj may ; 
but the many will be too chill and tender, and they'll 
be for the flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate, and 
the great fire. 

Laf. Go thy ways, I begin to be a weary of thee, 
and I tell thee fo before, becaufe I would not fall out 
with thee. Go thy ways, let my horfes be well look'd 
to, without any tricks. 

CU. If I put any tricks upon *emj they (hall be jades 
tricks, which are their own right by the law ofNa- 
tore, [Exi/, 

La/., A fhrewd knave, and an unhappy. 

Ccunt, So he is. My Lord, that's gone, made hirri- 
feif much fporlt out of him ; by his authority he re- 
mains here, which he thinks is a patent for his fawci- 
nefs ; and, indeed^ he has no pace, but rifns where he 
will. 

La/, I like him well, 'tis not Emrfs ; and I vvas about* 
to tell you, fince I heard of the good Lady's death, 
and that my Lord your Son was upon his return. home. 
1 mov'd the King my mafler to fpeak in the bchalF of 
my daughter; which in the minority of them both, 
his Majefty, out of a felf-gracious remembrance, did 
ficft propofei his Highnefs hath promised me to do lt\ 
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84 All's well, that Ends welK 

and to flop up the difpleafure he hath conceiv'd agahft 
your Ton, there is no fitter matter. How do's your 
Ladyfhip like it ? 

Count. With very much content, my Lord, and I 
wifh It happily efFefted. 

Xa/. His Highnefs comes poft from Marfeilhsi of as 
4ble a body as when he numbered thirty ; be will be 
here to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in fuch 
intelligence hath feldom faiPd. 

Count* It rejoices mcj that, I hope, I (halt fee him 
•re I die. I havg letters, that my ion will be here to- 
night : I (hall befeech your Lordflup to remain with 
me 'til! they meet together. 

Laf. Madam, I was thinking with what manners I 
night fafely be admitted. 

Count, You need but plead your honourable privi* 
lege. 

Laf, Lady, of that I hav« made a bold charter ; but 
^ "X thank my God, it holds yet. 

Enter Clown^ 

C/ff. O Madam, yondcr's my Lord your fofr with a 
patch of velvet on's face ; whether there be a fear un- 
<fer*i, or no, the velvet knows, but 'tis a goodly patch 
of velvet ; his left cheek is a cheek of two pile an da 
half, but his right cheek is worn bai^e. 

Count, A fear nobly got, or a, noble fear, is a good 
livery of honour. So, belike, is t^at. 

Clo, But it is your carbonado'd face. 

l»af. Let us go fee your fon, I pray you ; I long to 
talk with the young noble foldier. 

Clo, 'Faith, there's a dozen of 'em with delicate fine- 
hatf and moil courteous feathers, which bow the head,. 
a^d^ tpd at every m^n.. [^Are-w?/. 



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A C T V. 

SCENE, the Court of Franf^y at MarfeilUs. 
£»/^r Helena, Widow, andJfi2Ln2Ly'Witbt*wo Attendants 

H.B L E N A. / 

BU T thi» exceeding pofting day and night 
Muft wear your fpirits low j we cannot help it. 
Bat iince you've niade the days and nights as one. 
To w^r your gentle limbs in my affairs ; 
Be bold, you do ib grow in my requital, 
As nothing can unroot you. In happy time,- ■ * 

Enter a Gentleman.. 
This man may help me to his Majefty^s ear. 
If he would fpend his power. Godfaveyou, Sir« 

Gent. An,d you. 

HeU^SiY, I have feen you in the court o£ France^ 

Gent. I have been fometimes there. 

Hel. I do prefume. Sir, that you are not fallen 
Prom the report that goes upon your goodnefs ; 
And therefore, goaded with moft (harp occaHons. 
Which lay nice manners by, I put you to 
The ufe of your own virtues, for the which 
I (hall continue than kfuU 

Gent. What's your will ? 

Hel. That it will pleafe yoa 
To give this poor petition to the King, 
And aid me with that ftore of power you have» 
To come into his pfefence. 

(?fw/. The King's not here. 

HeL Not here, Sir i 

Gent. Not, indeed. 
He hence removM laft night, and with more haSft 
Than is his uCe^ 



^6 Ail's w«1^ %Ui Ends ♦vtll; 

H^tti» Lord, how we lofe oar pains ! 

tt/. AU^snveli, that inds tvell ytl^ 
The* time feems fo advcrfe, and means unfit : 
1 do bcfecch you, whither i» he gone f ' 

Gent. Marry, as 1 take it, to Roujillon, 
Whither Pni going. 

HeL I befcech you, Sir, 
Since you are like to fee the King before me. 
Commend the paper to his gracious hand ; 
Which, I prefume, fliall render you no blame^ 
But rather make you thank your pains for it. 
J will come after you with What good fpeed 
Our means will make us means. 

Gent, This Pll do for you. 

HeL And you fhall find yourfelf to be well thank'dr 
What-e'er falls more, We muft to horfa again. 
Go^ go>. provide^ \J^untt 

SCENE changes to Rouftlhn. 

^nter Clown, anel Parolles. 

Tat^f'^ OOD Mr. Leveitch, give my Lord Lafiu 
VJT this letter; I have ere now. Sir, heeu bet- 
ter known to you, when I have held familiarity with 
frcftier cloaths;. (36) but I am now. Sir, muddied ia 
fortune's moat, and fmell fomewhat ftrong of her ftrong 
difpieafure, 

CU. 

(36) But I am fmOySift muttdiedtn fortune's mfiod, and fmett fime* 
nvbat/lrong of berjhong diJpleafureS^ Fortune^s mcod is, without quef- 
tioo, good lenfe, and very proper: and yet I verily believe, the 

Poet wrote as I have reftorM in the text 5— -in Fortune^ t mpatt 

becaufe the clown in the very ncf t fpeech replies, / will beiiceforib- 
tat no Bfl) of Fortune's buttering \ and again, when he comes to repeat 
"BarolleC^ petition iqLafeu, — —//»«/ baibfaiPn into tbe unclean ^Q^pond 
of ber difpleafure, and, as be fays, is muddied witbai. And again. 
Pray you. Sir, ufe tbe carp asycu may, &c. In all which places, 'tis 
obvious, a moat, or pond, is the allufion. Befidea, Paroiles fmeiling 
Arong^ as he fays, of Fortune's flrong difpleafure, carrier on the fame 
image : For as the moats round old feats were always replenish 'd with 
fiih^ fo the Clown's joke of holding his nofcf wt may prefume, pro- 
ceeded 



6/^ Truly, Fortune's difpleafure is bi|t flujttife, if 
it frnjell To Hrongly as thou fpeak'il of : I will hence« 
forth ea.t no fi/h of. Fortune's butt'ring. Pj-'ythcc, al- 
low the wind. 

PiBT. Nay, you ttced npt to flop your nofe. Sir ; I 
ipake but by a metaphor. 

CU. Indeed, Sir, if your metaphor ftink, I will flop 
my hofe againft a>ny ihan'tf metaphor. Pr'ythcc, get 
thee further. 

Par. Pray you, Sir, deliver m^ this paper. 

Cl6. Fob 1 pr*y thee, ftand away ; a paper from For- 
^ne's clofe-flooU to give to a npbleman I look, here 
he comes himfelf. 

Enter Lafeu, 

Here is a pur of Fortune's, Sir, or of Fortune's cat, 
(but not a mufk-cat ;) that hath falPn into the unclean 
fifhpond of her difpleafure, and as he fays, is muddied 
withal. Pray you, Sir, ufe the carp as you may j for 
\c looks like a poor, , decayed, ingenious, foolifh, 
rafcally knave. (37) I do pity his diftrcft in my fi-' 
jjiiles of comfort, and leave him to your Lordfhip. 
. Par, My Lord, I am a man whom fortune hath 
cruelly fcratcli*d. ' 

Laf. And what would you have me to do ? 'tis too 
late top^re her nails now. Wherein have you play'd 
the knave with fortune, that ihe (hould fcratch you,* 
who of herielf is a good Lady, and would not have 
knaves thrive long under her ? there's a ^uart-tTecu 
for you: let the juftices make you and fortune friends ; 
I am for other buiinefs. 

reeded from this m }atzz\\{tlaChamhrthaJf€ w^s alwuyi over the 
iftoat \ and therefore the Clown humourou/ly fay«, when ParolUs it 

preflfing him to deliver his letter to Lord Lofeu, Fob! pr^ytbee 

Jiand away : ji paper from Fortune* t clofe-ftool, to give to a nobleman I 
'($7) J do pity b'u atftrefx in try (m\\t9 of comfort^] Thi« very hu« 
V fboroot pafTage my friend Mr. H^arburton refcued from nonienfe' 
Doft happily, by the infertion of a fingle letter, in the manner I 
have rcformM the text. Tiit^t fimilex of comfort arc ironically meant 
l>y the Clown ; as much asto fay, you may perceive, how much I" 
thTnk>ie deferves comfort, by my . ctKin^ him Fi?/-r»»#'i C#/, Qtrpt 
rfiftaijf Knave, &Cn , i 

' ''" ■■'■■■' ' . tttf^ 



; 



tIS" All's well, that Ends weU. 

Par. I befeech your honour^ to hear me one £ngle 
word. 

La/, You beg a fingle peniiy more ^ come^ you.ihall 
ha't, favc your word. 

Par, My name, my good Lord, U Par piles, 

Laf, You beg more than one word then. Cox* my 
paflion I give me your hand : how does your drum ? 

Par, O my good Lord; you were the fit^ that found^ 
me« 

Laf, Was I« infooth ? and I was the firft, that loft 
thee. 

Par. It lies in yoi», my Lord, to bring me m foma 
grace, for you did bring me out. 

Laf, Out upon thee, knave J doft thou put upon me 
at once both the office of God and the devil ? one brings 
thee in grace, and the other brino^s thee out. [Sound 
uu^ftts.] The King's coming, I know, by his trum- 
pets. Sirrah, inquire further after me, I had talk of 
you laft night ; tho' you are a fool aad a kuave, yo» 
Siall eat ; go to, follow. 

Par, 1 praife God for you* [Exeunh' 

Tlourijh, Enter Kingf Countefs, Lafeu, the /ovo French 
Lords^ njoitb attendants* 

King, We loft a jewel of her, (38) our efteem 
Was made much poorer by it ; but your fon. 
As mad in folly, lack'd the fenfe to know 
Her eftimation home. 

(38) our efleem 

H^as made wutcbpoortr by U : ] What*s the neaninf of th*^ 

KtAg*8 efteem being made poorer by the lofs of Helen. Tk I think, it. 
can only be un« erfVood in one fenfe } and that fenfe won*t carry wa- 
ter, i. e. We foffered rn our eftimation by hec lofs. But bow (oh 
Did the fCing contribute to her nnisfortunes ? Nothing like it. Or 
did he not do ali in hit povvtr to prevent rhenk? , Yes ; hemanried. 
Mertram to her. We jnuft certainly read therefore $ 

ff^e left a Jewel of her j our eilate 

H^as made muib footer by it s 
7hat*a the certain coniequence of any one^s loHng a jewe(, for their 
cftau to be Bade proportioiiably poorer according to the vaiiie of the. 
kfl* Mr, jyarburtote^ 

Cflttslk 



All's well, that Ends well. tp 

Count. 'Tis paft, my Liege ; 
And I befeech your Majefty to make it 
(39) Natural rebellion, done i'th' blade of youth. 
When oil and fire, too ftrong for reafon'i force, 
O'erbears it, and burns on. 

King. My honourM Lady, 
1 have forgiven and forgotten all ; 
Tho* my revenges were high bent upon him. 
And watch*d the time to moot. 

Laf, This I muft fay. 
But firft I beg my pardon ; the yottne Lord 
Did to his Majefty, his Mother, and his Lady, 
Offence of mighty note ; but to himfclf 
The greateft wrong of all. He loft a wife. 
Whole beauty did aftoniih the furvey 
Of richeft eyes ; whofe words all ears took captive ) 
Whofe dear perfedlion, hearts, that fcorn'd to fenre» 
Humbly calPd tnifireft.^ 

King, Praifing what is loft. 
Makes the remembrance dear. Well — call him hither ; 
We're reconcil'd, and the fir ft view fhall kill 
All repetition : let him not aflc our pardon. . 
The nature of his great offence is dead. 
And deeper than oblivion we do bury 
Th' incenfing relicks of it. Let him approach, 
A ftranger, no offender ; and inform him. 
So 'tis our will he ftiould. 

Gent. I fiiall my Liege« 

(30) Natural rebelRon, done VtV blade of youth t"] If this reading be 
genuine, the metaphor muft be from any grain, or plant, taking fire{ 
bat, X owQ, it feems more in Sbaktfpeariz way of thinking to fuppofe 
ke wrote ; 

Natural wiieilkn-dbMe Vtb*h\2ixt 0/ youth, 
I, e. in^be fervour, flame, Sec, So he has exprefsM himfelf^ upon 
» like occafioa, in Hamht, . 

I ■ r do know, 

When the blood bums, how prodigal the foul 

Leads the topgue vows, . Thefc blaxes^ O my dliughter, &'c% 
Aad ib, again, in bisTrof/»« ^MCrtJJida\ 

For HeSor, in h^t bla?i€ of wratb^ fubfcribes 

To ltmi%x objefts.— . — ^- 



fO All's. well, that Ends well. 

ICtftg. What fays he to your daughter? Have youfpdkc? 

Zy. All, that he is, hath reference to your Highnefs, 

Kiftg. Then ihall we have a match. I have letter? fenl 

That let him high in fame. [me^ 

£»ter Bertram* 

Laf, He looks well on't. 
King. Vtn not a day of feafon. 
For thou may'ft fee a fun-ihine and a hail 
In me at once ; but to the brighteft beams 
Di drafted clouds give way ; fo fland thou forth/ 
The time is fair again, 

JBer, My high-repented blames. 
Dear fovereign, pardon to me. 

King. AH is whole. 
Not one word more of the confqmed time» 
Let's take the inftant by the forward top ; 
For we are old, and on our quicVft decreet 
Th* inaudible and noifelefs loot of time 
Steals, ere we can cfFe6t them. You remembejr 
The daughter of this Lord? 

^er. Admiringly, my Liege. At firft 
I ftuck my choice upon her, ere my heart 
Durft make too bold a herald of my tongue : 
Where the impreffion of mine eye enfixing. 
Contempt his fcornful perfpeftive did lend m«^ 
Which warpM the line of every other favour ; 
Scorn'd a fair colour, or exprefs'd it ftoirn. 
Extended or contrafted all proportions 
To a mod hideous objedl : ihfnce it came. 
That ftie, whom all men prais'd, and whom myfeli^ 
Since J have led, have lov'd, was in mine eye 
The duft that did offend it. 

King. Well excusM : 

That thou did ft love her, ftrikes fome fcores away 
From the great 'compt ; but love, that comes too late^ 
Like a remorfeful pardon flowly carried, 
^o the great fender turns a four offence, 
Cryingj >that*s good that is gone : our xajh faults 

Make 



I 



All's well, that Ends well. jjt 

Make trivial price of fcrious things we have. 
Not knowing them, until we know their grave. 
Oft our difple^furcs, te ourfelves unjuft 
Deftroy our friends, and, after, weep their duft i 
Our own love, waking, cries to fee what's done. 
While (hameful hate fleeps out the afternoon. 
Be this fweet Helenas knell; and now, forget hen 
Send forth your amorous. token for fair Maudlin^ 
The main confents are had, and here we'll (lay 
To fee our widower's fecond marriage-day : 

Count, (40) Which better than the firil, O dear heav*n. 

Or, ere they. meet, in me, O nature, ceafe 1 [blefs^ 

Laf» Come on, my fon, in whom n\y houfe's nam6 

Mull, be digefted : give a favour from you 

To fparkle in the fpirits of my daughter. 

That fhe mayquickly come. By my old beard, 

And ev'ry h^ir that's on't, Hclen^ that's dead, 

Was a /Wcet c/eajture : fuch a ring as this. 

The laft th^t c'<r ihe took her leave at court, ' ' 

I faw upon hejr finger. 
Ber. Hers it was not. 
King. Now, pray you, let me fee it. For mine cyf • 

While I was fpeaking, oft was faften'd to't : 

This ring ^as mine; and, when I gvi^ii Hetifft 

I bade her, if her fortunes ever ftool 

Necefiitied to help, that by this token 

I would relieve her. Had you that craft to reave h^ 

Of what fhould ftead her moft ? 
Ber. '- My gracious Sovereign, 

Howe'er it pleafes you to take it (0% 

The ring was never hers, 

(40) IFbicb bitter than tbefirfi, deax heqv^tf hUfi^ 

Or, ere they meet, in me, nature, teafe /] I have venturM, 
againft the authority of the printed copies, to prefix the Countefi'M 
Aame to thefe two lines. The King appears, indeed, to be a fa- 
Tourer of Bertram .* but If Bertram fliould make a bad hjjiband th^ 
fecond time, why /hoold it gi?e the King fuch mortal pang9 ? A fon4 
and difappointed -mother might reafonably not defire to live to fee 
fuch a day 1 and from her the wifli of dying, rather than to behold 
it, comes with propriety^ 



ft All's well, that Ends well. 

Counts Son, on tny life, 
Pve feen her wear it, and (he reckon'd it 
At her life's rate. 

Laf» Vm fare, I {slw her wear it. 

Ber, You arc deceivM, my Lord, fhe never faw it 
In Florence was it from a cafement thrown me, 
Wrap'd in a paper, which contain^ the name 
Of her that threw it : (41) Noble Ihc was, and thoi 
I flood ungag'd ; but when I had fubfcrib'd 
To mine own fortune, and informed her fully^ 
I could not anfwer in that courfe of honour 
As ihe had made the overture, (he ceall 
In heavy fatisfadlion^ and would never 
Receive the ring again. 

King, Plutus himfelf. 
That knows the tind and mnltiplyinfi^ medicine. 
Hath not in Nature's myftery more fcience. 
Than I have in this riag^ 'Twas mine, 'twas Helen 
Whoever gave it you : then if you^ know. 
That you are well acquainted with yourfelfi 
Confeis 'twas her's, and by what rough enforcement 
You got it from her. She call'd the fain<& to furety 
That (he would never put it from her finger, 
Unlefs (he gave it to yourfelf in bed, 
(Where you have never come) or fent it us- 
Upon her great difaikr. 

Ber, She never faw it. 

King* Thou fpeak'ft it falfely,' as I love mine ho» 
And mak'ft conjeft'ral fears to come into me. 
Which I would fain (hut out ; if it (hould prove 
That thou art fo inhuman — 'twill not prove fo-— 
And yet I know not — thou didft hate her deadly, 

(41) -— mbkft>e tuas, and t bought 

I fiood tn^zg*^ \ — ] I con't underftand this reading; 
are to underftand, that (he thought Bertram engagM to her in 
tion, infiiarM by her charms, thistneaningistooobrcttrely expi 
The context rather makes me believe, that the Poet wrote, 
'——^mblejht *wm, and thought 
Ifiood ungag'd ; 
L e. unengaged : neither mjr heart, nor perfon, difposM of. 



^ All's well, that Ends well. 93 

i (he is dead ; which nothing, but to clofe 
r eyes myfelf, could win me to believe, 
re than to fee this ring. Take him away. 

[Guardi/eize Bertram. 
f fore-pail proofs, howe'er the matter fall, 
all tax my fears of little vanity, 
Lving vainly^ fear'd too little. Away with him, 
e'll fift this matter further. 
B/r. If you (hall prove, 
lis ring was ever hers, you (hall as ca fy 
ove that I hufbanded her bed in Florence 
liere ihe never was. [Exit Bertram guarded. 

Enter a Gentleman. 
King, Fm wrap'd in difmal thinkings. 
Gent. Gracious Sovereign^ 
'^hether I've been to blame or no, I know not : 
erc's a petition from a Florentine^ 
'^ho hath for f ur or five removes come (hort 
o tender it herfelf. I undertook it, 
anquilhM thereto by the fair giace and fpeech 
f the poor fuppliant, who by this, I know, 

here attending : her bu(]ners looks in her 
^ith an importing vifa^e, and (he told me, 

a fwefct verbal brief, it did concern 
our Highnefs with herfelf. 

The King reads a letter. 

XJpon his mat^ froteftations to marry me^ nuhen his nui/e 
as dead', I blujh to fay ity he nuon me* Noiv. is the Count 
ondllon a njuidofwer^ his wonvs are forfeited to me^ and 
y honours paid to him. He flole from Florence, taking 
► leave 9 and I foUcw him to this country for juftice : grant 

me^ O Kingf in you it befi lies ; other^ife a feducer Jku* 
fi?eSf and a poor maid is undone. 

Diana Capulet. 

La/. I will buy me a fon-in-Iaw in a fair, and toll 
>r him. For this, Fll none of him. 
Ksn^. The heavens have thought well on thee, Lafeu^ 

To 



94 All's well, that Ends well. 

To bring forth this difcov'ry, Seek thefe fuitors? 
Co fpeedily, and bring again theCoant. 

Enter Bertram » 

T am afraid, the life oi Helen (Lady) 

Was foully fnatch'd. ^ 

Count, Now juftice on the doers I 

King, I wonder, Sir, wives are fo monflrou? to yotf^j 
And that you fly them as you fwear to them ; 
Yet you deiire to wed. What woman's that^ 

JF/sr/^r Widow, /ri7^ Diana. 

Dia, 1 am, my Lord, a wretched Florentine^ 
DcrivM from the ancient Capulet ; 
My fuit, as I do underiland, you know, 
And therefore know how far I may be pitied. 

IVid. I am her mother, Sir, whofe age and honour 
Both fuffer under this complaint we bring. 
And both (hall ceafewithout your remedy. 

King. Gome hither, Count; do you know thefe women 

Ber, My Lord, I neither can nor will deny 
But that I know them ; do they charge me further? 

Dia, Why do you look fo ftrange upon your wife? 

Ber. She's none of mine, my Lord, 

Dia, If you (hall marry. 
You give away this hand, and that is mine; 
You give away heav'n's vows, and thofe are mine ; 
You give away myfelf, which is known mine; 
For I by vow am fo embodied yours. 
That (he, which marries you, muft marry me. 
Either both or none. 

Laf. Your, reputation comes too Ihort for my daugl 
ter, you arc no hulband for her \To Bertrai 

Ber, My Lord, this is a fond and defp'rate creatur 
Whom fometime I have laugh'd with : let your Highm 
Lay a mort n ble thought upon mine honour. 
Than for to think that (would fink it here. 

King. Sir, fr r my thoughts, you have them ill to frier 
*TiiI your deeds gain them fairer ; prove your honoi 
Then in my thought it lies. 



All*s well, that Ends well. 9^ 

bia. Good my Lord> 
Atk him upon his oath ; if he does think 
He had nor my virginity. 
AT/ff^. What fay'll thou to her ? 
Ber. She's impudent, my Lord ; 
And was a common gamefter to the camp. 

Dia. He docs me wrong, my Lord ; if I were Coi 
He might hate bought me at a common price. 
Do not believe him. O, behold this ring, 
Whofe high refpedt and rich validity 
Did lack a parallel : yet, for all that, 
He gave it to a commoner o'th' camp. 
If 1 DC one. 

Count. He blulhes, and 'tis his : 
Of fix preceding anccftors, that gem 
(42) Conferr'd by teitament to th' fequent iflue. 
Hath it been ow'd and worn. This is his wife. 
That ring's a thoufand proofs. 
King, Methought, you faid. 
You faw one here in court could witnefs it. 

Dta. I did, my Lord, but loath am to produce 
-So bad an inftramcju ; his name's PafoiUs. 
Laf. I faw the man to-day, if man he be. 
King, Find him, and bring him hither. 
Ber, What of him .^ 
He's quoted for amoft oerfidious (lave. 
With all the fpots o'th' vorld, tax'd and deboftiM, 

(42) Cofiftrr^d by tfjtament to tF fubfequent tffue,] This if only thd 
reading, 1 think, of th«r tafi rditcr* I might Uy, Tbis in Mr Pope** 
tar is a vgrftf — to return hirn one of his civ.lirrcs : bit I ii content 
inyfelf With ob*'-.ving, that all th? gfnuinr copies read j 

Con/err 'ii by teftament to tb" fequent iffie. 
So, before, in (his play j 

Indeed 'your Lord, .*?>, 's tfery kquent to your wbippi/i£t 

So, in Troilus diadCrfJfida ; * 

Pui be thou I rue, fay I, to faflii .n in 

MyyiryaWf proteitation : 
80, in Hamlet, 

— —•now, the rext day 

Was our fea fighr ; and wh^i r.> bis "^^-^ fefutfif, 

Thou kn'*w'i^a! ♦*'fiy. . 
And in maay other iollancas, tiiat mi^ht be quoted, 



96 All's well, that Ends wdl. 

Which nature fickens with : but to fpeak truths 
Am I or that t)r this, for what he'll utter. 
That will fpeak any thing ? 

King. She hath that ring of yours. 

Ber, I think, (he has; certain it is, Ilik'd her, 
And boarded her i'th' wanton way of youth : 
She knew her diflance, and did angle for me. 
Madding my eagernefs with her reftraint ; 
As all impediments in fancy's courfe 
Are motives of more fancy : and in Hne, 
Her infuit coming with her modern grace, 
Subdu'd me to her rate ; ihe got the ring ; 
And I had that, which any inferior might 
At market-price have bought. ^ 

Dia, I mjifl be patient: 
You, that turn'd oiF a firil fb noble wife. 
May juftly diet roe. I pray you yet, 
(Since you lack virtue, I will lofe a hufband,) 
Send for your ring, I will return it home. 
And give me mine again. 

Ber, I have it not. 

King. What ring was yours, I pray you ? 

Dia, Sir, much like the fame upon your finger. 

King, Know you this ring ? this ring was his of late. 

Dia. And this was it 1 gave him, being a-bed. 

King. The flory then goes falfe, you threw it him 
Out of a cafement. 

Dia. I have fpoke the truth. 

Enter Parolles. 

Bit^ My Lord, I do confefs, the ring was hers. 

King. Youboggle fhrewdly, every feather flarts you :- 
Is this the man you fpeak of ? . 

Dia* It is, my Lord. 

King. Tell me. Sirrah, but tell me true, I charge yoi 
Not fearing the difpleafure of your mailer. 
Which on your juft proceeding I'll keep off; 
By him and by this woman here, what know you ? 

Par. So pleafe your Majeily, my maHer hath been s 

honourab 



AllV well, that Ej^ds well. 97 

liononrable gentleman. Tricks he hath had in him* 
which gentlemen have. 

King. Come, come, to the pvrpofe ; did he lore 
tkis woman ? 
Par, *Faith, Sir, he did loire her ; bat how? 
King. How, I pray you ? 

Par. He did love her. Sir, as a gentleman lovet • 
Rroman. 
King, How is that ? 

Par. He lov*d her. Sir, and lovM her not. 
King. As thoa art a knave, and no knave ; what an 
tquivocal companion is this f 

Par. I am a poor man, and at your Majefly's com- 
inand . ^ 

Laf. He's a good dram, my Lord, but a naughty 
orator. 

Dia. Do yoa know, he promised me marriage ? 
Par. *Faith, I know more than Ml fpeak. 
King. But wilt thou not fpeak all thoa know'fl ? 
Par. Yes, fo pleaie your Maje%. i did go between 
them, aslfaid; but more than that, he iovM her^ 
^r, indeed, he was mad for her, and talk'd of Satan, 
#nd of limbo, and of furies, and 1 know not wliat ; 
vet I was in that credit with them at that time, that I 
knew of their going to bed, and of other motions, as 
promifing her marriage, and things that would derive 
flic ill will to fpeak of; therefore I will not fpeak 
what I know. 

King. Thou ha^ fpoken all already, unlefs thou canft 
% they are married ; but thou art too fine in thy evi- 
<ience ; therefore ftand afide. This ring, yon ily, 
Was yours ? 
Dia. Ay, my good Lord. 

King. Where did you buy it? or who gave it you? 
Dia. It was not given me, nor did 1 buy it« 
King. Who lent it you ? 
Dia. It was not lent me neither. 
4Cing. Where did you find it thenf 
Dia. I found it not. 

4^ing. If it were yoors by -none of all ihefc ways, 
- Voi„IIL E ttw 



98 All's well, that Eni>s wcH. 

How could you give it him ? 
Dia, 1 never gave it him. 

. Laf. This woman's an ^afy glove, my Lord, 

goes oit and on at pleafure. 

King, This ring was mine, I gave it his firft wife 
Dia. It might be yours, or her's, for ought I km 
Kittf. Take her away, I do not like her now. 

To pnfon with her : and away with him. 

Uqlefs thou telPfl me where thou had ft this rin^. 

Thou diefl within this hour. 

, Dia. ril never tell you. 
King, Take her away. 
Dia. ril put in bail, my Liege. 
King. I think thee now fome common cuftomer. 
Dia, By Jove J if ever I knew man, 'twas you. 
King. Wherefore haft thou accus'd him all this wh 
Dia4 Becaufe he's guilty, and he is not guilty ; 

He knows, I am no maid, and he'll fwear to't; 

J'U fwear, I am a maid, and he knows not. 

<ireat King, I am no ftrumpet, by my life; 

I'm either maid, or elfe this old man's wife. 

{Pointing to Li 
King, She does abufe our ears; to prifon with he 
Dia, Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay^ royal S 

[Exit Wii 

The jeweller that owes the ring is fent for. 

And he ftiall furety mc. But for this Lord, [To 1 

Who hath abus'd me, as he knows himfelf, 

Tho' yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him. 

He knows himfelf my bed he hath defil'd. 

And at that time he got his wife with child ; 

Dead tho' ftie be, ftie feels her young one kick : 

^So there's my riddle, one that's dead is quick. 

And now behold the meaning. 

Enter Helena anJ Widow.. 

King* Is there no exorcift 
B^^guiles the truer office of mine ej/cs ? 
1st real, that I fee? 

Hii. Nov my good Lord, 



^ All's well, that Ends well. 9^ 

f *Tis^but a ftadow of a wife you fee, 
I tieji^iiic, faieS not the thijpg., _ 
'i Ber. Both, both ; oh, pardon ! 
I HeL Oh, my good Lord, when I was like this maid, 
B, I I found yf a wond'rous kind; there is yourrin^, 
^ ^ ^ndi lookvyx>a, hotels yow letter^ this it fays, . 
Wl^enfrom my finger you can get this ringf 
And are by me <wtth child, &c. This is done* 
Will you beoiliQe^ now you are douWy wop f 

Ber. If fhe, my Liege, can make me know this deiU'l/y 
I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly, 

.ff^.'^ff it appear not plain,- and prove untrue^ 
Deadly divorce flep between me and you I 
O, my defur ji>other, do I fee you living ? 

[To the CounieJ). 

La/\ Mine eyes fmell onions, I ihall weep anon : * 

QtxyaM^^Drum^ lend me a handkerchief, [T^Parolles. 

So, I|h«nk.thee, wait on me home* I'll make fport 

with thee: let thy courtefies alone, they are fcurvy ones* 

King, Let us from point to point this dory know. 
To make the even troth in pleafure flow : 
If thou beeft yet a frefli uncropped flower, [To Diana* 
Chufe thou thv hun)and, and I'll pay thy dowers 
For I can guels, that by thy honeft aid» 
Thou kept'il a wife herfelf, thyfelf a maid. 
Of that and all the progrefs more and lefs, 
Tils Refolvedly more leifure fliall exprefs : 

All yet feems well, ah4 if it end fo meet. 

The bitter paft, more welcome is the fweet* [E^eunU 



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Spoken by the KING. 

THE King's a beggar, now the play it dooel 
Jll is wiU tndtd^ if this fait be won. 
That you exprejs content ; which we will pay» 
With flrife to pleafe you, day exceeding day ; 
Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts^ 
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.104 Twelfth-Night: Or, 

Even in a mlntite ; (i) fb fDll of fliapes in fancy. 
That it alone is high fantaftical. 

Cur, Will you go hunt, my Lord? 

Duke. What, Curio ^ 

Cur, The hart. 

Duke. Why, fo I do, the npbleft that I have :,».. v. 
O, when ray eyes did fee Oli'via firlK 
Mcthought, (he purg'd the air of peililence ; 
That inftant was I turn'd into a hart. 
And my deiires, like fell and crael hounds, 
-E'er iince purfue me. How now» what news ifrom her t 

Enter Valentine. 

VaL So pleafe my Lord, I might not be admitted^ 
But from her hand-maid do return this anfwer : 
The element itfelf, *lill feven years hence, 
Shnll not behold her face at ample view ; 
But, like a cloyftrefs, (he will veiled walk. 
And water once a day her chamber round 
With eye- offending brine : all this tofeafon 
A brother's dead love, which (he would keep freflk 
And lafting in her fad remembrance. 

Duke. Of (he that hath a heart of that fine frame, 

(l) -^^--fo fuU of JhafttU fancy ^ 

That it ahne is 'b;gbfantafiica!,\ Sbahfpeare has made hh P#* 
hnius (a chata^r, which he defignM ihould be received with laugh* 



for to define true madnefs. 
What is*t. but to be nothing elfe but mad^ 
Bat there is no parity of reafon why his Duke here, who if altogether 
feriou5, an4 moralizing on the qualltes of love, ihould tell us, that 
Fancy IS alone the mod fantaftical thing imaginable. I am perfuaded, 
the alteration of is into in has giv*n us thePoet*8 genuine meaning ; 
that Uve is moft fantaftical, in being fo variable in Us fancies. And 
Sbakefpeare every where fuppofes this to be the diftinguifliing charac- 
teriftic of this paifioo* In hit jis Tou like it, where what it it to be 
io love is defin'd, amongd other marks we have thit } 

It i« to be all made oifantajy. 
And in the fame pliy, Rofaiin J, fpeaking of her lover, fays ; 

If 1 could, meet thit fancy -monger, I would give him feme 

good counfc), fcr he feems to have the quotidian of love upon him. 
An6 a hundred other paflaget might be (quoted, did the matter re* 
^ujre 9Dy proof, ^^ » WaTb«.rt<m« 



What you Will, 105 

To pay this debt of lotc but to a brother^ 
How will ihe love, when the rich golden ihaft 
Hath kiird the flock of all afFbaions elfe 
That live in her? when liver, brain, and heart 
Theie fov'reign thrones, are all fupply'd, and fiU'd^ 
Her fweet perfections, with one (elf-fame King ! 
Away before me to fweet beds of flowers ; 
Love*thoughts lie rich, when canopy 'd with bowers. 

•SCENE, /*/ Strut. 
iMtirVioltLf a Captain ami Saiiarsm 

ytoWJHAT covntry, friends, is thisil 
W C^' Jlfyria, Lady. 
Fio. And what ihould I do in Uljria t 
My brother he is in Sfy/um.^--'^ 
Perchance, he is not drown'd ; what think you, i&iTorsi^ 
Cap» It is perchance, that you yourfelf were fav'di. 
Fio. O my poor brodier I {o, perchance, may he be^ 
Caf* True, Madam: and to comfort your with chance„ 
Aflnre yourielf, after our fliip did iplit, 
When you, and that poor number lav'd with you. 
Hung on our driving boat : I faw your brother. 
Mod provident in peril, bind himfelf 
(Courage and Hope both teaching him the praftice), 
To a ibrong mail, that livM upon the Tea ; 
Where like Jrion on the dolphin's back, 
1 faw him hold acquaintance with the waves,, 
So long as I could fee.. 

Fio. For faying fo, there's gold. 
Mine own efcape unfoldeth to my hope, 
"Whereto thy fpeech ferves for authority. 
The like of him. Know^ thou this country? 

Cap. Ay, Madam, well ; for I was bred and born> 
Kot three hours travel from this very place. 
Fio. Who governs here f 
Cap A noble Duke in nature, as In name*. 
Fio. What is his name f 
Cap. Orfim^ 

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io6 TwELrTH-NiGHXr Or, 

yio, Orjino I I have heard my father name him ; 
He was a bachelor then. 

Cap, And fo is now, or was fo very late; 
For but a month ago 1 went from hence. 
And then 'twas frefh in murmur (as you know» 
What great ones do, the lefs will pratticbf) 
That he did feek the love of fair Oli*via. 

Fio. What's fhe ? 
,. Cap, A virtuous maid, the daughter of a'Count 
That dy'd fome twelve months fince, then leaving 
In the protedion of his fon, her brother. 
Who fhortly alfo dy'd ; for WhofeldeSr k>vllt 
They fay, flie hath abjur'd the fight 
And company of men. 

Vh. O, that I ferv'd that Lady, 
And might not be deliver'd to the world,' 
.'Till I had made mine own occafion mellow 
What my eftate is ! 

Cap, That were hard to compafs ; 
Becaufe fhe will admit no kind of fuit^ 
No, nottheT>uke's. 

Vio, There is a fair behaviour in thee. Captain ] 
And tho* that Nature with a beauteous wall 
Doth oft clofc in pollution ; yet of thee, 
1 will believe, thou hail a mind that fuits 
With this thy fair and outward charadler : 
J pr'ythee, and I'll pay thee bounteoufly. 
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid 
For fuch difguife as, haply, fhall become 
The form of my intent. 1*11 ferve this Duke ; 
Thou (halt prefentme as an eunuch to him. 
It may be worth thy pains y for I can fing. 
And fpeak to him in many forts of mufick. 
That will allow me very worth his fervice. 
Whatelfe may hap, to time I will commit; 
•Only ihape thou thy filence to my wit. 

Cap, Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be 

When my tongue Blabs, then let mine eyes not <i 

Fio. I thank thee ; lead me on. [. 

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WHAt you Will.' Jt>j 

S C E ff E, an apartment in Olivia'j Hnufe. 

Enter Sir Toby, tfW Maria. 

&>7i.lT7HAT a plague means my niece, to take 
W the death of her brother thus ? 1 atn 
fare, care's an enemy to life. . . 

Mar, By my troth. Sir ToSy^ you mu/l come in ear- 
lier a- nights; your niece, my Lady, takes great ex- 
ceptions to your ill hoars* 

Sir To, Why, let her except, before excepted. 

Mar. Ay, but you muft confine yourfelf witinn the 
modeil limits of order. ^ 

Sir To. Confine ? VU confine myfelf no finer than I 
am; thefe cloaths are good enough to drin^k in, and 
to be thefe boots too ; an they be not, let them hang 
them(elves in their own,ftraps. 

Mar. That quaffing and drinking will undo you ; I 
heard my Lady talk of it yeflerday, and of a foolifh 
knight that you brought in one night here, to be^her 
^wooer ? 

Sir To, Who, Sir Andrews Ague-theek? ' 

Mar, Ay, he. 

Sir To, He*» as tall a man as any's in lllyria. 

Mar, What's that to th' purpofe ? 

Sir To, Why he has three thoufand ducats a- year. 

Mar, Ay, but he'Jl have but a year in aFI thefe <JA- 
cats : he's a very fool, and a prodigal. 

,Sir To, Fys that you'll fey fo [ he plays- o'th^ vi«l. 
de-gamho, and fpeaks three or f^ur languages wofd 
for word without book, and hath all. the good gifts 
of Nature. v 

Mar, He hath, indced,-^almoll natural ; fc^r ifc- 
.fides that he's a fool, he's a great quarrcflcr ; and but 
that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gull' jie 
hath in quarrelling, 'tis thour»h< among the priitiCnt, he 
would quickly have the gift of a grave. * 

Sir To. By this hand, they are fcoundreli and fub- 
tradtors that fay fo of him. Who are they ? 

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io8 TwELFTH-NioMT : Or, 

Mar. They that add moreover, he's driuik faightly in 
your company. 

Sir 7i. With drinking healths to my niece : I'll 
drink to her as long as there's a paiTage in my throat, 
and drink in lllyrta. He's a coward, and a coyftril, that 
^ill not drink to my niece 'till his brains torn o'th* 
toe likea parifli top. What, wench ? CaftiHano vulgoi 
for here comes Sir Andrew Ague-cheek. 

Enter Sir Andrew. 
Sir And. Sir Toh^ Belch! how now. Sir Toly Belch f 
Sir ^0. Sweet Sir Andre*w ! 
'^{Sir And. Blefs you, fair Shrew. 

Mar. And you too. Sir. 
\ ^ifTc. Accoft, Sir Andrew, accoft,' 

^ir And. What's that? 
. Sir To. My niece's chamber-maid. ' 

Sir And. Good Miftrefs Acceft, I defire better ac* 
^oaintance. 

Mar. My name is Mary^ Sir. 
., Sir And. Good Mrs. Marry Accoft, ■ > 

Sir To. You miflake. Knight : accoft, is, froot hei^ 
board her, wooe her^ aiTail her. 

Sir And. By my troth, 1 would not undertake her vk 
this company. Is that ther meaning of accoft ? 
Mar. Fare you well. Gentlemen. * 
Sir To. A|n thou let her part fo. Sir Andrew, would 
.|1V^u n^ight'ft never draw fword a^ain. 

Sir And. An you part ^, miftrefs, I would I might 
.)»tver,draw fword again. Fair Lady, do you think yoi^ 
liave iPoolsin hand \ 

Mar. Sir, I have not you by th' hand. 
Sir And. Marry, bat you fiiall have, and here's my^ 
hand. 

Mar. Now, Sir, thought is (rte :. I pray yo», brings 
your hand to th' buttery-oar, and let it drink. 

Sir And. Wherefore^ fwec(-heart I what's your aic— 
taphor ? 

Mar. It's dry. Sir. 



What yov tVfLL; ioj> 

' Sir And* Why/ I think fo : I am not facb an a&» 
but I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jeft \ 
Mar. A dry jeft. Sir. 
^/> And, Are you full of them } 
Mar, Ay, Sir, I have them at my fingers endi i 
snarry, now 1 let go your hand, I am barren. 

[Exit Maria. 

^/> To. O Knight, thon lack'ft a cop of canary : 

when did I fee thee fo put down ? ' 

Sir And, Never in your life, I think, unlefs yos fee 

canary put me down v methinks, fometimct I have no 

more wit than « Chriftian, or an ordinary man Has; 

but I am a great eater of beef, and» I believe, that 

does harm to my wit. 

Sir To. No qneftion. 

, Sir And. An I thought that, Vd forfwtar it . Til ridr 
home to-morrow. Sir Tofy. 

Sir To. Pourqnoy, my dear Kn>ght ? 
Sir And. What is Pourquoj^ T do, or not do ? I would^ 
I had bellowed that time in the tongues tl^at I have ia 
fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting, (a) O, had I but 
follow'd the arts I 

^/> To. Then hadll thon had an excellent head of hair. 
Sir And. Why, would that have mended my hair I 
Sir To. Paft queilion ; fox^ thou feeft» it will not curt 
by ttature* 

(i) 5fr And. O, hailhutfolhw'dthijirtit 

Sir To. Then ba(Pft tbou had an excel/eat bead of btdr* 
Sir And. H^, would that bave mended my bahr f 
Sir To. Puji quffiion j for tbou fetft it wtli not cool my natnre^J 
Prodigious fagacity ! and yet tbas it baf pafs*d'down thro* all tlie 
printed copiet. We cannot enoogh admire that happy indolence of 
Mr. P«/r, which can acquiefce in tranfmitting to ns fiich (hifF /bv 
genuine {tnk and argument. The dialogue is of a very light Arain, 
•tis certain, betwixt two foolilh Knights : but yet I would be very 
glad to know, methinks, what Sir Andrew* t following the Arts, ts 
his Hair being mended, could have to do^iih the ceollngt or not cooi" 
kg, Sir Toiy^s nature. But my emendation clears up all this abfiir>» 
4ity : and the context is an unexceptionable confirmation*.' 
Sir And. But it becomes me well trough, doet't not f 
Sir To* Exc$JJtMt I it ha/igt liAeJiax •» a d'l/lajf > 8(^ 

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no Twelfth-Nioht: Or, 

Sir Jnd. Qut it becomes me well enough, doci 
not ? 

Sir To. Excellent ! It hanjgs like flax on a difta 
and I hope to fee a houfc-wife take thee between 1 
legs, and fpin it oiF. 

Sir And, Faith, I'll home to-morrow, %\tTohy\ y< 
piece will not be feen, or, if fhe be, it's four to < 
ihe'll none of jne: the Duke himfeif here, hard 1 
wooes her. 

Sir To. She'll none o'th'Duke, (he'll not match abi 
lier degree, neither in cftate, years, nor wit ; 1 h 
heaifd her fwear it. Tut, there's life in't, man. 
. 5/>^w/, I'll ftay a month longer. I am a fell 
o'th' ftrangefl mind i'ch' world : I delight in mafks s 
revels fometimes altogether. 
. Sir To. ;Art'thou good at thefe kick-(haws, Knigh 

Sir And. As any man in Illyria whatfoevcr he 
junder the degree of my betters ; and yet I will not c( 
,pare with an old man. 

Sir 7<7. What is thy excellence in a galliard, Knig 

Sir. And. J'aith, I can cut a caper. 

^/> To. And I can cut the mutton to't. 

Sir And. hn^y I think, I have the back-trick, i 
ply as ftrong as any man in Illyria, 

Sir To. Wherefore are thefe things hid? where 
have thefe things a curtain before 'em ? are they lik 
staked uft, like Miftrefs MaWs pidure? why doft t 
not go to church in a galliard, and .come home 
coranto ? my very walk (hould be a jig ! I would 
fo much as make water, but in a iink-a-pace: v 
doft thou mean ? is it a world to hide virtues in ? I 

I cannot pafs over thfi remarkable conundrum betwixt Sir An^ 
wifliing he had follow*d the Arts, and Sir 'Tohy'i application of 
to the yxdn^art in improving his hair : becaufe I would obferve, 
variety and what a contraft of chara£ler the Poet has preferv'd ir 
pair of lidiculous Knights. Sir Toby has moderate natural parts 
a fmattering of education; which makes him always to be rur 
his wit, and gives him a predominance over the other. Sir An 
is a,b1ocich ad by nature, and unimproved by any acquirei^ems 
art ; and To is made the very anvil to inopofitioA and ridicule.. 

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What ^ou Will. • iit 

think^ by the excellent conftitution of thy leg, it was 
form'd under the Har of a galliard. 
. Sir ^nd. Ay, 'tis (Irong, and it does indifferent well 
in a flame^colour'd Hockbg. Shall we fet about fome 
revels ? 

Sir To, Whatihall wc do clfe ? were wc not bora 
under Taurus ? 

Sir And. Taurus^ that's fides and heart. 

Sir To. No, Sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me fee 
thee caper ; ha ! higher : ha, ha ! •— excellent. 

^ S'C E N £ ihangis to tbi Palace. 

Enter Valentine, and Viola in matfs attire* 

Vd. T F the Duke continue thefe favours towards yon, 
X Cefarioy you are like to be much advanced ; lie 
hath known you but three days, and already you are 
no ftran|;er. 

Vio. You either fear his humour, or my negligence, 
that you call in queflion the continuance of his lov%^ 
Is he inconftant. Sir, in his favours ? 

Val. No, believe me. 

£«/^ Puke, CmiOf and Jtiendantu 

Vio. I thank you : here comes the Duke. 

Duke. Who faw Ce/ario^ hoa ? 

Vio. On your attendance, my lord, here. 

Duke. Stand you a- while aloof — Ce/ario^ 
Thou knowell no lefs, but all : I have unclafg'd 
To thee the book even of my fecret foul. 
Therefore, good youth, addrefs thy gate unto her J 
Be not deny'd accefs, Hand at her doors. 
And tell them, there thy fixed foot fhall grow 
, T.ill thou have audience. 

Vio. Sure, nty noble Lord, 
If (he be fo abandoned to her forrow ^ 

As it is fpoke, ihe tever will admit me. 

^ Duke. 



iia Tw£LFTH-NiGpr*r! Or, 

Duh, Be clamoronsy and leap all civil bounds^ 
Rather than make unprofited retcrn. 

Fio, Say, I do fpeak with her, my Lord ; what tHcJ 

Duite, O, then, anfold the paffioo of my love. 
Surprize her with difcQurfe of my deju* faith j 
It (hall become thee well to aft my woes ; 
She will attend it l>etter in thy youth. 
Than in a nuncio of more grave afpedL 

Flo. I think not fo, my Lord. 

Duh. Dear lad, believe it i 
Fbr they (hall yet belie thy happy yearsj^ 
That fay, thou art a man : Diana's lip 
.Is not more fmooth and rubious ; thy fmalf pipe 
Is as the maiden's organ, fhrill, and found, 
i^nd all is femblative a woman^s part. 
I know, thy conHellation is right apt 
Jpor this affair : fome four or five attend hha ^ 
All, if you will ; for I royfelf am beft 
Whenlcaft in company. Profper well in this> 
And thou (halt Uveas freely as thy Lord, 
To call his fortunes thine. 
" Fio I'll do my beft - 
To woo your Lady ; ^yet, -a barful firifct 
Wbo-e'er I woq, myfelf would be his wife* [Exeu 

SCENE changes U OWvWs Houfe. 

Enfer Maria and Clown* 

Mfar. T^T A y, either tell me where thou haft bee 
JlNI or I will not open my lips fo wide as 
bridle may enter, in way of thy ejicufe ; my Lady w 
hang thee for thy abfcnce. 

CU. Let her hang me; he, that is well hang'd 
this world, needs fear no colours. 

Mar. Make that good. 

Cio. He ihall fee none to fean 

Mar. A good lenten anfwer: lean tell thec whe 
that faying was born, of, T fear nocolours^ 

C&. Where, good miArefs Marj ? 

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What you Win; iif 

Mar. In the wars, and that may you be bold to fay 
in your foolery. 

Ch. Well, God give them wifdom that have iti and 
thofc that arc fooh, let them ufe their talents. 

Mar. Yet you will be hang'd for being fo long ab« 
fent, or be turned away ; is not that as good as a hang* 
iog to you ? 

Clo, Marry, a good hanging prevents a bad matt 
riage ; and for taming away, let fummer bear it out. 

Mar. Yon are refolute then ? 

Clo. Not fo. neither, but I am refolv'd on two 
points. 

Mar. That if one break, the other will hold ; or» if 
both break, your gaflcins fall. 

Clo. Apt, in good faith; vtry apt: well, go thy 
way, if Sir Toiy would leave drinking, thou wen at 
witty a piece of E've*$ flefh as any in lUyriOi 

Mar. Peace, you rogue, no more o'that : here comoi 
my Lady ; make your excufe wifely> you were beft. 

{Exit^ 

Enter Olivia, an J Malvolio. 

Clo. VTity ,atod't be thy will, put me into good fooU 
log! thofe wits, that think they have thee, do very 
oft prove fools ; and I, that am fure I lack thee, may 
pafs for a wife man. For what fays ^inapaiusf bet- 
ter ^ witty fool than a foolifh wit. uod blefs thee^ 
Lady! 

Oli. Take the fxK)! away. 

do. Do yoB not hear, fellows, take away the Lady. 

O//. Go to, y'are a dry fool; I'll nomoreof yoa; 
befides, you grow difhonefl. 

Clo. Two faults, Madonay that drink and good couA- 
fel will amend ; for give the dry fool driuK, then v 
the fool nbt dry : bid the difhoneft man mend himfelf ;. 
if he mend, he is no longer diihoneft ; if he cannot, 
let the botcher mend him. Any thing, that's mended, 
is but patch'd ; virtue, that tranfgre&es, is but patch'd 
with fin; 2LnA fw, that amends, h WCx^^IOdJ^^ wjSbl 
i^irtue. I/that this jfimple fyllogifax Vl^V feiNt » to v \^ 



114 Twelfth-Nioht: Or, 

it will not, what remedy ? as there is no true cockoM 
but calamity, fo beauty's a flower : the Lady bade take 
away the fool, therefore, I fay again, take her away. 

O//. Sir, I bade them take away yoii. 
do. Mifprifion in the higheft degree. — Lady, Cu- 
€ullus non fucit m$nachum i that's as much as to fay, I 
wear not motley in my brain : good Madona^ give me 
ifave to prove you a fool. 

O//. Can you do it ? _, 

Clo. Dexteroufly, good Madona. 

Qlu . Make your proof. 

Clo. I muft catechize you for it, Madona y good jny 
Inouie of virtue, anfwer me. 

on. Well, Sir^ for want of. other idlenefs, V\\ bid*. 
yOur proof. 
, Clo., Good Madona^ why mourn'ft thou h 

OIL Good fool, for my brother^ death, 

CU. I think, hb foul is in hell, Madona^ 

OIL I know, his foul is in heav'n, fool*. 
. Clf' The more fool you, Madona^ to mourn fof* 
your brother's foul being in heay'n : take away the 
fool, gentlemen. 

OIL What think you of thi« fool, MahoUo^ doth he 
not mend ^ 

Mai. Yes, ami fhall do,r ^11 the ptangs^f death ^ake 
liim. Infirmity, that decays the wne, doth* ever make 
better the fooL 

Clo. God fend you, Sir, a fpeedy infirmity, for the 
better increafing your folly ! Sir Y/»i^ will be fworn,. 
that I am fto fox ; but he will not pafs his word fox^ two < 
/pence, that yon-are no fool. 

OIL How fay you to that, Mahvolio ? 

Mai. I marvel, your Ladyfhip takes deUght in fuch 
a barren raical ^ I faw him put down the other day 
with an ordinary fooU that has no more brain than a 
ftone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; 
unkfs you laugh imd minifbr occaiion to him, he is 
gagg'd. I proteft, I take thefe wife men^ that crow 
&4itthefe let kind of fools, no better than the. fools ^ 

OIL 









What yov Vfitti itg 

&i: Of you are fick of felf-love, Mal'votiaf and tafle 
with a diftemper'd appetitt. To be generous, goilt- 
lefs, and of free difpofitioB, is to take thofe things for 
bird-bolts that you deem cannon-ballets : there is no 
fiartder in an allowed fool, though he do nothine bft 
rail ; nor no railing in a known difcreet manf, though 
he do nothing but reprove. 

Clo. Now Mercury indue thee with leafing^ for thoa 
fpeak'ft well of fools ! 

i?/r/«r Maria. 

Mar. M^dam, there is at the gatfe a young gentt^- 
jDan, much defircs to fpeak with you. 

Oti. Frbb the Count Orfino, is it ? ^ * 

Mar. I know not> Madajn, 'tis a fair young maD» 
tod well attended. 

on. Who of my people hold him in delay ? 

Mar. Sir Tohy^ Madam^ your uncle* 

Oli. Fetch him off, I pray you, he fpeaks nothing 
but madman : fy on him ! Go you^ Malvoih ; if it t)e 
a fuit from the Count, I am iick, or not at home: 
What you will, to difmifs it. [Exit Malvolio.] Now 
you fee, Sir^, how your fooling grows old, and people 
diftike it- 

CU. ThovL haft fpoke for us, Madona^ as if thv 
cldeft fon fhould be a fool, whofe fcull Jove cram wit« 
brains, for here comes one of thy kin has a moft weik' 
fia maSer /— — 

Enter Sir Toby. 

Oli. By mine honour, half drunk. What is he.<at 
the gate, uncle ? 

Sir 7Vi A gentleman. 

XMr. A gienticfinai I what gentleman ? > 

SirTi. ^h a gendeman. Here, — — [belchesJi A 
irfagte 0^ thcfepickie hei-rittg !. how now, fot f 

Clo. Good Sir r«riJ;,— — • 

OH. Uncle, oncley ibow have )90u come fo early by 
this lethargy f 

Sir 7i% 



-ii6 TwiLFTH-NioHT: Or, 

Sir To. Letcheiy, I def/ letchtry; there's ont af 
the gate. 

Oii, Ay 9 marry, what is he ? 

^/> To. Let him be the devil and he will, I care not: 
give me faith, fay I. We]), it's all one. [£xa* 

Oli. What's a drunken man like, fool ? 

Clo, Like a drown'd man, a fool, and a madman? 
one draught above' heat makes him a fool ; the iecond 
mads him ; and a third drowns him. 

Oli, Go thoa and feek the coroner, and let him fit 
o' my ancle ; for he's in the third degree of drink; 
lie's drown'd ; go look after him* 

Ck. He is but mad yet, Madona^ and the fool ihall 
'Jook to the madman. {fxit Cbvii, 

Enter Malvolio. 

MaL Madam, yond young fellow fwears he will 
fpeak with you. I told him, you were fick ; he takei 
on him to underftand fb much, and therefore comes to 
fpeak with you. I told him, you were aileep ; he feems 
to have a fore-knowledge of that too, and therefbie 
comes to fpeak with you. What is to be faid to hin, 
X^dy ? he's fortified againft any denial. 

Oli. Tell him, he mall not fpeak with me. 

MaL He has been told fo; and he fays, he'll ftand 
at your door like a Sheriff's poft, and be the fuppoittr 
to a bench, but he'll fpeak with yoii«. ' 

Oli. What kind o'man is he ? 

MmI. Why, of mankind. 

O//. What manner of man ? 

Mai. Of. very ill manners 5 he'll fpeak with yOO| I 
will you or no. 

Oli* Of what perfonage and years is he ? . 

MaL Not yet old enough for a man, aor yoang 
enough for a boy ; as a fquaih is before 'tis a peafcod, 
or a codling when 'tis almoft an apple: 'tis with him 
in (landing water, between boy and man. He is very 
well-favour'd, and he ' fpeaks very ihrewilhly ; one 
would think his fflO|hers mil]^ were fcarce out of 
him. 



^ What you Wiljl; lif 

tiS. Let him approach ! call in my gentlewomftti. 
Mai. Gentlewoman^ my Lady calls* lExiff 

Ent£r Maria. 

OU, Give me my veil : come, throw it o^er my facei 
^eHl once more hear ^rfino*s embaify* 

Enter Viola. 

OL The honourable Lady of the houfe, which ii 
Ihe? 

O//. Speak to me, t (hall anfwer for her t your will } 

Vio% Moft radiant, exqqifite, and unm^tchable beau* 

ty 1 pray you, tell me, if this l)e the Lady of the 

honfe, for I never faw her. I would be loath to caft 
away my fpeech ; for, besides that it is excellently well 
penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it. Good 
peantieSf let me fuftain no fcorn ; I am very compti« 
ble, even to the leaft iinifier ufage* 

Oli. Whence came you. Sir } 

Fio. I can fay little more than t have ftudied, and 
fliat queftion's oat of my part. Good gentle one, -give 
me modell aiTurance, if you be the Lady of the houfe^ 
that I may proceed in my fpeech. 

O/r. Are yOtt a Comedian ? 

Fio. No, my profound heart ; and yet, by the vttf 
Faiigs of malice, Ifsvear, lam not that 1 play. Are 
you the Lady of the houfe ? 

Oli, If I do not ufurp myfclf, I am. 

Flo. Moft certain, if you are (he, you do ttfurp yottf 
tlf ; for what is yours to beftow, is not yours to re- 
ferve ; but this is from my commiiSon I will ofi 
with my fpeech in your praife, and then ^ew you the 
heart of my melTage. 

Oli. Come to what is Important in*t: I forgive yoa 
the praife. 

Ff9. Alas> I took great pains to flady it, and 'tis 
i)oetical. 

Oli. It is the more like to be feignM. Ipray you> 
keep it in 1 heard, you were fawcy at my gates ; ^nd 
I ^low'd your approach, rather to wonder ac you than 

I to 



'Ji8 Tw^^LPTH-NiGHT r Or, 

to hear you. If you be not road, be gone; if^yoa 
have reafon, be brief : 'tis not that time of the moon 
with me, to make one in fo fkipping a dialogue. 

Mar. Will you hoiftfail, Sir? here lies your way. 
: Fio, No, good fwabber, I am .to hyll here a little 
longer. Some molliiication for your giaot^ fw«n 
Lady : tell me your mind, I. am ameflenger. 

O//. Sure, you have fome hideous matter to deliver, 
when the curtcfy of it is fo fearful. Speak your of- 
^ce. 

Vio. It alone concerns your ear. 1 bring no overture 
of war, no taxation of homage ; I hold the olive in my 
hand : my words are as full of peace, as matter. 

O//. Yet you began rudely. What are you ? what 
would you ? 

yio. The rudenefs, that hath appearM in me, have 
I iearn'd from my entertainment. What I am, and 
what I would, are a^ fecret as maiden-head ; to .yottr 
cars, divinity ; to any other's, prophanation. 

OH. Give us the place alone. [Exit Maria.] We will 
hear this divinity. Now, Sir, what is your text ? 

Fio. Moft fwcet Lady, 

Oli. A comfortable do6lrine, and much may be &id 
of it. Where lies your te^ct ? 

Fio. In Orfind*s bofom. 

Oli, In his bofom ? in what chapter of his bofoxn ? 

Fio. To anf^er by the method, in the firH of his 
heart. 

Oli. O, I have read it ; it is kerefy. Have you no 
more to fay ? 

Fio. Good madam, let me fee your face. 

Oli, Have you any commifiion from your Lord to 
negotiate with my face ? you are now out of your 
text ; but we will draw the curtain, and fhew you the 
.piflure. (3) Look you. Sir, fuch a one I wear this 
prefent : is^t not well done ? [Uji<ueiling. 

(3) Look you f 5fr, fucb a one I was tbit prefent : Wt not toetl done f] 

,Tht3 is nonfenfe. My (;orredion» I think, clears all op, and gives the 

exprefltiMi an tir of gallantly. VtoU preiTet to ice OiSvicV face : the 

^ ' otheY 



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What you Wixu ij^ 

f^io. Excellently done, if God did all. 
O//. 'Tis in grain. Sir; 'twill endure wind and 
weather. 

Fio. *Titf bcaufy traly blent, whofe red and white 
Nature's own fweet and cunning hand laid on : 
Lady, you are the cr^ielPft Ihe alive. 
If you will fead thefe graces to the grave, 
And leave the world no copy. 

Oli. O, Sir, I will not be To iiard-hcartcd : I wHP 
give out diverfe fchedules of my beauty. It Aiall be 
inventoried, tnd every particle and ateniil labelled to 
jny will. As, Itenty two lips in different red. Itentf 
two grey tyts^ with lids* to them. ///«r, one neck, 
one chin, and fo forth. Were you fent hither to 
praifem^e'? 

Fio, I fee you, what you are ; you are too proud ; 
But if you were the devil*, you art fair. 
My Lord and Mailer loves you: O, fuch love 
Could be but recompensed, tho* you were crown'd 
The non-pareil of beauty ! 
Oli, How does he love me ? 
Vio^ With adorations, with fertile tears, 
With groans that thunder love, with fighs of fire, 

Oli. Your Lord does know my mind, 1 cannot love himj 
Yet 1 fuppofe him virtuous, know him noble, 
Of great eftate, of ffeih and flainlefs youth ; 
In voices well divulg'd 5 free, learned, and valiant 5 
And in dimenlion, and the fhape of Nature, 
A gracious perfon ; but yet I cannot love him : 
He might have took his anfwer long ago. 

Fio, If I did love you in my Matter's flame. 
With fuch a fufPring, fuch a deadly life, 

■% 
other at length pulU oflf her veil, ami fays $ H^e vfiUJrattf the curtain, 
end jhtwyou the Pidture. I wear this complexion to-day, I may wear 
another to-morrow ; jocularly intimating, that ^tfainttd. The other, 
"vext at the jeft, fays, f< Excellently dnty if God did all.** Perhaps, 
It may be true, what you fay in jeft : otherwlfe'cis an excellent face, 
' ^7i( 10 ^M/n, Ace. repKes O^MT, VLx%Warbnrtvu 

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120 TwELFTH-NlGHT! Of, 

n your denial I wonld find no fenftf : 
4 would not anderiland it. 

OIL Why, what would you do ? 

Fi9> Make me a willow cabin at your gate^ 
JLnd call upon my foul within the houfe | 
Write royal canto's of contemned love, 
And (ing them loud even in the dead of night t 
4) Hollow your name to the reverberant hUlif 
And make the babling goffip of the air 
Cry out, Olivia ! O you /hould not reft 
between the elements of air and earth, , 
Cut you (hould pity me. 

Oli. You might do much : 
What is your parentage ? 

Vio. Above my fortunes, yet my lHate is wet 
\ am a gentleman. 

Oli. Get you to yottr Lord ; 
' cannot love himt let him fend no more ; 
Jnlefs, perchance, you come to me again. 
To tell me how he takes it ; fare you well : 
\ thank you for your pains ; fpend this for me. 

Vio. I am no feed poft. Lady; keep your purfe : 
My matter, not my {elf, lacks recom pence. 
Love makes his heart of flint, that you (hall Iove» 
And let your fervour, like my Mailer's, be 
;*lac*d in contempt I farewel, fair cruelty. [£x/V* 

0/r\ What is your parentage ? 
Ahovt my fortunes^ ytt myftale is nvell : — "> — 
I am a gentJemam — I'll be fwom thou art» 
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, a^ons, and fpirit, 
Do give thee five-fold bla«on — not too faft— foftl foft' 
Unlefs the maftcr were the man,— How now i 
Even fo quickly may one catch the plague ? 
Methinks, I feel this youth's perfeftions^ 
With an invifible and fiibtile fteaith, 

(4) HoUowyour fidWit to thi reverberate hUk.'\ \ hatt, igainft t^e 
auth' ritv of ihc printed copies, corr^^d, rtviritrtmt* The aoj^^^t 
f aflive makes aonCcaft, 

To 



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Tt) creep iti'at mine eyes. Well^ fc^tit'be — 

'Mai, Here, Madaniy at your ferviceA , i •\ .'i I 
0/f. Run after that fame pecviBi mel^lngef, , , , \ . 
'the Duke's man ; he left/this ring behind hlm^^ 
yi)aldl/pr not/: tell him. Til none of it., , :, | 

iJefirc him not to flatter with his Lord^ .., ,..^ i 
I^br hold hiirf lib witK hopes ; I ap ioj^ iFflir him f » 

If ttaft the'youtn will comcthi's way tOfmor/;o«i(,. .^ 

rJl give him reafons for't. Hye thee, Jlfn/W/p*^ 
^Mal. Mad^m.r I- will. ,, . ., [S^'t. 

] p//. I do, I know npt vbhat ; and fear to find 
Mine eye too great a flattejer for my mind : » . 
Fate, (hew thy force ; ouritlves we do not owe $ ) 
What IS decreed, muft i(>e| and \^ this fo I [Exi/^ 



A, C T 11. 

S C £ N.E,. the Street, 
£/fter Antonio «)r^ Sebaftiao.* 

A^NTONIO.. 



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ILL you ftay no longer? nor will yotl not, that 
I go with you ? 

Sfi6. By your patience, no: my ftars ihine dark-^ 
\y over me: the malignancy of my fate might; 
perhaps, diftempef yours; therefore I (hall brave 'oif 
you vour leave, that I may bear my evils 'alone* 'It 
JiferifL bad fetompence for your love, to lay an/ of 
thera on. you. ■ . • \ 

-«#«/.. Let ipe yet know of you, wjiither youvfre 
Bounds -^ 

' &^. No, footh> Sir; my determinate voyage is meri 
'"•Vol. III. F m\^- 



lit TwsLrTH-NioRT: Oft 

extravagancy: but I perceive ifi )roii focacelleat a 
Ca«ch of nodefty, ciiac yom will not exioit from ne 
what I am willing to keep in; tliefefefeic charges ne 
in nanners ibe radier to exprefi mylelf : yoa innC 
know of me Aen^ J^t^nh^ tny name is Stkifiuuh 9fkkk 
I callM kodsHg^ I my father was thit ^htfium of Utf" 
fabmit whom,. I know, you hj^ve heafd of. H^ Idft 
behind htm, myfelf, and a After, bodi bom m one 
honr; if the heav'ns had been pllsas'd, woold we had 
io ended I bnt von, Sir, alterM that } ibr, Ibme ho«f 
before yon took me from the bleach of the iea» was 
my fiUcrdfown'd. 
Am. Alas, the day 1 

&V^. A Lady, Sir, the* it was fatd ihe modi re&m- 
bled me, was yet oftnany accounted beautiful; but 
tlio* 1 could not with foch eftimaUe wonder over-fitf 
believe that, yet thus hit I will boldly pubiifh her, Ihe 
bore a mind that envry could not but call feir: (he 
is drown'd already. Sir, with fait water, tho' I fecm 
fX) drown her remembrance again with more* . 
Jnt. Pardon me. Sir, your bad entertainment* 
$eh^ O good Ant^nie^ forgive me your trouble. 
Ant, If you will not murder me for my love, let me 
be your fcrvant. 

ktb. If you will not undo what yon have done# that 
is, kill him whom you have recoverM, defire it not« 
Fare ye well at once; my bofom is fuir of kindnefff 
and 1 am yet fo near the manners of my mother, that 
unon the leaft occafion more, mine eyes will tell tales 
i»t me s I am boond to the Doke OrJMl court; fare> 
wel. [Awf. 

Am. The gentlenefs^of all the gods go with dMie I 
] have made enemies in OrJiw^% court, 
Elfe would I very (hortly fee thee there : 
Biit come what may, I do adore thee (b, 
%\M danger Aall feem fport, and I will g0. (JWr» 

JETn/rr Viola An/ Malvolio, dt feveral dotn. 

'■ Hal. Were not yoB e*ea now with the CoMtefi 



What you Will; 123 

. KvtiiBOWi Sir I osaiBodefiitepacelliavefinoe 
rd bat hither. 

/• ihe returns this ring to jroo* Sir ; yeu might 
(aved me my paina; to have taken it awaf yoar 
Sh« tddt moreover, that yo« ii^ld pot your 
into a^defperate aCorance, ihe will none of hini« 
one Uiinff more, that you be never fo hardy t^ 
again in nit affairs, nnlefs it be to report yo«r 
'a taking of this : i^ceive it fa^ 
•• She took dke ring of me. Til none of it. 
J. Conie, Sir, yon peeviflily threw it fo her, and 
RriU is, it flionld be fo returned : if it be worth 
log for, diere it lies in your eye} if not, be it his 
finds it* {Exff* 

^ I left no ring with her ; what means this Lady ^ 
ine forbid, my oatfide have not charmM her I 
Mife good view of me ; indeed, fo mnch, 
, ittre, methooght, her eyes had loft her tongue | 
he did fpeak in ftarts diftradedly : 
ovcs me, fnre ; the cunning of her paSou 
es me in this churliik mefllettger^ 
} of my Lord's ring f why, he fent her aofte. 
the man*— -if it be fo, (aS) 'tiss) 
Lady, file were better love a dream, 
aife, t fee thou art a wickednefs, 
rein the pregnant enemy does much* 
eafy iiit, ior the proper falie 
mais waxen hearts to fet their fo|^ps I 
, our frailty is the ca«i(e, not we/ 
uch as we are made^ ^%h wet)e. 

wiU this fadge^ my mafter l<»ves herdeaifft 

]« poormonfter, foAQ a^mirchonhimi 

(he, miftaketty ieeaas to dote on me : 

(t will become of this! as I amman^ 

Ifte is defpentte for my mailer's iovei 

am woman, (now, alas the day I) 

t tbtiftlefs fijpis (hall ooor Mwa bcealhni 

he; thou mUR untangle this, not I ; 

(OalMir4i^llMMKforl»et*iifity« ||^« 



114 TwELnrtt-NiGHT: Or, 

• SCENE changes to OSvta's Ho\ifc7 ^[ ^ 
Enter Str Tchyf and Sif Andrew, 

Sir 7>. A Pproach, Sin Andtruit noti to be a^bed af^: 
2\, ur< mideight, it. to-be; up betimes; and 
1)ilnculo /urger^ tboa koow'ily*— — 
.^^ir And. Nay, by my troth, I know not: bat I 
know, to be up late,. < is to be up late. 

Zir To. A £Me conclufioo : 1 hate it, «s an unfill'd 
OEin ; to be «p after midoight, and to go to bed then, 
i^ early; fo t^at to^go lo W after midnight, is to go 
tp bed betipie«* Does not oar life. coafift of the tSai. 
foments? 

Sir And. 'Failh, fi> they fay; but, I think, it rather 
con fids of eating and drinking. 

^/> To. Th'art a fcholar, let us- therefore eat and' 
dr^. Marif / I (ay !— a Aeop of wine. "" 

j^ . £titer Clown., . ^ 

Sir And. Here coches the fool, i* faith. ; 

Clo.^ Mow now, iriy hearts ? did you never ^fce the^ 
pifture of wc three? 

Sir To. Welcome, afs, now- let^s have a catch. 1 

Sir And. (5) By my troth, the fool has an excellent^ 
breaft. 1 had rather than forty (hillings I hrad foeh A 
kg, and fo fwcet a breath to fing, as the fOol has."* 'In-^ 
footh, thou wail iii' very graciotis fooling laft *ight/ 

( 5) By my froth, tbtfoti has an exce'Uftt' hnttkdl I %«Ve hcttt iiivll* J 
to read, ^^J^ihert. B«r the text is, certainly, right wiclyoattij 
alteration. Ihe allttfion \§ not to the claw n. having.* >fi>b lie fkjn,.bil^ 
9 good pouer iT» finging. It was a pbrafc in vogue, in ooraythor*! 
time. In a Spamjb vocabularv, pr.ntcd in Queen ElixabttFii ^c^gVy 
^quel t'unt linda ithi h thus expounded ; ffe basagooH l>^ift/ U e, 
as we now fay, gpbd->«ng»,v(b Ifold tfut in ftag!«lg.' ho^Beifijiti^^ip 
in his mafaue of GipJfilfjn^fmcifbos*4y , < >, r >' /. 

An txcti^ej^fpi^ft^^i aXji^tt iuag^tir, andwottljl; hajae do)i» r;^felf 
in a ca c, w ith a dim of jvMer and hen)j)recd j Ape hrfaft pf hit. own ! , 
ArAS^eaumwf»n^Fi^f/be)^,it\ihclrPilgnm'^ ' \ 

' Pn/ yoU; ftajr a llitle : Uf 8 heir hiia! Dtfg, h^ttt kBttt hredtfii ' 

:• ^' A '^ I t 4 *^^* 



wlien'thou ipok^ft of PUregromitus, pf tjit' Fafiofu paf- 
fing the, equinp^Ual bt. ^ueubus i 'twas very- good, 

i* faith:' (6) I fent '(Kee. fi|[-p$nce for thv- Lemaa, 

had'ft It ? 

^j^ Cip J J^d iinppmco|..rtJyyg^ -fot Mahtflto's 

*nofe Is no wmp-iltocK. ' My Lady has a white hand f. and 

the Myrmidons are no bottle-^eJioufes. / 
^^,^ir'Aud, Excellent: why^ this is the beft fooling, 
.when air is done. Novir,.afbng.— * r 

^ Sir To* Come on, there's fix-pei^ce for you. Let's 

lave ^,fong. . /• s 

J, ^/> j^nd. Theie'j a teilril^f ^mp too ; if on^e JSnignt 

give a — " * • • 'a 

; CJo^ Wo^Id yott haye ;a love-fonr,. of a. (bng of 

gppd life ? 
Sir^ol^ A lovc-fong, a love-rong. 

♦ .Sir And. Ay, ay, I care not for good life. 

Clown ^^j, 
I :^* . J A iVKfiafs mine, where ai:e yp*i foaming ? 
O flay and.he^, your trneli^vc's coming. 
That can fing both hi eh and low. 

* Trij|) no Yurther, pretty tweeting ; 
, JcMirneys end in Jovcrs meetings 

V . -Ey'ry wife man's fon doth know* 

5/r ^ff^. Excellent good, i* faith ! 

5/> 71?,^^ Gpod/ good. ' " ; *. ' 

. C/p. What is love ? 'tis not hereafter; •; 

Prcfent mirth hath prefent langbter : > . 
' i .' . ' ■■;'}■'', • ■;, I V ■•■ ; 

'^6) Jfentth^ fix'feBct fkr'tiyf Lemon, badCft »V.] Bat the CIo^« 
^waVAeither pan tier, nor butler. The Poet*s word was certainly mMr- 
^taken by the ignorance ofthe Printers. I have Veftored, teman^ i. e. 
2tl feot tbee fix-pence to fpend on thy noiftrefs. So, in Merry H^vaet 
>^Windforj . • ; 

, w-^ •• jealoui a«F«ri, -that learch'd a holloW vallnut for hit 
*«ifeV/MMW} •• 
^%BeHryVV. i . - 

A cup: of wise, tfaaf 84}ri/lc and f nty ' 
.- '■■-• And drinir imeto the /(MtoAJaSine j^ ; 

.ThcSpFordvas ufed indifferently, to figntfy^ either a mtfinfs^ or gaA* 
Aiaf } at the wordy kvtr^ ftood for both fexes* 
.v: Fj What's 



m5 t^EftTH-NlQHT: Or^ 

\l7bat'8 to coine, is ftill vftfore ; 
In delay there lies no plenty : 
Then come kifs me, flWeet, and twenty : 
' Yonth's a ftttfP iPidU not ^ndnne. 

ih dni. A melliflooifl Vmce, ^ lam a tm^ Kkight 

^ir To. A contagions breath. 

Sir And. Vtrj fweet and contagion^, i' faith. 

Sir To. To hear by the noie, it is dulcet in coip 
tagton. Bat fhalTWe make the welkin dance, indeed? 
(7) Shall we ronste the night-dwl- inaxatch, that will 
draw three ibnls out of one weaver? (hall we do that? 

SirJmd* An yon love me» let's do't: I am a dog at 
a catch. 

CI9. ByW Lady, Sir, and fdme rfogs will catch welL 

Sir Amid. Moftcertain; let our catch bc^ -TSvik ibai^ 

(7) Sbal! «M reitKi the mght-trnfl m a eatihg thst k vi/t draw thfCt 
fooll out •/»• weaver?] i. e. by »hich he (hali be thrkt traafported, 
or equally tranfported wifb every one of os tbrn fingen. As for drmavf 
wt thtJ6m\ tbia it a pbfaie, wiiich, at itieeat, our asdior ddiibta 
to ufe, to cxiwcis the rmnfliiof power of mofick. > 

Much Ado al>oot ffttkUg. 

Now is his foul raviihM. Is It not ftrange that &cep*f guts (hooM 
hdUfinb mt of men'rbcdies, &€i 

But, perhaps, by mentioning tbm fiuht Sir To^f ni'y be-hiflt'og 
at tne ftfipamie phUofopfay (the learning then in vogae,) which very 
liberally gaipe to every m9a\ three lools, the vtptaiiv or fUfiie, the 
««mm/, and the raiumiU^ I would not ima^ne th^t Shak^tart had 
no farther diift in this, than either to expofe that fyftem, or make a 
parade of h:s own kudwkdge. Thofe, who are converfant in hiril, 
can*t but objavej tfast he Uket delight on all occaions to difplay tho 
great power and force of mufick. And here, in the moft extrao'di* 
fiary^ laaiiner,. he conveys^ ot the idea of that power in ita foil ex* 
tent as we, receive it from poetical relations. For in fpeakiog of W% 
power, to draw the three fotilt ootof a man, wna. the vegitativt or 
plaftict the fcofative or afitiDal,«nd the rational or human, he would 
Innnuate tons all thofe forprizing effr^s of mufick that the aiitiesita 
fpeiik o^> when theyctfll o« of jbKfhh» Vrhomev'd ftonea and trees | 
Orpbeut and Arien, who tam*d the favages \ and Imot^etu^ who go* 
vern*d as he pleas*d the paffions of his human auditors, by the inc* 
fiAible force of harmoa^. ••»— *^ 80 ^le and ektraordhsary an ob« 
fervation has ooravtfaor c#ver*d onder llie ribaldry of a fanuftick 
chtftder* Uxstfm^mtmim 



What votr Witt/^ ^rf; 

t:U. HMtfy peacn, thou Jtmavtf lUigHt. T&aHtie 
ConftndnM in>, to call the knave. Knight. ' 

Sirj^td. *Tis set the firft HnBe F have conftrain'd 
one to call me knave. Begin, fool ; it begins, NeU 
tfypeacg. 

Clo. I fhall never begin, if I hold my peace; , 

SirJnd. Good, i' faith: come, begin. "^ , ' 

[^bey^ifg a Cftcb. 

Enter Maria. 

Mat. Whatii cttterwauling do yo« kiep here ^ if 
ny Lady have aot callM up her fleward, Mahviia^ «nd 
bid him turn you out of doors, never traft me. 

Sit T; My Lady'^ a catajan^ we are politicians, 
Mal<v0Mt a fig'a ^awtfty^ and thru merry inen ie m/e. 
Am not I confanguinioHS? am I not of her blood? 
Tiify nfoUj^f iMJy T tbmt Jwek a mam in Babylon, Lady^ 
Lady* ISinging. 

Clo. BeflirewjDe, the Kntrht's in admirable fooling. 

^r And. Ay, Jie does weU enough if \it be dtfpo»'d, 
and lb dio I too t he does it with a letter graced but I do 
it more naturaL 

Sit yi. O thi twelfth dof of Dectmber,^^ X^lngimg, 

Mat. For the love o' God, peace. ' 

Enter Malvdio. 

MaL MyMaftert, are you mad ? or what are yon ? 
kave you no wit, manners, nor honefty, bot to gabble 
like tinkers at this time of night? do you make an ale- 
iMKiie of kny Lady's hoirfe, l^at ye fqueaik out. ybor co- 
SBiers catches without any mitigation or remorie of 
^ice ? 19 there no refpeft of place, pcrfons, nor time 
in you? 

Sit Tb» We did keep time. Sir, in oim: eacchet • 
Sneck up 1 — [Hiccoughu 

Med. Sir Tdy^ I muft be nmnd with you. My Lady 
iMide me tell you, that ihe harbours you as her unt* 
de, ihe's nothing aliyd to your dilbrdera. If you cah 
fejHU-ate yourfcJf znd your mifdemeanott, ^vv «it >^ A- 
ceuac to the hoafci if not, an it wouLi i^\^^ n^m^ ^ 
F 4 *" ' vi!» 



^i%% T V jB f r-T H ^N I o Hj V Or, 

^Ulbc .^etTe .of hef, ihe is very willing to bidyouiaat* 

wel. • • • •) 

; . SirTo^ Fa^envtly dear btart, JSna I muft meals h $9Mt* 

' MaL Nay, good Sir T^^. > 

do. His lyts dojhtw^ his da^^s art almoft dotu. ■ k 

Mil. U'tcvcnfo? 

^i> iT'tf^ fiut I will never die. ^. , . ., 

4 C/f. Sir Tofy. there you lye. 

Mai. This irmach credit to yoo. 

Sir To. Shall I hid him go f ^ [Ringing. 

• Cl^W^m^am^youdor r 

niirTo. Shall I hid him gOf andfpareuoif 

Clo. O 99% nOf noj jfom dan uoU 

£irTo. Ooto'time, Sir ?v ye lye: «Jt thou any more 
tlun a Seward ? doA thoa think, becaoie thoa art vii« 
tliOQS^ there, (hall be no mc^ cakes and ale? 

Qlo.. Ye$» by faint Jmu ; and glngar (hall be hot 
j'th' npcuth too. 

Sir tf. Thcu'rt i'th* right. Gb, .Sir, rob ybar chain 
With croms. A (loop of wine, Maria, i\ ■■ 
» .. MaJ* fii&HfsMary^ if you pria'd my Lady'» favOif 
at any thing more than contempt, you 4)vould not gii^ 
4neao$'for thia itt^eWil rajes 'ihe 'fliaUknow vf it,' by 
this" hand. ., , > . . r - [Ar/7. 

Mar. Go, (hake your ^^rs. , 

Sir And. *Twere as good a deed' as to^ drink .when a 
'man's. 4 iit^ry^ to challenge him to 'the' field /and 
then to bicak ^roaniie wkh Imn/ and make a fool 6f 
^im.:< •:■•■•• '- ■ ' 

. iSit T6.\ JDa*t» Knight, Fll write thee a^ challenge : dr 
•I'lLdelivvr tliy indignation t0 him by word of mouth. '^ 

Afar. Sweet ^xTwhy^ be patient vfor- to-night ; liflt[c 
the youth of the Duke's was to-day with my Lady, 
iheiammi^oat of quiet. . For Monlieor M^/W/V?, let 
xne alone ' with him : if I do not gull him into a nay- 
ivord» • and. make him a common Vecreation, da not 
^hink, I have wit enough to He (Iraight in my be^: 
I knowi I can dofctt* : . * 

^/ViTtf* PoiTefs iiSy pbiTcis us, tell us Something 0f 
iam. . . . - ^ - . . . v.-^ 

♦J . * , - Af«r. 



^' iSi/: Marry, Sir, fom^timfcs he is a kiBdt>f a Puritan. 
^/> JTid. 0» if I thought that,. I'd^ beat him like 4 i 

' ^rVhP'in^x^' for being a Puritan ^ thy exqiiifite 

reafon^ dear Knight. 

^ 'Sir And. 1 have* nb exquifite reafbn fdr't, but I hav^ 

leafo^ good enough. 

^ A/iw. The devil- a Puritan that he is, or any thing 

conilantly but a time-pleafer ; an affe^ion'd afs, th^ 

^ons ftatc without book, and utters it b*y great fwarths^ 

T{^e beil perfuaded of himfelfj fo cram'd^ m hfe thinks^. 

#ith excellencies, that it is his grouijd of ''faith, thaf 

tfl th^t look on him, love him ; and dii thfit vice in hiia 

itiH m)brevenge find notable caufe to work. 

Sir Tq. Wh^ wilt tjiou do H 

Mar, rwih drop in his way (bme obfcure epiftles of" 
love, whfcein, by. the ^^lour tyf ,his ^beuidiLthe (hape^ 
of his, leg, the manner of h.is gate, tbe expr<0urc ^ 
^xstfye, mrehead, and cbiiiplexion, he fliall ^find him- 
felf moft feelingly pcrfonaieid. I can write vety Tike ro^ 
Lady yoi^r. niece ; On a forgotten matter we can hardly: 
make diftinflion of our hands. > , 

Sir To. Excellent; 1 fineH a device. 

^/> Jnd. rhave't in my nofe tpo. 

Sir To. Hefltall think by the letters, that thou wilt 
isfVf that th^y come iro|n my niece, and that ihe is in* 
fevfewlUihiifft ""-"'^ ''* '• • " ' "V' *» 

Mar. Mypurpofe is, indeed, a.lH>rfe of jtliat colourl 

Sir ^4*^ ^^^4 y^^^ horie now \yould xn^ke him>n) 

"Mar. Aft, Idotibtnor. • ' - ^ 

Sir And. O, 'twill be admirably; 
. Mar^ iSport royal*, I warrant ' you : I know, my pB-y^ 
fckvWYll work with hiim 
the fool makea thil'd, 
obferve his conftniftib 
dream on the event; . 'Farewel. '. ' . 'V. * Z :' [Bxift- 

Sir To. Goodnight, PentBiJttea, • ^ ^ ^^ • . 

Sir And Befo/e me, /he's a eood wench* 







F 5 ^ Sir 



igo TwiLJPTfi-NfCHT: Or, 

Sir 7i. She*s a beagle» truo^bred, and oi^ timt wimt$ 
tie; whato'Aait? 

Sir JnJ.TwaitioT^ once too. 

Sir To. tce$, CO bed, Knigbt a thoo luutt need ftad 
for more mbnev. 

Sir And. It I cannot rccoYcr your nit c^ I am a 
foal Way odt. 

Sir To. Send for money. Knight : if thoa haft lier 
|Soti*tb*end, call me cut. 

Sir And* If I do not, never tnift me, take it hoar 
yon will ^ 

: Sir To. Oniie, come, ni go bom feme Sack, *& 
too tate to goto bed now; come. Knight; oome, 
Knight. \]^iim(U 

SCENE changes to the Tahik. 
tMNrDvke, Viola, Cwio^ 4md§thrf. 

Didti. A^ I VE liie feme mnfick ; now, good lM> 

Vj row, friends i 
Kow, good Cf/ario, but th^t piece of feng. 
That old and antique fong, we heard laft night f 
Methought, it did relieve my paffion much ; 
More than light airs, and recollected terma 
Of tbefe moft briik and giddy-placed tinaes* 
Come, but one vcrte. 

Cwr. He if not here, lb pleafe yonr Iiordfiiip, that 
Ihottld iioeit. 

Dub. Who w?w It ? 

Cur. Tifii the jeHer, my Loid, a fool that the Ladjr 
OkwA^i father took much delight in. He is aboet 
the houfe. 

, DidiSt. Seek him out, and play the tune the while. 

[Exit Curio. ^ {MiifidU 
Come hifftef,' hoy\ \fiYtt thowlhalt lore, 
Jn the ^eet paiigs of it, remember me; 
For fudi as I am, all true lovers are ; 
Unftaid and ikitti(h in all motions elfe. 
Save in the conftant ima?e of the creature 
That is belov'd. How &A thou like this tune f 

* /7^ 



v 



'' Wit At tou Will; rji 

1^ It gives a veiy €cko to the feat 
Wberelove is tbronM. . 

Duh. Thoa doft ipeak inailerty. 
Mj life opon% young tho* thoa art* tiuiie eye 
Hath ftaid opon fome faroar that it loves : 
Hath it not, boy? 

/70. AHttle, byyoiirfaToaf. 

DitJti. What kind of wonan Wtl 

Vi9* Of yoar cc^plexion. ^ 

J}uh. She is not worth thee then. WUt yeax^, i* faith f 

yu. About your years, mj^ Lord^ 

Thih.^ Tooold,^ by heav'a; iet ftiUdie wotian talce 
An elder than herfelf, fo wears file to Imii. 
^ fw^t ftielevel in her ho&and's Jbeart. - ' 
For, bo)r, howeter we do praife ottrfelvei^i ' « K 
Onr fimcies are more ^'^'^'^ and tinfirai, i • 
More longing, wavering, feoncrtoft ndwoniy " 
Than women's are* 

VU. \ think it well, my Lord. 

Avif. Then let thy love be yoi^^ than ^fe^a 
Oirth)raie«b»aMAOt:hold die bent: < ) 

iFor women are as roieff, whofe fidr ftoweiy '^ 

JWat#ai3e i^lay'd, diKhii^l that vnty h(iar.; . ) 

Fm. And'fo they are: alas, that they are fo» o »(i 
To die^ even when they to pcxft^Uon grow I CI 

' J!Mr Ciuio 4m/ Clown* ! ;: 

Dbb. ieHow, tfimft ; th€ fcmf wt had Jaftn^^c^ 
l^k it, C^ari$s> it is old andjpl^ant} ^ h, v . . . 
The feinftera and the knitters m the fun, ' ' 
And the ficemaidi that weave their thread with bones. 
Do nfe tochant it : it is filly Iboth, 
And dalMes with the innocence of krrey 
Like tke old Hge. ^ ' 

€h* Are yoo rc^djN Sir) - ; 

. Dniiw I f r^ythffi wg. . \Mwftck. 



» • 8 »<?, 



SONG. "^ 

Come away, come away, dca|h| 

And in fad cyprefs let me bejaid,; . ^M 

• Flyaway, fly away, breath, ' ;» 

I am ilaio by a fair cruel maid. si 

^ My ihrowd of white, ftock all with yew* ^ ^ 
O, prepare k.- . . : ,. 

My part of death no one fo true 
. i\lJid<^^^Ui > . . 

Not a flower, not a flower fweet, 
f i . / Ob «y black cofiin: let there be ftrown : 

Not a fri»d, notia friead gr^et ■■'■ ^ 

My pocrco^, whBre!my.boniss*fl(aU4>e thfo#B. 
A thoai|Bidlthoiifakid£ghs^tofave, I .; .^ '• 
Lay roe, Al wh^ . > 

Triit lo?ariieii«rind my.gravey ; 

To weep there. 

* «♦..'■...:-■■ .1 

Divir^lfkere^ for th^c pains; " *.' > ^' .'3 
CU. No pains,: Sirf Ibke pkafiuoiii fi^gliftg^ SW 
DuJte. V\\ pay vthy pibaliwe then". ■ ' > - i v t/i 

PI other,' .. -i: *^iJ ,: : : :^ , "i ^ V .^h. , 

Pukf. Give me Bow.ltavp to ^eave thee, : - < ^ jT 

C/9. Now the melancholy i^od protedk thee, and the 

taylor make thy^dcJuHer ^t:haBg«Abic taffata, for thy 

mind is a very opal L (8) I would havei men pf Jbch 

ToitewfcJF piit f6'' mi tfet tfieii* I)uWe(Pini^f ,bc 

every thing, and thctr* indent every 'Where I'ftrthat'i? ft, 

. , . ^-^^ •^•';*^^^^ '^ ^ '^ '^ ;- . ttiat 

(8) Iwtuld have men ef.fiidit^ca^mey. fmt tdfea^ tMae tMr^tefimfi 
might he every wher^^t^y»/emt f jwiy Vfhfre. *^.] Mr. IVmhmn 
urn f^fytBtt this place to have iuffer'd under the iAdol^ii9c.p|e4ifoi| : 
and therefore, tho* I have not di^ujhld the teju* I thiak. it ¥«r« pro- 
per to ^bjoin bis emendation, anvreafo^ for ift , ^ '^ 

/<*^|t only the Autitbefis (which 'ij| W metfn Wiffl!mititar/4rhen 
•< the qtieftioo tp on £^tfi«j^Mr«*8 vrritings {) but the fenfe re^uiret, 
** we (bou)d read ; / 

$hat their hufinefi might hi tver^ whfre, tnd (heir Utitnt aq wberet ftc. 



Alt always makes agoodl voyage o£..nodiingf Fare- 

wcJ^, '- -*'^. . - /. l^"^/- 

Duii. Letall the reft. gi^yre^Iace. Once flsose^ dfarkp. 
Get ihee. to yond fame fovereigii of'uelty t^ . . ^ 
r^ her, my love, more noble than the worlds * 

Prizes not quantity of dirty lands ; ^» 

The parti,' th^t fortune hath beiloVd i^n^her^i : 

Fell )ier, I hold as giddily as fortune v ' 

)ut ^ia that miraole,. and queen of gems, ) 

That Nature pranks her in, attrads my ibol- [ 

Vh^ Bat if ilhe cannot love you,, Sir,- ^ k 
Pi^#. It cannot he fo aniwer'd. 
^fV. Sgoi^h, butyoa.muA. .\ 

^ay, that fome Lady, as, perhaps, there isj^ 
Flath for your love as great a pang, of heart 
\s you have i^t-OUmta : you cannot love her ;. 
iTpa tell her fb : muft ihe not then be anfwer'd h ; 

/>««. There is no women's fides 
^an bide the beating of fo ftrong a paffion*^ ^ 

As love doth give my heart : no woman^ hetfSNib. 
So big to holafo much ; they lack retention. 
/tesV thiif* love may be calPd appetite L 
No nidtion of the liver, bat the palate,. ' 

That fuffers furfeit, cloyment, and revolt;: . ' 
But mine is all as hungry as the fea. 
And can digeft as much ; make no compare 
Between that love a woman can hear me, ^ 

.And thatlowe 0//<i;ia. 

yio. Ay, but I know— -• t 

l^uke. What doft thou know ? 
« Vio^ Too well what love women to men may owe^ 
In faith, they are as true of heart, as we. \ 

My father had a daughter lov'd a man. 
As it might 4>e, perhaps^ were I a woman,. 
I ihould your Lordfhip. 

«• Bccavfr, • min, thit Men himfclf to ran w>th erery wind; and 
>«*>ib makts bis bttfinefa' every where-, cannot l>ie'fafd*to have any A- 
^^^Un^yfhi that WOr^fignifies a determination of the nind to Tome* 

<* thing.- BefidMf ta«^cioiich>(ioi», tif making a good voyage^ ont^f 

^ nothiii^— tvidently dlrcd»^ this cmeadation. ' * 
5*. A Dulu 



Ij4 TwEtFTH^WltrHTt Or, 

Daki. And what's her hiftoiy ^ 

^M. A blank* my Lord : flie neret told her loiei 
' Bm let cenceafanent* like a worm Pth' bod. 
Feed on her damafk cheek : (9) ibe pin'd ia thonghl^ 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy. 
She iat like Patience on a monnment. 
Smiling at grief. Was not this love» indeed f 
We men may fay more, fwear niore, but, indeed^ 
Our (hews are more than will ; fbr fdU we i>TOve 
Much in oar vows, but little in ou^loye. 

Dwh. Bdt dy'd thy filler of her love, my boy? 

Fi0, Vm all the daughters of my father's boufe> 
And all the brothers too— and yet I know not— « 
Sir, (hall I to this Lady ? 

DmAi, Ay, that's the theam. 
To her in hafte ; gire her this jcWel : fay, 
My love can give no place, bide no denay. . IMjettoti 

(1) ■ Shefintl in thMigbt 5 

A^, mntk M greem andyeOouimimtcMyp 

She fatp Jih Patience $n a wmument^ 

Smilmg at Grief.] This very fine intfc, whkh has ham if 
•tlverfilly applauded, it it not impofiible but oar Author n)ithtQlH 
glaaUy have borrowVl from Cna voir in his Jj^mkhf of Fnkh 

And her' befidit wonder di fcretlie. 

Dame Facknce yfitt'mg» there I fonde 

V^iih/K« pah, upon an htll of fi»4^ ' 

If he' was indebted, however, for the firft rode draodlt^ hwr iMfiiir 
has he repaid that debt in hcightning the piftwc ! How much ^ 
the fTiWr and jrW/otv metancbcly tranfcend the Old Bard*s face fabi 
Hkt wMwmtnt, h\t bill of Jand i end what aa additional beauty ih 
Jmiling at Grief, for which there are no ground, nor traces, kk tbc 
erigiaal ! Our Author hat given us this ftue pi£lure again in ano- 
ther place, but, to (hew the power and eiteat of h^ gcnios, wilk 
lettoret and lincamejits varied. 

. yet th on 

Do*ft locklike Potienet, gating on Kiagi^gHHmf 

And fmilirg [harih] extremity out of aft, 

Pericles, Trims •f TjH, 

I This aVfitfd old play, I have elfewheretskea notice» was not cstirely 

of our Author's pcnmtig ; but he has honoas*d it with arwNBbet of 

tnafter-touches, fo peculiar to hiinrelf> that a kaawiog aaadat may 

^iih eafe and ceiiaiAty diAinguiih thaliaccaif hisftacii* 

SCENE 



. W«il|f Torn Wxii: t|i 

S C £ N £ cbuiget t» OSkm^* Quim 

?#• y^ OMB th]r wav», SigAior /aJ^/ajv.. 

V> ^^*- Nay, rll comci.if I lof© t fefH* 
of this fport, let ipe be boira to defttlir with mi* 
choly, 

?ir To, Would'fl thou not be glad to liave tke a!^ 

diyrafcally (heep-biter come by fome notable ihainef 

Fai. I would exalt, man ; you know, he brought 

oat of favour wich my Lady, al>out a bear-bait|iig 

fir TV. To anger bim, we*II have the bear tgaini 
I we will fool him black and blue, ihall we nbtt 3^ 
drfw ^, 
^ir Jndn An we do not, itV pity of oar Hrci* 

4«/<r Marin. 

S/r7V. Here comes the little ViHaiA : how now> mf 
He of Iwdia? 

Mar. Get ye sdl three into thf box-tree ; MaknUfyf 
nmf down this walk, he has been yOnder i*th fnii 
tdifing behavionr to his own (hadow this half hour* 
(fervehim, for the love of mockery; for» I know^*^ 
s letter will make a contemnlative ideot of hiHL 
>fe, in thenaiheofjef^iog! lie thoa there; for hert 
DCS the trout th^tmun be caught with tickling. 

[ttr^wnkwn kititi and ExiU 

Entir lAzho\iQ. 

Mai. *T^s bnt fortnne, ail is fbrlnnes Martk once 
d n^e, ihe did aift A me ; and I have heard herfelf 
ne-tkos near, t))ai (honld (he fane^» it (honld be one 
my coniplexi* n. Befides» ihe uies me with a mor( 
alted re^ci, than auy one dUb ihni /fipUows her. 
hat flionid I think on'ti 
Sir y#. Here's an ^vct wtanbg rognc* ■ 



Fab. Ob, peace : contemplation makes a rare T^' 

plumes I 
Sir Amh 'SEfi^ I eonUib bdtt t)ie Ague, i 

5i>n. Pe^cc. Ifty., ,,, . ^ ^ .. 

Mai. To be Cduhlil&fe^^,— I -^^ '• 

^^-^^/Vr.^: Ail, rogue t > . ^ / -' , . 

"• 5/^^//. fifttolhim, plftblhim; ^ i 

5/V9>. Peafe, p^a^e. . 
• iW^7. Tliere fe exampfe for»rr tBe Lady of tBe Stras; 
thy married the yeoman of the wardrobe*. 

Sir Jnf. fy on him^ Jtx^Beil 



\ 



* TaB. O, peace, now he'^ deeply fn ; look,' hoW 
imagination blows him-, _ j- 

* iSah Hating been thrc& mwithi married; to her, fit» 
ilttgin my ftate— — -- • — - 

Sir To. Q for a ftone-bow, to hit him in Jhe eye !-r ^ 

Mal» Calling- ^y officers about me, in *' my 6ranc&*di 
velvet gown ; having come down from a day-bed, where 
I have left OAvM ilee^infe;. *' 

^ ^-iJ/V.Ti^ Fire^an^bfimftone t . - 

' TdS, O, peace, peace. \ . 

Mai. ^ Ana then to ^h^ve the huniour of (Fate; ijxi 
9&er a demure travel of regard, telling them^i I know 
iny place, as I would they (bould do theirs — to aik 
for my uncle 7«3y— ^ . ' 

^ ^irSTc. Bolts ^ndffiackles! 
]^ Fab'. Oh, peace, , peacc;,^ peace ;. ,now,. now. 
" Mai. Seven ofmy people wit^an obedient Hart mak/fc 
put^for him : I frown the while, and*, perchance, wind 
t^ iay watch, br pfay with (bme rich jewel. Toby ap* 
proachcs, curtfies there to me.. ^ t 

^/> To Shall this fellow live ? 

* Ftf^* THo' tfdr filence be drawn A-om ns witlr cares^ 
yet, peace. ' . . 'J 
' Mai. I extend my hand t6 Km tfhn^ ;^^uendiihg m^ 
ivmiliar (mile with an aiiflerc regard of con troll. ^ '"* 
.\.SirTo.'^ And tfoei^ no» Toby tatee you a > bkw oW 
Jips thcni . ^ 

- . ' ^ » .:••■•.: V J4ah> 



•^ 'JkfiiZ» ^Sayiflgi node filyt my^kkvin^ litvisg ^aft 
mc on yoor nie^> give me this prerogatlre of 
fpeccli/— — 
J2 Sirfi. What*, i^hat? . > 

ilf«^ Yoa muft amend yonr drunkenncfi . ^ 

^ Si/rc. but, ft«M ' ' ■ ': ^ 

< FaL; Kty; ^tftience; or ^Rft break the io^» of otr 
plot.- - ^ ' 

* ^ Mb/. 'Befides.^ii wafle the tretfnre of yoor tiiie 
with a fbolilh Knight— 

.^ Sir JnJ. That's toe, I warrant yon. ^ 

'* ill«/. OneSir .^^Rttdhrw^— *— * ^ • 

^/r ^#^. I knew it was I ; for many do call ille 
^fcol.^ ' ■ ^ - •• ■ '^- ^!^' ' ■• • = • ^ -^ * 

JWf /. What employment hare we here I •- ' 

* ' • , (tioiiftgwptheietfer. 
Fah. Now is the woodcock near the sin. ^ 

^ ^/r 7*0. ' Oh peBCfr! nfow tfaei^pklt ot niimours intiteatt 
fending aloud to him ! ^ 

* litai: By my life, thift is my Lady's hand : theie be 
<Iie^ very On^ her I/^s, and her 7^s^ and thos makis 
ihe her great jP's. It is, in contempt of qaeft|on| her 
hand. ' i ' ' ^ ,. * 

' ' Bir And. Uef&9, her IPs, and herd's : why that ? 

MaL To the uttinown leio*v*d, this, Mid my t^dod nnfijhis ; 
'h6- very phrafes : by your leave, wax: Soft! and the 
'imprefiare ht;t Lucrea, with which (he afes to feal ; 'fis 
my Lady : to whom (hould this be ? 

Fsh: This wins him, liver and ill.' ' 

* '^ Mai. Jove kfwwi I lo^e, but *ctshb, lift do * not move^ 
*mo mam nmft knotv,' No man muft know^^-^what foi- 
.lows? the^namber's alter'd'^no man muft* know— 4f 
'^is (hould be thee, Maltfoliof > ^ 

SirToi Marry, hang thee. Brock ! - / 

Mai. 1 ms^ command twhen I adore, ha filentty tikfa 
Ijsxcttzt knife, • :* 

With bloodlefs ftrokt my hemrt dbtb gofe^ M. -CX A. L 
dotb/*waymylife,< '■■'*■ 

Fab, A fuftian riddle; . 

..r^/riTtf. ^xcellf^nt wench^ifay'L' i . -^ : - \ 
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13* TwiL#Tir-NfiO»TrOr, 

JLi/; H.a J. /. iothO^y m>( life 
ttfk let me fee-*— |et me fee— — - 

/o^. What a di(h of poifon hat (he drefs'd him ? 

^ir T: And with what winf the ftaUtoB diecks H 
it? 

Msl. J may eommand njohen I ai&M^ Whyr Q^e SHif 

^^mjpaod ]|ie ; I (erve her,. Ae it my Lady. Wbv, 

this IS evident to any formal capacity. There \% na ob- 

^ftni(ftion in this — and the end— -what ihodd that alpha* 

hetlcal pofition portend ? if I could make th^t rekh- 

blefomething in me? foftly— Af. (X A. /. 

£/r TV. O, ay I make op. that ; he is now at a coU 
Icent. 

fah. Sowter will cry upon*t for all this, tho' it bets 
rank as a fox. 

Mol^ Jif— -JWWWit— — Af.— — why, that begins 
sny name. 

.^ Fah. Bid. not I /ay, he would work it out I the cat 
is excellent at faults. 

: Mai. M, Bat then theve is noconfonancy in the ft* 
end; that fuffers under probation: 4 (hould foUofi 
batOdoea. 
1 FaB. And O (hall end, I hope. 

Sir TV. Ay, or Til cudgel him, and^make him cry^ 0* 

tdal. And then /comes behind. 

Fab. Ay, an you had any eye behind you, yon 
mtfirht fee mor^ detra^on at your heels, than fbrtuofi 
before you. 

Mai. M. O jf. /.— — ^his fimulation is not i:& the 

ibrmer— -and yet to crtt(h this a little, it would bow 

(onie, for every one of the(e letters is in my namt. 

Soft, here follows profe " If this fall int§ tlr^ hanit 

nvehe. In my fan I am abovi thee, ita he mt afrtui 

§f greatntfi ; fsme an born greats fome aubie^e gruU'^ 

tW^fii emdfime het^i ffremtn^s tbru/t mp^n them, TiyfaW 

9fen their hands, let thy blood amd fpirit embrace them ; and 

J$ ikuri $hjifi^ ta nvbaf them enrt like te be, earthy him- 

ile (lough, and appear frefb. Be eppefite *uu(h a. khfman, 

firfy with fervams : lei thy temgue tang arguments oJT 

J4U$1 pea tbxfiJf iHteL\ih$ tmk effingekrity. SU tims 

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«AjCi iiiif tbat figbt fir^ $h$^ , ^moArvmfh cmi- 
mmdwd ilyr jtO^^ iickings^ uni if^td U fii. thm roif^ 

if ttfou definA to hi fo : if mot^ let me fie thu a /ewatd 

fiUk the filpviieffipvemts^ emd -nftnAtmrth /• tdmb F$t* 
time's fingeri. Fare^weL She^ th^t ^tfcM eJter fir^tces 

^^midf ib^i^^ . Tli^ foitunate ao4 ^ppy day-light and 

!ciia$npmn difcovers aomorp: thU laopen, I will be 
pfo«4, I will lead politick aathprs, I will bafic Si? 

•9^|i«: I will waili9.ff'^i'olf acqaaintance, I will be 
point devife, t^e very man. 1 dp not now fo<rt my 

lf^f^ tp ktiimgioatjoii jiide me; fpr every reafen ex«> 

.mfi t^.th^y that my I«ady loVei^ me.» She did com* 
mend ray yellow jlo^kiDgs of late, &e did ]prasfe my 

^^ being €^^fs.(|rter?^f aiid in this ihe manifefts her 
iSf to my love, and with a kind of injundion drives 
me to thefe habiu of he^ liking. I thank my ftar«, I 
am happy : I will be ftrange, Soat, in yellow dock- 
iogs» and crofs-garter^d^ even witl^ the fwiftnefs of 

vputting^dtt^ ^^7^v«, and my ^art be prai^'d 1 — Here is 
yet a poftfcript. Thou eam^fl net cbufi hut knenu who I 
ami if thou etUfkrtaineJt ntf^ love^ let it apfe^r in thy /mil* 
tng ; thy /mites become thee well. Therefore in my frefence 

fiillfmtle^ dear m/weet^ Ifr^ytbee. Jovi*, J thank 

thee! IwiUfmiJe, I Will do every thing tbat U^on wilt 
have me. [Exit* 

Fah. I will QOigif^ my pftit of thW iport for a pen- 
fion of thoufands to be paid from the Sophy. 
Sir To, I could marry this weAch for this device. 
Sir And, So could I too. 

; SktTo: AxAiSLiM other dowry witk lier, boti^cll 
another jeft. 

Wfiter Maria* 

^/r\^M/J Nor -I neither. 
F^, H^re comes my noble giril-catdber* 
Sir To, Wilt thou fet thy foot o* my seek f 
^ff*y^#^. Or o' mine either? 
SirTo Shall I play my freedatt «t Wf-tkto «•* 

Mcomothy beoictflave? 

9kt 



"■ SirTo* Wky^ thou baft pat him in fuch a dreairi, 

' tliat when the image of it kavea himi hp moft nfti 

' mad. ' ' •. 

' MoF.^'l^By^^ \mifkf tiViei does it work tipoii him ? s 

SirTo. Like d^M^firir with » midwife./' '' 

JWWr, If yoo will dien fee the 'fruits of thfc fp«t, 

markhi8firftaippKnit& before my* Lady t be will coiSe 

'10 her in yellow ftockings, and 'ris a colour flie ab* 

-bors; and crofs-earter'di afaftion flie detefts; and he 

willfmile oponber, which will iiow be fo nnfuiti^k 

to her difpoii^oo/ being addided to a m^lanth^ly, it 

file is, that it caniiot bilt turn him Into n iiiorable tcril* 

tempt : if you willA^tit, foUow me. v ^ ^ •; 

' Sir To. To the gates of T^triMri tbou moll fexeelh^ 

devil of witJ :r » ^ i ^^ ^ 

* Sir And. I'lFmake one too. * ' [£»«»#. 



A C T III,- ^ 

SCENE, Olim% Gratilcru ; 

- . l«//r^VioIa, iwii/Glownj ' 

.■■■■ ■ : ' .■ • .' ; U 

._>■- •■ "Viot A, •. • ']' 

SAyE^ittee^: friend,; and tby muficki dbft Aotfilive 
by thy tabor? * i : -; 

C^. No, Sir, Hive by .the church. 

Vio, Art thou a chttrcnmkn ? 

Clo. No fuch matter. Sir; Jdb Itvt iby.tbc ^cbitftli: 
for I do live.'ftt my houfe, tsA my boufe dotb Hand by 
the churcl|. . - . , ' '-* 

Vio. So thou may'ft fay, the King lies by a beggar, 
#f .^ beggar 4iwyi ^i ^ini : or the churth ftandt bv 
thy tabor^'^if thy tabor ftand'by. the .chui^hv ^ - ' - - J « 



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Wh a T Y Orti Wt L L. * 141: 

- C&w Yott hwr© faid. Sir: to fee tWs age!--(io)A 
fffStence is botachev'ril glove to a good wit; how 
quickly the wrong iide may be t^irnedo^ward i 

Vio. Nayt i that's certaio i they, that dally nicej/i 
frith- wprdssy may quickly make them wanton, 

Clo. I would, therefore^ my fifter had had no name^ 

Vio. Why, man ? 
-.C/tf. Why, Sir, her name's a word; and to dally 
frith that word, might make n^y filler wanton; l>ut«> 
indeed, words are y^ry rafcals, fince bonds difgrac'db 
them. 

/7^. Thy reafon^ man ? 
%]Clo. Troth, Sir, I can yield you none without words $ 
and words are grown fo falfe, 1 am loth to prove reafonf 
. with them . 

* Kh. I warrant, thou art a merry fellow, and careft 
bfg nothing. , . ■* 

Clo. Not foy Sir, I do care for^omet^ing; bot^ in 
my confcience. Sir, 1 do not care for you : if that be 
to care, for nothing. Sir, { w<ouldj i^ would makeyoil 
ifiirifibie. V 

Vio,^ An not thou the Lady OUvia^i fool i . 

Clo\ No, indeed. Sir ; the Lady. OUvM has no folly | 
ihe will kfep^^np A)ol, Sir, /till ihe Jbe married; .and 
fbols are as like fhufbai^ds, as pilchefS)are tf> herrings; 
the huibai^d^ the .bigger:.)! Mn,, indeed, n0t hier fooH 
fcnt hercorj-fg^ter^Qf.jsvprds'. > • ; 

Fio. I law thee late at thf Puk^ Orfimh.: ' . 

(xo) AJenttBeeU bkt 4 chtvyHLghyt it a good wit 5] Mr. Po^,, ift 
hit firik tAitioA 6f Stakejpeare, tdr fhew'the Woili \he depth bfhil 
Jearning, informM us ir a glofs that cbtveril meant tender from cbt* 
nlMl0i,- i y^ng cock,% chkk. ^ut^I htvt\ 'hHrd yet of any>ibtw 
«il^^/i>«rlMdkof i|c«ril9^|%2ta)«an^beHtft«, It will hardly S>me 
Itkto^mperitntm'lH Mr. f*»j»»V oV taiy tiln#.' Th« tftytiioMfryl^ thtre- 
Ibre ro beid'^tftfed^ '^rftevi^'irUn firvv ^t^Aifrnlt^nK' r^fHr'd, that 
<M»M4/3tethcr Itwtle 6$ ^OiktottLl^,^^: Wbkh wrt earn- 
ed by che L A T I N t s j Cap/1//ks : Jby^ ihi 1 -hA l i a n s, *€iovtretle4^ «»i 
by the Fkench, Ckoifertutr ffora Which- lafl/our Wor^ chevtrti is 
immediately deduced. •'Mr. jP«^tf in hit lift Edition has fvflfi^d him- 
jfelf to be xnfbrm*d : and embraced the^' derivactoni. 

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I4t TwEtrTH-tftoHT: Or, 

Gb. Pooleiy, Sir> does walk about tlie orb Kke At 
fimi it fliines every where. I would be (orry, Sitp 
but the fck)! fliottld be as oft with jrottr mailer, as wiA 
my ml ftreis : I think» I faw yoor wifdom there. 

f^/0. NaV) an thoit pafs upon me, PIl no itiore witk 
ihee. Hold, there^s expences for thee. 

Ch. Now, yove, in his next commodity of hair^ 
fend thee a beard ! ^ 

Fie. By my troth, 111 tell thee, I am almoft fick for 
one, though I would^ not have it grow on my chin. Is 
diy Lady within ? ^ 

Clo. Would not a pair of thefe bred, Sir f 

Fio, Yes, being kept together, and pot to ufe. 

Cfc. I would play Lord fmndarus of fbtygtmi Sir, M^ 
t»idg a Ot^a to this trayltu. 

Fin. I underftand you, Sir. *tis wellbegj^*d. 

CU. The matteri I hope, is not great, Su* \ begging 
but a beggar t Cr^ia was a beggar (ii)* My Lady 
fa within, Sirt I will conftet to them wheiice you cone t 
wkoyott are, and what you would, is out of my wel« 
kin; I might li^» dementi but thr word is over^ 
worn. ^ixki 

Fio. This fellow Is wife enough to play the fbol» 
And, to do that well^ craves a kind of wit : 
lie muft obferve their mood Ofr whom he jeflsa 
The quality of ihe perfons, and the time | 
Aad« like the haggkrd^ chedt at every leather 
That comes before his eye» This is a prafticc^ ' lie 

As fhll of labour as a wife sttati^s art t fe 

I'or folly> that he wifely ihews, is fit | 
But wife ineii^ folly fall*«» 4ahe taintt ^ir v^% 

(II) Clrelkid««Ml#^4i^,] The ^oet IH this tkoittitisiceai* 1 
ioubtedy bad HU eye oaCHJiVcBji*! t^^emmtf Oslside..^ d^ I 
lo r«teB|e her frofihaaStioa egauii kjl deicf , alk m the ^Uaetm I 
godi t« adift him in hU veageanccb They idfttntli tutu litf oiifUl * 
Jkito aseUachotir, (^orlitiaHk it^Uh Mmed, her .^san^ uM* dufwaiil|^ 
$mi Ml the cp4 pronoulice tldi feoteiMce upom her { 

That Aattthoii go^^THr fro boat to hott| 

Wth eaffs sMl d^tt hka a Usaseus, 



Waht yov Will. 141 

ISmer Sit Toby, mnt^ Andfcir. 

SirJjtd. Sa^eyoii, genlicman (it)«^ 

Fto. And yoa. Sir. 

Sir To. Dieu itomsguar^if Menjumr* 

Fio, EfwomMffii <votn ftr^itenf^ 

Sir To. I hope. Sir, yo« arcj and f atn jrours.— ^ 
Will yoti cttcounter the hottfe? my niece is deftroM yo« 
ftrould enter, if yowr trade be to her. 

Vio^ lam bpand to your niece» Sir; I meani ihe 
is the lift of my voyage. 

Sir To. Taftc your legs, 8ir> pot them to iiloHoti» 

Vio. My legs do better underftand me, Sir, than I 
inderftand what yon mean by bidding me tafte my legs. 

Sir To. I mean to go, Sir, to enter. 

Fio. I will anfwer yon with gate and entrance |, but 
we are prevented. 

£ji/«r Olivia «vi/ Maria. , 

Moft excellent accompUihM Lady, the betv^ns rain. 
(kiottrs on you ! 

^f> Atid. That yotttb^s a rare coitrtier ! rain odonrs f 
well. 

Fio. My matter hadino voice. Lady, bnt to your 
Qf^n moft pn^nant and vonchfafed ear v 

Sir And. Odoors) pregnant, and vouchfaftd t— *ni^ 
get ^eiA ail three ready* 

CUm Let the garden door be (hnti and leave me to mf 
hearing. \Jixi9im Sir Tobyi Sir Andrew, an^ MariaV> 
Give me your hand. Sir. 

f^i§. My duty, Madam> and moft hnmble fernce. 

(tt) JlN»Tofe. Sweyeit, gentUOum. 

V\Q. dndyokf S'tr% 

l^lr And. Dieii Yous gua^e. Mbdfieof. 

Fm, Ec vovt avA) votre ietrheiir. 

SW KnA* Iktpi^Sitf youoM^ t^ndimjttrtJ] 
t bate ^eotnr'd to make the twokm'ghtt change (peecbei is thh dfi* 
legue wlth>7a/a j and, I think, not withoot good realbo. It wK*i 
t prepofterous forgetfoiaefs in die Poet| and out of all |^bal»Ut)i, t<l 
Hake Sir Andteto not only (peak FrrtKb, but nnderftaad what it taid' 
etttm in ii^ who in tbcfirftift did not kaow ik^Eogn/htfi PomfMfk 



will 
elk 

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I44j Twei^fth-Nicht: Qr, 

^//. What is your name ? 

f7ff. Ce/an^Wyouricrv^n^s oame» fair Pi4nccfs. 

0/r. Mv fcrvant, Sir ? *Tws(^ never metry woM^ ' 
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment : 
Y'are fervant to the Puke Or/ind, youth. 

Fh. And he is youfs, andjiis mud needs beyoars: > 
Yjpur fervant's fenrant is your fcrvant* Madam. 

O//. For him» I think not on himx for bis thoughts, ' 
Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me. 
.Fio. Madam^ I come to. whet your geatle thoughts 
On his behalf. i 

Oli, Or by your leave, I pray you j— • 
I^bade you never fpeak again of him. 
But would you undertake another foi^ t 

I'd rather hear you to follicit that. 
Than mufick from the fpheres. 
" Vio, Dear Lady,— 

Oil, Give me leave, I beieech you : I did fend. 
After the laft enchantment, you did hear, 
A ring in chafe of you. So did I abufe 
Myfelf, my fervant, and, I fear xhe, you ; 
Under your hard conilrn^ion Inuft I fit. 
To force that on you in a ihameful cunning, 
Which yoa knew none of you ft. What inight you thinks 
Have you not fet mine honour at the (lake. 
And baited it with all th' unmozzted thoughts . , . 

That tyrannous heart can think ? to one of your receiving^ 1 1 kai 
Boough is (hewn ; a cypni5, not a bofom, ^^^ 

Hides my poor heart. So let us hear you fpeak. 

Vio. I pity you. . ^ 

O/r. That's a degree to love. 

Vt9. No not a grice : for *tis a vulgar proof. 
That very oft we pity enemies. '^ ' ' 

Oli. Why then, methinks,- 'tis time to imile f gain ; 
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud I . 
If one (hoflld be a prey, how much thet better 
To fall before the lion, than the \volf ! {Clock Jirib»7, 
The elocK upbraids me with the wade of time. 
Be not afrdd, gooi youth, I will not have you ; 

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What you Will.' ^45 

Lnd yet wKen wit and youth are come to harveft^ 

^our wife is like to reap a proper man ; 

There lies your way, due weft. 
/7^. Then, weftward hoe:*— 

vrace and -^od difpofition attend your Ladyfhip ! 

You'll nothing, Madam, to my Lord by me ? 
Oli. Stay ; pr'ythce tell me, what thou think*ft of met 
yio. That you do think, you are not what yon are» 
Oli. If I think.fo, I think the fame of you. 
yio. Then think yott right : I am not what I am, 
O/r. I would you were, as I would have you be ! 
Vio. Would it be better. Madam, than 1 am ? 

" wifli it might for now I am your fool. 
O/r. O, what a deal of fcorn looks beautiful 

Fn the contempt and anger of his lip ( * ' 

h murderous guilt ihews not itfelf more foon, 

Than love that would feera hid : 16ve*s night is nO^B. 

Cr/ir/V. by the rofes of the fpring, 

^y maid-hood, honour, truth, and every things 

[ Jove thee fo^ that, maugre all thy pride. 

Nor wit, nor reafon, can my paffion hide. 

Do not extort thy reafons from this claufe. 

For that I woo, thou therefore haft no cauie : 

But rather reafon thus with reafon fetter ; 

Love fought is good ; but given, unfought, is' better* 
Fio. By my innocence I fwear, and by my youth, 

I have one heart, one bofom, ^nd one truth. 

And that no woman has ; nor never none 

Shall miftrefs be of it, fave I alone. 

And fo adieu, good Madam ; never more 

Willi my roafter-s tears to you deplore. 
O//. Yet come again ; for thou, perhaps, may!ft move 

That heart, which now abhors to like his love. 

[Exeunt.^ 



Vol. III. G SCENE 



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146 TwELFTk-NiOHT: Or, 

S C £ K £ changes to an apartment in Olitia*i 
houfe* 



£Htir Sir Tohy, Sir Andrew , «ik/ Fabian. 

3, faith, ni not ftay a jot longei 

Sir To* Thy reafont dear venoitif give 



Sir And. 'VT O, faith, I'll not ftay a jot longer. 

IN Six 



thy reafon. 

Fah. Yoo nuH needs yield your rea(bn. Sir Andrtn. 

Sir And, Marry, I faw your niece do more favours to 
the Duke's ferving-mant than ever (he beftow'd on me. 
1 ftw't, i'th* orchard. 

^/> 7c« Did (he fee thee the whiley old boy, tell me 
hat? 

^/> And. As plain as I fee you now. 

Fah. This was a great arguQient of love in her ts^ 
wai*d you. 

Sir And. ^Slight ! will you make an afs o* me f 

Fab, i will prove it legitimate. Sir, upon the oatht 
of judgment and reafon. 

Sir 7*. And they have been grand jury-men fiace 
before Noah was a failor. 

Fab. She did (hew favour to the youth in your figh^ 
only to exafperate you, to awake, your dormoufe v4- 
lour, to put fire in your heart, and brimftone in your 
liver. You (hould then have accofted her^ and witk 
fome excellent jeds, fire-new from the n:iit^» yon (hoatd 
have bang'd theyoiith into dumbnefs. This was lookM 
for at your. hand, ahd this was haulkt. The double 
gilt of this oppoftunity you let time waih off, and yoa 
are now fail'd into the North of my Lady's opinion) 
Inhere you will hang like an ificle on a Dutchmta^i 
beard, unlefs yon do redeem it by fome laudable at- 
tempt, either of valour or policy 

Sir And. And't be any way, it muft be with valour; 
for policy I hate : 1 had as lief be a Bro*wnift as a poli- 
tician. 

Sir To. Why then, build me thy fortunes upon the 
bafis of valour I challenge me the Duke's youth to 

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What yoir WillJ 147 

fi'ght with him; htirC hirh ih eleven places; my nice* 
fiiall take note of it ; and afTure thyfelf, there is na 
love-hroker in the world can more prevail in man's 
i:ommendation with wonian than report of valour. 

Fab. There is ho way but this, Sir Andrew, 

Sir And. Will either of you bear me a challenge to 
kirn? 

Sir To>. Go) write in a martial hand ; be curft and 
brief: it is no matter hoW witty* To it be eloquent, and 
full of invention ; (13) taunt him with the licence of * 
ink ; if thoQ tbou'Jl him (bme thrice, it fhali not bt 
Itmifs ; and as many lyes as will lie in thy iheet of pa* 
per^ although the iheet were big enough for the bed of 
ft^are in Emgland% fet ^em dowfi, go about it. L^t there 
be gall enough in thy ink> tho' thoa write with a gopfe* 
{>en» no matter: about it. • 

Sir And. Where (hall I find you? 

Sir to. We'll call thee at the Cubicuk : go* 

[Exit Sir Andrew* 

Fal. This is a dear maaikin to you. Sir Tobp 

Sir 1*0. I have been dear to him, lad> 'fome tw# 
^oufand ftrong or fo. 

(13) ^auntbim with the Reetiee of Ink ; if tbou thou^ft bhii fm^ 
ibrUe,} There ii fto doubt, I think, but this paflage it one of thofe, 
in which our lathot intended to (hew his refpe£fc for Sir Walter R»* 
ieigb, and a deteftation of the virulence of Kis profecutois^ The 
words quoted, fecm to me dire^Hy levelKd at the Attorney General 
Cokt, who in the trial of Sir Walter, attacked him with all the fol - 
lowing indecent exprefiions.—" All that he did was by thf indi- 
*« gation, ri&tftf ripoorj fat \ tbou thee, tbou tray tor !** (Here, by 
the way, are the Poet*a three thou's ) •« You ztt an odious man."—* 

^* Is he bafe ? I return it into thy throaty on his behalf.*' ^*» O 

<* damnable athcitH** ^*< Thoa art amonfterj thou haft aii 

^' Sitglijbjtice, hut % Spatiijb htSLTt,'* <« Thou haft a Spanijh 

« h€art;' and thyfclf art a fpider of hell/* *< Go to, I will 

«' lay thee on thy back for the confident'ft traytor that ever came at 
« a.bar,*' &c* Is not here all the licence of tongue, which the Poet 
fatyricaily prcfcribes to Sir Andrevj^s ink ? And how mean an ooi'- 
"hion Sbakejpedre had of thefe petulant inveftives, is pretty evi^nt 
from*his clofe of this fpecch 5 Let there be gall enough in thy iftk, thp* 
fbttutorite it with a goofe-pen, fto matter, ■ ■ A keener la(h at 
the Attorney for a fool, than all the contumeHcs the Attorilcjr threw 
^t the f tifolier )n a fufpQs'd traytor ! y ' 



148 Twelfth-Night : Or, 

Fah. We ihall have a rare letter from him ; bat y^^ 
not dclivcr't. 

Sir To. Never trull me then ; and by all means flir 
on the youth to an anfwer. I think, oxen and wain- 
ropes cannot hale them together. For Andrew^ if he 
were openM, and yott find 10 much blood in his liver 
as will clog the foot of a flea, Pll eat the reft of th' ana< 

FaB, And his oppofite, the youth, bears in his viiage 
no great prefage of crudty. 

Enter Maria. 

Sir To. Lookt where the youngeft wren of nine comes* 

Mar. If you defire the fpleen, and will laugh your* 
felves into flitches, follow me; yond gull Mal<voiioh 
turn'd heathen, a very Renegado f for there is no 
Chriftian, that means «o be fav'd by believing rightly, 
can ever believe fuch impofiible pa/Tages of grofihefs. 
He's in yellow (lockings. 

Sir To, And crofs-garter'd ? 

Afar.* Moll viilanoufly; like a pedant that keeps a 
fchool i*th* church : I have dogg'd him, like his mur- 
derer. He does obey tyeiy point of the letter, that 
r dropt to betray him; he does fmile his face into 
more lines than is in the new map, with the augmen- 
tation of \)\t Indies I you have not fcen fuch a thing, 
as 'tis ; I can hardly forbear hurlin^r things at him. I 
know, my Lady will flriko him ; ifiliedo, he'll fmilet 
and take't for a great favour. 

Sir To, Come, bring us, bring as where he is. 

[ExiunU 

SCENE changes to the Street, 

Enter Sth2ifi\2Jiy and hnionio. 

&^.T Would not by my will have troubled you. 

jL But fmce you make your pleafure of your paintj 
J will no further chide you. 

Ant. f could not flay behind you ; my dcfire, 
(More (harp than filed fteel,) did four me forth ; 

Ant 



What you Will. 14^ 

And not all love to fee you^ (tho' fo mnch. 
As might have drawn one to a longer voyage.) 
But jealoufy what might befal your travel, 
Being fkillels in-thefe parts ; which to a ftranger, 
Un guided and unfriended, often prove 
Rough and wnhofpitable. My willing love. 
The rather by theft arguments of fear, 
Set/ortlj^in yourpurfuit. 

Seh» My kind Antonio^ 
(14) I can no other anfwer make, but thanks ; 
And thanks, and ever thanks ; and oft good turns 
Are (huffled off with fuch uncurrent pay ; 
Bat were my worth, as is my confcience, firm, 
Yoii ihould find better dealing : what's to do ? 
Shall we go fee the relicks of this town ? 

Ant. Xo-niorrow, Sir ; beft, firfl, go {tc your lodging, 

Seb, I am not weary, and 'tis lOog to night; 
I pray youj let us fatisfy our eyes 
With the menaorials, and the fliings of fame. 
That do renown this city. 

Ant. Would, you'd pardon me: 
\Aq not without danger walk thefe ilreets. 
©nee, in afea-fight 'gainft the Duke his gallics, 
1 did fome fervice, of fuch note, indeed, 
That were Lta'en here, it would fcarce be anfwer'd. 

Beb. Belike, you (lew great number of bis people. 

^14) / can rt9 other anfvftr make but thanks. 
And thanks: and tver-oit good turns 

Areftuffied off with fuch uncurrent pay \\ It ttuft be obvious 
to ereqr reader, who has the leaft knowledge in verdfication, that 
the fecond line ii too ihorc by a tvhole foot ; however the editors 
haye indolently pafled it over without fufpieion. Then, who erer 
heard of this goodly double adverb, tver-ofr, which feems to have as 
ixtuch proptietyas, akvays-fometimei ? A%1 have rertor'd rhe piifjge, 
St U very much in our auihor*8 manner, and mode of exprelBoo. So, 
inXymheline I 

■ Since when I have been debtor to you fot tourtefies, whick 

I ^'i\\ be ever to pay, and yet pay^i//. 
* And iti AlVs well, that Ends well. 

And let me buy your friendly help tbu( far^ 
WhichTwiW over 'pay, znd fay again 
When I have found it. 

G3 ' Anu 



ifo TwttrTH-NiOHT : br, 

Jmt. Th* offence is not of fuch a bloody natnrCr 
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel 
Might well have given us bloody argument : 
It might have iinee been anfwer'd in repaying 
What we took from them, which, for trafiick^s fokCf 
Mod of our city did. Onlijr myfelf flood out ; 
For which, if I be lapfed in this place, 
Jihall pay dear. 

Seb, Do not then walk too op^n. 

Jnt, It doth not fit me : hold. Sir, here's my purfc. 
In the fouth fuburbs at the Elephant 
Is beft to lodge : I will befpeak our diet. 
Whiles you beguile the time, and feed your knowledgf 
With viewing of the town ; there Ihall yeu have me. 

Seb, Why I your purfe? 

Ant. Haply, your eye ihall light upon fomtetoy 
You have defire to purchafe ; and your ftore, 
I think, is not for idle markets, Sir. 

Seb, I'll be your purfe-btarer, and leave you for 
An hour. 

Ant, To th' £A?//&a»/,«~-». 

^tb. I do remember, [£^'^ 

SCENE changes to 0\ivia\ Houfe. 

Enter Olivia, and Maria% 

O//. (15) T Have fen t after him; fay, he will come; 
X How Ihall I feaft him ? what befto\v on him ? 
For yt)uth is bought more oft, than bcgg'd or borrow'd, 
I fpeak too loud.*— — 

Where 

. (15) Ihavtjent after him \ he fiyt he'll ^ww^.] Bot whjo did he 
Ciy fo to ? Or from whom could my Lady have any fuch tncelligence \ 
tier fervant, employed upon this errand, was not yet returned ^ and, 
when he does return, he bringi word, that the youth would hardly 
ke intreared back. I am perfuaded, Ae was intended rather to be iit 
fufpenfe, and deliberating witK herftlf : putting the fuppofition that . 
he mould come; and afking hetielf, in that cafe, faow iho^ibould en* 
tettaia him» i imagine therefore the Poet wrote \ 
» ■ ■ Sfy> h? will tmt^j 

9o 



What you Will. 151 

Where is MalvaliB? he k fad and civil. 
And fuits well for a fervanc with my fortanes. 
Where is Malvolio F 

Mar. He'&comiog.Madam : butin Yery ftraoge manner* 
He is fare pofTeft, Madam. 

0//. Why, what's the matter, does he rave ? 

Mar. No, Madam^ he does nothing but fmile; your 
Xjadyfliip were befl to have fome guard about yoti* if ke 
con]^; for, fure, the man is' tainted in's wits. 

0//. Qo call him hither. 

£»ur Malvolio. 

I'm as mad as he. 

If fad and merry madnefs equal be. 
JHow now, MaI*voiioF 
. Mai. Sweet Lady, ha, ha. . [Smiles f^ntajf if alfy. 

Oil. Smil'il thou ? I fent for thee upon a fad occaiion. 

Ma/. Sad, Lady ? I could be fad $ this does make 
ibme obflrodlion in the .blood ; this crofs-^gartering ; 
but what of that ? if it pleaie the eye of one, it is 
with me as the very true fonnet is : PUa/e one, and 
fUufi all. 

on. Why ? how doft thou^ man ? what is the matter 
with thee ? 

Mai. Not bhck in my mind, tho* yellow in my 
kgs: it did come to his hands, and comntands fhaH 
be executed. I think, we do know that fweet Roman 
hand. 

Oli. Wilt thou go to bed, MahvoIieP 

MaL To bed ? ay, fweet heart ; and PI} come to thee^ 

Oli. God comfort thee! why dofl thou fmile (b, and 
kifs thy haivd fo ofti 

Mar. How do you, Malvolio F 

Mai. At your requeft ? a 

Yes, nightingales anfwer daws I 

So ^iff/^, before, in this f<l»]r ; 

Say, I dofpeak with her, my terd | what thin f 
S#, Petrucbh io the Taming of tbi Shrew\ 

Say, that- fhe rail 5 why, vhen I'll uU her plain, ^i?,* ' 

iUA i» jHiwbsrkli other paflages. 

G 4 ^W«r* 



15% Twelfth-Night: Or, 

Mar» Why appear yoo with this ridiculous boldne/s 
before my Lady ? 

MaL Be not afraid of grcatncfs ; — *twas well wxit. 

Oli. What meaneft thou by that, Malvolia f 

Mai, Some arc born great — -— 

Oli, Ha? 

MaL Some atchieve greatnefs 

on. What fay'ft thou ? 

Mai. And fome have greatnefs thruft upon them— 

Oli. Heav'n reftore thee ! 

Mai, Remember, who commended thy yellow ftock- 
ings— 

0/f\ Thy yellow (locki^gs ? 

Mai, And wifh'd to fee thee crofs-garter*d— — 

Oli. Crofs-garter'd ? 

MaL Go to, thoo art made, if thou defireft to be fo— 

Cli, Am I made ? 

MaL .If not, let me fee thee a fervant flill. 

Oli, Why, this is v^ry midfummer madnefs. 

Enter Sermnt. 

Sen Madam, the young gentleman of the Duke Of" 
Jlno^h is return'd, I could hardly entreat him back; he 
attends your Ladyihip's pleafure. 

Qli, ril come to him. Good Mzr/'/z, let this fellow 
be look'4 to. Where's my uncle Tohyf let fome of my 
people have a fpccial c;ire of him ; I would not have 
him mifcarry for the half of my dowry. [Exit, 

MaL Oh, ho! do you come near me now? no 
worfe man than Sir Toby to look to me ! this concurs 
liiredly with the letter ; fhe fends him on purpofe that 
J ciay appear flubborn to him; for Ihe incites me to 
that in the letter. Caft thy humble flough, fays (he; — 
be oppofite with a kinfman, — furly with fervants,-— 
let thy tongue tang wHh arguments of ftate,— put 
thyfelfinto the trick of fingularity ; — and confequentty 
fets down the manner how ; as a fad face, a reverend 
carriage, a flow tongue, in the habit of fome Sir of 
note, and fo forth. I have lim'd her, but it is Jo've'n 

doing. 



What you Will. 153 

, and Jovi make me thankful ! and wben (he went 
now, let this fellow be look'd to : Fellow ! noc 
tlio, nor after my degree, but fellow. Why, every 
adheres together, that no dram of a fcruple, 
uple of a fcruple, no obftacle, no incredulous or 
; circnmftance — what can be faid ? Nothing, that 
e. Can come between me and the full profpedt of . 
o]>es. Well ; Jo^ui, not I, is the doer of thisy 
: i« to be thanked. 

Inter Sir Toby, Fabian and Maria, 

7i» Which way is he, in the name of fanftity f 

the devils in hell he drawn in little, and legion 

[f pofreft him, yet Fll fpeak to him. 

K Here he is, here he is ; how is't with yon, Sir ? 

i*t with you, man? 

/. Go off; I difcard yon ; let me enjoy my pri- 

gooff, 
r. Lo, how hollow the fiend fpeaks within him ! 
)t I tell yon^ 5ir Tofy, my Lady prays you to have 
of him« 

/. Ah, ha ! does (he fo ? 

To. Go to, go to; peace, peace, we mufl deal 
f with him ; let me alone. Ho^ do you, Mai- 
' )iow is't with you ? whatl man, defy the devil ? 
er, he's an enemy to mankind* 
/. Do you know what you fay ? 
r. La, you J . if you fpeak ill of the devil, bow 
ces it at heart. — Pray God, he be not bewitch'd, 
K Carry his water to th' wife woman, 
r. Marry, and it fhall be done to-morrow morn- 
' I live. My Lady would not lofe him for more 
:'Ilfay. 
/. How now, miftrefs? 

r. OLord! 

To. Pr'ythee, hold thy peace; that h not the 

do you not fee, you inove him ? let me alone 
him. 

V. No way but gentlenefs, gently, gently ; the 
U rough, and will not be roughly us'd. 

G 5 VvT 



^154 Twelfth-Kight: O^it. 

Sir Tc. Why, how now, my bawpock ? hqfW doft 
thou, chuck ? * 

Mai. Sir?-~i. 

SirTc. Ay, Biddy, copie with me. What! man» 
*tis not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with' Satan. 
Hang him, foul collier. 

Mar. Get him to fay hi« prayers, good Sir Tcly ; get 
lim to pray. 

Mai* My prayers, minx! 

Mar, No, I warrant you, he will not hear of god- ^ 
linefs.^ 

Mai, Go hang yourfclvcs all : you are idle (hallow 
things; lam not of your element, ypu fhall know 
more hereafter^ fExiu 

Sir to. Is'tpoffible? ■ 

Fai. If this were playM upon a ftage now^ I could 
condemn it as an improbable fidion. 

Sir To. His very genius : hat}i taken the infe^ion of 
the device, man.^ 

Mar. Nay, porfue him now, left the device take jur, 
and taint. 

Fah. Why, we (hall make him mad, indeed. 

Mar. The houfe will be the quieter. 

Sir Tq. Come, weMl have him in a dark room and 
bound. My niece is already in the belief that he's mad ; 
we may carry it thqs for our pleafure and his penance, 
'till our very pailime, tired out of breath, prompt us 
to have ihercy on hini ; at which time we will bring the 
device to the bar, and crown thee for a' finder of itiad- 
men; but fee, but fee. 

Enter Sir Andrew. 

Fah. More matter for a il/^moming. 

Sir And. Here's the challenge, read it: I warranti 
there's vinegar and pepper in*t# 

Fab. Is'tfofawcy? 

Sir 4nd. Ay, is't? I wtfi'rant him : do but read. 

Sir To. Give me. \Sir Toby reads. 

Youih, nuhatfoenjer ttou art^ figu art but afcurvy feii<m. 

Fd. Good and valianu k 

Sir 



r 



What yorr Witt* 1^5 

%" To, Wonder net^ nor admitt not in thy. mitulnjJaj I d/^ 
*hee/o ; for I wil/Jbe'w ihes tip reafonprU^ 
%b. A good note; that keejpf yoo^ k^iok the W»^, 
he law. 

• To. Thou cm*jft to the. Lady ©Hvia, and in my fight 
fes thee kindly ; itU thouUeJi in thyi thnai^ that is nott 
matter I challenge^hee for. 
Fab. Very brief, and exceeding good fenfe-lefs. " 

Sir To. I will ivay-Jay thie going home, whir£ if it hit- 
'y chance to kiU mi — — : > . 

FaL Go6d. 

Sir To.^ Thou kiiPfi mt Uki a rogui and a^^lj^dn^ 
FaL 3till you keep o*th* windy fide of t^ laws 
good» 

Sir Ti, tart thee *welK and Cod ha*ue mercy ufm onejof 
•r fouh: hi "may ha*ve mercy ufons^mim, hut my hope if- 
*ter^ andfo look to tbyfilf Thy friind as thou vfefi. ki»h 
d ^thy /worn enemy, Andrew AgUG'^hcek, 
Sir To. If this letter move hila^ll0t» lus legs caanoti 
givc't hfm. 

fat. You nay have rcry & occafion for't: he iai 
ID fome commerce with my Lady^ and will by and 
'epart. 

'To. GOf Sit Andrew, fcout ra^ for him at thl^/ 
.^r of the orchard like a bum* bailiff';, fo foofl a» 
tr thou feeft him,. draW ; and» as ^hou dr^w*ft; fwear 
>rribly; for it come& to pafs oft» that^a teirible-Ciath** 
ith a fwaggering accent (harpjy twanc'd ©fF^ give* 
anhood more appt-obatkm than ever proof itftlf would 
ive eamM him. Away. 

Sir And, Nay> kt me alone for fwcaring. \txit.. 

5£r 7*. Now will not I deliver hi^ letter; for the 
Deha^iour of the young gentleman gives, him out ift6// 
be of good capacity and breeding ; his- e^ptoyjncnt' 
between his Lord and my niece confirms no lefs ; there*^ 
fore this letter, being &> excellently ignorant, will' 
bleed no terror in the youth ; he will find that it cornea 
from a clod-pole« But, Sir, I will deliver hi^ challenge 
by, word of mouth ; fet upon Ague-cheek a notable re- 
(c>it of valour; and drive the gentleman^^ (as^ I knov^^ 
G 6 \^ 



156 Twblfth-Night: Or, 

his yooth will aptly receive it,) into a rooft hideous, 
opinion of his rage, fkill, fury, and impetuoufity. 
This will fo fright them both, that they will kill one 
Mother by the look, like cockatrices. 

Enter OMsii ajtJ Viola. 

FaB. Here he comes with your niece; give tbem 
way, 'till he take leave, and prcfcntly after him. 

^/> To, I will meditate the While apon fome horrid 
mcflage for a challenge. [Ex(unt. 

Oil. I've faid too much unto a heart of ftone. 
And laid mine honour too uncharyout. 
There's fomthing in me, that reproves my fault ; 
But fach a head-ftrong potent fault it is. 
That it but mocks reproof. . . 

yia. With the fame 'havlour that your paffion bearsi 
Goes on my mafter^s grief. 

Oli, Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my pi£lure ; 
Refufe it not, it haih no tongue to vex you : 
And, I befeech you, tome again to-mt)rrow. 
What fhall you aflc of me that I'll deny. 
That honour fav'd nlay upon afking give ? 

Fio. Nothing but this, yoortrue k>ve for my mafterv 
Oli, How with mine honour may I give him that. 
Which 1 have given to you ? 

. Vi», i will acquit you* 

: Oih Weil, come again to*morrow ; fare thee well. 
A fiettd, like thee, might bear my foul to hell* [Exit^ 

iTtttr Sir Toby and FsihiAn. 

Sir To, Gentleman, God faye thee. 

Vio» And you. Sir. 

Sir To. That defence thou haft, betake theeto't; of 
^w^t nature the wrongs are thou haft done him, 1 know 
net ; but thy intercepter, full of defpite, bloody as the 
hunter, attends thee at the Orchard-end ; difmount th^ 
tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy aflailant is 
quick, fkilful, and deadly. 

Vio. Youmiftake, Sir; J am fare no man hath any 

quarrel 



What voxj Will. 157 

!iaarrel to me ; my remembrance is very free and clear 
rom any image of offence done to any man. 

Sir To. You'll find it otherwife, I aflurc you ; there- 
fore, if yoa hold your life at any price, betake you to 
your guard ; for your oppofice hath in him, what youth, 
ilrength, fkilU and wrath can furnifti man withal. 
Fh, I pray you. Sir, what is he? 
Sir To, He is Knight, dubbM with unhack'd rapier,* 
and on carpet confideration ; but he is a devil in^private 
brawl ; fouls and bodies hath he divorc'd three ; and his 
incenfement at this moment is fo implacable, thatfatif- 
fa£Uon can be none but by pangs of death and fepulchre : 
hob, nob, is his word ; give't, or take't. 

Fio. I will return again into the houfe, and defire 
fome conduA of the Lady. I am no fighter. I have 
heard of fome kind of men, that ])at quarrels purpofely 
on others to tafle their valour : belike, this is a man of 
that quirk. 

Sir To, (16) Sir, no: his indignation derives itfelf 
out of a very competent injury ; therefore get you on, 
and give him his de€re. Back you fhall not to the 
houfe, unlefs you undertake that with me, which with 
as much fafety you might anfwer him ; therefore on, 
or drip your fword flark naked ; for meddle you mull, 
that's certain, or forfwear to wear iron about you. 

Fio. This is as uncivil, as drange. I befeech you, 
do me this courteous office, as to know of the Knight 
what my offence to him is : it is fonaething of my neg- 
ligence, nothing of my purpofe. 

Sir To. I will do lo. Signior JFaiian, ftay you by 
this Gentleman 'till my return. [Exit Sir Toby. 

Fio. Pray you. Sir, do yOu know of this matter ? 
FaL I know, the Knight is incens'd againft you, 

(16) Sir, no: bis hidigmttion Atnvtt Itfelf out tf a very competent 
pfjury-y] This error firft obtained from inadvertancc, 1 presume, in 
Mr. l{wi»**8 EdUloJi : and Mr. Pops has moft faithfully copied it. I 
h»ve icftor*d ih« genuine reading of the old FoHt't i^^bh indignation 
derivei ijfilf* &c. As in a Hen, IV. 

Derive fiom Heav*A his quarrel and hii (avTc* 

eves 



158 Twelfth-Night: Or, 

even to ajmortal arbitremcnt ^ bat nothing of the cl^ 
cumftance more. 

Fio. I befeecH yon, what manner of msln Is he ? 

Fah. Nothing of that wonderful promife to real 
Imri by his iorMt at yon are like to £nd him in the 
proof of his ;valoar. Ife is, indeed^ Sir, the moft fkil* 
fal, bloody^, and fatal oppoiite that you coald poflibly 
have fotind in any part of^ //^r/^.- will yon walk to- 
wards him? I will make your peace with him, if I 
can. 

Fio. I fliall be much bound to you for't : I am one» 
that had rather go with Sir Prjeft than Sir Knight : I 
care not who knows ib much of my mettle. lExeunt* 

Fnfer Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew^ 

SirTc. Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not 
feen foch a virago: I had a pafs with him, rapier, 
fcabbard and all ; and he gives me the ftuck in with 
fuch a mortal motion, that it is inevitable ; and on the 
anfwer, he pays you as furely, as vour feet hit the 
ground they ftep on. They fay, he has been fencer to 
the Sophy. 

Sir And. Poxon't, V\\ not meddle with hin*. 

^/> 7#. Ay, but he will not now be pacified : * 
Fabian can fcarce hold him yonder. 

Sir And* Plague on'c, an 1 thought he had been va» 
liant, and fo cunnitig in fence, I'd have ieen him 
djimn'd ere Td have challeng'd him. Let him let the 
matter flip, and I'll give him my horfe , grey CapiUt* 

Sir T», ril make the motion ; Hand here, make a 
gpod fhew on't ;— this ihall end without the perdi- 
tion of fouls ; marry, Til ride your horfe as well as I 
ride you. [Afid§. 

Entir Fabian and Viola* 

I have his horfe to take up the quarrel; I have per* 
fuaded him the youth's a devil. [To Fabian. 

Fab, He is as horribly conceited of him ; and pants 
and looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels. 

Sir. To. There's no remedy, Sir, he will fight with 
3 . yott 



i ^ Wh^T YOV WiLlJ T5f 

iyoa Tor's oath fake : siarry, he hath better bethought 
bim of his quarrel, and he finds that now fcarce to be 
worth talking of ; therefore draw for the fappoitance of 
Us vOw, he protefts he will not hun you. 

Fio. Fray God defend me ! a little thing woold make 
ne tell them how miKh I lack of a man^. 
Fat. Give groond, if yott iec him furipiK. 
'Sir To* Come, gir Andrtin^ there's no remedy, th« 
Gentleman will for his honour's fake have one bout 
with you ; he cannot by the duello avoid it ; but he has 
promis'd me, as he is ^ Gentleman and a foldier, ho 
will not hurt you. Come on, to't* \X^iy iira^m 

Sir And. Pray God » he keep his oath ! 

Eater Antonio. 

Vio, I do affurc yo«, 'tis againfl my will. 

Ant. Put up your fword ; if this yoiing Gentleman 
Bave done offence, I take the fault on me ; 
If you offend him, I for him defy you. [Dranioin^^ 

Sir To. You, Sir ; why, what are you ? 

Aiu* One, Sir, that for his love dares yet do more 
Than you have heard him brag to you he will. 

Sir To* Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for yotH 

[Brawim 
Enter Officer $. 

Fah- O good Sir Tohys ho]d; here come tSe Officers* 

Sir To, V\\ be with yoi» anon. 

Via* Pray, Sir, put your fword np if yoapleafe. 

[To Sir Andrew. 

Sir And, Marry, will I, Sir ; and for that 1 promis'd 
you, I'll be as good as my word. He will bear yoo^ 
eafily, and reins well. 

1 Off. This is the man ; dio thy office. 

Z Of. Antonio, I arreft thee at the fuit o£ Dxikc Of*j!h^ 

Ant. You do miHake me. Sir. 

1 Off. No, Sir, nojot; I know your favour well; 
Tho' now you have no fea-cap on your head. 
Take him away ; he knows, I know him well. 

Ant. 1 muft obey. This comes with feeking yo» ; 
But there's no remedy.. I ihall aafwer it. 



I 



i^ Twelfth-Night: Or^ 

What will yott do? now my neceffity 
Makes mc to afk yoo for my .purfe. It grieves me 
Mttch more, for what I cannot do for you. 
Than what befah myklf: you (land amiLz'dy , 
But be of comfO;rc. 

2 Off'. Come, Sir, away. 
jfnf, I muft ihtreat of you fomc of that moneyt 
Vio. What money. Sir ? 
For the fair kindnefs you have fhew*d mc here. 
And part bchig prompted by your jprefent trouble. 
Out of my lean and low ability 
V\l lend you fomething ; my having is not much, 
ril make diviilon of my prefent with you ; 
. Hold, there's half my coffer. 
Jftf, Will you deny me now ? 
Is't poffible, that my deferts to you 
Can lack perfuafion ? do not tempt my mifery. 
Left that it make me To unfound a man. 
As to upbraid you with thofe kindneiTes 
That I have done for you. 

Fio, I know of none. 
Nor know I you by voice, or any feature : 
I hate ingratitude more in a man, 
Tkan lying, vainnefs, babling, drunkennefs. 
Or any taint of vice, whofe llrong corruptioa 
Inhabits our frail blood. 

j^nt. Oh, Heav'ns themfelves !— ^— ' 
2 Of. Come, Sir, I pray you, go. 
Jnt. Letmefpeakalittle. This youth that you fee here, 
I fnatcht one half out of the jaws of Death ; 
Reliev'd him with fuch fandlity of love. 
And to his image, which, methought, did promiie 
' Moft venerable worth, did I devotion. 

I 0J\ What's that to us ? the time goes by ; away. 
j^nt. But oh, how vile an idol proves. this god ! 
Thou haft, Sehafiian^ done good feature ihame. 
In Nature there's no blemifti but the mind : 
N6ne can be call'd deform'd, hut the unkind. 
Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous evil 
Are empty trunks^, o'erflouriih'd by th^ deviU 

1 



1 

^ 



What you Will; i6i 

1 Off, The man grows mad, away with him 2 
ome, come. Sir. 

Ant, Lead me on. -- \Exit KntoxiVQ 'with Officer u 

Vio. Methinks, his words do from fuch paffionHy, 
'hat he believes himfelf ; fo do not I : 
rove true, imagination, oh, prove true, 
'hat I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you ! 

Sir To. Come hither. Knight; come hither, /^/iJ/^w | 
e'll whifper o'er a couplet or two of nioft fage faws. 

Fio. He nam*d Sehaftian ; I my brother know 
et living in my glafs ; even fuch, and fo 
Q favour was my brother ; and he went 
till in this fafhion, colour, ornament; 
or him I imitate : oh, if it prove, 
'empeftfi are kind, and fait waves frefh in love. [^Exit, 

Sir To. A very difhoneft paltry boy, and more a 
oward than a hare ; his difhonefly appears in leaving 
is friend here in neceflity, and denying him ; and for 
h cowardfhip, afk Fahiatt, 

Fab. A coward, a mod devout coward, religious in itt 

Sir And. 'Slid, I'll after him again, and beat him. 

Sir To. Do, cuiF him foundly, but never draw thy fword. 

Sir And, An I do not, — \Fxit Sir Andrew. 

Fa^, Come, let's fee the event. 

Sir To, I dare lay any money, 'twill be nothing yet. 

lExeunf* 



ACT IV. 

SCENE, the Street. 
Eater Sebaflian and Clown* 

C L O W N. 

WILL you make me believe, that I>am not fent 
for you ? 
Seb, Go to, go to, thou art a foolilh fellow, 
Ut me be clear of thee. 



j(5a Twelfth-Night: Or, 

Clo. Well held out, i'faith : no, I do &ot know yea, 
nor I am not fent to you by my Lady» to bid you 
come fpeak with htr; nor your name is not mailer 
Ce/ario, nor this is not my nofe neither i nothing,, that 
isfOy isfo. 

Se^. I pr'ythe^y vent thy folly femewhere elfe } thoa 
know'ft not me. 

. Cloi Vent my folly !- he has heard that word of 

fome great man, and now applies it to a fool. Vent 
my folly ! I am afraid, this great lubber the world will 
prove a cockney : I pr'ythee now, ungird thy ftrange-, 
nefs and tell me what 1 ihall vent to my Lady; fhalll 
vent to her, that thou art coming I 

Sek I pr'ythee, foolifli Gretkf depart fronv me; . 
there's money for thee. If you tarry longer, I ihall 
give worfe payment. 

CZp. By my troth, thon haft an open hand; thefe wife 
men, that give fools money, get themielves a good report 
after fourteen years purchafc. 

Enter Sir Andrew, Sir Toby, ani Fabian. 

Sir And. NoWi Sir, have I met you again ? there's 
for you. [Striking Sebaftian. 

Se&, Why, there's for thee, and there, and there: 
are all the people mad ? [Beating Sir Andrew. 

^/> To. Hold, Sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er 
the houfe. 

CIo. This will r tell my Lady flrait: I would not be 
in Tome of your coats for two pence. [Exit Cbywn* 

^irTo. Come on. Sir; hold. [Holding Stb2i^\2Xi. 

Sir And. Nay, let him alone, I'll go another way to 
work with him ; I'll have an aflion of battery againil 
him, if there be any law in Illyria\ tho* 1 ilruck him 
iii^y yet it's no matter for that. 

Sih. Let go thy hand. 

Sir To. Come, Sir, I will not let you go. Come, 
Mjy young fold ier, put up your iron; yon are well 
flellvd : coiTie on. 

Seh. I will be free from thee. What wouldft thou now I 
if thou dar^fl tempt me further, draw thy fword* 

&V7k 



What you Will. 163 

I Sir 7i. What, , what ? nay, then, I muft have an 
S.iUDce or two of this malapert blood from yovi. 

[Thejf draw andfghu 

Enter Olivia. 

O//. Hold, Tohj ; on thy life, I chargt thee, holdf, 

Sir To, Madam. 

O//. Will it be ever thus ? ungracious wretch, . 
fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves. 
Where manners ne'er were preach'd : out of my fight I , 
Se not offended, dear Cf/2ir/0:—-^ 
Rudefby, be gone ! I pr'ythee, gentle friend, 

\ExtuMt Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew* 
Let thy fair wifdom, not thy pafiio^, fway 
In this uncivil and unjuft extent 
A^ainfl thy peace. Go with me to my houfe. 
And hear thou there, how many fruitlefs pranks 
This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby 
May 'ft fmile at this : thou fhalt not chufe but gg.: 
Do not deny ; befhrew his foul for me. 
He ilarted one poor heart of mine in thee. 

SeL What reliih is in this ? how runs the ftream ? 
Or I am mad, or elfe this is a dream. 
Let fancy dill my fenfe in Lethe fteep, 
I( it be thus to dream, ftill let me fleep. i 

6li. Nay, come, I pray : 'would thou'dfl be ruPd by mc. 

Se^. Madam, I will. 

<?//. O, fay fo, and fo be ! [Exeuflt^ 

SCENE, an Apartment in Olivia*^ Houfe. 
Enter Maria, and Clown. 

Mw. ^T A Y, I pry'thce, put on this gown and 
JlN this beard ; make him believe, thou art 
Sir Topas the Curate ; do it quickly. I'll call Sir Tohy 
the whilft. [Exit Maria. 

Clp. Well, I'll put it on, and I will diflemble my- 
fclF in't; and I would I were the firft that ever dif- 
ibfnbled in fuch a gown. I am not tall enough to be« 

-como 



164 Twelfth-Night ! ©r, 

come the fundUon well, nor lean enough to be thouiht 
a good Student; but to be f aid an honefl man, and a 
good hqufekeeper, goes as fairly, as to fay, a cafpfid 
man and a great fcholar. The competitors enter. 

Inter Sir Toby, ^ff^ Maria, 

Sir To. Jo'Vi blefs thee, Mr. Parfon. 

Clo, Bonos dies^ Sir Toby \ for as the old hermit of 
Praguey that never faw pen and ink, very wittily faid to 
a niece of Xing Gorhoducky that that is, is : fo I being 
Mr. Parfon, am Mr. Parfon ; for what is that, but ihat? 
and is, but is ? 

Sir To. To him, SuTopai. 

Clo, What, hoa, I fay,— peace In this prifon ! 

Sir To. The Jtnave counterfeits well ; a good knave. 

[Malvolio ivitbin* 

Mai Who calls there ? 

do. Sir Topas the Curate^ who comes to vifit MaJvo' 
iio the liinatick. 

MaL Sir Topas, Sir Topas ^ good Sir Topas , go to ay 
Lady. 

Clo, Out, hyperbolical fiend, how vexeil thou this man? 
Talked thou ot nothing but of ladies ? 

Sir To. Well faid, matter Parfon. 

MaL Sir Tcpas, never was man thus wrong'd ; good 
5ir Topas , do not think, I am mad 5 they have laid mc 
here in hideous darknefs. 

C&. Fy, thou dilhonell Sathan; I call thee by the 
moft modeft terms ; for 1 am one of thofe gentle ones, 
that will ufe the devil hirafelf with curtefy : fay'fl thoa, 
that houfeis dark? 

MaL As hell. Sir Topas, 

Clo, Why, it hath bay-windows tranfparent as bari- 
cadoes, and the clear ftones towards the fouth-north, 
are as luftrous as ebony ; and yet complaineft thou of 
obftru6lion? 

MaL lam not mad, Sir Topas; I fay to you, this 
boufe is dark. 

Ck. Madman, thou errc^ ; I fay, there is no dark- 
nefs bat ignorance; in which thou art more pnzzled 
than the Egyptians in their fog. Mat. 



/What yov Will; ' 1655 

Mai, I fay, this houfe is as dark as ignorance^ 
thoagh ignorance were as dark as hell; and I fay, 
there was never man thus abus'd ; I am no more ijfiad 
than you are» make the trial of rt in any conllant 
queftion. 

do. What is the opinion of Pytbagoras^ concerning 
wild- fowl ? 

Mai, That the foul of our grandam might happily 
inhabit a bird. 

Clo. What think*fl thou of his opinion ? 

MaL I think nobly of the foul> and no way approve 
Es opinion. 

Clo. Pare thee well : remain thou ftill in darknefs | 
thou (halt hold th' opinion of Pythagoras^ ere I will 
allow of thy wits ; and fear to kill a woodcock^ left 
tkou difpoffefs the foul of thy grandam. Fare thee well* 

Mal^ Sir Topas^ Sir Topas^^-"-^ 

Sir To. My moft cxquifite Sir Topasf 

Clo* Nay, I am for all waters. 

Mar, Thou might'il have done this without thy beat^ 
and gown ; he fees thee not. 

Sit To, To him in thine own voice, and bring mi 
word how thou find'ft him : I would, we were all rid 
of this knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, 
I would,- hewere; for I am now fo far in offence with 
toy niece, that I cannot purfoe with any fafety this 
L fport to the upfhot. Come by and by to my chamber. 
r [^ExitnuithMiiri^m 

Clo, Hey, Robin, y^^- Robin, tell me how my Lady does* 

[Singing* 

Mai Fool, 

Clo^ i^ Lady is unkind, perdie, 

MaL Fool, — ^ 

Clo^ Alas 9 ivhy isjhefo f 

ilf^/. Fool, I fay;— -f 

Clo. She lo<ves another-^ who calls, ha ? 

ilftf/.. Good fool, as ever thou wilt deferve well a€ 
ny hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and 
paper ; as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful 
to thee for't« 



( 



tS6 Tw?LPTtt-Ntottt: Or^ 

Ch, lAr. Malwlio/ 

Mal» Ay, good fooh 

Ch. Aias> Sir^ hbi^ fttl yott befid^s yottl- ]five wits f 

Mai. Fool, thel-e was neyer xtian fo ifotdrioufly abus'd| # 
I am as well in my wits, fool, as thoa art. f ^ 

CIo. Botaswelll then thoa art mkd, ittdeed, ifyoif 
be no bettet in your wits tliaa a fool. 

Mai. They have here propertied me ; keep me iii 
darknefs, fend miniflers to me, zSes, attd do all th^ 
tan to face me cat of my wits. 

Cio. Advife you what you fay t the minJfter is here. 
Mal'voliot MaJ<uoIio, thy wits the beay^ns reftore : endea* 
vour thyfelf to deep, and ieav^ thy vkia bibble babble* JTa 

Mai. Sir Topasi — ' 

€h. Maint^n no words With him» g^ood fellow. r^ 
Who ly Sir? not t, Sir. God bVyoa, good Sir TcfdS.^ \ i 
Marry, amen.— I will, Sir, t will. 

Mai. Fool» fool, fodi> I fay. 

CJo. Alas, Sir, be patient. Whit (ky y6a. Six} t 
tm (hent for fpeaking tb you. 

MaL Good fool, help me to fome lights and fonie 
paper ; I tell thee, I am ais well in my witt> as aoy 
Snan in tilyria, 

Clo, Well-a-day, that you i^^e, Sirl 

Mai By this hand, 1 amt good fooU foihe itah 
baper and light % and tonVey what I fet doWxi t6 mi 
Lady : it (hall advantage thee more than ever the betr" 
Ing of letter did. 

Clo. I willhelpyottto^t. B«ttell toetrtte, aire yott 
;ilot mad^ indeed, or do you but counterfeit ? 

Mid% Believe me, I am not x I tell thee tru6. 

Ch. Nay, V\\ ne'er believe a mad-ihan, *till I fee his 
brains% I will fetch you lidit> and paper> and ink* 

MaL FooU Pll requite Itlh the hSghell degree % 
tpr'ythce, begone. 

CA» I am gone, Sir, afnd Mon; Sfr^ XSiHgin^ 

rU be with yotf again 



WhAir Yoty Will; i6y 

Ta a trice, like to the old vice (17)^ 

Your need to faftain : 
Who with dagger bf lath, in hh rage» and his wrath^ 

Cries, ah, ha t to the Devil : 
Like a ntad lad, pare thy nails, dad> 

Adieu, good mail drivel {S^iU 

SCENE changes to another Apartment iii 
O Li VI A*s Houfe. 

inter Sebaftian. 

Sii. This Is the air, that is the glorious Sun ; 
This pearl (he gave n»p^ I do feel't snd fce't. 
And tho' 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus. 
Yet 'tis not ftiadnefs. Where^» Jfttonio then f 
I could not find him at the EUpbant.{ 
Yet there he was, and there I foand this credit (i8)» 
That he did range the town to feek me out* 
His counfel now might do me golden fervice | ^ ■ ■ ■ii> 
For tho' my foul difputes well with n»y fenfe^ 

(17) In a trice, hke tt the bid Vice.] So In Sen J^hnfin^ He DeM 

What it he fctlli upon me, and woaM feem to Uck a mici ? 

Ere his words be half fpoken, / am with him In a trice. 
In both thefe placet, by ^Uex it meant that buffoon^ droll chare Aer . 
fo general tnthe old Plays, who was dffeft^i^ in a lOng coat, a fool*^. 
^ip with llTeif eirs, and fufniHrM Witji a wooden fword, with which 
he was as a£live and wanton as ArUfutn* But I have explatn*i tht 
Hfitrd and ^bdraHer more ^fthnkrly liFit hate nponxhit liae of kia)| 
RiebardiW, ^ ^ 

Thus, like the formal a/tce^ iniquity, Wc, 

(t8) Yet there be ttfas, and there i found tbU credit, 

^bat be did retfige^ &c.] i. e. I foond it juftified, credibljr 
YO«ch*d. Whether the word credit will eafily carry this meaning, I 
am doubtful : the expreflion feems obfcurfc ; and tho^ I hate not 
difturbM the text, I very much fufpe£fc that the Poet wrote $ 
■ and there I found tbii credent. 
He ufes the fame term again in the very fame fenfe in The Winier^t 

■ ■■ T hen 'tis very credent, 
ThbuAu/ft eo-joia with fonethingi and thou dofti 9(^ 

1\A 



i6? Twblfth-Nicht: Gr, 

That this may be fome error, but no madnefs i 

Yet doth this accident and flood of ibrtune 

So far exceed all inftance, all difcourfe ; 

That I am ready to diflruii mine eyes„ 

And wrangle with ray reafon that perfuades me 

To any other trull, but that I^m mad ; 

Or elfe the Lady's mad ; yet if 'twere fo. 

She could not fway her houfe> command her followetli 

Take, and give back affairs, and their diipatch, 

With fuch a fmooth, difcreet, and ftable bearing, 

As, I perceive, fhe does : there's fomthing in't^ 

That is deceivable» But here (he comes* . 

Efitir OlivuL ami Pri^* 

0/r . Blame not this hafte of mine : if yott mean wdl» 
Now go with me, and with this hol]^ man^ ' 

]ntQ the chantry by^ there before him» 
And underneath that confecrated roof, 
Plight me the full aflurance of your faith $ 
That my moil jealous and too doubtful fottl 
May live at peace* He fhall conceal it. 
Whiles you are willing it fhall come to note | 
What time we will our celebration keep 
According to my birth. What do you fay ? 

Set, ril follow this good man, and go with you ; 
And having fworn truth, ever will be true. 

0/r. Then lead the way, good father ; and heav'oi 
fo ihine, 
That they may t&ly note this aft of mine I {Exmti 



ACT 



What you Will. i% 



A G T V. 

SCENE, the Street* 
Enter Clov/n, izW Fabian. 

Fabian. , 

NO W, as thou lov'ft me, let mcfed his letter. 
Cio. Good Mr. Fabian^ gr^^at me another reqveft.' 
Fah. Any thing. 

Clo, Do not defire to fee this letter. 
Fab, This is to give a dog, and in recompence defire 
my dog again. 

Enter Duke i Viola, Curio, and Lords. 

DuJ[e. Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends ? 

Clo, Ay> Sir, we arc fome of her trappings. 

Duke. I know t{iee well ; how doft thou, nay good 
fellow? 

C/o, Truly, Sir, the better for my foes, and the 
worfe for my friends. 

Duie. Juft the contrary ; the better for thy friends. 

CIo. No, Sir, the worfe. 

Duke. How can tha'tl)e ? 

Clo, Marry, Sir, they praife me, and make an ?if$ 
of me; now, my foes tell me^ plainly, I am an afs'; fo 
that by my foes. Sir, I profit in the knowledge of my* 
felf ; and by my friends I am abufed : fo that, conclu- 
fion to be alked, is, {19) if your four negatives make 

your 

(19) So that conclujjont to he as kliTes,— ] Tho* it might be un- 
reafoDable to call our Poet*5 foots and knaves every where to account j 
yet, if we did, for ihc genciality we ftiauJd find them refponfible, 
put what monftrous abfurdiiy have we here ? To fuppofs the text 
fenifttne, we muft acknowledge it too wild to have any known nntaB* 
i»f : and what hat no known meanirg, cannot be albw'd to have 

Vol. III. H citiiof 



lycn TwEf.rTH-NiGHT: Or, 

year two aiHrmativea* why^ th^n the wot^fe, for tof 
fVicnds, and the better for liiy foes. 

DuJte. Why, this is excellent. 

CI9. By m^ troth. Sir, no>; tho' it yiezk you to be 
one of my friends. 

Duh. Thou fhalt not be the woHefbrme, there's gold. 

eio. But that it would he double-dealing^. Sir, I 
would, you could make it another. 

IXuJke, O, you give me ill connfel. 

CIo, Put your grace in your pocket. Sir, for thii 
once, and let your iieih and blood obey it. 

Dnin WeUi, I iVHl be fo much a finner to be a double* 
dealer : . theft's amither. 

Clo. Prmoy Jecundo^ tertio^ is a good play, and the 
old faying is, the thiYd pays for ail : the triplex. Sir, 
]« a good tripping meafurei or the bells of St. BemuU 
Sir, may put you in mind, one, two, three. 

Duke, You can fool no more aionty out of me at this 
throw J if you will let your Lady know, lam hereto 
fpeak with her, and bring her along with you, it may 
awake my bounty further* 

Ck. Marry, Sir, lullaby to your bounty 'till I comd 
again. I go, Sir; but I would not have you to think, 
that my defire of having is the fin of coveieoufneft ; bu^ 
as you fay. Sir, let your bounty take a nap, I will awake 
it anon. [Exit Clown* 

Enter Antonio, and Officers. 

VfdM Here chmes the man. Sir, that did refeue me» 
Duie. That face of his I do remember well 5- 
Vet when I faw it lad, it was befmear'd 
As black as Fukan, in the (moak of war : 

either wit or humour, Belides, the Chwn it affeaiiig to vtfat fer lonilf 
and ia form. I imagine^ the Poet wrote | 
So that, cMuJion to be a/kedi, is 



So tbrnt tonciupon to ot aiiceo, is 
1. e. So that the eondofion I hive to demand of you is this, if yoor 
four, &f. He had in the preceding words been inferring fome fn* 
mijput and now comet to the eonchfim very logicalf^ } You grant me, 
^ys he, the picniflesi I no,w aik you to gnitt the conclufion. 

Mt^Wirhrton. 
A 



Wm at y otr Witt* I Ttr 

bawbUng velTel was he captain of» 
or ihallow draught and bttllc anprizabley 
T^lth which fiieh ftathful grapple did he make 
7ith the moil jAohle bottom or o6r fleet, 
That very j^rf amithte tongae of lofs 
^ry'd fai^e uid bcMHittr on him« Whet's the matter? 

I Offl Ofrfin^i this is that Antonh^ 
That took the fhmnkc and her fraa^ht from Cand^ ; 
^nd this is he» th^ did the Tyger board, 
Wlicn your young nephew Tihts \tA his leg : 
Here in the ilreets^ defperate of fliame and ilate* 
[n private brabble did we apprehend him* 

Vio. He did me Idndnefs, Sir ; drew on xck^ fide i 
Bttt in'conclaiion pat ftrange fpeech upon me, 
I knew not what 'twas, but diftradion. 

Huh. Nouble pirate ] thou falt«wate^ thief ! 
What fbolifli boldnefs brovght thee to dieir merdes^ 
Whom thou in terms fo bl(K>dy, and fo dear^ 
Haft made thine enemies ? 
Ant. Orfin$, noble Sir, 
Be pleas'd that I Aake off thefe names you give met 
Anttm never yet was thieA ^ pirate ; 

Though I confeft, on bafe and ground enough^ 
Orfinrt enemy* A witchcraft drew me hither : 
Thkt meft ungrateful boy there, by your ilde» 

From the rude fea's enrag'd and foamy moatk 
Did I redeem i a wreck paft hope he was : 

His lifis I |ave himt and did thereto add 

My love wttfaout retention ot refiraint^ . 

AU his in dedication. For his fake« 

Did I expofe myielf (pure, for his love) 

Into the daneer of this adverfe town s 

Drew to defend him, when he was befet ; ^ 

Where bdbg apprehended, his fklfe cunning 

(Not meanbgto partake with me in danger) 

Tatight him to face me out of his ac<}ttaintance % 

And grew a twenty years Removed thing, 

While one would wmk : denyM me mine own pllrfe. 

Which I had recommended to his ufe 

Mot half an hour hehte* 

H a Vi%. 



lyi Twelfth-Night : Or, 

Fio, How can this be ? ^^ 

Duke. When came he to this town ? 

Jnt, To- 3 ay, my Lord ; and for three months beforCi 
(No interim^ not a minute's vacancy,) 
Both day and night did we keep company. 

Enter Olivia, and Attendants* 

Duke, Here comes the Countefs ; now heav*n walb 
on earth. 
But f()r thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madnefs : 
Three months this youth hath tended upon m^ ; 
Bin morfe of that anon. — Take him afide. — 

OU, What would my Lord, but that he may not have, 
Wherein G//'z^/a may fcem ferviceable ? 
Ce/ariof you do not keep promifc with me, 

yio. Madam! 

Duke, Gracious 0/ivia, 

Olt\ What do you fay, Cefario? Good my Lord— 

Vio* My Lord would fpeak, my duty hulhes me. 

O//. If it be aught to the old tune, my Lord, 
It is as fat and fulfome to mine ear, 
i\« howling after mirfick. 

Duke, Still fo cruel '^ r 

O//. Still fo con flan t, Lord. 

Duke. What, to perverfenififs ? yon uncivil Lady, 
To whofe ingrate and unaufpicious altars 
My foul the faithful'ft offerings has breath'd out^ j 
That e'er devotion tendered. What (hall I do ? 

Ol'u E v'n what it plcafe my Lord, that fhall become him. 

Duke, Why (hould I not, had T the heart to do*t (20), 
Like to th' JEgyptian thief,, at point of death 
Kill what 1 love? (a favage jealoufy, 

Thit 

(20) TVhyJhould Xyiot^ had I the heart to do it, 

l.jh to the /Egyptian thief, at pnnt cf dtath \ > 

' Kill what I love?} In thit Jimile, a particular ftorj it prt» 
fupp<5«*d ; which ought to be known, to flicw the juilncfs a^d prcpri- 
c«v«f ih« cotnparlfon. I'll give the finopfti pf It from HeiiodoruCi 
^.tbiopiis, to which our Author was indebtetf for th^ al nflon. This 
Mjtyptian 'hief v.'9fTi>yamis^ who was a natife of MerrpbUy and at 
Ve head of a band of robbert* Ibeagmei tJid Cbaritlea lallinj; i^to 

iheil 



What YOU Will, 173 

Dmetimes favours nobly ;) but hear me this : 

'ou to non-regardance caft my faith, 

lat I partly know the inftrument, 

crews me from my true place in your favour : 

ou the marble-breaded tyrant flill. 

is your minion, whom, I know, you love, 

'hom, by heav'n, I fwear, I tender dearly, 

fill I tear .out of that cruel eye, 

; he fits crowned in his mafter's fpi^ht. 

boy, with me ; my thoughts are npc in mifchief : 
rrifice the lamb that I do love, 
ght a raven's heart v^i thin a dove. [Duke going. 

And I mod jocund, apt, and willingly, 
yoi| reft, a thoufand deaths would die. [following. 

Where goes Cefario ? 

Afterhiift I love, 
than I love thefe eyes, more than my life; 

by all mores, than e'er I (hall Jove wife. 
> feign, you witnefTes above 
I my life, for tainting of my love ! 

Ay me, detefted ! how am I beguilM ? 

Who' dbe» beguile you ? who does do you wrong I 

Haft thou forgot thyfelf ? J« it fo long ? 
>rth the holy father. 
/. Come, away. [Te Viola. 

Whither, my Lord ? Cefario, hnlband, ftay. 
e. Hiift)and? 

Ay, hofband. Can he that deny ? 

ndt, TbyamlthM defperttely in love with the Lady, and wouH 
latried her, Sooo after, a ftronger body of robbers coming 
pon Tbyamii^ party, he wa« in f«ich feais fnr his miftrcfs, ih»c 
ber fliat into a cave with hi« treafure. It was cjftomary wi.h 
irbariant, when tbty def^ir^d of their own fafetjy firfi to make 
fith tbofe tvbom tbey beld dear, and defired for companiont in 
t life. Tbyamis, therefore, benetted round with his enemlet, 
vithloye, jealoufy, and anger, went to his cave; and calling 
I the ^gyptiam toogne, fo foon as he heard himfeif anfwcrM 
the cave*8 nuiuth by a Grecian, mikinp to the perfon by the 
D of her voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand, 
>pofing her to be CbmcUa) with his light l^ad plungM his 
itoberbreaft. 

H 5 Duke. 



I 



174 TwBtFTir-KtrGr»T: Or> 

Duke* Herhofhandy firrah? 

Ifi: No, my Lord, not L 

0/r. AIa$, it is i]i« baien^aof %hy feaiv 
That makes tbee ibanglc thy pro^iety ^ 
Fear aot,^ Cefarh^ uke thy £)rttt{ie^ «p : 
Be that, thou know'iT,. |hou.an». and ditfa tlM^art 
As greats as that thou fear'fl. 

intir Briifi. 

weko]ne» father. 

Father^ I charge thee by thy nnrercnce 
Here to unfoldt (tho' huxly we ifrtciided 
To keep in darknefs, what pccafiom nowr 
Revels before 'tis ripe) what, thoiidoft kaow^ 
Hath newly paft between thia youth asd mo« 
PrUft. A contrail of eternal bond of kire^ 
Confirm^ by mutual joinder of yoor litaday. 
Attefted by the holy ciofe of Jiptr . 
Strengthened by enterchangement of your siogf t 
And iiV the ceretoony of thiacompaA 
Seard in my function, by my tellimony: 
Since when, my watch hath told mtjf tow'ad my giai 

1 have travell'd but two hours. 

Dukt. O thou difTembling cub \\ what wilt thooibe 
When time hath fow'd a grizzel on thy cale f 
Or will not elfe thy caaft fo quickly grow. 
That thine own trip fliall be thine overthrow >^ 
Farewel, andt^keker; but dire^ thy ^eet. 
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.. 

Vio, My Lord, I do proteft*--^ 

0//. O, do not (wear ; 
Hold little faith, tho' thou hail! too much fear !: 

Enter Sir Andrew, ivrti? his bead Broke ,. 

Sir And. For the love of God a fargcon, and i 
one prefently to Sir 7p^. 

O//. What's the matter ? 

Sir And, H^as broke my head a-crofs, and given 
^oby a bloody coxcomb too : for the love of God, y 
help. I had rather than forty pounds, I wore ai hcmr 



What rou Wi:nxr/ ^t7s 

OU. Who has done this. Sir Anirtwf ' ^ 

^/> ^W. Th^ Count's gentleman^ one Ce/arh'r we took 
yam for a cowardr bat he's the very de^ ificardiaate. 

Duki. My gendexnan, Cifinriot 

Sir Ami. Od's lifelings^ here he is: yoa broke my 
head for nothing, and' tbat Aatl did^ I waa fet oi^ta 
do't by Sir Tt^hy. 

Fio, Why do you'rpeakr to me? I nerer hart yoa v 
Yoa drew your fword upon me, without caoTe ;^ 
Bat I befpafke yoa fair, and hurt you not.- 

Entir Sir Toby, tmd Clwjutt^ 

Sir And. If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt,- yoa* Save 
hurt nvQ : I Mnky yoii ftt notUne by a bloody cox.- 
comb. Here jcomes Sir Tiiy halting, you fliali hear 
more ; bat if he had not been in driw, he would havie 
tickled yo» other-gates than he did. 

Duki. How nowr gentleman ? how is't with you ? 

Sir To* That's all one, he has hart* me, aad there's- 
an. end on't ; Sot, didil fee D/Vi Surgeon, Sot } 

Ch. O'he's drunk. Sir Toby^ above an hour agone^ 
his eyes were iet at eight i'th' morning. 

^/> To. Theq he's a rogue, and a paft-Qieafirre 
Paittim^ I hate ^ drunken rogue. • '■\ 

Oli. Away with him : who hath made this havock 
with them I 

Sir And. I'll help you. Sir Tohy^ bccaufe we'll b^ 
drcft together. 

Sir To. Will you help an afs-head, and a coxcomb^ 
and a kitave, a thin-fac'd knave, a gull? 

[Exeunt Q\o. T^. and Kiid^ 

Oli. Get him to bed, and lee his hurt be look'd to. 

Enter Sebaftian. 

SeB. I am forry, Madam, I have hurt your kinfman ; 
But had it been the brother of my blood, 
I mud have done no lefs with wit and fafety. 

^ lAUJandiuama/M^ 
You throw a flrange regard on me, by which^ 
Ii do perceivCi. it hath offended you*^ 

H 4s Pardon 



jy€ Twelfth-Night: Or, 

Pardon me, fWeetone, even for the vows ^ 
>We made each other, but (b late ago. 

Dt/ie, One face, one voice, one habit, and two perfons; 
A nat'ral perfpeftive, that is, and is not ! 

SeA, Antonio t O' my dear Antonio! 
Jionr have, the hours racked and tortnr'd me> 
Since I have loft thee \ 

Ant* Stkiftiamrtyou} 

Sebn Ifear'il thou that, Antonio ! 

Ant, How have you madediviiion of yourfclf ? 
An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin 
Than thefe two creatures. Which is Sebaftianf 

9li* Moil wonderful ! 

Seh, Do I (land there ? I never had a brother : 
Kor can there he that deity in my nature. 
Of here and every where. I had a iider. 
Whom the blind waves and f urges have devoured : 
Of charity, what kin are you tome ? [To Viola* 

What countryman? what name ? what parentage? 

Vio. Oi MeJaUnei Sebafiian v/zs my fsither i 
JSuch a Sebaftian was my brother too : 
So went he fuited to his wat'ry tomb. 
Jf ipirits can afTume bpth form and fuit^ 
You come to fright us* 

Seh, A fpiiit lam, indeed; 
But am in that dimenfion grofsly clad, 
.Which from the womb I Bid participate.' 
Were you a woman, as the reft goes even, 
I (houid my tears let fall upon your cheeky 
'And fay, ** Thrice welcome, drowned Fiola/'* 
' Fio, Mf father had a mole upon his brow. 

Seb. And fo had mine. 

Plo. And dy'd that day, when Fiola from her birth 
Had number'd thirteen years* 
; .iSeb'. O, that record is lively in my foul ; 
He finifhed, indeed, his mortal aft, 
That day that made my ftfter thirteen years, * 
X. Fici If nothing lets to make us happy both, 
3ut this n\y mafc aline ufurp'd attire ; 
Vq aot embrace me, 'tUl e^iVv c\Tcxim&2ki«ft ^ 



What you Will. I'j'j 

Ofplace^ time, fortuiie, do cohere and jump^ 
That I am Viola ; which to confirm^ 
IMl bring you to a Captain in this town 
Where he my maid's weeds ; (21) by whofe gentle help 
1 was preferi'd to i^xvt this noble D a ke. 
All the occurrence of my fortune fince 
Hath been between this Lady, and this Lord. 
^ih. So comes it. Lady, you have been midook : 

[Ti Olivia. 
Bat Nature to her bias drew in that. 
You would have been con traced to a maid, 
Nor are you therein,, by my life, deceived ; 
YoD are betrothM both to a maid, and man. 

Duke, Be not amaz'd: right- noble is his blood : 
If this be fo, as yet the glafs feems true, 
I (hall have fhare in this mod happy wreck. 
Boy, thou haft faid to me a thoufand times, \To Vio. 
Thou never fhould'il love woman like to me. 

Vio, And all thofe fayings will I over-fwear, 
Aad all thofe fwearings keep as true in foul ; 
As doth that orbed continent the fire. 
That fevers day from night. 
Duke. Give me thy hand, 
And let me fee thee m thy woman's weeds. 

(ai) ^--^hy v>bofe gentle help 

J was ^'t(tTV*d to ftrve this nohle Duke.] Tho* t^^is be feaff, 
tnd pofTefiet all the printed copies, yet I fofpe^^, froai the fimilitude 
'0 the 1*^0 wordj freferv^d and fer'ue (a ramenefs of fnund, whic(i 
Shakefpeare wouid, probably, have avoided j) the ccpyifts, or m?a 
at prefs, cotnnaitted a flight mif^ake. Whea the Captain and Fioia 
fiifl appear ppon the Stage, (he favs to him j 

17/ ferve this Duke j 

Tlou Jhalt pTt(ent mf, Sec. 
I therefore beneve, the Author Wrore, as I have reformed the Text; 
— — - 6y ivhofe ^enfle bflp 
Jtvas preferred to ferx>e this noble Duke \ 
So in The Taming of the 5i>rew ^ 

■ If yoa, HortenJiOf 

Of, Signer Gremio, you know any fach, 
Prefer rhem hither. 
So, \n Julius C afar \ 

0£i. Ffliow, wiJf ihoubeftow thy time w\thrr.e> 
^/ra^ A/, ifMefaia mil prefer mc tO you, ©C» C^C.^C, 

JH 5 V\^, 



178 Twblfth-Nxght: Or^ 

Via. The captain, that did* bring me £rft on iOiore^ 
Hath my maids garments : ke upon ibmc aAico 
Is now in durance^ at Malvaiio^s fait, 
A gentleman and follower of my Lady's* 

O/i. He (hall enlarge him r fetch Mal'wJh iiithcr* 
And yet» alas, nour I remember me. 
They fay, poor gentleman, he-s miMch diftrad; 

Enttr the Clown noitb a^ktttr^ and Fabian* 
A mo(l extracting frenzy of mine own 
From my remenu>rance ckarly baniih'd hts* 
How does be, firrah ? 

Clo. Truly, Madam, he holds MtlscdnA at the ftave't^ 
tnd^ a$ well as a man in his ca& may do; h'as here 
writ a: letter to you,^ I fhould have giv^ii it you to-day 
moraing. But as a mad-man's epiflles are no gofpels^. 
fo it fi&ills not moch^ when they: are delivered. 

OIL Open% and read it^ 

CKn. Look then to be well edify'd,. when the fool de*^ 
livers the mad-man — By the Lgrd, Madam^^^ \Riads^ 

Oli* How now, art mad ? 

Clo. No, Madam, I do bi^ read madneft : an your 
Lftdyfh'p will have it as it ought to be, you muil 
allow Fox, 

W, Pr'ythee, read it, i'thyi right wits. 

Cto, So I do, Mhdona ; but to read his right wits \^ 
to read thus: therefore perpend, my. Princefs, and 
give ear. 

0/i. Read it you, firrah. [^0 Fabiaru 

Fab, [Reads.] By the Lordy Madanty you ixrong met, 
and the «uforld Jball knonv it : though you haije put me inio< 
darknejs^ and given ypur drunken uncle rule over me, yit 
have I the benefit of my fen/es as ivell as your Ladyfljip* I 
have your onvn letter, that induced me to the femblance t 
ffUt on ; nuith the nuhich, I doubt not, but to do myjelf 
mifch right, or you much Jhame : think of me as yc» 
fleafe : I Uaye my duty a little unthougbt of, and fpeak ovif 
of mv injury, The Dvsully us'd Maholio*. 

dli. Did he write this ? 

Clo* Ay* Madam. 

Vukti 



Suii. "fhis favours not much of dlfli-adlion. 

O/r. See him deliver'd, Fabian ; bring him hither* 
My Lordy fo pleafe you» thefe things further thought onV / 
To think me as well a After, as a mfe ; 
€ne day fhall crown th* alliance on^t, fo pleafe you> 
Yitxt at my houfe, and at my proper coftk> 

J^uke, Madam, I am moft apt t embrace your offers- 
Tour mailer ^uits you ; and for your fervice done him. 
So much againft the metal of your fex^ \Tq Viol* 

So far beneath your foft and tender breedings 
(And iince you calPd me mailer for fo long,) 
Here is my hand, you fhall from this time ber 
Your mailer's miilrefs. 

on. A lifter,*— you are ihe^ 

Eiaer Malvolior^ 

'Buke. Is this the madman ? 

O//. Ay, my Lord, the fame : hotr now,' MatvolUf 
MaL Madam, you have done me wrong, notoriou^r 
O//. Havel, MalvelioP no, [wrong.. 

.. MaL Lady, you have; pray you perufe that letter* 

Tou muft not now deny it is yx)ur hand. 

Write from it if you can, in hand or phrafe; 

Or fay, 'tis not your feal, nor your invention ; 

You can fay none of this. Well, grant it then^; 

Atid tell me in the modeflv of honour. 

Why you have given me fuch clear lights of fevour^ 

Bade me come imiling, and crofs-garter'd to you; 

To put onyellow ilockingSi and to frowa 

Upon SirT^^, and the lighter people: 

And adling this in an obedient hope. 

Why have you fufer'd me to be imprifon'd,^ 

Kept in a dark houfe, vifxted by the prieft. 

And made the moft notorious geek, and gull. 

That e'erjnvention plaid on ? tell me, ^^y ? 
O//. A\2is, Mahothf this is not my writing, 

Tho% I confefs, much like the char adler : 

But, out of queftion, 'tis Maria's hand. 

And now I do bethink me, it,was (he 

Firft told me^ thou wail mad ; then cam'ft thou fmiling, 
H 6 And 



l80 TWELFTH-N I G H JT : . Or, 

And in fuch forms which here were prefupposid 

Upon thee in the letter : pr'ythee, be content; 

This pradice hath mod ihrewdly paft upon thee ; 

Sut when we know the grounds, and authors of it. 

Thou (halt be both the plaintiff and the judge 

Of thine own caufe. 

Tab. Good Madam, hearmefpeak; 

And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come^ 

Taint the condition of this prefent hour, 

Which I have wondred at. In hope it (hall not, 

Moft freely I confcfs, myfelf and Sir Toby 

Set this device againft Malvolto here, 

Upon fome Ilubborn and uncourteous parts 

We had conceived againft him. Maria writ 

The letter, at Sir TcAy's great importance ; 

In recom pence wheregfi^ he hath married hen 

How with a fportful malice it was followed. 

May rather pluck on laughter than revenge ; 

Jf that the injuries be juftly weigh'd. 

That have on both fides paft, 

OIL Alas, poor fool ! how have they baffled thee ? 
Clo. Why, /ome are horn^reat^ fome auhie've greainefs^ 
and fome have greatnefs thrvft upon them* I wa? one. Sir, 
in this interlude; one Sir I'opas^ Sir: but that's all 

oie : by the Lord^ fooU I ^« ««' fnad} but do 

you remember. Madam,- why laugh you at fuch dt. 

barren rafcal? an you /mile notf he*s gagg'd: and thu-s 
the whirl-gigg of time brings in his revenges. 

Mat V\\ be reveng'd on the whole pack of you. \Exit^ 
OH. He hath been moft notorioufly abus'd. 
Duke* Purfue him, and intreat him to a peace ; 
He hath not told us of the captain yet ; 
When that is known, and golden time convents, 
A folemn combination (hall be made 
Of our dear fouls. Mean time, fweet fifter. 
We will not p^rt from hence. — Cefarioy come ^ 
(For io you (hkll be, while you are a man ;) 
But when in pither habits you are feen, 
Orjtno'% miftrUs> and his fancy's queen* [Exewii^ 

eiovm^ 



What yov Will. i8i; 

Clown fings* 

When that I was an a little tiny boy, ^ 

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain : 
^ A foolifh thing was but a toy, 

For the rain it raineth every day. 
But when I came to man's eilate. 

With hey, ho, lie, 
'Gainft knaves and thieves men (but their £ate> 

For the rain, lie* 

But when I came, alas ! to wive. 

With hey, ho, ^r. 
By fwaggering could I never thrive. 

For the rain, fcTr. 
Bat when I came unto my beds. 

With hey,'1io, ^r. 
With tofs-pots dill had drunken heads^ 

For the rain, tsTr. 
^ great while ago the world begun. 

With hey, ho, {5fr. 
But that's all one, our Play is done ; 
^ And we'll ftrive to plcafe you every day. \Exii. 



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Dramatis Perfonas. 

S A L I N U S, D«i^ e/* Epliefus. 

JEgton, a Merchant of Syracufe. 

. . » 1- y« T? I. r r Ttvin-Brothirs^ and Sons t9 
Antiphohs ,/Ephefus. \ ^^ j^^^^^ ^^ 

Antiphohs of Syracufe, (. ^^^^^ ^^ ^^»^^ ^^^^^ 

Dromio of Ephefus, C Twin-Brothers^ and SlaKjes 4o iht 

Dromio of Syracufe, c '"wo Antipholis's. 

Baltl|a&ar, a Merchant » 

Angelo, a GoU/mith, 

A Merchant^ Friend to Antipholis of Syracufe. 

Dr. Pinch, a School-mafer^ and Conjurer, 

Emilia, Wife to ^geon, an Albefs at Ephefus. 
Adriana, Wife to Antipholis of Ephefus. 
Luciana, Sifter to Adriana, ' 

Iiuce^ Servant to Adriana. 

Jailor^ Officers 9 and other Attendants. 
SCENE, Ephefus. 



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^'^CoMEDY of Errors. 



A C T !• 

SCENE, the Duke's Palace. 

f^/^r the Duke of Ephefus, -ffigeon, Jailor^ and 
other Attendants. 

JBiGZOV. 

PRocced, Saftnust to procure my fall, 
And by the doom of death end woes and all. 
Du^e. Merchant of Syracufa^ plead no Hiore ; 
am not partial to infringe our laws : 
The enmity, and difcord, which of late 

Sprung 

{\^ Comedy of Errors.] The controverfy of our Author*! 
cquaintance with the hatin tongue has been partly canvafsM upon 
is having writ this Play. << It is in great meafure taken (fajt 
' Mr. Rovje) from the Menacbmi of Piautus. How that happen*d^ 
' I caonot eafily divine ; fince I do not take him to have been ipa^ 
' ter of Latin enough to read it in the original: and I know of no 
f uanflalion of Flautus ib old as his tioae."— — Thus far, hl| 



iS5 TheComedyof Errors; 

forung from the ranc^roas oatrage of your Dviktr 

To merchants, our wcljl-dealing countrymen, 

fWhOt wantiag ^dcr»' to redeem their livetr ^ 

Have feal'd his r^oroos ftatates witlhtkeir bloods) 

Bxdndes all pky mm oar threataing looka» 

For, iince the SMrtal and inuftine jars 

'Twtxt thy (cditioiis conntrymen and its» . 

It hath in folemn fynods been decfeed. 

Both b^ the Sjraa^aiu and onrielves, 

T'admn no trafick to oar ^verie towna^ 

Nay, more ; if any bom at E^i^ 

Be feen at Sfrtuufim marU and fatrst 

Agaio» if any $jrmcMfa9 bore ^ 

Come to the bay of Ephifiu^ he dies t 

His goods confiTcate to the Dvfce*s difpol^r 

Ualefs a thoniand marks be levied J 

To <iait the penalty, and ranfem him. ] 

Thy fubftance valued at the lugheil rate. 

Cannot amount onto a hondred marks ^ 

Therefore, by law thou art condemned to die. 

ALg€9n. Yet this my oomfort, when yoor words aredont^ 
If y woes end iikewife with the evening fun. 

Duke. Wall,. Sjracufatt^ iay, in brief, the caiiier 

acquaiattnce vith the Homtm language ii rather difpoted, thaa af« 
cefUiii*d. Let vt fee, what Mr. Gildom hat obfervM opoa thii. 
*' I confeft with fabnuifioa to the writer of his life, that lean fin^ 
** no foch need of divisatioa on thit.head. For aa it it bejoad' 
" contradiction plain, that thia comedy it taken from that of 
^ PUmtuii (o I thiak it at obvious to conclude from that, that \ 
** Sbaktfpuo^ did ooderftand Lat'm enough to read him, and kaew 
^ ib much of him at to be able to form a defign out of that of the \ 
** JtmtM Poet,** ' We bow find his title to lea? ning a little 

better gioaadcd. After thefe Gentlemen comet Mr. Fope, and dif- 
fidently corroboratat Mr. GUM*$ opinion. ** He appears {fays 
** be), alfe to have been coaverfant in Plautus, from whom he has 
** takea the Plot of One of hit Playt.** The Comedy of- Errvs it the 
Flaj meant htrt. Bat tho*, perhaps, I may believe our Autbar bet^ 
ter acf oaioted with nhe ancient Unguages, than the(r three learned 
men profefs to do; yet, with Reference to them, his literatute wilt^ 
not come into difpute on this account. For the Men^chmt of Plautuf 
was tranflatcd into BngUJb, (which our critickt might have known 
6om L^nghawe) and printed in guarttiatht year 1515^ half a cen^ 
amy hsfoie ws Aothoc was^bgrsit. 

Whjp: 



The CorotiSy of E r it o k sJ i9f 

Why thoa depflited'^ft (rem ^y native home ; 
And for what cauie thoa cam'^ to Epht/mt. 

Mgi9n* Ahearier u^ could not have been imposed, (a) 
Than I to fpeak my grief unljpeakaUe : 
Yet that the world may witnos, thot my endl 
Was wadughc by natnre, not by nie ofitacei, 
FU utter what my ibrrow giires^ me leavr. 
In ^r«a|^ wat I born, and wed 
Unto a woman, happy but f6r me ; 
And by jne too> had not <Htr hap^ been bad r 
With her I livM in joy i oor w«akh encreai*d» 
By profpevotts vov«|m I often made 
To tpidamnum ; Hifl my fitOor'a death, 
And the great care of goods at random teftt 
Drew me from kiiid ^inoracements of my f|>oii6 ji 
Prom whom my ableoce wai sot fix mondii old^. 
Before hexfelf (almoft at fainting rnider 
The pleafing pnnt&ment that women beary 
And made provifioff for her f<^owing rae^ 
Andfoon^ andfafe» arrived where Iwas. 
There ihe had not been long, b«it (he became 
A joyful mother of two goodly ions ; 
And^ which, was ftrange,. the one fo like the otheif 
As could not be dtftioguifli*d but by names* 
That very hour, and in the felf^fame inn». 
A poor mean woman was delivered 
Of fuch a burden^ male-twins both alike : 
Thofe (for their parents were exceeding poor)^ 
I bought^ and bnouc^ht up to attend my fons. 
My wife, not meanly proud of two fuch boys^ 
Made daily motions for our home-return :: 
Unwilling, I agreed ; alas, too foon ! 
We came aboard. 

A league from EpUan\num\iZ<di we failM, 
Before the always-wind*obeying deep 

(%) A heavier taik cmld not have Been imposed, 

Than I to fpeak my Grief unrpeakable.1 The Poet feems to mt 
heto^to have had in hit eye the exotdium of J£neas*$ fpecch XoD'tdo^ 
in the HBCODd book of ^r^/rt ^«Wt. 

Gav* 



r88 The Comedy of E r r o r s. 

Gave any tragick inftance of our harm ; 
But longer did we not retain much hope : 
For what obfcured light the heav'ns did grant. 
Did but convey unto our fearful minds 
A doubtful warrant of immediate death ; 
Which, tho* myfelf would gladly haveembrac'd. 
Yet the inceflant weeping of my wife, 
(Weeping before, for what (he faw muft come ;) 
And piteous plain ings of the pretty babes. 
That mourn 'd for famion, ignorant what to fear, 
ForcM me tp feek delays for them and me : 
And this it was ; (for other means were none.) 
The failors fought for fafety by our bo^t. 
And left the /hip, then fin king-ripe, tons; 
My wife, more (ireful for the elder bora. 
Had failen'd him unto a Anall fpare mAft, 
Such as fea-faring men provide for ftorms ; 
To him one of the other twins was bound, 
Whilft I had been like heedful of the other. 
The children thus difpos'd, my wife and I, 
Fixing our eyes on'whom our care was iixt, 
Faften'd ourfelves at either end the mad ; 
And loafing ftraight^ obedient to the ftream, 
Were carry M towards Corinth, as we thought. 
At length ihe fun, gazing upon the earth, - 
Difpers'd thofe vapours that offended us ; 
And, by the benefit of his wilh'd light. 
The feas waxt calm ; and we difcovered 
Two fhips from far making amain to us. 
Of Corintb, that, of Epidaurus this j 
But ere they came— -oh I Jet roe fay no more ! 
Gather the fequel by that went before, 

Duke. Nay, forward, old man, do not break off fo ; 
Jor we may pity, the' not pardon thee. 

j^geon. Oh, had the Gods dpne fo, I had AOt nov 
Worthily term'd tbem mercilefs to us ; 
For ere the fhips could meet by twice five leagues. 
We were encountred by a mighty rock^ 
Which being violently borne upon. 



The Comedy of E r r o r s. i8^ 

Our helplefs ihip was fplitted in the midft : 

60 that, in this unjuft divorce of us. 

Fortune had left to both of us alike , 

What to delight in, what to forrow for. 

Her part, poor, foul I ieeming as burdened 

With leffer weight, bi^t not with Icfl'er woe. 

Was carry'd wi^th more fpeed before the wind, 

And in our fight they xhree were taken up 

By fifhermen of Corinthf as we thought. 

At length, another fiiip had iiez'd on us ; 

And knowing whom it was their hap to fave. 

Gave helpfO I welcome to their fhipwrackt gueils ; 

And wouldhaye reft the iiOiers pf their prey. 

Had not their bark been very flow of fail ; 

And therefore homeward did they bend their cour{e»«^ 

Thus have you heard me feverM from my blifs 5 

That by misfortunes was my life prolonged. 

To tell fad llories of my own mifliaps. 

Duh, And, for the fakes of them thou forrow'ft for,* 
T>o me the favour to dilate at full 
What hath befaU'n of them, and thee, 'till now. 

jEgeon. My youngeft^ boy, and yet my eldeft caret - 
At eighteen years )>ecame inquititive 
After his brother, and importun'd me. 
That his attendant, (for his cafe was like, 
Reft of his brother, but retained his name,) 
Might bear him company in queft of him : 
Whom whilft I kbourM of a love to ffee, 
I hazarded the lofs, of whom I lov'd. 
Five fummers have I fj^ent in fartheft Greece^ 
Roaming cleail through the bounds of jifiap 
And Coafting homeward, came to Ephe/us : 
Hopelefs to find, yet loth to leave unfought. 
Or that, or any place that harbours men. 
But |iere mufl end the ftory of my life; 
^A^nd happy were I in my timely death, 
Could all my travels warrant me, they live. 

Duke, Haplefs JEgeon, whom the fates have markt 
.To War th' extremity of dire milhap j 

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lr90 The Comedy of E it r o u t. 

Now, tnift ne, woe it not ugaiftfl Mr laws (3% /« 

(Which Princest would they, nay not difaniiol^} i^ 

Againft my crown, my oath, my ^&gnity^ 

My foul ihottld £ait at advocate for tfiee. 

Bat, tho' thoii art adjudged to the death. 

And paired ieatence mvy not be retalPd^ 

But to our honour*! great disparagement; 

Yet will I favour thee in what I can ; 

1 therefore, menAant, limit thee this 4ay> 

To feek thy life I7 bea^cial help? 

Try all the frioidt thou haft in Ephefift, 

Beg thcAiy or boiww, to mdce up the Aim> 

And live ; . if tt<it, then thou «t doomed to dit; 

Jailor, udce him to thy cuftody. 

[£annrf Do1te» mtiTrMfnl 

JmL I win, my Lord. 

jEgtM. Hoprleft and helplefi doith jS^rmy weod. 
But to procraftiaate his livele(s end. 

SCENE changes to the Street. 

TiiMr Antipholis tf Syracnfe, 4tMercia/ir, aitdDtemi^ 

Wrr.np'Hereforegivc out, you are of Efidammmt 
X Le^ tl^^t your goods too foon be conifcate* 
This very day, a Syracu/an merchant 
Is apprehended for arrival here ; ^ 
And not being able to buy out his ]ife» 
According to the ftatute of the town, j 

IMes ere the weary fun fet in the weft : 
There is your money, that I had to keep. 

jint. Go bear it to the Centaur^ where we ho^ 
And ftay there» Dromo^ 'till I come to thee^ 
Within this hour it will be dinner-tin»; 

(3) Now tru^ m§9 wen it mtag(Biif §iir Umh 

Jrincb PnMces wouia, tbty may ntt dtjannu!,'] Thoi are iktk 

liaet placed ia all the former editioni. But ai the fioglcv^i doii 

not fgree with all the Jubfiantvoa^ N«Vv\dv&«^\4 Va ^<^«t4*d of it, I 

JbtvgT90tm*d tomakeatMmffo&tioii^ «xAV|%<MEMG^'\ak^dubY««^ 

^ €kir*4 up the pcrpluitj «C tht koS%. ^^ 



flic Comedy of £ r r o b. s. igg 

Till tliat rU view the manners of the towMf 
Perufe the triers, gaze opon ^e buUdings, 
^nd then retiirn and deep within mtoe itm ; 
For with iong travel I am fUtf and weary. 
Get thee away. 

Dro. Many a man would take yoa at your word. 
And go indeed, havii^ (b good a meant. [iW^ Droouo* 

Jats *A trttfty villaint Sir, that very oft, 
"When I am duU with care and melancholy, 
3Lightens my homour with hia merry jefts. 
^hat, will yoa walk with me aboBt the tows, 
i^nd Uien go t& the iim and dine with me ? 

lifir. lam^kivited, Sir^ to eertai« merchaHtSt 
Of whom I hope to make m«ch beiieit : 

i crave your pardon. 8000 at five o^clock, 

?leafe voo, I'll meet with you upon the mait^ 

And amrward coaforc yoa 'till bed^me : 

My prefent bufineft cailt me from yoa now. 
jlnt. Farewei *till then ; I will go lofe myfdf» 

And wander up and down to view the city. 
Mer. Sir, I commend yoi» to yonr own content. 

Am. He that commends me to my own cootenty 
Commends me to the thing I cannot get. ' 
I to tbe world am like a drop of water. 
That in the ocean feeks another drop. 
Who falling there to find his fellow fbrtb^ 
Unfeen, inqttifiti«e» eonfounds himfelf ; 
So I, to find a mother and a brother, 
Ingueftof them* unhappy, iofemyfel^ 

Entif Dromio §f Ephefut r 
Here cosnei the almanack of my true date. 
What now ? how chance, thoo art retnrn'd'lb feon f ' 

E. Drp, Returned fo foon ! rather ap^roachM toolaie t 
The capon burns, the pig faHs from the fpit. 
The clock has ftrucken twelve upon the bell 1 
My miftrefs made it one upon my cheek ; 
Shie if fo hot, bcciare the meat u cold \ 
The awat is cold, bcauUe you come aot Vmh^ \ 

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igz The Comedy of E n r o r s, 

Yoa come not home, becaofe you have no flomach • 
You have no ftomach, having broke yoor fail : 
But we» that know what 'tis to faft and pray. 
Are penitent for your default to-day. 

Jnf. Stop in your wind. Sir; tell me this, I pray, 
Where you have left the money that I gave yon ? 

E. Dro. Oh,— fix pence, that I had a Wedmfdey laft, 
To pay the fadler for my miibefs' crupper ? 
The fadler had it. Sir; I kept it not. 

Ant* I am not in a fportive humour now ; 
Tell me and dally not, where is the money ? 
We being Grangers here, how dar'il thou tru^ 
60 great a charge from thine own cuftody } 

£. Dr§. I pray you, jeft. Sir, as you fit at dinner: 
I from my mifbefs come to you in poll ; 
If I return, I fliall be poft indeed ; 
For fhe will fcore your fault upon my pate : 
Methinks, your maw, like mine, fhould be your clocks 
And flrike you home without a mefienger. 

Jnt, Come, Z>r«m/>, come, thefejefts areoutof feafoni 
Referve them 'till a merrier hour than this : 
Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee ? 

E. Dro, T6 me, Sir ? why, you gave no gold to me. 

Jtti, Conaeon, Sir knave, have done your foolifhnefs ; 
And tell me how thou haft{difposM thy charge? 

E. Dro. My charge was but to fetch you from the mart 
Home to your houfe, the Pbeemx^ Sir, to dinner ; 
My miftrefs and her filler flay for you. 

Attt. Now, as I am a chriftian, anfwer me. 
In what fafe place you have beilow'd my money ; 
Or I (hall break that merry fconce of yours. 
That (lands on tricks when I am undifpos'd : 
Where are the thoufand marks thou hadd of me ? 

E. Dro* I have fome marks of yours upon my patc ; 
Sonle of my midrefs' marks upon my (boulders j 
But not a -thoufand marks between you both,-— 
If I (hould pay your worfhip thofe again. 
Perchance, you will not bear them patiently. 

Ant, Thy miftrefs' marks i what mifirefsaflavehaft thba ? 

B. DrQ» 



The Camedy of E r r or s. ijg 

£• Dro. Your worihip's wife, my mlftrefs at the Pbttnix* 
Xbe, that doth faft» 'till yoa come home to dinner ; 
And prays, that you will hie you home to dinner. 

Jnt. What wilt thou flout me thus unto my face^ 
fteing forbid ? there take you that. Sir kn^ve. 

£. Dro. What mean you. Sir ? for God's fake hold 
your hands ; 
Kay, an you will not, Sir» I'll take my heels. 

[£jf/> Dromioi 
Jnt. Upon my life, by fome device or other» 
The villain it o*er-wrought of all my money. 
They fay, this town is fall of comzenage ; 
As, nimble jugglers, that deceive the eye (4) ; 
Dark-working forcerers, that change the mind ; 
Sool-killing witches, that deform the body ; 
Difgttiiibd cheaters, prating mountebanke. 

And 

(4) A, nMk jugiUrt, thMt dective the tyt \ 

Dark -working forctren, that cbangt the mind; 
SouUktlVtngioltcbett that deform the body \] Tho* I hare not dif- 
torbM the text, the ingenious conje£lure» Mr. frarhurton made tome 
apon this paifa^e, lias fuch an appearance of juftnefs and likelihood, 
tEat I ihaU fubjoin it in his own words. « Thofe, who auentivefjr 
c confider theie three lines, muft confefs, that the Poet intended, 
** the epithet given to each of thefe mifcreants Hiouid declare the 
^ power by which they perform their feats, and which woold there- 
" fore be a juft chara£leriftick of each of them. Thus, by nimble 
** jugglers, we are taught that they perform their tricks by Jligbt 0/ 
'< bMd: and by fwl-hlkag witches, we are informed, the mifchief 
*< the^ do is by the alfiftance of the devil to whom they have given 
*< their fools : But then, by dark'working forcerers, we are not in* 
** ftfuAed in the means by which they perform their ends. Befidet, 
<( this epithet agrees as well to witches, as to them ; and therefore, 
«< certainly, our Author could not defign this in the charadleriftickt 
« I am confident, we Aould read $ 

Drug* working jorctrers, that change the mlnd'y 
ei And we know by the whole hiftory of ancient and modern fuper- 
<* ftition", that thefe kind of jugglers always pretended to work changes 
** of the mind by thefe applications. Hence ail the faperftition of 
<* love-potions, which in this line is alluded to : And this pradlice 
** was fo common amongft the Greeks, that they gave the name o< 
« ^apfuiaoc to this operator : and therefore has Theocritus caird h-s 
*e fecond Eidfl/ium, whofe fubject is built on this kind of forcerv , 
<• ^ap/MaxivT^i*.'* Mr, Jf^arburton. 

Brahantlo, 1 remember, in Otbelloy where he thinks hi< daughter s 
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194 The Comedy cf E r r o r «. 

•And many fuch like liberties of fin : 
If it prove fo, I will be gone thefooner. 
rji to the Centaur, to go feek this flave ; 
1 greatly fear my money is not fafe. [txki 



ACT II. 

r . 

SCENE, thcHoufcof Antipholls oi Ephefm* 
.Enter Adriana and Lueiana* 

A D R I A N A. 

N Either my huftand, nor tkc flare rctornM, 
That in fuch hatle i km to feek his maider ! 
Sure, Lueiana, it is two o'clock. 

Luc. Perhaps, feme merchalit hath invitietl him, 
And from the mart he's fomewhere gone to dinner: 
C>od lifter, let us dine, and never fret. 
A man is matter of his liberty : 
Tiixic Is ihcir mailer; and when they .fee tilaey ' 
Ti^ey'ligoor come; if fo, bejiatfenc, filVer. 
', Aih'. Why {hould their fiberty than ours be more? 

/ //r. Bccaufe their bufinefs ftill lies out a-door. 

A^h. I ook, when I ferve him fo, he t^k«s it ill* 

Lu(\ Cu, Ivnov\, h<i, is the bridle of your wi^ I. 
, Aih\ '• -cre's none, but "afie?, will bebridlecf fo. 
:: ;%v> W.,y, he?^d 11 song liberty is lafh^'vi'ith wipe. 
'rpf.>i .^ .^ !:f*'[h"n2 fi'iivdie under heaven'i pye« , 
~'K- ^ ;:.Vi .::: bound ip earth,, iq ii?a, in iky: •. 
'Tlic'l". 1^. i!m- fiui.^s, and the Wiiiged A»wh', 
/. •: ij.ir ]u:dc"i. fubj'jfts, and at their confroHs: 
■hi'K i^T ^^^^ rf^ d ]\iriL% :. h e m a f: c r c f all th efe , 
I' .';';■. ti;c wide world, and wide WAt'i?y feas, 

4i\«^v:- ..m:-> xk ! :■ r .'n^ rr.H({ hav- been p(?rvt?rt-ed iiy fhj^ Mf^'S praC* 
v.cvt, i'i i- !i:^ a litjt n . : ;.fi-rt-)a'ion of my rfer.dl'^s Conjefturc. ' 

I . ; : uv • T- ^!-.e .•c' c, if Nis not grnfs rn Onfe,^ 

' .« (r'fh:v; ' ;!' ; rfA'7j\7or- her \v:rh foul rif'fl'rwi, 

. .*"i,i, i^£iJ::n rjion^ ■ 



Tht! Comedy of E R r o jt s. 195 

idu'd with intelledlual feafi; and fottl, 
)f more preheminence than fi(h and fowl, 
\re mafters to their females, and their lords : 
Then let your will attend on their accords. 
Adr. This fervitude makes you to keep i^nwed. 
Luc, Not thisy but troubles of the marriage -bed. 
Adt. But were you wedded, you would bearfome fwAy«f 
LUc. Ere I learn love, I'll pra6life to obey. 
Adr. How if your huf^and ftart Tome other where ? 
Luc. 'Till he come home again, I would forbear. 
Adr, Patience anmov'dj no marvel tho' (he paufsi 
They can be meek, that have no other caufe ; 
Awtetched foul, braisM with adverfity. 
We bid be ^uiet, when we hear it cry ; 
But were we burden*d with like weight of pain,' 
~ As much, or more, we fliould ourfelves complain | 
So thou, that had no unkind mate to grieve thee. 
With urging helplefs patience would'it relieve md: 
fiut \i thou live to fee like right bereft, 
. This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left. 
Luc. Well, I will marry one day but to try ; 
{{ere com^ yoar,man> now is )rour hulband nigh. 
Enur Dromio tf Ephefuts. 
Adr* Say, is your tardy maflcr totvat hand ? 
E^-Br9. Nay, lie's at two liands with me, and that 
lirir two ears can witnef«. 

Adr* S«y, did'ft thou rpeak vrith him ? ktiow'ft thca 

iusmindif . 

E, Dr9. Ay, ay» he told hk Blind tufionr mine i$ac# 
%e(hrew his hand, licafce coiilll tkibAw^^^tA it. 

Luc. .S^bke Ae fo donbtfally, tlibii tookl'ft iloC (eel his 
meaning? 

E* Dro. N^y, heilruck fo jplaioly, I could too well 
feel his bloK^; ax»i withal fo doubcfully» that I aoild 
fcarce underft^ndith«m. 

Adr, B«t fty, 1 ^pr^hfic, is he comingihomef. . , 
It feems, he hMh^treaittare to pleafs.hir wtfe^^ 

E. Dro. WbyrtaiHrefzy fum, tay tita^f ?is hoiH-mftdt 
Adr, Horn-mad> thotiYlliaiD? ^tcv^V 

S. Dtp. /aegnam^ caKkold-iaad ^ but* 6lft^i Vfc^ ^^%vV 



I 



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1^6 The Comedy of E r r o r s. 

When I deiir'd htmto come home to dinner. 
He aik*d me ior a thoufand marks in gold : 
'Tis dinner-^ime, quoth I ; my gold^ quoth he : 
Your Bteat doth burn, quoth I ; my gold, quoth he : 
Will you come home, quoth 1 ? my gold, quoth he: 
Where is the thoufand marks I gave thee, villain ? 
The pi^, quoth I, is burn'dl; my gold, quoth he. 
My mi^refs, Sir, quoth I; hang up thy miflrefs ; 
I know not thy miflrefs ; out on thy mifbef& ! 
Luc. Quoth who ? 
E> Dre, Quoth my matter : 
I know, quoth he, no houfe, no wife; no miflrefs ; 
So that m^ errand, due unto my tongue, 
I thank him, I bare home upon my fhoulders : 
Jior, in conclufion, he did beat me there. 

Mr. Go back again, thou Have, and fetch him hone. 
E, Dro, Go back again, and be new beaten home? 
For God's fake, fend Tome other meflenger. 

Mr. Back, {lave, or I will break thy pate acrofs. 
E. Dro. And he will blefs that crofs with other beating: 
Between yOu 1 (hall have a holy head. 

Mr. Hence, pratilig-peafant, fetth thy mailer home. 
E. Dro. Am I fo round with you as you with me, 
That like a foot-ball you do fpurn me thus ? 
You fpurn me hence, and he will fpurn me hither : 
If I lafl in this fervice, you mud cafe me in leather. [£xih 
Luc. Fy, how impatience lowreth in your face ! 
Mr. His company muft do his minions grace^J 
Whilft f at home flarve for a merry look : 
Hath homely age th* alluring beauty took 
From my poor cheek ? then, he hath v^aded it. 
Are my difcourfes dull ? barren my wit ? 
If voluble and (harp difcourie be marr'd, 
Uakindnefs blunts ir, more than marble hard. 
Do their gay vedments his afFedions bait ? 
That*s not my fault : he^s mader of my date. 
What ruins are in me, that can be found 
By him notrutn'd? then, is he the ground 
Of my defeatures. My decayed fair 
A funtiv look of hU would {ooxlxt^^t... % 



The Comedy of E r R o r sr. 19^7 

tut, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale, 
IVnd feeds„ from home ; poor I am but his ilale. 
hue. Self-harming jealoafy? — fy, beat it hence* 
Adr. Unfeeling fools can with fuch wrongs difpence : 
I know, Kis eye doth homage other- where ; 
Or elfe what lets it, but he would be here ? 
Sifter, you know, he proniis'd me a chain ; 
Would that alone, alone he would detain, 
So he would keep fair quarter with his bed. 
I fee, thejew^l, beft enameled (5), 
Will lofe his beauty ; and the gold bides flill^ 
That others touch : yet often touching will ^ 

We^r gold : and fo no man, that hath a name, 
j^ut' falihood, and corruption, doth it (hame. 
SinfcQ that my beauty cannot pleafe his eye, T 

VI 1 weep what's left away, and weeping die. y^ 

Luc. liow many fond fools fi^rve mad jealoufy ! j 

[Exeunt* 

S C E N E changes to th? Street. 

Enter Antipholis of Syracufe. 

Ant. ^ 1'^ H E gold I gave to Brcmio is laid up 

JL Safe at the Centaur i and the heedful flkvc 
Is wander'd forth in care to feekme out. 
By computation, and mine hoft*s report, 

(5) I fee the jewel beft enameled ' " '^ 

frill lofe bis beauty j yet the gold bidet fill 

That otters touch, and often touching will: 

Where gold and no mam that hath a namt, 

2iy faljhood and corruption doth itpame,] In this xniferably 
mangled condition is this paifage exhibited in the iirf> fo/ip. All the 
editions Hncehave left out the laft couplet of it; I prefume, as too hard 
/or them. Mr. Pope, who pretends to have collated the fitft folio^, 

flkitild-hate fpar'd us the lines, at leaft, in their corruption. 1 

comtnunicated my doubts upon this paflage to my friend Mr. H^ar^ 
burton i and to h.s fagacity 1 owe, in good parr, the correction of it. 
The fenfeof the whole is now very pertinent 5 whichj-withoutth-: two 
lines from the fir^ folio, was very imperfect ; not to fay, ridiculous. 
The comparifon is fully dofed. '* Gold, indeed, bidet handling 
« well ; but, for ^all that, often touching will wear even gold t So, 
<< no man of a great charader, even ts ^re tt (old| but may in 
" time lofe it by faliboQd ajid corruption.'* 

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198 The Comedy of E r r o r ar. 

I could not fpeak with Dromio^ fince at firft 
I fent him from the mart. See, here he comes* 

Enter Dromio of Syracufe, 
How now» Sir ? is your merry humour alter'd ? 
As you love ilroaks, fo jcik with me again . 
You know no Centaur P you reccivM no gold? 
Your miflrefs fent to have me home to dinner I 
My houfe was at the Phtenixf waft thou mad. 
That thus fo madly thou didft anfwer me ? 

S. Dro, What anfwer. Sir? when fpake I fuch a word 

Jnt, Even now, even here, not half an hour fince. 

S, Dro. I did notice you fince you fent me hence 
Home to the Centaur^ with the gold you gave me. 

Jnt. Villain, thou didfl deny the gold's, receipt; 
And told'fl me of a miftrei>«nd a dinner ; 
For which, I hope, thou felC^ I was difpleas'd. 

S* Dro, Tm glad to fee you in this merry vein : 
What means this jeft, I pray you, mailer, tell me? 

Jnt, Yea, doft thou jeer and flout me in the teeth } 
Think'H thou« I jefl ? hold, take thou that, and that. 

Beats DroroiOf 

5. Dro. Hold, Sjr,for God*s fakc,now your jeft is carncfl| 
Upon what bargain do you give it me ? 

Jlttt, fiecaufe that I familiarly fometimes 
Do ufe you for my fool, and chat with yout 
Your fawcinefs will jefl upon my love. 
And make a common of my fcrious hours. 
When the fun ihines, let fooliih gnats make fport^ 
But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams : 
Jf you will jeft with me, know my afpedl. 
And faftiion your demeanor to my looks ; 
Or I will beat this method in your fconce. 

S, Dro, Sconce, call you it ? fo you wouldleave bat* 

tcring, I had rather have it a head ; an you ufe thcfe 

blows long, I muft get a fconce for my head, and in- 

fconce it too, or elfe I (hall feek ipy wit in my fhoul'^ 

^ ders : but, I pray. Sir, why ^m I beaten ? 

Jnt^ Doft thou not know ? 

^. Dro. Nothing, Sir, but that I am beaten* 

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The Comedy of E r a a r s. 1^99^ 

Ant. Shall I tell you why ? 

5. Dro. Ay, Sir, and wherefore ; for they fay, every 
vhy hath a wherefore. 

Ant, Why, firft, for flouting me; and then where- 
fore, for urging it the fecond time to me. 

S.Dro, Was there ever any man thus beaten out of feafon. 
When, in the why, and wherefore, is neither rhime nor 
Well, Sir, I thank you. [rcafon ? 

Jnt, Thank me. Sir, for what? 

S. Dro. Marry, Sir, for this fomething that you gave 
me for nothing. 

Jnt, I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing 
for fomething. But fay, Sir, is it dinner-time? 

S. Dro, No, Sir, I think, the meat wants that I have. 

Jnt, In good time^ Sir; what's that ? 

S. Dro. Baftinjg. 

Jnt, Well, Sir, then 'twill be dry. 

S, Dro. If it be. Sir, I pray you eat npne of it. 

Jftt, Yourreaibn? 

5. Dro, Left it make you cholerick, and purchafe raf 
Hiotfier dry-bafting, 

Jnt, Well, Sir, learn to jeft in good time ; there's t 
time for all things. 

S, Dro, I durft have deny'd that, before you were fo 
cholerick. 

Jat. By what rule. Sir? 

S, Dro. Marry, Sir, by a rule as plain as the plaiti 
bald pate of father Tiff^ himfelf. 

Jnt. Let's hear it. 

S. Dro, There's no time for a man to recover hlfi 
hair, that grows bald by nature. 

Jnt, May he not doit by fine and recovery ? 

S. Dro. Yes, to pay a fine for a peruke, and recover 
the loft hair of another man . 

(6) Jnt, Why is Time fuch a nj^ard of hair, beine:^ 
as it is, fo plentiful an excrement f S D o 

(6) Ant. J#Tbjf is timt fuch a ttig^arJ of hair, Mngf as it it, fi 
fientiful an excrement f ' 

S. Dro. B^auje it is a blejpng that be beffctvs on beajls, and what be 

Uthfcant4d them in hair, he batb givta tbem in wi/.] Surety, ths 

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20O The Comedy of E r r o r s. 

S. Dro. Becaufe it js a bleflinff that he beflowB on 
beads ; and what he hath fcanted men In hair^ he hatk 
given them in wit. 

Jnt. Whj, but there's many a man hath more hair 
than wit. 

S. Dro. Not a man of thofe, but he hath the w!t to 
lofe his hair. 

Jnt. Why, thou did ft conclude hairy men plain- 
dealers without wit. 

S. Dr9. The plainer-dealer, the fooner loft ; yet ke 
Jofeth it in a kind of jollity. 

j^/if. For what reafon ? 

S, Dra. For two, and found ones too. 

Jnf. Nay, not found, I pray you. 

S. Dro. Sure dne« then. 

Jnt, Nay, not fure in a thing falfing. 

S. Dro, Certain ones then. 

Jnt, Name them. 

S. Dro. The one to fave the money that he fpends in 
tyring; the other, that at dinner they fhould not drop 
in his porridge. 

Jnt, You would all this time have prov'd, there ii 
no time for all things. 

S. Dro. Marry, and did. Sir; namely no time to re- 
cover hair loft by nature, 

Jnt. But your reafon was not fubftantial, why there 
is* no time to recover. 

S.Dro. Thus I mend it : Time himfelf is bald, and 
therefore to the world*s end will, have bald followers. 

Jnt. 1 knew, 'twould be a bsdd conclufion : but foft! 
who wafts us yonder ? 

£ttur Adriana, and Luciana. 

Mri. Ay, ay, JntipbeUsf look ftrange and frown. 
Some other miftrefs hath thy fweet afpeSs : 
Ss mock reafoning, and a contradiftion ia fcnfe. Can hair be fup- 
po8*d a bleiTing, which Time beftows on beafta peculiarly ; and yet 
that he hath fcanted theqo of it too ? I correQed thia paiTage, ai I 
have now reformM the text, in niySHAKisPSAft s reftor*d \ and 
Mr. Popf hat been p)eaa*d to adopt my corre^ion in his laft edition* 
Men and tbem, I obftrve, are f ery frequently miftakcn vUt vtrfr for 
each other, in the old impreffions of our Author. 



The Comedy of E r r o r S; 201 

Itam not Adriana^ nor thy wife. 

The time was once, when thon, unurg'd, wduldft voWf • 

That never words were mufick to thine ear» 

That never objedt pleaiing in thine eye. 

That never touch well welcome to thy hand. 

That never meat Tweet-favpurM in thy tafte, 

Ualefs I fpake, or look'd, or touch'd, ©r carv*d^ ^ 

How comes it now, my hu(band» bh> how comes it. 

That thou art thus eftranged from thyfelf ? 

Thyfelf I call it, being ftrange to me ; 

That, undividaMe, incorporate, 

km better than thy dear felfs better part# 

Ah, do not tear away thyfelf from me : 

For know, my love, as eafy may^il thou* fall ' 

A drop of water in the breaking gulph. 

And take un mingled thence that drop again» • 

W^ithout addition or dtminifliiflg. 

As take from me thyfelf ; and not me too. 

How dearly would it touch thee to the quicks 

Should'fl .thou but hear-^ I were licentious f 

And that this body, confecrate to thee, . 

By ruffian luft ihould be contaminate ? 1 

Wouid'ft thou' notfpit at me, and fpurn at me^ « 

And hurl the name of hufband in my face. 

And tear the flain'd fkin of my harlot-^brow, ^ 

And from my falfe hand cut the wedding-ring, ■ 

And break it with a deep-divorcing vow? ■ 

I know thou can'ft ; and therefore, fee, thou do it# 

I am pofTefs'd with an adulterate blot; 

My blood is mingkd with the crime of luft : 

For if we two be one, and thou play falfe, > 

I do digeft the poifbn of thy flelh, . 

Being ftrumpeted by thy contagion.- 

Keep then fair league, and truce with thy true bed; 

1 Hve dif-^ain'd, thou undi{honoured-(7). 

(7) 7 /ft;« dif ftain*d, thou undi/henoured.] To diflaine, (from ♦he 
French word, dtftaindre) fignifics, xojia'm, defile, pcllute. But the con* 
text requires af^nfe qure oppofite. We muft either read, unftam Jj 
qr, by adding an byphetif and giving the prepofinon a privative force^ 
r^ddif-ftaJA'd, and then it will mean, onftain'd, undefined. 

1 s Jttt. 



ao2 The Comedy of E r R o^k s. 

Jnf, Plead yon to me, f^ir damef I kaour yondetS! 
In Ephtfui I »m but two hours old," 
As ilrange unto your town as to your talk. 
"Who, every word by all my wit being fcann'dy 
Warns wit in all one word to underftaird. 

Luc, Fy, brother, how the world is ch^ftg'd widi yoii; 
When were you wool to ufe my fifter thus r 
She lent for you by Dromh home ta dinner. 
Jni, By Dr$miof 
S, Dro. By me f 

Mr, By thee ; and thus thou didd return from hsflii 
That be did buffet thee, and in his blows 
Deny'd my houfe for his, me for his wife. 

Jnt. Did you converfc, Sir, with this geittlewfiflBflB I 
What is the courfe and drift af your compt^k ? 
jS, Dro, T, Sir? I never faw her 'till this time* 
Ant, Villain, thou lieft; for even her wevy woidii 
Sidfl thou deliver to me on the mart. 

$, Dro, I never fpoke with her in all my life. 
Jnt, How ca« (he. thus then call us by our nam^> 
Unlefs it be by infpiration ? 

Adr, How ill agrees it with yottr gravity. 
To counterfeit thus grofly with your flavc^ 
Abetting him to thwart me in my mood ? 
Be it my wrong, you are from me exempt. 
But wrong not that wrong with a more contemptw 
Come, I will faften on this flceveof thine; 
Thou art an elm, my hu(band, I a vine; 
Whofe wealfnefs, fnarry'd to thy ftronger ftate. 
Makes me V^ith thy ftrength to communicate; 
If ought poffefs thee from me, it is drois, 
Ufurping ivy, brier, or idle mofs ; 
Who, all for Want of pruning, with intruiiea 
Inft^ thy Tap, ^nd live on thy confufion. 

Ant, To me (he fpeaks ; (he moves me for her theauii 
What was I marry M to her in my dream ? * 

Or (leep I now, and think I hear all this ? 
What error drives our eyes and ears amifs ? 
Until I know this fure uncertainty, 
ril elvtertain the favoured fallacy^ 



The Comedy of E r r o r s. ao^ 

Luc. DromiOf go bid the A?rvant^ fpread for dlnn^. 

S. Dro. Ob, for my beads ! I crofs n>e for a (iQA«r. 
This is the Fairy land : oh, fpight of fpights ! : . 
We talk with goblins, ouphs, and ^Wiik Ipngbt^ (6) ; 
If we obey them not, this will enfae. 
They'll fcclrpur breaih, and pinch «s black and blue. 

Lttc Whyprates thootothyfelf, and anfwer*il«ot (9)! 
DromtOf thou drone, thou fnail, thoa Aug, thou.f^C. 

S, Droi I aoi tt«Bsformed, mailer, amtiotlf 

j^nt. I thiiik, thott art in mind, and {bam I. 

S. Dro. Nay, maft^r , both in mind a^d in mf Am^* 

j^jtt. Thou haft thine own form. 

S, Dro. No ; I am an ape. 

Luc. If thou art chang'd to ought, 'tis to an afs. 

S, Dro, 'Tis true; fhe rides me, and I long for graTs* 
'Tis fo, I am an afs ; elfe it could never be, 
But T fhould know her, as well as ihs knows me. 

jfJr, Come, come, no longer will I be a fool» 
To put^thf 'finger in the eye and weep, 
Whilft man and mailer laugh my woes to fcorn. 
Come, Sir, to dinner; Dfomio, keep the gait^y 
Hufband, I'll dine above with ypu to-day. 
And fhrive you of a thoufand idle pranks ; . 

(8) We talk woitb goifmst owls, aifd ehvijh ff rights ;], Thpy 5&ight 
Ancy, tliey talk'd with goblins tlnd fprights; but why with dwls^ m 
thenaQiffof nonfenfc? or could otvh fuck thcirlit^eat^f, ?.i(i f^iach 
them black and blue? I dare fay, my Te*ders wtU M^ujf fco i;i il^t: 
juftnefs of my emendation here : the word is common with pu^^ftulhor 
in other paflages : \ 

Merry Wivcftf/Wlrdfer. ^ 

Strew good lack, oupbi$ on ev>y facred rooin. 
And, again j - , ' . 

Like urchins, otif>bs, and faires, grceaaod w1ilt«» . 

{9) ^h praCft thou ta tbyfel/f v 

Dromto, tbou Dromiot fnaily tbou Jlug thou foty"] lo the fitft 
of thsfe lines Mr. Rowe and Mt.Pope have bo!h, for what resifon-I 
cannot trli, curtaird the iheafure, and difmounted the d ggrelri>ymc, 
wh ch I have replaced from, the firft folio, Thcfecond verfe is there 
^ikewife re*d4 :*^ 

Dromto, thou Dromto, thou fnail, thou Aug, thou fot. 
The vrrfe is thus half afoot too long; my cotredion cures that fault J 
b«.fides drQfie correfponds wiUi the other appeUaiions of repioach. 

16 Sirrali, 



204 The Comedy of E r r o r s. 

Sirrah » if any a(k you for yoar mafter. 

Say, he dines forth, and let no creature enter: 

Come, filler ; DromUt play the porter well. 
Jia. Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell ? 

Sleeping or waking, mad or well advis'd? 

Known unto thefe, and to myfelf difgais'd ? 

I'll fay as they fay, and perfever fo ; 

And in this i|iift at all adventures go. 

S. Dro. M after, (hall I be porter at the gate ? T 

Jdr. Ay, let none enter, left I break yoor pate. > 
Lm. Come, come, Antifholu^, we dine too late. ] 






ACT IIL 

S C £ N E, the Street before JfitipMh's Hoafik 

Enter Ailtipholis p/ Ephefus, Dromio 9f EpheTuSi 
Angelo, and Balthazar. 

E. Antipholis. 

GOOD Si^nior Jngelo^ you maft excufe us; 
My wife is fhrewiSi, when 1 keep not hours ; 
Say, that Iling^erM with you at your (hop 
To fee the making of her carkanet ; 
And that to-morrow you will bring it home. 
But here's a villain, that would face me down 
He met me on the mart, and that I beat him ; 
And charg'd him with a thoufand marks of gold; 
And that I did deny my wife and houie ; 
Thou drunkard, thou, what didft thou mean by this ? 
£. Dro. Say, what you will. Sir ; but I know what 
J know ; 
That you beat meat the mart, I have your hand to (how ; 
Jf the fkin were parchment, and the blows you gave 

were ink, 
^^our own haud-wriung vou\d X^W '^cixv^V^xVxiiYoJK.. 

t.x Aiv\ 



The Comedy of Error s.^ 205 

E.Ant, I think, thou art an ait* 
£. Dr§, Many, io h don't appearf lo) 
By the wrongs I fnflery and tibe blows I bear; 
fihould kick* being kickt; and, being at that pafi,. 
You would keep from my heels, and beware of an afs, 
. E.jintM*9je, fad^Signior Babba$uar. Pray God,oiir cht«r 
May anfwer my good will, and your jgood welcome here* 
Bal. I hold your dainties cheap. Sir, and yoar wel* 
come dear. 
' E. Am, Ah, ^ignior Babhazar^ either at fleih or fiih^ 
A table-fill! of welcome makes fcarce one dainty dilh. 
BaL Good meat» Sir, is common; that every chart 

affords. 
E.Jut. And welcome more common; for that'll 

nothing bnt words. 
BaL Small cheer and good welcome, makesamen]^ 

feaft. 
M. Ant. Ay, to a niggardly hoft, andmore-fparing goeft r 
But tho* my cates be mean, take them in good part ; 
Better cheer may yoo have, but not with better hearts 
But foft ; my door is lockt ; go bid them let us in. 
E. Dro. MauJt Bridget^ Marian^ Cicely^ GillUn^'Gina^ 
S. Dro.jwiibiu. Mome, malt-horie, capon^ coxcomb^ 
idiot, patch. 
Either get thee from the door,, or fit down at the hatch : 
Doft thou conjure for wenches, that thoacallll iot fuch: 

(tore. 
When one is one too many } go, gtt thee from the door*. 
E. Dro. What patch is made our porter? my mailer 

flays in the (Ireet. 
S. Dro. Let him walk from whence he came, left he 
catch cold on's feet. 

(io) Marry f fi k 60th a^ar 

By the vtrwigs J'fyffer, sni the hbm$ J hear,'] That all the 
printed copies | but, certainly, this is croft-purpoCes in reafooins* It 
appears DromUit an afs by hiamaking no tedAukce : becaufe an aft. 
being kick'd, kickt again. 0«r authtf never arguat at thia wild 
nUf whctQh'iteitisgenuiBe. 



iO(5 The Comcc!y of E r it o r s. 

£. Ant, V/ho talks withiii ri^ere? hoa, open the door. 
£, Dro, Right, Sir» V\\ tell you when, an yon'U tell 

me wherefbfe* 
JE, -<l«r, Wker^foee? fiw my dinner: I have not din'd 

today. 
^. Dr.^ Nor to-day here )toa mnft nofi : come again, 

when you may* 
B* Jnt, What an tkoo, that keep'ft me out from the 

houfc I owe ? 
St, Drt, The porter » for thu tlsie, Sir, and my name 

is Or^mid. 
M^Bra- O villain, tiiaa haft fioH'p both mine eficc 
and my naipe : 
The one ne'er got me civdi*, the othey miskle hlame» 
If thou hadfl been Dromio to-day in my place, 
^hoa would'ft have chang'd thy iist for a naoiey or ^y 
name for an afs. 
luce* ^within. What a coile is thrre, Drowtia? misko are 

thofe at the gate I 
i?. Dro, Let my maikr in, Luts. 
Luce. Faith, no; he cofscs too late ; 
And fo tell your mailer. 

Ek Dm O Iprd, 1 mji(l laugh ; / 

Have at you with a Fro'verh.'^S\i2M,l (et in my AafF? 
Luee^ Have at you with another ; that's, \vhen, cai 

you tell ? 
S.Dro. If thy name be call'd Z«r^, Luc^^ thou baft 

anfWer'd hira well. ^ 
E. Jm. Do you hear, you minion, you'U let us in> 
I trow ? 

Lj4€e, I thought to have afkt you, 
5. Dro, And you faid, no. 

£. Dro. So, come, help, well ftruck ; there was blow 
for blow. 
« E, Ant. Thou baggage, let me in. 
Luce, Can you teil for whofe fake? 
E. Dro. Malter, knock the door hard. 
Luce. Let him knock, 'tillitake. 

E. Ant. 



- The Comedy of E r r o r s. aoj 

£. Ant* You'll cry for this, minion > if I beat the 

door down. 
Luce, What |)eed» all thaty and a pair of ftocks ia 

the towo ^ 
^r. within. Who is thj&t at the door, thai Ig^ps' all 

this QoifQ ? . 
8, Dro. By my troth, your town is troubled wiih 

unruly beys. 
£. Ant, Are you there, wife? you might have come 

beftirc. : . 
Adr, Your wife. Sir knave ! go^ get you from the 

dopr» 
E»Dro. If you went in pain, mafter, this knavt 

. would |0 foret 
Ang, Here is neither cheer, 3ir, nor welcome; we 
would fain have either. 
' BaL In debating which was beA^ we ftall part with 
neither. 
E.Dro, They (land at the door, mafter; bid them 

welcome hither.. 
j?. Ant There's r(^m«lhing in the win^,. ths^t wc can- 

not get in. 
£. Dro, You would fay fo, mailer, if yoox garments 
were thin. 
Your cake here ia warm within : you ftand here in tiie 

cold : 
It would make a man mad as a buck to be fb bougjit 
and fold. 
E. Ant. Go fetch me fomething, I'll break ope^thegate, 
S, Dro, Break any thing here, and I'll break your 

knave's pate, 
E. Dro. A man may break a word with you, Sir, and 
words are but wind ; 
Ay, and break it in your face, fo he break it not behind. 
S. Dr4, It feems, thou wanteil breaking ; out upon 

thee, hind ! 
E. Dro Here's too much, c«/, upon thu ! I pray thee, 

let me in. 
5. Dro. Ay, when fowls have no feathers, and fi(h 
have no &n. 

£. Ant^ 



fto8 The Comedy of E r r o r S5 
£. Aid. WcDy ril break in ; go borrow me a crowi 
E. Dr9* A crow without feather, mailer, mean you fo ? 

For a iifli without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather: 

If a crow help us in, firrah, we'll pluck a crow together. 
E. Ant. Go, get thee^one, fetch me an iron crow^ 
EaL Have patience. Sir : oh, let it not be fo. 

Herein yotrwaragainfl your reputation,. 

And draw within the compafs of fufpeft- 

Th*'un violated honour of you* wife. 

Once, this ; — your long experience of her'wif<lom»^ 

Her fober virtue, years, and modefly^ 

Plead on.]i(er part fome caufe to you unknown ; 

And doubt not, Str, but fhe will well>excufi?, 

Why at this time the doors are barr'd againftypui^ 

Be rulM by me^ depart in patience, 

And.Iet us to the ^ygtr all to dinner*; 

Andalx>ut evening-coraejouvfelf alone. 

To know the reafon of this firange reftraint. 

If by ftrottg hand you offer to break in. 

Now in the ftirring paifage of the day, 

A' vulgar comment will & made of it ; 

And that fuppofed by the common rout, . 

Afeainft your. yet ungalled eftimatior. 

That may with foul intrufion enter in. 

And dwell upon* your. grave when youare dead : . 

For flander lives upon fucceflion ; 

For ever hous'd, where it once gets pofleifion. 

£. Am. You have prevaiPd ; I will depart in quiet, , 
• And, in defpjght of wrath (i i),- mean to be merry. . 

I know a wench of exceirent difcourfe. 

Pretty and witty, wild, and, yet too, gentle;. 

There will' we dine : this woman that I meany . 

My wife (but, I proteft, without defert J 
Hath often times upbraided me withal ; 

(ii) And^ in difpigbt tf Mirth,] In defpight of what Afirfl>f We 
doo*c find, that it wat any joke, or matter of mirth, to be (hut out 
of doors liy hi* wife. 1 make no doubt thetefore, but 1 have re^lor^d ' 
the true reading. Anttpholls't paifion is plain enough all thro* ihli 
Scenes and) in the next a£t, we find bita. confeffing how an^iy he 
¥raa at thia junAure. — jlnddU not / tn rage defiari frim thence f The. 



I 



The Comedy of E r it o r s. «)} 

To her will we to dinner. Get you home. 

And fetch the chain ; hy this, I know, *tis made ; 

^rinc; it, I pray you, to the Porcupine ; 

For there's the honfe : that chain will I beftow^ 

(Be it for nothing but to fpight my wife,) 

Upon mine hoftefs there. Uood Sir, make hafle : 

Since my own doors refafe to entertain me, 

ril knock elfewhere, to fee if they'll difdain me. 

Jng. I'll meet youat that place, fome hoar, Sir, Kenee. 

E. Am* Do fo ; this jeft (halt coft me Tome expence* 

[Exeunt* 

SCENE, the Houfe of AntiphoUs of Ephefus. 

Enter Lnciana, ijolth Aqtipholis ef Syracufe. 
Luc^ AND may it be, that you have quite forgot ( 1 2) 
jf\. A hofband's office ? Shall, AntiphoUs, hate, 
Ev'n in the fprin^ of love, thy love-fprings rot ? 
Shall love, in building, grow fo ruinate ? 
If yon did w^ my ii&r for her wealth. 

Then for her wealth's fake ufe her with more kindhefs ^ 
Or if you like elfewhere, do it by ftealth ; 

Moffie your falfe love with fome (hew of blindnefi % 
Let not my ff fter read it in your eye ; 

Be not thy tongue thy own ihame's orator ; 
Look fweet, fpeak fair ; become diiloyalty : 

Apparel vice, like virtue's harbinger ; 
Bear a &ir prefence, tho' your heart be tainted :: 

Teach fm the carriage of a holy faint ; 
Be fecret-falfe : what need fhe be acquainted ? 

What fimple thief brags of his own attaint I 
*Tis double wrong to truant with your bed. 

And let her read it in thy k)oks at board : 
Shame hath a baftard*fame, wel> managed i 

111 deeds are doubled with an evil word : 

Ala^ 

(ix) And m^ it h, tbatyw have quite forgot 
At buJbaniPx office? Shall, Antipholis, 
£v*n in tbe^ring of love, tby lovt-fprjttgs rotf 
Sifa// /cvt Jfl hM\\A\n%% grow 1^0 r%yxi0Xtf\ t>\\% \\^%^'V3Bt 
bitkfiru Jdboar'd undtt a douhlc conuplioi. VJ^tX ^nnux wc\^ w* 



2 iQ The Comedy of E r r o r s. 

Alas ! poor women, make us but believe ( 1 3)t 

Being compaft of credit, that you love us ; 
Tho' others have the arm, (hew us the fleeve : 

We in your motion turn, and you may move us» 
Then, gentle brother, gel you in again ; 

Comfort my fifter, cheer her, call her wife ; 
*Tis holy fport to be a little vain. 

When the fweet breath of flattery conquers ftrifc. 

S. Ant, Sweet raiftrefs, (what your name is elfe, I kootr 

Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine :) [not 5 

Lefs in your knowledge and your grace you (how not 

Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine* 
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and ipeak; 

Lay open to my earthy grofs conceit, 
8mother'd in errors^ feeble, (hallow, weak. 

The foulded meaning of your words deceit } 
Againft my foul's pure truth why labour you. 

To make it wander in an unkno\«a field ? 
Are you a God ? would you create me new ? 

' Transform me then, and to yourpow'r^l'll yield* 
Bc»t if that I am I, then, well I know. 

Your weeping fifter is no wife of mine ; 
Nor to her bed no homage do I owe ; 

Far more, far more, to you do I decline: 

editors have of love in buildlngi growing ruiotte ? Surely » they did not 
dream of Icve made under an old wall > Our Poet meant no noi« 
than this. Shall thy (ove-fprings ror, even in the fpriog of lov« ? and 
iball thy love grow rutnout, ev*o while *tis but building up? Tbe n«it 
corruption if by an accident at pieta, at I take it; tbii fcesc for 5* 
linet fucce/fively it ftri£tly in alternate rhymes i and this meafure if 
never broken, but in the fecGndy ^nA fourth, linei of thefe two coup- 
let!. *Ti9 certain, I think, a monofyllable dropt from the tail of tbt 
ad terfe, and I have ventur*d to fupply it by, I hope, a probable oo«* 
jeaure. 

(15) jiUt I poor womm, m^o arr ntt ^«v#, ftc.] From tho whdt 
Itenourof the context it it evident, that this oegattve («o/0 got place 
in th« firft copies ioAead of but. And thefe two monofyllabka have 
1)y miftake leciprocally difpoiTefsM one another in many other pafliiget 
of our Author*« works. Nothing can be more plain than the Poet'f 
fenfe in this pafTage. Women, /tfyr be, are fo eafy of faith, that 
only make them believe you lo«e them, aad tKey*U talft the bare 
irofcflioji^ for the fubftance and reality, 

* Oh, 



Th€ Comedy of E it it o i( i. 211 

Oky train me not, Aveet mefmaki, with thy na(e| 

To^rowB me in thy fitter's flood of tears ; 
Siog, Sirtn^ for thyfelf, and I will dote ; 

Spread o'er the filver waves thy golden hairs. 
And as a bed rU'take thee, and there Ik : 

And in that jg^Iortoua fappoiition think. 
He gains by death, that hath Aich niean9 to die ; 

Let love, being light, be drowned if fhe fink. 

Luc. What, are you mad, that you do reafon fo f 

S. Ant. Not mad, but mated ; how, I d^o not know. 

Luc. It is a faijlt that fpringeth from your eye. 

S. J/it. For gazing on your beams, fair fun, being by, 

Inc. Gaze where you ^ould^ and that will clear your 
fight. 

S. Jnt. As good to wink, fweet love, as look on night. 

Lu€\ Why cal( you me, love ? call my iiHer fo. 

8. Ant, Thy fiAer^s £ften ' ' 

Luc. That's my fifter. 

S. Ant. No ; 
h is thyfelf, mine own fetPs better part : 
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart, 
My food, my fortune, and my fweet hope's aim. 
My fole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim. 

Luc* All this my fifter is, or elfe fiiould be* 

S. Ant. Call thyfelf fifter, fweet ; for I mean tllcej^ 
Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life j 
Thon hafb no hufband yet, nor I no wifi. 
Give me thy hand. 

Luc. Oh, foft. Sir, hold yon ftIM ; 
rH fetch iny fifter, to get her good will. [Extt tnCi 

Enter Dromio of Syracufe* 
S. Ant. Why, how now, DromU^ where run'ft thou 

S. Dr9. D0 you. know me. Sir? am I Drmkf am I 

your man }- am T myielf ? 

^. Ant. Thou art DrmiOf thou art my man, tho» 
art thyitlf. 

S. Dro. I a» aa afi^ I am a woman's omul and befidet 
myfelf. 

^« iLt% 



I 



iii The Comedy of £ r r o r s; 

S» jtnt. What woman's man ? and how befides ihjiih 

S. Dro. Marry, Sir, bcfides myklf, J am due to a 
woman i one that, claims me, one that haunts me, oni 
that will have me. 

S. Ant. What claim lays ihe^o* thee ? 

^. Dro. Marry, Sir, fuch clsum as you would lay to 
your horfe; and (he would have me as a bead : not that, 
I being a beaft, (he would have me ; bnt that ibe, being 
a yeiy beaftly creature,, lays claim, to me* 

^. Jjit. What is (he ? 

^. Dr9. A very reverent body ;. ay,, fuch a one as » 
xnan ms^ not fpeak of, without he fay. Sir reverence r 
I have but lean luck in the match; and y-et is fhe a 
won d 'reus fat marriage. 
. S. Jtu, How dofl thou mean*, a fat marriage I 

S. Dro. Marry,. Sir, ihe's the kitchen-wench, and all^ 
greafe ; and I know not what ufe to put her to, bat 
to make a lump, of her, and run from- her by her own 
light. I warrant, her rags, and the tallow in theiBi 
will burn a Poland winter : if ihe lives 'till doomfday^ 
ihe'll burn a week longej» than the whole world. 

S. AnU What complexion is f^e of ?; 

^. Dro. Swart, like my fhpe, but her face nothing 
like fo clean kept; for why? ihe fweats, aman may 
go ov^-(hoes in. the grime of it. 

i^. Ant. That's a fiault, that water will mend.. 

^. 2>^0. No, Six, 'tis in grain; Noah\ flood- could 
not do it. 
^. ^ffT. (14) What's her name? 

& Dro.. Nellx Sir ; — but Her name and' three quarttn 
)that is, an ell and three quarters) will not meafure her 
Irom hip to hip* 



S. Dro. Nell, Sir \ hut Ur nam is three fuarters^ that isi #• eU 
§nd three fuarten, &c.] Thii paliage hat hitherto lain as perplext and 
unintelligible, at it is aow eafy, and truly humorous. If a eenundrum 
bereftor*d, in fetting it right, who can help it ? There are enough 
hefidct 10 our Author, and Ben Jehhfin, to count^nanct that current 
vice of the times when this pUy ap{>ear*d* Nor is Mr.Fofie^ in the 
§ha/lity of bis ufte, to bsiftle up at me for the revivaiof this witticifm, 
fioce lowethe correftiontothe fag^ty of the iBgemois Dr. Tib|r/^» 

S.Attt, 



The Comedy of £ r r o r s. iij 

""j. Ant. Then flic bears feme breadth ? 

^. Dro, No longer from head to foot, than from hip 
to Kip; flie isjfpherical, like a globe: I could find cot 
countries in her. 
^. Ant. In what part of her body Hands Inland f 

$. Dre. Marry, Sir, in her battocks; I found it out 
by the bogs. 

$. Ant. Where Scotlandf 

S. Dro. I found it out by the barrennefi, liard in tlig 
palm of her hand. 

\\^)S.Ant. Vlhtre FroMCif' 

S. Dre. In her forehead ; armM and reverted, makbg 
'War againft her heir.-— 

S. Ant. Where England P 
' S. Dtp. I looked for the chalky difis, but I could findl 
no whitenefs in them ; but I gneis, it ftood in her chin^ 
by the fait rheum that ran between France and it. 

S. Ant. Where Sfatn f 

(15) S. Atit.Hn>&iYttntt} 

S.Dro. Jnber forehead i arm^d Mi rto&tidt making war Agalnfi htr 
hair.] All the other ctNiatrie% aleiitiofli'd ta tbtt dmripdoay ire m 
Dramk^t rtplies fatirically cbamderis^d t bnt hew, as the editors have 
order*d it, no remark it nude upon France i nor any reafoa giveii» 
why ic ihoold br ia her forehead t but oaly the kitchen*weoch*8 higk 
forehead is rallied, at puihing back her hair. Thut all the modera . 
cditioaa \ but the MtfiSa reads m a Hng war agatnft her heir»— — • 
And I am t ery apt to think, this laft it the true reading j and that aa 
mnhnfue, at the French call it^ a double meaaiog it defign*d in die 
Poet*i allofion : and therefof e I have replaced it in the text. If l$j 
cooje^ore be of any weight, we may be able fronii it pretty precifely 
to fix the date of thit play*t appearance. I am not aliam^d to truft it 
to judgment, & nfaleat quantum nmttre petejt. In 1 5S9, Henry Illd oT 
France being ftab*d and dying of hit wound, wit fucceeded bjr Htnr^ 
IVth of Navarre^ whom he appointed hit foccefibr ; but whoie datm 
-the Rates of France refilled, on account of hit being a proteftant. Thit» 
I take it, it what he meant, by France making vtar againtl her belr* 
Now as, inr'i59T, Queen Elhsaheth fent over 4000 meo, -under the 
condoa of the Earl of Efex^ to the affiftaace of tbit Henry of JVtf- 
'varre ; it ieems'fo me very probable, that during this expedition be* 
log on foot, this Comedy made Its appearance. And it was the 
fineft addrefs imaginable in the Poet, to throw foch an oblique^ fneer 
at France, for oppofiog the fucceflioo of that heir, whofe claim hit 
V Royal Miftrefs the Queen,- bad fedt 'over a force to eiUbliih, and 
^ oblige them to acknowledge. 



A 14 The Comedy of E r r^o r 5. 

S. Dro, Faith, I faw itnot, but I felt it hot in lier hrttA 
S, Ant. Where America^ the IitdUs. 
S. Dro. Oh, Sir, upon her nofe^ all o'er embdlifii*< 
With rubies, carbuncles, faphiries; declining their rici 
afpe^ to the 4)ot bivath of Bpain^ who fent whole ar* 
inadoes of carrads to be ballaft at her nofe. 
• S,Ant. Where flood Belgia^ the Netherlands? 

S. Dro, Oh, Sir, I did not look fo low. To con* 
jdude, this drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, calPd 
tne Dromioy fwore I was adur'd to her, told me what 
privy marks I had about me, as the marks of my (hour- 
der, the rroole in myineck, the great wart on my left 
*drm, that I, amaz'd, ran from her as a wil^h. At4% 
I think, if my breaft had not been made oi faith, W 
«ny heart of Heeli fhe had transformed me to a curtal- 
dog, and made me turn i'th' wheel. 
' S, Ant. Go, hie thee prefently ; pod to the road; 
And if the wind blow any way from fhore, 
I will not harbour in this town to-night. 
If any bark put forth, cpmp to the mart ; 
Where I willwalk^ '|iU thoa return tooD^: 
^If every otteknowsy and we know none, 
»*Tistitt!ie, I think, to trudge, pack and be mire. 

S, Dro. As from a bear a man would run ^r life, 
'So fly I from her that would be my wife. [Exttt 

S. Ant. There's none but witches do inhabit heve \ 
t And therefore 'tis high ttnire that I were henctf : 
She, that doth tall me hufband, cfven my (bul 
■ Doth for a wife abhor. Biit her fair fitter, 
' IPofled with (uch a gentle fovereign grace, 
^ Of fuck enchanting prdTence and difcouffo. 
Hath almoft made me traitor to myililf; 
•^ But left myfeif be guilty of felf- wrong, 
' ni Hop mine ears againft leaner niaid*3 (bx^g., 

Enier Angelo, nvith u Chain. 

Ang* Ms&er Amtifhoiisf*^'^^ 

9. Ant. Ay, that's my nartie. 

Ang. I know it weD^ Sir i lb, here is the chain i 



The Gomcdy of E r r o r s. 2 15 

I tlioogKt t* have tane you at the Porcupine ; 
"The chain, unfinifti'd, made me ftay thus long. 

5. Jnt. What is your will, that I (hall do with this? 

Jng. What pleafe yourfelf. Sir ; I have made it for yoa. 

S, Ant: Mad» it for me. Sir ! I befpoke it not. 

Aug. Not once, nor twice, but twenty times, you havt. 
Go home with it and pka6 your wif: withal ; 
And foon at fupper-time I'll vifit you. 
And then receive my money for the chain. 

5. Ant. I pray you, Sir, receive the money now ; 
For fear, you ne'er fee chain,, nor money, more. 

Ang, You are a t^^ny man. Sir 5 fare you well. \Exit. 

S. Ant. What I (hould think of this, I cannot tell : 
But this I think, there*s no man is fo vain. 
That would refufe fo fair an offcr'd chain, 
I fee, a nian here heeds not live by (hifts. 
When in the ilreets he meets fuch golden gifts: 
I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio ftay j 
If any (hip put out, then Urait away. [E^t. 



ACT IV. 

. SCENE, the Strwt. 
Enter 4 Merehantj Angelo, and an Offitwr. 

Merchant. 

YOU know, fince Pentecofl the fum is due ; 
And ii nee I have not much importun'd you ; 
Kor now I had not, but that I am bound 
To Perfia^ and want guilders for my voyage : 
Therefore make prefent fatisfadlion : 
Or I'll attach you by this officer, 

Ang. £v'o jVI the fum^ that I do owe to you (i6)» 
Is growing to «ie by Antipholisi 

And 
^l6) EvH jufi the fum, that Ida owe to yot, 

Zf owing to me by Anfipholis.] Mt« PofCi ^Va Y^tV%^<^ ^V^ 



Vt. 



ftiS TheComedy of Errors* 

And, in the inftant that I met with youp 
He had of me a chain : at Ave o'clock, 
I (hall receive the money, for the fame : 
Pleafe yon but walk with me down to his houfe, 
I will difcharge my bond, and thank yoa too. 

Euiif Antipholis Ephefus, atui Dromio Ephefus, «i 
/rem the C^urtexm^s. 

Off. That labour you may fare : fee, where he comes^ 

£. Ant. While I go to the goldfmith's ^afe^ go thoft 
And buy a rope's end ; that will I beftow 
Amon2 my wife and her confederates. 
For locking; me out of my doors by day. 
But, foft ; I fee the c;oldfmith : get diee gone. 
Buy thou a rope, and bring it home to me. 

£. Dro. I buy a thoufand pound a year ! I buy a ropet 

lExst Dromio« 

E. Ant. A man is well holp up, that tru(U to yoa ; 
^ I promis'd your prefence, and the chain : 
But neither chain nor goldfmith came to me : 
Belike, you thought, our love would laft too long 
If it were chain'd together ; therefore came not. 

Ant* Saving your merry humour here's the note^ 
How much your chain weighs to the utmoft carat; 
The finenefs of the gold, the chargeful falhion ; 
Which do amount to three odd ducats more* 
Than I Hand debted to this gentleman ; 
I pray you, fee him prefently difcharg'd ; 
For he is bound to fea, and flays but for it. 

E. Ant. I am notfumiih'd with the prefent money | 
Beiides I have fome buiinefs in the town ; 

he OMkef no lonoYiriont bttt ek fit cdJIcumt htt fophifticafcd UiH 
piflage for do reafon in the world as I apprehend. The oldcft fiSih 
and all the other copies that I have Teen, icid in tht fccoad line j 

Is growing to me iy Antlpholti. 
So twice, afterwards in this very play ; 

Adr. Bfcr me fortbivitb unto bis creditor^ 

And, knowing bcw tbe Ml grows, Jf90paj ii* 

Adr. J know tbe man ; vfbst it tbe Jum bi fWM r 

Offi. Two hundred ducat*. 

Adr, Say, bow grows ii due f 

4 GooJ 



The Comedy of E r r o n s. 4 %]P 

Good Sigpior, take the ftranger to mr houfer 
And with ^ou take the chain, and bio my, wife ; « 

Difburle the Tarn on the receipt thereof; ' 

Perchance, I will be there as foon^Sf you, | 

Jnt. Then you will bring the chain to her yourielPf 

£.^ff?.No ;'bear it with y6n,lefll come npt time en6qg|i. 

Amg. Welly Sir, I wilt : have you the chain about yo^il* 

E* Ant, An if I have not. Sir, I hope, you have : 
Or elfe ydU may return without your money* 

Jug* "Sajy come, I pray you. Sir, give me the diaiA i 
Both wind and tide ftay for this gentleman ; 
And I, to blame, have held him h^re too long* 

E. Jnt. Good Lord, you ufe this dalliance to^xcuff 
Your breach of promife to the Porcupine :■ - 

I fhoirid have chid you for not bringing it; 
Buf, like a fhrew, you firft begin to brawL 

Mer^ The hour fleals on ; I pray you. Sir, dlfpatch. 

Ang, You 'hear, how he importunes me; the chain^^ 

E, Jnt, Why t give it to my wife, and fetch your money. 

Ang. Com^, come, you know, I gave it yoAi ev*n now# 
Or fend the chain, or fend mt by lome token* ^ 



E. Ant. Fy, now you run this humour out of breath : 




If not, ril leave him to the officer* 

E. Ant. . I anfwer you ? why fhould I anfwer you ? 

Afig. The money, that you owe me for the chain* 

E. Ant. I ow6 you none, 'till I receive, the chain. 

Ang. You know, I gave it you half an hour fince» 

E*An. You gave me none ; you wrong me much toTay fit* 

Ang. You *^rong me more. Sir, in denying it ; 
Coniider, how it Hands upon my credit* 

Mer. Well, officer, arreft him 9t my fuit. 

OJi. I do,and charge you in the Duke's name to o})ey me« 

Ang. This touches me in reputation. 
Either cpnfent to pay the fum for me. 
Or I attach you by this officftrt 

E. Ant. Confent to pay for that I nevelf had 1 
Arreft me, fpolUh-fellowi if tho^ dar^ft. 

Vox. III. . K Ang;, 



\ii9 ^Vhtf C&tMdf of E R R R 3. ' 

Jng. Hirfi b tlhy f^ ; arreft him, officer j 
I would tiot (pare my brother in this cafe. 
If he (hould fcom me fo apparently. 
. . Ofi. I do aitcft yjOu, Sir ; yOu hear the fuit, 
E. Ant. \ doob^y thce^ 'till I^ive thee bail» 
^ut, iirrah^ you fhall buy this fpprtasf deas 
' lti9 all the metal in your (hop will anfwer. 

Ahg. S!r» Sir^ I mall have law in Mpb^u^^ 
7V> your notorious (haroej 1 doubt it not* 

Bmter Dromio tf Syracufe fi^n the B^% 

S, Dfi. Matter, th|^re is a bark of EpUamnum% 
That ftays but ^till her owner come aboard ; . 
Then, Sir, (he bears away. Our fraughtage, Sir^ 
I have conveyed aboard ; and I have bought 
The ojlf. the halfamum^ and agua"uit<e. 
The mip is in her trim ; the merry wind 
' Blows fair from land ; they Hay for nought at all^ 
But fpr their owner, mailer, and yourfelf. 

£; Ant. How liow ! a mad man ! why, thou peevifh ihpa^* 
What Ihip of Eytdamnttm ftays for me ? 

5. Dro, A fhip you fent me to, to hire waftage. 

\E. Ant. Thou drunken flave, I fent thee for a rope J 
And told thee to what purpofe^ and what end. 

5^ Dro, You fent me for a rope*s-erid as foon : 
You fent me to the bay,. Sir, for a bark. 

E. Ant. I v(rill debate this matter at more leifnrei 
And teach your ears to liil me with more heed« 
To Adrianay villain^ hie thee ftrait, 
Ghre her this key, and tell her, in the deik 
• That's cpver'd o'er with Turkijh tapeflry. 
There is a purfe of ducats, let her fend it : 
Tell her, I am arretted in the ttreet, 
And that thall bail me ; hie thee, flave $ be gone \ 
On, officer, to prifon 'till it come* \Extii^^ 

S. Dr6, To Adriana ! that is where we din'di 
Where Doiv/alf el did tlaim me for herhufband; 
^he is too big, I hope, for me to compafs; ^ 
Thither I mutt, altho' ^gainft my will. 
For fervant« mnfi their mafters minds falfiU t^^t 

SCENB 



^hc Gamcdy of Err oit s. 219 

SCENE changts toE. AniipholWs Uou/e^ 

Enter Adriana and Ludana* 
^</r. A H, Lu<mnay did he tempt tliec foil 

Jx' Might' ft thou perceive auftercly in his tyk 
'JFJiat h« did plead in earnelV, yea or no ? 
Look'd he or fed or pale, or fad or merrily ? 
Wli^t obfervation mad'ft thou in this cafe, 
Of his heart*s meteors tilting in his face? 

Luc, Firft hedeny'd, you had in him no right, 

AJr, He meant, he did me ncj'ne ; the more my fpight» 

Luc. Then fwore he, that he was a (Iranger here. 

Mr. And if«e he fwore, though yet forlWorn he were, 

l^c. Then pleaded I for you. 

,j^i/r. And what faid he? 

tjK. That love I begg'd for you. He begg'd of ine ? 

Jdr, With what perfuafion did he tempt thy love f 

Luc. With words, that in an honeft fait might move, 
Firft, he did praife my beauty, then my fpeech,- 

Jdr, Did'ft fpeak him fair ? 

Luc. fiave* patience, I befeech. 

Mr. r cannot, nor J. will not, hold me flill ; 
My tongue, though not my heart, fhall have its wiUv 
H€^s ddfotmed, crooked, old and fere, 
Ill-fac*d, worfe-body'd, ihapelefs Qvtry where ; 
Vidous, ungentle, foolifh, blunt, unkind, 
Stigffiatical in making, worfe in mind. , 

Luc. Who would be jealous then of fuch a one f 
No evil loft is wail'd, when it is gone. 
:/ , <Mr^ Akllsiit I think'him better than I fay^, 
: t!/ And yety would herein others eyes were worlc : 
R^ frbm her neft tlie lapwing cries away ; 

My heart prays for him, tho* my tongue do curfef 

Enter Dromio of Syracufe. 

^.Dr9i Here, go; the deik, the purfe; fwect now 
> make hafte. 

£«^r. How haft thou loft thy breath ? 
■•^:\&^. By running faft. 



a 20 The Comedy of ERROkli. 

tomia? is he w 

imh, worfe than hell i 



JJr, Wher^ is, thy ipaftcr, DromaP is he well ? 
St Dr&. Noy^he'i in Tttrtaf' Lin 



A Jevil in an everlaftinj^ garment hath him, 

<3nc» whofe h^rd hean is button'd up with llecl ; 

A fiend, a fury, pitilefs and rough (17), 

A wolf, nay, worfe, a fellow all in buff; 

A back -friend, a {houlder<lapper, one that comman^s^ 

The paffages of allies, creeks,, and narrow lands ; 

A hound that runs counter, and yet duaws dry -foot well } 

One, that, before the judgment carries poor louls toheH. 

y/^r.' Why, man, what is the matter ? 

S. Drai 1 do not know the matter ; he is arrefted oa 
the cafe. 

Jdr. What, is he arreted ? tell me at whole fait. 

S, Dro. I know not at whofe fuit he is arretted, well; 
but he's in a fuit of buff, which 'relied him, thatlcaa 
tf^ll. Will you fend him, millrefs, redemption, the 
fiioney in his defk ? 

Mr, Go fetch it, fifter. This I wonder at, [£x//Luc. 
That he, unknown to me, fhould be in debt ! 
Tell me, was he arrefled on a bond ? 

S. Dro, Not a bond, but on a ftronger thing, 
A chaiQ, a chain ; do you not hear it ring ? 

uf^'r. What, the chain ? '* 

S, Dro, No, no ; the bell ; 'tis time that I were g6be« 
Ic was two ere I left him, and now the clock ftrikes one» 

Mr, The hours come back ! that I did never hear. 

S. Dro, O yes, if any hour meet a ferjeant, a'tums 
back for very fear. 

(17) ^Fiind,a Fairy, fitileft and rpagh^l Dr&kiff here btiopag 
wosd in haite that his matttris arrefied, derciibes- the Ba^ff by nane< 
proper to r^ife hotror and deteftation of jfuch a creator^, fuch ml a 
de%ilt « fiend, a *wolff &c. But how does y^/ry come up to tbefe ter« 
fible ide»6 ? Or wi(h what propriety can it be ufcd here ? 'Does he 
mean, that a bailiff' is like a fairy in dealing away hismafter? The 
tiuell beiievers of thofe little phantonns never pretended tot^JDk, thit 
V they: fiok. any thing but children* Certain^, it Will fdrC bcHer in 
rnrfer with the other names annex'd, as well as the febarafber of a catch- 

?ole, to coRclude |hat thc-Poc^ iiriaiej,-r^«,^«4/> ;^ f'H'ft ^^* 
made this conje^ure in my Skakkspiare reficr'^i in4Mf,P^« 
hu thought fit to embrace it in hit laft edjtioj),'' ^ ** 



, The Comedy of E r r o r s. 221 

dir^ Asif time were in debt! how. fondly doft thou 
'^ rcafon? 
^ ^. Dfo. ?/Wi8 a very bankrput^ and owes more than 

he's worthy to feafon. 
Nay:, he's a thief too ; have you not beard men fay. 
That Time comes dealing on by qight and day ? 
If Time be in debt and theft, and a ferjeant in the way» 
Hiath he not reafon to tarn back an hour in a day ? 

Enter Luciana. 
Adr, Qo^ DfQmie ; there's the money* bear it ftrait. 
And bring thy mafler home immediately. 
Come, filler, I am prcft down with conceit \ 

Conceit, my comfort and my injury. \Extunt, 

SCENE changes to the Street. 

Enter Antipholis of Syracufe. - 
S. Ant, 'TP* Here's not a man I meet, but doth falute me, 
X As if I wer^ their well -acq Main ted friead ; 
And every one doth call me by my n ame. 
Some tender money to me, fome invite me ; 
Some other give me thanks for kindneiTes ; 
Some .offer me commodities to buy. 
Ev'n now a taylor call'd me in his (hop, 
And ihow'd, me filks that he had bought for me. 
And therewithal took meafure of my body. 
Sure, thefe are but imaginary wiles,^ 
And Lapland forcerers inhabit here. 

Enter Dromio ef Syracufe. 
S. Dro. Matter, here's, the gold you fent ihe for ; 
{18) what, have you got rid of the pidure of old Aiiafn 
ncw-apparcrd f 

S.Jxt. 

(iS) Wlat^ haveyw g9( tbefiiture of old Kivn fitm ttppartlVd f ] ' 
A ihort word or twomuft have dipt out here, by fom^ accident a 
copying, orat-prefti otberwife 1 have no conce|Hion of th« a.rani'^i^ 
of thcpaflkge. The cafe b this. Drimo^s mzfia-iud beco arrei^cd^ 
as^ fent -hit fervant home fsr money to redeem him : m-ninoin£,'b ick 
VFith 4hc pooc^, meets the twin Antipholis, whom he mifttfke^ Ur 
K 3 Vk\^ 



211 Xhc Comedy of E feR p kt. 

S. JnU What gold ^ tins ? wkat^<i^4<?9^^PB n»W>^ 

S, Dro. Not that Mamt that kept the par^di^ ; but 
thzi Mafftf, that k^eps the prifpi^S h^ that goes ;ii Ae 
calves -Ocin, that was kill'd for the prpdi^l ; He that 
came behind yeu, Str, like aa evil a^g^l» s^nd khA yoo 
forfakeyxDiir liberty. 

5. ^/7/. I uaderttand thee not. 

S, Dro. Ko? why 'tis a plain cafe; h« ^at went 
like a bafe-viol in a cafe of leather ; the man. Sir, that, 
when gentlemen are tired, gives them a fob, and refts 
them ; he, Sir» that takes pity on decay^ inin, and 
rives them fuits of darance ; he, thatfets up his reft to 
do more exploits with his mace, thso a morris -pike. 

^. Jnf. What ! thou mean'ft an officer ? 

5. Dro. Ay, Sir, the ferjeantof the band ; he, thaf 
brings any man to anfwer it that breaks his bond ; one 
that thinks a man always going to bed, and faith^ Goi 
give you good rtft. 

S. Ant. Well, Sir, there reft in your foolery^ 
Is th«re any flitp puts forth to^ivgiit ? iha-y we be gone f 

S, Dro. Why, Sir, I brought yoar word an iipur'fiiicc, 
that the bark Expedition puta forth to^nighti; snd tbea 
were you hinder'd by the ferjeant, to tarry for the hoy 
.Dtiay \ here are the angeb that yoH fent for, to deliver 
you. 

S. Atti. The fellowjs diftra^, and &> am T, 
And here we wander in illufions ; 
Sx}die bleiTed power djeliver us from bencs t 
EnUr a Csurtexan* 

Couf, Well met, well met, m^9t&r Amtipholk. 
I fee> Sir, you have found the goUfmith »ow : 
Is that the chain, you promisM ine to-day ? 

hit mafter, ftnd feeing him cleaf of the tJUer before th« m^qtf ww 
comi*, he cries in a furprize j 

iVbatf bav^ you got rid t f the ftSfyre of old Adam iiew MpftfrtWdf 
tor fo, I hate venmrM lo fu|>p)y, by conjtftuTe. Bu« why is the 
tffic^r called old Ad^tn new apparelPd ? 7 he alluiion is to ^dam in 
his (tate cf innocence grfng naked; and immediately af er the falf, 
being cloarhed In a frock of fiins. Thus he was ttw apparetPd : and 
Jo Hicc manner the ferjtants of the counter were fo'inerly clad in buff, 
«r €ulves Jkin-f «t> the Aetkor humo^ouHy a littlt kwercails it. 

S. Jnt. 



Tfte Comedy of E r r o r 9< 2%^. 

S, Ant, Satan avoiid ! I charge thee, tempt me. not. . 

$, Dro. Matter, is this xjaifkefs Satan? 

S, j^nt. It is the Devil. . . 

S. Dro. Nay, fli6 is \^orfe^ (he's the devil's 'dam > 
and hert'fhV eomea in the habit of a light wench, and 
thereof comes, that 'the wenches fay, God dath me,, 
that's as much as to fey, God make mie a light wench. 
It is written, they appiear to men like angels of light y 
Hght is an efi«dl of fire, and fire will burn i ergo^ light' 
wenches will burn ; come dot niear her.. 

Cojur* Your man arid you aie marvellous merry. Sir. 
Willyou go with me, we*ll mdnd our dinner here 1 ' 

S.Dro, Mafter, if you do expcA fpoon-meati be* 
4^aka longfpoon. 

S.Jn^. Why, DromhF 

S, Dro. Marry, hie muft have a long fpoon^ that muft 
tat with the devil. 

^S.v^. -Avoid then, fi^nd! what telM thou me of 
Thou art, as you are al), a forcerefs : [fuppin^ ? 

I conjure thee to Icstve me, ami begone. 

Cour. Give me the ring of mine, you had at dihner,, 
Or for my diamond the chain you promis'd» ^ 
And I'll be gone. Sir, and not trouble you, 

$. Dr^. Some devils afk but^he parings of one's nail» 
aruih^ ahair, a drop of blood, a pin, a nut, a cherry; 
iione: but fhe, more covetous, would have a chain.^ 
Mailer,cbe wife; an if you give it her, the devil wilF 
ihake her chein, aiid fright us with it. 

Cour, Iprayyott, Sir, my firi^, or clfe the c^ain$ 
fihope, you do not mean to cheat me fo ? 

S. Ant. Avant, thou witch ! come, Dromioi ^et ufr go. 

5: Z>/-9. Fly pride^ fays the peacock ^ maftrefs, that 
>pttinow, \txew1t4 

Manti'Couriezanm . t 

Cour. Now, out of doubt, Antif holts U mzA % 
Elfe would he- never fo demean hinQielf. 
A ring h^ hath of mine worth forty ducaits^ 
And for the fame he promis'd me a chain ;. 
Betbone, .and oth^r, he denies me now« 

K4^ - Tie 



J 



214 The Comedy of £ r it o r s; 

The reafon, that I gather, he is mad, 

(Be/ides this prefent inftance of his rage) 

is a mad ^le he told to-day at dinner. 

Of his oWh doors being ihut againft his entrancfi 

Belike^ his wife, acauainted with his fits. 

On puVpofe fhut the doors againil his way. 

^4y way is now to hie home to his houfe, 

And tell his wife, that, beina lunatick. 

He ru(h'd into my houfe, and took perforce 

My ring away. This courfe I fitted chafe ; 

For forty ducats is too much to lo(e. [ExtU 

SCENE changes to the Street, 

Enter AnriphoUs cf Ephefus nvifh the Jailor, 

E.JnU T7Ear me not, man ; I will not brc»k away ; 

J} I'll give thee, ere Heave thee, fo much ponejll 
To warrant thee, as I am 'refted /or. 
My wife is in a wayward mood to-day» 
And will not Ughtly trull the meflenger. 
That I ihould be attached in Ephefus, 
I tell you, 'twill found harfhly in her ears.*— i» 

Enter Dromio of Ephefus, •with a rope's-end. 
Here comes my man ; I think, he brings the money. 
How now. Sir, have you that I fcnt you for ? 
' £, Dro. Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all? 

£. w/i/(. But wheie's the money ? 
* E, Dro. Why, Sir, I gave the money for the rope f 

E. Ant. Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope ? 
_ E, Dro. V\\ ferve you. Sir, five hundred at the rate. 

J?. Ant. To what end did I bid thee hie thee hom<| ? 
' E.Dr^. To a rope's-end. Sir ; and to that end am I 
retum'd. 

E.'Jnt. AnA to that end. Sir, I wiU welcome yo«. ^ 

[Beats Dromio* 

Offi, Good Sir, be patient. 

•£. Dro. Nay, 'tis for me to be patient ; I am in adverfity. 

Cyjt. Good nt)w, hold thy totv^ue, 

Sf Dr§. Nay, mhtr perfu^idOim xa Yo\^\Ji^W^. 



The Corned^ of Errors, 225 

E. Am^ Thott whorcfoD, fenftlcfs villain ! 

i. Dr§m I WQul^y I were fenieleis^ Sir^ that I might 
mot feel yenr blows. 

^ E, Am. Thott art fenfible in nothing but blows, and 
ib is an ais. 

E. Dro, lamanafs, indeed; you may prove it by 
v\y long cars, I have ferv'd him from the hour of my 
nativity to this inftant^.and have nothing at his hand^ 
fQf my iervice but blows. When I am cold, he heats 
me with beating ; ^when I am warm, he cools me with 
bating; I am wakM with it, whenlfleep; rais'd 
with ity when I fit ; driven out of doors with it, when 
I go from home; welcomM home with it, when V 
retant ; nay, I bear it on my (houlders, as a beggar 
wont her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd me, 
1 Ihall beg with it from door to door. 

£»/^r Adriana, Ludana, Courtezan^ ««/ Pinch. 

M. Ant. Come, go along ; my wife is coming yonder. 

{\ql) E.Dro. Miftrefs, rtftice finem^ refpe£l your end ; 
or rather the prophecy, like the parrot, beware the 
rope*s-end«-— — E.Ant. 

(19) Miftrefti rtfptce fioen, rtjpi& ywr end* or rather the prophecy , 
like tie parrot, beware the rope* semi,'] We will endeavour to explain 
thcie words, at they lie in order. ' Refpicefinem (eemi to come in h«ie 
•ddly cnoogh to make a joke. ' Bucl am of opinion , \.h9X iibakefpeare 
might here allude to the laft word's of a fanwus fitiricsl pamph.ec, 
wrote at that time bjr Buchanan againft the ifOxA of Liddington ia . 
Scotch, ending with thefe Latin words, Rejpice finem, refpke funfm« 
■ ■ -Our Author, perhaps, would (hew, he cou!d pana at well in 
Kngt^ at the o^er had done in L<irfff ; and therefore tranflate?, 
JtefpeStnr end, or beware the rope's-end. At for the phra&, tbepro' 
' fhicf Bke the parrot, we are to remember the London iradi'mfn of that 
time were very fond of this new exotick bird, becaufe he coufd fpeak ^ 
and, perhaps, almoft ts well as (bmegiave citizens. Ii ^eacbing^ him 
^Liagua, 'twas no wonder they mould delight themfelves in giving 
him many knai^- words, as rope, Scot, &c. to the offence of m>ny 
ef bit Majefly*s Northern fubjeftt, of whom there are focb a number 
of merry ftorirs on record. However the word, ri;^, by the byr, was 
the moft common word in his langoa^, and, no doui»r, the mn(}«f. 
/enHve. And the joke was tl|ii&$ when the parrot bad befpat'.cr'd any 
one with it, for the wife owner to fay to the cffended paflcnger. .sjr, 
take eefre% my parrot prephefiet. BulLr hints at. this, CiaVQ I -Pwt i% 
^^* H99 ^king^f Ra!pb9''% knowledge ia au4ur| » 



226 The Comedy of E r r o n «• 

£, Ant. Wilt thou ftill talk i [Beats^torm, 

Cour. How fay you ndw i is not your hiifbatiil mad ? 
Mr. His incivility confirms no lefs. 
6ood Dodor Pincbf )^u are a Conjurer^ 
£(labli(h him in his true fenfe again^ 
And 1 will pleafe you what you will demand. 
LuC. Alas, how fiery and how fharp he looks t 
Ccur* Marki how he trembles in his ecftaiy ! 
Pincb* Give me your hand, ^nd let meieel ^our pulfe. 
B* ^nt. There is my hand, and kt kfeel jfour ear. 
Pinch. I charge thee, Satan, housed wiiyn this" m^n» 
To yield pofTeffion to my holy prayers % 
Ana to tl:^ ftate of darknefs \k\t thee fii*ait» 
I conjure thee by all the faints in heaven. 

t. Ant. Peace, doating wi^^rd) peace ; 1 am not ma^. 
Adr, Oh ! that thou wert not, poor didre^td foul ! 
£. Ant. You minion, yog, we thefij year cuftomers ^ 
Did this companion with the fa&on face 
Kevel and feail it at my houfe co-day^ 
Whilft upon me the guilty doors were Ihuti^ 
Add I deny'd to enter iti my houfe \ 

A4t. Oh, hufband> God doth know, ypn dinM at homej 
Where, would you had remained until this time, 
Srefc front thefe danders and this open ihaAie \ 

E, Ant, DinM I at home? thou villaia^what fay'il thoo) 
£. Dr9. Sir, foolh to fay, you did not dine at home. 
E. Ant, Were not my doors lo€k*d up, and 1 fhut out, 
E. Dra, Perdie, your doors werelock'd,and you fliut out» 
£. Atit, And did not fee herfelf revile me there i 
J?. Dto. Sans fable, ftie herfelf revil'd yo*» there. 
E. Ant, Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taiint» and 

fcorn me J 
f. bro. Certesy fee did ; the kitchen -veftal fcorn*d yt^ 
£, Ant. And did not I in rage depait from tkeace ^ 

Could tell ^bat fuhUfi parroti mean^ 
That fpeak and think contrary cUan\ ^ 

H^tat mmbir "th bf,t^hom^J talk, 
U^ken tbey nyy rope ! and walk, knaVfe Walk, 
ForVy this time UityhAilmt^emaxiy^fjr parrots, wemiy wrnfbt>« 
voi€\ Mr. 0^^pl>urttii. 

i M.Dr0. 



Tlie Comedy d BTk fe on s. i2f' 

JET ffro. In verity, yon did; my bones bear witneTs^ ^ 
That fince have Mt the vig(mrxsf 7011F rage. 

jfdr. Is't good to footh him in theie c^ntl'aded f 

Finch. It IS BO fiiame; tfiefel!6w finds his vein. 
And, yielding to him, hmnoiii^ weU his fyen2y. 

E, Ant. Thotthaft fubornM the goldrmith to arreftme;^ 

Adr. Alas, I fcnt you money to tedeem you^ ^ 
Vf Dromio here, who came in hafte for it. 

E.Di^, Money by me ?1i^art a'ndgbod wIH J<m migb^' 
Bdt^ furely, mafter, not a rag of mkmey. 

E. Ant. Wdnt'ft not fbou to hl^ for a pvrfe oFdiiet^l ' 

Adr. He came to Itoe, ^t)fd I deHVerM it. 

Lik. And I «tt wifnefs with her, that flife did. ^ 

Ei D99. G<k] and tlie rope^malcer do bearW witiAf^fsV • 
That I was fen t for nothing but a rope. • 

Finch*, Miftrefs, both jnan and mafter are poffeft^ - 
I know it by their pale -and deadly looks ; « 
They Biuft bfe botr*dy ani teJd 1 n fome dark rodm.* 

jEk^ Afit, Say,' wherefore did ft thoulock me^drtb ro-day»^ 
Aad why doH thou <k>ny the bag of gold ? 

Adr, I didnotjg^w'^hBttandv lock thee fojth,^ 

EmDro, Arid, gentle mailer, I receiv'd no gold, • 
Bat I confefs. Sir; that we were lock'd out. 

Adr, DiiTemblrng vill^inf thoji fpeak'ft faWe in bodS' 
E* Atii. Difiembi&ig Ite lot, ttfeu art 9^^ in all j^ . . 
And art con federate with a damned ^pack',^^ 
To make a loath fome abjed fcorn of trtt: - 
Btt with 4:befe nalU Til piJuck out thofe falfecyew, - 
Tliac woold behold' fn rte this ihamefol fpwt.^ 

Enter three or four^ and offer to hind htm t he-firi'ves. '. 

^yr.Oh, bind him A bind him, let him not comd near men^ 
Fmch. More company ^-r-the fiehdifi ftroidg within him^ ' 
Luc» Ay mc, poor man, hpw pale and wan*heloOks^i " 
E. Ant* What, will you raut-der tnc ? thou jailor> «tb^t^^- 

I im thy prifon^r, wiltfhott fclfler them^ > / 

To mak&arefcue^ • 

Oj^: Matters; let him gO: ' 

He is my prifoner, and you fhall riot have him •' • 
fOtfhpQ^^ bind ibis inan, for he is. firaatick too. 
^ K:6 > Adi:^'- 



tit The Comedy cf E r r o r $: 

^^Jdr. What wilt thoadoy thoapeevi^ officer # 
Haft thoa delight to fee a wretched man 
2>o outrage an^d difpleafure to bimfrlif ? 

Ofi. He is my prifoner ; if I let him go» 
The deht> he owes, will be required of me. 

JJr. I will difcharge thee, ere I go from thee ; 
Bear me forthwith onto his creditor, 

[They hind Antiphplis and Dromi*; 
/^t)d> kaowiDg how the debt grows, I will pay it. 
Good mafter Do^r^ fee him fafe c<;>nveyM 
fl^e to my hoafe. Oh, moft anhappy day ! 

E. Ant. Oh, moft unhappy ftrumpet ! 

M* Dr^. Mafter, Pm here enter'd ta bond for yoa. 

M. Ant. Oiit oa thee, villain I wherefore doft thou 
mad me ? 

£. Dr^. Will yon be bound for nothing \ be madt 
good mafter; cry, the devil, 

Lui. God help, poor fouls, how idly do they talk ! 
^' Air. Co bear him hence ; fifter, ftay ^ouwiUime. 

> [£>fK^ Pinch, Antipholiattfff^fDfOflM* 
Say now, whofe fult is he arrefted at ? 

Manent Officer^ Adriana, Luciana, and Courtizam^ 

fDffi. Ont Angehf agoldfmith; do yon know him I 

4dr». I know thje man ; whatis the fum he owes i 

O^ To hundred ducats. 

Adr. Say, how grows it due ? 

Offi.~ Due for a chain your hufband had of him. 

j9dr. H^did befpeak a chain forme, but had it tu^ 

Cour. When as your hufhand all in rage to*daj 
Came to my houfe, and took away my ring^ 
^he ring 1 <aW upon his finger now) 
$«rait after, did I meet him with a chain*. 
^ Ad^. It may be io, b tft I did never he it.. 
Coiac,, jbailQr> bring me where the gokifmith is» 
I long to know the truth her-eof at Targe.^ 

lutef AntiphoUs c/ Syracufe, fwitJ^ bit rapian draw/f^ 
and Dromio e/ Syrsicak* 

Luc. God» for thy mercy ! they ai« looie again*^ 

Mri 



The Comedy of Error s/ izjf 

Jidt. And come with naked (words ; 
Let's call more help to have them bound again. 

Ofi. Away, they'll kill us. \Xi^ run tmtf. 

Mattent Aiitipholis antf Dromio. 

S. Ant, I fee, thefe witches are afraid of fwords. 

S, Dro> She, that would be your wife, now ran from you* 

S. Ant, Come to the Centaur ^ fetch our Anff'from thence : 
I long, that we were fafe and found aboard. 

S. Drc. Faith, ftay here this night ; they will furely 
do us no harm ; yon faw, they fpake us fair, gave ua 
gold ; methinks, they are fnch a gentle nation, that but 
tor the mountain of mad fleOi that claims marriage of 
me,' I could And in my heart to flay here ftill, and turn 
witch. 

$» Ant. I will not ftay to-night for all the town ; 
Therefore away, to get our ftuff aboard. \kx^mt. 

ACT y. 

S C E N E, a Strict, before a Priory, 
Mntihr the Merchant and Angelo* 

A N G I L o. 

I Am {oxrjy Sir, that I have hinder'd you | 
But, I proteft he had the chain of me, 
Tho' moft diihoneftly he doth deny it. 

Met. How is the man efteemM here in the city I 
Ang^ Of very reverent reputation. Sir, 
Of credit infinite, highly belov'd. 
Second to none that lives here in the city ; ,^ 

l)is word jniffht bear my wealth at any time. 

Mtr, Speak foftly : yonder, as I think, he walks;. 

Evttr Antipholis and Dromio tf Syracufe. 
^ng. 'Tis io\ and that felf>chain about hisneck> ' 
IjS^hich he foriwore moft monftrouHy to have* 

Good 



fjo The Comedy of E k it 6 it w 

Good Sir, draw nf ar to aie, Nl fytak to biin» } 

Signior Antipbolhf I wonder mock 

Tkat yo» would put me to this iliame wid troiiUe^; 

And not without foBie fcandal to yourfielff / 

With circumilance and oaths fo to deny 

This chain, which now you^wear fo- openly J; 

Befides the charge, the mame, imprifonmenr^ . 

You have done wrong to this my honeft friend %z 

Who^ but for Haying on our controverfy, . 

Had hoiiled fail, and put to fea to-day : . 

This chain you hadiX)f me, can you deny it ? 

S, Ant. I think, I had yl never did deny it. 

Mer. Yes, that you did. Sir; and forfwore it too.' 

5v Ani. Who heard me to deny it, or for Avear it ? 

Mer. Thcfe ears of mine-, thou knowefl, did hear thee: • 
Fy on thee, wretch! 'tisnity, that thou liv'ft 
Tcf walk where any honelt men refort. . ' 

S. Ant.' Thou art a villain, to impeach 'me thusw . 
101 erove mine honour and my honeny 
i^ gain ft thee prefently^ if thou dar'ft ftand. 

MeY., 1 dare, and do defy thee for a villain. \Thr^dra^ 

£»//r Adriana, Luciana, Courtezan^ and^tbers* 

Adr, Hold, hurt hiro not, for God'sfake ; heis ckad ; ; 
' Some get within him, take his fword away : - 
Bind Drcmio too, and bear them to- my houfe. 

S, Dro, RuOf Jnafter, run v for God^s fake, tak6 a houfe; ^ 
This is fome priory : in, or we are fpoil'd. 

[Exeunt, to the Ppi9iy,^' 

Etttfr Lady Abbefs. . 

jfW. *Be quiet, people ; wherefore throng yoq hither^^ 
Adr. To fetch my poor dift rafted hufhand hepce; , 

Let us coTTie in, that we may bind him faft. 

And bear him hon e for his recovery. 

Ang, I knew, he was not in his perfeft wits< , 
Mer. I'm iorry now, . that I did draw on him. 
Abb. Haw long hath this pofieiHon held the man? V 
Adr. This week he hath been heavy, fower> fad. 

And much^ much different ffom thi^'maQ-he was ; 

But' 



The CsDcncay of ^ it it o r ». ^i 

But ^uXi I)U8 afternoon, his paffion 
Ne*cr brake into ewtcwity of rage. 

J6& . Hath he not loft mvch wealth bv wretk tft iea K 
Bury'd faoie dear fViend ? hath not elfe his eyd 
Stray'd bis affe^ion in unlawfol love? 
A ftti> pi«vaUtng n>u€h in youthful meir* 
Who give their eyes the liberty of gaaiog. 
Which of thefe forraws is he fubje€t to ? 

Jdr, To notie of thefe, except it be the fail ; 
Nanidy, feint lovc> thaf drew him oft from homti 

Abb* You (hould for that have reprehended kiin» 

Adr. Why, fo I did.. 

Ahb^ Ay, bdtflot rough encmgh. ' 

Adr, As roughly, as my modefiy would ktmei 

Abb. Haply, in private. 

Adr. And in aflembHes too. 

Abb. Ajr, but "not enough. ** 

Adr. It was the copy of our eonferencc (20); ; 

In bed, he flept not for my HTgiug it ; 
At board, he fed not for my urging it ; 
Alone, it was the lubje£t of my tlMam ^ 
In company, I often glancM at it ; 
Still did I tell him, it was vile ttid bad. 

> 

(10) hmjfii the t^fj of ear Conference,'] Wc are fiot fO ilflderflaBd 
•fKit vronNh«rv, as it ii now ufed, inoppefidon to »n original^ any 
thing 4<m« aftur a ptttcm j bfit we^an to take it in the neareft feolc 
ti the Latin- vrord r^o/k, from v^hioh it is derived. Adrian* wo«I(i 
fay, her rCjiroofs "Were the burden, the foloefs of her conference, tU 
the fubjeft of htr talk. And in thcfe acceptations the word copU waa 
ofed by writers before oor Aathor*a time, as well ai by his contcdi« 
porarifs. Sfi'tMlf in hia raigo of King Aewry Vth. p. 8. fays ; 

If you vanquiih the NnmUBanip you ihall Have topk of bcafts.— ^ 
i. e. plenty. 
And fo B. Jonfon in his E'very^man out fif his kumour \ 

^that, being a woman, (be was Ucft with no more ro/jp l>f 

wir, but to icrve his humour thus. 
Andy again, in hia Cyntbia^s Reoth. 

■ ' tD be fure tohavo daily about ktffl t9^ and firie^ of ^ 
lours. 
Aftd Im OHUiy other paflagn of his works« 



t^^r ' The Comtfdy of'Eitftoiis. 

^hi. And thereof came it, that tbe man. was. m^d. 
The venom clamours of a^ jealous woman 
Pi)tipn more^adly» than a siad dog's tooth. 
It feems, h» fleeps were hinderM by thy railing ; 
And thereof comes it» that his head is light. 
Thou fay'ily his meat was fauc'd with thy opbr^diQgs; 
Unquiet meals make ill digeftions ; 
Thereof the raging fire of {eytt brc;^ ; 
And what's a fever, bu.t a It of madneis/ 
Thoii fay'ft, his fports were hinder*<| by thy hnmhn 
Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth enfoCy 
But moody and dull melancholy, 
Kiniinan to grim and comfortlefs defptir ? 
And at her heels ^ huge infe^Uons troop 
Of pale diftempe^atiires, and foes to fiie^ 
In food, in fport, ttHllife-preferving rcl^ 
T6 be diilurb'd, would m»d or nan or beaft i 
The consequence is then, thy. jealous fits 
Have feared thy hufband from the ufe of wits» 

Luc. She never reprehended him but mildty, ^ , 
When he demeaned himfelf rough, rude and wildly; 
Why bear you tnefe rebukes, and aniwer not ? 

Mr. She did betray me to my own ttprooL 
Good people, enter, and lay hold on him. 

Jbh.. No, npt a creature enters in my honie. 

Jdr. Then, let your fervants bring my hu(b«Ad fetb* 

JbL Neither ; he took this place for fandtoaiy^ 
And it (hall priviledge him from your lands ; 
'I'ill 1 have brought him to his wits agsdn. 
Or lofe my labour in afTaying it. 

Jdr, I will attend my bufband, be his fittrfi^ 
' Diet his ficknefs, for it is my office ; 
And will haVe no attorney but myfelf ; 
And therefore let me have him home with me, 

/Ibh. Be patient, for I will not let him flir» 
*Till I have us'd th' approved means I have, . 
• With wholfomefirups drugs, and holy prayers 
To make of him a formal man again ; 
It is a branch and pacsel of mine oath» 

' . J ft 



The Comedy of E ^ R o r s. 25^ 

\ charitable duty of my order ; ^ 

Therefore depart, and leave htin here with ne* 

Mr. I will hot hence, and leave my hofband here; 
And ill it doth befeem your bolinefs 
To feparate the hnfband and the wife. 

JlL Be quiet and depart, thou fhalt not have him* 

Luc. Complain unto the Duke of this indignity. 

[Exit Abbefi#^ 

Jdr, Come, go ; I will fall proftrate at his jfeet. 
And never rife, until my tears and prayeril 
Have won his Grace to come in perfoh hither ; 
And tak6 perforce my hufband from the AhhtCs* 

Mer. By this, ! think, the dial points at five ; 
Anon, Fm fure, the Duke him fel fin per fon 
Comes this way to the melancholy vale ; 
The place of death and forry execution (21), 
Behind the ditches of the abhj^y here. ' 

Jng. Up<Mi what caufe ? 

Mer. To fee a reverent S^aeufan merchant^ 
Who put unluckily into this bay 
Againft the laws and flatutes of this town. 
Beheaded pablickly for his offence. 

^ng. See, where they come ; we will behold his deaths 

Luc, Xneel to the Dake, before hepafs the abbey. 

Bnter tbi^Duke^ and ^geon hare-head i wiib the Head^ 
matif and other Officers, 

Z>«if. Yet once again proclaim it publickly. 
If any friend will pay the fum for him, . 
He (hall not die, fo much we tender him. 

Jdr. Juflice, mod facred Duke, ^ainft the Ab^fs; 

Duke, She is a virtuous and reverend Lady ; 
It cannot be^hat (he hath done thee wrong. 

Adr, May it pleafe your Grace, jintipbms m jr huibandf 

(21) Tl>e place of death andUnj tX9ttitien,J u e. difmal, Iitnen* 
|«bte, to be grieved tt. In the like acceptations o«r Poet employi It 
again, mhete Macbeth, after tke murder, of Duncattt it looking on bis 
•WA bloody hands. 

T his is a forty fight ^ 

(Who^ 



2^ TheComedy of Error $^ 

^hom I made Lord of me and all I had. 

At your important lettersXthis ill dav 

A moA outrageous fit of madnefs took him ^ 

That defp'rately he hurry 'd through the ftreet^ 

With him his bond-man all as mad as he. 

Doing difpleafure to the citizens. 

By rufiiing in their houfes ; bearing thence 

Rings,, jewels, any thing his rage did like. 

Once did I get hfm bound, and fent him homei^ 

Whild to take order for the wrongs, I went. 

That here and there his fury had committed : 

Anon, I wot n^t by what drong eicape. 

He broke from thoife, that had the goard of him ^ 

And, with his mad attendant and lumfelf. 

Each one with ireful paffion, with drawfr£M>rds„ 

Met as again, and, madly bent on us,. 

Chas'd us away ; 'till, raifing of more aid*,. 

We came again to bind them ; then they fled 

Into this abt^, whither we pnrfu'd tk^ i 

And here the Abbefs ihuts the gates on uy^ 

And will not fuffer us to fetch him out,, 

Nor fend him forth, that we may bear him ktnce. 

Therefore, mod gracious Duke, with thy comm:ind». 

l.et him be brought forth, and borne hence for he]p» 

DuAe. hong fince thy hufband ferv'd me in my warsi^ , 
And I to thefe engagM a Prince's wA-d, 
(When thou didft make him matter of thy be^,X 
To do him all the grace and good I eould. 
Go, fome of you, ^nock at &e abbey-gate ;. 
And bid the Lady Abbefs come to me. 
I will determine this, befbre I ftir. 

Enter a Meffeugen. 

M^ O mi(lrefs> miftrefs^,. ibift and fav^ yourfelf^; 
iAy mailer and his man are both broke loofe. 
Beaten the maids a^row, and bound the jk>6tor, 
Whofe beard they have iing'd off with brandsof flte ; 
And ever as it blaz'd, they threw on him 
QitdX paik of puddled mire to quenck the. hair ;^ 



The Comedy of E r r o r s. 23^ 

%(y sbaAer preaches patience to him, and the while 
His man with fcifTars nicks him like a fool : 
And, -fttrcjt unlefs you fend fortic prcfent help, 
Between them they will kill the conjurer, 

Adr. Pcice, fool, thy mafter and his man arehefe» 
And that is falfe, thoudoft report to as. 

Mejf, Miftrefs, npon my life, I tell you true ; , 
1 have not breath'd almoft, fmce I did fee it. 
He cries for you, and vows if he can take yon, 
^o foorch %oar face, and to disfigure yon. \Cry n/»9tUn% 
ttark, hark, T hear him, miftrefs; fly, begone. 
Duke, Come, ftand by me, fear nothing : guard wilht 

halberds. 
Jdr. Ay me, it 5s my hufband ; witneA yoo. 
That he is borne about invifible ! 
^v'n now we hous'd him in the abbey here, 
-And now he's there, paft thought of human reafptt» 

ISnter Antipholis, and Qromio of £pheftts» 

E* Am. JuftiGa,iiio(tgracioasDake, oh, grant me joAi((^ 
Xven for the fervice that long fince I did thee. 
When 1 beftrid thee in the w^rs, 9nd took 
Deep fears to fave thy li£r, even for the blood 
That then I loft for thee, now grant me juftice, 

JEgeofi, tJnlefs the &ar of death doth make me ^ote, 
I fee my fpn JSmtipk$iis^ 9X^6 Drcmio, 

E.Ant. Juftice, fweetPrince,againftthatwomaiith^re^ 
She whom thou gav^^ to me to be my wife ; 
That hath abufed and difhonour^d me, 
Ev*n in the ftrength and height of injury^t. 
Beyond imagination is the wrong. 
That fhe this day hath ihamele^ thrown oa me. 

Duke. Difcover how, and thou ihalt find me julh 

E. Ant. This day, great Duke, fiieflivt the doors q^a 
Whilft (he with harlots feafted in m)r hoofe. [ai^a^ 

Duke, A grievoas fault ; fay, woman, didftthoafo^ 

Jdr. Ifo, my good Lord : myfe-lf, he, and my^fift^r^ 
To-day did dine together : fo befal my foul», 
hn thii is f^fe, he -burdeBs me wixhall 



ii3^ 'The Comedy of E r n o r $u 

Luc, Ne'er may I look on day, nor deep on QigiUf ' 
But (he tells to your Hi^bnefs fimple truth ! 

Jng. O perjarM woman ! they are both forfwor^ 
In this the madman juftly char^eth them. 

£ Ant. MyLiege, I am advifed, what \ fay. 
Neither di(lurb*d with the ciTeft of wine. 
Nor, heady-rafhy provok*d with raging ire ; 
Albeit my wrongs might make one wifer mad. 
This woman lock'd me oot this day from dinner ; 
That goldfmith there, were he not pack'd with hef». 
Could witnefs it ; for he was with me then, 
Who parted with me to go fetch a chain, 
Prom i (in g to bring it to the Porcupine^ 
Where Baltbazar and I did dine together. 
Our dinner done, and he not coming thither, 
I went to (eek him ; in the (Ireet I met him« 
And in his company that gentleman. 
There did this perjur'd goldfmith fwear me dowB# 
That 1 this day from him ri&ceiv*d the chain ; 
M^hich; God he knows, Ifawnot; for the wbichj 
He did arr^ft me with an oificer. 
I did obey, and fent my peafant home 
For certain ducats ; he with none retorn'd. 
Then fairly I befpoke the officer, 
Tq go in perfon with me to my hou(e. 
By th' way we met my wife, her fitter, and 
^ rabble iqore of vile confederates ; 
They brought one PiHch^ a hungry lean-fac*d Vilify 
A mere anatomy, a mountebank, 
A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller, 
A needy, hollow*ey'd, (harprlooking wretch, 
A living dead man. This pernicious ilavje, 
Forfooith, tpok on him as a conjurer; 
AnAf gazing in my eyes,: feeling my pulfe, 
^nd with no-face, as 'twere, cut-f^ng; me. 
Cries out, I was poflTeft. Then all together 
Thfry fell upon me, bound me, bore me thenceif^ 
And in a darjc and fianki(h vault at home 
There left me and my man, both bound together $ 

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The Gofnfcdy of E r n o r 8. ijj^ 

nfl, gtiawing with my teeth my bonds afundef, 
gained my freedom, and immediately 
Un hitherto your Grace; whom I befeech 
To give me ample fatisfadion 
?or cheie deep ihames and great indignities. 

^ftg. My Lord, in truth, thus far I witnefs with him j 
THat he ditiM not at home, but was lock'd out. 

2>tfir. But had he fuch a chain of thee, or no? 

jif^. He had, my Lord ; and when he ran in herei 
Thefe people faw the chain about his neck. 

]\Ier. Befides, I will be fworn, thefe ears of mine 
ff eard you confefs, you had the chain of him, 
Ifter you firft forfwore it on the mart ; 
\nd thereupon I dreW my fword on you ; 
\nd then you fled into this abbey here, 
^rom whence, I think, you're come by miracle* 

E. Jnt. I never came within thefe abbey-walls^ 
^Tor ever didft thou draw thy fword on me ; 
[ never faw the chain, fo help me heav'n ! 
f^nd this is falfe, you burden me withal. 

Duke. Why, what ai^ intricate impeach is this ? 
[ think, you all have'drunk of C/r^'s cup : 
[f here you hous'd him, here he would have been | 
tf he were mad, he would not plead ib coldly : 
you fay, he dinM at home ; the goldfmith here 
Denies that faying. Sirrah, what fay you ? 

E, Dro Sir, he din'd with her there, at the Por^pittii, 

Cour. He did, and from my fipger fnatch'd that ring. 

E, Jnt. 'Tfa true, tiiy Liege, this ring I had of hen 

Duke^ SaW'ft thou hiih enter at the abbey .here ? ^ 

Cour. A% furc, my Lfege, as I do fee your Grace. 

Duke. Why, this'is fli'angc; go^all the Abbefs hithel"; 
I think, yott are all mated, or Hark mad. 

[Exit oni t$ the Abbefu 

JEgtdtt, Mod mighty D tike, vouch fafe ine ipeak a word I 
Haply I fee a friend wiH fave my life ; 
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JS^ejM, Is not yottr.nanK, Sir» cMA jtrU^bcBi f 
And IS not that your hovkd-tmn Dromio F j 

£. Dro. Within this hour I was his bond-man, Suv 
But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords ; 
Now am I Dromio^ and his man unbound. 

j^geon* i am fure, you both of you remember mei 

E, Dro, Ourfclves we do remember ^ Sir, by you y 
Fpr lately we were bound> as you are now* 
Vou are not Pinci?'s patient, are you. Sir ? 

^ge» Why look you ftrangeon me i you know toe wdli 

Jf. Jnt. I never fawyou in my life, 'tUl now. 

jEg, Oh t grief hath chang'd me,. Ance you faw me laft j 
And careful hours with time's deformed hand 
Have written flrange defeatnres in my face ; 
'But tell me yet, doll thou not know n^y voice I 

E. Ant. Neither. 

^g€on. Dromhi nor thou ? 

E.uro. No, trttftme. Sir, nor !• 

j^geon* I am fure, thou doft* 

E. Dro. I, Sir f but I am fui^e, I do &ot ; and what& 
ever a man denies, yoaare now bound to belkve'him. 

jEgecn. Not know my voice i oh, time's extremlQ^i 
Haft fhon fo crack'd and fplitted my poor tongue 
In feven fhort yeairs, that here my only ton 
Knows npt my feeble key of untun'd cares I 
.Tho' now this grained face of mine be hid 
\tk fap-xum Aiming winter^s drilled fnow. 
And all the cqqSuus pf my blood froze up $ 
Vet hath ffky night, of life fonrie^ n^emoxy $ 
My wa&iiig lamp fqme fading gltmmef left, 
My-dMlldeafesirs a Hnle ufe tohear.; j 

; All tjie(e q)4 witheflefs, I. cannot err» ;> . 
Tell me thou.artiny fon j<»/#>ic/?4. 

£. Jnt. I never few my father in rtry life. 
, JEgton^ But ffeyen years 4lnc«, in Sy^rat^vfit^h9y^ 
Thou know'/t, we parked ; but, perhaps, my fi>t)^ 
Thou iham'ft t'a^lmoiivl^dge me^in |i>i{efyv ; . \ 

E..'4?^.iT\if^}x\t^,^ypXU^^ 
X^an witnefs with me that it li not u) : " 

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t ne'er faw Sytaoi/a \n toy lift. 

Duke. I tell thee, Sjracu/an^ twenty yeart 
Have I been patron to Antiphoth, 
Daring which time he ne'er faw ^yraeujk : 
I fee, thy age and dangers make thte dote% 

Enttr the Abhefi^ Hviii Antlphplis SyracuTiUii tfi^Dromio 
Syracufan. 

. Jit. Moil aughty Duke, behold a m^ ttiach wiong'd* 

[AU^aibertofitbim.^ 

Adr^ liee two htrfbands, or mine eyes diocdvt joie. 

Duke^ One of theie 4iien is Qn'mi to the Otster 4 
And fo of thefe which is the natural iiian» 
And whkhi the f|^t ? whd dociphers theok ? 

S. Dro. if Stf 9 am Dr4fm9 ; comitiaiid htm awafw 

£. Dro.^lf $11*9 tLmD/^0iic; vrajf let me ftay. 

S. Ant. JEgt^H^ artthoo not I or elfe hta gho^^ 

f . Z>ro. O, my old Rafter I who hath bonnd him here f 

Ahh.' Whoever bound him, t will lo^ hisLbcmik > 
And gain a husband l^ hSs liberty* 
S peak, old JE^n^ it thou ibe^ft the man, ^ 
^hat hadfl a wife once callM JSndMa^ 
That bore thee at a burden two ^iv fona f 
Oh, if thon be'ft the fame^ =i^|w«, fpeak ; 
And fpeak Unto the fame ^mili»*. 

Dtfk^ Why^ here begins his morning ftory f%htt 
Thefe two ^»//>MirV'fi, thefe two fo lito, ,,._^ 

And thofe two Dromh% one in (embSance | 
Befides her oj^ng of her wreck at feay . 
Thefe plainly are the patents to thefe children^ 
Whkh icfefdientty ak^ lAet together^ 

jSgewt. If I d^ftam not» thoa art J^thiUtt % 
If th6a iirt ihc> tell me where i» that fon . . . 
That floated ^with* thee on the. fatal raft 

Abb, By men of EpidamnUm^ he and I| 
A-nd.the Mmti^toi^o^ aU Were taken np jf 
But, by and by, rude fifhermen of Cbri««& V 

By force took^^iiwfd ^nd n»y fon from daenif 
And me they l«ft« Wilh^diQft4>f s&/^<iSM»»^ t; .. .. ^ 

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the Comedjr of Ea it ojr.|; 

hen became of them, I caanot tell; 
ds fortune that you fee me in. 
. JntipboliSf thou cam'ft from Corinthrittk. 
*/. No, Sir, not I ; I came from Sjracufe. 
• Suy, ftand apart ; I know not, which is whicL 
W/. I came from Corinth, my moft gracious Lord. 
ro. And I with him. 

nt. Brought to this town by that moft famoas war- 
4imaphoUf your moft renowned uncle. [lio^ 

Which pf you two did dine with me to>day } 
I/. I, gentle miftrefs. 
And are not you my hniband f 
or/. No, I fay najf to that. 
If. And fo do J, yet ihe did call me ib^ 
is fair gentlewoman, her fifter here, 
1 me brother. What I told you theoy 
I fliall hare leifure to make good» 
be not a dream, I fee and hear. 
That is the chain. Sir, which you had of flifi 
./. I think it be. Sir, I deny it not. 
v/. And you. Sir, for this chain arretted mc» 
I think I did, Sir ; I deny it not. 
I fent you money. Sir, to be your bail, 
mot but, I think, he brought it not. 
r0. No, none by me. 

rr. Thispurfe of ducats I receiv'd from yOOi 
omio my man did bring them me ; 
re ftill did meet each other's man, , 

fzs ta'en for him, and he for me, 
»%npott thefe errors all aroie. 
ft, Thefe ducats pawn I for mv father here. 
It Aall not need, thy father hath his life. 
Sir, I muft have that diamond from; von* 
f . There, take it ; and much thanka for mj 
rood cheer. 

Renowned Duke, vouchfafe to take the pains 
dth ns into the abbey here, 
r at Urge difcoqried all our fortunes i 
tha( art ail^mblcd ia thi$ place^ 

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The Comedy of £ it r o k^s. 241 

JTitt by ^ fymj^thitcd one day V error 
Have fuflFcr*d wrong ; go, keep us company, ' / 

And ye ihall have full fatisfa^tion.^ 
Twenty- five years havel bnt gone in travel ft 2) 
Of you, my fons ; nor, *tiU tnis prefent hour» 
My heavy burdens are delivered : 
The Duke, my htifband, and my children both, . 
And yott the calendars of their nativity. 
Go to a goflip's feaft and'go with 'me ; 
After fo long grief fueh nativity ! 
Duh. With all my heart, I'll gofBp at this feaft. {Ejch. 

Mamnt tbi t^o Antipholis'j and two Dromio'/. 

S. Dro. Mailer, ihall I fetch yoar ftuffTrom (hip-boarcl f 
E. Jnt, Dromht what fbiff of mine haft thou embark'd ? 
5. Dro. Vour goods, that lay at hod, Sir, in the CiKtmur^ 
S. Jnt. He fj>caks to rac ; i am your matter, Dromio, 

Come, go with'nS) we'll look to that anon \ 

Embrace thy brother there, rejoice with him. 

JiExeunt Antipholis S. and E. 
^. Dro. There is a fat friend at your matter's hottfe, 

*That kitchetf*d me for yoii to-day at dinner: 

She now (hall be my fitter^ a6t my wife, 

(12) Thitty -three j^wr»] 'TkhnpofliUe the poet coirfd tefo for- 
^.fal» z% to^efifin this nnmber here: .apd therefore I have veatac^d 
^o aiter it to twenty 'five, upon a proof, that, I think, amovau to 
^emonftration. The nomber* I prefume, wat at jfirft Wrote in fiearet, 
^fid, pe<baof, Vindly; and ihence the mfftike misht arife. JEge9^^ 
\a the firli S^ne of the firft A^, is precite at to the time hie fon ttfc 
hiai, inqn'ftof his brothers 

Mjyoungeft bay, and yet my eNep earep 
j9t.ti$hxctn years became Utfujjitive • 
After bis brother, &c. 
And how long it was fr-^m ihc f«n% thus partiog from hii father, to 
. their meeting again at £^i^/a(i, ^hitt jSgeon, m\^ktn\j, ieco|niaet 
tte twin-bf other for him ; we as precifeljr learn *from another paO'age 
ia the fifth a£^. 

jEit, But (twen years fifice, fh Syracnfa bay^ 
l^bou know'' fit \ue ptarted'y 
So that thefc t«i^o oombeiS, put together, fettle the date of t^e'r b:r;h 
b vord difpo e. 

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t4t TheCoimdyof E]t&o«(8. 

E. £Vv.Methiiiki»yMiaren)r »U6»«ftdMKiqrl 
I fee by you* I an « iweet-facM jrontb-e 
Will yott walk in to fee their ^npinr i 

S. Dr». N^t I, Sir; yoo've my cUerw 

£. Dro, That's a queltion : 
Howlhanitryicf 

5. Dr^. We'll draw cuts for the (eniorf 
Till then, lead thou £rft« 

£. Dro. Nay, then thm-*^— [£w 

We came into the world, like brotker and hrbthi 
And now kt*l go band in handux^t^Mie bctixt ai 

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LE O N T E S, J&V»^ e/^ Sidlia. 
PoUxenes, King tf Bohemia. 
MamiUius, Ycuag Prince tf Svalxau 
Fiorizel, Prina of Bohtwxk. 
CamillOy 1 

Dion, J 

Another Sicilian Lord. 

Archidainos, a Bohemian Lord* 

RogerOy a Sicilian Cenileman* 

An Attendant #« tbeyen^g Prince Mamillias* 

Vjicert of a Court of Judicature. < 

Vld Shepherd^ refuted Father of Perdiu. 

CIcxvUs his Son* 

A Mariner. 

Coaler, 

Servant to the Old Shepherd. 

Autolici|Sj a Rogui^x 

Time, as Chorus. 

Hermione, !^een to Leontes. 

Petdita, Daughter xo Leontes i^«y HermiOiie. 

Pnulina, Wife to AntigOhus. 

Emilia, Attendant on the ^een^ 

^'wo other Ladies. 



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Satyrs /or a Dante, Shepherds, ^tiepherdeites, tiuarctt/ 
and Attendants. 

I C £ N £| fometimei />r Sa^Uo ; /otmtmes in Bohemia. 

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THE 



WINTER'S TALE. 



A C T L 

SCENE, an Antiehambcr in Leonu/% 
Pal AC E. 

£ff/fr CamtUo, and Archidamus. 

(i) Arch.iDvA m vs. 

IF you (hall chance, Camlht to vifit Bohemia^ on the 
.like occadon whereon my fervices are now on foot ^ 
you (hall fee, as I have (aid, great diffierence be*, 
twixt our Bohemia an4 your Sicilia. 

. Capt» 

(i) Ai chxdAm vt.T This it a charaQer of tbat forf» whirh the 
oK) crrticks have caUM TTpSg-mrcv vfcfattnSt : one entirely ot^t cf the 
a^ion and argument of the Play, and iotrodoc*d only to opta fime* 
I hi (If y neceflaty to be known; previaut to the a^ion of the /j^/r*? 
DoaatuSf in his Preface to Ttrmcit F»it AfiJrUth explaintthif charader 
thus, ftrfona auttm protatica ea inteiiigitmr, qua jimd indmila m Fria^ . 
cipk FahvCg, in nuWs MnceftfaiuU partikH$ udbiUtur^ " By a Fra* 
'« ftff/ci chara£ler wearetouodcrftand fuch^aooey aaia iatroduc'd m 
■< the begionmgy and never after appeara in any part of the fabl^.** ■ 
Sacb it Sofiii in that Comedy of Terence % lock, Dmfut iahiS>P^aua ^ ■■ 
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^\6 The WiNTEJL^S Tav*. 

Cmm. I think, tliis comisiff fitmiMrf the King of 
Sicil/a means to pay B^bemia tibe YiitatidOy wliich he 
jaftly owes him. 

Jrcb. WhereiA our eatertaiAment fiutti fliame us, we 
iv-ill be joftified in oor loves i bt, iiideed»<(i«-<^ * 

Cmh. 'Befeech ymi*— ^ 

Arch. Verily, I fpeak it in the freedom of my know 
ledge ; we cannot with fuck SMgnificence-^in fo rare 
—I know not what to fay — we will give yoo fleepy 
drinks, that yqur fenfes (Unintelligent of our infufHci' 
ence) m«y, tho' they cannot pr^i« as, as Httle zcpxft vls; 
, Cam, Yoa pay a great deal too dear, for what^ given | 
freely. j 

Jrcb. Believe me, I fpeak, as my dnderilanding in* i 
ilmfts me ; and as mine honefty|mts it to Qtteraneif. ' I 

Cam. Sidlia cannot fhew himfelf oVer-kind to Bo* \ 
kemia\ they were train'd together ia their childhoods | 
' and there rooted betwixt them then fnch an afiedlion, 
which cannot chufe but branch now. Since their more 
mature dignities and royal neceffitks made ieparaiioii 
of their foclety, their incountiers^ though not perfonali 
have been royally attornied with enterchange of gifts, 
letters, loving embaffies ; %h%t dUey have feem'd to be\ 
together, the' abfent ; (hook hands, as over a vaflfea; and 
eoibrac'd, as it were from the ends of oppofed winds. 
The heav'ns continue their loves! ■ — 

Jrcb. I think, there is not ill the world either malice, 
tn matter, to alter it. You have an unfpdakable comfort 
of yoor young Prince Mamillius : it is a gentleman of 
the grcatcft prdmife, that ever came into my note. 

Cam. I very well agree with yoo in the hopes of him : 
it is a gallant child ; one, that indeed^ pbyiicks the 
fubjeft, makes old hearts frefli : they, that went ofr 

and Pblktu »Bd Syra^ i& \k\%Motbertn hw. Stifh aft rhe fenrantt of 
the Cupulas za6'M§MtarMt$t in oor author** Romeo tn^ymKet : the two 
fQentlenven, yiho 9^m\\t Cpnhtlht \ the Sea^capnrin, in the fecood 
fceoeof THffelftk'Night i saA (tko* thrown into the mi^Ie of (ha, 
f^y) of the fftrne ntttue are the ^titlcmcn In King Htnry VUI ^ who 
Mte introduced ^If to tnake the n%n4V\\t\ ^^ B^cVwjjie^^ vx^v^. 



The WiHTEii^R Talk. t^j 

cn^tdies» ere he Wn born, dcfire yet dieir life to fee 

him a man* 
j^cb. Wonld they elfe be content to die f 
Cam. Ye$^ ifUktrt W^M no other excufe why they 

ihoa^ defire to live. 
Jrct. If the Kins had no ibn» they wonld defire t* 

Ihre on crutdier *till Be had one. 

SCENE opens to t^e Prefence. 

Bttter Leottieiy ' Ifersnione» Mamillins, Polixenes, «W 
Attendants* 

PoL Nine changes of the watvy ftar hath heen 
The Aepherd^s note, fince we have left our thronO 
Without a burden : time as long again 
Would be fill'd up, my brother, M^ieh our thanks ; 
And yet we (hoold, for perpetuity , 
Go hence in debt : and therefore, like a cypher. 
Yet landing in rich place, I mnUiply 
With one, 'wt thank you^ many thouiands more 
That go before it. 

Leo. Stay your thanks awhile ; 
And pay them, when yon part. 

PeJ^ Sir, that's to-morrow^: 
I'm queilion'd by my fears, ol^ what may chance. 
Or breed upon our abfence, that may blow 
No fneaping winds at home, to make ns fay, 
«* This is put forth too truly." Befidcs, 1 have flayed 
To tire your royalty. 

Le§. We are tougher, brother. 
Than you can put us to't. 

Fol. No longer ftay. 

Leo. One fev'n-night longer, 

Pol. Very footh, to-morrow. 
- Leo* We'll part the time between's then : and in that» 
I'll rm gain-iaying* 

Pd. Prefs ae not, 'bcfeech yo«, ft> 5 ^ 
There is no tongue that moves, none^ none i'th' worlds 
So foon as yoors, cooM win me : fo k ^om\4 ikO\)^ 
Wen there ntceBty in your reaueft, ilLxW 

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24S The Winter's TAtB. 

Twere aeedful I deny'd it. My affairs 

Do even drag me homeward ; which ta hinder. 

Were, in your love, a whip to me ; my £tay. 

To. you a charge and trouble : to fare poth» 

Farewel, our brother. i^ 

Leo. Tongue-ty'd, oor Qoeen ? fpeak you. ^^ 

^ Her. I had thought, Sir, to've held my peace, until 
You 'ad drawn oaths from him not to ftay : you. Sir, 
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are fure» 
All in Bohema^s well : this fatisfadion 
'X-hp by -gone day prodaim'd ; iay this to him» 
He's beat from his beft ward. 

Leo, Well faid, Hermione. 

Her. To tell, he longs to fee his (on, were flrong^ 
But let him fay fo then, and let him go ; 
Eut let him fwear fO| and he ihall not ftay ; 
We'll thwack him hence with diftafFs. 
Yet of ypur royal prefence iMl adventure [To PoKxeoes. 
The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia, 
You take roy Lord, I'll give him my commifiion. 
To let him there a month, behind the geft (2) 
Prefix'd for*s parting : yet, (good deed) Leontes^ 
J love thee not a jar o'th' clock behind 
What Lady (he her Lord. You'll ftay ? 

PcL Ko, madam. 

Her. Nay, but you will, 

Pol. I may not, verily. 

Her, Verily? 
You put me off with limber vows ; but I, 
Tho' you would feek t'unfphere the (lars with oaths, 

(») behind the geft "• 

Prefcrih^dfor^t parting:] I hart not TeotuiM to alter thfe text, 
tV.Oi*, I fiedy ovrn, I can ntiiitt trace, nor undeiiltnd, the phr«(e« 
I haYC fufpeAed, that the poet wrote ; 
behind tb$]vA 
PrefcrWd /or*t parting, ^ 

i.e. the joi^, precife, time; the inftant; (where time U likewHe 
underftood) by an ElBpJStfttSti'A to all tongues. It is familUr with 
ii| to Tay, 77/ dofucb a thing jail nnv. Ami in the fame manner the 
French ufe ilitu ^jtth jufitmtMt (toipll tempore} pnafiment, s pcint 
aemme. 

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Should yet &y, ** ,Sir, no joing i 'verify^ 

*' Yoa 4>all not^o;'' a Lady's virify is 

As potent as a Lord's. Will yoa go, yet ? 

Force me to keep yoa as a prifoo^r. 

Not like a gueft ? fo yoo ihall pay your fees» 

When yoa depart, and iave your thanks. How fay yon ? 

My prifoner ? or my ff ueft f by your dread "jehiy^ 

One of them yoo fhafl be. . 

FoL Your giieft then» madam : 
To be your prifoner, iboald import offending ; 
Which is for me lefs eafy to commit. 
Than you to paniih. 

Her. Not your goaler dien. 
But your kind houefs ; come, FIl queiHon yon 
Of my Lord's tricks, and yours, when. yoo were boys : 
You were pretty lordings then ? 

Pol. We were, fair Qgeen, 
Two Iads> that thought there was no move behind^ 
But fuch a day to-morrow as to*day, 
i^nd to be boy eternal. 

Her. Was not my Lord 
The verier wag o'th* two ? 

Pel. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did friiL i'th' fun* 
And bleat the one s^t th' other : what wechang'd. 
Was innocence f^y^nnocence ; we knew not . 
The dodrine of iflPdoing ; no, nor dream'd. 
That any did : had we purfu'd that life, • i ) 

And bar weak fpjrhs ne'er been higher rear'd 
With ftronger blood, we ihoold have anfwer'd heaven 
Boldly, Nof guUiy ; th' impo&tion clear'd (3), 
Hereditary ours. 

Her, By this we gather^ 
You have tript iince. t 

PoL O my moft facred Lady, 
Temptations have fince then been bom to's : for 

HeretBtdiy Mrn.] i. e. fetting afide orighuljin : bating thtt im- 
^ofition from the offence of our firft parents, we mighC have b<>i6lf 
yfotrfted ovr innocence to heaven, •gitioft anj guilt committed if 
fiiifelTet» . . 

Ls la 



I 



aso The WijimiiV iTAtt. 

In tiofk onAcdff'd days was my wife a girl ; 
Yoor precious felf had then net crofted (he eyet 
Of ny young pky^ftllow. 

Hir. 'Grace to boot !—— 
Of this make no oonclQiion» left yoo fay» 
Yoor Queen and I are devils. Yet, go on ;^— -«» 
Th* offipnces we hare made yotr do, we'll anfwer i 
]f you firft finn'd with us, and that with us 
You did continue fault | and that you flipk noty 
Whh^uiy b«t with us. 

Li0. Is he wonyec? 

JJer. He'll (lay, ray Lord. 

Lio. At my reqoeft he would not : 
Hgrmic/iit mydeartft, thou ne'er ipok'ft 
Ti) better piirpofc. 

Hir. Never? 

Li$. Never, but once. 

Her. What? have I twice (hid well ? when was't before ? 
I pr*ythee, tell me$ cran's with prufe, and make's 
As fat as tame things : one ^ood deed, dying tongoelefii 
slaughters a thoufand, waiun^ upon that. 
Our praifes are our wages. You qiay ride's 
With one (oft kifs a thoufand furlongs, ere 
^yith fvwr we heat an acre. But to th' gaol : 
Mv latt good deed was tolntreat his ftay ; 
"Wliat was my fitter? it has an elder filler. 
Or 1 miftake you ; O, would her name were Grace / . 
Sttt once before I fpake to th' purpofe ! when ? 
May, let me hav't ; 1 long. 

i#». Why». that was when 

JHree crabbed months had fower'd themfelves to death, 
re I could make thee open thy white hand. 
And clepe thy felf my love j then didft thon utter^ 
. •• I am yours forever/' 
Her. Tis grace, indeed.- 
Why, lo you now j I've fpoke to tV purpofe twke ; 
The one for ever earn'd a royal hufband ; 
Th' other, for fomc vlrhllea friend, 

liQ. Too hot, too hot— •^— [jf/Uf* 

To mingle iricAdfliip far, is mingling bloods.- 

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The Wii^TBR^s Tali* 251 

f have trm^r tf^ on ne-^-^my heart dances ; 
Buc not for joy— — «ttpt jojr.--—— This entertainmcftt 
May a free face pat on ; derive a liberty 
From heartine(s, from bounty^ fertile bofom, 
Aod well become the agent : 't may, I grant ; 
But to be padling palms, and pinching fii^ers^ 
As now they are» andmakinp pradis'd fmiles, ' 
As in alooking-g^afs— r^and tiien to figh, as 'twete 
The mort o' tn' deer (4) \ oh» thatis-estertainmeac \ 
My bofom likc9 not, nor my hrows^^-'^MiitifiJI^ut^ 
Art thou my boy f 

Mam. Ay, my good Lord« f 

Lion. r fecks! 
Why, that's my bawcock; what? haft fmutchM thy nofe^ 
They favy it is a copy out of miner Come, caputuin > 
We man be neat ; not neat» but cleanly, captain ; 
And yet the fteer, the heifer, and the calf* 
Are all caird XTAI* Still vlrginalling -; ' 

[Ol/er*vw£ Polij^enes ^WHermlone. 
Upon his palm ?— — *how now^ yon wanton calf 1 r 
Art thou my calf? 

Mam. Yes, if you wilt, my Lord. 

Leo. Thou want'ft a rough pafti, and the (hoots that I 
To be full like me. Yet Uiey (ay, we are [have, 

Almoft as like as eggs; women (ay fo^ \ ' . - -.K 
That will fay any tmng;— but were they falie, , r 
As o'er-dy'd blacks, as winds, as waters ; falfe > 
As dice are to be wiib'd, by one that fixes 
No bourne 'twixt his and mine ; yet were it tru^ > 
To fay, this boy were like me. Come, Sir page^ 
Look on me with your welkin -eye, fweet villain. 
Moft dear'ft, ray collop— -can thy dam ? — may*t be— 
Imagination! thou doftftab to th* center. 
Thou doft make pofHble things not be fo held, 

Communicat'ft with dreams (how can this b* ?) ^ 

With what's unreal, thou coa£live art, , , - 

And feilow'H nothing. Then *ti8 very credent, 

(4) The mort 0* tb' deer J] To blow a mort, is a.hunting phrafe, (tg- 
jiifying, to found a particular air, call*d a imr/, to give notice thai t.hc 
4ittt, which wnlittnted, isrondown, and killing, or kiilM. 

L 6 Thou 



252 The Winter's Tale. 

Thou may'ft co-join with iomethinff» and thou doft^ 
And that beyond cbmmiffion ; andl find it. 
And that to the infedion of my brains. 
And hardning of my brows. 
Pol. What means Sicilia ? 
Her, He fome thing feems nnlettled. 
Pol. How? my Lord? 

Leo. What cheer ? how is't with you, bcft brotherl 
Tier. Yon look. 
As tf yoB held a brow of much difhudion. 
Are not yoo mov'd, my Lord ? 

Leo. No, in good eameft. 
How fometimes nature will betray its fplly ! 
' Its tendemcfs ! and naake itfelf a padime 
To harder bofoms 1 looking on the lines 
Of my boy ^8 face, methonghts, I did recoil 
Twenty-three years, andfaw myfelfiinbreech'dy 
la-my green velret coat ; my dagger muzzled. 
Left it mould bite its mailer ; and fo prove. 
As ornaments oft do, too dangerous ; 
How like, methought,.! then was to this kernel. 
This fquaih, this gentleman. Mine honeft fxiend> 
WiU yon take eggs for money ? 
Mam. No, my Lord, I'll fight. 
Ze«. You will ! why, happy man bc*s dole.-— My brother* 
Are vou fq fond of your young Prince, as we 
Do ieem to be of ours ? 
Pol. If at home. Sir, 
He's all my exercifi?, my mirth, my matter; 
Now my fworn friend, and then mine enemy ; 
My parafite, my fbldier, ftates-man, all; 
*Hc makes a Jul/t day ftiort as Bnemher^ 
And with his varying childnefs, cures ia me 
Thoughts that Ihoiild thick my blood. 

Leo. So (lands this Squire '' 
Ofiic'd with me ; we two wiH wafk, my Lor<f> 
And leave yoo to your graver fteps. Hermlone^ 
How thou lov'ft us, Okw in our brother's welcome x 
Let what is dear in Sidlj^ be cheap i 
Next to thyfelf, and my young rover, he'» 

Appara 



The Winter's -TitLt. 253 

Jkpparemt to my heart. 

^^r. If you will leek us, 
Wt are yours iUh' garden : ^alHs. attend you thf re ? 

Leo. To your own bents difpoife yon ; you'll be founds 
Be you beneaD|^the iky : I am angling now» 
Tho* you perceive me not, how I give Unej , 
Go to, go to. \Afi^ tihftr<v%ng Hen 

How (he holds up (he i^eb ! ' the bill to him I 
And^arms her witH*the boldnefs of a wife « 

. \Ext^ Polix. Her. and Att^ndanij. ' Mtuent Lea* 
Mam', and Cam. 
To her allowing hufband. Gonc*a)ready, 
Inch thick, knee deep ; o'er head and ears, a fork'done» 

Go, play, boy, play-r thy mother plajrf, and I 

Play too ; bat fo di^l'ae'd a part, whofe iiTue 
Will hifs me to my grave : contempt and clamour 
Will be my knel. Go^ play, boy, play— 'there have been» 
Or I ami much deceiv'd, cuckolds eve now ; 
And many a man there is, even at this pre(ent» 
Now while I fpeak this, holds his wife oy th' artat 
-That little thinks fhe has been fluic'd in's aibfence ; 
And his pond fifli'd by his next neighbour, by. 
S'lrSmiU, hb neighbour: nay, there's comfort in'^ 
Whiles other men have gates ; and thofe gates open'd^ . 
As mine> againft their will. Should all oefpair. 
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind . 
Would han? themfelves. Phyfick for't/ there is none 1 
It is a bawdy planet, that will ftrike 
Where 'tis predominant ; and 'tis powerful : think it» 
From eaft, weft, north and fouth, be it concludcdy 
No barricado for a belly. Know't, 
It will let in and out the enemy, 
With bag and baggage : many a thou&nd of ^f 
Have the di(eafe, and feel't not. HownoWyboy? 
Mam, I am like you, they fay. 
Leo, Why that's fome comfort* 
What, Ctfw/7/« there? 

Cam* Ay, my good Lord. 

Leo. Go play, Afieus»7Zf«j«"f-»thoa']rt aa honefl matf r 

{E^ckUunii. 
Camilbf 



ft54 The WntTBuV TxtT. 

CamiOo, this mat Sir will yet lliy loiiger. 

Cmm, You had much ado to make hts anchor hoTd^ 
When you caft oat, it Sill cpie Immd^ 

Li§. Didftnoteitl 

(um. He wottld not ftay aC yovr pctiAiif iDade|r 
Hit bofittcfs more matenai. i 

Lm. I>idft|>crcehre&l ' 

They're here with me already ; whii^Mng, toonling: 
ticiiim is a ib-fotth i *tis ht gp«e. 
When I iidl gitft it htt. Bow came% Cmm9$, 
That he did lUy? 

Cam. At thegoodQneea'ieAtreatr. 
• Li9. At the (j^een's be^ i^ good* mould be pcrtiaentf 
But fo it i8» It is not. Wat this taken 
By any underibuidiag-pate Init thine ? 
For thy concdt is foaking, will draw in 
^More than the common blocks ; not noted, is^t» 
Btit of the finer natnresf by fome feverals 
Of head*piece extraordinary ; lower mefTes, 
Perchance, are to this bttlinefs pnrblind ? fay. 

Cam. Bafinefs, my Lord f I think, moft underftand 
B0bima ftays-hcre longer. 

Z#f. Ha? 

Cmv. Stays here longer; 

Lio. Ayi botwhy? 

Cami To fttisf^ yonr Htghneis, and th* latreaties 
Of our moft graciom miftreis. 

Lio. Satisfy 
Th* in treaties of yonrmiftrefs ? latisfy ?— -* 
Let that fuffice. Tre xmfLt^ thee, CamilU, 
With all the things neareft my^ heart ; as well 
My chamber-coupdls, wherein, prieft like, thoa 
Hail cleansM by bofom : I from thee departed 
Thy penitent reformed ; but we have been 
Deceiv'd in thy integrity ; deceived 
In that, which feems fb. 

Cam, Be it forbid,, my Lprd . ■ ■ 

Lfo. To bide upon't;— Then art not honeil ; or, * 
If thou incjin*fl that way, then art a coward; 
Which boxes honeily behind^ retraining 

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The WtNTER^s TALf» 255^ 

l^om conrfe itqatrM : or elfe thoa moft be counted 

A ienrast |;rafted in my ferious truft, 

And therein negligent ; or elk a fool. 

That feeft a game plaid home, the rich ftake drawn^ 

Anduk'ftitallibrjeft. 

Cam. My ^racionv Lord, 
I may be negligent, fbofifh and fearful (5) | 
In every one of thefe no man is free, 
Bot that hts negligence, his folly, fear, 
Amoneft the infinite doings of the world. 
Sometime pots forth. Jn your affairs, my Lord« 
If ever I were wilfhl negligent. 
It was my folly ; if indnilnonfly 
I play'd the fool, it was my negligence. 
Not weighing well the end ; if ever fearfn) 
To do a thing, where I the iflae doubted. 
Whereof the execution did cry out ^ 

Againft the non-peiformance, 'twa^-a fear 
Which oft infers the wifeft : thefe, my Lord, 
Are fuch allow'd infirmities, that honefty 
Is never free of. But, bcfeech your Grace, 
Be plainer with me, let me know my trefpafi 
By Its own vifage ; if I then deny it, 
^is no»t of mine. 

Le9. Ha^BOt you feen, Camillo, 
(But that's paft doubt, you have; or your ere^gTafs 
Is thicker than a cuckold's horn ;) or heard, 

iFor a vifion fb apparent, rumour 
Cannot be mntr;} or thoueht, (for cogitation 
Refides not in that man, that do's not think k;) 

(5} / M>9 ^« mgHitnt, fooR/h» and fidrful y 

Jn imety omtj^ tbifi no man itfrt§y 

But tb4Uhh nefiBiemee, biiJhUjf, fear^ 

Amwgfi tbt infnite driagi of the world 

Sttdtttmit putt forth tn your aflFatts, my Lord,'] Moft accurate 
Mintiaii thii, an4 fine nonfeafe the reCult of it ! -The tA6fifio*t firft 
Uttoder*4 that, an4 Mr. Rcwe by inadvertence (if he read the flieeta; 
at all,) overlook*d the fault. Mr. Pefff like a moft obfe^uiona 
editor, hat t^kea the ptiTage on content, and purfued the track of 
iop'ditjr. I dare fay, every nndcrftaading reader will allow, my re- 
liormatioii of the poiatiof ha$ entirely retritv*d the place frosa oh* 
ftvsiiji and r(coacii*4 it ip the atithot*t meaning. 



%^$ The Wwf TXji'sjT'A h^v 

My wife is flippcry?.if titoa wilt, coAfefpi : r - 
(Or elfe be impudently negative^ i :, 

To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought,) then fay 9 
My wife's a hobby- horfe, deferves a name 
As rank as any flax-wench, that puts to 
Before her trdth-plight : fay*ti and juflify't^ 

Cam. I wonld not be a ftander-by, to hear , 
My ibrereign Miilrefs clouded fo» without 
My prefent vengeance taken ; 'ilirew my hearty 
You never fpoke what did become you leis 
Than this ; which to reiterate, were fin : 
As deep as that, tho' true. 

Leo, Is whifpering nothing ? ■ 

Is leaning cheek to cheek ? is meating nofes ? 
Kiffing with infide lip ? (lopping the career 
Of laughter with a figh ? (a note infallible , '^ .. < 
Of breaking honefty :) hordng foot on foot ? 
Skulking in corners ? wifiiing clocks mose fwift? \ 
Hours, minutes? the noon,^ midnis;ht» and all eyes 
Blind with the pin and web^ but theirs ; theirs only, . 
That would, un(een, be wicked? is this nothing? 
Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; 

Sbe covering iky is nothing, Bohmza nothing ; ^ y 
y wife is nothing'; nor nothing have thefe nothingt* 
If this be nothing. 

Cam. Good my Lord, . be cur'd 
Of this difeas'd opinion^ and betimes; 
For 'tis moil dangerous. 

Le^. Say it be, 'tis true. 

Cam. No, no, my Lord. 

Leo. It is ; you lye, you lye : 
I fay, thou lied, OetmiUo^ and I hate thee ; 
Pronounce thee a grofs lowt, a mindlefs flave> 
Or elfe a hovering temporizer, that 
CanH with thine eyes at once fee good and evi!» 
Inclining to them both r were my wrfc*s liver 
Infefled, as her life, (he would not live 
The running of one glafs. 

Cam. Who do's iofeft her ? 

lei. Why he, that wears hef like his medal, hanging 

About 



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The WlNTBU's TAL2i «57 

About bis neck; Soiimiaf'-^yfho, if I 

Hsid fervants true abont me, that bare eyes 

To fee alike tffine honoar, as their profits. 

Their own particular thrifts^ they would do that 

^hich flioujld undo more doing :, I, and thou 

His tup-bearfer, (whom I from meaner form 

Have benchMy and rear'd to worihip ; who may'H fee 

Plainly, as heav'n fees earth, and earth kts heav'n* 

How I am ^ll'd ;) thou might'ft be-fpice a cnp> 

To give mine enemy a laftmg wink ; 

Which draught to me were cordial. 

Cam. Sir, my Lord, 
I could do this, and that with no rafh potion. 
But with a lingrinig dram, that (hould not workt 
Malicioufly, like poifon : but I cannot (6) 
Selieve this crack to be jn my dread miftrefi. 
So fovereignly being honourable. 

LecVve lov'd thee. Make't thyque{lion,aBdgqrotl 

Do'ft think, I am fo muddy, fo unfectled. 
To appoint myfelf in this vexation ? Siilly 
The purity and whitenefs of my iheets, 
(Which to prefcrve, is fleep ; t^hich being fpotted, 
Is^oads, thorns', nettles, tails of wafps:) 
Give fcandal to the blood o'th' Prince, my fon, 
Who 1 do think, is mine, and love as mine, 

(6) — — iar//^M«0# 

Believe' this crack to he m my dread mtftrefs^ 
Sofivertigmj^ tehg h^umntiU, 
I haye lovM thet.— — 
Leo. Make that tbj ftte/licm and go rof,] This paflag^ «i»ts ytry 
[$nle weighiog, to determine iafely upon it, that the laft Kemiftich 
aiiign*<i to Camlh, mufV have been miftakenly placed to him. It is ^ 
ftrange inftance or difre fpeft and iorolence in Camillo to his king and 
matter, to tell him that be has once Iov*d him.— —But fenfe and 
realbn will eaBljr acquit our Poet from focb ao impropriety. I have 
ventttt'd at a tranfpofition, which ftems felf-evidenf. Csmtlh will 
not be perfuaded into a Tufpicion of the difloyalty imputed to hismxf* 
trefa. The King, who beireves nothing but his jealoofy, provok*4 
that Cam'ilh is (o obflinatelv diffident, finely ftart* into a rage and criei \ 

r%;e /(pvV tbee. Makit thy queflion, snd go r9t, i.e. I hav* 

CenderM thee we!l, Camillo, but I here cancel aO former refpe^ at 
once. If thou any longer make a quefiion of my wife's difloyalty ) 
go from my prefence, and pciditioa overtake thee for thy ftobboranf fs. 

WithavA- 



«58 The WiKTik^i Tale. 

Withont ripe moving to't? would 1 4o this ? 
Could man fo blench f 

Cam. I moft believe you. Sir ; 
I do, and will fetch off Bobimm forH t 
Provided, that, when he's removM» your Kigkneft 
Will take again yOnr Qoeen, as yours at firfi. 
Even for your fen's fake, and thereby for (baling 
The injary of tongues, ia courts ana kingdoms 
Known ana allv'd to yours. 

Li0. Thou doil advtfe me. 
Even (o as I mine own conrft have fet down : 
ril give no blemiih to her hoaoor> none. 

Cam. My Lord, 
Go then ; and with a countenance as clear 
As friendihipi wears at feafts, keep with Bp^mia, 
And with ybar Qaeen : I am his cap- bearer ; 
If from me he have wholelbme beveiidge^ 
Account roe not your fervant. 

Leo. This is all ; 
Do*t, and thou ha|l the one half of my B^art ; 
Do't not, thou fplit'ft thine own* 

Cam. ril do't, my Lord* 

Im. I will feem friendly, as thou hM& advis*d me. [Exih 

Cam. O miferable Lady ! but for me, 
What cafe ftand I in ? I muli be the poifoncr 
Of good PolixeMess and my ground to do't 
Is the obedience to a mafler; one. 
Who, in rebellion with himfelf, will have 
All that are his, fo too. To do this deed. 
Promotion follows. If I could find example 
Of tiiottfands, that had Urnck anointed KingSt 
And fiourifh'd after, I'd not.do't : but fince 
Nor brafs, nof ftone, nor parchment, bears not one ; 
Let villainy itfelf fqrfweart. I mut 
Forfake the court ; to do't, or no, is certain 
To me a break-neck. Happy ftar, reign now ! 
Here, conies Bohemia. 



Enter Polixencs. 
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The Winter's Talb. 259 

My iiYOur hen bej^ns tj» warp. Not 4peak ? 
Good daft CamilU. 

Cam. Hail, moft royal Sifl 

Poi. Wi^Nt is the pews iW court? 

Cam* miie rare, my Juord* 

PoL The King hath on him.Aidi a coim t cn a ftc e ». 
As he had loft fome |>roviiice, apd a it^on 
LovMy as he loves lumfeif: ^eo now I met him 
With cuftomary compliment, when hs» 
Wafting his eves to th* contrary, and falling 
A lip. of mnch, ccHHfmpt, .4>t^s from^ me 9 and 
So leaves me to confider wha^ ifi breeding. 
That changes thus his manners. 

Cam. I dare apt knowi my Lord. < 

PoL How, dare not ? do not ? dp you know, and d^r^not I 
Be intelligent to me, 'tii thereabonu : 
For to yourfelf, what you do know, yon mnft, 
And cannot fay, you dare notf Good CamiUot 
Your changed complexions are to me a mirror. 
Which ihews me nvipe chg^d too ; for I mull bt 
;^ party in this aiteration, finding 
Myfelf thus alterM with ijt. ; 

Cam. There is a ficknefs 
Which puts<fome of »s in difiemptfr ; l>at 
I cannot name the difeafe, and it is caught 
Of you that yet are well. 

PoL How caught of me ? 
Make me not £ghtc^ like the bafilifti. 
Xve look*d on thoufands, who have fped the better 
By my regard, but kilPd none £o i Camilla, 
As you are certainly a gentleman, . * 

Clerk-like experienc'd, (whi^h no leii adorns 
Our gentry, than our parents' noble names, « 

In whole fuccefs we ^m gtntle ;) I befetch you. 
If you know ought, which does behove my knowledge 
Thereof to be informed, . imprifon't not 
In ignorant concealment. 

Cam, I may not anfwer.^ 

Pol A ficknefs caught of me, and yet I well ? 
][ muft be anfwer'd. Doftthouhear, Camilbt 



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«6o The W I N T E R*S Ifi^A Jt s^ 

I conjare thee by all the parts of many - 

Which honour does «cknowled£ey (whereof tie leaft 

Is not this foit of mine,) that tnou declare. 

What incidency thou doft ^nefs of harm ' 

Is creeping towards mt$ howfar oif, how nita*! . 

Which way to be prevented, if it be ; 

If not,* how beft to bear it*' 

Cam. Sir, llltellybu, » 
Since I charged in honour, and by him 
That I think honourable; therefore, m^Trlc my coonlci} 
Which mufl be ev/n as fwiftly followed, as 
I tnean to utter it ; or b^ ynourfelf and mo 
Cry loft, and fo good night. 

Pfii. On, good CarniUo. 

Cam. I am appointed him to murd^ you* 
' Pol. By whom, Camillof 

Cam. uy the King. , 

Pof. For what? ^ 

Cam. He thinks, nay, with all confidence he fwearti 
As he had feen't, or been an inftmment 
To vic^ yon lo^t,' that you have toncht his Queen 
forbiddenly. 

Pol. Oh, then my bcil blood turn • 

To an infe^ed gelly, and my name 
Be yoakM with his, that did betray the beftl 
Turn then my freiheft reputation to 
A favour, that may ftrike the dulleft noftril 
Where I arrive ; and my approach be (hunM, 
Nay, hated too, woffe than the great'ft infediofi ^ 

That eVr was heard, or read! 

Cam. Swear this though over (7) « . 

By each particular ftar in heaven^ and 
By all their influences ; you may as well . 

Forbid' 

(7) Cam. —i—£«mifi hit thought ev<r 

By each particular fiar m biavm» ifcA Thetranl^ofition 
of a fifigle letter tecondles this paiTage to^sood (enie } which it not fe, 
at the text ftands in all the printed copies. PoUxencs, in. the preced- 
ing fpeech, had been laying |rhe deepeft imprecations on hiinielf, if he 
had ever abos*d Leontes in any familiarity with the Queen* •Towhith 
Camilh very pertinently replies : 

^ ■ Sv?ear this thouj^h 9ver, ^c. , . ,• 

t.e» 



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I 



The WlNtFR** f At£. 2^1 
'Otbidthefeafor to obey the moon, 
ii or by oath rentove, or cotinfel ihake. 
The fabrickof his folly ; whofe foundation ' 
[s piPd QpoA his faithy and will continue 
The ftanding of his body. ^ ' 

FoL How fliould this grow ? 

Cmm* 1; knoiy not; but, i*m fiirc, 'tis (kfer to 
Avoid what's grown, than queftion how 'tis born* 
[f therefore you dare truftmy hpneil:^, 
That lies inclof<id in this trunk, which you 
>hall bear along impawn'd, away ^-nk;hc ; 
iTour fbllowcf s 1 Win whifper to the buunefs ; ^ 
ind will by t4wo'8^ and durees^ at feveralpoftemSf 
;::iear them o'th' city. For myfelf, I'll put * 
)Af fortunes to your fenrice,r whkh^are here 
2y Uus difcoyery lo^ Be not uncertain,; 
?or by the honotir of tn^ patents, I 
Have ntter'd truth ; which if you fcf k to pfove, . - 
[ dare not ftand by; ^ nor fiiall you be iafer. 
Than one condoned by the Song's own mouth ; ^ 

rhereon his execution iworn. 

. FcL I do believe thee ; 
t &w Bis heart in's face. GiVe me thy hand ; , 
fie pilot to me, andthy jplaces fhall . ' 

Still neighbour mine. My (hips are ready, and ' ' 
My people did expe£i my hence depai-ture ' ' 

Two days ago.- ^^Thi^ j'eiloiify ^ 

Is for a precious creature ; as ftie's rare, ^ 

Muft it be great ; and, as his perfon's mighty, ^ 

Mud it be jviolent ; and, as he does conceive ^ 

He is diihonour'dJ>y.a man, which ever ' . 

Pvofefs'd to him; why, his revenges muft . 

dn that be made more bitter. )Pear o'er-fhades me r ' 

Cfood expedition he my^ friemd, and coihfort 

The|;radous X^eisni part of his thea^, 'but nothitig ^, 

Of his ill-ta'en fdfpicion. ' Come CamiUi, 

s. e. Sir, dKnghyoii A^M jirofeil youritinocence ne?er fo ofcen^ alid 
call every ftar aod fsint in haiYem to whnth to your adjuration ; jrtt 
jealoofy st.foro»ttd in my inafter^s bofgin^ t^t 4U yOHcaii if Ml^ 
^Nrcir win bars ao force to remofc it. 



M6t The WiKTEii's Tai.>. 

1 will refpea xbitt as z father^ if 

Thoo beaPft my life off hence. Let ii^ avoid. 

Cam, It is la mine authority to command 
The keys of all the poftenss : pleafe your Hit^o<£| 
To uke the argent hour. Come^ Slr^ away. [Sxemt* 

A c T ir. 

S C K N E, the Palace. 
£»m*Hennione« Maft^us, mdLiu^eh 

HiaMroftEt 

TAKE the boy to you ; he fo Rouble* sie> 
•Tisjpaft enduring. 

I Lady. Come» tey eranoas Lord* 
Shall I bcvourplay -ffflow } 

Mofti. wo, ril nolle of fo% 

I Lady. Why, my fweet Lord > 

Mam. Yoli'llkifs me hard, and ^k to tt^arffl 
were a baby ftiU ; I love you better. 

a Lafy. And why fo, mj Lord I 

Afa/w, Notfbrbecaufe 
Your browis are blacker ; (yet l^^k brow^, th^ {$1^ 
become fome women beft ; ftf tnat there be not 
Too much hair there, but in a femidrd^ 
Or a half-mO0n made with a t>fcn.) 

Tr Lady, IVho taught you this ? 

Mdm. I Ibarn^d it out of women^s fajc^ ; prqr now) 
tVhat cplour be yoiir eyf-brtiws ? . ] 

t Lady^ Blue, ihy tord. . 

Mam. Nay, thafsamock: ](Ve ileen a iWy's nb^ 
Itliat has been blu^, but not her eye^brows* 

I Lady, Harkyci» 
ITheQjieeD, yodr inother, romids apace : weihall 
Pre&ht oiir feHribes to a fine new Prince 
Ontof theft dayas and then yooltwantoh with i%, ' c 

i ' ' • 



The WfNTi^^s,T'Aiev i% 

If w6 woold have 3rouv 

z Ltufy. She is fpread oftaCe 
Into a goodly bulk ; fgood time eacoanter her I) 

£&r. What wifdom mrs amon:|ft vou ? come, Siti &o«r^ 
I am for you a^ain. Pray you at oy us, 
And telPs a tale. 

Mam. Merry, or fad, (haU'the? 

Ber. As merry as yoa will. 

Mam. . A fad ^ale^s bed: for winter. 
I have one of fprights and gobUns* 

Htf". Let^s have tbat» gS)d Sir. 
Ccnne on, fit down* Come oat end do your beft 
To fright me with your fprights t you're ponrerful at iu 

Mam, Tlwrc was a man-— *« ^ 

Her. Nay, come fit down; thenoiir 

Mam. Dwelt by a ckorch-yard i— I will lell it ipftly a 
Yond cnckets fiiall not heat it. 

At. Come on theai and give't me m mine e^* 

Em^rlMmtetf Aniigoi|tt8# anihwdt^ ' 

tto. Was hemet there? his Mini CWwu/fr wUhhtmf 
Lord. Behind the toft of pines I jnet them ; iipver 
tew I men fcowr {q Oi^their way : I <y'd.thsid i 
Even lo their Aijps* ••> / 

Le9. How bleft am I . 
to my jnft cenfore I in itiy t^ 0|]illiQii 1 . '' \ 

Alack, for kfier JknowMgff, how accursed 
In being ibblefii Therem.ay bean the cup 
A fpider fieep'd, and one may driiiki deiwlt^ 
And yet paruke no venom \ va hiskoomedgd 
Is not intefted : hot if pne j|piefet^ 
Th' abhorrM ingredient to his ev^i makekaowii i. 
How he hath driink, he cfacka' hU^orge, his fidea 
With violent hefts.'^I have diunk, and llses the i^iib^«^ 
Camillo was his lielp in this, |iif gander : V 

There is a plot agamft my life, my crown; ' I 

All's tnxe^ that is miibtifted i that falfe villatni 
Whom I empley'd, was jpreHimployM.by himi 
He hath difcover'd my defi|^ and I 
Hemain a pinchM thing} ye^^ a teqr trick 



164 The WiHTiit's Tale. 

proaidiem toplsfttwin: koircanieilie pofientt 
Speafilyopen? 

Lm-i. By Ids mit aodtority, 
Wldckoftoi ham no left prerail'd dun fo 
On yov aunmand. 

Lf. Iknow'ttoowelL 
Gifeaietlieboy; I'm glad, 700 did not aaHe buns 
Tkoogk he does hear fi»ie £gas of nie> yet yon 
Have too ranch blood in hinu— — 

Her. What is this, fport ? 

If. Sear the boy hence, he (hall not come aboot hers 
Away widi hun, and let her (port herfelf 
Widi dut &r« Ug with : for 'tis P«&iM«y 
Hat made thee fwell thus. 

Ar. Bntl'dlay, he had not; 
And* rn be (worn, yon would believe my faying^^ 
How i t'fei yon lean to the nayward. 

Ln* Yoo, my Lords, 
Look on her» mark her wett ; be bat aboot 
To 6y» iie is a goodly Lady, and 
The jnfioe of your hearts will thereto add, 
Tbni^, ihe^t not honeft, hononrable: 
Pvai^hcr bat te this her tridumt-door ibnn, 
(Whkh on aqr fidth defenres high fpeech,) and foagbt 
Thelhmg, the ham, or ha, — (thde petty-brands. 
That calomny dbth nfe : oh,' I am out,— 
That merer do's; te calamny will fear 
Virtoe itfett.) Theft Ihmgs, thefe hams, and ha'i, 
When yon hate laid Ike's goodly, come between. 
Ere yon can fay IhePs hoaet: bat be't known, 
(Promhim, that has moftcanfe to grieve it ihonld be;) 
She's an addtrtfi. 

Ar. Shoold a viU^ ftjT fi>, 
Themoftxepknilh'dviUain indiewoflcU , \ 

He were as much more villain ; yon, my Lord, 
Xio bat miftake. 

Zm. Yon have miltook, my Lady, 
Polixemi$ for Lnwta. O thoa thing. 
Which I'll imt call a creatnre of thy place, ^ 

Left barbarilm, ouking me the piecedcm> ., 



Th^- Winder's Tali. i% 

Shotild a like language o(e to all degrees ; 
And inannerly diitingaifliment leave out 
Betwixt the Prince and beggar."*— »*I have faid, 
Sbe^s an adultrefs; I have faid with whom : 
More ; fhe's a traitor, and Camillo is 
A federary with her ; and one that knows 
"What ihe ihould ihame to know herfelf. 
But with her mofl vile principal, that flie's 
A bed fwerver, even as bad as thofe 
That v«lgars give bold'fl titles ; ay, aad privy 
To this their late efcape. 
Her. No, by my life. 
Privy to none of this : how will this gneve yoa. 
When you (kail come to clearer knowledge, that 
You thus have publifli'd ihe ? gentle my Lord, 
'You fcarce can right me throughly then, to fay 
I You did miftakc. \ 

I Leo. No, if I miftake , 

I In thefe foundations which I build up:>D» 
I The center is not big enough to bear 
I A fchool-boy's top. Away with heir to prifon : 
' He, who (hall fpeak for her, is far of guilty (8)> 
I But that he fpcaks. 
ijf, Her. There's fome ijl planet reigns $ 

I rnuft be patient, *till the heavens look 
With an afpe£l more favourable* Good my Lords/ ! 
I am not prone to weeping; (asour fex 
Commonly arc,) the want of which vain dew. 
Perchance, fliall dry your pities ; but I have 
That honourable grief lodg'd here, which burrs 
UH \Vorfe than tears drown : 'befcech you aJI> my Lords, 
With thoughts fo qualified as your charities 
^hall beft indrud you, meafure me ; and fo 
The King's will be performed 1-^ 

(8) Htf, fwbo Jhall fpeak for her, is far ©f? gvilty. 

But that he /peaks.] This cannot be the Speaker *s flOfSflinf* 
^eoWts would fay, I fhail hold the fc fon in a great medfare |ailty, 
*ho Ihall dare to intercede lor her ; Aad this, I btlieve, Sbah/peare 
ventorM to -cxurers ih us : 

Het who Jh oil fpeak for her, is fir of guiUji &C. 
^ e. pirtake< far, deeply of her g i t 
^ Vol. ill. M Leo, 



i 



f66 Tht Winter's Talk. 

Leo. Shall I be heard ? 

Her, Whois'ty that ^oes with me ? 'bdcech ymirHigh* 
My women may be witiv me, for, yoo fee [nefii 

A/]y plight requires it. Do notweep^ good fools, 
There is no caufe; when you fii&il know, your miftvefi 
Hasiieferv'd prifon, then abound in tears. 
As I come out ; this a£Uon, I now go on> 
Js for my better grace. Adku, my Lord» 
I never wiih'd to fee you forry ; now, 
I truft, I ihall. My women^^-comey yoUVe leavew 

Lee. Go, do our bidding ; hence* 

[Exit Qwstn^ guarJeii i and LaMa* 

Lord, 'Befeech your Highnefs call the Queen again. 

Jnt, Be certain what you do. Sir, left your juftice 
Prove violence ; in the which three grei^ ones fuffer, 
Vourfelf, your Queen, your foa. 

Lord. For her, my Lord, 
I dare my life lay down, and will do*t. Sir, 
Pleafe you t'accept it, that the Queen is fpode& 
Tth' eyes of heaven, and to you, (I mean, 
Jn this which you accufe her.) 

j^tff, U it prove 
She's otherwife, Pll keep my ftables wfaer^^ 
I lo'dge my wife, I'll go in couples with her 2 
Than when I kc\^ and fee her, nO farther traft her| 
For every inch of woman in the worlds 
Ay, every dram of woman^s fiefli is falie. 
If (he be. 

Leo. Hold your peaces. 

Lord, Good my Lord,— — 

Ant. It is for you we fpeak, not for onrfelrest 
You are abus'd, and by fome putter oa, 
That will be damn'd for't ; 'would, t knew the viUaiDf 
1 would land-damn him : be ihe honour-iiawM, 
I have three daughters ; the eldeft is eleven (9) ; 

Thr 

(9) / have three daughters 5 the eldeft is eleven ; 
7he fecond and the third, mne\ and font jive} 
If this prove true, they*// pay for't,] The id folio editkm 
If^ Mr. J^o^tje fiift inadvertently to Rx five fons upon Antigontti, more 
thaa the Po«t ctcr defi^M him t &Ad Mf* Pope ftumbh4 implicitly 

iiita 



The WiWTER^s Talu. 267 

Tliefecond, aii<lthe€kiipd, nine, and fome fire; 

If this prove true» they'll pay for't. By mine honoor» 

I'll geld 'em all : fourteen they (hall not fee. 

To bring faHe generations ; they are co-heir9» 

And I had ratherglib m^felf, than they 

Should not produce fair iflue* 

Leo. Ceate ; no more : 
Von fraell this bufinefs with a fenie as cold 
As is a dead man's noTe ; I fee't and feel't^ 
As you feel doing thus ; and (ee withal 
The in^ruments that feeh 

Jnt. If it be (o^ 
Wc need no grave to bury honefty ; 
There's not a grain of it, the face to fweeteti 
Of the whole dungy earth. 

lee. What? lack I credit? 

Lord, I had rather you did lack than I^ niy Lord» 
Upon this ground ; and more it would content me 
To hare her honour true, than your fufpicion % 
Be blam'iii for*t, how you might. 

Leo, Why^ what need we 
Commune w^th ^ou of this ? butrather follbw 
Our forceful inHigation ? Ogr prerogative 
Calls not your counfels^ but oiir natural goodncft 
Imparts this ; which, if you, (or ftupified. 
Or feeding fo, in fkill,) cannot, or will not 
Reliih a truth like ns ; inform yourfelves. 
We need no more of your advice ; the matter> 
The lofs, the gain, the ordering on'Cy is all 
Properly ours. 

Anf, And I wilh> my Liege> 

ittto the int(lak«. But what encreafts tbe jeft, thefe thife ditighters, 
md fife fon) wett cobeirt : If this ever was according to tbe laws of 
Sicily, 'lit fo peculiar, that tro/r»fv«, Faxetlusor dwoerwi would bav« 
thought it worthy of a Aort notice. But tbe reading of the iti folia 
cdidoo, whkb I have teftorM to the text, makes no mention of any 
(oaOi and fo the giria remain propet-ly coheirs ; the eldeft» elevea years 
t>f age i the fecond, nine \ and the third, fome five. 1*11 fubjoin two 
Snftaoces of this manner of expre^on from our Au' hor^s Ring Lear, 

But I hare a Ton, Sir, by order of taw, fmie years eldrr than this ; 

For that I kmfime twelrs or fourteen mooa ihifics lag of a brother ? 
Ma YoflL 



st6i The Winter's Tale* 

Yoa had only in your filent judgment try'd it. 
Without more Of ertore. 

Lee, How could that be ? 
Either thou art moft ignorant by age. 
Or thou Wert born a fool. Camillo's flight. 
Added to their familiarity, 
(Which was as grofs as ever touch'd conjefturc. 
That lack'd fight only ; nought for approbationi 
But only feel ne; all other circumftances 
Made up to th^deed) doth puih on this proceeding} 
Yet for a greater confirmation, 
(For, in an a£l of this importance, 'twere 
Moft piteous to be wild) I have difpatch'd in pod. 
To facred Delpbos^ to ApolW% temple, 
Cleomines and Dion^ whom you know 
Of fluff'd fufficiency : now, from the oracle 
They will bring all : whofe fpiritual counfel had. 
Shall Hop, or fpur me. Have I done well ? 

Lord Well done, my Lord. 

Leo* ThoM am fatisfy'd, and need no more 
Than what I know, yet ihall the oracle 
Give reft to th* minds of others ; fuch as he, 
Whofe ignorant credulity will not 
Come up to th' truth. So have we thought it good 
From our free perfon fhe ihould be confin'd ; 
Lett that the treachery of the two, fled hence. 
Be left her to perform. Come, follow us. 
We are to fpeak in publick ; for this buiineis 
Will raife us all. 

Ant. To laughter, as I take it. 
If the good truth were known. [ExeunU 

SCENE changes to a Prifon. 
Enter Paulina and a Gentleman. 

PauI.'^T^ H E keeper of the prifon, call to him t 

■ JL [Exit Genthman* 

Let him have knowledge who I am. Good Lady, 
No court in Europe is too good for thee ; 
What doft thou then in prifon ? now, good Sir, 
Vuu know me, do you not } RcettHf 



The Winter's Tale. 269 

Re-enter Gentleman wth the Gealer. 

Goa. For a worthy Lady, 
And oue whom much I hoiK}ur. 

Paul. Pray you then, 
Condud me to the Queen, 

Goa, I may not. Madam, 
To the contrary I have exprefs commandment. 

Paui. Here's ado to lock up honefty and honour from 
Th' accefs of gentle vifitors ! Is't lawful, pray you. 
To fee her women ? any of them ? Emilia f 

Goa, So pleafe yon. Madam, 
To put a-part thefe your attendants, I 
Shall bring Emilia forth. 

PauL I pray yoo now, call her i 
Withdraw yourfelves. [Exeunt Gent. Sec, 

G&a, And, Madam, 
I muft be prefent at yon r conference. 

Paul. Well ; be it fo, pr'ythee. 

Enter Emilia. 

Here's fach ado to make no (lain a ftaiir. 
As palTes colouring. Dear gentlewoman. 
How fares our gracious Lady ? 

EmiL As well, as one ib great and fo forlorn 
May hold together; on her frights and griefs, 
(Which never tender Lady hath borne greater^) 
She is, fomething before her time, deliver'd. 

Pauh A boy ? 

Emil. A daughter, and a goodly babe, 
Lufty, and like to live: the Queen receives 
Much comfort in't. Says, my poor prifoncr, 
Vm innocent as yon. 

Paul. I dare be fworn : 
Thcfc dangerous, unfafc lanes i' th' King ! beflirew 
them (10)9 

Ht 

(10) Tbeji dang^roui unfrf* Lnucsr/^* #r?»f /—— *] I ha^e ao 

where, but in our author, obfervM this woid adopted in our tbngue, 

to li|n:fy, fie»9ijt lunacf^ B«t it is a modet}f ezpreflion with the 

M I Frtn.b,-^ 



270 The WiNTin^s Talk. 

He maft be told on^t, and he ih^l ; the ofRce 
Becomes a woman beft. 1*11 take't upon me. 
If 1 prove honey -mottthM, let my tongue bliAer; 
And never to my red-lookM anger be 
The trumpet any more ! Pray you, Emih'a, 
Commend my beft obedience to the Qneen, 
If (he dares truft me with her little babe, 
rii (hew't the King, and undertake to be 
Her advocate to th' loud'ft. We do not know» 
How he may foften at the tight o'th' child ; 
The filence often of pore innocence 
Perfuades, when fpeaking fails. 

Emt'L Moft worthy Madam, 
Your honour and your goodnefs is fo evidesl^ 
That your free undertaking cannot mi(s 
A thriving liTue : there is no Lady living 
So meet for this great errand. Pleafe your Ladyihip 
To lifit the next room, Til prefently 
Acquaint the Queen of your moft noble offer. 
Who but to-day hammer'd of this deiign ; 
But durft not tempt a minider of honour, 
LcA (he fhould be deny'd. 

Paul. Tell her, Emilia, 
T\\ ufe that tongue I have ; if wit flow from't. 
As boldnefs from my bofom, let*t not be doubted 
J Ihall do good. 

Emii. Now be you bleft for it ! 
ril to^he Queen : pleafe yon, come (bmething nearer. 
' Goa, Madam, if't pleafe Queen to fend the babe, - 
I know not what I fliall incur, to pafs it. 
Having no warrant. 

Paul. You need not fear it. Sir ; 
The child was prifoner to the womb, and is 
By law and procefs of great nature thence 
Frce'd and enfranchis'd ; not a party to 
The anger of the King, nor guilty of. 
If any be, the trefpafs of the Queen. 

Fretub-^Jly a de la I«ne s (i t. He has got tW iiMM>ii in bis Ketd ; he 
19 ^raatick.^ Cotgbavs, Lune^ folif» X^t ftmmn mt dti lunct 

donslstcU* RiCHlLtT. 



Tbe^ WiN»rBR*s Tale. 271 

Gmi. I do believe it. 

Paul. Do not you fear ; upon mine honour^ I 
Will ftand 'twixt you and danger. [Exeunt. 

SCENE changes to the Palace. 
Enter Leontes^ Antigonus, Lords anti other Attenclants, 

Leo. '^kT O R night, nor day, no reft ; — it is but weaknefs 
X^ To bear the matter thus ; mere weaknefs, \t 
The caufc were not in being ; part o*th' caule. 
She, the adultrefs ; for the harlot-King 
Is quite beyond mine arm ; out of the blank 
And level of my brain; plot- proof; but (he 
1 can hook to aie : fay, that fhe were gone. 
Given to the fire, a moiety of my reft 
Might come to me again. Who's there .^ 

Enttr an Attendc^nt. 

At ten. My Lord. 

Leo How do's the boy ? 

Jtten. He took good reft to-night; 'tis hop *d> 
hM ficknefs is difchargM. 
' Leo, To fee his Doblenefs ! 
Conceiving the diftipnour of his mother. 
He ftraight declin'd, droop*d, took it deeply % 
Faften'd, and fiX'd the ihame on't in himfelf ; 
Threw cff his fpirit, his appetite, his fleep. 
And down-right languifti'd. Leave me folely ; g;o. 

[Exit Attendant* 
See how he fares. — Fy, {y^ no thought of him ; — 
The very thought of my revenges that way 
Recoil upon me; in himfelf too mighty^ 
And in his parties, his alliance ; let him be. 
Until a time itiay ferve. For prefent vengeance. 
Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenet 
Laugh at me; make their paftime at my forrow ; 
They fliould not laugh, if I could reach them; nor « 
Shall fhe, within my power. 

Enier Paulina, nvitba Child* 

Lord. Yoo muft not enter 

M 4 PauL 



272 The WiNTEX*s Tale. 

Paul. Nay rather, good my Lords, be fecond tome: 
Fear you bis tyrannous paflion more, alas. 
Than the Queen's life ? a gracious innocent foul, | 

More free than he is jealous. I 

Jni, That's enough. 

Atun. [ivithin.]^ Madam, he hath not flept to-mght; 
commanded, 
None (hould come at him. 

PauL Not fo hot, good Sir; 
I come to bring him ifeep. 'Tis fuch as you. 
That creep like fhadows by him, and do figh 
At each his needlefs heavings ; fuch as you 
Nourifh the caufe of his awaking. I 
Do come with words as medicinal, as true*; 
(Honptt, as either ;) to purge him of that humour. 
That prefles hrm from fleep. 

Leo. What noife there, ho ? 

PauL No noife, my Lord, but needful conference* 
About fomc goffips for your Highncfs. 

Leo, How ? 
Away with that audacious Lady. — Antigonus^ 
I charg'd thee, that (he fhould not come about me; 
I knew, (he would. 

Ant, I told her fo, my Lord, 
On your difpleafurc's peril and on mine, 
the fhould not vifit you. 

Leo. What? can'ft not rule her ? 

PauL From all dilhonelly he can ; in this, 
(Unlefs he take the courfe that you have done^ 
Commit me, for committing honour,) trufl it. 
He (hall not rule me. 

Ant, Lo you now, you hear, 
When fhe will take the rein, I let her run. 
But ihe'Il not ftumble. 

PauL Good my Liege, I come ¥— 

And I befeech you hear me, wko profefs 
Myfelf your loyal fervant, your phyfician, 
Your mod obedient counfellor : yet that dares 
\aU appear fo, in comforting your evils. 

Than 



The Winter's Talb. 273 

Than fuch as moft feems yours. I fay, I come 
From your good Queen. 

Leo. Good Queen? 

Paid* GoodQueen, my Lord, 
Good Queen, I fay. Good Queen ; 
And would by combat make her good, fo were I 
A man, the worft about you. 

Lto. Force her hence. 

Paid. Let him, that makes but trifles of his eyes, 
Firft hand me : on mine own accord. Til off'; 
But firft, ril do my errand. The good Queen, 
For (he is good, hath brought you forth a daughter^ ^ 
Here Hijs ; commends it to your bleffing. 

[Laying dbnvn the child » 

Leo. Out! 
A mankind witch (r i) ! hence with her, out o* door : 
A mod intelligencing bawd \ 

Paul. Not fo, 
I am as ignorant in that as yon, 
In fo intit'ling me ; and no lefs honefl. 
Than you are mad ; which is enough, 1*11 warrant. 
As this world goe|, to pafs for honeft. 

Leo. Traitors ! 
Will you not pu(h her out ? give her the baftard. [7i^»r, 
Thou dotard, thou art woman- tyr'd; unroofted 
By thy dame Partlei here. Take up the baftard, 
Take't up, I fay ; give't to thy croan. 

Paul. Forever V 

Un venerable be thy hands, if thou 
Take'ft op the Princcfs, by that forced bafcncfa ^ 

Which he has put npon't I 
Leo. He dreads his wife. 

Paul. So, I would, you did : then 'twere paft all doubt. 
You'd call your children yours. 

(i i) ^ mankind witch /] i. e. One as Boldznd mafcurme, as if /he 
mere a pnan. So in B,.Jonfon'z Silent Woman^ when morofe is teizM by 
his new wife's (he- friends^ he cries out ia deteftation of their botdneis ^ 

O mankind %'^ntxzxion\ 
And f^ Beaumont anfl F/etcberm ihtir Monfieur Thoir.M. 
1 do n t bi'edj *twas a found kaock ibe gave me) 
A ^a^uj wanklnd girl ! 

M 5 Leo^ 



\ 



2j4 ^^ WiHTMi's Tai:i* 

Le^. A neft •£ traytors I 

u^ji/. I am nose, oy this good Uigbt. 

PatJ. Nor I ; nor any 
But one, that's here ; and that^s liamfelf. For he 
The facred honoiur of himfelf^ his Q^n's, 
His hopiefiil fon's, his babe's, betrays to dander, 
Whofe ftiog is iharper than the fwoni's i and will ftoi 
(For as the cafe now ilands, it is a C4ir(e 
He cannot be comj^ell'd fio't) once remove 
The root of his opinion, which is n>t(eo» 
As ever oak or ftone was found* 

Lid. Acallat 
Of boondlefs tongue, who late hath beat her hufliaBdy 
And now baits me !— >This brat is none of mine i 
It is the iflae of PoUxtnts. 
Hence with it, and together with the dams 
Commit them to the fire. 

PauL It is yours ; 
And, mieht we lay th* old proverb to your chafge^ 
So like vou, 'tis the worfe. Behold, my Lords, 
Ahho' the print he little, the whole matter 
And copy of the father j ey^, noie, Mp, 
The trick of 's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley. 
The pretty dimples of his chin> and ebeek, his fmiles. 
The very mold and frame of hand, naiJl, finger. 
And thou, ^ood goddefs Nature, yrhich hail made it 
So like to him that got it, if thou haft 
The ordering of the mind too, 'mongft all a>lottrs 
No yellow in^t ; left ihe fufpe^, as he does. 
Her children not her huiband's. 

Lip, A grofs hag ! 
4nd loael, thou art worthy to be hang^d^ 
That wilt not ftay her tongue. 

jint. Hangnail the hufbands. 
That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourfelf 
Hardly one fubjeft. 

Lifi^, Once more, take her hence. 

Paul. A moft unworthy and unnatural Lord 
Can do no more. 

Leo. rJl iiaVthee burnt. 

Paul. 



The WtimitS Taif. 275 

PomJ, I care not; 
It is an heretick that makea the fire» 
Not ihe wMch burns in't. I'll not call yoa tyrant^ 
Bat this mod cruel ufage of your Queen 
(Not able to produce mor^ accusation 
Than your own weak-hingM fancy) fomethioig £iVonr^ . 
Of tyranny t and will ignoble make you» 
Yea^ fcandalous to the world. 

Le0. On your allegiance,. 
Out of the chamber with her. Were I a tyrant^ 
Where were her life ? (he durft not call me fo. 
If (he did know me one. Away with her. 

PauJ. 1 pray you, do not pum me, Til be gone* 
Look to your babe, my Lord, 'tis yours ; J.o^r{cni h r 
A better guiding fpirit ! What need thefe bands B 
You, that are thus fo tender o'er his follies. 
Will never do him good, not one of yovk 
So, fo : farewel, we are gone. [IxtK 

Leo. Thou,, tray tor, haft feton thy wife to this. 
My child? away with't. Even thou, thou that haft 
A heart fo tender o'er it, take it hence. 
And fee it inftantly confum'd with fire ; 
Even thou, and none but thou. Take it up (Irsdght i 
Within this hour bring me word it is done. 
And by good teftimony, or I'll feize thy life. 
With what thou clfecall'ft thine : if thou refufe^ 
And wilt encounter with my wrath, fay fo : 
The baftard brains with thefe my proper hands. 
Shall I da(h out : go take it to the fire, , 
For thou fett'ft on thy wife. 

A/. I did not. Sir : 
Thefe Lords, my noble fellows,^ if they pleafe> 
Can clear me in'^t. 

Lord* We can ; my royal Liege, 
He is not guilty of her coming hithcB* 

Leo, You're liars all. 

Lords. 'Befeech your Highnefs give us better credit. 
We've always truly ferv'd you, and befeech you 
So to erteem of us : and on our knees we bcg^ 
(As xecdmpence of our dear fervices- 

M 6 ^^^^ 



276 The Winter's Tal:^. 

Fail, and to come) that you do chai\g^ this parpo£by 

Which being fo horrible, fo bloody, muft 

Lead on to fome foul iflue. We all kneel- 
Leo. I am a feather for each wind that blows i 

Shall I live on, to fee this baftard kneel 

And call me father ? better burn it now. 

Than cnrfe it then. But be it ; let it live : 

It fliall not neither.— —yo«» Sir» come you hither; 

{To Antigonick 

Yon, that have been fo tenderly officious 

With Ladjr Margery^ your midwife there. 

To faVe this ballard's life ; (for 'tis a bailard. 

So fure as this beard's grey) what will you adventure 

To fave this brat's life ? 

^«/. Any thing, my Lord> ^ 

That my ability may undergo. 

And nobienefs impofe : at leaft, thus much i 

I'll pawn the little blood which I have left> 

'To favc thesnnocejpt ; any thing poflible. 

Lio. It ihall be poffible ; fwear by this fword. 

Thou wilt perform my bidding. 
Jnt. I will, my Lord. 

Leo, Mark and perform It ; fee(( thou ? for the fait ; 
pf any point in't (hall not only be 
Death to thyfelf, but to thy lewd-tonguM wife. 
Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thie,. 
As thoti art liege-man to us, that thou carry 
This female bailard hence, and that thou bear it 
To fome remote and defart place, quite out 
Of our dominions ; and that there thou leave it> 
(Without more mercy,) to it's own protection 
And favour of the climate. As by ftrange fortune 
It came to us, I do in jufticc charge thee. 
On thy foui^s peril and thy body's torture. 
That thou commend it ftrangely to (bme place,^ 
Where Chance may nurfe, or end it. Take it upw 

jiat. I fwear to do this : tho' a prefent death 
Had been niore merciful. . Come on, poor babe; 
5ome powerful fpirit inflruft the kites and ravens 
To be thy nurfcs ! wolves and bears, they fay, 

. (CafliBg 



Hie Winter's T ALB. 2y^ 

(CaRing their favageDcfs afide) bare done 

like offices of pity. Sir, be profperous 

in more than this deed does require; and bleffing, 

Againft this cruelty, fight on thy fide f 

Poor thing, condemned to lofs. — {Exit^ 'with the chiU^ 

Lio. Noj ril not rear 
Another's ifluc. 

Enter a Mefftnger. 

Me/ Plcafe your Highnefs, po(b. 
From thofe you fen t to th' oracle, are come 
An hour iince« QUomines and Dion^ 
Being well arrivM from Delpbos^ are both landed^ 
Hailing to th' court. 

Lord. So pleafe you. Sir, their fpecd 
Hath been beyond accouat/ 

Leo* Twenty-three days 
They have been abfent : this good fpeed foreteh^ 
The great Atdlo fuddenly will have 
The truth ot this appear. Prepare you, Lords^ 
Summon a feflion, that we may arraign 
Our moft difloyal Lady ; for as ihe hath 
Been publickly accus'd, fo ihall (he have 
. A juft and open trial. While (he lives. 
My heart will be a burden to me. Leave me. 
And think upon my bidding. \Exeuntt fevtrallj^ 



ACT III. 

SCENE, a Part of ZUUy near the Sea- fide. 
Enur Cleonxincs and Dion. 

Cl B O M I N £S. 

THE climate's delicate, the air moft fweet (12),. 
Fertile the iflc, the temple much furpafling 
The common praife it bears; 

Dion. 
(X2) 7he climate's dtiicate, the air iKsft ftoeet, 

Fir tilt c^ff i/lc-*-— j 1 muft fubjoiJQ » very, leafonable cos* 

jeaurCt 



^78 The Wintir's TAtt. 

DioM. I (hall report (13), ' 

For moft it caaght me* the celeftial habits, 

}ea«re of my fiiend upon tbU paffage. — <« Bat tbctenpkvf 
** Atolia at Del f hi waf not lA an //?«i^f but so- J^^an'i 00 the contiDent* 
** It $ plain, the bJuo^riog tranfcrib«n had theii heads ninning oia 
«* Dths, an iOaod of the Cydada* So that the tru* rcaduig ii oa* 
•• doubtedlyt 

7bi climatit deKcate, iiiSk Wf/lftHtt^ 

Fertili tbi foil ; 
** Snl might with a very eafy tranfpofitioo of tht Uttera be eomip^t^ 
** to ijU, Hut the trot reading nanifefti iifif hkewiie on thb if» 
«< count; that, in a defcnpt:oo, the fwcctnefii of «/r, and fertility of 
•* y»/7> it much more tei fe and ckgant than mw %hAifii^** 

Mr. Warhufhn* 
But to coofefs the trutb, I tm very fiif^cious that cur airhcr, not- 
withftandicf , wrote ip, and for tkii reafoo. The ground-work aad 
iocidenu of his pjay are taken from iMiold (lory, caU*d, The pleafaat 
and delcA^ble Hiftcry of 2>0rtf/»i and FtfWfftf | writtrahy Mf Rokert 
Green, a M after of Arra io CambrUgty in the rctgn oiQi^u S^imMhett i 
and there the Queen bees rf her Lord, in the rage of his jeaiovfr, 
TtM ii vrotldpieafe bis Mayfiy to, find Jut of bit Nohlesy tvbom be h^ 
trujied, to the i(^ •/ Delpho^, there to eMfuiro of tbe oracU ef Apollo^ 
&c. Aikcrhet palpable abfurdity our aoihor h^ copied fi om the fimc 
Tate, in making Bobemia a nnaritime conntry, which it known to be 
inland, and in the heart of the main contineflt* 
(13) D't9n, ——«I (ball rr/orf, 

Fof moft it caught me, &c.] What %rll] he rtport f And what 
means this feaf. n of *iis report, wje, that the ceieftial hahitt fi(ft 
caught hit «bfc>vation ? I do not know, whither bi4 dedarataon «f 
repcrurgy he more obicure, or hitreafon for it more ridiculooi. The 
fpeakfr feems <o be under thofe circomftancet, which hit bioih^afl> 
hadao^r in t+^c nex; ff««ech talks of, 

■ L ■ ^0 furprixd nyfirfi, that I was notbifi^ 
Batif wemay fuppoie him'^iecover*d fiom hii furprize^ W6 may be 
aflfurM hcfaid; 

-— ^ It Aamet vepcrt* 

YzitT^.ofi it caugbt mOf the celefiial habit*, &t- 
Cleominrs h^d laid, the crrr.ple rmich forpafs'd the common praife it 
bore. Dkn replies, Yes, it Jbames report by (o fair exceeding what 
report had precr.cied to fay of it : and then gees on to particulariae 
the woncer* of the ;:Iacc. The firft thing, fays he, that ftruck me, 
was the pricAN habits, ^'r. And, by the bye, it is worth obfe vinf, 
tha* *he w^ndrrs are particuariz'd iu their exaft cVer: fiift, theha* 
bitt of the priefls, who wne ready to meet enquirers; then, ih% 
prirftsbchavioiir; then, thefacr.fice; and then, the pronounc'ng <he 
oracle. The reader may (ce Fan DaUdt Oraculu Ethniccrum ; and be 
latisfied of tbis« hit JVarbytutu 

tMethinks> 



The Wl M T E R*8 T A L E. zy^ 

(Methinlfs, I Co fhoold term thein») and the reverence 
Of the grave wearers. O, the facrifice-^-^ 
How ceremonious^ folemn* and unearthly 
It was i'ch' offering ! 
' Cleo Btttof all, theburft 
And the «ar-deaAing voice o*th* oracle. 
Kin to ywf's thunder, fo fnrpria'd my fcnfe. 
That I was nothing. 

!>/>«. If th' event o'th' jonrney 
*Prove lis foccefsfid to the Qaeen, (O, be It fof) 
As it hath been to tts, rare» pleafant, fpeedy. 
The time is worth the ale on*t. 

Cieo. Gttzt Jfol/o, 
Turn all to th' befl ! thefe proclamations^ 
So forcing faults upon Hermi9ne^ 
I little like. 

Dion. The violent carriage of it 
Will clear, or end the bufinefs ; when the oracle, 
(Thus by JipoHo's great divine feal'd up,) 
Shall the contents diftover : fomething rare 
Even thea will ruih to knowledge. Go ; frelh hories : 
And gracious be the i£*iie ! [Exenni^ 

SCENE rfcprefcnts a Court of Juftice. 
Leontes, Lords y andOJicerSy afpearftoferlyftated. 

Z^.Tr^ H I S feffion, (to our great grief, we pronounce,) 
JL Ev'n pufhes *gabft oar heart. The party try'd> 
The daughter of a King, our wife, and one 
Of us too much bclov'd ; — — let us be clear'd 
Of being tyrannous, fmce we fo openly 
Proceed in juftice, vi^hich^all have due coorfe. 
Even to the guilt, or the purgation* 

Produce theprifoner. — 

Offi. It is his Highncfs' pleafure^ that the Queen 
Appear in perfon here in court. Silence \ 

Hermlcac^ 



l8o The Wikter's Tale. 

Hennione is hr^mght iit^ guarded', PaHlifia, andhaihti 
ititimding. 

Led. Read the ind lament. 

Offi. HeriQione, ^en to the tvorify Leontes, ICtitg tf 
Siciliay thou art here accufed and arraigtud of high treafin^ 
in committing adultery nvith Polixenes, King of Bohemia, 
and ccnfpiring nuitb Cacnillo to take aiuaj the life of our 
fo^ereign Lord the Kingj thy royal hufhtmd'f the' pretence 
Kvhereof Jfeing hy circumfiances partly laid opeuj thou. Her- 
mione, contrary to the faith and alUgiance of a true fuhjeBi 
didft counfel and aidthem^for their hettef Jafety^ to fly a<waf 
hy night. 

Her. Since what I am to fay, muil be but that 
Which contradicts my accufation ; and 
The teftimony on my part, no other 
But what comes from myfelf ; it ihali Tcarce boot me 
To fay* Not goilty : mine integrity. 
Being counted falihood, (hall, as I exprefs it. 
Be io recelv'd. But thus, if powers divine 
Behold our human anions, as they do, 
I doubt not then, bui innocence ihall make 
Falfe accufation blufh, and tyranny 
Tremble at patience. — You, my Lord, beft know. 
Who lead will feem to do (o^ my paft life 
Hath been as continent, as chafle, as true. 
As I am now unhappy ; which is more 
Than hidory can pattern, tho' devis'd. 
And play'd, to take fpedlators. For behold me 
A fellow of the ^pysrl bed, which owe 
A moiety of the throne, a great King's daughter 
The mother to a hopeful Prince, here (landing 
To prate and talk for life and honour, 'fore 
Who pleafe to come and hear. For life, I prize it 
As I weigh grief which I would fpare: forhonour^ 
'Tis a derivative from me to mine. 
And only that I (land for. I appeal 
To your own confcience, Sir, before ^oiixtnes 
Came to your court, how 1 was in youi' grace. 



The Winter's Tale. 281 

How merited to be Tq ; jQnce he came. 
With what encounter fo ancarrant I ' 

Have ilraioM t'appear thus ; if one jot beyond 
The bound of honour, or in ad, or will 
That way inclining, hardened be the hearts 
Of all that hear me, and my near'ft of kin 
Cry, fy, upon my grave ! 

Leo. I ne'er heard yet. 
That any of thofe bolder vices wanted 
Lei's impudence to gain-fay what they did, ' 
Than to perform it firft. 

Her. That's true enough ; 
Tho' 'tis a fayfng, Sir, not due to me. 

Leo. You will not own it. 

Her. More than roiftrefs of. 
What comes to me in name of fault, I muil not 
At all acknowledged For FoUxenes^ 
With whom I am accus'd, I do confefs, 
I lov'd him, as in honour he requir'd ; 
With fuch a kind of love, as might become 
A Lady like me ; with a love, even fuch. 
So and no other, as yourfelf commanded : 
Which not to have done, I think, had been in me 
Both difobedience and ingratitude 
To you, and towards your friend ; whofe love had fpoke^^ 
Even iince it could fpeak, from an infant, freely, 
That it was yours. Now for confpiracy, 
I know not how it taftes, tho' it be difh'd 
For me to try how ; all I know of it. 
Is, that CamiUo was an honeft man ; 
And why he left your court, the Gods themfelve* 
(Wotting no more than I,) are ignorant. 

Leo. You knew of his departure, as you know 
What you have underta'en to do in's abfence. 

Her. Sir, 
Yop. fpeak a language that I underlland not ; 
My life Hands in the level of your dreams. 
Which Ml yy down. 

Leo Your adUons are my dreams; 
You had a badard by Polixe/tet^ 

And 



2«2 The Winter's Tali. 

And I but dream'd it: — as yoa were paft mil (htme, 
^Thofe of your faft are fo) fo pad all truth ; 
Which 16 deny, concerns more than avails : for ai 
Thy brat hath been caft out, like to itfelf, 
No father owning it, (which is, indeed. 
More criminal in thee ^an it) fo thoa 
Shalt feel our juflice ; in whoie cafieft pafTage 
Look for no lefs than death. 

Her. Sir, fpare your threats ; 
The bug, which you woald fright me ;with, Ifcek: 
'To me can life be no commodity ; 
The crown and comfort of my life, ^ar favour, 
I do give loft, for I do feel it gone. 
But know not how it went. My fecond joy, 
The firft-fruits of my body, from his prefence 
Fffl barrM like one infe^lious. My third comfmt, 
(Starr'd moft unluckily,) is from my breaft 
(The innocent milk in iti^x^oiUanocent mouth) 
Hard out to murder ; myfelf on every poll 
Proclaimed aftnimpet; witliimmodeft hatred 
The child-bed privilege deny'd, which 'Idfigs 
To women of all faihion : laftiy, hurried (14) 
Here to. this place, i'th' open air, beibre 
I have got ftrength of limit. Now, my Liege, 
Tell me what bleffings I have here alive, 
That I ihould fear to die f thfeidfbre fn^oceed : 
But yet hear this ; miftake me not; no Mfe^"*^--* 
I prize it not a flraw ; but for mine hotiCnr^ 
Which I would freci, if I ibali be c<MKd«mn'<l 
Upon furmii^^s, (all proolslkeping elfe, 
But what your jealoufics awake,) I tell ycm, 
*Tis rigour, and not law. Yoilu- Honours ^t}» 

(14} l:;^fy, hurried 

Hereto thh pLir-e, i'th' open «i/>, hefiri 

I have [lotfircnTth of Umb?.] This is the reading ef Viu Knff 
aud Mr. Po/>^ J 1^.3 ve rettor^d, with the oltl<ediliofis^-**— ^1*^ 

I bai-e ^ot Jirerigtb of Limit, 
J. e, Srioi),;ih"t 1 Tugh for coining abroad, going never Axiittle iwaj« 
So, in Cyrr.bcUr.e j 

A pr\ CO, for a de^or th«t not ftjret 

To ftr;dc a ImH, . . • 



I 



TTie Winter's Tale. i8^ 

[ ctb refer me to the oracle ; 
Apollo be my judge. 

Enter Dion and Cleominei* 

Lord. This your requcft 
fs altogether juft ; therefore briag forth, 
^d in Afiiiy% name, hi« oracle. 

fUr, The emperor of Ruffia was my father. 
Oh, that he were alive, and here beholding 
His daughter's^ trial ; that he did but fee 
The flatnefs of my m\{txy ; yet with eyes 
Of pity, not revenge ! * , 

Offi. You here fhall fwear npon the fword of juftice* 
That you, diamines and Dion^ have 
Been both at Delphi^ and from thence have breugk^ 
This feal'd-np oracle, by the hand deliver'd 
Of great Jf9)lo*% prieft ; and that £nce then 
You have not darM to break the holy ieal. 
Nor read the iecrets in't. 

Cleo. Dion. All this we fwear. 

Leo. Break op the feak, and read* 

Offi. Hermione is chafttt Polixenes hlamiUfs^ Camiffo 
« truefuhjiSy Leontes ajioUus tyttmty his innoctnt bah4 
truly begotten ; etnd the King fiail tiw without an heir, i/^ 
thatf nubieb is kfi^ he not found. 

Lords* Now bldfed be the great AfolUf 

Her. Praifedt 

Leo. Haft thoii read truth ? 

Offi. Ay, my Lord, even fo as it is here fet down* 

Leo. There is no truth at all i'th* oracle ; 
The feflion (hall proceed ; this is mere faKhood, 

Enter Ser*Oant* 

Serv. My Lord the Kii^g, the King,— -« 

Leo. What is the buiine^ ? 

Ser. O Sir, I fhall be hated to report it. 
The Prince your fon, with mere conceit and ftar 
Of the Qtteen*s fpeed, is gone. 

Leo, How gone? 

Ser. Is dead, 

Leo* 



fl84 The Winter's Ta.e. 

Lio. ^poUd*s angry, and the heav^nf chemrelves 
Do ftrike at my injuftice.— How now> there ? 

[Her, fmnts* 

Paul. l*his news is mortal to the Queen : look dowoi 
And fee what death is doing. ^ * j| 

Leo,, Take her hence ; ^ 

Her heart is but o'er- charged ; (he will recover. 

[Exeunt Paulina and Ladies <zi;//i& HermioQti 
I have too much believ'd mine own fufpicion : 
'Befeech you, tenderly apply to her 
Some remedies for life. JpolJoy pardon 
My great prophanenefs *gainft thine oracle \ 
I'll reconcile me to Polixenet^ 
New woo my Queen> recal the good Camillo ; 
(Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy) 
For being tranfported by my jealoufies 
To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chofe 
Camillo for the minifter, to poifon 
My friend Polixenes ; which had been done, 
But that the good mind of Camillo tardied 
My fwift command ; tho' I with death, and with 
Keward, did threaten, and encourage him, 
Notdobgit, and being done ; he (mod humane. 
And filPd with honour) to my kingly gueft . 
Unclafp'd my pradlice, quit his fortunes here. 
Which you knew great, and to the certain hazard 
Of all incertainties himfelf commended, 
No richer than his honour : how he glitters 
Through my dark raft ! and how. his piety 
Does my deeds make the blacker ! 

^'^/fr Paulina* 

PauL Woe the while ! 
O, cut my lace, left my heart, cracking iti 
Break too. 

Lord, What fit is this, good Lady ? 

Paul What ftudied torments, tyrant, haft for mc ? 
What wheels ? racks ? fires .^ what 6ying ? boiling ? burniag 
In leads or oils ? wbat old, or newer, torture 
Muft I receive I whofc every word deferves 

To 



The Wi!*ter's Talb. 185 

To taftc of thv moft worft. Thy tyranny 

Together workine with thy jealoufies » 

(Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle 

For girls of nine !} O, think, what they havedone^ 

And then run mad, indeed ; ftark mad, for all 

Thy by gone fooleries were fpices of it. 

That thou betray'dft Palixems^ 'twas nothing (i$) ; 

That did but (hew thee of a foul inconftant. 

And datinnable ingrateful : i^or was't much. 

Thou would'ft have poifonM good Camilla^ honour. 

To have him kill a King : poor trefpalTes, 

More monibx)us Sanding by ; whereof I reckon 

The cafting forth to crows thy baby-daughter. 

To be, or none, or little ; tho' a devil 

tVonld have (hed water out of fire, ere don't : 

Nor is't diredly laid to thee, the death 

Of the youn|; Prince, whofe honourable thoughts 

(Thoughts high for one fo tehder) cleft the heart. 

That could conceive a grofs and foolifh Sire 

Blemiih'd his gracious Dam : this is not, no, 

Laid to thy anfwer ; but the laft, O Lords* 

When i have faid, cry, woe !' the Queen, the Qgeen,— ^ 

The fweeteft, deareft, creature's dead ; and vengeance for't 

Not dropt down yet. 

Loril. The higher powers forbid ! 

Paul. I fay, (he's dead : I'll fwear't : if word, nor oatlr. 
Prevail not, go and fee : if you can bring 
Tindure or luftre in her lip, her eye. 
Heat outwardly, or breath within, I'll ferve yoik 
As I would do the Gods. But, O thou tyrant (16) ! ^ 

Do 

( 15) Titf/ thou bitrMi'ft Polizenes, *tfVM uathingi 
T6at did hutjbtw tbee^ of a fool, inconftantt 

And dMmnsh& ingratefiil,] I have Vtnttir'd St a flight alteration 
here, againft the authority of ail the copies. It is certainly too graft 
andhlunt in^Patilina, tho* flie might impeach the King of fooleriei 
in feme of his paft aQions and condo^l, ta call him ddwnright a fool. 
And it it much more pardonable in her to arraign his morah, tad the 
^atities of his mind, than redely to call him ideot to hisfoce. 

(16) haff 0, tbou tyrant! 

Do'ft net repent tbefe tbin£St for tbey are heavier " 
ITban all thy woes eanfiir f therefore betake thet 



I 



2S6 The WxNTBR^s Taxm. 

Do toot repent thtb diSajgt ; for they «re hcuvter 
Than all thy woes etn Sbur i therefore betake thee 
To nothing bat deipsir. A thoufand kaees^ 
Ten thoaiiuid yeirt together, nakod, iaAing, 
Upon a barren mountain^ and ftill winter 
In ftorm perpetual^ eoisld not more die Goda 
To Ipok that way tboa wert. 

Leo. Go on, go on : - 
Thou canft not Ipeak t«o ipuch ; I have deferv'd 
All tongues to talk their bittere^. 

Lorif. Say no more; 
Howe'er the bnfinefs goes, yon hz$m made fanit 
Pth' boldnefsof youripeech. 

PauL I am forry foPt : 
An faults I make, when I ihaU cone to know the&H 
I do repent : alas, I've ihewM too much 
The rajhnefs of a woman ; he is toodi'd 
To thanoble l^art. Whacfsgmie, and what's paft hdpt 
Should be paft grief. Do not receive affli^ion 
At my petition, t befeech yoa; rather ' 
" XiCt me be puniih'd, that hare minded you 
Ofwhatyottihoukl&ijfet. Now, goodmyLiege^ - 
Sir, royal Sir, forgive a foolifli woman f 
The love I bo)« your Queen — lo^ fool again !--—>«- 
I'll fpeak of her no mere, nor of your children : 
fli not remember you of my own Lord, 
Who is loft too. Take you your patience to you^ 
And I'll fay nothing* 

Z;^^. Thou didft fpeak but well^ 
When aoft the troth; which I Mceivv mudi better 
Than to be pitied of thee. Pr'ythee, bring me 
To the dead bodies Q^ my Queen and foil $ 

To MftbSfig hut dtfpMr.l Mr. Rvtot xeadt diii pa&ge thus ; bat 
Mu P^i h«a beeo pleafed to add to the abfnidi^ of it, by aa isno' 
vAtion io the pomtiof. PauUtia it aads, by this MfibU cbaagei to 
argue with the King in this 
HUntf htcaifff rtptmance c^n eL 
Huine reading of the old copies 
to di fcourage him fcom te^entance^ <m the fuppofitiott of his cnm<> 
being too heinous ta \i% {qi|)j>(W\ ^YkJt>ikiWMSmV«^ Vi^thfeltttely to 
tmbraoc defMuvw 

% 



The WiM'Tik's Tale; 287 

Onfe grave Stall be for both. Upon tbcm fliall 

The cauTes of thtfir deikth appear unto 

Oar ihame ^rpetual ; ofice a day V\l vifit 

The chapel where they lie, tad teaF» (hed there 

Shall be my reo^attoa. So long ai nature 

Will bear up wiAthis exerdfe^ fo long 

I dailyvow to ufe k« Coaie^ andkad me. 

7^ thefe forrowl^ (£xaMnfk 

SCENE changes to Bohemia. A defart Coun- 
try ; the Sea at a little didance* 
£ntir Antig^niu avUJ^ a Cbild^ and a M^f"^*^ 
ifii/.^T^Hou art perfed then., oar (hip hath touch'd upon 
X The defartsof BoJhemiaf 

Mar, Ajf my Lord ; and fear^ 
We've landed in ill timer the flites look grimly^ 
And tlireaten prefeiit bltifters* In my confbiepce. 
The heav'ns with that we hanre in hand are angry. 
And frown npon*s« 

jfnt. Their facred wills be dtMEie! get thee aboard^ 
Look to thy bark, IHl not be long before 
I call npon thee. 

Mar., Make yosr beft hafte, and go not 
Too far i'th' land $ 'tis like to be lotsdweather* 
Sefides, this place is fiunons fbr the creatures 
Of prey, thftt keep upon't. , 

^nt. Co thou away* 
PlHbllow inflandy. 

/ilf«r. I'm glad at heart 
To be fo rid o'th' bnfinefs. [ixii4 

Am. Come, poor babe % 
(have heard, but not believed, the fpirlts o'tk' dead. 
May walk again ; if fuch thing be, thy mother 
Appear'd to me laft night ; for ne'er was dream 
So like a waking. To me comes a creature. 
Sometimes her head on one fide, fome another^ 
I never faw a veffel of like fbrrow 
So fiU'd, and fb becomings in pure white robeSi 
Like ver/ ha^ity, ./he did approach 
Mr cabin wherQ I lay ; thrice bow*d btf a* m^ 



288 The WiNTBR^s Talb. 

And, gtfplne to begin (bme fpeech, her eyei 

Became two ]poats^; the fary {pent, anon 

Did this breaK from her. ** Uood Antigonus^ 

** Since fate, againft thy better difpofition, 

*' Hath made thy perfon for the thrower-out 

*' Of my poor babe, according to thine oath, 

** Places remote enough are in Bohimiay 

** There weep, and leave it crying ; and, for the kibe 

<< Is counted loft for ever and ever, Perdita^ 

«* I pr'ythee, call't. For this ungentle bufinefs 

•* Put on thee by my Lord, thou ne'er fhalt fee 

" Thy wife Paulina more." — And (b, with ihricksy 

She melted i^to air. Affrighted much, 

I did in time colledt myfelf, end thought 

This was fo, and no flumber : Dreams are toysy 

Yet for this once, yea, fnperftitiouily, 

I will be fquar'd by this. I do believe, 

Hermioue hath fuffer'd death ; and that 

Jpollo would, this being indeed the ilTue 

Of King PoUxtutSi it £ottld here be laid. 

Either for life or death, upon the earth 

Of its right father. Blofibm, fpeed thee well (f 7) ^ 

[Laying down the cM 
There lie» and there thy chara&er : there thie^. 
Which may, if fortune pleafe, both breed thee, pretty onCi 
And ftill reft thine. The ftorm begins ; poor wretch, 
That for thy mother's fault art thus expos'd 
To Jofs, and what may follow ; weep I cannot. 
But my heart bleeds : and moft accurft am I 
To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewel ! 
Tke day frowns more and more ; thou art like to have 
A lullaby tbd rough : I never faw 
Tt'he heav'ns fo dim by day. A favage cl^unour ! 

( ' 7) -— - BloObm, ff>eed tbee well ! 

There He, Mnd there thy chancier.-——] The rcalbn why the 
mneof charaffer is given to the gold mantle and medal, feems this: 
By thefe, her quality was to be known. And the NaturaUfts and So- 
tatiifts pretending, that the qualaies of every plant may be known by 
Its mark or charaBer^ which, they fay. Nature has impreis^d on it \ 
•fter he had caird the child bhjf^m, he ftiaight VMktt an allafion to 
that opinion^ ajMi (ayt,— /^ ibara&er. Mr. fTgrhurten* 

Well 



tfilMj' WiKTnJuJs Tale. tt^ 

Wcli^may 1 get aboard I this is the chace t 
I am gone for ever. iExit, fur/unl fy a bear. 

Enter an old Shepherd. 

Ship. I would there were no age between ten and 
three 'and twenty, or that youth would ileep out the 
reft: for there is nothing ia the hetnJoeen but getting 
wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, ftealing, 
^ghting — hark you now 1 — would any but thefe boil'd 
brains of nineteen and two and twenty, hunt this wea- 
ther ? they have /du''d away two of my beft iheep, 
which, I foar, the wolf will ux>ner find than the mailer i 
ifany wjiere I have them, 'tis by the iea- fide, brouz- 
iag of ivy. Gpod luck, ah't be thy will! what have 
we here ? [Taking up the childly Mercy on's, a bearne ! 
a very pretty bearne ! a bpy, or a child,, I wonder ! a 
pretty one, a very pretty one; fure, fome 'fcape :,tho* 
I am not bookifh, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman 
in the Ycape. -This has been fome ftair*work, feme 
trunk-work, fome behind-door- work : they were warmer 
that got this, than the poor thing is here. Til take it 
up for pity, yet .Til tarry till my fon come: he hol«» 
low'd but even now ; whoa, ho-hoa! 
Enter Clown^ 

C^. Hilloa, Ida! 

Shep, What, art fo near? if thou'lt fee a thing to 
talk on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. 
What aiPft thou, man ? 

Ch. I have (een two fuch fights, by fea and by land ; 
' (i8)> but I am not to fay, it is a-fea ; for it is now thf 
iky ; betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thru I a 
-bodkin's point. 

(|8) But lam Mtto, Jay, U is afta; for it is now the Jky ; hetwhtt 
. the firntapitnt and it, jou cannot tbruft a bodkin's point,] I will not pre- 
tend to be pofitive, our Author had Don ^luixote here in his eye ; but 
^tfff(i&0 facetioufly fays rpmeihiog very lilce cbis^ upon thefudden mu* 
tabilicy of a woman's refolutions. Entre el & y el no de U Mugtr na 
me atreveria yo ^poner una puhta d* alfiler» Between a woxnan^s ay 
and no I would not undertake to tbruft a pin's point* This change- 
sblencfs our Author, in hi| hear has finely called, Tht Mnd^itiguifi*4 
Jhace- of twflwn'i v///t 

Vol. IlL If Shep^ 



190 The Wimtbr's Tale. 

Shep. Why, boy, how is it? 

Clo, I would, you did but fee how it chafes, how it 
rr.ges, how it takes up the fliore; but that's not to the 
point ; oh, the mod pitious cry of the poor fouls, feme- 
times to -fee 'em, and not to fee *em : now the fhip bor- 
ing the moon with her main-maft, and anon fwallow'd 
with yeft and froth, as you'd thruft a cork into a hogf- 

head. And then for the land-fervice, to fee how 

the bear tore out his /houldcr-bone, how he cry'd tome 
for help, and faid his name was Ani'tgonusy a nobleman. 
But to make an end of the (hip, to fee how the fea flap- 
dragon'd it. But firft, how the poor fouls roar'd, and 
the fea mock'd them. And how the poor gentleman 
roar'd, and the bear mock'd him, both roaring louder 
than the fea, or weather. 

Shep, Name of mrercy, when wa!s this, boy? 

Clo, Now, now, I have not wink'd fince I faw thefe 
iights ; the men are not yet cold under water, nor the 
be^r half din'd on the gentjeman ; he's at it now. 

(19) Shep. Would 1 had been by to.have hdp'd the 
nobleman. 

Clo, I would, you had been by the fliip-iide, to have 
help'd her ; there your charity would have lack'd foot- 
ing. \^fi^r 

Shep, Heavy matters, heavy matters I Jbut look thee 
here, boy. Now blefs thyfelf ; thou meet'ft with things 
. dying, I with things new-born. Here's a fight for thee; 
look thee,- a bearing-cloth for a 'fquire's child 1 look 
thee here ; take up, take up, boy, open't ; fo, let's fee: 
it was told me, 1 Ihould be rich by the fairies. This is 
fame changling ; open't; what's within, boy ? 

(2e) Clo. You're a made old man; if the fins of your 

youth 

(19) Shep. WWi, 1 bad been by to have help* d the 6\^ man.'] Tho' 
all the prine^ copies concur in this reading, 1 am perfuaded we ought 
to reftoje, nobleman. The fliepherd knew nothing qS Ant tgonus'i age; 
befides, the c own had juft told his father, that he faid, his naoDCVX 
yivt gonui a nobUmaH, and no lefs than three timet in this Acre fceoe, 
the c own, fpe.^king of him, calls him the ^^»//fW<a;;. 

(20) ' Toure a mad olH man j tf the Jim of your youth are forgiven y%*% 
you're ivcll to live* Ctdl all ^old l\ tYiv\ \Vx.^ d<^wti fayi upon bis 



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The Winter's Tali, 291 

youth are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold ! all 
gold! 

Sbep. This is fairy gold, boy, and will prove fo. Up 
with it> keep it clofe : home, home, the next way. 
Wc are lucky, boy ; and to be fo dill,, requires no- 
thing but fecrefy. Let my ftieep go ; come, good boy, 
the nextjAvay home. 

do* Go you the next way with . your findings, I'll 
go. (ee if the bear be gone from the gentleman, and 
how much he hath eaten: they are never curfl, but 
whan they ar« hungry: if there be any of him left, 
I'llbury it. 

^hep. That*s a good deed. If thou may'ft difcera 
by that which is left bf him, what he is, fetch me to 
th' fight, of him. 

Clo. Marry, will I ; and you fhall help to put him 
i'th* ground. 

Shep, 'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds 
•n't. ' [^Exeuttt: 

- Enter Time, as Chorusm 

Time, I, that pleafe fome, try all, both joy and itttot 
Of good^and bad, that ma^ and unfold error (21) ; 

Now 

•penlng bis fardel, and difcovering the wealth in it, But this is no 
■ reafon why he flionld call his father a mad old man. I have ventured 

to corre^ in the text : Toure a made old man : i, e, your fortune's 

made by this adveniittoas treafure*- So our Poet, before, la his Mid* 
fummer Night s Dreamy 

We had all been made men : 
Aad fo, again, in his Tivelpb Night} 

Go to, thpti art made if thou defireft to be fo. 
So Beanmont MdF/euher in their Elder Brofbtr I ' 

We're made for t^tr. 
And in their Mad-Lover ; 
Sipb, O happy I ! 
Cbil. YoiCrc a made man. 
An^in a hundred moie inftaoce^, that sn'ght be qtsoted to prove the 
«fe of the expreflion. 

(21) ■ That make and unfold error,"] This does not in my 

opinion take in the Poet's thought. Time does not make nr^iftsike!', 
and difcsver them, at ciffetent conjundures ; but the Poet means that 
Time often for a fcafon covers errors, which he aftetwaids di^^U^t 
Mtid i^nit^s to //£lf, I cJiuft therefcxe to WlA \ 

N % • tVafc 



Now take apton me, rn'the^KEmebf TtMe, 

To ufe my wings. Impact it not a crime 

To me, or my wif^ pattsLgCf that I Hide * 

0*cr flxteen years, and leave the-growth oatryM 

Of that wide gap ; fmce Stis^in-mhrpOwer 

To o'erthrow law, and in-one-felf-bom boar 

To pknt and o'erwhelm coilom. Let inef afi 

The fame I am, ere antien t'iir ordef was. 

Or what is now rccjciv'd. -rwitnefs to 

The times, that brought than In ; 'fyHhklll do 

To rh* freftieftthbgsnow rdgnlag, 'and make ftala 

The.gliftering of this prefent, as my tale 

Now Teem 8 to it : your padencethis allowing, 

I cum my ^hfs ; 'and give*ffly fcene fuch growing. 

As you had fl^pt between. Leontes leaving 

Th* cfFcfts 6f -his *)i*d jcalotifies, fo grieving 

That he (hats up himfelf ; imagine me. 

Gentle fpeftators, that Inow maybe 

In fair Bohemia ; and remember well, 

I mention here a-ibn^o'th*^«ings, whom Florind 

I now name to^you ; and^ith ijpeed' (b pace 

To fpeak «f ' Ptrditay *noaw-grown in grace 

Eoual with wond'riog. What of her enfues, 

I lift not prophefy. But let Time's news 

Be known, when 'tis bronght forth. A fiiepherd'i 

daughter. 
And what to her adheres, which follows after. 
Is th* argument of Time ; of this allow. 
If ever you have fpent time worfc ere now : 
If never, yet that Time himfelf doth fay. 
He wifhes earne&ly, yoa never may. [f ;r//f 

I that nalk and unfold entr* 

To the like purpofe oi»r Poet in Miofurt for HUggfitt^ 
Keep me in patience} and with ri^V/JMf 
VtifM the ei^il vrhkbiihere wn^ wp 
In countenance: 
'Aiid^ again, in hit Lear ^ 

Thne'ihAl unfiU what plaited «tinfl!og&fifr, 

VfhQ €9vertfmt)it9, tt U& with fliMic tei4et« « 



K^'\ 



I 



A C T IV. 

S C E N £9 th« Gourt of Bobgmisu 

Entir Folixeof I ofid Camillo* ^ ^ 

PO L,| X.&N E 8. 

I Pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importanatt ; 
'ris a ficknefs denying thee any thing, a death to 
grant this. 

Cam. It is fifteen years fince I faw my countiy ; though 
I have for the moft part been aired abroad, I defire to 
lay my bones there. Befldes, the penitent King, my 
itiafter, hath fcnt for me ; to whofe feeling forrows I 
anight be fome allay, or I o'erwcen to think fo, which 
is another fpur to my departure. 

PoL As thou lov'ft me, Camillo^ wipe not cut the.rcfl 
^ thy fervices by leaving me now ; the need I have of 
thee, thine owngoodnefs hath made : better not to have - 
)iad thee, than thus to want thee. Thou having rmdo 
jne bofineiTes, which none, without thee, can fu^cient* 
ly manage, muft either (lay to execute them thyAU, or 
take away with thee the very fervices thou haft done ; 
which if I hav5e not enouoh coniidered, (as too nuch I 
eannot,) to be more thankful to thee Ihall be my ftudy ; 
and my profit therein, the heaping frkndfhips. Of 
that fatal country Sicilian pr'ythee, fpeak no more; 
whofe very naming puni(hes me with the remc^nbrance 
of ^hat penitent, as thou call'iL him, and reconciled 
King my brother, whofe lofsof his moft precious Qoeettt 
and cliildren are.even now ta be afre(h lamented. Sayi 
to me, when faw'ft thou the Prince Florizel my fon I 
Kings arcnalefa unhappy, their ifTue not being graci- 
<ms, than they are in lofi'ng them, when they have ap- 
proved their virtues, 
C^mSz, it is three days fince I taw ^'t'?\\tv<:.^\ 
N 3 ^^"^^"^ 



294 The Winter's T A L E. 

what his happier afaif s • may be, are- to me unknown ; « 
but I have (miffingly) noted, he is of late much' retired ' 
from court, and is lefs frequent to his princely exercifes 
than formerly he hath appeared. 

PoL 1 have confidcr'd fo much, Camilloy and with 
fome care fo far, that I have eyes under my fervice, 
which look upon his removednefs ; from whom I have 
this intelligence, that he is feldom from the houfe of a 
jiioft homely (hepherd ; a man, they fay, thax from very 
rothing, and beyond the imagination of his neighbours, 
is grown into an unfpeakable eflate. 

Cam. I have heard. Sir, of fuch a man, who hath 
a daughter of moft rare note ; the report of her is ex- 
tended moi;^ than can be thought to begin from fuch a 
cottage. 

Pd, (22) That*s likewife a part of my intelligence; 
and, I fear, the engle that plucks our fon thither. Thoa 
fhalt accompany us to the place, where we will (not 
appearing what wc are) have fome queflion with the 
fhepherd ; from whofeiimplicity^ I think it not uneafy 
to get the caufe of my fon's refort thither. Pr'ythee, 
be my prefent partner in this bufinefs, and lay afide the ^ 
thoughts of Si cilia. 

Cant. I willingly obey your command. 

PgL My beft Cafnillo ! — we mull difguife curfelvcs. 

\ExcunU 

ii'iS That^s iikew'tfe part of my inteU'tgence ', h^ J fear, the zm^i 
flat plucks our fon tbitber ] . The dhjun&ive here, I ihiDk,. maktJ 
ftarlc nohrtn^t of the c^tfxt j and the editors have palm'd za allufion 
in the word tf»o/tf, which rcem« foreign to the fenfe of the pallage. 
iVs, bcfoic, in \hc Taming cf (be S brew f a/i^tf/ is miftalcenly put for 
e/igle: (c, I {\iC^cO., angle, by the fame e.afy corruption, is here. I 
have thrrt provM th« ufe and ixcaningof the word, 1*11 proceed brieltjf 
to jurt:fy the emendation I Have here made, by fliewing how naturally 
it i'alh in with the fenfe wc ihonid expe^. Camilh bad joft told the 
K'.n?5 he had heard of fuch a Hiepherd, and of a daughter he had of 
irtoft rare note. Ay^ replies the King, that* s a part of my intdligenct 
too J and, Ifeart [tbat daughter is\ thetrco, the decoy, the Invitation^ 
ibat plucks our fon thither, . ' 



The Winter's Tale. 295 
SCENE changes to the Country. 

Enter Autolicus, finging 

WHEN dafFadils begin to peere, 
With, heigh I the doxy over the dale. 
Why then comes in the fweet o'th' year ; 

For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. • 
The white fheet bleaching on the hedge. 

With, hey ! the fweet birds, O how they fing ! 
Doth fet my pugging tooth on edge : 

For a quart of ale is a difli for a King. 
The lark that tirra-lyra chaunts. 

With,. hey ! with, hey 1 the thrulh and the jay ! 
Are fummer-fongs for me and my aunts. 

While wc lie tumbling in the hay, 
I have fervcd ? rinct Florizei, and imny time wore three- 
pUe, but now I am out of Service. 

But fhall I go mourn for that, my dear ? 

The pale moon Ihines by night : 
And when I wander here and there, 

I then do go moft right. 
If tinkers may have leave to live. 

And bear the fow-ikin budget ; 
Then my account I well may give, 

And in the flocks avouch it. 

My traffick is fheets ; when the kite builds, luok to 
lefler linen. (23) My father nam'd me Jvtolicus^ be- 
iag litter'd under Mercury \ who, as I am, was likewife 
a ftiapper-up of unconfider'd trifles : with die and deal, 

(23) My father fi^^d m^AutoUcus, nvho beingt af I am, Rttey'd 
ttnder Mercury, was Ukewifi afnapper up of unconfidered trifrs.'} 7 l.t 
flight tranrpofitioo I have ventur'b 10 nnake of four fhott irono'v 1 . - 
bles in this paflage, was prcfcrib'd by my ingenious fiend Mr. Pf'^i r- 
Surtertf^ The Poet's meaning feems to be this. My t-ther nam'«l n • 
jiut^licus, becaufe I was born under, Mercury i who was a thief, a» I 
aiD* The allution is, unque(^icnably, to this paflage in Ovid ^ 

Al'pedis defiirpe dci verfuta propago ' 

Najcitur A\xio\^Q}i9y furtum Irtgenhjus ad dmne, Metaro. Lb. x>* 
N 4 'iu% 



2^6 The Wi NT £ ib'ft T&A i^i; 

I pdrchas'd this caparifont and my revenue is tlic filljr 
cheat. Gallows^ and knocks ar» tod p6w<erfitl on the 
high -way; beating and hanging are terrors to me : tor 

the life to come, I ikep out the tbftiigb^ of it. — 

A prize ! a prize i 

Eniir.CUvfiti 

CIo^ Let me fee,— Every eleven weittfer- tods, everjr 
tod yields pound and odd /hilling -; fifteen hondred 
fhorn, what comes the wool to ? 

-</»/. If thfcfprindge hold, the cock's mrihe.^^ t^^. 

C/o, I cannot dp't without compters. Let mc fee, 
what am I to buy for our fhecp*- (hearing' f«aft; three 
pound of fugar, Avt pound x)fcnrrantr, rite— -what 
will this filler of mine do with ride-? but my father hath 
made her roiftrefs of the feaft, andiflit; lays it on. Sht 
hath made me four and twenty nofe^gayy for the (hearers; 
(24) thr^-man foivg^men alU- and « very- good one$, bot= 
they are mod of them means and baier:; But onepuritaa. 
asiQO^ them^ and he fmgs pialms.talior«pipes; I mu& 
have fafiron to colour the warden-pies^ mac&^-^ates— 
;none— that's put of my note: nutmegsi feven ; a.race 
or two of ginger, but that I may beg^; . four pound of 
prunes, and as many raifins o'th' fun.^. 

Jut. Oh, that ever I was born 1 [Gnvilmgenihe^rowiil, 

Clo. I'th' name of me— • 

The true v4itff6^ciri was the foB/Of Mercury i our £dlttioatlBne» boMr 
under hii planst: thefirft acopy of bis fathrrj thfc other, foppcsVco 
derive his qualities from natal predominance. To this Amt^cuti tb< 
iatkoi Mercury y M^rfi^ff bat alluded in the-SclitBodlbof bit EpigraoMj 
Non/uif Autdyc tarn piceata manwB*;. 
We find bit hi Dory in Pherecyda, Hyginu$, &c. 
(24) Three man Sougmen ail, and very goodoius,'^ By •thrte»m4* 
fongfter we are tounderftand, a fiag^r of catcbesj which caicbet w^rs 
then, and are tiow-moft commooly, in /^/ve parts^ So oar Aaihor/ia 
fifcond part cf K\Xi%lUnry IV j 

Fal If I do, fillip me with a tbtee-mairMt^U. 
!• e. a three- banded ^t\\tt or one ofed by three men tO|etlMrt -^ 
Soin an old play, cali*d,^ Tb* Merry Milk- Minds i 
Smirk, Nay, l*il put fn too for my ha, ha, hai« 
^Thh is a thtte man^t lau^hterr 
For the laugh h kept 09 h^ ibrec ^%it«M\& ^Urm^ 



* The Winter's Tali^ 297 

J!ut* Ohy help mtt help me : plock bat off thefe 
fags, and then death, death , 

Clo» Alack, poor foul, thou hail need of more rag* 
to lay on thee, rather than have thefe off. 

^ut. Oh, Sir, the loathf^meneis of them offends me, 
more than the ftripes I have received, which are mighi|L 
Ones, and millions. ^ . 

Clo, Ala$» poor, man ! a million of beating may come 
tt) a great matter. 

Jut, I am robb'dy Sir, and besten : my money and 
apparel ta'en from me, and thefe deteilable things put 
upon me. 

CU. What, by a horfe-man, or a fbot-man ? 

Jut* A foot-mao, fweet Sir, afoot-man? 

Clo, Indeed, he ibould be a foot-man, by the gar* 
inents he has left with thee ; if this be a horfe-man's 
coat, it hath feen very hot fervice. Lend me thy hand, 
I'll help thue. Comey lend me thy hand. 

[Helping him up. 

Jut, Oh ! good Sir, tenderly, oh ! . 
,Clo. Alas, poor foal. 

Jut» O good Sir, foftly, good^ir; I fear. Sir, iSLf 
flionlder- blade is out. 

Ch. How DOW ? can ft (land ? 

Jut., Softly, dear Sir ; good Sir, foftly ; yo» ha* 
done me a charitable office. 

C/ff.Doft lack any money ? I have a little money for thee. 

Jut, No, good fweet Sir ; no, I befecch you. Sir ; 
I have a kinfman not pad three quarters of a mile hence,, 
nnto whom I was going ; I ihall there have money, or 
any thing I want: omt mc no mOney, I pray you; 
that kills my helrt. . 

Clo, What manner of fellow was he, that robb'd you ? 

Jut. A fellow. Sir, that I have known to go about 
with trol-mydames ; I knew him once a fervant of the 
Prince; I cannot tell, good Sir, forwhichof his virtues 
it was> but he was certainly whipp*d out of the court. 

Clo His vices, you would fay ; there's no virtue 
whi/>p'd out of the court ; they c\\€nfti\t \» tDl2ka\3w^v| 
there, and yet it vnll no more but aVvift* 



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The Winter's Tale. 



j!ut. Vices I would fay. Sir. I know this man well, 
he hath been fince an ape-bearer, then a procefs-ferver, 
a bailifF; then he compafs'd a motion of the prodigal 
Ton, and married a tinker*s wife within a mile where 
my land and living lies ; and, having fiowh over many 
kfiaviih profeflions, he fettled only in rogue ; fome call 
him Auiolicus. 

do. Out upon him, prig! for my life, prig;— he 
haunts wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings. 

j^ut. Very true. Sir ; he. Sir, he ; that's the rogue, 
that put me into this apparel. 

do. Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia ;i( 
you had but look'd big, and fpit at him, he'd have run. 
Jut. I muft confefs to you. Sir, I am no fighter; I 
am falfe of heart that way, and that he knew, I warrant 
him. 

do- How do yon now .> 

Jut. Sweet Sir, much better than I was i I can (land, 
and walk ; I will even take my leave of you, and pace 
foftly towards my kinfmaji's. 

Clo. Sh^U I bring thee on thy way ? 
Juf. No, good-fec'd Sir ; no, fweet Sir. 
do. Then, farewd, I muft go buy (pices for our 
iheep-(hearing. ^ ^ [Lxit, 1 

Jut- Profper you, fweet Sir ! your purfe is not hot ' 
enough to purchafe yoqr fpice. I'll be with you at 
your fticep- (hearing too : if I make not this cheat bring 
out another, and the (hearers prove (heep, (25) let me be 
nnroird, and my name put into the book of virtue ! 

SONG. 

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, 

And merrily hent the flile-a. 
A merry heart goes all the day. 

Your fad tires in a mile-a. [Exif. 

(25) Leem be nnroU*d, andnty name put in the book 9/ 'virtue. "l 
Begging gypiiesy ^c, in the time of oar Author were in gangs, thac 
had rcmsthing of the regularity of an incorporated body. This is al« 
JuWed to here, from lh'\s nobU CM^lftt^ hit ytvCbie^ he may be unroWd, 
i/ he doci not do ib, aftd It • VA.WaT\>uTi%n. 



The Winter's Tale. 299 

S C E N E, the profpea of a Shepherd's Cott. 

Enter Florizel and Perdita. 

F/p.'T^ H E S E your unufual weeds to each part of you 

JL Do give a life : no (hepherdefs, but Flora 
Peering in JpriPs front. This your fheep- (hearing 
Is as a meeting of the petty gods. 
And you the Queen on't. 
^ Pfr, Sir, my gracious Lord, 
To chide at your extreams it not becomes me : 
Oh pardon y that I name them : your high felf. 
The gracious mark o'th* land, you have obfcurM 
With a iwain's wearing ; and me, poor lowly maid. 
Mod goddefs-like prankM up. But that our feafts 
In every mefs have folly, and the feeders 
Digeft it with a cuftom, I fhould blufti 
To fee you fo attired ; fworn, I think, 
To fliew myfelf a glafs. 

-Flo, I blefs the time. 
When my good falco'n made her flight a-crofs 
Thy father's ground. 

Per. Now Jo^ue afford you caufe ! 
To me the difference forges dread ; (your greatnefs 
Hath not been us'd to fear ;) even now I tremble 
To think, your father, by fome accident. 
Should pafs this way, as you did : oh, the fates I 
How would he look, to fee his work, fo noble. 
Vilely bound up ! what would he fay ! or how 
Should I in thefemy borrowed flaunts behold 
The fternnefs of his prefence ? 

Flo, Apprehend 
Nothing but jollity : the gods themfelves. 
Humbling their deities to love, have taken 
The Ihapes of beads upon them. Jupiter 
Became a bull, and bellow'd ; the green Neptum 
A ram, and bleated ; and the fire-rob'd god. 
Golden //6>//^, a poor humble fwain. 
As T feem now. Their transformauotv^ 
Were never for a piQQC of beautv rww, " , 

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30# The Winter's TAL.ifei 

N6r in a way fo chafte : fince my deiires U i 

Run notbe^re.IniB«hoBoaf, Bor myjIuAfr ICo 

Barn hdtter than my f^itb. In 

Per. 0» but, dear|Slr, \kj 

Your refoluiion cannot hold, when 'tis } Si 

Opposed, as it muft be; by th' power o*th*King. 
One of thefe two mull'tie necefSdes, l^t 

Which then wilt fpeak. that yon ifioa'dnuifgetHis p«rp(4 IT 
Or I my life. |C 

Flo. ThovL detaeft Perdfia, 1] 

With thefe forc'd thoughts, 1 pf'ytfeej darken not Ij 

The mirih o'th* feaft ; or I'llbfe thine, my fair, | { 

Or not my father's. For I cannot b'e ' 
Mine own, nor any thing to any, if ^ 
I be not thine. To this I am mbftcohftint, 
Tho' dcftiny fay n^. Be merry, (Gentle,) 
Strangle fuch tnoughts as thefe; with any thing 
That you behold the while. Your gUeft^ ar« coming : 
Lift up your countenance, as 'twere tlieday 
Of celebration of that nuptial, whkk^ 
We two have fworn ihall come. 

Per. O lady Fortune, 
Stand you auipicious ! 

Enter Shepherd; Cio<wn, MopTa^ Doreas^ ServatiUi aid 
Polixenes and CamUlo difyd^^d. 

Ph. See, your guefts approach ; 
Addr^fs yourfelf to etitertam them Q^Hghtly,' 
And let's be red with mirth. 

Shep. Fy, daughter ; when niy old wife liv'd, upoft 
This day (he was both pantler, butler, rook. 
Both dame and fervant ; welcom'd all, ferv'd all ; 
Would fing her fong, and dance her turn ; now herC; 
At upper end o^th' table, now i'lh' middle : 
On his ihoulder, and hi3 ; her face q' fire 
With labour ; and the thing fhe took to quench i^ 
She wotild to each one fip. You are retired. 
As if you were a feafted one, and not 
The hoftefs of theTOcet\tk^\ ^xa.^ ^^t^vx^ ^\A. 
Thek unknown friends xo'a v^o^Vioxsi^, fex\x\% 



The WiNTER^s Talb. 301 

/V way to make as better friend«« more lenowa. 
Come, quench your blufh'es, and prefent yonHelf 
That which yoo are^ miHrefs o'th' fead. Come on. 
And bid us welcome to your fheep^fhearing. 
As your good flock fhall profper. 

P^. Sirs, welcome. [7# Pol. nr^ Cam* 

It is my father's will, I fhould take on me - 
The hoftefsihip o*th' day; you're wekome. Sirs. 
Give me thofe flowers there, Z>0rrtf/.— Reverend Sirs^ 
For you there's rofemary and rue, thefe keep 
Seeming and favour all the mnter long : 
Grace and remembrance be unto yon both. 
And welcome to our ihearing ! 

PoL Shepherdcfs, 
^A fair one are you,) wdl you £t our ages 
"With flowera of winter. 

Per, Sir, the year growing ancient. 
Not yet on fummer's aeath, nor on the birth 
Of trembling winter, the fatreft flowers o'th' feaioA 
Are our carnations, and flreak'd gilly-flowers. 
Which fome call Nature's bafUrds : of that kind 
Our ruftick garden's barren, and I careiiot 
To get flips of them. 

PoL Wherefore, gentle maiden. 
Do you negledi them ? 

Per. For I have heard it faid. 
There is an art^ which in their pidenrfs fiiares 
With great creating Nature. 
• PoL Say, there be; 
Yet Nature is made better by no mean. 
But Nature makes that mean ; fo over that art. 
Which, you fay, adds to Nature, is an art . 
That Nature makes ; you fee, fweet maid, we marrf 
A gentler fcyon to the wildefl flock ; 
And make conceive a bark of baier kind 
By bud of' nobler race. This is an art. 
Which dpes mend Nature, change it rather ; bnC 
The art itfelf is Nature. 
/Vr. So it is, 
Fffi. Thtn m^c your gaideti ncViVii %\\\iA^^«^'» 



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302 The Winter's Tale, 

And do not calhthem baflards. 

Per, ril not put 
The dibble in earth, to fct one flip of them : 
No more than, were I painted, I would wi(h 
This youth ihould fay, *twere well ; and only therefore 
Defire to breed by me. — Here's flowers for you ; 
Hot lavender, mints, favoury, marjoram. 
The mary-gold, that goes to bed with th' fuo. 
And with him ri fes, weeping : thefe are flowers 
Of middle-fummer, and, I think, they are givea 
To men of middle-age. Y'are very welcome. 

Cam, I flioold leave grazing, were I of your flock, 
And only live by gazing. 

Per, Out, alas ! 
You'd be fo lean, that blafts of January [friend. 

Would blow you through and through. Now, my faireft 
I would, I had fome flowers o'th* fpring, that might 
Become your time of day ; and yours, and yours, 
That wear upon your virgin-branches yet 
Your maiden -heads growing : O Proferpina^ 
For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'fl fall 
From D/Vs waggon ! dafiadils. 
That come before the fwallovv dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim. 
But fweeter than the lids of Juno^s eyes. 
Or Cyiherea^s breath ; pale primrofes. 
That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Pbaehusiry his ftrength ; (a malady- 
Mod incident to maids ;) bold oxiips, and 
The crown- imperial ; lilHes of all kinds. 
The flower-de-lis l>eing one. O, thefe I lack 
To make you garlands of, and my fweet friend. 
To ftrow him e'er and o'er. 

Flo, What? likeacoarfe? 

Per, No, like a bank, for love to He and play on ; 
Not like a coarfe ; or if, — not to be buried 
But quick, and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers ; 
Methinks, I play as 1 have fecn them do 
In Whitfnn paftorals : fure, this robe of mine , 

"Docs change my difpofltion. 

Flo. 



The Winter's Tale. 303 

* Flo. What yoa do. 
Still betters what is done. When yon fpeak, (fweet) 
I'd have you do it ever; when you iing, 
I'd have you buy and fell fo ; fo, give alms ; 
Pray, fo; and for the ordering your affairs, 
To fing them too. When you do dance, I wifli you 
A wave o'th' fea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that ; move ftill, ftill fo. 
And own no other fundion. Each your doipg. 

So Angular in each particular. 

Crowns what you're doing in the prefent deeds. 

That all your adls arc Queens. 
Per. O Doriclesj 

Your prahes arc too large ; but that your youth 

And the true blood, which peeps forth fairly through it. 

Do t>lainly give you out an unftain'd (hepherd ; 

With wifdom I might feir, my Doricles^ 

You woo'd me the falfe way. 
Fio. I think, you have 

As little (kill to fear, as 1 have purpofe 

To pi|t you to't. But, come; our dance, I pray ; 

Your hand, my Perditai fo turtles pair. 

That never mean to part. 
Per, ril fwear for 'em. 
Pol. This is the prettieft low-born lafs, that ever 

Ran on the green-ford ; nothing ihe does, or feems. 

But fmacks of fomething greater than herfcli^ 

Too noble for this 'place. 
C«/». He tells her fomething (26), 

(26) — ~ Hi telh her fometbing, 

That makes her blood look on't.] Thus all the old editions cor- 
ruptedly. I dare fay, I have refior'd the true reading; and the meaiy- 
ing muft be this. The Prince tells her fomething, that calls the blood ■ 
vp into her cheeks, and makes her blujb. She, but a littte before, ufes 
a like espreiTion to defcribe the Prince's fincetity, which appeared in 
the honejft blood riiing on-his face. ^ , 

Tour praifes are too large \ but that your youth 

uind the true blood, ivhtch peeps forxh fairly through it, 

Do plainly give you out an unJiaiH d Jhephera, 
I corre£)ed the above paffage, when I publi(h*d my Shakesfeark 
refior^d ; and Mr. P«/ i in hit laft ispreflion hai thought fit to embrace 
tlie CGiis&ion. 



304 The Winteb!s Talbj 

That makes her blood look out : good footh, Ao^tt. 
The Queen of curds and cream. 

Clo, Come on, ftrike up. 

Dor, Mopja mufl be your miilrefs ; marry, garlick t» 
mend her kifiing with.— 

Mop. Now, in good time ! 

Clo, Not a word, a word ; we ftand npon ear mas* 
ners ; come, flrike up. 

Htr$ a dmtiH of Sb^ertU aiui Bhephirdeffes. 

Pd, Pray, |ood (hepherd, what fair fwain is this 
Who dances with your daughter ? 

Shep. They call him Doricies, and he boads himfelf 
To have a worthy feeding ; but I have it 
Upon his own report, and I believe it : 
He looks like footh ; he fays, he loves my daughter^ 
I think fo too ; for never gazM the moon 
Upon the water, as he'll nand and read 
As 'twere my daughter's eyes : and, to be plain> 
I think, there is not half a kifs^o chufe 
Who loves another beft. 

Pol. She dances featly. 

SUfep, So (he does any thing, though I report it 
That ihould be iilent; if young Doriehs 
Do light upon her, (he (hall bring him that 
Which he not dreams of. 

Enter mServiM, 

ier, O maimer, if you did but hear the pedler at the ' 
door, yoa would never dance again after a tabor and 
pipe : no, the bag-pipe could not mo^t you ; he fiogs 
several tanes^ faHer than you'll tell money; he utteil 
them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grew 
Xp bis tunes. 

Clo, He could never come bettef; he (hall come in ; 
I love a ballad but even Xq^ well, if it be doleful mat- 
ter merrily fet down ; or a very pleafant thing indeed, 
and fang lamentably. 

Ser* He hath Congs fbt mwi, ox ^t«wwv^ ^t ?Al fixes ? 
no milliner can fo ti\iu vixtoww m>^ ^w^^\\c^ 



The Wi N T E r's T a lb; 305 

lia^diepretUeft love-fongs for msdds, fo withoitt baw- 
dfv, (which is Grange) with fcch delicate burdens oft 
dil'do's and fa-ding's : jump her and thump her : and/ 
Inhere fbme ftretch-meuth'd rafcal would, as it were, 
ojean mifchief/ and break a foul gap into the matter,^ 
h^ makes the maid to anfwer, Wbeop^ dotmno barm, good 
man ; puts him of, flights hiln, with Whoops do mi im\ 
tarmt gov J mam. 

Fol. Thisis abrave/ellow. 

do. Felieve me» thou talkeft of an admirable-con« 
ceited fellow ; has he any unbraided wares ? 

Ser. He hath ribbons of all ^he colours i'th' rainbow; 
points^, more than all the lawyers in Bohemia qml learn- 
edly handle, tho' they come toJiim by the grofs ; inkles,, 
caddiites, cambricks, lawns; why, he£ngs 'emover, ati 
they were gods and goddefles ; you. would think afmock 
werie a fhe-angel, he fo chants to. the fleeve-hand, and 
the work about the fquare on^t. 
. Clo. Pr'ythee, bring him in; and let him 4pproacb, 
ifnging. , 

P^. Forewarn Jiim, that 'he ofe no fcurrilous words 
ih's tunes. 

C/o. Yottf hareof thefe pedlers that have more in thnni 
^han you'd think, filter* 

P&. Ay, good brother, orgoabout to think«. 

. Enter Antoltcus /Wj^/a^. 

Lawn ^s white, as driven fnow, 

Cyprus black as e'er was crow l 

Gloves as fweet as damaik rofes, 

Malks for faces and for nofes ; , 

B'ugle*bracelets, heck-lace amber^ 

Perfume for a lady)s chatdber : 

Golden qifioifs, and.ihimachers^ 

For my lads to give their dears 1 

Pins, and poaking^^cksx)f fteel. 

What maids lack/fomJicad to heel: 

Come buy of me, come i come buy, come bajTi^ 

Buy, lads, or elfe your laflSw cx^« 

ComehQy, {rfc. 



3o6 The Wi nter's Tale. 

Clo, If I were not in love with Mop/a^ thou ffiouWil 
take no money of me ; but being en thrall'd as I am, it ' 
win alfo be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves. 

Mop, 1 was promis'd them agafn/l the feafl, but they 
come not too late now. 

Dor, He hath promis''d you inore than that, or' there 
bcliars.^ 

Mop, Ke hath paid you all he promis'd you : 'may 
be, he has paid you more ; which will fhame you to give 
him again. 

Clo. Is there no manners left among maids ? will they 
wear their plackets, where they Ihoyld bear their faces ? 
is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or 
kill-hole, to whittle of thefc fccrets, but you muft be tit-' 
tle-tatiing before all ourguefts ? 'tis well, they are whifp- 
ring : clamour your tongues, and not a word more. 

Mop, I have done: come, you promis'd me a tawdry 
lace, and a pair of fweet gloves. 

Clo, Have I not tbld thee how I was cozen'd by the 
way, and loft all my money ? , 

Jut, And, indeed, -Sir, there are cozeners abroad, 
therefore it behoves men to be wary. . , 

C/(7. Fekr not thou, man, thou fhaltMofe nothnig here. 

Jut, I hope fo. Sir, for I have about me many par- 
cels of charge. 

Clo. What haft here ? ballads ? 

Mop, Pray now, buy fome ; I love a ballad in print, 
or a life ; for then we are fure, they are true. 

Jut, Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a ufur- 
cr^s wife was brought to bed with twenty moiiey bags at 
a burden ; and how fhe long'd to eat adder's heads, and 
toads carbonado'd. 

Mop, Is it true, think you ? 

Jut. Very true, and but a month old. 

Dor, Blefs me from marrying a ufurer ! 

Jut, Here's the midwife's name to't, one miftrefs 
Tale-port er\ and ^vt or fix hone ft wives that were prc- 
ient. Why fhould I carry lies abroad ? 

j^^. Pray you now, ^vx^ \x. 



The Winter's Tale. 307 

Clo, Come on, lay it by; and let's firfl fee more 
ballads ; we'll buy the other things anon. 

Aut, Here's another ballad, of a fifli that appear'd 
upon the coaft. On Wednefday the fourfcore oi April, forty 
thoufand fadom above water, and fang this ballad 
again ft the hard hearts of maids ; it was thought, (he 
was a woman, and was turn'd into a cold fifh, for Ihe 
would not exchange flefh with one that lov'd her: the 
ballad is very pitiful, and as true. 

Dor, Is it true, too, think you ? 

Aut. Five juftices hands at it; and witneffes, more 
than my pack will hold. 

Clo, Lay it by too : another. 

Aut. This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one. 

Mop. Let's have fome merry ones. 

j§ut* Why, this is a paffing merry one, and goes to 
the tune of tnuo maids '^wooing a man ; there's fcarce a maid 
weftward, but ihe (ings it : 'tis in re queft, I can tell you. 

Mop, We can both fmg it; if thou'lt bear a part, 
thou fhalt hear, 'tis in three parts. 

Dor, We had the tune on't a month a-go. 

Aut, lean bear my part; you mu ft know, 'tis my 
occupation : have at it with you. 

Aut, Get you hence, for I muft go. 
Where \K fits not you to know. 

Dor.^ Whither ? 

Mop, O whither? 

Dor, Whither? 

Mop, It becomes thy oath full well. 
Thou to me thy fecrets tell. 

Dor. Me too, let me go thither : 

Mop, Or thou goeft to th' grange, or mill. 

Dor, If to either, thou doft ill : 

Aut, Neither. 

Dor. What neither ? 

Aut, Neither. 

Dor, Thou haft fworn my love to be ; 

Mojf, Thou haft fworn it rtvote to mt \ 
TAeji whither goeft i (ay, ^\v\\\lw\ 



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308 The Winter^ Tale. 

Cio, We'll hare tliis (bng oat anon bv onrfelves : mf 
father and the gentlemen are in fad talk, and we'll not 
trouble them: come bring away thy pack after me. 
Wenches, I'll buy for you both: pedler, let's hate the 
£rft choice ; follow me, girls. 

Jitf. And you (hall pay well for 'em. 

a t) N G. 

Will you buy any tape, or lace for your cape. 

My dainty duck, my dear-a ? 
And filk, and thread, any toys for your head 

Of the new'ft, and fin'ft, fin'ft ware-a? 
Come to the pedler ; money's a medlej:f 

That doth utter all mens ware-a. 

[Exii Clcwff, Autolicus, Dorcas, and Mopfa* 

Entifa Servant, 

^er, (27] Mafier, there are, three goat-:herds, three 
Aepherds, three neat-herds, and three fwine-herds, that 
have made themfelves all men of hair, they call them- 
felves faltiers: and they have a dance, which the wenches 
fay is agallymaufry of gambols, becaufe: they are not 
in't: but they themfelves are o'th' mind, (if it be not. 
too rough for fome, that know little but bowling,) it 
will pleafe plentifully, 

Shep. Away ! we'll none on't ; here has been too much 
homely foolery already. I know, Sir, we weary you. 

Pol. You weary thofe, that refrefh us : 'pray, let's fee 
thefe four- threes of herdfmen. 

Ser, One three of them by their own report, Sir, hath 
danc'd before the King ; and not the worft of the thret 
but jumps twelve foot and a half byth' fijuf^rev 

(27) Mafter, there art sbztt)Caij6»n9 tbrttfUfbtriit tbrH mft'berist, 
mni three fwine- herds, ] Thus all the printed cc pies h- therio. Now, U 
two fp«ecbes after this, thefe are c^WAfwr three*8of herJ/men, Bat 
could the carters properly be tuiVd berdfmaf zt leaft, they have not 
the final fyllable, herd, in their names ; .which^ I 'believe, Sbakejpeart 
intended, all tbe/^tfrr^^rM^ihWld hUTCt' I havo^Cktrcfose gvefi'd that 
ht wrote i-^Ma^f tW««re tbretvf^t-Vini^t^Qfev ^Q^ f<K I think, 
wc take ui th«/6«r fptci«io««t\x5fc uWfl^l \wbA»I^V|^*»^S««*- 



The WiNtEnV Tale. 3O9 

Ship. Leave your prating; fi nee thefe good men ara 
pleas'd^ let them come in ; bat qaickly now. 

Here a dance of twelve Satyrs. 

Pol. 0,^her, you'll know more of that hereafter.. 
Is it not too far gooe ? 'tis time to part them ; 
He's fimple, and tells much«<^How now, fair fliepherd } 
Your heart is full of fomething» thatxioes take 
Your mind from feafting. Sooth, whenltwas yongt 
And hasded io<ve» asyoa do, I waa wont 
To load my ike with kaaoks : -^I would have raafiick'il 
The pedlePs filken treafury, and have ponr'vd it 
To her acceptance ; yoo^hAvelct him^. 
And notfaiag matted witRkim. If your kfs 
Interpretatiot^ (hottld^abaier and call this 
Your lack of love or bounty ; you are firaitod 
For a reply, atleaft, if you make care 
Of happy holdim-her. 

Flo. Old Sir, fknow. 
She priset not* Ikoly trifles afthefetare 1 
The gifts, fhe looks from^me, vare packt^iad lockl 
tip in my heart, which I have given already. 
Bat not delivered. O, hear mesbracthe my loM 
before this onNfiflne^Sir/ who, . it flioald item. 
Hath (bmetime lov'd. . I t^ke thy band, ^slumd^ 
As foft as dove's down,' and' as white as it. 
Or Etbiopian*% tooth, or the^annfd fiiow 
That's bolted by the naMfaem blaft twice </er. 

Pol. What follows this ? * 
How prettily the yoang fwain ftems to wafli 
Thetaid, fwarfair before 1 Pve put yoa out } 
Bot, to your prote^don : krmehear 
What yon proftffs. 

Sk. Do, and be^kaeftt^^t. 

Pol. -iAnd tfaiymy Ae!ghboar-txK>? 

Flo. Aiidke,^aadrttore 
Than he, and men ; the etrdi, and heavens, and all % 
That were I crown'd the moft im)>erial monarch 
TheroA^ttOft worthy, were I thcf f aireft youth 
That CY&r made eye fwcnt, ksiAi(>^^%:^)txmM^iB^ 



310 The WiNTiR^siTAL^. 

More than was ever man% I woqld not prize ^hem 
Without her love ; for her employ them alii 
Commend them, and condemn them, to her fervice, 
Or to their own perdition. 

/>£>/. Fairly ofFer'd. 

Cam. This (hews a found afFcftion; 

Shep. But my daughter. 
Say you the like to him ? 

Per. 1 cannot fpeak 
So well, nothing fo well, no, nor mean better^ 
By th' pattern of mine own thoughts I cut oat 
The purity of his. 

Sbep. Take hands, a bargain; 
And, friends unknown, you ihail bear witnefs to't: 
I give my daughter to him, and will make 
Her portion equal his. 

Flo. O, that muft be 
I*th' virtue of your daughter; one being dead, 
I (hall have more than you can dream of yer. 
Enough then for your wonder : but come on, 
Contradb us *fore thefe^itnetfcs. 

Sbep, Come, your hand; 
And, daughter, yours. 

P^/. Soft, Twain, a-whye;'bcfeech you. 
Have you a father ? - 

Flo. I have ; but what of him ? 

PoL Knows he of this ? 

Flo. He neither does, nor fliall. 

Pol. Methinks, a father 
Is, at the nuptial of his fon, a gueft 
That b(5ft becomes the table : 'pray 70H oncc more, 
Is not your father grown incapable 
Of reafonable affairs ? is he not flupid 
With age, and altering rheUms } can he fpeak ? hear? 
Know man from nian.? difpute his owneflate? 
Lies he not bed-rid ? and, again, does nothing, 
Btit what he did being childiih ? 

Flo. No, good Sir ; 
He has his health, and ampler ili^ngth^ indeedi 
Than m^ft have pf his age. 



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PoL By my white beard. 
You offer him, if this be fo, a wrong 
"Something unfilial : Reafon, my fon 
Should chufe'himfelf a wife; but as good reafon, 
The. father (all wh6fe joy is nothing elfe 
But fair poflerity) fhould hdld fome counfel 
In fuch a bufinefs. 

Flo. lyield'all this'; * ' 
But for fomef other reafons, my grave Sir, 
Which 'ti» not 'fit you know, I not acquaint 
My father of this bufinefs. 
PoL Let him know't. , 
Flo, He (hall not. 
PoL Pr'ythee, let him. 
Flo. No ; he mull not. 

Shep. Let him, my, fori, he Ihall not need to grieve 
At knowing of thy choice. 

Flo. Come, come, he mufl not : 
Mark our contradt. 

PoL Mark your divorce, young Sir, [ Difcovering him/elf^ 
Whom fon I dare not call : thou art too bafe 
To be ackftowledg'd. Thou a fcepter's heir. 
That thus afFe^'ll a fheep-hook ! Thou old traitor, 
I'm forry, that, by hanging thee, I can but 
Shorteri th^ life one week. Aiid thou frefh piece 
Of eJtcellent witchci'aft; who of force mufl know 
The royal fool thou coap'ft with— — 
Sbef. O my heart ! 

Pol. I'll have thy beauty fcratch'd with briars, and made 
More homely than thy ftate. For thee, fond boy, 
If I may ever know thou doft but figh 
That thou no more ihalt fee this knack, as never 
I mean thou fhalt;'w^*lt bar thee froni fucceffion ; 
Not hold thee of oiaf Mood, ko, not our kin. 
Far than Deucalion off:' mark thou nfy words ; 
Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time, 
Tho' full of our difpleafure, yet we free thee 
prom the' dead blow of it : and you, enchantment, 
• Worthy enough a hcrdfman ;. yea him too. 
That makes himfe]f« b jt for our honour therein. 



gta The Wiwter^s Talb. 

Unworthy thee; if ever, henceforth, thou 

Thefe rural latches to his entrance open. 

Or hoop his body more with thy embracety 

I will devife a death as cruel for , thee. 

As thou art tender to it. [Exk^ 

Fir. Even here undone ; 
I was not much afrkid ; for once, or twice 
I was about to (peak, and tell him plunly. 
The felf-fame fun» that'fhines upon his court. 
Hides not his vifage irom our cottage, but 
Looks on alike. Wilt pleafe you/Sir» be gone ? {Totloh 
I told yott, what would come of this. 'Befeech yooi 
Of your own ftate take care : this'dream of miRe» 
Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther. 
But milk my ewes, and weep. 

C^av. Why, how now* &iiier f 
Speak, ere thou dieft. 

Shef. I canned fpeak, nor think, 
. Nor dare to know that which I know. O'Sir, /^Plor* 
Von faftve undone 9 man 6f fouricore three, 
That thought to fill his gttvo in quiet ; ^yea. 
To die upOn the bed my father dy'd, 
To lie clofe by his honed bones ; but now 
Some hangman muft put on my (hrood, -and l?]r ittS 
Where no prieR Ihoveli la dull. O eurfed/vtrretch ! 

(jTVPcrdka. 
That knew'ft, this was the Prince ; and would^ adveatiire 
To mingle faith' withrhim. Undone, undone 1 
If I might die within this hour, I have.iUv^d 
To die when I defire. .lExik 

Flo. Why look. you fo upon 4ne? 
I am but forry, not sSmi i delayM, 
But ftothin^ alter'd : w)iatl,was, l^m ; 
More (training on, for pluckii^g ba^k;< uotibllawioc 
My leaih unwillingly. - 

(^«r. Gracious my Lord, 
You know your father's temper :> at thift:^^m 
He will allow no Speech, (whldiJLdaguds, 
Vou do ao|; ^ucpofe tcLjI^i^;) and as kard^|r 
Wm i^ endure youi'figJiX, aii>\\lw\ 



The Win tbr's Tali. jij 

Then, Mil the fary of his Highneli fettle. 
Cone not before him. 

Flo. I not pnrpofe it. 
Ithink, CMf/r^— — 

Cam. Even he, my Lord. 

Per. How often have I told ybo, 'twould be thai f 
How often faid, my dignity would laft 
But 'dll 'twere known f 

FU. It cannot fiul, but by 
The violaticm of my faith, and, then 
Xet Nature craih the fides o'th* earth together. 
And mar the feeds within !— — Lift up thy looks I<«M«f 
From my fu^ffion wipe me, father, I 
Am heir to my affedion. 

Cam, Be advis'd. 

FU* I am ; and bjr my fancy; if my reafitf 
Will thereto be obedient, I have re^on i 
If not, myfenfest better pleas'd with madnefi^ 
"Do bid it welcome. 

Cam. This is defperate. Sin 

Flo. So call it ; but it does fulfil mv vow^ 
T needs mull think it honeily. Camillo, 
Not for Bohemia^ tiot the pomp that may 
Be thereat glean'd ^ for all the Am (ees, or 
The dofe earth wombs, or the profound ieas hidlf 
In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath 
Xo this my fair belov'd : therefore, I pray yoUf 
As you have ever been my father's friend. 
When Jie ihall mifs me, (as, in faith, I mean not 
To fee him any more) caft your good counfels 
Upon his pafiion ; let myfelf and fortune 
Ttte for the time to come. This you may know» 
And fo deliver, I am pot tofea 
With her, whom here I canno^hold on fiiore; 
And, moil opportune to our need> I h^ve 
A vefi!el rides fall by, but not prepar'd 
For this defign. What courfe I mean to hold 
Shall nothing benefit yonr knowledge, nor 
Concern me the reporting. 

Caar, O my Lord> 
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1 14 The Wi>i.TER*$ Talk. 

J woald yoor/piric were eafier for advke» 
Or ftrongcr fer yovr need, ^ 

Flo, Hark, Perdita,^--'^ ^ 
V\\ hear you by and by. [To Camilbi 

Cam. He's irrfemovabic, 
ReftlvM fo^ flight : now were I happy, Jf 
His gf>ing I could franie to fcrvc my turn ; 
Save him from danger, do him love and honotti' ; 
Purchafc the fight again of dear Sicilian "^ 

And that unhappy King, my maAer, wbom 
I fo much thifft to fee, [j(fi^ 

. Flo, Now, good CamtUo ; 
I am'fo fraught with carious bafiaefi, that 
I leave out ceremony. 

Cam, Sir, I think, 
You have heard of my poor fervices^ i'th^ love 
That 1 have born your father ? 

F/o.V^/y nobly. 
Have you deferv'd : it is my father's nrafick 
To fpeak your deeds, not little of 'his care 
To have them recomptens'd, as thought on. 

Cam,^ Well, my Lord) 
If you may pleafe to think I- love the King, . 
And thorough him, what's near'ft to him, which if 
Your gracious felf, embrace but my dire^ion j 
(If your more ponderous, and fettled projcft^ 
May fufFer alteration,) on .mine honour, 
rjl point you where you fliall have fuch receiving 
As (hali become your Highnefs, where you may 
Enjoy youcmillrefs; from th^ whom, I fee. 
There's no disjundion to be made, but by 
(As, heav'ns forefend !) your ruin. Marry her, 
And with my belt endeavours, in your abfence. 
Your difcoivtent^d father I'll ftrivc to qualify. 
And bring him up to liking. 

t!). H«^w, Camillo^ 
T .; i.is, alrnolc a miracle, be done ? 
' : -t I mav call thee fomethingmorc than man, . 

. ^, ' i V ' rbat truft to t\\ce J 
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The Winter's Txt^ ^x^ 

A place whereto you'll gof 

Flo, Not any yet t 
Bat as th' unthouglft-ori accident is guilty 
OC what we Witdiy do^ fo we profefs ^ 

Oorfelires to be the ilaves of chance, and flies 
Of every wind that blows* ' 

Cam. Thenlift^totne: ^ ' 

This follows; if ytou wHliiOt change yodr purp'oft^ 
But unde^gbthk flight, make for 5/a7m; 
Aild there prefent yourfelf, and your fair Princefs 
(Fbrfcsif^, file muft be) 'ford Iwif/r/; 
She (hall be habited, as it becomes 
The partner of your bed/ Methihks, I fee , 
iftf»/// opening »his free arms, and weeping;' 
His welcomes forth ; alks thee, the fon, forgirencfs^ - 
As 'twere i'th' father's perfon ; kiifes the h^ids 
Of your fre(h Princefs ; o*er and o'er divides him^ 
'Twixt his unkindnefs, and his kindnefs : tb' Oae 
He chides to hell, and bids thc-Other grow 
Fafter than thought or time* 

Flo. Worthy Camillo^ - 
What colour for my vifitation (hall 1 
Hold up before him ? 

Cizm, Sent by the King your fjither 
To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir* 
The manner of your bearing towards him, with 
"What you, as from yotir father, (hall deliver, ^ 

Thi rigs known betwixt i^s three, I'll write you dowi (iS) f^ 
*rhe which (hall point you forth at every fitting^ 
What you mufl; fay ; that he (hall not perceive, 
£ut that you have your, father's bofom there. 
And fpeak his very heart. 

(a8) Things known bemixt as three TU <t»r\te you damn, 

The tobicb Jhall point you forth at evry fitting, v 

Vf^atyou mufl fay j— J tvery fttiti^, methinks, gif ce but a vCrf . 
poor idea. Evtry fiting, as 1 have ventar'd to correa the text, •nean*^ 
tev'ry vconyeftient opportunity 5 every juncture, when it ii jKf t ) fpcak 
«if fuch,"or fuch, a ppiAt. So, in xhtTemfeJIt 
For *ti» a chronicle of day by da^. 
Not- a rchdott for a breakfaft, aoc 
/'5^///»^ this firft mcctiflg. -^*- 

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3i6 The WiNTBR^s Tai.b. 

fl§* I am bound to you : 
There is fome fap in this. 

Cam* A courfe more promifing 
Than a wild dedication of yonrlelTes 
To unpathM waters, undream'd ; fliores snoft certaiOf 
To miieries enough : no hope to help von. 
But as you {hake off one, to take another ; 
Nothing A> certain as your anchors, who 
Do their beft office, if they can but ftay. yoa 
Where you'll be loth to be : befides, you know, 
Profpcrity's the very bond of love, 
Whofe freih complexion and whofe heart together 
AiHidion alters. 

Per. One of thefe is true : 
I think, afHidlion may fubdue thecheek. 
But not take in the mind. _ 

Cam Yea, fay yon fo? 
There fhall not at your father's houfCf thefe ftven yearly 
Be born another fuch. 

Flo* Mv good Camittot 
She is as forward of her breeding, as 
She is i'th' rear o* our birth. 

Cam. I cannot fay, 'tis pity 
She lacks inftradions, for &t (t^m^ a miftrefs 
To mod that teach. 

Per. Your pardon. Sir, for this : 
ni blufh you thanks. 

Flo, My prettieft PerJita'^^^ 
But, oh, the thorns we Hand upon I Cam'ik, 
Preserver of my father, now of me ; 
The medicine of our houfe ! how (hall we do f 
We are not furnifh'd like BoJbemia^s ion, 
Nor (hajl appear in Sicilia 

Cam. My Lord, 
Fear none of this : I think, you know, my fortunes 
Do all lie there : it (hall be (b my care 
T^ have you royally appointed, as if 
1 hf ene, you play, were mine. For infiance. Sir, 
That ; ou may know you ihall not want ; one word.— — ^ 

\3'he3 talk aft^fe. 



The Winter's T,A LI, 317 

Enter AuJolicas. 

Ami. Ha, ha, what a fool honcfty is ! and trnft, hit 
inotn brother^ a very flmple gentleman ! I hav^ fold 
air my trubjpery ; (29) Hot a counterfeit flone, not a 
ribbon, glafs^ pomander, browch, table-book, ballad, 
knife, tape, glove, ihoe-tye, bracelet,, horn-ring, to 
keep my pack from failing': they throng who (hould 
buy firft, as if my trinkets had been hollowed, and 
brought abenedidion to the buyer; by which means, 
I faw whofe purfe was beft in pifture ; and what I faw, 
to my good ufc, I rememberM, My good clown (who 
wants but fomediing to be ai reafonable man) grew io 
IB love with the wenches^ fong, that he would not ilir 
his pettitoes 'till he had both tune and words ; which 
{o drew the reft of the herd to me, that all their other 
fenfes ftuck in ears ; you ml^ht have pinch'd a placket, * 
it was fenfelefs; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a 
parfe ; 1 would have filed keys off, that hung in chains : 
no hearing, no feeling, but my Sir's fong, and admir^ 
ing the nothing Qf« it. So that in this time of lethargy, 
I pick'd and cut moft of their feftival purfes : and had 
not the old man come in with a whoo-bub againil his 
daughter and the King's fon, and fcar'd my choughs 
from the chafF, I had not left a purfe alive in the whole 
army. . {Camillo, Florizel, /zir^ Perdita r^xfrf/^rivari/. 

C/aw. J^ay ; but my letters by this means being there, 
60 foon as yoo arrive, ihall clear that doubt. 

Flo, Artd thofe that you'll procure from King Ltontei"^ 

Cam, Shall (adsfy your father. 

Per. Happy be you 1 

(X9) JVo/ a ewnttrfeit fentf not'a rihhen, ^c. to keep nypaclfrm 
fkfliring.] 6«C tbek war^s, all together, would not keep the pack 
fron faftning, unlefi they Ictooded it fo, that it could not ihat cloie* 

~ The error is as oM af the fecond iblio edition, and from thence coutioo* 
cd do «n. Mr. F^, who mretendtto have collatedimpreffions, might 
have obfervM that the £rA folio baa it, at I have coxxt€ttA,Jitfiing^ 
7 be metaphor is takes from thofe who have no provtfion left. Hia 
pack, «8 St would hold m great deal, might becaird a devouring ^acka 
simi heijag now emfHtA of aQ k$fi$dt it iiA|\i\fkV*^'*'^l^^^^^'^ 

S99tJMhi/igJ€fkto/a;^ifsJhmacb. * ^ 

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3i8 Thic Winter's Talb. 

All that you fpcak mews fair: ' ' . 

Cam. Who have we here ? [Seting Autoliciu* 

We'll make an ipftrumcnt of this > omit 
Kothing may give us aid. 

^i^/.Ifthey have over-heard mc now: wby> Hanging.: 

. Cam. How now, good fellow. 

Why fhak'ft thou fo ? fear not, ina». 

Here's no harm intended to thee. 

j^uf, I api a poor fello\y. Sir. * 

Cam, Why, be fo ftill ; here's nobody will ftcal that 

from thee ; yet for ^he out/ide of tjiy property, we siufl 

inake an exchange; therefore difcaft thee inftantiy; 

(thou mu ft think, there's a neceiSty i n't)- and change 

ferments with this gentleman : tho' the pennyworth, on 
is fide, be the worft, yet hold thee, there's fome boot. 

Jut. I am a poor fellow, Sir ; ([ know ye weH enough.) 

Cam, Nay, pr'ytKee, difpatch; the gentleman is half 
Head already. \ .= 

Jut. Are yoii in earneft. Sir ? (limell the trick on't.)—- 

lU, Difpatch J pr*y-thee.- i . ^ . 

Juf, Indeed, I ^ave had earned, but I cannot with 
conference takie, it. ..; > • -r ' r- - ^ ^ '.■■'■■.' ■[ 

C^w. Unbuckle,,, unljuckle. .' • • 

l^ortunate miftrcfs I (let my propJi^cy. "^ ' 

Come home to ye,) you muilJ-etirenyoerfelf ^ 
Into fome covert; take your fweet-hcftrt'shflt^ 
And pluck it o'er your brows ; muffle- your fac4^, 
Difoiantle you ; and, as you can, diflifcen ' n: - 
The truth of your own feeming; thfltyon may . * ' 
(For 1 do fear eyes over you) to^ihif -board ■ ^ 

Get undifcry'd. ' • ' • , v 

Per. I fee, the play fo lies. 
That I muft bear a part. > 

Cam. No remedy— -- 
Have you done there ? . . . - 

Flo. Should I now meet my father, . . * 

He would not call me fon. 

Cam. Nay, you ihall have no hat : - .^ 

Come, X^ady, cow; farewcl, my friend*^- ' « i>-^ 



The Winter'* Tale/ 319 

t. A4ieu, Sir. 

►. d Perdita^ what hare we twain forgot ? 

you, a word. 

OT. What I do next, ftall be to tell the King {Afidi^ 

is efcape, and whither they ar^ bound : 

rein my hope is, I fhall fo prevail 

)rce him after; in whofe company 

1 review Sicilia ; for whofe fight 

e a woman's longing. 

9. Fortune fpe.ed us ! 

; we fet on , Camilloy to th'fea-fide. \Exit Flo. n^iUh Per. 

m^ The fwifter fpeed, the better. \^xit. 

!/. I underfland the jDufinefs,! hear it: to have 

Den ear, a q^uick eye, and a nimble hand, iinecef- 

for a cut'purfe; a good nofe is requifite alfo, to 

out work for th' other fenfes. I fee, this is the 
that the unjuft man dot-h thrive. What an ex- 
gc had this been, without boot? what a boot i< 

with this exchange? fure, the gods do this yea* 
ive at us,, and we may do an^ thing extempore. 
Prince himfdf Is about a piece of iniquity ; fteal- 
iway from his father, with his clog at his heels-* 
thought it were a piece of honefty to acquaint thef 
; withal, I would not do't ; I hold it the mor^ 
ery to conceal it j and therein am 1 conllant to my 
;ffion. 

Enter Clonvn and Shepherd. 
?, afide, — here's more matter for a hot brain 5 every, 
'send, every (hop, church, fefiion, hanging, yields; 
•eful man work. 

fe. See, fee ; what a- man you are now !' there is no. 
r way, but to tell the King fhe*s a changling, and 
: of yoor flcih and blood. 
^ep. Nay, but hear me. 

^6. Nay, but hear me. . 

yef. Go to then. . 

y. She being none of your flelh and blood, youv 
^nd blood has not offended the King; an4^ io^ 
t fiefh and blood is not to be puniih'4 by hiip.^ 
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1 



$10 The Wiktbr's Tale. 

Shew thefe things yoa found about her, tho(e ftcret 
fhinfi;8» aB but what flie has with her ; this being done, 
let the law go whiflle ; I warrant you. 

Sl^. I will tell the King all, every word, yea, and 
his ion's pranks too; who, I may fay, is no honeft man 
neither to his father, nor to me, to go about to make m% 
the King's brothcr-in- law. 

Cle. Indeed, brother-in-law was the fartheft off yoa 
could have been to him ; and then your blood had been 
Che dearer by I know how much an ounce. 

JtUrn Very wifely, puppies! « [JJlde. 

Ship. Well ; let us to the King ; there is that in this 
farthel wUl make him fcratch his beard. 

jtut, I know not, what impediment this complaint 
Bay be to the flight of mv mafter. 

Cb. *Pray heartily, he oe at the palace. 

jiuu Th<r I am not naturally honeft, I am (b fome* 
times by chance: let me pocket up my pedler's excre* 
nent. How now, rufticks, whither are you bound? 

Ship. To th' palace, and it like your worihip. 

Jut, Your affairs there, what, with whom, the con* 
ditioh of that farthel, the place of your dwelling, your 
names, your age, of what having, breeding, and any 
^hine that is fitting for to be Jcnown, difcover. 

Clo, We are but pla^k fellows. Sir. 

jfut. A lye ; you are rough and hairy ; let me have 
no lying; it becomes none but tradefmen, and they 
often give us foldiers the Jye ; but we pay them for it 
with (lainped coin, not dabbing fleel, therefore they do 
not give us the lye. 

Clo. Your worfliip had like to have given us one, i£ 
you had not taken yourfelf with the majuner. "- 

SJlfep. Are you a courtier, an like vbu. Sir? 

jfue. Whether it like me, or n^, I am a courtier. 
Seed thou not the air of the court 'in theft enfoldings? 
Jiatb not my gate in it the 4ne9rure of the ccmrt i re- 
ceives not thy nofe court-odour |rom mei reflet I not,. 
On thy bafenefs, court-contempt i think'ft thou, for 
that / infinuate, oj* toze from thee thy bufinefs, I am 
therefore no courtier? I am courtier, caf-a-p^i and 

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The WiNTiR*s Talb. 321 

one A§t will dther pa(h on, or pluck back thy bufineft 
tbere^ wbereopoD I coinnand thee to open thy affair. 

Sifef, My bofinefsy Sir» is to the King, 

jfut. What advocate haft thoo to him ? 

Ship, I know not* and't like yoo. 
' CU, Advocate's the coort-word for a pheafant ; fiiy» 
jou have none. 
- Slfep. Nene> Sir; I have no pheafant cock» nor ben. 

^uK How blefs'd are we» tnat are not fimple men I 
Yet Nifiture mi^ht have made me ts dieic are, 
^Therefore I will not difdain. _ 1 

C/o. This cannot be bnt a mat courtier. 

Sfyf^ His garments are ri^» but he wears them not 
handiomely. 

'■ Cloi He feems to be the more noble in being fantal^ 
tical ; a great man* I^il warrant ; I know, by the pick* 
ing on's teeth. 

Jut. The farthel there ? what's iW farthel ? 
Wherefore that box ? 

Ship. Sir* there. lies foch iecrets in this farthel and 
box, which none muft know but the King ; and which 
he (hall know within this hour* if I may come to th^ 
fpeechof him. 

Mt. Age, thou haft loft thy labour. 

Sbep. Why, Sir? 

Aut, The King is not at the palace ; lie is gone aboard 
anew fhip, to purge belancholy and air himfelf ; for if 
thou be'ft capable of things ferious* thou muft know, 
the King is full of grief. 

Siftp, So 'tis faid* Sir* about his fon that (hould have 
married a (hep herd's daughter. 

Jut. Jfthatftiepherdbenotin hand-faft, tethimflys 
rthe cnrfcs he (hall have, the tortures he (hall feel, will 
break i\it back of man, the heart of monfter. 

Clo. Think you fo, Sil\? 

Jut. Not he alone (hall Tufier what wit can make hea- 
vy, and vengeance bitter; but thofe that are germane 
to him, tho* removM fifty times, (hall all come under 
the hangman ; which the' it be great pity, yet it is ne- 
ceiTary. An old (heep>whi(lling rogue* a ram-tender* 
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522 The Winter's Tale. 

to offer to hxfi kisHaiig^er'cctoe into griSe ! Comtby, 
he fitftll be ftop'.d ; but that df^t\^htoo{€^ffyrhipSi (d>f 
I : draw our ti^rone into a C^p-'cos^ti ^d^ths. are. too 
few, the fharpeft too eafy. . ,• . " ' 

C/9. Has the old maa e^er'a fon. Sir, do you hear^ 
and*t like you. Sir? 

jiut^ He has a Ton, who ibal^l be flayed ^ive» thea 
^nointed over Nn^ith honey, fet on the headof jv wafp'i 
neft, tl^ea ftand 'ti}l hebe^three quarters and a dram 
dead; then recover'd agm wlt^ if^^'i^i/^xyt iomt 
other hot infufion f ti^ea^ai^' aS; he i3r iand ia the -bof 
teft^ay prcgnollication proclaims] fhall Ite bf fet againft 
a brick- wall, .the fun looking with afisu'thward eye upon 
death. But what talk we of; thefe iraitorly rafcals, whofe 
miferies are to be fmil'd at, their offences beane fo ca^ 
pital ? Tell me, (for you ^em to ,^bq hpneft plain men) 
^hat you have to the Kifg^ l^ng fomething gently 
coniiderM, I'll bring you where Jie is a|)oard, tendei 
your perfons to his: preier^cc,. whlTpar him in your be- 
half, and iif it be in man beiides the King, to effp^ your 
fults, here is a man fhall dodtr 

CIo. He ieems to be of great authority ; cloie with 
him, give him gold; and tho' authority beaHubbonl 
bear, yet he is oft led by the nofe with gold ; (hew the 
iflfide of your, purfe to the* potflde of his hand, and. no 
more ado. Remember, llon*d, and Hay 'd alive — j. ' 

Shp. And't pleafe you, Sir, to undertake the bufiiiers 
for< us, here is that gold I have ; I'll make it as mack 
more, and leave this young man in pawn 'till J bring 
it you. 

y/a(. After I have done what I promifed ? 

S^ef. Ay, Sir. ^ 

Jnt. Well, give me the moiety. Areyoua party ia 
this bufinefs ? , 

C/fl. In feme fort. Sir; but tho' my cafe be a pitiful 
one, I hope, I fhall not be flayM out of it. 

^uf. Oh, that's the cafe of the (hephcrd^ fon j hang 
him, he'll be made an example. 

C/tf. Comfort, good comfort ; wc muft to the King, 

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Tghc/^iNTER^s Tale. jij 

ani^ihew our ftrange fights ; hie. bdoA know^ 'ds none 
of your daughter, nor my fifter; We are gone elfe. Sir^ 
I will give yo9i a« much as this old man does, when the 
bttfinefs is performed; and remain^ as he Tays, your « 
pawn 'till it be. brought you. 

jf9t» I will truit yo^, walk before toward the fea-iide, 
go on the right hand; I will but look upon the hedge, 
iuid follow you. 

Cio. We are blefs'd in this manias I may fay, even blefs'd. 

S^ep, Let's before, as he bids us: he was provided to 
do us good. [Exiunt Shepherd and Clonvn^ 

Aut. If I had a mind to be honed, I fee, Fortune 
would not fuiFer me ; Ihe drops booties in my mouth. I 
am coarted now with a double occaiion : gold, and a 
means to do the Prince my mafter good ; which, who 
knows how that n^ay turnback to ^my advancement ? I 
will bring thefe two moles, thefe blind ones, aboard- 
him; if he think it. fit to Aoar them again,, and that 
the complaint they lifaye to the King concerns him no- 
thing, let him call me rpgue, for being fo far officious ;\ 
for I am proof againfi that title, and what fhame elfe 
belongs to't : to him will I prefent them, there may be 
matter in it. [Exit. 



A C T V. 

SCENE changes to Sicilia. 
Enter Leontes, Cleomines, Dion, Paulina; and Servants . 

Cleomines. ^ 

SIR, yon have done enough, and have perform'd 
A faint-like forrow : no fault could you nrake, 
< Which you have not redeemM'; indeed, paid down 
More penitence, than done trefpafs. At the lail. 
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; 
With theji^ forgivQ yonr(^\^. 

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314 The WiKTER*s Tal«» 

Z^. Whxlill remember 
Her and her virtner, I cannot forget ^ 

My blemiihes in them^ and (b ftiu think of ) 

The wrong I did myfelf ; which was fo mnch» 
That heir-lefs it hath made my kingdom ; and 
DeftroyM the fweet'ft companion, that e'er man (30) 
Bred his hopes out of. 

Paul. True, too trae» my Lord ; 
If one by one you wedded all the world. 
Or, from the all that are, took fomething goody 
To make a perfed woman ; ihe, you kiird. 
Would be unparallelM. 

Leo. I think fo. KiU'd? 
KillM ? (he I kilPd f I did (0, but thou ftrik'ft me 
Sorely, to fay I did ; it is as bitter 
Upon my tonene, as in my thought. Novi^ j;ood now) 
Say fo but feldoro. ' ^' 

Cleo. Not at all, good Lady ; 
You might have fpoke a thoufand things, diat would 
Have done the time more benefit, and graced 
Your kindnefs better. 

Paul. You are one of thofe. 
Would have him wed again. 

Dio» If you would not fo. 
You pity not the State, nor the remembrance 
Of his moft (bvereign name; con fider little. 
What dangers (by his Highnefs* fail of ifTue) 
May drop upon hi& Kingdom, and devour 
Incertain lookers on. What were more holy. 
Than to rejoice^ the former Queen is well } 
What holier, than for royalty's repair. 
For prefcnt comfort, and for future good» 
To blefs the bed of Majefty again 

(30) Deftroy^d thtfooteCfl compamon, that *Vr ma» 
Bri4 bit hopes 9Ut of^ true. 

Paul. Tw trut, my Lord,] A very IKght examination will eonTinec 
cv^ry intelligeat reader, tbar, true, here has jamp'd put of its place 
ia all the editions. What the King would fay, is abfolutdy complete 
witheut it : and rhe placing it, where the printed copies have done, 
is an embarra/Tment to the fenfe. Thefc tvyo fcalbns, i hope, will 
>c/u^4;ieiit to jaftify CD> ti&a(^&x\oft« 



i 



The WiNTER*s Tale. 325 

With a fwcct fellow to*i ? 

Paul. There is none woitbr, 
Refpedling her that's gone ; beiides, the goda 
Will have fulfiird their fecret burpofes ; 
For has not the divine Jpollo faid^ 
Is't not the tenor of his oracle. 
That King Leontes (hall not have an heir, 
'Till his loft child be found ? which, that it dull. 
Is all as monflrous to our human reafon^ 
As my Jutigonus to break his grave, 
And come again to me ; who» on m}^ life. 
Did perifh with the infant.^ 'Tis your counfel. 
My Lord Ihould to the heav'ns be contrary ; 
Oppofe againft their wills.— —Care not for iflue ; 

[To tbt King. 
The Crown will find an heir. Great JUxandit 
Left his to th* worthieft; fo his fucceffor 
Was like to be the bcft. 

Lto. Good Paulina^ 
Who haft the memory of Hermione, 
I know, in honour: O, that ever I 
Had fquar'd me to thy counfel ! then, even itow 
I might have look'd upon my Queen's full eyes^ ' 
Have taken treafure from her lips ! 

Patd. And left them 
More rich, for what they yielded. 

Lio. Thou fpeak'ft truth : 
No more fuch wives, therefore no wife ; one worfe» 
And better us'd, would make her fainted fpirit (31) 
A^ain po/Tefs her corps ; and on this ftage, 
(Where we offend her now) appear fool-vext. 
And begin. Why to me ?— 

(^i) ^^^^vtculd maU btr faintid fpirit 

^frain ptfftjs her tprpg^ and on tbiijiagt 

[Where we oifeiidor& now a ppe ar ) Joui tttxtf 

And 6egiHf Sec] 'Tis obvious, that the grammar 11 ^feAWe; 
fnd the fenfeconfequcnily wants fupporting. The Hight change I have 
made cures both « and, furely, *tis an improven^ent to the fentioDcnt 
M the King to dy, that Paulina and he offended his dead wife*8 ghoft 
wiih the fubjtft of a iecond match \ raikcf Ui^a'Uk ^tiU(X«l XwiviA v^ 
ca// ChaafeJvcs offendns, Jinfuru 



^l6 The WlNTEJl's TAtEr 

PnuL Had fhe fuch power> 
She had jail fuch caufe. 

Lfo. She had, and would incenfe me 
To murder her I married. ' ' 

Paul. I (hould fo : 
Were I the ghoft that walk'd, I'd bid you mark ^ 
Her eye, an^ tell mc, for what dull part iii't 
Youchijfc )^et; then I'd fhriek, that eve^\ your cars 
Shou'd^rift to hear me, and the words that followed 
Should be» Remember mine. 

Leo. Stars, flars^ 
And all ey^s elie, dead coajk : fear thou no wife : 
ril have no wife, Paulina, - 

Paul. Will you fwear 
Nevef-to mar^y, but by my free leave? 

Lid. Keverj Paulina -, fo be blcfs'd my fpirit ! 

Paul. Then; good my Lords, bear witnefs to his'OatlC 

Cleo. You tempt him over-mucht 

Pfl«/. Unlefs another. 
As like //^rwVw as is herpidurc, ' 

AiFront his eye. 

Cleo. Good Madam, pray, have done. 

Paul. Yet, if my Lord will marry; if you will. Sir; 
'No remedy, but you will ; give me the office 
To chufe you a Queen ; fhe (hall not be fo young 
As was your former ; but (he (hair be fuch. 
As, walk'd your firft Queen's ghoft, it fliould takcJ joy 
To fee her in your arms. 

Leo. My true Paulina, 
We Ihall not marry, 'till thou bid'il us. 

Paul. That 
Shall be^ when your firft Queen's again in breath : 
Never 'till then. ^ 

Enter a Gentleman. 

Gent. One that gives out himfelf Prince Florlzel, 
Son of Polixenesy with his Princefs ((he. 
The faired 1 have yet beheld) de(ires accefs 
To your high prefence. 

Leo. What with him ? be comes npt 

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The WiijrTfiR^s Tai,j^ 327 

Like to Ms fatWr's^l^rcatnefs ; hw approacli. 

So out of circuviilance ifld fudden» tells us, ^ .■ * ■ 

*Tis not a vifitatiott framed, but forced 

By need and accident. What train ? ' 

G^/. But few. 
And thof6 but mean. • ^ 

Leo. His Princefsy fay you, wit^-iiim? 
Gent. Yes ; the moft peerlefs pi^ce of eafth, I think» 
That e'er the fun (hone brighten. 

Paul. Oh Hermioney 
As every prefent time doth boaiVitfelf • ' 

Above a better, gone ; fo mud th^ grave 
Give way to what's fecn now. Sir, you yourfdf 
Have faid, and writ fo ; but your ^wri ting now 
Is colder than that theme; (he had not been. 
Nor was (he to be equalPd ; thus your yexit 
Flow'd with her beauty once ; 'tis (hrewdly ebb'd^^ 
To fay, you've feen a better. 

Gent. Pardon, Madam ; 
The one I have almoft forgot, (your pardon) 
The other, wl^en (he ha» obtained your eye. 
Will have yoUrtongue too. This is a creature^ 
Would (he begin a fe6t» ^might quench the zeal 
Of all prpfeflbrs clfe, make profelytes 
or who die but bid follow. 
PauL How I not women ? .. 
Gent. Women will love ^k^r^ that (he is a womatt 
More worth than any man : men^ that (he is 
The rareft of all women. 

Leo. Go, Cleomines ; 
Yourfelf, (affifted with your honour'd friends) 
Bring them to our embracement. Still 'tis ftrange. 
He thus (hould (leal upon us. [Exit Cleominei» 

Paul. Had our Prince 
(Jewel of children) feen this hour, he^had pair'd ' 
Well with this Lord ; there was not full a month 
Between their births. 

Leo. Pr'ythee, no more; ceafe; thou know'ft. 
He dies to me again, when talk'd of: fure. 
When I (hall fee this gentleman, thy fpeeches 

W 



jaB The Winter's XmALB* 

Will bring me to confider that whicb may 
Unfurniih me of reafon. They. are come. 

EftiiT FloTizelf Perdita» Cleomines> itudothersi 
Your mother was moft trae to wedlock, Prince> 
For (he did print your royal father ofF» 
Conceiving-voii. Were I bat twenty-one. 
Your facher^s image is fo hit in yoo, 
His very air, that I (hould call you brother, . 
As I did him, And fpeakof ibmething wildly 
By us performed before. Mdft dearlv welcome^ 
As your fair Princefs, goddefs :— oh ! alas ! 
I loft a couple, that 'twixt heav'n and earth (32) 
Might thus have flood begetting wonder, as 
You gracious couple do ; and then I lod 
(All mine own folly) the fociety. 
Amity too of your brave father, whom 
(Tho* bearing mifery) J deiire my life 
Once more to look on. 

Flo, Sir, by his command 
Have J hcretouch'd Siciliih and from him 
Give you all ereetings, that a King, ^at friend) 
Can fend his brother; and but innrmity, 
Which waits upon worn times, hath fomething feiz'd. ' 
His wifli'd ability, he had himfelf 
The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and hia 
.Meaifar'd, to look upon you ; whom he loves. 
He bade me fay fo, more than all the fcepters. 
And thofe that bear them living. 

Leo, Oh, my brother ! 
Good gentleman, the wrongs I have done thee flir 

(32) J left a couple, that *tv/ixt bevti'n and earth 
Might thus bavtftaody begetting Vfonder, »f 
Tom gracious coupk do\ — ] I hxft fereral times hinted how 
dangercui to Tenfe a a innocent comma tr, in the hands of ignorance* 
, The editors, by a flupid pointing here, had ftifled a fknt hyperbole ^znA 
blunderd the text into abfurdity. Did the young Prince and hit Con- 
fort ftand betwixt heaven and earth, JuJ^tnfi ad ventos, as Virgil cz\l$ 
it ? No fuch matter. The King's meaning is this j he had loft a pair 
of children, who might have Aood the wonder of two worlds, the ob- 
Je^s ot admiration to god« %ii4inftti\ %% \}tv\% '^^tyMi^Vxvwut «>fid his 
hw^i did, \tk hia opinion* 



The WiNTER*s Tale. 329 

Afrefli within me; and thefe thy offices. 
So rarely kind, are as interpreters 
Of my behind-hand flacknefs. Welcome hither. 
As is the fpring^to th' earth. And hath he too 
Expos'd this paragon to th' fearful ufage 
(At leafty ungentle) of the dreadful Neptune^ 
To greet a man» not worth her pains ; much lefs, 
Th* adventure of her perfon I 

Flo, Good my Lord, 
She came from Lilya. 

Lio. Where the warlike Smafus, 
That noble honoured Lord, is fear'd, and lovM ? 

F/d. Moft royal Sir, 
From thence ; from him, whbfe daughter 
His tears proclaimed his parting with her.; thence 
(A profperous fouth-wind friendly) we have crofs'd. 
To execute the charge my father gave me. 
For vifiting your Highnels ; my be ft train 
I have from your Sidliam (hores difmifs'd. 
Who for Bohemia bend, to iignify 
Not only my fuccefs in LHya^ Sir, 
But my arrival, and my wife's, in fafety 
Here, where we are. 

Leo. The bleOed gods 
Purge all infection f?Dm our air» whilft you 
Do climate here ! You have: a holy father, 
A graceful gentleman, againft whofe perfoi^ 
> So facred as it is, I have done fin ; 
For which the heavens, taking anery note. 
Have left me iflue-lefs ; and your father's blefsM^ 
As he from heaven merits it, with you. 
Worthy his goodnefs. What might I have been* 
Might I a fon and daughter now have look'd on, 
Such goodly things as you ? 

Enter a LorJ. 

Lord. Moft noble Sir, 
That, which I ihall report, will bear no credit. 
Were jiot the proof fo nigh. Pleafe you, Qt%«X^« 
M^fmt'a greets yon /rem mmfelf, bv mc** 



330 The Winter's Tale. 

Defircs you to attach his fon, who has. 

His dignity and duty both call off. 

Fled from Jijs father, from his hopes, and with 

A fhepherd's daughter. 

Leo, Where's Bohemia ? fpeak. 

Lord. Here in your city ; I npw came from himt 
I fpeak amazedly, and it becomes 
My marvel, and my meffage : to your court 
Whilft he was haftning; in the chafe, it fecms, - 
Of this fair couple, meets he on the way 
The father of this feeming Lady, and 
Yitr brother, , having both their country quitted 
With this young Prince. 

Flo, Camillo has bet^ay'd me ; 
Whofe honour and whofe honefty *till now 
Endur'd all weathers. ^ 

Lord. Lay't fo to his charge ; 
He's with the King your father. 

Leo. Who? Camillo P 

LoKi. Camillo J Sir, I fpake with hinpt ; who now 
Has thefe poor men in queftion. Never faw I 
Wretches fo quake ; they kneel, they kifs the earth; 
Forfwear themfclves, fis often as they fpeak : 
Bohemia Hop his ears, and threatejis'them 
With divers deaths, i;i death. 
, Per* Oh, if. y poor father! 
The heav'n f.cs foies upon us, will not have 
Our cor. rrafj- celebrated. 

Leo. You are niarry'd •? 

Flo. We are not, Sir, nor are we like to be; 
The ftats, I fee, will kifs the valleys iirft ; 
The odds for high and low's alike. 

Leo. .My Lord, 
Is this the daughter of a King ? : 

Flo. She is. 
When once ftie is my wife. ' 

Leo, That once, I fee by your good fether's fpeed. 
Will come on very flovvly. I am forry, 
(Mofl forry). you ha^^ broken from his liking ; 

Where! 



The Winter's Talk. ^^tr 

Wkere you were ty»d in duty ; and as forry (33), 
Your choice is not fo rich in worth as Jbcauty, 
That you might well enjoy heh 

F/o. Dear, look up ; 
Tho* Foriune^ vifible an enemy. 
Should chafe us, with my father ; powernojot 
Hath Ihe to change 01^ loves. Beleech you, Sir, 
Remember, fmce you ow'd no more to time 
Than I <3o now ; with thought of fuch affedions, 
^tep forth mine advocate ; at yo6r requVft, 
My father will grant .precious things, as trifles. 

Leo> Would he 4o Xo, Vi beg your precious miftreffl, 
Which he counts but a trifle. \ 

Paul. Sir, my Liege, * ' 

Your eye hath top. much youth in't ; not a month 
^pore your Q^een dv'd, ihe was more wprth fuxih gazes 
Than what you look on /now". 
. Leo. I thought of her, . 
i^veri in thefe lopksl madc.^— But y<?ur petition 

ITonomd. 
h jet un anfwer'd ; I will tp your fa ther 5 
Your Honour not o'erthrown by your defires, 
Vm friend to thenri andr you ; upon which errand 
I now go towards him, therefore follow m?» ^^^ 

And mark what way I make : 'come, good my. Lord, j 
.. , . : "[Exeunt. 

(33) ■ and ar forry " , * . 

: C- . . : - Twr chnet^ is not fo rich irC worf h , ai te 

That you might Will enjoy her,"} Mr. ^iir^«r/oif thluki, Ac Po«t 
Wr6te here ; t 

Tour choice is not fo ritb in bitth as beauty, 
yUc9i^(€ Leoptes ifas fo far from' difpari»|ing.' or thinking -meanly ofj 
her worth; that, -on the contrary « he rati^'er efteems her a treafurcy 
%fid, in bis very ncit fpeech to tVie Prince, fays.: 

JVould bedofOf Vdbeg^your^ttzi^Mimifirefs, 

fn>tcBbe counts but a trifle, 
I. baivenwt, however, diftotbM^ the text, becanfe by worth, perhaps, 
the Tpet migbi me^) not the '^jpdowsiif nf t of Natiue or education | 
^f t^«^r^al|7of W.^ower. t 

♦ , ' "'..... . -. ^ , ■ . _ .* ; 

■-- -• SCENE, 



S3^ The Winter's Tale. 

SCENE, near the Court in Sicilia. 
Enter AmIoUcqs 9 and a Geutlitnanm 
^«/.T) Efeech you. Sir, were you prefent at this relation? 
X J* 1 Gent. I was by at the opening" of the farthel, 
heard the old ihepherd deliver the manner how he fouDd 
it ; whereupon, after a little amazednefs, we were all com- 
mandej oucof the chamber: only this, methought» I 
heard the (hepherd fay, he found the child. 
Jut. I would moft gladly know the iflue of it. 

1 Gent. J make a broken delivery of the buiinefs ; hot 
the changes I perceived in the King, and Camillo^ were 
very notes of ad miration. ; they feem'd almoft, with ftar' 
ing on One another, to tear the cafes of their eyes. 
There was fpeech in their dumbnefs, language in their 
very gd!ure ; they look'd, as they had heard of a world 
ranfom'd, or one deflroy'd ; a notable paflion of wonder 
appeared in them ; but the wifeU beholder, that knew 
«o mo!e but feeing, could not fay if th* importance were 
joy or forrow ; but in the extremity of the one, it muft 
needs be, 

Enftr another Gentleman. 
Here comes a gentleman, that, happily, knows more: 
the news, RegeroP 

2 Gent, Nothing but bonfires : the oracle is fulfillM ; 
the King's dauahce» is found ; iuch a deal of wonder ii 
broken out within this hour, that ballad-makers cannot 
be able to exprefs it. 

Enter another Gentleman. 

Here comes the Lady Paulina^B deward,^ he can deliver 
YOU more. How goes it now, Sir ? this news, which 
IS caird true, is fo like an old tale, that the verity of it 
is in ilrong fuipicion ; has the Kine found his heir? 

3 Gent. Moft true, if ever truth were pregnant by 
circamdanee: that which you hear, you'll A¥ear voa fee, 
there is fuch unity in the proofs. The mantle of Qgeen 
ffermfone, — her j<;wel about the neck of it,— -the letters 

Of^ntigonm found WilVi \t, viVaObl>^v%^ Visiyv xs^^Ahis 
ciar«aer,— the majcfty o£ <i;i% wtt»«*\ikw5«iisj^^^ 



The Winter's T A Lt. 333 

dF the inot1ier»-^the affection of noblenefs, which Nature 
ihews above her breeding»---aiid many other evidences 
proclaim her with all certainty to be the King's daugK* 
ter. Did yoo fee the meeting of the two Kings f 

zGiitt. No. 

3 Genu Then haVe yoo loft a fight, which was to be 
feen, cannot be fpoken of. There mieht yon have be- 
held one joy crown another, fo and in luch manner that 
it feemM» forrow wept to take leave of th^m, for their 
joy waded in tears* There was cafting up of eyt^^ hold* ' 
ing up of handsi with countenance of fuch diftra6lion» 
tiiat they were to be known by garment, not byJavour. ^ 
Oar King being ready to leap out of himfelf, for joy of 
his found daughter, asif that joy were now become a lofs» 
cries, oh, thy mother, thy mother ! then afks Bohemia 
forgivenefs; then embraces his fon-in -law ; then again 
worries he his daughter, with clipping her. Now he 
thanks the old fhepherd, who ftands by^ like a weather- 
beaten conduit of many Kings reigns. I never heard of 
fuch another encounter, which lames report to follow it, 
and undoes defcription to do it. 

2 Gntt, What, pray you, became of AntigonuSf that 
xarry'd hence the child ? 

3 Gent. Like an old tale ftill, which will have matter^ 
to rehearfe, tho' credit be afleep, and not an ear open ; 
he was torn to pieces with a bear ; this avouches the 
ihepherd's fon, who has not only hi% innocence, which 
feems much, to juftify him, but a handkerchief and . 
rings of his, that Paulina knowd. 

I Gent. What became of his bark, ^nd his followers ? 

3 Gent. Wreckt the fame inftant of their mafterfs 
death, and in the view of the fhepherd ; fo that all the 
inftruments 'which aided to expoie the ^hild, were even 
then loft, when it was found. But, oh, the noble combat, 
that'twixt joy and forrow was fought in Paulina/ She 
had one eye declined for the lofs of her hu(band, another 
elevated that the oracle was fulfilPd. She lifted the 
Princefs from the earth, and (b locks her in embracing* 
as irfhe would pin her to her heart, iSx^K fixft xsi^WiS^ 
more be in danger of loline* 

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334 The Win tea's Tale. 

. I Gent, The dignity of this aft was worth the audience 
of ^ngs and Princes y fdr by fttch was it a£l«d* 

3" Gent. One of the prcttieft touches of all, and that 
which angled for mine tyts^ (caught the water, though 
not the fiSi,) was, when at the relation x>f the-Queui'^ 
death, with, the manner how fhe came to it, bravely; 
confefsM> and lamented by the^Kiitg', how atteBtivei\e(i' 
wounded his^ daughter; 'tiU, from one fign df dolour, 
to another* ihe did, ' with ;an,>^ii/ I^ would fain fay^' 
bjeed tears ; for I am fiire^ 'my hcart»wept blood. Who 
was mod marble, thcr^ chkng^d colour ; fome fwpon- 
ed, all forrowed ; if all the world could have fecn't, the 
woe had been unlverfal. "" : . 

1 Gent. Are they J-eturncd to the court ? 

3 Gent,-t^OM The Pririccfs hearing of hear motherV 
ftatuq, which is in . the keeping QiPauUnay a, piece 
many years in doing; and now newly performed by (34)* 
that riare Italian maSer, j/^uito Renianv; who, had he hiin*-; 
fdf eternity, and. could pin breath into his work. Would 
beguile Nature of her cullom, fo perfedly he is her apet 
he fo nc2Lr tf> HermionehsLth done Herffttone^ that they fayi 
one would fpeak to her, and Hand in hope of anfWer*^ 
thither with all greedinefs of aifeftion are they gone, 
and there they intend 'to fup. 

2 Gent. 1 thought, flie had fome great matter there 
!n hand, for (he haUi privately twice or thrice a-day, 
ever flnce the death of Hermii>ne\ viidted that removed 
houfe. Shall we thither, and with our company piece 
the rejoicing \- 

\Genf. Who would be thence, that has the benefit 

/ .(34] ^st rare Ittli^in maflerf Jalio Homano ;] All the encomiumffi' 
fut together, that have beea confeir^d on this excellenjt artift in paint* > 
ing and architedlure, do not axnovnt^o the fine praife here given hifHi 
by our author. He was born in the year ^494, Uv*d jaft that circlt* 
of'years, which o\ir Sbakefpear^ did, and dyM eighteen years btfofe 
the latter was born. Fine and generous, therefore, as this tribute of J 
I^Caife muft be own*d, yet it was a Grange abfurdity, fure, to thruft it- I 
into a tile, the a^lon of which U fuv^osM within the period of hea*. I 
theaifm', and whilft the oiicVea oi yif »Uo ^ wt taulvLVfc^* '^VvV*^ how-^ y 1 
ever, was a known and wiUuV AT\»fiVv\otv\^m\vi\xvOcvTtC\^\.\ia.n^^^x. n 



The Wint^rV Tal^. * 335 

6f aCccfs? every wink of an eye, fome new grace will 

be born : oiir abfehce makes us unthrifty to our know« 

tedge. Let's along. [Exeunt » 

Aut. Now had not I the dafli of my former life in 

\ me, would preferment drop on iriy head. I brought the 

i old man and his fon aboard the Prince ; told him, I 

keard them talk of afarthel, and I know not what ; but 

heat that time, over fond of the {hepherd's» daughtef 

(fo he then took her to be) who began to be much fea- 

Ack, ahd himfelf little better, extremity of , weather 

continuing, this myitery remained undifcoverM. But 

'tis all one to me; for had I been the finder out of 

this fecret, , it would not hare reliihed among my othe^ 

drfcredits. . , . ^ 

Enter Shepherd and Clonum 
Here come thofelhave done good td aeainft my will^ 
%nd already^appearing i^ the bloflSbms oftheir fortune. 
Sbep. Conie, boy, lam paft more children; but thj^ 
. fons and daughters will be all gentlemen born. ... 
do. You are well met, Sir ; you denied to iight with 
tat this other day, becaafe I was no gentleman bom 1 
fee you thefe doaths f fay, yott fee them not, and think 
i^e flill no gentleman bom. You were befl fay, theifc 
robes are not gentlemea boriu Give n^e the lye ; do^. 
tnd try whether I am not now a gentleman born. 
^ut. I know you are now. Sir, a gentleman born. 
Clo. Ay, and have been fo any time thefe four hours* 
Sbep. And fo have I, boy. 

Clo, So you have ; but I was a gentleman born be* 
fore my father ; for the King*s fon took me by the 
hand, and calPd me brother ; and then the two Kings 
caird my father brother ; and then the Prince my bro* 
ther, and the Princefs my fifter, calPd my father, father*, 
and fo we wept ; and there was the firft gentleman-likd 
tears that ever we (hed. 

Ship* We may live, fon, to ihed many ipore* \ 

Clo. Ay, or elfc 'twere hard luck, being in fo pte* 
poilerous eftate as we are. 
j£g/, I humbly bofeech you, Sir^ Xo Tp^xii^xi tsv^ ^ 



33^ !• The WiNTER^s Talb, 

the faults I have committed to ]^our worfhip, and t» 
give me your good report to the Prince, my mafter. 

Sh^. ^Pr^ythee, Ton, do ; for we moft be gentle, now 
we are gentlemen. 

CU. Thou wilt amend thy life f 

Jut. Ay» and it like your eood worfhip. 

Cfr. Give roe thy hand ; I will fwear to the Princei 
thou art as honeft a true fellow as any U in Bobmia. . 

Sbep. You may fay it, but ^ot fwear it. 

Clo. Not fwear it, now I am a gentleman f let boors 
and franklins fay it, I'll fwear it. 

Sbef. How, if it be ^fe, fon? 

Cb. If it be ne'er fo falfe, a true gentleman may 
fwear it in the behalf of his friend : and I'll fwear to 
the Prince, thou art a tall fellow of thy hands, aod 
that thou wilt not be drunk ; but I know, thou art oo 
tall fellow of thy hands ; and that thou wilt be drunk j 
but ril fwear it ; and, I would, thou would'ft be a tall 
feUow of thy hands* 

Aut. I will prove fo. Sir, to my power. 
. do. Ay, by any means to provje a tall fellow ; if I do 
not wonder how thou dar'fl: venture to be drunk, not 
being a tall fellow, truil me not. ^ Hark, the Kings aod 
the Princes, our kindred, are going to ttt the Queen't 
picture. Come, follow us : we'll be thy good mafters. 

[Exiuntk 

SCENE changes to PauUna^Koak. 

Enter Leontes, Polixenes, Florizel, Perdita, Camilloi 
Paulina, Lardi and Attendants. 

tdo^f^ Grave and good PauUuaf the great comfort 
\J That I have had of thee ! 
Paul. What, fovereign Sir, 
t did not well, I meant well | all my lervices 
Vbu have paid home. But diat you have vonch&Pd, 
With your crown'd brother, and thefe your contraded 
Heirs of your Kingdoms, my poor houfe to vifit; 
It is a furplns of your Grace, which never 
My life majr laft to 4nfwcr« 

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The . \M I K T £ r!s I T/A JkE» 3.37 

LtQ, O Patdinai > 

We honour you with trouble ; but we came 
To fee the ftatue of our Qgecn. Your gallery 
Have we pafs'd through, not without much contenti 
In many {irfgula,rities ; but we faw not 
That, which ioy daughter (;ame to look upon. 
The ilatue of her mother. 

FnuL As fhe Jiv'd pcerlpfs, ' ^ 
So her dead likenefs, I do well believe, 
Excels.whatcver.yet.you Jdqk'd upon, • 
Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it 
Lovely, apart. ' But here it is ; prepare . . 
To fee the life as lively mock'd, fes ever 
Still fleep mock'd death ; behold, and fay, *tis well ! 

[Paulina drains a curtain ^ ^{ind ,di/co<uers Hermioue 
^aHSng)ikeaJlatm.' . , 1: . 7 

I like your fileoce, it the jpore.lhews off 
Your wonder; but yet ipeak, firft you, my Liege^ >' 
Comes it not fomething near ? 

Leo, Her natural pofture ! ^ 

Chid^ me, dear ftone, that I may fay, indeed, 
Thou art H^mione ; or ratlieri thou art fhe. 
In thy not chiding; for fhe was, as tender 
As^x^/;ancy and grape^ ,But yet, ,PauIiaa, 
Hermione was not fo much wrinkled, nothing 
So aged as this fcems. 

^^u.Qhy^ not by m\icb>; 

Paul, So much the more our carver's excellence, 
W^ich leu go by fome fixteen years ^ and .makes her, .- 
As (he livM now. 

Leo. As now (he might have done. 
So much to my good; cqipfort, a&it is 
Now piercing^p my.^fou^, • Oh, ,^u« (h^ ftopd; : ,<> 
Even with fuch life of majeffy^ (w^np^ life.frt ./.' '^ / 
As now it coldly (lands,) whfj^^r,^ I:^^.9M=A'^T* 
I am alham'd ; ^o'ftinotj]^ fton^e re.bi^ke me^ ; 

For being more (tone than it ? oh, Toyal piepe !., .. 

There's magick in thy majeily, which has . 
My evils conjwr'dita.^c^fmjbrance ; ^nd . - .., ^ , . 
trom my admiriggj'jJj^^fqpitook«^l\e ipy-Jf^ •. ;_ \ 
3J|^L. III. P ^tandiri^ 



338 The WffiTti'is TAt£. 

Staading like ftone with thee« , 

Pit. A»d give me leave. 
And do not &j 'tis fuperftition* that 
I kneel, and then implore her bMffing^— Lad^^ 
Dear Qgeen, that ended when I bnt began. 
Give me that hand of yonrs to kift.- 

PomL O, patiencej— - 
The ftatue is Dttt newly fix*d ; thecolonr's 
Not dry. 

Com. My Lord, yoar fonoWwas too fore Ia!dioi|f 
Which fixteen winters cannot blow away. 
So many fommers dry : fcarce any joy 
Did ever fo.long live ; no fprrow. 
But kill'd itielf much fooner. 

PaL Dear toy brother. 
Let him, that was the caufe df this, have powe? 
To uke off 6> mnch grief fioin yoa» as hc^ 
Willpieceji^ ifthimielf. v 

PamL Indeed, mv Lord, 
^If I had thought, the fight of my poor image 
Would thtts Szve wrought you, (for the ftoiie is mine,) 
rd not have ihewM it. 

Lio. Do not draw the curtain. 

Paul, No longfT ftall yon gase on't, left your fancf 
May think anon, it move. 

Leo. Let be, let be ; 
Would I were dead, bat that, aiethinks, already—- « 
What was he, that did make it f fee, my Lord, 
Woald you not deem, it breath'd ; tfnd that thfirfe veins 
Did venly bear blood ? 

?#/. Mafterlvdoncl 
The veryjife (eems warm o^n her lip. 

Lio. The-fixure of her eye has motion ln*tf 
As we were mockM with art. 

Paul, ni draw the curtain; 
My Lord's aknoft to fkr tranfported, that ' 
He'll think anon, it lives. 

Lio. O fweet Pauitnat 
Make me to think ib twenty years toget|ieri ' 
No fettled fenftt of thr world can toatck 

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Th^ WiHTtiL\i Tale. 3^35 

ThepleaTareof thltmidneft. Let'talinie. 

PmI. I am fony. Sir, I iitvc ttas far ftiPd yoa| but 
I coold afiliA you finthor. 

Leo. Dby fiudinai 
For this affliaion has a tafte as fweet ^ 
As any cordial comfort. Still» mctkinks » 
There is an mr comes from her. What fine chizxel 
Conld ever yet cat breiith ? let no man mock mr. 
For I will kift ker. n 

PrnuL Good ky Lord», forbear; 
Tbe roddineff njpon her fijp is w^ ; 
Voa'n marr it, %f you ki» it; ftain yoar own 
With oily painting ; fliaH I dinHr the curtain i 

tn. No» D6t thm twrenty years. 

Fir. Soloflgcoaldl 
Stand hfi a Iwker on. 

Paul. Btther forbear, 
Q^t prefently the AifA^ or refidve yos 
For niore amaasement ; if yott can behold it» 
ril niake die ftatoe move» indeed; defcend» ^ 
And take yon by the hand ; but then you'll ihhk, * 
l¥bich I proteft againft, I am affifted 
By wicked powers. 

Zur. What yon can makelier do, 
I am content to look on ; what to foeak^ 
1 am content to hear ; for 'tis as ea^ 
To make her fpeak/ as move. 

PomI. It is reqnir'dv 
Yjra do awake your faidii 'Aen alf ftand ftiHl 

fnd thofe, that thipk itis nnlawfol bufinefs 
am about, let them depart. 
Leo. Proceed ; 
Nofootlhallftir. 

Paul. Muiick; awake her » ftrike^ [M^ch 

'Us time, defcend ; be ftobe no more; approaci. 
Strike afi that look upon with marvel. Come, 
I'll fill your erave up : ftir ; naf, come away t 
Bequeath to death your hnmbneCs ; for from him 
Dear life redeems yon ; you pefceive^ (he ftits ; 

' (Httmout comes t/oivitf 
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3^0 Th^Wi^Ttfi'sil^ALtr 

Start not; her aaions fhfll bjBf4jrfy, ^ ai, . - 

Yoa hear, my fpcll is lawi■^^J do not fcup her, , 
Until you fee her dip again, fd|-. then / ' » 

You kill her dqublc. Nay, preient. your hand ; 
When (he was youn^, you woo'd her; now in^-agc, , 
Is (he become th^ ftuor. ^ ^ ^ 

L/tf. Oh, ihe's warm ; [Embracing her* 

If this be ina^ick, let it be an art 
Lawful as eating. 

PoL She embraces him. • :, ' '\ 

Cam. She hangs about his nep^: ; .. * \ .• .. (. - 
If (he pertain to life, let her fpeak too. ' ' . • 

Pol. Ay, and make it manifeil where (he has livM, 
Or how ftoPn from the dead ? 

PauL That (he is livipg. 
Were it but told you,, (hould be hooted at . i 

Like an old tale ; but it appears, (he lives, \ \ 

Tho* yet (he fpe^k xiOU . l^a^k a little while. . , , r 
Plcafe yauto intfrpof^ /ai/^^dam^^kjic^l,;^.^;"^^ :^^ 
And pray your mother^s bIe(Sng; tiij;n,\gooa'jL^djt . ; • 
Our fV^K^^ is found. 

[Pre/enting Perdita, ijoho kneels to Hermione. 

Her, You Gods, look down. 
And from yourfacred yials pour your graces 
Upon my daughter*8 head ; tell me, mine 6wi\, . 
Where haft thou been i>referv'4 -^ where liy'd? how fqund 
Thy father's court ? ror thou (halt hear, ^thif I^ . ' u , ^ 
Knowing by Paulina that tHe oracle ' . * ] ' t * 
Gave hope thou waftin^bein^^ hftve prefcrv'd ' ' ' r 
Myfclf, to fee the i flue. . . ., ^ 

PauL There's time enough for that ; 
Left they defire, upon this pu(h, to trouble 
Your joys with like relation. Go together. 
You precious winners! all f^ y.our^exultation 
Partake to every one; J, ,^h old turtle, V 
Will wing me tp foipe vvitjier'd bougft, and there 
My mate,'xhat'5 neye^ to be foupd agajn, 
Lament 'till j am loft. .' ^ 

Leo O peace, Pauling: . 
Thou (li9uld'|l a^i^4lli^ad take by my confetit, 



The Winter's Tale, 341 

As I by thine a wife. This is a match. 

And made between's by vows. Thou haft found minc^ 

But how is to be aueftion'd ; for I faw her, 

As I thought, dead ; and have, in vain, faid many 

A prayer upon her grave. I'll not fcek far 

(For him, I partly know his mind) to find thee 

Ai honourabJe hulband. Come, Camillo, 

A id take her by the hand ; whofe worth and honefty 

Is richly fiOted ; and here juftified 

By us, a pair of Kings. Let's from this place. 

What? look uponr my brother : Both your pardons. 

That e'er I put between your holy looks 

My ill fufplcion : this, your Ton -in -law. 

And Ton unto the King — whom heav'ns diredting. 

Is troth- plight to your daughter. Good Paulina, . 

Lead us from hence, where we may leifurely 

Kach one demand, and anfwerto his part 

Perform'd in this wide gap of time, fince firft 

We were diflevcr'd, Haftily lead away, [Exeunt ompes. 



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KING John. 

^nifff Henry, S9n to tki'Ktng. ^^r . i/^^ 

'Arthur, Duke of Bretagnc, and Nephew to the king, 

Pembroke, 

Englifh Lords, 
lert, \ 
Bigc 

Faulconbridge, Bafiard-Son to Richard the Firft. 
Robert Faulconbridge, fuppos*d Brother to the Bafiard. 
James Gurney, Ser^vant to the Lady Faulconbridge. 
fP^ter pf Pomfret, a Prophet. 

Philip, King of France. 

Lewis, the Dauphin. 

Arch-Duke of Auftria. ' ' 

Crtr<//V/a/ Pandulpho, the Fope^s Legale. 

Melan, a French Lord. 

Chaiilion, Amhajfador from France to King John. 

^^ 1 -^ /^ r r^\ "' ' f ^:4l 

Elinor, -^//9l»-il/«Ai&i*-£/'^EnglaM; -_ -^ - 

Conftance, Mother 40 Arthur. 

Blanch, Daughter to Alphonfo King of CdL^iXe^ and Nm 

to King John. 
Lady Faulconbridge, Mother to the Bafard, and Kohcrt 

r?* -' j^ulcQQbndgew , '^,' - -^ . 'vr 

Citizens cf Anglers, Heralds, ExecHtioners, Mejfengeri^ 
Soldiers^ and other Attendants. 

The SCENE, fometimes in England ; and^ fometimtsy 
in Erafce. 



The 




(i) The LiFB and Death of \ 

K I N G J OH N. 



ACT i; 

SCENE, the Court of England. 

EnUr King John, ^a^^n Elinor, Pembroke, Eflex, 
and Saliibury, with Chatilion. 

King John. 

NO W fay, Chatilion^ what would France with us ? 
Chat. Thus, after greeting, fpeaks the King of 
In my behaviour, to the Majefty, ■ [Frisince, 

The borrow'd Majefty of England here. 

(i) TZ»tf Life nff</bt ATH — ] Tho" this Play have this titld, yet 
the a£lion of it begins at the thirty-fourth year of his life j and takes in 
only feme rra^ifaOion^ of his reign to the timeof hisderoife, b?ing an 
interval of ahout fiventeen years. Of all ihtEnglip Princes, (astVfr. 
JVarburton cbferv'd to me,) thH Shake fpeare has taken into ir3g:e<iy. 
King J hn ^a.« the fitrcft to have made a hero for a tragedy on the an. 
cient plan. Ht/iry IV, V, and VIIF, had qualities great enough for it, 
l>wt. weteVaerally fortunate. Richard l\, zn^ Henry Vl. {ftt^erho 
Vepta) }ivttet at times, little better than poltrrns; And Richard III. 
' was foblacka yiilain, that the ancients would have though' him firtf r 
for a gibie- than a ftage. But John had that tu bulcpce and grandeur 
of 'he p^fli-yn*, that inconftancy of temper, that equal mix.tuie of 
pood a«»d ill, and «hat fefieiiof nrlisfortunes conf«coeflt iheiett>/as mi|ht 
mdke him very fit for a hero i^ a iuft cumoofuton. 

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$4« Kto? JA«>- 

EU» AfftBgebeii^liiiig; boitowM Majefty ! 
\' K. 7«hb Simet^ good motKer; hear the embaflf* 

Ckta. PhiUfofErmcg^ io. right and true behalf 
Of thy deceafed brother Gijgrifh fon, 
Jnhur FIoMtfg^ait, l^iys lawfi4 cl^oi 
To thu frir imaif and the territories : 
To IrttamJf F%i&iir$^ ^b^th ^^uraitut Mmm t 
^ Defiring fhee to lay afide the fword. 
Which (ways afor^ingly theie feveral titles ; 
And pot the fiiiiie:ahio yoang Jttim^t haiid» 
Thy nephew, and right-royal Sovereign. 

K. jMbm. What folldws, if we difaSo w of this ? 

Chat, The prodd coatroul of^^^rce and bloody war, 
T' infbroe thele rights To forcibly with-held. 

Vi.J^hm» Here haxrwe warioji war» and hlood&r bk)od» 
C<fntroolment for controuhnent ; (o anfwer Franee, 

Chat. Then take my King's defiance from my month. 
The fartheft limit of my embaify. 

K. John, Bear mine to him, and (b depart in peace. 
Be tbon as lightning in the eyes of Fntucit 
For ere thou can'ft report, I will be there. 
The thonder of my cannon (hall be heard. 
So, hente ! , be thon the trumpet of om- wrath. 
And Allien prefageof yoorown decay. 
An honourable condn6t let him have, . 
Ftmhroki^ look to't ; farewel, ChatiUon* 

{Exit Chatilion ami Pembroke^ 

iMf. What now, my fon, Jiave I not ever fatd, 
Ihlow that ambitious Co/ifiance would not ceaie, 
'Till flie had kindled France and all the world. 
Upon the right and party of her Ton ? 
This might have beien prevented, and 
With very eafy arguments of love ; 
Which now the manage of two kingdoms muft 
Wiih fearful, bloody ilTue arbitrate. 

K. John, Our (Irpng pofleffion, and our right for «s.-« 

Eh. Your ftrong pofleffion much more than your right| 
Or elfe it muft go wrong with you and* me ; 
^o much my coui'citnce v^VilCpct?. m -^oo^x ^«^ 
Wbiih Aone but htav*n« aA^io^ ^a^\%x^V^«x. 



King Jomh; 347 

Jg^. MyU/bge, kertUth^ ArtrngtAcontSforetfy,, 
Come from the coantiy to be jodg'd oy you» 
That e'er I heayrd : ihall I prodace the men ? 

K. 7«^. Let them approach 
Our abbies and our priories ihall pay 
This expedition** charge— -What men are you ? 

-^ 

£ji/^ Robert Faakonbridge, tfiv^ Philip, insir&thirs. 

Pbil. Your faithful fabje£l» T« a gentleman 
Hkom uitlortbumpionAirii andeldeftibn. 
As I fuppofe, to Rolert Fauic&nSni^ft 
A foldiert by the honour-^ving-hand 
Of Caur-de-Jien knighted m the field. 

K. Join. What art thou ? 

Robert. The fon and heir to that fame Taulconiridgt. 

K. John. Is that the elder, and art thou the heir ?. 
You came not of one liiother then, it feems? 

Pbil. Moft certain of one mother, mighty King^ 
That is well known ; and, as I think, one father : 
But for the certain knowledge of that troth, 
I. pot you o'er to heaven, and to my malhcr ; 
Of that I doubt, as all men's children may. 

Eli, Out on thee, r^ide man ! thou do^lhame thy mother^. 
And wound her honour with this difHdenGe. 

FhiU I, Madam? no, I have no reafon for it ; 
That is my brother's plea^ and none of mine ; 
The which if he can prove, he pops me out 
At lead from f^ir five hundred pound a year : 
Heaven guard my mother'5 honour, and myJand! 

K. Ji^. A good blunt fellow ; why, being younger born, . 
t)oth he lay claim to thine inheritance ? 

Phil. I know not why, except to get the land ; . 
But, once, he flander'd nrje with baftardy : • 
But whether 1 be as true begot or no. 
That ftill I lay upon my mother's head ; 
But that I am as well begot, my Liege, 
(Fair fall the bones, that toik the pains for me !) 
Compare our faces, and be judge yourfelf. 
If old Sir Rdhert did beget us both. 
And were our father , and this foa V\k^\Cvt^\ 
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5*8 KIhgJoHK- ^ ,/ ,, 

K^ old Sir Itoi&rt J father^ on my knee '^ n\;V) 

1 give hcav'n thanlts, I was' tiot like toihte^' : "\ . 

K.7o^«. Why^what affta^^cljiJ hath hedv'n fentTi§*Herc ? 

Eli. He hath a trick of Ctemr de-U'on*s fate', ^ ^ 

The accent of his tongue aiFe^eth him ': / 

Do yott not read fome tokens of my Ton 
J a the large compofition of this man ? r • 

K. John, Mintf eye hath wellexamiped his parts, , 
And finds nhcm pcrfeft/?/Vi^<iri/; fi^hah, fpeak. 
What doth move yoU taclaim^pur IwothePs kfid'.^ 

Phil. Becaufehe hath a half face, like tny father. 
With that half- face would he have all my land (i) ? 
A half-fac'd groat, five hundred poand a year ! ' 

Rob. My gracious Liege, when that my father liv'd. 
Your brother did employ my father much ;- 

Phil. Well, Sir, by this you catinot get my land. 
Your tale m'uft be, how he employ'd'rty mother. ' ' 

Rob. And once difpatchM him iii ah embafTy 
To Germany ; there with the Emperor 
To treat of high affairs touching that time : 
Th' advantage of his abfence took the* King, 
And in the mean time fojdurn'd at my father's ; 
^yVherc, how he did prevail, I fhame to fpeak: 

(2) ^i/£> hilf th»t/tff».] But why with 5^^* that face? Tbertf Is 
no qucftio^ h«t thePoet wrote, as I have rcftor'd the text, fTitB that 
halffjce — Mr. Pope, pcihaps, will be sng^ity with fne for di /covering 
an AnacbroKifm of our Poei*8, if> the ne^t li|ie ; wbesre he'alJu^atio a 
coin n'»tftruck till the year 1504* in (hereigriof King f/^iii{)f Yil. Wak 
a groac, which, as weii as (lie half gf oar, bear but half face* imprefs'd, 
yjdi StoM\i*s Survey 6/ London, f>. 47. Halingfked, Caoiden'jKewtfwix, 
4c. IHc Feet fnetis at the meagre fliarp vtfage of the elder brother, 
bv c'.mp^irinp him oa filver (tioat, that bore thC'King^s face in pro«^ 
flic, (o As w'd bui half the face. The grpais of all our Kings oiEng* 
lanj, anH,* indeed, all their other coins of filver, oneqr two,enIy,exv 
Cfpird, had a full fict crown'd j till Henry Vll. ^t the time abo^e* 
me-it oa'd, c>in*d grnats and half groatt, as alfo fome iKilliogt, with< 
half face*; ; th^t is, fues \n profile, as all obf coin hras now. The firfl: 
proar^ of King ^/5nry>^ III. we;* like thefcef his father j tho*^afterwatdS 
he reiuin'd to the broad faces agsin» Thefc groa's wnhihe ffhpfeiTioo' 
in p oHU, ateundiub ediy here alluded 'o: though, as I faid, the Poet 
is kno-'vin^ly g«i \'y of an Aaachronifm in ii : for, in the^imeof King 
yoln there wcie no groats ax a\\ •. iVe^Wvu^ ^\^^ ^\ \^\ ■»* v^^v^x^v 
coiu 'd m the reign gf K\n^ Edward \\\^ 



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But truth is mith ; large J€ngt}(s. of lea^ and ihorn 

■Between mylfather and my i^pt^ier lay> . : ' ^.. • 

(As Iliave heard my father fpeak himfelf) 

When this fanie lully gentleman was got* 

Upon his death-bed he by will Wqueath'd 

His lands to me ; and took it on his death, 

ThsLt this, my mother's fpn, was none of his j 

And if he Were, he came into the world 

Full fourteen weeks before the conrfe of time : 

Then, good my. Liege, Jet nve have what is min0, 

}Ay father's land, as was my father's will. 

K. y«/'«. Sirrah, your brother is legitimate ; 
Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him : 
And if fhe did play falfe, the fault was hers ; 
Which fault lies oh the hazard of all hufbands. 
That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother. 
Who, as you fay, took pains to get this fon* 
Had (^ your father daim'd this fon for his ? 
in footh, good friend, jrour father might liave kept 
This cajf, bred'from his cow, from all the world. 
In footh, he might ; then, if he were my brother's^ 
My brother might nof claim him ; nor your father. 
Being none of liis, refufehim; this concludes. 
My mother's fon did get your father's heir. 
Your father's heir muft have your father's land. 

Ro^. Shall then my father's, will be of no force 
To difj50frers that child, which is not his ? 

P/jil.' Of no more force to difpofTefs me. Sir, 
Than was his will to get me, as I think. 

fili. Whether hadll thou rather be a FaulconhrUgej^^ 
And, like thy brother, to enjoy thy land: 
Or the reputed fon of Cceur de-lion^ 
Lord of thy prefence, and no land befide ? 
,F.hjJ, Madam, aiid if my brother had my fhape, 
Add 1 had his, Sir Rkhert hi?, like him ; 
And if my legs were twrt fuch riding rods, 
lify arms fuch eel-fkins lluft ; my face fo thin (3), 

That 

Is) ^■'^■^ my face f9 thin ^ 

T^af h friwftti J durfi not fiick a xoitr - 



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35P King JoFTMv 

That in miiie ear I darfinot ftick a roict . 
liftmen fliooldfay, ** look where three-farthiiigs goes 1' 
<< And to his (hape wei« hein to all this land ;*' 
Would, I might never fiir £r6m off this place«. 
^ rd give it ev^ foot so have this face :: 
1 would not be Sir NoSSe in an)K cafe. 

EH. I like thee well; wilt thoaforfake thy fortune^ 
Bequeath' thy land to him» and follow me I 
I am aYoldier, and now bound to France. 

Phil, Brother, take you my land, I'll take my cjiancei; 
Your face hath got five hundred pound ^ ye^r. 
Yet fell your face for ^ve pence, and 'tia dear. 
Madam, I'll fbllow you unto the death. 

Eli, Nay, I would have you go before me thither^ 

PbiL Our country manners give our betters way. 

K. John, What is thy name I 

?M. Philips my Liege, fo is my name begun ; 
fhilipy good old Sir Robert^ wife's cidcft fbn. 

K. John. From henceforth bear his name, whofe formi 
thou bear'ft :; 
Kneel thou down Philips but rife up more great ;.. 
Anie Sir Richard^ ^nd Plantagenet. 

In this Ttry obfcure paiTage our Poet is anticipating the date ofane* 
fker coin; humorouily to rally a thin face, eclipftd, as it were, by a- 
full-blown r«/«. We mufi obfcrfo, to explain this allufion, that Quert* 
EHxdbetk vkaa^the firft, and indeed the only. Prince who coiu*d in 
EngUnd three-half* pence, and thref»farthing pieces. She at one ajod 
the fame tiine, coinM (hitliogs, fix*pences, groats, three-pences, two- 
pences, 'three* half-pence, pence, three* farthings, and half-pence s 
And thefe pieces all had her head, and were alttrnMuJy with the roji 
behind, and without the rofe. The Aulling, gfoaty two-pence, penny, 
and half*penny had it nott the other intermediate coins, vias. the 
lix pence, three pence, three-half* pence, and three-faithiags bad the 
roJe» . This accurate diftin^ion I owe to the favour tnd comnouaica^ 
tion of the worthy and ingenious Martin Folka, Efq$ 1*11 venture to- 
advance one obfervation^ before I have done with this fubje^ tiiat as 
each of the lefler of theie pieces weie hard|ytobediAingailh*dinfist 
from that immediately next to it in value j it was the common pradid 
. to deface the rofi upon the letTer coin, to make it pa(s for that nex( 
above it in (>rice. And this fervea to give light to a paflage of Sum* 
mpat and FUtcbtr in their Scornful Lsdj, 

Ht had a baftard, his own toward ifiue, whipt, and then cropt, for 
waihuig ooc the rrfit ia tkrte-ftntii^t toas^t thrm pmce. 

phu: 



King J oil K. 35% 

PHI. Brother bjr th'^mother^s fidt^ give me yoor hand ; 
My fathercUVe me honour, yonrs gave land. 
Nowbleffed be the hour, by night or day. 
When! was 'got* Sir i^o^^r/ was away. 

Eii. Tht very ipiAtef PJantagenetf 
I am thy erandam ; Richard^ call ipe (b. 

PbiL Madam, by chance, bat not by truth ; what tho* ? 
Something ab<yilt^ - a Kttte ^m the right. 

In at the window, or elfe o'er the hatch : 
Who dares not l&ir by day» muft walk by night* 

And have is have, however iheii do catch ; 
Near or far off, well won is ftill well-fhot ; 
And I am I» howe'er Iwas begot. 

K. John. Go, FautconbrUge^ now haft thov thy defire ; 
A kmdlers Knight makes thee a landed 'fquire : 
Come, Madam ; and come, Richard \ we muft fpeed 
For France^ for France ; for it is more than need. 

PbiL Brother, adieu ; good fortune come to thee, 
For thou was got i'th' way of honefty. \^Exe. all tut Phil. 
A foot of honour better than I was, 
But many a many a foot of land the worfe ! 
Well, now can I make zrj Joan», Lady. ' 

Good»den, Sir iS/Vi^/iri/,— Godamercy fellow ; 
And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter ; 
For new-made honour doth forget men's names : 
'Tis too refpedive and nnfociaSe 
For your converiing. Now your traveller. 
He and his tooth-pick at my worihtp's mefs ; 
And when my knightly ftomach is Juffic'd, 
Why then I fuck my teeth, and catechife 
(4) ^y picqued man of countries; — My dear Sir, 
(Thus leaning on mine elbow, I begin) 
I (hall befeech you,— that is queftion now ; 
And then comes anfwer like an A B Cbook: 
O Sir, fays anfwer, at your ^eft command, 

(4) My Y^ktd wum 9f ewntriitA Thus Mr. Pope txhihha tbb |»af- 
Isge, and iaterprets tiie word, /irmal, htardtd* The old €Op'^«i give 
it ot, pklud, by » flight corruptioa iji the fpelUng | but the Aarhor 
cerraioly. defitn'd, picfued -, (from the Fruuh fcrb, ft p'futr) u e. 
Macby, tarV afprehcafive, upon hii guard* 

K\ 



352 Kbg Jo.HKv: , • 

' At your employment, at your iervicc,i Sir ; ■ 1 

No, Sir, iays queilion, I, fwett Sir, at yo|Br8>— ^— - 
(5) And foy e'er anfwer knows what qodlion w(mld»< 
Serving in dialogue of complimeai ; ~ . - 
And talking of the J/ps and Jpemiitiesf _ 

f The Pyreneau and the river Po'^ v • , : 
It draws towards fupper in conclufion, ti^ 
But this IS worfhipful fociety/ . . 

And fits the mounting fpirit like my felf: . 7 

For he is but a baflard to the tirne,^ 
That doth' not fmack of obfervation ; 
(And fo am I, whether I fmack or no:) ^ 
And not alone in habit and device. 
Exterior form, outward accoutrement; - \ 
But from the inward motion to deliver 
Sweet, fweet, fweet poifon for the age's tooth ; 1 

Which tho' I will not pra£kife~to deceive. 
Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn ; 
For it (hall ftrew the footfteps of my rifing. 
But who comes in fuch hade, in riding robes ? 

(5) And fo t*er anfwer knows what queftkn weuld^ 

(Saving In dialogue, — ] In this fine fpeedi FaukonkridgtmvAi 
/hew the advanfagei and prerogatives of men ofworjb'^* He paiticju- 
Jarly obferves, that he has the traveller at command. (And here %ve 
muft remember the time our Author wrote in j when travellers, by 
the daily difcovery of new worlds, were in the greateft cAimation.) At 
the firft intimaiioh of hi« d«finp to hear ftrange ftovics, the travel 
complies, an^ the anfwer comes ueafy as an a, b, c, book. Now, 3ir, 
fays the Knight, this is my qoeftion : — The over- ready traveJJer will 
fca»ce give him leave to make it, but, eer anfwer knows %ubat fueftUn 
would, — What. then ? Why, according 10 iheftupidiry of ihchirherio 
receiv*d reading, it grovis towards fupper-time. And is not this wor- 
ili^ful fociety ? to fpend all the time betwixt dinner and fupper, be- 
fore either of them knows what the other w^old be at. So abfur^jy 
is the fen fc* vitiated, by putting the three lines in zfarentBe/u ; which^ 
we may ftippofe, was firft occafion^d by their blunder in the word, J41- 
viKgy inflead of the True word, ferving, Ndw my emendation gives 
the text this turn ; ♦* And c*er anfwer knows what the queAion would 
•* beat, my traveller ferves in his dialogue of cnmplinnent, which is 
« his (landing di{h at all tables, then he cumes ro talk of the Atfs 
"and /tp^nnittes, &c. and by the time thi* difcoorfc conc'udes, it 
** draws towards fup^per/* AH now here is feufe and humcur; and 
the p\ri»'(ti^offer'V'irg in hn vjery4>uniorott8 Oftf, to figniff that this 
4 Wds h.s worAiip's Ucond couiCe, Mr, Warhyrton, 



What woirtan-p<>ft is this ? hath (he no liafbancL' * ;.- 
That will take pmtts to blow a horn before her r ^^ ' \, 
O me ! it is mytnothdrj now, "good L*a^y,' ' ' \ 
What brings yott h^r^ tb court fo haftify ? J/ . ^ . ' ' 

^,. J?«/fr itfi^ Faw^conb^idge, fl^/J^mcsGuniPy.' t* 

i^. Wjhiere iaithat flaTC, thy brother? where is he, 
.That hold^ IB chafe mine honour i^p and down ? 

P/?iL: My brother Roltrt, old Sir Roan's fon, • * 
Colhrand the giant/ that fame mighty man» 
is it Sir Robefi^^ f<t}tt>ithat yoo^fe^k fo ? J— ' • '*- 

Lady, Sir Roiferf^s fon I ay, thou unrev-fttid boy> '^}^ 
Sir Roiert\ (bn : ^ why fcom^ft thou at Sit R^irt ? '[ 
lie is 6ir Bohrth fon; and fo art thou. * 

Fkfi, JatkH Qw'.ntf^ wilt lthou.giVe us lcaiv« awhile ? 

Gur. Good leave, good Pi&///^. 

There's toys abroad; anon Til tell thee more. [Mx* Janit 
^dadam, I was notold Sir\^^^fr/*sfon, . ' 

Sir iStf^^ri might have eat his partf in me '^ 

<^Upon Good-Friday J and ne'er broke his faft : 
»6ij Robirt Could do well ; marry, confefl! * 

u(fi\"r^^'dipf Tparrofw, J^meu} Thiis tb«ioId copies; and. Mr. 

.^Popt has at;9i)?pc^d to glofs thitTefidtog by telling us, thatFiv/^ is 

r tl^ .coinnion^ nape for a , tame fpanrow» £0 that then FcuUonhriiie 

• jjr^uld fay^ dif// «< PWHp ? Xo* wdy « w«// «r// vie Sparrow.*-»-*-«tr£c 

ailu^on is very mean and trifling: aodevety body, -I, believe, wiH tkntde 

j^io. eoibir^e ^ J^i^.Jf^aKhurtott\ cmto^^tm, which ivhave iJidletted! into 

the text/ Spare me, zn^fir^ar me^ jt iMy beiob^rv'd,: aretnr aftia* 

thorns accufiomM phrafes ; either when any one waAts'S^btfatr to leave 

him, or would be rid of a di^^^fin^fabje^-. So, in the Temp^, Alonje^ 

when his companions teaze ^im with^oicftroaable.dirc«ut1e, fays ^ 

I pr'ythee, jjwrtf. • ' ;— . .< . .. 

So, Imogen, in Cymheline, when Ae wants to g^t rid of C II.0 T z N j 
—.1 pray you, Jj^e me j faiih, >■ 
I (haUjiafold e^nal diicounefy 
^ To your bed kind neis, ,, 

. %oia jiMtboajf »nd Cle^tra, when he difnyiil^i rllh« nffMgW> ^K 
f ^uigt ^ accqw p£ 'hiSjWife's death : t:./.. >!' 1 

:•» \ • ** , " ^orhear me\ . ■> -f ,.. . • ; •; v', rr^ 

; \ ThereVj^gFefitrpmtgone,l • 

. JfLnHf in i(lf«/f(refor,A2^^^ ;wpuU haytJI^'tfttf 

leave him ;>,, . , . - ; i?^. ..5 -^^ 

I (hall crtne jfour /orbtMranct ^ \iit\t j may be, I will call 
opon you anon, CQ;<^\5i 



$54 icing ]FoHK. 

Cov^lMt^toif ? SkR§iencoMn<i(tioiti 
We kno^w Us handy-work ; therefore, ^ood mofter. 
To whom am I beholden for theie limbs? 
Sir XUirt never holpe to mal^e thisleKi 

Ladf, Haft thou confpir'd with thy brother too, 
That,^ ftr tUne own gain, flioold'ft defend mine honour^ 
.*What means this (corn, thoo moft ootowavd knave? 

PJ^il. Koighl» Knight, good vaother^MM/fli/co like (;]» 
What I 1 am dobb'd ; I have it on my (honlder : 
Bat, mother^ I am not Sir Ro^er^$ ion ; j 

I have difcIatmM Sir R§itrit and my land $ 
Legjsimaiiofi; nfune» and all is eone; 
Then, gpod my mother, Intmeknowmyfa^er^ 
Some proper man, I hope; who was it, moAer ? 

lajf. £Uft 4m)u deny*d thyfelf a Fault^tkruigtt 

PbiL At faithfully,, as I deny the devti. 

Lady. King lUcbard Coimr'A^Uom was thv father % 
JBv long» aod vehement, fuit 1 was ftducM 
lo maKe room fo;; him in my hufhand's bed* 
Heaven lay not my trdufgre^on to my ehai^e! 

(7} Knight^KtiiiJt^U-'-r- good miber, BaaiiCcd /M^.} Thvt mttH 
€bi« )>a(Tagc be pqiofccl ^ »|id; tir GOffte;a|.tjMhii|nw:(Qf:irf \9M cl^as 
op M ol4 circumftance of Stige* kifiory. FeuUtmbridff^t wor^t^hais- 
carry a coaoeal'd' piect of £idre oe a ftvpid Dr^jM of tliat age, printed 
ia 15999 and callM SOmtm and PcrAi^. In this piece there it the 
chancer of a braggiftg cowardly Knight, call'd BafiRff. Hit pretea- 
fioa to iwloor it fo bhmn and ftttk thro*, that P^o> s haflboa-femaS 
lo^th^Play, iompt opoA hit hack, and will not difcngage him, tilt he 
^waikmBtfikjtn fwear opon hit dogeon dagger to the ceatenti, aad in 
the termt, he dsAatetto him t aa, for iiiftance, 
BmL O, I fwcar, I fwear. 
Pjj9« By the coatentt of thit bhide, 
Btf. By the eoetonttof thit blade^ 
P(^. I, theafbreftid^i^l^rv, 
Baf. Vi the afoiefaid Bajtkfco, 

Kntgbif aood fellow, Hmghi, Hixke^-"-^ 

Fift, Knave, good fellow, hiavi, Iff4«f,-*i« 

So that *tit dear, !oor Poet it fneeriag at thit Play $ andmak^ PM* 

: ^^, Whoa hit toothed callt him knsve, throw off that reproach, hy ha« 

moroufly laying claim to hit new digality of le^M^i i at A||f^rt 

arrogantly infiftt on hia title of Xhiibt, in the pfifage alH>re qootcd* 

Thit old pUy it an execrable bad one $ and, I foppof^ was luadei^y 

'SJrplMfedin thetept^enUx\an\^\iWhmx%VxtBAk« ttdt drcomibuice 



King J OH K. 155 

Tbott art the ifiie of my dear ofie^icej 
Which war fo ftroagl^ ureM paft jnv deftact* ^ 

Fhih Now» bv uu lient) were 1 to get agai^^ 
'Ifadanit I would not wim a better fsithen 
Some fins do bear their privilege on earth. 
And (b do yours; your fault was not yoor folly ^ 
Needs moft jou lay your heart at his difpofe* 
SohJIeAed tribute to commanding love ; 
Againft whpfe fary» and anmatcbed force. 
The awlefs lion could not wage the fight s ' 
Nor keep his jrincely heart from XicSariT^ hands. 
He, that permrce robs lions of their hearts. 
May eafily win a woman's. Ay, my mother* 
Widi all my heart I thank thee for my father. 
Who lives and dares but fay, thou didfi not well 
When 1 was got. Til fend his foul to helL 
Come; Lady, I will ihew thee to my kin. 

And they fliall fa^ when Riebard mt begot^ 
IT thon hadil faid him mq^ it had been iin.f 

Who fays, it was, he lies ; I fey, *twas not. [Bxcmt. 

ACT II. 

SCENE^ before the VT^Os ot jfngiers la F^ana, 

JtmarfiaMjf Kiw ^France, Lewis tbt Dauphin, ih 
JnMiie ff Anftria, Contance, amiAmvuu 

L I w X s« 

BEFORE JMfgiirjwtU met, brave Jn/ris. 
jfi^Jhr I that great fore-runer of thy bbod 
Mkkara, that rpbb'd the lion of his heart. 
And fottght^e holy wars in Pnbjtint^ 
By this brave Duke came early to hb grave : 
And for amends to his po(tefity. 
At our. importance hither \% he comf , 
T4P fprcadiis coloan, boy, in tViy VtVsM \ 



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$S^ King JoHtr. 

And to rebuke the ufnrpation '. . 

Of thy unnatural uncle, EngUJhJohn, 

Embrace* him, love him> give him wdcome hither. , 

Arth. God (hall forgive you Cceur-de-Uoh^^ death 
The rather, that you give his ofFsprihg life \ ' 
Shadowing their right under y()ur wings of war. 
I give you welcome with a pO\^*rlefs hand. 
But with a heart full of unftained love : * . 
Welcome before the gates of Angiersy Duke, 

Leivif. A noble boy ! who would not do thee right I 

Auft, Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kifs, '" ' ' j 
As feal to this indenture of my love ; ' ' 

That to my home I will no ittore retdrn, , 
Till Avgiers and the right thou haft in France, * ; 

Together unth that pale, that white facM (hore, 
Whofe foot fpurns back the ocean's roaring tides. 
And coops from other lands her idandefs ; 
Ev'n till that Englandy hedg'd in with the main. 
That water-walled bulwark,' flill fecurc 
And confident from foreign purpofes, ' 

Ev'n till that utmoft corner of the Weft, 
Salute thee for Jier King.. , Till then, faij: boy, 
*Will I not think of home, but follow arms. 

Conft, O, take his moi^er'sihank^, a widow's thanks, 
Till yourftrong hand ftiall help to give him ftrength, 
Taw^e a more requital to .your love. ' . ! >I TI 'J ' 

Auft. The peace'of he'av'n is theirs, who fift their fwords 
^n fu^h a juft apd charitable .war. -^ , . v;,t ^r' ,- j \^\'^\ 
^ ' K/P/^/7//^.Well then, to work;; lour^g^ 
Againft the brows of this refffting towh ; 
Call for our chiefeft meu of difc^line. 
To cull the plots of beft advantages. „ . , 

We'll lay before thisi town our royal bones, X 

Wade to the market-place in FrencbtmH*^ blood, * 
Butwc\yill makcitifubjedl to this^y.' '^ ; • ^ '* 

Conft. Stay for an anfvVer to your einb6ffy, "^ ' • ' ^ "^ 
Left unadvls'd you ftaia your fWords with blbcki. 
My Lord C^«//7/c« may from i?irj^Ai«</bnn]g -^ 
That right in peaces which Here we tti*gfe iii VaV^ ; , 

. J . . - ii *-*- • • . Aoo 



King Jo^M, ,r s$7 

n we (hall repent each drop of bloodi 
ft ra(h hafte 10 indircftly (hcd. 

£«/^r Chatilion. 
uiip, A wonder, Lad)r ! lo, upon thy wifh ' 
(Tenger Chfatilion is arriv'd ; 
'rigland{zysi fay briefly, gentle Lofd^ ' '^ 
Jiy paiife for thee. Chatuim^ fpeak. ' •'^ ,; ^ 
, Then t^i^n yoof forces from this 'paltry fiege, , ^ 
r them tip againft a mightier talk, *"' 

', itopatient of your juft demands, 
lit himfelf in arms 5 the adveHe winds, 
leifure I Save (laid, have giv'n lum time 
d his legions all as foon as I. 
rches are expedient to this town, ' 

ces ftrong> his foldiers confident, 
im along is come the Mother- Queen \ 
> ftirring him to blood and fth'fe. 
ler, her niece, the h^i^'y Blanch oi Spain ; 
hem a baftard of the King deceased, 
1 th' unfettled humours of the land ; 
inconfid'rat&i fiefy voltmtaries. 
Ladies faces, and fierce dragons fpleens, 
"old their fortunes at their native homesi \' 

g their birthrights proudly qh their backs, ; ) 
ike a hazai^ of new fortunes here.' * * " , 

3f, a braver ihoicef of dauntlefs (jpirits, V * ,' 
now \^i^ Engtijh bottoms have waft o'er, "':.\ "^ , 
!ver fldat upon the fwelling tide, 
ofFehce and fcathe in Chriftendorii. .! ' _.' ' 
ifgrruption of their churlifh drums [Drums he^t* . 
iff more circomftance ;^ they are at hand, 
rly, or to' fighti therefore prepare. ' i 
Pbilip* How much unlook'd for is this expeditiQn! 
?. By how much unexpeftfcd, by fo much 
uft awake endeavour for d efcnce ; 
lurage mount^th with occafion : 
em be weltoroe then, we are preparM. , 

, . ... .- - . . • Enttf 



fSt KingJoMir. 

Mmot King of England, Faalconhridgey Elinor^ SUmd^/ 
Pembroke, andtihers. 

K. Jpbn^ Peace be to Frana^ if Fraud in peace pemlf 
Oor jttft and lineal entrance to our own : 
If not, bleed /"rtf^f, and peace afoend to heav'fi^ 
Whilftwe, God's wrathful agent, docorre^ 
Thdr prond contempt that beats his peace to heaven/ 

Kl Fbilip* Peace be to. Ei^laui^ if that war retnm 
From Fratui to England^ there to live in peace ! 
FngUmd we love ; and fbr that EmgUmd's fake 
With burden of our armour here we fweat ; 
This toil of o|irs ihould be a work of thine. 
But thou from loving EngUmd art fo far, 
That thou haft under-wroughtits lawful King % 
Cut off the fequence of pofterity ; 
Out-faced infiint iUte ; and done a tvgt 
Upon the maiden virtue of the crown. 
Look here upon thy brother Gtffrtf^ Aoe* 
Thefe eyes, thefe biows, weremoulded out of his i 
This little abftraa doth contain that laig^. 
Which dyM in Gefr^i and the hand of dmc 
Shalt draw this brief into us large a volume. 




Gifhy\ 
Mow comes it then» that thou art call'd a King» 
When living blood'doth in thefe temples beat^ 
Which own the cf6wn that diou o'er mafteveft ? 

K^Jobn. Prom whom haft thou this great ONiimiSeBt 
To draw my anfwer to thy articles t \Fitmti% 

K.FbiHp. From that (upernal judge, that ftirsgood 
I« any hreaft of. ftroQg authority, [thoughts 

Ta look into the bolts and ftains of right. 
That jadge hadi made me guardian to this boy ; 
Under whoie warrant I impeach thy wrong» 
And by whofe help I mean to chaftife it. 

£. John. Alack, thou doft ufurp authority. 

K. Philip, Excuie it, 'tis to beat ufurping down. 

MU. Whois't, that thou doft call afurper^ Frtmaf 



KmgJtnnJ $3^ 

Eli. Out, xnlbleAt! thy bj^ard Undl be Jlh^, 
That thoa ihay'ft be rC^«eii« and check the world ! 
. €vt^» My bed was ever to thy fim. as tmty 
As thine was to thy huiband; and this boy, 
Liker in fi^atiirle to hss* father Gejffhjh 
Than thou and y^i&x, in manners Jseingr as liikc 
As rain to water, or devil to his dam. i 

iAy hoy a bgilard ! by 4ny ibiily I thinks 
His father never was fo croe-i^^ S 
It cannot be, an if thou wert his inotiier* 

Eli, There^s a^good mother, boy, that bk>ts thy father. ' 

CcMfi. There's a good grandam, boy, Aat woaldft blot 
thee. 

Jufi. Peate.-ii^ "j 

Famlc. Hear the crier. > 

Aafi. What the devil art thou? 

Faulc. One that will play the devil, Sir, with jom. 
An a' may catch your hide and you abne; 
Yon are the hare, of whom the tiroverb goes, 
Whofe valour plucks dead lions by tht beard; 
ril finoak your ikin-coat, an I catch yon right; 
Sirrah, lookto't; i*faidi, I will, i*fiddl. 

BJsintb, O, well dl^ heliecoae that fion^s robe. 
That did difrobe the lion of that robe. 

Fmik. It lies as fightly on the bick of him (8)^ 
As grdat Jkitks* ihews upon an afr | 
%ct, afs, I'll take that burden froai yoor back. 
Or lay ort that, ihall make your fiioMen crack, 

(%) h Ik* dtfi^t\ Off tU b€c\ if bimt 

As gnat Aicidef^ ihoes.ir^«n m «/!.} Bttwhy \k\tjhoitt in tht 
lUMDe of propriety ? For let H«rcuU» uA > Kh/uei Jbave been rea'ly. at 
big at they -were ener fuppos*d to be, yet they (I mean the ^i$ti) 
\roii!d not hive bieieii an overload for an aft. I aoi perfuaded, I haW 
retrieved the true readinf;' and let ut obfervt the joftn^ri of the com^ 
^rifon DOW. FauUonhriSg* in hU refenaatat v^oald iay this to AMfiria* 
^* That lion's (kin, t^hiich my grrat father ^iti^-Rkiard once wore, 
^* looks as oncoothty on thy b^ck } aa thnt other mMt hide, which 
•' was borne by Hcrr^s, woald Wok on 13m hack of an afs.** A. 
doable allnfion was ihtended | firft, to the ^#1^4 of the afs in the !ion> 
Ikin : then kuhard I. it finelv fet in comfiriliMi with dUidu^ 9» 
.4|^ ii (styrically conpled with 0< aftt 



\ 



3^ KJngp 1 6 HnlA 

Jm/k- What i^neker i§ tbb ikme,, that iwli4uT uk 

With this ftbflftidiince^f foperflaoasbieach:? > 

king Pbilipt kleCermine what we (hall do ibeight. 

K. Philip. Women and fools, break off your donferenca^ 
King Jobrif this is the very fum of all ; 
England t and treUnd^ A^ou^ TouraitUf MmtMi^ 
In right of Arthur- 1 do claim of thee : 
Wilt thou refign them^ and lay. down thy arms i 

K. Jobn. My life as foon.-*-! do defy thee, France* 
.^Arthur of Britaiuf yidd thee to my hand ; 

And out of my 6jmx lore 1*11 give thee more, j i 

Than e'er the cowand-hand of France can win* 
Submit thee, boy. 

£li. Come to thy grandam, child. 

Confi. Do, child, go to it grandam^ child. .i'. 
Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam win ^ 

Give it a plum, a cherry, ai)d:a fig j m 

There's a goo^ gtandam, : 

Jrth. Good my mother, peace; 
I would, that I were low laid in my grave ; 
I am not worth thi» coil, that's made for me. 

£Ii, His mother fliames him fo, poor boy, he weeps, i 

Confi. Now Mme^uppn you, whe're ihe does:or no! > 
His gsandam''s Wrong, and not his motherVfliames» ' 
Draws thofe heav'nrmQving pearls from hia p<)or cycS|. ' 
Which heaven Ihalkfcafce in. nature of a feei : . . ' 
Ay, with tbefe cryfla} i^eads heav'n ihall be brib'd. . \ 
To do him^^icc,' and revenge on yOu. . : ? 

£ii. Thou monftffous flanderer of heav'n and earth ! 

Con/, Thou monftrous injurer of heav'n and earth, 
Ca^l me not flaiideref ; thou, ^nd thine, ufurp 

She domination, rbyalties and rights ■ ' ' ' • 

f this opprerfed bdy ;' this is thy eldef! Ton's Ton, 
Infortwnate in.noxhigg'but in thee : ;. . .' 
Thy^fms are yifited /in this poor child; , \ . 
The'cafton of thc4a# is- laid on him j 
Being but the fecond generation 
'Removed from thy {i0:conceiving wombr 
• K, Jobn. 3^dja9),g.haye done,, 
Con^, I have but iJiis.loi&gr, 

That 



• King John 361 

That he 18 «ot only plagued for her Rrtf 

But God hath made her (in and her the pligue 

On this removed iflTue, plagued for her. 

And with her plague her fin ; his injury^ 

Her injury, the beadle to her fin, 

All punifh'd in the perfoii of this child^ 

And all for her, a plague upon her 1 

E/i, Thou'unadvis'd fcold, I can produce 
A will, that bars the title of thy fon. 

Coftjf. Ay, who doubts that ? a will ! — a wicked will- j 
A woman's will, a caukred grandam's will. 

K. Philip. Peace, Lady ; paufe, or be more temperate ; 
It ill befeems this prefence to cry aim 
To thefe ill tuned repetitions. 
Some trumpet ifummon hither to the walls 
. Thefe men ci Jngiers ; let us hear them fpeak# 
Whofe title they admit, Arthur^ % or John's, 

[ Trumpet fiundsm 

Enter a Citizen upon the Walls, 

Cit* Who is 'it, that hath warn'd us to the walls ? 

K. Philip. *Tis France, for England. 

K. John. EnglanJ for iiCdf; 
You men of Anglers and my loving fubje<9s— 

K Philip. You loving men ofJngierit Jrfhur^s fubjeflsf 
Our trumpet callM you to this gentle parle— 

K. yohn. For oux advantage ; therefore hear us firft : 
Thefe flags of France^ that are advanced here 
Befort the eye and profpeit of your town. 
Have hither march*d to your endamagement. 
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath; 
And ready mounted are tljey to fpit forth 
Their iron indignation 'gainfc your walls : , 
All preparations for a bloody fiege 
And, mercilefs proceeding, by thei'c French^ 
Confront your city's eyes, your winking gates ; 
And but for our approacf., thofe ficcping Aones, 
That as a wafte do girdle you about. 
By chc compulfionof ihcir oruHiana- 
By ti.is time from th:;ir fixed beds of linie 

V«L. III. Q, Ha4 



j6i King John. 

Had been difliabited, and wide havock made 

For bloody power to ruHi upon your peace. 

But on the ught of us your lawful King, 

(Who painfully with much expedient march 

Have brought a counter-check before yourgates* 

To fave unfcratch'd your city's threatned cheeks) . 

Behold, the French, amaz'd, vouchfafe a parle ; 

And now, inftcad of bullets wrap'd in fire. 

To make a (baking hvtr in your walh. 

They (hoot but calm words folded up in finoak, 

^o make a faithlefs error in your ears ; 

Which trull accordingly, kind citizens ; 

And let in us, your King, whofe labour'd fpirits, 

Fore-weary'd in this adiion of fwift fpeed» 

Crave harbourage within your city-walls. 

K. PJbilijf. When i have faid, make anfwer to us botii. 
Lo ! n this right hand, whofe protedion 
Js mod divinely vow'd upon the right 
Of him it holds, ftands young Plantageneii 
Son to the elder brother of this man. 
And King o'er him, and all that he enjoys. 
For this down -trodden equity, we tread 
In warlike march thefe greens before your town : 
Being iTO further enemy to you, 
^Than the conftraint of hofpitable zeal. 
In the relief of this oppreffed child, 
Religionfly provokes. Be pleafed then 
To pay that duty, which yon truljf owe 
To him that owns it ; namely, this young PrincCk 
And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear. 
Save in aff>e£l, hath all offence feal'd up : 
Our cannons malice vainly ihall be fpent 
Againft th' invulnerable clouds of heav*n ; 
And with a bleffed, and nnvext retire, 
WUh unhackM fwords, and helmets all unbruisM, 
We wiJi bear home that lufty blood again. 
Which here we came to fpout againft your town ; 
And leave your children, wives, and you in peace. 
But if you fondly pafs your proffer'd offer, ' 

'Tis not the rounder of your old fac'd walls ' 

Can 



King JoHH. 163 

Can hide yon from our mtSkn^rs of war t 
Tho' all thefe BufUjh^ and their difcipline. 
Were harbour'd m their rude circumference* 
Then tell us, (hall your city call us Lord* 
In that behalf which we have challengM it f 
Or ihall we give the fignal to ottrrage> 
And flalk in blood to our poiTeffion ? 

Qi, In brief, we are the King of EngUmPi fabjed:8^ 
For him, and in his right, we hold this town. 

K. John, Acknowlec^e then the King, and letime in» 

Cit. That can we not; but he that proves theKing» 
To him will we prove loyal ; till that time» 
Have we ramm'd up our gates agaihft the worlds* 

K.John,J^ot\i not the crown ofEttglafuiprore the King f 
And if not that, I bring you witnefles. 
Twice fifteen thoufand hearts of England^s breed ■> 

F'aii/c. (Baftards, andelfe.) 

K. yotft' To verify pur title with their lives. 

K . Phi/ip . As m any, and as well-born bloods as tho(e«-*> 

Faulc. (Some baftards too.) v 

K. PMiip, Stand in his face to contradiS his claiin* 

Cit, Till you compound, whefe right is worthieft. 
We for the worthieft hold the right from both. 

K. JoJIm, Then God forgive the fin of all thofe foals. 
That 10 their everlafting reiidence^ 
Before the dew of evening fall, (hall fleets 
In dreadful trial of our kingdom^ King ! 

K. Philip. Anun^ amen, — Mount, chevaliers, to tfms ! 

Faulc. Saint Genrgey that fwing*d the dragon, and e'er 
Sits on his horfeback at minehoftefs* door, [fince 

Teach us fome fence. Sirrah^ were I at home 
At your den, firrah, with yoar lionnefs> 
I'd fet an ox-head to your lion's hide> 
And make a monfter of you.—— \fo A«ftria» 

Attfi. Peace, no more. 

FauU. O, tremble; for yon hear the lion i oar. 

K. John. U^igher to the plain, where we'll fet forth 
In beft appointment all our regiments. ^ 

Faulc% Speed then to take th^ advantage of the fieldi; 



3^4 King John. 

K. Philip. It (hair be fo ; and at the other hill 
Command the reft to flaDd. God, and our right ! 

[Exeunt* 

A long charge foundtd : ihen^ afttr exturfiomi writer ihe 
Herald of France wth Trumptts to the gates. 

F. Her. You men of Anglers ^ open wide your gates* 
And let yow Arthur Duke of Bretagne in ; 
Who by the hand of France this day hath made 
Much work for tears in many an Englijh mother, 
Whofe fons lie fcatter'd on the bleeding ground : 
And many a widow's hufband groveling Bes, 
Coldly embracing the difcoloor'd earth j 
While viftory with little lofs dothiplay 
Upon the dancing banners of the French \ 
Who are at hand triumphantly difplay'd. 
To enter con()aerors ; and to proclaim 
Arthur of Bretagney England*^ King, and yburs. 

Enter E n gl i Ih Herald ivith Trumpets. 

J^. Her. Rejoice, you men of AngUrs ; ring your bells ; 
King Johtty your King and England' ^^ doth approach. 
Commander of this hot malicious day. 
Their armours, that VnarchM hence fo (ilver-brighty 
Hither return all gilt in Frenchmens blood. 
There (luck np plume in any EngllJh creft. 
That is removed by a ftafF of France. 
OCir colours do return in thofe fame hands. 
That did difplay them when we £iftmarch'd forth; 
And, like a jolly troop of huntfmen, come 
Our lully Englijh^ all with purpled hands ; 
DyM in the dying flaughter of their foes. 
Open your gates, ^nd give the vidor^ way. 

Cit* Heralds, from off our tow'rs wc might behold, 
Frora firll to laft, the onfet and retire 
Of both; your armies, whofe equality 
By oar beft eyes', cannot be cenft^red ; # 
Blood hath bought blood, and blows have anfwcr'd blows ; 
Strength mach'd with (Irength, and power confronted 
£oth are alike, and both alike we lik? ; [power. 

One 



King Jo H N. J65 

One flioft prove greateft. While they weigh f© even. 
We hold ou/iown for neither ; yet (or Loth. 

Enter Ihe fwo Kings luiih their Powers^ at/fvfral doors,. 

K John, France J haft thou yet nio#e blood to cad away ? 
Say, ihall (he current of our right run on ? 
W^hofe pafl^ge, vext with thy impediment, 
Shall leave his native channel and o'er-fwell 
With c«arfe difturb'd ev'n thy confining, fhores ; 
Unlefs thou let his filver water keep 
A peaceful progrefs to the-ocean. 

K. Philip, England y thou haft not fav'd one drop of blood 
In this hot Irial,^ more than we of France ; 
Rather loft more. And by this hand I fwear. 
That fways the earth this climate overlooks. 
Before we will lay hy our jutt- borne arms. 
We'll put thee down, 'gainft whom thefe arms we bear ; 
Or add a royal number to the dead ; 
Gracing the fcroul/ that tells of this war's lofs. 
With (laughter coupled to the name of Kings. 

Paulc, Ha!: Majefty,— how high thy glory towers, 
When the rich blood of Xings is fet on hre ! 
Oh, now doth death Jine his dead chaps with fteel % 
The fwords of foldiers are hii teeth, his phangs; 
And now he feafts, mouthing the fie(h of men 
In undetermin'd differences of Kings. 
Why ftand thefe royal fronts amazed thus ? 
Qry havock, Kings ; back to the ftained field. 
You equal Potents, fiery-kindled fpirits ! 
Then let confufion of one part confirm 
The other's peace ; till then, blows, blood, and deatli, 

K. John, Whofe party do the tewnfmen yet admit ? 

R Phil. Speak, citizens, for England , who's your King ? 

C//. The King of England^ when we know the King. 

K. Philip, KnoW him in us, that here hold op his right. 

K. John, In us, that are our own great deputy, 
And bear poiTeffion of oor p^-fon here ; 
Lord of Our prefcnce, Angiirs^ and of yon. 

CL3 G/. 



366 King John. 

C/V. A greater pow'r, than ve, denies all thb (9); 
And till it be undoubted, we do lock 
Our former fcruple in our flrong-barr'd gates. 

Kings of our fears, until our fears refolv'd 

fie by fome certain King purgM and deposM. 

Faulc. By heav'n, tbsfe fcroytes of J^ngiers. flout you, 
And (land fecurely on their battlements, [Kings, 

As in a theatre, whence they gape and point 
At your induilrious fcenes and adts of death. 
Your royal prefences, be rul'd by roe ;. 
Do like the mntincs of JeruJaUm^ 
fie friends a while, and both conjointly bend 
Your i^iarpeil deeds of malice on this town, 
fiy eafl and weft let France and England mount 
Their batt'ring cannon charged to the mouths ; 
Till their foul-fearing clamours have brauPd down 
The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city. 
I'd pUy inccflantly upon thefe jades ; 
Even till unfenced defolation 
Leave them as naked as the vulgar air. 
That done, diflever your united ftrengths. 
And part your mingled colours once again ; 
Turn face to face, and bloody point to point. 
Then in a moment fortune fliall cull forth 
Out of one fide her happy minion ; 
\o whom m favour {he Ihall give the day. 
And kifs him with a glorious viftory. 
How like you this wild counfel, mighty States ? 
Smacks it not fomething of the policy ? 

K. John, Now by the flcy, that hangs over our hetds^ 
I like ic well. Francis 0)all we knit our pow'cs 
And lay this ^«^7>rj even 'with the ground. 
Then after, fight who iha,U be-Kisg of it ? 

Fauk, And if thou hail the mettle of a K^ing, 
fieing wrong'd as we are by thi^. peeviih town, 

(9J ^ grfofir pofvr than we Jetties all tbis\] W^ mol|b ccrtfioly 
read, as jlr , Warhurfn aco'ely eb&rv*^ to in^j 
A greater pu'wr, thsn ye, -dfifitp, aiJ tikis | 
i. e. Tho' each of }ou<piCt.cii^ tp ^t Jk^ ri^fvJi King^ ¥^^^. M 
yet only fo in fwaying over our fcar^ ^ tbeterroit wthave of you j 
not ackA9wiedg'd Kiagt in our obediMCe* 

Tora 



King JoHti; 367 

Turn thou the mouth of thy artUlery» 

As we will ours, againll thefe fawcy walls ; 

And when that we have dafh'd them to the ground^ 

Why then, defy each other ; and, pell-mell. 

Make work upon ourfelves fpr heav'n or hell. , . : 

K. Philip* Let it be fo; fay, where will yoo affsralt^ 

K. John, We from the weft will fend deftru^ioa 
Into this city's bofom. 

Auft. I from the north. 

K. Philip, Our thunder from the fouth 
Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town. 

Faulc, O prudent difcipline ! from north to fouth ; 
Auftria and France fhoot in each other's mouth. 
V\\ ftir them to it ; come, away, away ! 

Cit. Hear us, great Kings ; vouchfafe a while to ftay. 
And I fhall fhew you peace^ and fair-fac'd league j 
Win you this city without ftroak or' wound ; 
Rcfcue thofe breathing lives to die in beds» 
That here come facrinces for the field ; 
ferfevere not, but hear me, mighty Kings. 

K. John, Speak on, with favour ; we are bent to hear. 

Cit, That daughter there of Spain\ the Lady Blanch^ 
Is near to England ; look upon the years 
Of Lenxiis the Dauphin, and that lovely maid. • ~" 
If lufty love fhould go in queftof beauty. 
Where fhould he find it fairer than in Blanch? 
If zealous love fhould go in fearch of virtue. 
Where fhould he find it purer than in Blanch? 
If love ambitious fought a match of birth, 
Whofe veins bound richer blood than hsidy BlanchP 
Such as fhe is in beauty, virtue, birth. 
Is the young Dauphin ey&ry way compleat : 
If not compleat of,— —fay, he is not fhe ; 
And fhe again wanta nothing, (to name want,) ^ . 

If want it be not, that fhe is not he. t 

He is the half part of a bleffed man (io}» 

. (10) He h tbi balfp0rt of a hUfftd mtm-t . r 

heft to befimjhed by Jkeh as (be t] The iiigeni«as Dr» TSiriijf 
prefcribM that readiii|(, which I havt hcr« reftor'd to the text ; tnd 
nvhiih is abfolutely ttqutfite to the kn(c of the paflkgct , 

0^4 ^ Left 



^69 King Jo H If. 

Left to be finifked by fnch a (he : 

And (he a fair divided excellence, \m 

Whofe fnlnefs of perfei^ion lies in hii»,^ * i^ 

O two fuch (liver ctirrencs^ when they join. 

Do glorify tfaie banks that bound them in : 

And two fuch (hores, to two fuch dreams madie one. 

Two Uich controlling bounds ftial? yoa be. Kings, 

'to thcfe two princes, if you marry them. 

'I his union (hall do more than battery can. 

To our faft-cloffd gates : for at this match, 

With fwiftcr fpleen than powder can enforce (i i). 

The mcmh of pa(rage (hall we fiing wide ope. 

And give yoa entraiKc ; bat without this match» 

The Sa enraged is not half fo deaf, 

lions fo confident, mountains and rocks 

So free from motion ; no, not death himfelf 

III mortal fury half fo peremptory,. 

As we to keep this city. 

Faulc. Here's a (lay. 
That (hakes the rotten carcafe of old death 
Out of his rjgs. Kcre's a large motuh, indeed. 
That rpits fonh death, and mcnntains^ rockj and feas; 
Talks as familiarly of roaring lions,- I 

As maids of thirteen do of poppy-dogs. I 

What cannot. eer begot this lully blood? ^ 

He fpeaks plain cannon-fire, and fmoak and bounce, i 

He gives the baRonado with his tongue : I 

Our ears are codgel'd ; not a word of his» 
Btit buffets better than a (id of France ; 
Zpunds, I was never fo bethumpt with words. 
Since I firll callM my brother's father dad. 

£//. Son, lift to this conjon^ion, make this match. 

(ll) ff^tth fwjfter fpeed than pwfder can enforce^ This it a wife 
ibphift cation of Mr. Po/>e*s, becaufe he did not uiidtrftand ihe geouiac 
(eir. I have reftor'd with the old copiet ; 

^itb ftoifter fplttn than powder, ice* 
u €^ with a paflivo of dtfiie more fwife in its influence, than year 
fire and fury can compel tit Co. The PoeC ofet tkis^ word again, after- 
w«rdfl in this play, in the veiy fame (en(t ; 
#auJc* Cht /«mjcalifcd wttb in^r violent wfltton^ 
jiad fplcen of ^ttd t» jc* ^wr Mo^tf ;j \ 



Xing John. 369 

Give with t>ur niece a dowry large enough ; 
'Fdr by this knot thou (halt fo furely tie 
Thy now-unfurM aflurance to the crown. 
That yon green boy ihall have no fun to ripe 
The bloom, that promifeth a naighty fruit. 
I fee a yielding in the looks of France: 
Marie, h6w they whifper ; urge them, while their foul* 
Art capable of this ambition ; 
Left zeal now melted by the windy breath 
Of (oft petitions, pity, and remorfe, 
. ^ool and congeal iagain to what it was. 

Cit, Why anfwer not the double majefties 
This fficndly treaty of our threatened town ? 

K.PAii, Speak, Et^Iand^ £rft,..that hath been forward 
Tcipeak unto this city : what fay you ? [firft 

K. John, If that the Dauphm there, thy princely fon. 
Can in this book of beauty read, llovt ; 
Her dowry fliall weigh equal with a Queen. 
For AnJQu^ and fair Tourainet Maine^ FoiSHen \\%)% 
And all that we upon this fide the fea. 
Except this city now by us befieg'6. 
Find liable to our crown and dignity. 
Shall gild her bridal bed ; and make h^r rich . 
In titles, honours, and promotions.; . 
As (he in beauty, education^ blood, . 

(11) F«pi AN6Xiik's and fair Touraine, Mmdc, l^oidierf^ . 

And Ml that we upon this Jide the fea^ , 

Except this city mnv by us beliegM.* 

Find liable, &c.] This is-a remarktbV Inflance of carelefTnelf 
hi a point that ftares common fenfe full in the face : and yet ihus all • 
the Editors in their profound fagacky. What was thtcry 6 ^^g'd,' 
hntjfngiersf K\n%Jobn, confenting to match the Lady Blanch with 
Che DaufJbWf agree*, in part of her dnwry, to give up all be held in 
franet, except the city of-Affgitrs which he now befirg*d and laid • 
claim to. But could it be thought, that he. (hould at one and rhe 
fame time glre up all except Angiers, and give up tkdt too ? I coned^d 
this paifage In the appendix to my SiiAKisptA.aK Refter^d^ ard-Kfr. . 
P^e haserobracM it in his laft edition, ^v/oii was one of the pto* 
VMTces, (mcthinks, that gentleman might have remembered j) whi< b 
the Engll/b held in France; aod which ths FnnebKinfi by ChatiJitn 
claim'd of K.ing^0ifr/r inright of Duke ^r/^Ar, at the verif c^eniit^of 
the phy. Angien^ inftead of Anjou^ hat% Vttft U\WVj ^\v«e6^\Tk Wwvt:^ 



gyo King J^ft^' 

Holdf htad mth any Priocefs of the worlds 
K. PbiL What ft7»ft dioQ, boy ? lool^ in the Lady%6fif • 
Liwis. I do, my Lord» and in her eye I &nd 

A wonder, or a wond'rons miracle ; 

The ihadow of myfelf form'd in her eye 5 

Whidi being bot the &adow of your ipo, 

BeconKS a fun, and makes yoor fon a fhadow s 

I do proteft, I never lovM myielf I 

Till now infixed I beheU myfelf, 

Drawn in the flatt'ring table of her eye. 

' Faidc. Drawn in the flattering table of her eye ! * 

HangM in the frowning wrioKle of her brow I 
And quarter'd in her heart ! he doth efpie 

Himielf lovers traitor: this is pity now. 
That hang'd, and drawn, and qq^terM, there {hould be, 
In fach a love, fo vile a lout as he* 

Blanch* My uncle's will in this refped is mine* 
If he fee ought in you, that makes him like. 
That any thing he fees^ which moves his liking* 
I can with eafe tranflate it to my will : 
Or if you will, to fpeak more properly, 
I will enforce it e^fily to my love, - 

Further I will not flatter youi my Lord, , 
That all 1 fee in you is worthy love. 
Than this^ that nothing do I fee in you, 
(Tho' c'hurlifh thoughts themfelves flioald be your jii(%e) 
That I can find fhoukl merit any hate. 

K.y(pA«. What fay thefe young ones ? what fay you, 
my niece ? 

Blanch. That flie is bound in honour- flill to do 
What you in wifdom ftill vouchfafe to fay. 

K. John, Speak then, Frlnce Daufhin^ can you love this 

Lady? 
Lenvis. Nay, aik me, if I can refrain from love> 
For I do love her roofl un feigned ly. 

K. ychfi. Then do I give Volquejfen, Towraine^ Maine,. 
P6l£2ierSf and Anjou, thefe fivt provinces. 
With her to thee ; and this addition more, 
Fttll thirty thouTaud marks of kngUJh'^oin. 

mttp 



Kkig John. syi 

Philip ofFramcef if thou be pleasM Wfthal, 
JComtmnd thy fon and daughter to join hands. 

K.Pbi, It likes us well ; young Princes, clofe your hand»» 

Juft. And your lips too ; for, I am well alTur'd, 
Tkat I did to^ when I was firft afTur'd. 
V K. Philip, N0W9 citizens of jfngiers, ope your gfttes^ 
Let in that anuty which you hare made : ^ 

For at St. Murfs chapel prefently 
The rites of marriage (hall be folemniz'd; 
Is not the Lady CeMfiance in this troop f 
I know, ihe is not ; for thi» match made up 
Her presence would have interrupted much. 
Where is (he and her ion, tell me> who knows ^ 

Leavii. She*8 fad and paffionateat your Highnefs^ tent. 

K. Philip, And, by ray faith, this league, that we havti 
Will give her fadnefs very little cure. |[mftde» 

Brother of Englafid, how may we content 
This widow Lady ? in her right we came ; 
Which we, God knows» have turn'd anQther way' 
To oar own vantage* " • ' ^ • 

K. John. We will heal up a». 
For we'll create young Arthur Duke oftPritairif 
And Earl oi Richmond i and this rich fiiir town 
We make him Lord of. Call the Lady CoufiMU^^' ^ 
Some fpeedy mefftnger bid her repair ' ', 

To OUT folemnity : I truft, we ftallr 
If not fill up themeafureof her will^' * = 
Yet in fome meafure fatisfy her fo,^ 
That we fhall (lop her exclamation. 
Go we, as well as hafte will fuffer^us. 
To this unIx>ok'd-for, unprepared pomp. 

[Exeunt all hut FauTcnnbridgCk 

Faulc. Mad worldr mad Kings, mad compoiition I 
John, to flop Arthur^s title in tfie whoIe> 
Hath willingly departed with a part : 
And France^ whofe armour pofftfcience buckled on^ 
Whom Zeal and Charity Brought to the fields 
lAs God's own foldler, rounded m the eav 
With that fame purpofe- changer, that % devil„ 
That broker^ that ilill breaks the pate of faith» 

Q^ That 



gyi King JoHK. 

That daily brtak-vow» he that wins of all. 

Of Kings, of beggars^ old men, young men, maids^ 

Who having no external thing to lofe 

But the word maid, cheats the poor maid of that; 

That fnooth'fac'd gcotlemao, tickling commodityy^-* 

Commodity, the biafs of the world, . 

The world, which of itfelf is poifed well* 

Made to run even, upon even ground ; 

Till tbis advantage, this vile-drawing biails. 

This fway of motion, this commodity. 

Makes it take head from all indifierency. 

From all di region, purpofe, courfe, intent. 

And this fame biafs, this commodity, 

This^bawd, this broker, this all-changing word, 

Cjapt on the outward eye of fickle franu^ 

Hath drawn him, from his own determined aid. 

From a refolvM and honourable war, 

I'o a moft bafe and vile^concluded peace. tf i ■ 

And why rail I on this commodity ? 

But for becanfe he hath not wooed me yet : 

Not that 1 have the pow^r to clutch my hand> 

\^hf^ his fair angels would falute my palm ; 

Bat that my hand, as unattempted yet> 

Like a poor beggar, raileih oa the rich* 

Well, whik l^TSi a beggar, I will rail i^ 

And fay, there is no fin but to be rich : 

And beine rich, my virtue then ihall be. 

To fay, thepe is no vice but beggary. 

-pi nee Kings break faith upon commodity, 

Gs4d| be xny Lord j for 1 will worfiiip th«e ! [Exiu 



"SA 



ACT 



King Jo Hw. 37 J 



ACT III. 

SCENE, the French King's Pavilion* 
Enter Con^nttt Arthar «ff^ Salifbuiy. 

Constance. 

GO N E. to be marry'd ! gone to fwear a peace f 
Falfe blood to falfe blood joinM I gone to ht UittiiA t 
Shall L^Mts have Blanch^ and Blanch thofe provinces ? 
It is not (6^ thou haft mir-fpolce, mif-heard ; 
Be well advis'd, tell o'er thy tale again» 
It cannot be ; thou doft bat fay, *tis {b. 
I truft> I may not truft thee ; for thy word 
Is bu(^the vain breath of a common man ; 
Believe me, I do not believe thee, maai^ 
I have a King's oath to the contrary. 
Thou fhalt be punifh'd for thus frighting me. 
For I am Tick, and capable of fears ; 
Opprefl with wrongs, and therefore full dt leafs : 
A widow, human dkfs, fubje^l to fear^ ; 
A woman, naturally born to fears* 
And tho' thou now confefs thou didil but jeft^ 
With my vext fpirits I cannot take a truce, 
But they will quake and tremble all this day. 
What doft thou mean by (baking of thy head ? 
Why doft thou look fo fadly on mv fon ? 
What means that hand upon that oreafl of thine f 
Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum. 
Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds t 
Be thefe fad figns confirmers of thy words ? 
Th^n fpeak again, not all thy former tale. 
But this one word, whether thy tale be true. 

SaL As true, as, I believe, you think them, falfe, 
That give you caufe to prove my faying true. 

Co^. Oh, if tfaoa teach me to believe this forrow. 



\ 



374 King John: 

Teach tbou this forrow how to make me "die $ 
And let belief and life encounter fo, " '^ 

As doth the fury of two defp'rate men. 
Which, in the very meeting, fall and ,die* 
Lewis wed Blanch / O boy, then where art thoa ? 
FramU friend with England! what becomes of me? 
Fello^y, be gohe> 1 cannot brook thy fight : 
s This news hath made thee a moft uglv man. ^ 

Sal, What other barm have I, good Lady doae> 
But fpoke the harm that is by others done ? 

Conft. Which harm within itfelf fo heinous is. 
As it makes harmful all that fpeak of it. 

Arth. I do befeech yoQ, mother, be content* 

Confi. If thou, that bidil me be content, wert gruD^ 
Ugly, and (landVous to thy mother's womb. 
Full of unpleaAng blots, and fightlefs ftains^ 
Lame, fooli(h, crooked, (Wart, prodigious^ 
Patch'd with foul moles, and eye-oiFending marks ^ 
I would not care, I then would be content : 
For then I (hould Dot love thee : no^ nor thou 
Become thy great birth, nor defcrve a crown. 
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy I 
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great. 
Of Nature's A^fts thoumay'fl with lillies boa((. 
And with the naif- blown rofe. But Fortune, oh t 
She is corrupted, changM, and, won from thee. 
Adulterates hourly with thine uncle John ; 
And with her golden hand hath pluckt on Fran^% 
To tread down fair refpeA of fovereignty. 
And made his Majefly the bawd to theirs.. 
France is a bawd to Fortune^ and to John^ 
That flrumpet Fortune, that ufurping John f 
Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forfworn I 
Envenom him with words ; or get theegone» 
And leave thefe woes done> which I alone 
Am bound to uoder-bear. 

Sal. Pardon me. Madam, 
I may not go without you to the Kings. 

G?»/?. Thou may'ft, thou (halt, I wiU not go with thcft# 
I jviU inftrufi ipy forfows to l>e proud v 

Tor 



King Janih Wi 

For Grief is proud, and makes his owner (loop. 
To mf , and IP the ftate of my great gskf, 
ict Kings aflewble : for my grkPs fo greats 
That no fnppoct^r but the huge firm earcii 
'Can hold it up : Here I and §Qj|-row fit : 
Here is my thrope^ bid Sings pome bow to i% (15% 

[Sits 49wn tm tk$ Fboi"^ 

(jj) ■ fei Kings cmtStmhii.] I oiuft here aceoant for tlie 
liberty 1 have taken to make a change in the divifion of the ifcojift 
and third aBi* In the old edition^y the fccond off was made to end 
here ; tho*^^tis evident. Lady Conjtanct here, iq her defpair, feats herl 
feif on the fi^or '• sod lie moft be fuj^poTed, as I formerly obferv*4» 
immediately to rife agahi, only tp go oflF and end the aa decently ; Ibr 
tht fat fam mufi ihut her in fr«m the fight of the Audience, aa ah* 
furdity I cannot will| to zcc^tc Sbakffpegre of, M r. Cri &/•« and fo|%* 
other criticks fancied, that a confiderable part of the fecond aS waa 
loft ; and that the chafm began here. I had joined in this fofpicioa 
of a fcene or two being loft ; and vnwittiogly drew Mrl Ptpe into this 
error. *' It Jam to hefi, fays he, and it wert tq he vnjhtd the^ reftoret 
<« {meaning me,) ceuldjuffh if." To deierve this great man's thanks>^ 
ril venture at the taik^ and hope to convince my readers, that nothinj^ 
is loft; but that 1 have fupplied the fufpe£ted chafm, only by reCH- 
fying the divifion of the affs, Upota looking a little more narrowly^ ' 
into the (on/itution of the play^ I am iatisfied that the third «^ ought 
to begin v^ith that (cene, which has hitherto been accounted the lai$ 
of the fecond %€t : and my reafons for it are tbefe. The match beings 
concluded, in the fcene before that, betwixt the Dauphin and Blanehp 
• meflcnger is i^nt for Lady Conftance to King PbU^* tttfitt forher cor 
come to St. Mary't church to the fotemnity. The Princes all go out» 
* as to the marriage 5 and the hafiard, ftaying a little behind, to defcant 
on intereft and commodity, very properly ends the aS, The nexfr 
fcene then, in the French King*s tent, brings us SaRJhury delivering 
his meflage to Coif/?^«rtf, who, refufing to goto the folemnity, i<ta • 
herfcif down on the floor. The whole train returning from the chuKh 
to the Frracib JCing*s pavilion, PbiHp expreflcs fueh fatiifadion on oc- 
cafion of th« happy folenpoity of that day 5 XhiXCenfianee rifes from thm 
floor, and joins in the fcene by entering her proteft againft their joy, 
and curfing the bufinefs of the day. Thus, I conceive, the feenf a 
arc fairly continued ; and there is no chafm in the action : but a pro« 
per interval made both for Sal'ipuryt coming to Lady Cenftance^ and 
for the folemiiization of the marriage. Befides^ as Faukenbridge W 
chara^erj 'twas very well judged to 



evidently the Poet's favourite 
cloffe the aS with hii lolilo^uy. 



EnUt 



^j$ Kiitg ^. <> H i^. 

EMttr King Joho, Kiwg PhHipr Lewis, Blancfa, EUoor^ 
Faalconbridge, and koknti. 

K. ?biUp. *Tis true, ftir daughter^ and this blefTeddajr 
Ever in France ihall be kept feftival r 
To iblefflttize this day, the glorions Sun 
, ^tayi in his coarfe, and plays the Alchymift ; 
Turning with fplendour of his precious eye 
The meagre cloddy earth to gBtt'ring goM. 
The yearly courfe, that brings this day. abont^ 
Shall never fee it» but a holy-day. 

C$nfi. fi wicked day, and not an holy-day .—X!^^. 
What hath this day deferv'd ? what hath it doQe> 
That it in golden letters (hoold be fct 
Amohg'the^high tid^s in the kalendar K 
Nay, rather turn this day out of the week^ 
This day of fhame, opprefiion, perjury^ 
Or, if it mud (land fiill, let wives with child 
Pray, that their burdens may not fall this day. 
Left that their hopes prodigioufly be croft : 
3ttt, on this day, let feamen fear no wreck ; 
No bargains break, that are not this day made ; 
This day, all things begun come to ill end, 
Yea, faith itfelf to hollow falih'ood change !: 
' K. P/fittfi, By heaven. Lady, you fliall havenocauie 
To curfe the fair proceedings of this day :, 
Have I not pawnM to you my Majefty ?' 

Ccnfi. Ycu have beguilM me with a connterfeit 
Refembling Majefty, which, touched and try'd,. 
Troves valaelefs: you are forfworn, forfworn* 
You^aiiie in arms to fpili my enemies blood,. 
.But now in arms, you ftrengthen it with youfs» 
.The grapling vigour,, and rough frown of war,. 
Is cold in amity and painted peace,. 
And our oppreflion bath made up this league: : 
Arm, aim, yeHcav'ns, againft thefe perjurM Kingt't 
A vwtlow cries, be hufband to m6, Heav'n ! 
Let not the hours of this ungodly day 
Wear cut the day in peace ; but ere Sun-fet, 

Set 



King John. 377 

Set armed difcord 'twixt thefe perfar*^d Kings.. 
Hear mci oh, hear me r ^ ** 

Jufl, Lady Conftance^ peace. 

Ccnft, War, war, no peace; peace is to jne a war: 
O Lymoges^ O Auftria ! thou doft ihame 
That bloody fpoil : thou flave, thou wretch, thou cowftr<V 
Thou little valiant, great in villainy J 
Thou ever ftrong upon the ftronger iiAt \ 
Thou Fortune's champion, that doil never fight 
But when her humorous Lady (hip is by 
To teach thee fafety ! thou art perjur'd too. 
And fboth-'ft up greatnefs. What a fool art thou> 
A ramping fool, to brag, to ftamp, and fwear^ 
Upon my party ; thou cold-blooded (lave. 
Haft thou not fpoke like thunder on my fide^ 
Been fworn my foldier, bidding me depend 
Upon thy ftars, thy fortune, and thy ftrength ? 
And doft thou now fall over to my foes f 
Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for ihame. 
And hang a calve's ikin on thofe recreant limbs. 

Aaft, O, that a man would fpeak thofe words tomel 
^ Faulc. And hang a calve's ikin on thofe recreant 
limbs. 

Juft. Thou dar'ft not fay fo, villain, for thy lift. 

Faulc, And hang a calve's ikin on thofe recreant 
limbs. 

Juft, Methinks, ^}ci^X, Richard^ pride and Ricbard*% 
fall (14) . : 

Should be a precedent to fright yoa» Sir. 

Fauk. 

(14) Aoft. Methinhf that Richard'* ftrUe and Richard'* /j//] 
•fhtfc 12 Aibfeqnent lines Mr, Pope fiiiV inferted fiom the o:d 
IkeCcb of this pla», c»ird. The troublej&me Reign of Kjng Jobrt, in 
Two Parts. An the Verfes are not bad, I have not caOieerM ihem ^ 
tho* I do not cdnceive them (o abfoiuteljr eflrnttal to clearing up «Dy 
circuffiftanceof the a^ion, as Mr. Pope feems to imagine H^bat 
tvas the ground of this fuarrtl of the Bafard /0 Aufttia (fays thaC 
Gentleman) \i no where jpecified in the prefene play i nor is tbef^e iH 
this p fact, or the fcen$%ohere it isfirft hinted at, {namely, the udof Ai^ z) 
the leap mention of aty reafon for it. This is the Editor's siler* 
lion \ but let ut tzaraine, bow well it it (rouAded. In the very 

be^a* 



378 King John,' 

Fauk. What words are thefe ? how Ao my finews (bake ! 
My father's foe' clad in my father's fpoil ! 

How 

beginning of the id aB, the Daupbtn, fpeaking of Aufiria to youof 
^thur, fays 5 

Richard, that rehh*d the lion of bis beartp 

And foughtHbe hcly wars in Pfleftine,- 

Bv this brave Duke came early to his grave* 
To which Arthur replies ; 

Cod fiall forgi've you Caard«-lion** Death, 

*rb£ ratbert that you give his Offspring Life \ 
It not this a fufHcient ground for Faulconbridge^% quarrel to A»pri4i 
It may be objedted, Faulconbridge is not pretent to hear this. But, 
what if be be not ? So the aumencc be infornri'd duly of the cir- 
cuonftance, the fafi was too notorious to fuppofe FauUonbri^ge did 
not knowof.it. The ground of his quarrel, therefore, is fairly 
implied in that knowledge: And the Poet*8 art, perhapt, better 
ihewn, (if we were to conteod that point,) to let the information 
come from any other mouth than that of Faulconbridge, But then to 
a fecond material point. The fiory is, (Subjoins the Editor) that 
Auflria, who kill* d King "Kichzri Coear-de-lion, wore, as the fpoil of 
that Prince, a lionU bide which had belonged to him : This circutnfiana 
renders the anger of the Bafiard very natural : and ought net to have 
keen emitted. But is it omitted ? Or, clfe, *tis but begging the 
^ueftion. In the 3d aff^ when Lady Corfiance j^ttccUen xhzt Aufrii 
hat abandoned her intcred, fhe fays to him ; 

« L^moi^es ! Auf^ria ! thou doft fhame 
« That bloody fpoiL ■ 

Thou Kiear a lion** hide ! dcffit, for fi>anie\ 

And hang a calfsfiiin en thefe recreant linihs* 
. Now TauUenb'idge is prefenl here, ar d fees Aufiria thus habited. Bat 
before, in the ad c6lt where Faulconbridge bfgint to quarrel with 
Aufiria, let us attend to their dialogue, 
Auft. JVhat the devil art thou f 
Faulc. One that will play the devil, Sir, with yw. 

An* he may catch your hide and you ahne, 

Tou are the bare, of whom the proverb goe$, 

fVhofe valour plucks dead lions by the beard, 

rilfmoakyour /kin coat^ an* I cauhyou right ; 
But may it not here a^ain be objeaed, that though Faulcenhridgi &« 
Aufiria clad in a l:on*t hide j ye? he svght not know it to be tbf 
very hide, which was worn by King Richard his father ? Bat to pot 
that point out of ail doubr, let us only hear what Lady fiUuuh imarf 
^Utely replies } 

0, well did\it huwtt vV%\. Y\otC % \Cv^^» 

7:Un dU <ii/roU lhe^iQU of >i)WX. x^* -^ 



King John, ^79 

How dotb Aklio wbifper in mine ears, 
«« Delay not, Richard^ kill the villain ftrait ; 
«< Difrobe hixn of the matchlefs monument, 
" Thy father's triumph o*cr the favages— — • 
Now by \i\i foul I fwear, my.father^s foul» 
Twice will I not review the morning's rife. 
Till I have torn that trophy from thy back; 
And fplit thy heart, for wearing it fo long. 

K. John. We like not this, thou doft forget thyfelf. 

Enter Pandulph. 

K. Fhilip, Here comes the holy legate of the Popeil 
Fand, Hail,- you anointed deputies of heav'n ! 

To thee. King Johtiy my holy errand is ; 

I Pandulphi of fair Milain Cardinal, 

And from Pope Innocent the Legate here, 

Do in his name religioufly demand 

Why thou agaijift the church, our holy mother, * 

So wilfully doft fpurn, and forcie perforce 

Keep Stephen Langton, chofen arch^i^op 

Of Canturbury^ from that holy See ? 

This in our forefaid holy father's nanae. 

Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. 

K. John, What earthly name to interrogatorici * ^ 

Can tafk the free breath of a facred King T 

Thou ca^ not. Cardinal, devifeaname - 

So flight, 4inworthy, and ridiculous. 

To charge me to an anfwer, as the Pope. 

Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England v 

Add thus much more, that no Italian priell 

Shall tithe or toll in our dominions : 

But as we under heav'n arc fupremc head. 

So, under him, that great fupremacy. 

Where we do reign, we will alone uphold ; 

r . ^ ■ * ' 

I fubi]>it it therefore, whether thefe lists hav« not beeo ioferted^ 
ijather arbitrarily, thm «iVfjfl#riay. Vpim the whole, ai Mr. Ppf9 
has generally been unfortofiate in hiscriticirrs j fo he is no lcf« im^ 
happy in bit dUig^M€^, -wkcft he wQia^a^Vm lyt im%% «. va.^wi\^ 
wh^tb^does, v 



3S0 King John'.. 

With th' afliftance of a siortal hand* 
So tell the Fope, sU rev'rence fet apart 
To him and his afi^rpM authority. 

K. Pbilif. Brother of England^ yoa blafphemc in thfs. 

K. John. Tho' you, and all the Kings of Chriftendoa 
Are led fo erofly by this oiedling prieft. 
Dreading th« curfe» that money may buy out f 
And by the merit of vile gold, drofs, duft» 
Pttrcha(e corrupted pardon of a mantr 
Who in that fa!e fells pardon from himfelfi 
Tho* j'ou, and all the reft, fo grofly led. 
This jugllng witch-craft with revenue cheriflk ; I 

YcJLi afone, alone, do me oppofe I 

Againfttbe Pope, and count his friends my {oti^ 

Pand, Then by the lawful power that I have> 
Thou fiialt Hand curft, and excommunicate ; 
And bleffed fliall he he> that doth revolt 
From his allegiance to an heretick ; 
And mei:itQriou8 (hall that hand be call'd,. 
Canonized, and worihip'd as a faint 
That takes away by any {ecret courfc 
Thy hateful life. 

Confi. O, lawful let it be (19), 
That I have room with Romi to curfe a while* 
Good (h(her Cardinal » cry thou, Amen^ 
To my keen curfes ; for without my wroii|; 
There is no tongue hath power to corfe him right. 

Pand. There's law, and warrant. Lady, for my curfcr 

Ctnft. And for mine too ; when law can do no right, 
Let % h( lawful that law bar no wrong : 

(15) 0, ttmful Ut a Bi, 

That I bam letvc wub Rome ta curfe a wblU ;1 
Mr. Fo^, to the nicety of his etr, has, Mpunft the aat^ority oF all 
th« copies, difplaccd a jingle here ; (which I hive made bold (o 
reftore Co the tear,) tkj* it is oM«tis to every knowing reader, 
howr caftomary it is with Mr Poet, M a thoufand inftances, to play 
•owdrdsfimilarin (bond, aaddillerint in fignificstion. He rrpeitt 
the very Taine conandnim om the two woris now before vs, in Julhf 

Now it \x JLmm Um^4\ %«4 t««^««v«.^^^ 



King JoH^r. 381 

Law cannot give my child his kingdom here ; 
For he, that holds his kingdom, hoids the law ; 
Therefore fince law itfelf is perfect wrong. 
How can the law forbid my tongue to curfe ? 

Pand. Philip of France, on perH of a curfe, 
Let go the hand of that arch-heretick { 
And raife the pow'r of France upon his head, 
Unlefs he do uibmit himfelf to Rome, 

Eli. Look'ft thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand^ 
Conft, Lookn:o that, devil ! left that France repent. 
And, by disjoinine hands, hell lofe a foul.— — — • 
jiufi.Y^itig Philips Hften to the Cardinal. 
F^ulc. And hang a calve*s-fkin on his recreant limbsi^ 
jiuft, Well> ruman, I mail pocket up thefe wrongs, 

Becaofe 

Faulc, Your breeches beft may carry them. . 
K. Jobn^ Philips what fay 'ft thou 10 the Cardinal ? 
Conji. What fhould he fay, but as the Cardinal ? 
Lf.xu/>. Bethink you, father; for the di^erence 
Is purchace of a heavy curfe from Rome^ 
Or the light lo6 of England for a friend ; 
Forgo the eafier. 

Blanch. That's the curfe of Rome. 
Conft. Z^a<^/V, ftandfaft; the devil tempts thee here (i 6)- 
In iikenefs bf a new and trimmed bride. 

Blanch, The lady Confiance fpeaks not from her futh : 
But from her need. 

(i5) _ tbt dfvillemptt tbee bere 

In. Iikenefs of a new untrimmed bridt.'] Tho* all tbe copies 
concur m this reading, yet as untrimmed cannot bear atry fignificatton 
to fqoarc wi'h the (ti fe requi-ed, I cannot help thinking it a cor* 
TUp'cd' reading. It m^ght, indeed, admit of this explanation, un^ 
drefCdf ready t§^go to bed: bnt rhen that is giving iu to an aUafioa 
too grofs for Lady Conftance, 1 hare renturM to t^ow out ths acga- 

tiie, *n<l r**^ 5 •'- ' 

Jn Bkeneft of a new and (nmmed bride. 
I. e. of a new bride; and oas.deck*d and tdorii*d at well by art as 
nature. Or we might read ^ butitdeparu a Uttic wider from the 
traces of the text as we Hn d it $ 

Jn itienefs of a new betrimined bride. 
But the firft conjecture aafwers the fenfe and ftirpofe of the fp^aker ; 
and requires but A Tcry flig)Uv4u|Uoa* . 

6 Cotv(« 



38i Kirtg John; 

Cmifi. Oh, If Aou grant my need, 
Which only lives but by the death of faith. 
That need muft needs infer this principle. 
That faith would live again by death of need : 
O, then tread down my need, and faith mounts up t 
Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down. 
K. John. The king is mov'd, and anfwers not to thiii^ 
Conft. O, be remov'd from him, and anfwer well. 
Aitft, Do fo, King Philip ; hang no more in doubt* 
Faulc, Hang nothing but a calve's-fkin, mod fweet ]out4^ 
K. Philip, f am perplext, and know not what to fay/ 
Pan J. Whzt can*ft thou fay, but will perplex theemorei 
If thou (land excommunicate and curit f 

K. Philip4 Good rev'rend father, make my perfon yourf | 
And tell me, how you would bellow yourielf. 
This royal hand and mine are newly knit, . 
And the conjundtion of our inward fouls 
Marry'd in league, coupled and link'd together 
With all religious (trength of facred vows : 
The lateft breath, that gave the found of words^ 
Was decp-fworn faith, peace, amity, true love 
Between our kingdoms, and our royal felves. 
And ev'n before this truce, but new before. 
No longer than we well could wa(h our hands < 

To clap this royal bargain up of peace, 
Heav'n knows, Ihey were befmeard and over-ftain*d 
With flaughter's pencil ; where revenge did paint 
The fearful difPrence of incenfed Kings. 
And (hall thefe hands, fo lately purg'd of bloodf 
So newly join'd in love fo Urone in both. 
Unyoke this feifure, and this kind regreet f 
Play fad and loofe with faith ? fo jeft with heav'iit 
Make fuch unconflant children of ourfelves. 
As t\<Sw again to fnatch our palm from palm ? * 

tJn-fwear faith fwom, and on the marnage-bcd 
Of fmiling peacfe to march a bloody hoft^ 
And make a Hot on the gentle brow 
Of true fincerity ? holy Sir, 
My reverend fatYitt, \tt \\. irfitV^ fe v , 
Que of your gtftc% itv\St» ^ix^wi^ Vwi^^^^ 



King JoH w. 38J 

Some gentle order, and we ihall be bleft 
To do your pleafure* and continue friends^ 

Pand. All form is formlefs, order orderlefs. 
Save what is oppoiite to England^ love. 
Therefore, to arms ! be champion of our church 1 
Or let the church our mother Dr>:athe her curfe, 
A mother's curfe on her revolting fon. 
France^ thou may'ft hold a ferpent by the tongue^ 
A chafed lion by the mortal paw, 
A falling tyger fafer by the tooth. 
Than keen in peace that hand, which thou doll hold* ' 
K. Phittp. I may dif-}oin my hand, but not my faith* , 
Pand, So mak*ft thou faith an enemy to faith j 
And like a civil war, fet'ft oath to oath. 
Thy tongue againft thy tongue. O, let thy vow 

Firft made tQ.heav'n, firft be to heav'n perform'd ; 

That is, to be the champion of our church. 

What fince thou fwor'ft, is fwom againft thyfelf j 

And may not be performed by thylclf. 

For ^at, which thou hafl fworn to do ^mifs, 

Is not amifs, when it is truly done : 
' And being not done, where doing tends to ill^ 

The truth is then mod: done, not doing i(« 

The better ad of purpofes miftook 

Is to miftake again ; tho' indirect, 

Yet indire^ion thereby grows dired^ 

And falfhpod falihood cures ; as fire cools fire, 

Within the fcorcbed veins of one new-burn'd. 

It is religion that doth make vows kept, 

But thon haft fwom againft religion : 

By what thou fwear^ft, againft the thing thou fwcar'fl J 

And mak'ft an oath the lurety for thy truth, 

Againft an oath the truth thott art unfure 
^o fwear, fwear only not to be forfworn, 

Elfe what a mockery (hould it be to fweat ? 

But thou doft fwear, only to be forfworn. 

And moft fotfworn, to keep what thou doft fvvcar^ 

Therefore thy latter vows, againft thy firft, 

la in thyff If rebellion to thy&lf* 



5*4 ^^^ John. 

And better conqoeft never canft thou make. 
Than arm tKy conllant and thy nobler parts 
Againft tbefe giddy, loofe luggeAions ; 
Upon which better part, our pray'rs come in. 
If thoQ voiichfaf:' them. But if not, then knoiv^ 
The peril of our curfes light on thee 
So heavy, as thou ^alt not (hake them ofT; 
But, in defpair, die under their black weight. 
jfufi. Rebellion, flat rebellion. 
Fnulc. Wiirtnot be? 
Will not a calve's (kin Hop that mouth of thiae ? 
. Le*wis. Father, to arms. 

Blanch. Upon thy wedding-day I 
Againll the blood that thou haft married ? 
What, ihall our feaft be kept with (langhtcrM xhen V 
Shall braying trumpets, and loud chiirlifh drums. 
Clamours of hell, te meafures to our pomp ? 
O huiband, hear o^e : (ay, alack, how new 
Is hufband in my mouth f ) ev'n for that name, 
Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronOttBCC^t ' 
Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms 
Againd mineunde^ 

Conft, O, bpon my knee, 
Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee. 
Thou virtuous Dauphin^ alter not the doom 
Forethought by heav'n. 

Blanch, \^i>^ (liall I iee thy love; what motive may 
Be ftronger.wlth thee than the^B^meof wife ? 

Conft. That w^iich uphotdeth him, that thee upholds, 
His honour. ( )h, thine honour, Z^^w?/, thine honour I— 

-Leijjis. I mile, yoji Majefty doth feem fo cold. 
When fuch prctound icipeftsdo pull you on ? 

Pand, I will der.ori:ce a curfe upon his head ? 

K. Philip. Thoa. Ihalt rot need, Effgland^ Y\\ fM 
from '.thee. 

Confi, 0.fal]:;:cturn.of iDaiiifh'd'Majel^y ! 

£A»- O foul revolt of /Vt vr/^'inconftancy t 

K Job. France^ thou ti^alt raethis hour within th if? hour. 

1-au-L Old Time v\ktCv*ick-{cu^t , Uvd.ibcli Sextan Tiine. 



KingJoH!^ 585 

Is It, as he will? well then, France ihall me: 

Blanch. The fan^s o'ercaft with blood : fair day> adieu ! 

Which is the iide that I muft go withal ? 

I am with both, each army hath a hand. 

And in their rage, I having hold of both» 

They whirl af under, and difmember me. 

Hulband, I cannot pray that thou may'fl: win : 

Uncle, I need» muft pray that thou may 'ft loofe : 

Father, I may not wi(h the fortune thine : ■ 

Gr'andam, I will not wi(h thy wiihes thrive t 

Whoever wins, on that fide fliall I lofe : 

AfTured lof^, befoi-e the match be playM. 
Leijois. Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies^ 
Blan, TYitre wJiere my fortune lives, there my life d^it$; 
K. John. Coufin, go draw our paifTance together. 

[i?x/> Faulconbridge^ 

France^ I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath, 

A i'age, whofe heat hath this condition ; 

That nothing can allay, nothing but blood, 

The blood, and deareft-valu'd Hoo^ olFranct, 

K. Ph, Thy rage (hall burn thee up, and thou /halt turn 

To'^afties, ere our blood fhall quench that fire: ' 

Lopk to thyfelf, thou art in jeopardy. 

. K. John. No more, than h6 that threats. To arms- 
let's hie. ' \jEx€uni. 

SCENE changes to a Field of battle, . 

Alarms t Excurjions : Enter Faulconbridge> nuitb Auftria*^ 
head, 

Fauic.'\J[ O W, by my life,' this day grows wond'rous 
i> hot (17); 

J17J it^ows wond*rous hdt'^ 

Seme airy Devil borven in tbejky*] I IniVe, by Afr. U^arbur- 
^ton*s direction, vencurM to (uh^itxitt, Jtery Devil. It it a very un- 
)eonclafi?e iiiference, fure, that, becaufe it grew wood'rous hot, fom^ 
airy Devil hoveffcd in the iky. It is a fort of leafoning, that carres 
ftn air of .ridicule; unlefs we could (determine, that the Poet meant 
no more by the epithet than to exprefs the Sacred Text; ia which the 
"Devil it ftiled the Princt •fthe Air, 

Vol. III. R Some 



385 King John. 

Some fiery dtvil holers 4n tho fky^ / 

And pours down mifchief. Ju/hia*s head He tbere.<^ 
Thus hath Ring RkbartTh fon performM his vowt 
And offer'd Jt^ria*^ blood lor facriiice 
Unto his father's ever-living foul. 

Enter King John, Arthur, and Hubwt. 

lL,John, There,//xi^/ykeep this boy .i!iVi&^^,t]iakeiip; 
My mother is afiailed in oi^ tent, 
And ta'en, 1 fe^x. 

Faufc. My Lord, I relcoM her : 
Her Highnefs is in fafety, fear you not. 
But on, my Liege; for very little ptiins 
Will bring this laboor to a^ happy end. [Exemu 

Alarms t Excurfionst Retreat, Re -center King John, Elinor, 
Arthur, Faulconbridge, Hubert, and Lords. 

K. J^hn. So fhall it be ; your Grace fhall flay behrtxl 
So ilrongly guarded : Coufin, look not f^d, \To Arthsr^ 
Thy granaam loves thee, and thy uncle will 
As dear be to thee, as thy father was. 

Arth. O, this will make m^ mother die with grief. 

K,yohn. Coufin, away for Efrgiand; hafte before, 

[To Fanlc. 
And, ere our coming, tke thou (hake the bags 
Of hoarding Abbots ; their impriibned angels 
Set thou at liberty : the fat ribs of Peace (i8) 
Muft by the hungry war be fed upon. 
Ufe our commiiTion in its utmoft force. 

Faulc' Bell, book, and candle, fhall not drive me back 
When gold and filvcr beck me to come on. 
I leave your Highnefs : Grandam> I will pray^ 

(iJ) .«— ihi fat riBs of Peace 

Muji by the hunffry now he fed ufipn,] TWs word m§w (eont 
9 very idle term here, aad convejre no fatisfaAory idea. Ao And' 
thefis and opposition x>f terms fo petpetual with our Autbor, requireil 

Muft by the hungry war bi fid upon, 
M^ar, dem»n<iing a large ex»ence, it very pOftically f*id to be buMgry, 
and to prey oa vhe vrtiilibAud /at of Pcaisfc Mr, M^arhurttn* 



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King John; j^j^ 

(If CTcr I rcmeoiher to be holy) 
For yoar fair fafety ; fo I kifs your hand. 

Eii* Farewel, xnv gentle couHn. 

K. yohti. Coz, tarewel. ^ [Exit Fauk; 

£//. Come hither, little kinfman ; — hark, a word. 

{Taiing him to ont^de of tbt Stagi. 

K. John. [to Hubert on the other fide,^ 
Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert^ 
We owe thee much ; within this wall of flefli 
There is a foal counts thee her creditor, 
And with advantage means to pay thy love : 
And, my ^pod friend, thy voluntary oath 
Lives in this bofom, dearly cherifhed. 
Give me thy hand, I had a thing to fay^— « 
But I will fit it with fome better time. 
By heaveh^ Hubert ^ Pm almoft afham'd 
To fay what good rcfpedb I have of thee. 

Hub. I am much bounden to your Majefly. 

m.Jobn, Good friend, thou haft no caufe to fay foyct,— ^ 
But thou fhalt have-^-and creep time ne'er fo ilow^ 
Yet it (hall come for me to do thee good. 
I had a thing to fay«— but, let it go : 
The fun is in the heav'n, and the proud day. 
Attended with the pleafures of the w6rld. 
Is all too wanton, and too full of gawds. 
To give me audience. If the midnight bell (19) 

Did 

( i^) ■ If the mtdfiigbt bell 

Did with bit iron tongue, and brazen mouthy 
Sound on into the drcwfy race o/^ night j] I do not think, that 
fiund on gives here tbat Idea of fdemnity and horror* which, *tit 
plain, our Poet intended to impreft by this fine deferipticn ; and 
which my emendation conveys. /*. e. If it were the ftill part of the 
night or one of the clock in the morning, when the found of the brll 
ilrikes upon the«ar with moft awe and terror. And it is very ufuat 
with our Shakefpeare in other paflagti to exprefs the horror of a mid« 
Bfght be]). 
So, in Othello -J 

^ Silence thai dreadful bdl, itfrlghte the ifle, 
"■ what's the bufinefs. 

That fuch an hideous trumpet calls CO f aticy 
The fieeperi ©f the houfe ? Maeietb* 



388 King John. 

Did v^th his iron tongue and brazen mouth 

Sound one unto the drowfy race of night ; 

If this fame were a church^yard where we ftand^ 

And thoa poflefled with a thoufand wrongs ; 

Or if that furly fpirit melancholy 

Had bakM thy blood and made it hcavy-thicfc. 

Which elfe runs tickling up and down the veins. 

Making that ideot laughter keep mens eycs^ 

And ftrain their cheeks to idle merriment; 

(A paffion hateful to my purpofes) 

Or if that tHou could'ft fee me withont eyes. 

Hear me without thine ears, and make reply 

Without a tongue, ufmg conceit alone. 

Without eyes, ears, and harmful found of words ; 

Then, in defpight of broad^ey*d watchful day, 

I would into thy bofom pour my thoughts : 

But ah, I will not — yet I love thee well ; 

And, by my troth, I think, thou lov'ft me well. 

Hult, So well, that what you hid me undertake^ 
Tho* that my cleath were adjunft to my aft, 
Byheav'n, I'd do't. 

K. Jol?n, Do not I know, thou would'ft ? ' 

Good Hul^eHf Hubert, Hubert , throw thine eye 
Gn yon young boy : Til tell thee what, my friend : 
He is a very ferpent in my way. 
And, wherefoe'er this foot of mine doth tread; 
He- lies before me. Doft thou underftand me ? 
Thou art his keeper. 

Huh, Apd I'll keep him fo. 
That he (hall not offend your Majefty. 

K. Jokn. Death. 

Hub, My Lord? 

K. John, A grave. 

Huh, He (hall not live. 

K. John. Enough. 

An J fometimes, -for the more folcmfticy, he is ofcd to add the ci»- 

fumftance of the particular hour. 

The iron tongue of midnight hath tolPd tipelve. 

_, , „ ^ ^ . Midfum. Night's Dreim. 

Tne bcU tktn twUn^ onu H^«vUt» 

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King John, 38^9 

I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee ; 
Well, rU not fay what I intend for thee ; 
Remember :— Madam, fare you well. 

[Returningiotht^ueen,, 
ril fend thofe powers o'er to your Majefty. 

Eli, My bleffing go with thee ! 

K. John, For England, coufin, go. 
Hubert {hM be your man, t' attend on you 
With all true duty ; on, toward CaAz/V, ho! [Exeunt. 

SCENE changes to the French Court. 

Enter King VYiWrpfhtv/vi, Pandulpho, and Attendants. 

K. PbiUf. 00, by a roaring temped on the flood, 

i3 Awhole Armadoof colleftedfail 
Is ii^atter'd and disjoin'd from fellowihip. 

Pand. Courage and comfort, all (hall yet go well. 

K. Philip, What can go well, when we have run fo ill i 
Are we not beaten ? Is not -r^«^/>rj loft ? 
Jrtkur ta'^n pris'ner ? divers dear friends flain ? 
And bloody ^iTj'AMf^ in to^ffar^/aW gone, 
O'er-bearing interruption, ' fpitc 0. F/v??/f^ ^ 

Leims, What he hath won, that hath he fortify'd : 
So hot* a fpeed with fuch advice difpos'd 
Such temp'rati order in fo fierce a caufe. 
Doth want example; who hath read, or heard. 
Of any kindred adioh like to this ? 

K. Phil, Weil could I bear that England had thi« praifc. 
So we could find fome pattern of our fhame. 

JS'»/^r Con fiance. 

Look, who comes here ? a grave unto a foul. 

Holding th' eternal fpirit 'gainft her will 

In the vile prifon of afflidled breath '; 

I pr'ythee, Lady, go away with me. 

Conft. Lo, now, now fee the iflue of your peace. 

K . Ph, Patience, good Lady ; 'comfort, gentle Ct^njlanctf 

Conft, No^ I di^iy all counCel, «AV ii^4i^fe^ * 



390 King J <yn k. 

Bat that^ which ends ^11 caueiel, true redreft^ 
Death, death ; oh amiable, lovely death ! 
Thou odoriferous fteach, found rotten n^is^ 
Ariiie forth from thy couch of lafting night. 
Thou hate and terror to profperity, 
And I will ki(s thy deteftahle bones ; 
And put my eye-balls in thy vaulty brews i 
And ring the/e lingers with thy houihold vMOftns; 
And ftop this gap of breath with fulibme duA, 
And be a carrion monfter, like thyfelf ; 
Come jgrin on me, and I will think thoa,Atil*ft» 
And kifs thee as thy wife; mifery's love, 
O come to me ! 

K. Philip, O fair afilidlion, peace. 

Cof^. No, no, 1 will not, havisig bi«ath lo cry |f 
O, that my tongue were in the thviraerVmoiith, 
Then with a paSion I would fliake th« worlds 
And roiice from fleep that fbll anatomy, 
Which cannot hear a Lady's feeble v<(»iee9 
And fcnrns a modem invocation (20). 

Ptf/n/. Lad^, your utter madnefs, and lotiibmiw. 

CojT^. Thou art not holy to belyeanv^ibf 
J am not mad ; this hair f tear it miwoi 
My nsrae UCm^/loM^ I was Gtfityh w{^: 
Young j^nhur is my fon, and he is Idtt : 
J am not mad ; J woald to heaveli I nMwl 
For then, *t» lifae, Iftoald forget my^etf. • 
Oh, if! could, what grief lOiosdd I mgoti 
Preach feme phiiofbphy to mmfee afie inttd, 
Ar.d thou (halt be cahonis'd. Cardinal. 
For, being not mad, but feniible of grief, 
My reafonable part produces reafon ' 

(fto) A$id fitmi a modeft inifocarioHl So Sfr. Pofe: batlhavt 
thought ^t to reftofv die re&ding of the old Copies. *Tis certain, oor . 
Author cmplojfs this woni, modtrn, in • gttlit aiany pUcci, very 
crattpljr. But we fhill always nitdetB^MtA htm, if we but carry \hiM 
remark with ui ; that b^enea hf u/ei it in tht Bgnidati^n of trijBMgt 
jmfignijicantt noi weighty, of fmall moment. Sec, f hus bis^feaic wiD M 
■Ivrays dear to us; as it wtre, meTaphcncalty, .firt>m thofey who 
dc/piie m(Urn tlua|h isA vtki i\A «iit^«x S» ^dmhs. 



I^iog J O H K. 39^1 

How. I may be deliver'd of thcic woes* 
And teaches me to kill or hang aiyfelf. ^ 
If I «/ere mad, 1 Aiould forget my Ton, 
Or madly think, a babe of clouts were he : 
I am not mad ; too well, too well I feel 
The diff'rent plague of each calamity. 

K. Philip, Bind up thoie treiTes ; O, what love I note 
111 the fair multuavk of thofe her hairs ; 
Where bat by chance a iilver drop hath fall'o, 
£Vn to that drop ten thoufand wiery friends 
Do glew themfelves in fociable grief; 
Like true, infeparable, faithful loves. 
Sticking together in calamity. 

Confi. To Englandy if you will.— — 

K. Philip. Bind up your hairs. 

Conft. Yes, that 1 will ; and wherefore will I do It ? 
I tore them from their bonds, and cryM aloud, 
O, that thefe hands could fo redeem my r>n. 
As they have giv*n thefe hairs their liberty ! 
But now I envy at their liberty, 
And will again commit them to their bonds ; 
Becaufe my poor child is a prifoner. 
And, father Carditial, I have heard you fay» 
That we (hall jkt aad know our friends in Heav'n ; 
If that be, I (hail fee my boy again. 
For fince the birth of Cain^ the firfl male-child| 
To him that did but yeilerday fufpire. 
There was not (uch a gracious creature born. 
Bat now will canker-forrow eat my bud. 
And chafe the nativobeauty from his cheek ; 
And h6 will look as hollow as a ghoft ; 
As dim and niedgre as an ague's fit. 
And fo he'll die ; and ridng fo again. 
When I (hall meet him in the court of heav'n * 
I (hall not kaow him ; therefore never, never. 
Mod I behold my pretty Anhnr mort. 

Pand^ Yon hold too heinous a refped of grief. 

Oififl. He talks to me, that never had a (on.i »■.. 

K. Philip. Yon are as fond of grief^ as of ^o^ cblid.^ 

R 4 C^ii^. 



39^ J^!"g JoHi^. 

CenH. Grief fills the room op of my abfent child : ? 

Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; ^ 

Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, ^ 

Remembers m€ of all his gracious parts ; * 

Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; ^ 

Then have I reafon to be fond of grief. ■ 

Fare70u well ; had you fuch a lofs as I, j 

• I could give better comfort than you do. ' 

I will not keep this form upon my head, 

\Tearing off her bead-cloathu 
When there is fuch diforder in my wit. 
O Lord, my boy, my Anbury my fair fon ! 
My Iif(5, my joy, my food, my all the world ! j 

My widow -comfort, and my forrow's cure ! [E:cit, 

K. Ph. I fear fome outrage, and PlLfoIlow her. [Exit, 

Lenvis. There's nothing in this world can make nje joy; 
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexirg the dull ear of a drowfy man. 
A bitter fname hath fpoilt the fweet World's tafte. 
That it yields nought but (hame and bitterncfs. 

Panii, Before the curing of a ftrong difeafe, 
Ev'n in the inftant of repair and health, 
The fit is ftrongeft : evils that take leave. 
On their departure, moft of all fhew evil, ■ 
What have you loltj by lofing of this day ? 

Le<wis. All days of glory, joy, and happinefs, 

Pand. If you had won it, certainly, you had. 
No, no; when fortune means to men moft good. 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 
*Tis ftrange to think how much King John hath loft 
In this, which he accounts fo clearly won. 
Are not you griev'd, that Arthur is his prifpner ? 

LeiMis. As heartily, as he is glad he hath him. 

Pand. Your mind is all as youthful as your blood« 
Now hear me fpeak with a prophetick fpirit 5 
For ev'n the breath of what \ mean to fpeak 
Shall blow each duft, each ftraw, each little rut. 
Out of the path which (hall diredtly lead 
Thy foot to England'^ \\itoiv& \ vib^^i^xx^it, mark. 



King John; 393 

John hath feiz'd Anbury and it cannot be 
That whilil warm life plays in that infant's veins. 
The mifplac'd John ihould entertain an Ijour, 
A minute, pay,, one quiet breath, of reft. 
Afcepter, fnatch'd with an unruly hand, 
Muil be as boiil'roufly maintain'd, as gain'd. 
And he, that (lands upon a flipp'ry place. 
Makes nice of no vile hold to flay him up. 
That John may Hand, then Arthur needs muft fall ; 
^o be it, for it cannot be but fb. ^ 

Lewis, But what fhall I gain by young Arthur'^s fall ? 

Pand, You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife. 
May then make all the claim that Arthur did. 

Lewtiis. And lofe it» life and all,- as Arthur did. 

Fand. How green you are, and frefti in this old world ? 
John lays you plots ; the times confpire with you 5 
For he, that deeps his fafefy in true blood. 
Shall find but^bloody fafety and untrue. 
This a£l, fo evilly born, Ihall cool the hearts 
Of all his people, and freeze up their zeal ; 
That no fo fmall advantage fhall flep forth 
To check his reign, but they will cherifh it. 
No nat'ral exhalation in the fky. 
No fcape of nature, no didemper'd day. 
No common wind, no cUiipmed event. 
But they will pluck away its nat'ral caufe, 
And call them meteors, prodigies, and figns. 
Abortives, and prefages, tongues of heav*n 
Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John, 

Lenxiis, May be, he will not touch young Arthur^sllfQ^ 
But hold himfelf fafe in his prifonment. 

Pand. O Sir, when he fhall hear of your approach^ 
If that young Arthur be not gone already, 
Ev'n at this news he dies : and then the hearts 
Of all his people fhall revolt from him. 
And kifs the lips of unacquainted change ; 
And pick ftrong matter of revolt and v\rath. 
Out of the bl<^ody fingers-' ends of John, 
Methinks, I fee this hurly all on foot i 



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S>4 KkigjQ^K. 

And O, what better ma^teT breeds for Ten 
Than I have -saai'd l^The bailard faulc^iridgi 
Is now in £j^Aiim4 xaafackingtbe churchy 
Of ending chtrity. \( but twelve f tench t 
Were there in arms, they woti^Id be as a cull 
To train ten thoufand Englijb to their iide ; 
Or» as a little fodWy tumbled abouty 
A non becomes a jnouiuain. Ncble Dauphin ; 
Go with me to the King : ^iis wonderful 
What may be wrought ovt of their dircontent. 
i^ow that their fouls are top-full of offeace. 
For Et^landgo ; I will whet on the King. 

Leiuis. Strong reafon makes firong nations : let ;OSg«; 
If you-iay ay^ the Xing will not fay ta. {Extuni* 



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ACT 



KiagJaHm J5>5 



A C T IV. 

SCENE changes to England. 
A prifon. 
Enfir Hubert and Exectttioner. 

HlMIEIlTs 

HEAT me thefe irQns hot, and, look, thoa &zxA 
Within the arras \ when 1 ftrike my foot 
Upon the bofom of the ground, rufh forth ; 
And bind the boy, which you fhalffind with me. 
Fad to the chair : be heedful ; hence, and watch. 
Exe. I.hope your warrant will bear out the deed. 
Hub. Uncleanly fcruples ! fear not you ; look to*L— 
Young lad, come forth ; I have to fay with you. 

Enter Arthur. 

j§rtb. Good morrow, Htiltrt. 

Hidf. Good morrow, little Prince. 

^rtb. As little Prince (having fo great a title 
To be more Prince) as may be. You are fad. 

^iii. Indeed, I have been merrier. 

Jrtb, Mercy on me ! 
Metkipks, nobody fhould be fad but I ; 
Yet I remember when I was in France 9 
Young gentlemeiv would be as fad as night. 
Only for wanton4efs. By my Chriften^HD, 
So were Lout of prifon, and kept fheep, 
I (hould ,be merry as the day is long. 
And fo I would be here, but that, I doubt. 
My uncle prafUfes more harm to me. 
He is afraid-of sne, and I of him^ 

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59^ ^^^E John. 

Is it my fault, that I was Gejref^ fon ? 

lBdee4» it ii not ; and f would tcrheav'iiy 

I were your fon, fo you would love mc, Huhert. 

Huh, if I talk t/>^imy ^ith }{y^ in qqcent prate. 
He will awake my mercy, which lies dead ; 
Therefore! will be fudden, and difpatch^ [Afidu 

Arth. Are you fick, Hubert? you look pale to-day; 
In (both, I wou'd, you were a little fick ; 
That I might fit all night and watch with you. 
Alas, I love you xnore than you do me, i 

Hub, His words do take pofTefiion of my bofom. 

Read here, young Arthur : {jSbcwiiig apaptr. 

How now, fooHih rheum, [4/^* 

Turning dif- piteous torture out of door ! 

I muft be brief, left refblution drop 

Out at mine eyes in tender womanilh tears.— . 

Can yoii not read it ? is it not fair writ ? 

Arth. Top fairly, Hubert, for fo foul effea, 
Muft you with irons burn out both mine eyes ? 
' 'Hub, Young boy, 'I muft, 

-/^r/>&. And will you? • • 

Hub. And I will. 

Arth. Have you the heart ? when your head did butakf, 
I knit' my handkerchief about your brows ; 
(The beft I had, a Princefs wrought it me) 
Aod I did never afk it you again ; 
And with ray hand at niidnight held your head ; 
And, like the watchful minutes to the hour. 
Still and anon chear'd up the heavy time, 
Saying, what lack you ? and where lies your grief ? 
Or what good love may I perform for you? 
Many a poor man's fon would have lain ftill. 
And ne'er have fpokc a loving word to you ; 
But you at your fick fervice had a Prince. 
Nay, you may think, my love was crafty love^ 
And call it cunning. Do, an if you will : 
If heav'n be pleas'd that you muft ufe me ill, ' 
Why then, you muft-r^Will you put out mine eyes? * 
Thefe eyesy that never did, nor never ihall^ 

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King Jo«N. 3^f 

So macbras frown on you. 

Hub, I've fworn to do it^ 
And with hot irons mud I burn them oat. 

Jrth^A\it none, butin^his iron age, would do it. 
Thfe iron of itfelf, thoV heat red hot. 
Approaching near thefe eyes, would drink my tears^ 
And quench its fiery indignation. 
Even m the matter of mine innocence : 
Nay, after that, con fume away in ruf(. 
But for containing fire to harm mine eye. ' ^ , 

Arc you more flubborn, hard, than hammer 'd iron ? 
Oh ! if an angel fhould have come to me. 
And told me, Hubert fhould put out min^ eyes, 
I would not have believ*d hhn : no tongue, but jRa^rr/>» 

Hub, Come forth ; do, as I bid you do. ♦ 

[Stamps^ and the men enter. 

Jrtb. O fave me, Hubert I fave me ! my eyes are out, 
Ev'n with the fiefcc looks of thefe bloody men; 

Hub. Give me the iron, I fay, and bind him here. 

Artb. Alas, what need you be fo boifl'rous-rough ? 
I will not firuggle, I will hand flone-fHll. 
For heav'n fake, Hubert^ let me not be bound. 
Nay, hear me, Hubert^ drive thefe men away. 
And I will fit as quiet as a lamb. 
I will not ftir, nor wince, nor fpeak a word. 
Nor look upon the iron angrily : 
Thru ft but thefe men away, and Pll forgive you. 
Whatever torment you do put me to. 

.Hub, Go, ftand within ; let me alone with him. 

Exe. I am beil pleas'd to be from fuch a deed. [Exeunfm 

Arth. Alas, I then have chid away my friend j' • 
He hath a ftern look, but a gentle heart ; 
Let him come back, that his companion may 
Give life to yours. 

Hub, Come, boy, prepare yourfelf. 

Arth, Is there no remedy ? 

Hub, None, but to lofe your eyps. 

Arth, O heav'n ! that there were but a moth in yours, 
A grain, a duft, a gnat, a wand'ring hair, 

3 >^^ 



$^S King J o H M. 

Any' annoyance in that precious fenfe : 
^ Tfaien, feeling what fmall things are boifl^roas tbera. 
Your vile intent muft needs feem horrible. ^ 

Mu^, h this your proroife? go to> hold your tongue.-^ 

Jrtb. Huherty the utterance of a brace of tongues 
Mttft'needs want pleading for a pair of eyes : 
Let me not hold my tongue: let me not, Huhtrt^ 
Or, Hubert^ if you will^ cut out xtiy tongue. 
So I may keep mine eyes.;^ O fpare mine eyes ! 
Though to no nfe» but ftill to look on yon. 
Lo, by jny troth, the inftrument is cold. 
And would not harm me. , 

Hub. I can heat it, boy. 

Artb* No, in good footh, the £fe is dead with grief» 
Being create for comfort, to be us'd 
In undeierF'd extreams ; fee elfe yourfelf. 
There is no malice in this burning coal ; 
The breath of heav'n hath blown its fpirit out, 
And ftrew'd repentant afhes on its head. 

Hub, But with my breath I can revive it, boy. 

Arth, And if you do, you ^iil but make it blufii. 
And glow with (hame of your proceedings, Hmbtrt : 
Nay, it, perchance, will fparkJe in your eyes : 
And like a dog, that is compell'd to fight. 
Snatch at his mailer that doth tarre hini on. 
All things, that you (hould ufe to do me wrong. 
Deny their office ; only you do lack 
That mercy which fierce fire and iron extend. 
Creatures o( note for mercy-lacking ufes. 
' Hub. Well, fee to live ; I will not touch thine eye, 
For all the treafure that thine uncle owns : 
Yet am I fworn ; and I did purpose, boy, 
With this i^me very iron to burn them out. 

Arth. O, now you look like Hubert. All this whil^ 
You were difguifed. 

Hub, Peace : no more. Adieu, 
Your uncle mull not know but you are dead. 
I'll fill thefe Jogged fpit-s with /alfe reports : 
And, pretty child, Heep doubtlefip,, and fccqrc. 

Thai 



King Jo HW. S99 

Thzt JSfmhrft iOf the weakk of til the vrerld. 

Will not offend thee. 

Jrth. O iiCAv'n 1 I thank you, Huiert. 

Hub- Silence, no more ; tp clofely in with tte. 
Much danger do I undergo for thee* {Sjtumt. 

SCENE changes to the Court of England. 
Enter King John, Pembroke, SallAury, and other Lorif. 

K. Joh;i. TT ERE once again we fit, once again crowned, 
XA Andlook'd upon, I hope,withchearfulcyci. 

Pemb, This once again, but that your Highnefs pleas'A, 
Was once Tuperflous ; you were crown'd before. 
And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off: 
The faiths of men, ne*er ilained with revolt ; 
Frefh expeftation troubled not the land 
With any long'd-for change, or better ftate. 

Sal. Therefore to be po fiefs *d with double pomp^ 
To guard a title that was rich before ; 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lilly^ 
To throw a perfume on the violet. 
To fmooth the ice, or add another htie 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To feek the beauteous eye of heav'n to garnifli» 
Is wafteful and ridiculous exccfs. 

)V«^. But that your royal pleafure muft be doae^ 
This a6l is as an ancient tale new-told, 
And in the lafl repeating troijblefomc ; 
Bein^ urged at a time unfeafonable. 

Sal. In this the antique and well- noted face 
Of plain old form is much disfigured ; 
And, like a fhift'ed wind unto a fail 
It makes the cour(b of thoughts to fetch about ; 
Startles and frights coniideration ; 
Makes found opinion fick, and truth fufpe£le<}» 
For putting on fo new a fafhion*d robe. 

Pemb. When workmen ^tiit to do better than wel!» 



4Q0 Kirfg JdMNT. 

They do ^nfowid their ikili in covetoaf^efs (21) ; 

And oftentimes excufing of a fault 

Doth make thfc fault the worfe by the excnfe : 

As patches, fet upon a little breach, 

Diicredit more in hiding of the fault. 

Than did the fault before it was To patch'd. 

Sal. Tq this efFedl, before you were new- crownM, 
We breath'd our counfel ; but it pleas'd your HighneA 
To over-bear it ; and we'/c all well pleas'd ; 
Since all. and every part of what we would. 
Mud make a (land at what your Highnefs will. 

K. John. Some reafons of this double coronation 
I have pofTeft you with, and think them flrong. 
And more, more ftrong (the leflcr is my fear) 
I (hall endue you with : mean time, but aifk 
What you would have reformed, that is not well, 
And well (hall you percdve how willingly 
I will both hear and grant you your requefts. 

Pemh. Then I, as one that am the tongue of thefe> 
^o found the purpofes of all their hearts, 
(Both for myfelf and them ; but chief of all. 
Your faftey ; for the which, myfelf and they 
Bend their beft ftudies ;) heartily requeft 
- Th' infranchifement of Arthur; whofe reftraint 
Doth move the murm'ring lips of difcontent 
To break into this dang'rous argument ; 
If what in reft you have, in right you hold. 
Why (hou'd your fears, (which, as they fay, attend 
The fteps of wrdng) then move you to mew op 
Your tender kinfman, and to choke his days ^ 
With barb'rous ignorance, and deny his youth 
The rich advantage of good exercife ? 
That the time's enemies may not have this 
To grace occa(ions, let it be our fuit,. 

(21) They do confound their Jkill in co^tioxxfntUS] ]. e. Not by^eir 
avarice, but in an eager emulatiOfl, an intenfe defire of cxcelliogs U 
in Henry y,. ^ 

But if it be a fin to nvet honour ^ 

1 ain the moft oifisiiciing foul alive» 



King JoitN. 4ai 

That you have bid us aik his liberty ; 
Which for our good we do no further afk. 
Than whereupon our weal, on you depending^ 
Counts it your weal that he have liberty. 

ifiier Hubert. 

K. Jcifft. Let it be fo ; I do commit bis youth 
To your direction. Huifrt, what news with you? 

Pem^, This is the man,, fhould do the bloody deed 
He fhew'd his warrant to a friend of mine. 
The inlageof a wicked heinous fault 
Lives in his eye ; that clofe afpeft of his 
Docs fliew the mood of a much-troubled breaft. 
And I do fearfully believe 'tis done. 
What we fo feared he had a charge to-do. 

Sal, The coloiir of the King doth come and go. 
Between his purpofe and his confcicnce, 
Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles fent (22) : 
His paffion is fo ripe, it needs muft break. 

Pem6, And when it breaks, I fear, will iflue thence 
The foul corruption of a fweet child's death. 

K. Joim,' We cannot hold mortality's flrong iiand;- 
Good Lords, although my will to give is living, 
The fuit which you demand is gone, and dead. 
He ,tell6 us, Jrtkur is deceafed to-night. 

SaL Indeed, we fear'd, his ficknefs was paft cure, 

Temb, Indeed, we heard how near his death he was/ 
Before the child himfelf felt he was fick. , 
This muft be anfwer'd, either here, or hence. 

K. Jobt^i Why do you bend fuch folemn brows on me? 
Think you, I bear the fhears of deftiny ? 
Have I commandment on the pulfe of life ? \ 

SaL It is apparent foul-play, and 'tis fhame ' 

That greatnefs fhould fo grofly oiFer it : 
So thrive it in your game, ^nd fo farewel ! ^ 

(12) Like heralds f *txvixt two dreadful battles fet ;] . Bnt- beraldt 
are not plaAted, I prtAimey in the aoidft betwixt two lines of battle $ 
the* they, and trumpets, ate often fent oyer .frow party to party, t* 
propofe terms^ demand a parley, ^c, lAvvit xVwtiw^^^t&i^C^V* 
rcMd, feaf. 



4»ft King John. 

Femb. Stay yet. Lord Salijbury, Pll go with tbcc, 
And find th' inheritance of this poor child. 
His little 4c2n|^doro of a forced grave. 
.That blood which owriM the breadth of all this ifle^ 
Three foot of it doth hold ; bad world the while ! 
This mufl not be thus borne ; this will break out 
To all ottr terows, and ere long, I doubt.' [Extunt* 

£nter a mtjfengir. 

K. John. They burn in indignation ; I repenb 
There is no fure foundation iet on blood ; 
No certain Ufe atchiev'd by others death — \Afiii. 

A fearful eye thou hail ; where is that blood, [7e thiMeJen* 
That I have feen inhabit in tbofe cheeks i 
^ So foul a §Ly clears not without a ftorm ; 
Pour down thy weather : how goes all jn France^ 

Me/, From France to England never fuch a power. 
For any foreign preparation, ' 
Was ievy'd in the body of a land. 
The copy of your fpeed is learn'd by them : _ 
For when you ihould be told, they do preparej 
The tidings come, that they are all arriv'd. 

K. John. Oh, where hath our intelligence been drunkl 
Where hath it flept ? where is my mother's cave f 
That Aftch an army ihould be drawn in Framctt 
Amd /he not hear of it ? 

Me/, My Liege, her ear 
Is ftopt with duft : the firft of JpriU ^J*^ 
VcHir noble mother ; and as I hear, myLord, 
The Lady Conftance in a frenzy dy*d 
Three days before : but this from rumour's tongne 
I idly heard; if true or falfe, I know not. 

K. John. With hold thy fpeed, dreadful occafion 1 
O make a league with me, till I have pleasM 
My difcontented peers. What! mother dead? 
How wildly then walks my eftate in Frana f 
XFndvr whofe condudt ^ame thole powers of Franctf 
That, thou for truth ^Iv'ftout^ arelandedhere ? 

Me/. Under x\ie Datt^hin. 



"Ltfliw 



King J o H K. 405 

Enter Faulconbrldge, ami Teter of Pomfret. 

K. John, Thou haft msMxat giddy 
With thefe iH-tidings. Now, what fays tlic world 
To your proceedings ? Do not ieek to ilufF 
My head with more ill new$, for it is full. 

Faulc* fiut if you ht afraid to hear the wordy 
Then let the worft unheard fall on your head. - 

X. John. Bear with ore, coufin ; for I was amatM 
Under the tide ; but now I breathe again 
Aloft the flood, and can gire audience 
To any tongue, fpeak k oi what it will 

Faulc. How I ha?« fped among the dergymea^ 
The fums I have colle^ied (hall exprefs. 
But as I travelled hither thro' the land, 
I find the people ilrangely fantafied; 
Pofieft with rumours, full of idle dreams ; 
Not knowing what they fear, but fiill of fear. 
And here's a prophet that I brought with me 
From forth the ftreets of PimfrH^ whom I found 
•With many hundreds treading on his heels ^ 
To ivhom he fung in rude harfii- founding rhimes. 
That, ere the next Afcenfion-dt^ at noon, 
Your liighnefs fhould deliver up your crown. 

iL.John. Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didA thou lot 

Peter, Fore-knowing, that the truth will fall out fo« 

K. John. Hubert^ SLway with him, imprifon him* \ 
And on that day at noon, whereon he fays 
I thall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd. 
Deliver him to fafety, and return, 
For 1 muft ufe thee,-— O may gentle coufin, 

[£jf// Hubert, nvhi Peten 
Hear'ft thou the news abroad, who are arriv'd ? 

Faulc. The French^ my Lord ; mens months awfiill of kc 
Befides, I. met Lord Bigot andLord &alijhuiy^ 
With eyes as red as new- enkindled fire. 
And others more, going to feek the grave 
Of Arthur y who, they fay, is kill'd to-night 
On your fuggeftion. 



^4Q4 Kmg JoMwi 

K. 7^/&/r. Gentle kiufinan, go 
And thruft thyfclf into their company : - 

I haye a way to win their loves again : 
Bring them before me. '• 

Faulc. I will feek them out. 

K. John, May, hut make hade; the better foot before. 
O, let Qie have no fubjedt enemies. 
When adverfe foreigners affright my towns 
With dreadful pomp of ftout invafion; ' , 

Be Mercury t fei feathers to thy heels ;. : 
And fly, like thought, from them to me again. 

Faulc, The fpiritof tbetimefhall teach me fpced *[i!rir« 

K. John, S^olcc like a fprightfiil Jioble gentleman. ^ 
Go after him ; for he, perhaps, ihali need 
Some meffenger |;>etwixt me and .the peers ; 
And be thou he. ^ 

Me/, With:all my heart, my Liege. I^^« 

K. John, My mother dead ! 

Enter Hijbert. ^ ,^ [ 

Huh, My Lord, they fay, five moons were reeiito-nTghl' 
Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about * • 
The other four, in wond'rous motion. 
Yi,John, Five moons? ' 

Hub, Old men and beldams, in the ftreets. 
Do prophefy upon it dangeroufly : 
Young Arthur* % death is common in their mouths; 
And, when they talk of him, they ftiake their heads,; 
And whifper one another in the ear. ' * 

And he, that fpeaks, doth gripe the hearer's wriff, 
Whilflhe, that hears, makes fearful aftion • 

•With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes* . 
I faw a fmith ftand with his hammer, thus. 
The whilft his iron did on the anvil cdoU 
With open mouth fwallowing a taylor's news ; 
Who with his fhears and meafure in his hand. 
Standing on flippers, which his nimble hafle 
Had falfely thruft \ipon contrary feet, ' 
Told of a many tViou^aii^ >N^t\[\VL^ Fienc&v ' ♦ 



King J;o H u.t 405 

That were embattled and raijk'd in Kent. * 

Another lean, dnwaihM artificer 

Cuts ofF his tale, and talks of >^r/i&«r's death. 

K.Jobn^Why feek'fl thon^to.poffefs me with thefe fears I 
Why urgeft thou fo oft young j^rtbur\ death f 
Thy hand hath murder'd him : I had a cau(e 1 

To wifti him dead, but thou had'ft none to kill him. 
Huh. Had none, my Lord? why, did you not provoke mef 
K. Jobti. It is the curfe of Kings, to be attended ^ 
By ilaves that take their humours for a warrant. 
To break into the bloody ho ufe of life ; 
And, on the winking of authority. 
To underi^and a law, to know the meaning 
Gf dang'rous Majefty ; when, perchance, it frowns 
More upon humour, than advisM refpedl. 

Huh. Here is your hand and feal, for what I did. 
K . Jo. Oh when the lad account ^twikt heav'n and eartti 
Is to be made, then fhall this hand and feal 
Witnefs againft us to damnation. 
How oft the fight of nieans, to do ill deeds. 
Makes deeds ill ,done ? for hadfi: not thou been by, 
A fellow by the hand of nature markM, . 
Quoted, and fign'd to do a deed of fhame, 
This murder had not come into my mind. 
Bat taking note of thy abhorr'd afpedl, 
• Findine thee fit for bloody villainy. 
Apt, liable to be employed in danger, 
I faintly broke with thee of Arthur^ death. 
And tho^u, to be endeared to a King, 
Mad'ft it no confcience to deftroy a Prince. 

fr«^. My Lord 

K. Jah,\i2A$i thou but ihook thy head, or made apatlfei 
When I fpake darkly what I purpofed : 
Or turnedan eye of doubt upon my face. 
Or bid me tell my tale in exprefs words ; 
Deep (hame had ftruck me dumb, made me break. offy , 
Ajnd thofe thy fears might have wrought fears in me* 
fiut thou didil underiland me by my fign?. 
And didft ia figas^gain parley with fin ; 

'^ Yea, 



4o6 , King J OH !r. 

Yea, without ftop, dfdfl let thy heart confen^ 1 

And confequently thy rude hand to a£t 

The deed, which both our tongues held Vile to name.-* ! 

OitAf Jny fight, and never fee me more ! s 

My nobles leave me, and my flate is brav'd» 

Ev'n at my gates^ with ranks of foreign pow'rs ; 

Nay, in the body of this fiefhiy land, 

Tius kingdom, this confine of blood and breaths 

Hoftility and civil tumult reigns. 

Between my confcience, and my coufin's death. 

Hu6. Attn you againft your other enemies, 
ni make a peace between your (bul and yoo. 

Young Jrtbur is alive : this hand of mine 
Is yet a maiden, and an innocent hand. 
Not painted with the crimfon fpots of blood. 

Within this bofbm never entered yet 

The dreadful motion of a murderous thought^ 

And you haveflander'd nature in my form ; 

Which, .howfoever rude exteriorly. 

Is yet the cover of a fairer mind. 

Than to be butcher of an innocent child* 

K. John. Doth Artburliv^^ O, hade thcc t^ the pccrti 

Throw this report on their incenfed rage, 

^nd make them tame to their obedience. 

Forgive the comment tlrat my paifion made 

Upon thy feature, for my rage was blind j 

And foal imaginary eyes of blood 

Prefented thee more hideous than thou art. 

Oh, anfwer not, but to my cJofet bring 

The angry Lords with all expedient hafte. 

I conjure thee but (lowly : run more fa&. [£;^<va^> 

S C E N E, a Street before aPrifoa* 

Enter Arthur entke mualls, difguii^d^ 

Jrtb. Tp H ^ wall is lugh, and yet will I leap down. 
X Good groiuid, bepitiful, and hurt me not \ 
There's few or none do know mr: if th«y did. 
This fhip-boy's femblancc hath difguis'd me quite. 



King John. 407 

I am afraid, and yet I'll venture it. ^ 

If I get down» and do not break my limbs, 

I'll £nd a tboufand (hifts to get away : 

Ae good to die, and go ; as die, and flay. \-Let^s dovjn* 

Oh me ! my uncle's ipirit is in thcfe ftones : 

Heav'n take my foul, and England keep my bones ! 

Enter PemWoke, Salifbnry, 4im/ Bigot. 

SaL Lords, I will meet htm at St. Edmundjbvay ; 
It is oar fafety ; and we muft embrace 
This gentle offer of the perilous time. 

Pemb. Who brought that letter from the Cardinal ? 

Sal, The Count Melun^ a noble Lord of Franctf 
Whofe private with me of the Dauphin*s love 
Is much more genH'al than thefe lines import. 

Bigot, To-morrow morning let us meet him then. 

SaL Or rather then fet forward » for 'twill be 
Two long days journey. Lords, or ere we meet. 

£^^ Paukonbridge. 

Fauk. Once more to-day well met, diftemper'd Lords ^ 
The King by me fequefts your prefence ftrait. ' 

Sal. The King bath difpoiTeft himfelf of us; 
We will not line his thin, beftained cloak 
With our pure honours ; nor attend the foot. 
That leaves the print of blood where-e'er it walks. 
Return, and tell him fo : we know the word. 

Faul» Whate'er you think,good words,! think, were beft. 

Sal. Our griefs, and not our manners, reafon now* 

Faulc. But there is little rea(bn in your grief. 
Therefore 'twere reafon, you had manners now. 

Femh. ^ir, Sir, impatience hath its privilege. 

Faulc. *Tis trhe, to hurt its mafler, no man elfe. 

Sal. This is the prifon : what is he lies here ? 

{Seting Aitbur. 

Femh. Oh death, made proud with pare and princely 
beauty 1 
The earth had not a hole to hide this deed. 

^lel: Murder, as hating what himfelf kathdoncy 

6 D<*ax 



4o8 King Jo MIT. 

Doth lay it open to urge <fn revenue. 

Bigot. Or when he doom'd this beauty to the gi^re, 
Found it too precious princely for a grave. 

Sal, Sir Richard^ what think you ? have you beheld, 
Or have you read, or heard, or cot|ld you think, 
Qr do you almbft think, although you fee. 
What you do fee ? could thought, without this obje^, 
Form luch another ? 'tis the viery top, v 

The height, the creft, or creft unto the creft , 
Of murder*s arnlis; this is the bloodied ihame. 
The wildeft favag'ry, the vileft flroak. 
That ever wall-eyed wrath or flaring rage 
^ Frefented to the tears of foft remorfe. 

Pemb, All murders pad do (land excus'd in this 
And this fo fole, and lo unmatchable. 
Shall give a holinefs, a purity. 
To the yct-unbegotten tins of time ; 
And prove a deadly blood* filed but a jeftj 
Exampled by this heinous fpeftacle. 

Fate. It is a damned and a bloody work, 
.The gracelefs a^on of a heavy hand. 
If that it be the work of any hand. 

Sal, If that it be the work of any hand ? 
We had k kind of light, what would enfue. 
It is the fliameful work of Hubert^s hand. 
The pradice and the purpofe of tfce King : 
From whofe obedience I forbid my foul. 
Kneeling before this ruin of fweet life. 
And breathing to this breathlefs excellence 
The incenfe of a vow, a holy vow ! ' 
Never to tafle the pleafures of the world. 
Never to be infected with deli|;ht, j 

Nor converfant with eafe and idleness. 
Till I have fct a glory to this hand, , 

By giving it the worftiip of reVenge. ' \ 

Ftmb. Bigot, Our fouls reljgiouily confirm thy wordl« 

Enter Hubert. 
Artifur doth live, xYi^l^ix^^ Va^^ S&u\S»x l^'^. 



Ring J o H K. *4^ 

Sat. Oh, he is bold, and blulhes not at death ; 
Avaonc, thou hateful villain, get thee gone ! 

Huh, I iim>i>o villain. 

Sal. Mud I rob the law ? [Drawing hisf'u^ori. 

Faulc* Your fword is bright. Sir, put it up again. 

^aU Not till I (heath it m a mard'rer's ikin. 

Hub. Stand back. Lord Saiijburj ; (land baclci Ifaj^l 
By heaven, I think, my fword's as (harp as yours. 
I would not have you. Lord, forget yourfelf. 
Nor tempt the danger of my tjhue defence ; 
Left I, by markiog of your rage, forget 
Your worth, your grcatnefs, and nobility. ' y 

'Bigot, Out, dunghill ! dar'il thou brave a NoblefuaaC 

Hub. Not for my life ; but yet tdare defend 
My innocent life againft an £mp6ror. 

Sal. Tlion art a murdVe/. 

Hub. Bo not prove me fo ; 
Yet, I am none. Whofe tongwe foe*er fpeafcis falfe. 
Not truly fpeaks ; who fpeaks not truly, lyes.. 

Femb. Cut him to pieces. 

Faulc. Keep the peace, 1 fay. 

Sah Standby, or I (hall gaul you, Faulc ottbricfge, 

Faulc. Thou wert better gaul the dtvil, Saiijhurj. 
If thou but frown on me, or (lir thy foot. 
Or teach thy hafty fpleen to do.me (hame, 
I'll ftrike thee dead. Put up thy f\<^ord betime. 
Or I'll fo maul you, and your tolling-iroti. 
That you (hall think the devil is come from htfll. 

Bigot. What will you do, renowned Faulconbridge ? ^ 
Second a villain, ana a murderer? 

Hub. Lord Bigots I am none. 
. Bigot. Who kill'd this Prince f ^ 

Hub. 'Tis not an hour (ince I left him well : 
I honour'd him, I lov'd him, and will weep 
My date oif life out, for his fweet life's lofs. 

^I. Truft not thofe cunning waters of hts cytSf ' ^ 
For villainy is not without fu<^ rheum ; ^ 

A4)d he, 10n«lradedin it, make^ it feem ' 

'Like7iviavfi.ofre]Mi^affd mnoceaoe* .4 

-VoL.in. S ^ K^>%^ 



^ko King JoHN^ I 

Away whb me all you, whofe fcmU abhor \ ffo 

Th' uncleanly favour of a flaughter-bouft. 
For I am ftiflcd with thcfmcll of iio. 
• Aj-o/. Away toward Bury t to the Dauphin there 

Pemb, There, tell the King, he may enquire as out. 

lExeunt LtrJs. 

F^uh Here's a good world ; knew you of this fair wofW 
^Beydnjd^the iofinite and bound lefs reach 
Of mercy, (if thou didft this deed of death) 
Art thou damu'd, Hubert. 

Hub. Do but hear me. Sir. 

Faulc. Ha ? I'll tell thee what, 
anJiQu'rt damii'd fo black--^nay, nothing is fo black; 
Thou art- more deep damn'd than Prince Ludftr. 
There is not yet fo ugly ii fiend of hell 
As thou {halt be, if thou didH kill this child. 

Hub. Upon my foul— — 

FcmU. If thou didil but con fen t 
To this mod cruel ad, do but defpair. 
And if thoii want'd a cord, the fmalleft thtead. 
That ever ipider twifted from her womb. 
Will drangle thee ; a rufh will be a beam 
To hang thee on ; or would'ft thou drown thyfelf. 
Put but a little water in a fpoon, I i^ 

And it (hall be as all the ocean. 
Enough to (lifie fuch a villain up. 
J do lufpedt thee very grievouily. 

Hub. If I in a£l, confent, or .fin of thouglit, 
^ guilty of the dealing that fweet br6atfa, 
which was cmbounded in this beauteous cla^. 
Let hell want pains enough to torture me ! 
I left him well. 

Fatde. Go, bear him in thine arms. 
I am amaz'd, methinks, and lofe my way 
Among the thorns and dangers of this world. 
iio\¥ ^afy dod thou take all England vl^ (23) ! 

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1 forth this morfel of dead royalty^ 
life/ the rights and truth of all this realm 
*d to heav*n ; and England now is left 
;ag and fcramble, and to part by th' teeth 

uaowed intereftof proad-fwelling flate. 
r for the bare -pickt bone of Majetty, 
I dogged war Driille his angry creft ; 

fnarleth in the gentle eyes of peace, 
r pow'rs from hom^ and difcontents at home 
t in one line : and vaft CQnfaiion waits 
doth a raven on a fick, falPn bead) 
imminent decay of wrefled pomp. 
f happy he» whofe cloak and cindure can 
i out this tempelh Bear away that child, 

follow me with fpeed ; Til to the King ; 
koufand bufinefTes are brief at hand, 

beay'n itfelf doth frown upon the land* {^Exeunu 

ioai Editor ! The flupid poiating, which has piertird in til thtt 
I, makei ftark nonfeilfe of the parage. My pointing reftorcs iC 
genuine paritj. FauUonbrldgt, feeing Bubtrt uke up the body 
t dead Prince, makes two reflexions:— How eaflff fays he, 
^fdbai^tf// England i* thai burden! and then, thtt the life, 
> and tfutl^of Che realm was fled to hea? CA from out the hreith« 
•ffe of that iUttghtered royalty, &e» 



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AC T V. 

S C E N £, the Court of England. 
Enter King John» Pandalpli, and AutndatiU. 
K. JOHK. 

H U S I have yielded up into your hand 



The circle of my glory. \Gi'ving the cront»» 

^Fand. Take again 
From this my hand, as holding of the Pope, 
Your fovereign greatnefs and aathority. 

K. John. Now keep your holy word ; go meet the Irtntkt 
And from his Holincfs ufe all your power 
To ftop their marches, *fore we areenflajp'd. 
Oor diicontented counties do revolt ; 
Our people quarrel with obediejsce ; 
Swearing alledance^r andtlie loveof fau]* 
To ftranger blood, to foreign JO^Kalty; 
This inundation of mi(lemper*d humour 
Refts by you only to be qoalify*d. 
Then paufe not ; for the prcfent time's fo fick. 
That prefent medicine mud be miniftred. 
Or overthrow incurable enfues. 

Pand, It was my breath that blew this tempefi up. 
Upon your flubborn ufage of the Pope : 
But fince you are a gentle convertite (24)9 

My 

(14) F»f/i»ff y«i *r/tf|rfff* convert! te.] i.e. a ctnvert, fa peni- 
tent) as we now pbrafe it v Bat in our Author** lime, convertite wai 
the term in faOiton. We find him ufe it agaia mote thaa oocej la 
Aiyvu Ukt it, fententious Jafuts fays; 

■ out of thcfc con^ftrtites 

There is much matter to be heard and le«rii*4« 
Aad in his poem, caird, Tarquln and Lucrece ; 
He thence departs a heavy roirv^/ire; 
She there remains a hopehfs caft-away. 

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King Jt)HM.- 4i^ 

My tongae ih^l bofli again this florni of war ; t^ 
And make fair weather in your bluftViug land« 
On this jifcenfiondayy remember well, 
Upon your oath of fervice to the Pope, 
Go 1 to make the French lay down their arms. [Exit. 
K. John, Is this Afcenjion-day? did not the propbct^ 
Say, that before J/cenfion-iiay at noon 
My crown I fhould give olf ? even fo I have : 
I did fuppoft?^ it fhould be on conllraint; 
But, heav'nbe tbank'd, it is but voluntary* 

J?«/^r Faulconbridge. « 

Faulc. All X<?«/ hath yielded, nothing there holds oiit 
'^yxX.Dover-Caftie : London \iZl\irQQe\s'*dii 
Like a kind hofl, the Daufhin' and his powers. 
Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone 
To offer ferv ice to your enemy ; 

And wild amazement hurries up and dowii . - 

The little number of your doubtful friends. 

K. ycha. 'Would not my Lords return to me agaioy 
After they heard, young Jrthur was alive? 

Faulc, They found him dead, and cafl into theftreets. 
An empty cafket, where the jewel, life. 
By fome damn'd hand was robb*d and ta'en away, 

K. John. That villain Hubert told me, he did live* 

Faulc, So on my foul he did, forou^hthe knew : 
But wherefore do you droop ? why look you faa^ 
*Be great in a£l, as you have been in thought: 
Let not the world fee fear and fad didrufl 
Govern the motion of a kingly eye : 
Be flirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; 
Threaten the threat'ner, and out- face the brow 
Of bragging horror : fo (hall inferior eyes, 
That borrow their behaviours from the great. 

And BeaumMt znd FUtcUr \n their Noble Geniteman, 

Your coofin, who is now a convertite j 
The termioation of this word, no donbr, we form*d from the JtaUuu 
particip!e, convirtiti : And the ^^/MMr^/i likswUc call a convert, *(>• 
i^tnuertido* ^ 

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4t4 • Kirtg John. 

Grow gftkt hy your example ; an^I pot oa I ^ 

The dauudefs fpirit of refolntion. T 

Away, and glifter like the god of war. 

When he intendeth to become the field ; 

Shew boldnefs and afpiring confidence. 

What, fliall they feek the lion in his dfn» 

And fright him there ? and make him treml^Ie there? 

Ch, let It not be faid ! Forage, and run 

To tnect difpleafure farther from the doors ; 

And grapple with him, ere he come fo nigh. 

K. JoifH. The Legate of thePo^e hath been with mt, 
And I havemade a happy peace with him ; 
And he bath promis'd to difmifs the powers 

ht^hy the Dauphin. 

fauU. O inglorious league ! 

Shall we, upon the footing of our land, , 

Send fair-play- orders, and make compromife^ 

Infinoatioi), parly, and bafe truce. 

To arms invafive ? (hall a bear^leff boy, 

Acockred, filken, wanton brave our fields. 

And fiefh his fpirit in a warlike foil, 

Mocking the air with cdotws idly (^tzi^ j 

And find no check ? let us, my Liege, to arms : 

Perchance, the Cardinal can*i make your peace ; J 

Or if he do, let it at leaf! be faid, 

Th^'y faw, we had a purpofe of defence* I 

K. JJffi. Have thou the crd'ring of this prefenl time. 
Fauk. Away then, with good courage; yet, I know, 

Oar party may well meet a prouder foe. [Exeunt, 

SCENE thanees to the Dauphin's Camp, at 
St. Edmundfbury (25). 

iL/iter^ in arms^ Lewis* Salifbury, Melun> Pembroke, 
fiigot, and Soldiers. 

y Lord l^ehni let this be copied out. 
And keep it fafe for our remembrance : 

Return 

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King Jo H n; 415 

Tl€tatft the prefideot to th^fc Lords agam^ 
That having oik fair order written down. 
Both tney and we, perufing o'er thefe notes. 
May know wherefore we took the facrahient ; 
And keep oar faiths Erm and inviolable. 

S/it tJpoi* our fides it never (hall be broken* 
And, noble Z><?A(/^//r, albeit we fwear 
A voluntary zeal and un-urg'd faith 
To your proceedings; yet believe me, Prince, 
/am not glad that fuch a fore of time 
»^ouId feek a plaiiler by contcmn'd revolt ; 
And hea^ih' iavet'rare canker of one wound. 
By making tphuy, Ob, it grieves my foul, 
That I ttmi\ draw this metal from my fide 
To be a widQtAMRaker : oh, and there. 
Where honourable refcue, and defence. 
Cries out upon the name of 5^///?^9'.. 
But fuch is the infeflioH of the tirae^ 
That, 'for the health and phyfick of our right. 
We cannot deal but with the very hand 
Of ftern injuflicc, and con fu fed wrong. 
Atid is't net pity, oh my grieved friends ! 
That, we, the fons and children of this ifle. 
Were born to (ee fo fad an hour as this. 
Wherein we ftcp after a ftrangcr march (26) 

Upon 

authorities. In the preceding z£ks, where Salifintty hwM fix^d to go 
o^r to the Daupbin, he Uyt, * 

Lords, 1 will meet bim at St. EdmunJJhury, 
Asi Count MeiuM, in this iaft ad, fays ; 

' ' and many more w»ith me, 

Upon the altar at St. Edmundfiury \ 

Even on that altar, where we fwore to you. 

Dear amity, and everiaflijiglovf. 
And it appsars hkewire from the iroukiifime rtlgn of King yohn, in 
two parts, (the fir/l rough mode) of this play) that the interchange of 
irows betwixt the Dauphin aod the Engti/h Barons was at St. Ed* 
fttuudjhury, . 

(z^) ff^berein vft fitp afur aftranrer, march 

Upoa her gentU hoj^m*^ T\ivi» aA xYvt ^tVtiXA^ «k"^\«^\>sss^ 
mi&»kiogly poiated una paflagc : but, ^\ii Va\,m\Skftiv\» >5c«.^ttB»Kt 



4i6 King Jo«^r.:, 

Upon her gentk bofooi, and fill up 
Her enemies ranks? (I moft withdraw and weep (^7) 
Upon the fpot of this enforced caufe ;) 
To grace the gentry of a land remote, 
^nd follow anacquainted colours here? 
^hat, here ? O nation, that thou could'ft remove I * 
That Niftwie*B arms, who clippeth thee about. 
Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyfelf* 
And grapple thee unto a Pagan ihore ! 
Where thefe two Chriftian armies might combine^ 
The blood of malice in a vein of league, 
^ And not to fpend it fo unrneighbouily. 

Ltvjis, A noble temper dbft thou ihew in this^ 
And great affection, wrelllingin thy bofom> 
Doth make an earthquake of nobility. 
Oh, what a noble combat haft thon fought. 
Between compulfion, and a brave refpe^l 
I^t me wipe off this honourable dew. 
That filverly doth progrefs on thy cheeks^ 
My h^rt hath melted at a Lady's tears. 
Being an ordinary inundation : 

£ditore, the wor^Jhanger is here an adjeAite Is itf vfafe, tud tt !• 
coupled to march, v/hith it itt fobfiaative aad no verb. So- U 
HUbard n. 

And tread thtfirang§r pathi of baniftnent. 
^Ad£o in his poem,€aird, 'farquin and Lucrece i 

But ihe, that nCTer rop*d yiixhflrangtr rftt, 
A% to (he ufe of this word Mtfjeffiveff, Ihavc already fpoke la my ad 
htte en M'uifimamr-liiiht*» Drum* * 

0?) '^'^ J my/ vfkh^am Mii tuetp 

Upomtheffot, for this tit/breed eaufB,2 Thas Mr, Pef* prtntt 
«^^ reads thtfe Hr.es : which, if I tinderfland the/drift,, is msking.^ 
I^alfiurj fay; «« fmkftgofr§mfhhfjf>ot,sttdw€el>*poMit,**'^lh»tt 
choiieto iltck to the-reiding of the old copies, end Co throir the paf- 
fa ge jr. to Partntbifa \ this is vrhat, I apprehend, the Poet means, 
^al'tputy ihould fay ; '< I muft turn a6de, and weep for this JUin^ 
** t lis difgrace, of onr revolt; to which we have been enforced by 
** the Ktng*8 proceedings.** So in the laft fpeech of tfirjhauy ta 
Pi'intf Henry, the worrt J^ot again is tifed. 

uAnd the like tender of oor love we make 

To reft vridiout «k ^ f«t c^ecoiacQ, 



King Jo H jr. ^4i> 

But this efiufion of fuch mdnly drops, 

This ihow'r, blown up by tempcft of the fotjl. 

Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazM, 

Tha» had I fecn the vaulty top of hcav'n 

Figur*d quite o'er with burning meteors* 

Lift ap thy brow, renowned Salijhury^ 

And with a great heart heave away this (lorm» 

Commend thefe waters to thofe baby-eyes» 

That never faw the giant world enrag'd ; ^ 

Nor met with fortune^ other than at feafis. 

Foil: warm of blood » of mirth, of goffipin?. 

Come, come; for thou (halt thruft thy hand a) dee |i > 

Into the purfe of rich profperity, 

As Lews hirafelf ; fo, nobles, (hall you all. 

That knit yctur finews to the firengthof mine» 

£ff/rr Pafndulph. 

And even there, methinks, an angel fpakel ^ 
Look, whert the hply legate corner apace. 
To give us warrant from the hand of heaven, . 
And on our aflions {^ the name of right 
With holy breath I ' 

Pami. Hail, noble Prince of Franci ! 
The next is this ; King John hath reconciled i 
Himfelf to Romai iiis fpirit is come in. 
That fo flood oat a^inft the holy church, . 
The great metropolis and fee of i^^mr. 
Therefore thy threatening coloars now wind up,. 
And tame the favaee fpirit of wild war; 
That, like a lion fofler'd up at hand. 
It mav lie gently at the foot of |>eace 9 - 
And be, no further harmful than in ftew^ . 

Lewis. Your Grace (hall pardon mt, I will ^otbackJi : 
I am too high-born to be property^d^ . 
To be a fecondacy atcontroul ; 
Or ufeAil<ferving-man, andinilrament. 
To any fo.vereign State throughout the world. ' 
Your breath firft kindled the dead coal of N^^tv - 
Sitwcen dii$ chsi{d$'d kingdom and Ci^ltM v • • 

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4il King John. 

And brought in matter, that (hould feed this fire. ^ 

And now 'lis far too huge to be blown out, . '^ 

With that fame weak wind which enkindled it. 
You taught roe how to know the face of right, -A 

Acquainted me with int'refl to this land ; ^ 

Yea, thruft this en terprize into my heart: 
And come ye now, to tell me now John hath made T 

Hi« peace with Rcme ? what is that peace to me ? ^^ 

1, by the honour of my marriage- bed, H< 

After young Arthur^ claim this land for mine : ^^ 

And now it is half conquered, mull I back, Tl 

Becaufe that Jchn hath made his peace with Rome ? j Tl 

Am I Rome's flave ? what penny hath Rome borne, I 

What men provided, what munition fent, 1 ^| 

To under-prop this action ? is't not I, mi 

That undergo this charge ? who elfc but I, ir 

And fuch as to my plaim are liable^ P' 

Sweat in this bufinefs, and maintain this war ? fi! 

Have 1 not heard thefe iilanders (hout out» ^ 

yiae U Roy / as I have bank'd their towns ? I J 

Have I not here the bed cards for the game. 
To win this eafy match, played for a crown i 
And ihall I now give o'er the yielded fet ? 
No, on my foul, it never ihall be faid. ' | ] 

Panti, You lookout on the outfide of this work« 

Le^vis, Outdde or initde, I will not retttrR> 
Till my attempt fo much be glorify.'d, j 

As to my ample hope was promifed^ . { 

Before I drew this gallant head of war ; , 

And cull'd thefe fiery fpirits from the worlds 
T^ outlook conquefl, and to win renown 
£v'n 19 the jaws of danger, and of death. 

[Trumf^t/ouMilu 
What lufty trumpet thus doth fummpn us I 

Enter Paulconbridge. 
FauU. Accordiug to the fair play of the world. 
Let (lie hav^ audience : I am fent to ipeak, 
VLy holy Lord of Milairiy fvom the Kin^ : • 
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Kliig John. 419 

And as you aniwer, I do know the fcope 
' And warrant limited unto my tongue. 

Pand. The Uaupbin is too willful*oppofite« 
And will not temporize with my intreaties : 
He flatly fays, he'll not lay down his arms. 

Faulc. By al] the blood that ever fury breath'^> 
The youth fays well. Now hear our Englijh Kingn 
For thus his royalty doth fpeak in me : 
He is prepared ; and reafon too, he fhould. 
This apifkand unmannerly approach, 
This harnefs.M mafk, and unadvifed revel* 
This unhairM faucinefs and boyi(h troops (28}9 

flS) Tbif unheard faucirufsy and boyijb troops,1 Thus the prinM 
copies in general : but unheard is an epithet of very little ioftt^ cr 
meaning )iete; befide» let us clferYe how *tis coupled* Faidc9nm 
bridge is fneering at the Dauphin' t iirvafion» as an uoa4viB*d enur^ 
prise, favooringof yduth and indifcretion ; th^ refult of childiih- 
ncfs, and unthinking raflinefs : and he feems altogether to dwell on ' 
this charadler of it, by calling his preparation boyyb troops, dtv^rfjh 
ivar, pigmy arms, &c. So before, in the i ft icene Of thia act, 
faufconbridgi fays $ 

p ftall zheardhfs b<y, 

A cockred, iilkeo, wanton brave our fields > 
l^et ne fubjoin a few inflances to (hew, that this epithet unbair*d.U . 
very much in the mode of our SbakeJ^are*% expieflioii* So, ia 
Macboth^ 

———And many unrottgh ywtbi^ 

TJbat even now proteft their firft. of manhood. 
Love's Labour loft. 

rilmarkno words that /0SM/j&-y^fV lovers fay* 
An tooy and Cleopatra . 

• ' « or who knows. 

If the fiarct bearded C^far have not fcAt 

Hit pttw'iful mandate to you ? 
Coriolaoot. 

When with his Amazonian chin he drove- 

The brytltd\\^9 before him. 
Tempeft. » 

II ■ > Till new- horn chin» 

Be eaivfi^ >a4 rsxorsble* 
Kenry V. 

For who it he, whofie^Bi'ii it hut tnrkb*^' 

With oat afpiaringbair,-^^- 
jlllad ia kit poem, enlVd, y^nns and jfSiait^ 
- Wh j/f bcaias^ vpon hit ha'trkfi joti «% W4 v ^^ 



4*6 Kirfg JohW; 

The King doth (mile at; and i» well- prepared 
To whip this dwarfiih wai!> theie pigmy jrmsy 
From out the circle of his territories. 
That hand which had the ftr^ngth, ev'n atyoar d<H>|> 
To cudgel voa» ahd make you take the hatch ; 
To dive, bke buckets, in concealed wells; 
To ciAttch in litter of your ilable-plankt, 
^o lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chefts and trunks | 
To herd with fwinc ; to feck IWect fafety otat, 
!n vaults and prifons ; and to thrill^ and fhake, 
Ev*n at the prying of our nation's crow, 
Thinking his voice an arnfied Engltfi^mzn ; 
Shall that victorious hand be feebled h^re. 
That In your chambers gave you chaftifement ? 
74o ; know, the gallant Monarch is in arms ; 
And like an eagle oVr his airy tow'rs. 
To foufe annoyance that comes near his neft. 
And you degen'rate, you ingrate revolts. 
You bloody Neroj\ ripping up the womb 
Of your dear mother England^ blufh for (hame. 
For your own Ladies, and pale>vifagM maids. 
Like JmoKons, come tripping after drums ; 
Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change, 
Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts 
To fierce ami bloody inclination. 

Leivis. There end thy brave, and torn thy fact in peacQ 
"We grant, thou canft out-fcold us ; fare thee well ; 
We hold otir time too precious to be fpent 
With fuch a babler. 

Paa^f. Give me leave to fpeak. 

faulc. No, I will fpeak. 

Lewis. We will attend to neither : 
Strike up the drums, and let the tongue of war 
Plead for our in t' reft, and our being here. 

Faulc. Indeed, yotEirdrmnBy being beatts, will cry out ^ 
And fo (hall you, being beaten ; do but Ibft ' 
An echo with tike clamour of thy drum, ^ 
And ev'n at hand a drum is ready brac'c^ * 
That (hall reveibVat«atl as loud ai thine* 



Kmg John. 4lt 

Soond bnt^ther, and another (haH, 
As loud at thine, rattle the welkin's «ar. 
And mock the deep-moath'd thunder. For at hand 
(Not tracing to this halting Legate here. 
Whom he hath us'd rather for fport, than need) 
Is warlike John ; and in his forehead fits 
A bare-%ribb'd death ; whoie office is this day 
To feaft uflkm whole thoufands of the French, 
Lnvis. Strike up your drums, to fkid this danger ov^, 
Fakic* And thou ihaltfindit» Dauphin^ do not doubt. 

{Exeimfl 

SCENE changes to a Field of Battle. 

Alarms. Enter King John, mid Hubert. 
X*yn,T TOw goes the day with us ? oh, tell me, Huberts 
XjL ^^. Badly, I fear; how fares your Majeftyf 
K. John. This fever, that hath troubled me fo long. 
Lies heavy on me : oh, my heart is fick I 

Enter aMeJenger, 

Mef, My Lord, your valiant kinfman, faidtohhridge^ 
Defires your Majefty to leave the field ; 
Anfl fend him word by me which way you go. ^ 

K. Joh. Tell him,^tow*rd Stmnfieady to the abbey theses 

Me/, Be t>f good comfort : for the great fupply,. 
That was expedted by the Dauphin here. 
Are wreck'd three nights 2^0 on G0^W»^rands. 
This news was brought to Richard but ev*n now ;; 
The ZrMCi^ fight coldly, and retire, themielves. 

K. John, Ah me ! this tyrant kwtr burns me up. 
And will not let me welcome this good news. 
Set on towVd Swinfintd ; to my litter ihrait; 
Weaknefs po&flcth me» and I am £uat. lEjceunh 

& C EN £ changes to the French Camp. 

EiTer SaGfbury^ Pembroke, akd Bigot. 

SmIJW Did not think the King fo ftor*d with friends^ 

jf /Vvar^ Up once again ; put {^\nXVBL^^'Extnc\> ^ 
// tb€y mi&gify, we mifcarry loo, ^^ 



4^2 King JoH It. 

Sal. That mif-begotten devil, FaukciAi^i, 
In fpite of fpite, alone upholds the day. 
Piii^. They fay. King John, fore fick, hath left the £eld. 

Enter Melun, nioounded. 

JuiiluM. Lead me to the revolts of England here. 

Sal, When we were happy, we had other names. 

Pemb, It is the Count Melun, 
\ Sal. Wounded to death. 

Melon. Fly, noble EngUJh^ you are bought and fold ; 
Uotread the rude way of rebellion (29), 
And welcome home again difcarded faith. 
Seek out King John^ and fall before his feet : 
For* if the French be Lords of this loud day. 
He means to recompenfe the pains you take. 
By cutting off your heads ; thus hath he fworn. 
And I with- him, and many more with rae. 
Upon the altar at St. Edmundjhury ; 
Ev'n on that altar, where we fwore to you 

(*9) Vnthrcad tht ruit tyc of rebeHion,'] Tho' all the copief COII- 
cur in this reading, how poor is the metaphor^ of tintbreadhg the 9* 
4f t needle? And, beHdes, as there is no mention made of a necdie^ 
how remote and obfcure is the allufion wichoat it > The teit, as I 
have reftor*d it, is'eafy and natural : and it is the mode of expref- 
'^On, which our Author is every where fond of, to tretii. and ttntrtad, 
the way, fatb^JlefSf &c. So Salijbury fays afterwards io thil fceae $ 

We ^Wiuntread thtffe/s of damned flight. 
'HcaryVni. 

Say, H^filjfff that one? trod the wayi of glorj.- 
Bichardll. 

Btit trtad tht &tzn%^r f>atbs of baailbment* . 
Richard III. 

Go, tread the path that the a Aait ncVr retoriu - 
McrchaAt of Venice. 

Whore ii the horfe, that doth untread zg9Aik 

His tedious meafure wi'th' uabated Ate, 

That he did /<2r« them firft f 
Hamlet« 

Whilft, like a puft and carelefs libertine, 

Himicif the primrofe path of dalltanceiristf^* ^ 

And in his poem, caird, yenus and Adonis \ 

She treudi the ^aibt^ that ihe unfrtMdt again. 



King jbHiJ.I 4^3 

Dear amity and everlailing^ love. 

W. May this be poffible ! may this be true ! 

Melun, Have I not hideous death within my view } 
Retaining but a quantity of life. 
Which bleeds away, ev'n as a form of wax 
Refolveth from its figure 'gainft the ^rt ? 
What in the world ihould make me now decexye. 
Since I mufllofe the ufe of all deceit ? 
Why (hould I then be faife, iince it is true. 
That 1 mud die here, and live hence by truth i 
I fay again, if Leiais do win the day, 
He is forfworn, if e*er thofe eyes of youft 
Behold another day break in the eaft : 
But ev'n this night, whofe black contagious breath 
Already fmoaks about the burnings creft 
Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied fun, 
Ev'n this ill night, your breathing ihall expire ; 
Paying the £ne of rated treachery, 
£v'n with a treacherous fine of all your lives> 
If Le^vh by your affiftance.win the day. 
Commend ta^ to one Hubert^ with your King» 
The love of him, and this refpedl befides, 
(For that my grandfire was an Engiijbman,) 
Awakes my confcience to confefs all this. 
In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence 
From forth the noife and rumour of the field ; 
)¥here J may think tke remnant of my thoi^ght^ 
In peace; and part this body and my fon\. 
With contem^ation, and devout defires. 

SaL We do believe thee, andbeihrewmy foul 
But I do. love the favour and the form 
Of this mod fair occafion^ by the which 
We will untread the Aeps of damned flight; 
And, like a bated and retired flood, 
X^eaving our ranjcnefs and irregular conrfe, . 

Stoop low within thofe bounds, we have o^er-IookM ; 
And calmly run on in obedience 
Ev'n to our ocean, to our great King Joim, 
My arm (hall give thee help to beat th^ t^^tic^> 



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424 ^^S Jo UK. 

For I do fee the crael pangs of death 

Right in'tMn^ eye. Awa)r, my friends ; new flight ; 

And happy newnefi, that intend sold right ! 

{Ejtettnti leading cfVitlun. 

S C ^ N £ changes to a different part df tlie 
French Camp. 

Enter Lewis, and bis Train. 

Jlrw.^T^HB fun of heav'n, methought, was loth to fet, 
X But ftaxdy and m^de the weftern welkin blufli; 

When th' Englifi meafur'd backward their oWn ground 

In faint retire : oh, bravely came we oF, 

When with a volley of our needlefs ihot» 

After fbch bloody toil, we bid good night ; 

And wound our tattered colours clearly up» 

i the ilieldy and dmoft Lords Of it !^— «-• 



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Enter a MeJ/enger. 



Mef. Where is my Prince, t\it Dauphin ? 

JLiwis, Here; what news? 

Mef The Count Melun is flaln ; xYitEngUfo Lords 
By his perfuafion are again fall'n off ; 
VAnd your fupp]y» which you have wifliM fi> long. 
Are call away, and funk on Godwin^ismAs. 

Zfov/'i. Ah foul, (hrewd news! Be (hrew thy Ttiy hearty. 
I did not think to be fo fad to-night. 
As this hath made me. Who was he, that faid, . 
King John did fly, an hour or two before 
The ftumbling night did part our weary powei«? - 

Mef Whoever fpoke it, it is true, nly Lord. 

Lew. Well ; keep good quar ter,and good care to-dght ; . 
The day fliall not be up fo foon as I, 
To try the faiir ad? emure of tQ*jBX>ri0Wr , l^xrintf » . 



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King John. 4^^ 

S C £ N E, iin epen Place in the Keighbouihood of 
Swlnjiiad Abbey« 

Enter Faulconbridge, and Hubert, fevtrallj. 

J5&.t T THo»s there? fpeak, ho! fpeak quickly, or I ihoot^ 
VV Faulc. A friend. What art thou ? 

Huh, Of the part of England, 

Faulc. And whither doft thou go ? 

HuB. What's that to thee ? 
Why may not I demand of thine affairs. 
As well as thou of mine ? 

Faula Hubert^ I think. 

Hub, Thou haft a perfed thought: 
I will upon all hazards well believe 
Thou art my friend, that know'ft my tongue fo well X 
Who art thou ? '^ 

Faulc, Who thou wilt ? and, if thou pleafe. 
Thou may*ft be- friend me fo much, as to think, 
I come one way of the Plant ageneti! 

Hub, Unkind remembrance! thou and cyelefs night( jo) 
HaiVe done me ihame ; brave foldier, pardon me. 
That any.accent, breaking from thy tongue, 
Should 'fcape the true acquaintance of mine ear. 

Faulc, Come, come;y2?«i complement^ what news abroad ? 

Hub, Why here walk I, in the black brow of night. 
To find you out. 

Faulc, Brief then : and what*8 the news ? 

Hub, O my fweet Sir, news fitting to the ni^ht; 
B^ck, fearful, condfortlefs, and horrible. ) 

Faulc, Shew rtie the very wound of this ill news, 
I am no woman, I'll not fwoen at it. 

Hub. The King, 1 fear, is poifon'd by a Monk : 

{%o)VnkiHdrtmembr'Mce\tbouandtnA\t(tKight 

Ha-vt dene mejbame : ] Why, enJiefs night ? Vu^ri meani 

iBomore, than that the dulnefs of his recoHedion, and the darkne^ 
of the night, had difgraced him in his not knowing Taulconbridge by 
the tore of his voice. Our Author, cer a n'y wrote, ijfilifi, Mr, 
H^arburtw likewife coocurr'd in iUn'tn^ \ViW tiafttA'»S4^»'* ^ 



4^6 King J o H N^. 

I left him almoft fpeechlefs^ and broke out 
T' acquaint you with this evil ; that you mighr 
The better arm you to the fudden time, 
Than if you had at leifore known of this. 

FauU, How did he take it ? who did tafte to him ^ ' 

Hub, A Monk, I tell y^u ; a Ycfolved villaio, 
Whofe bowels fuddenly burft out 5 the King 
Yet fpeaks ; and, peradventure, may recover. • 

FauU. Who didft thou leave to tend his Maje% ? 

i/tt^. Why, know you not ? the Lords are all come back. 
And brought Prince Henry in their company ; 
At whofe rcqueft the King hath piirdon'd them. 
And they are alt about' his Majefty. 

Faulc, Withhold thine indignation, mighty heav'n !• 
And tempt os not to bear above our power. 
I'll tell thee, Hubert^ half my pow'rs this night. 
Faffing thefc flats, are taken by the tide ; 
Thcfc LificeIi9^wsiQ\es have devoured them ; 
Myfelf, well mounted, hardly have efcapcd. 
Away, before : conduft me to the King ; 
I doubt, he will be dead, or e'er I come. ^ [Exnmt, 

SCENE changes to the Orchard in Swinfiead 

Abbey. 

Etiter Prince Henry y Salift)ury, andWigott 
Henry^^T is too late; the life of all his blood 

X Is touch'd corruptibly ; and his pure brain, 

{Which, fome fuppofe, the foul's frail dwelli&g hoafe,) 
)oth,. by the idle comments that it mtakes) 
Foretel the ending of mortality. 

Enter Pembroke. 

Pemb. His Highnefs yet doth fpeak, and holds belief. 
That* being brought into the open air. 
It would allay the burning quality 
Of that fell poifon, which aifaileth him. 

Henrj. Let him be bio\x%Vv vtvXo x^^ ^\^«^ \Atc ; 
Poth he ftill rage 1^ ^^^>»^ 



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King Jjo h wV 427 

Am^. He b snore patient. 
Than when you left him ; even now ht fong. 

Henry. Oh vanity of ficknefs ! fierce ex treanu , 
In their continuance will not feel themfelves. 
Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts. 
Leaves them ; invifible nis fiege is now, 
Againft the mind; the which he pricks and wounds 
With many legions of flrange fantaiies ; 
Which, h) their throng, and prefs to that lafl hold. 
Confound themfelves. 'Tis ftrange, that deaths il^OnU 

fing: 

I am thecyguet to this pale, faint fwan. 
Who Chaunts a doleful hymn to his own death $ 
And, from the organ- pipe of frailty, finga ' 

His foul and body to their laRing reft. 

SaL Be of good comfort, Prince; ftr you are boJfA 
To fet a form upon that indigeft, 
Which he hath left fo ihapelefs and fo rude* 

ICffig John brought in, 

IL^Johtt, Ay, marry, now my foul hath elbow-roomi 
It would not out at windows, nor at doors. 
There is fo hot a fummer in my bofom. 
That all my bowels crumble up to duA : 
lama fcribbled form drawn with a pen 
Upon a parchment^ and againft this hie 
Dol (brink up. 

Henry* How fares your Majefty ? 

K. John, PoifonM, ill fare I dead, forfook, caft otf ( ji j j 

(31) Poifond, »7/fatcfl This it Mr, Pi^*s reaJiofj on no »a« 
thorily that I can find. I have replac'd far^, with the old cop>r^| 
and confidering how much our Author lovM and has praAi^'d (he 
jingle and play on words, finnilaf in found ; there is no queftion k\it 
he intended it here. 
So, inhis Sfcond Partof f7/ffry VI. 

I Sheriff, fanwil^ and better than I fare : 

And, in the Third Part of Hifiry VI. . 

How now, f^ir I ords ? Vfh^tfare f "WK^S. tv^^\ ^\^\Vi^%k^ 
JJ/ /a/e both takes away the anlithcfw, «itii tiv«\Lt% ^\<w^ ^'»2^'^^^'^ 
cxcJamation, ^ ^ 



43 8 KmgJ'oHH/ 

And none of you will bid the winter COM 
To thrall his icy ingen in iny mow.; • 
Nor let my kingdom's rivors take their ^onrfe, 
Throaeh my bam'd bofbm : nor hntrett^lhe nortk ^ 
To make his ble»k winds kifs m pitched lips* 
And comfort me with cold. I ank notmoch^ 
1 beg cold comfort; and yoo are ib ffarait. 
And fo ungratefnly you deny me that. 
' HtMrj. Oh» that there were fome virtne in my tearffji 
That might relieve yon 1 

K. John. The fait of them is hot. 
Within me is a hell ; and tbei« the poiibit 
Is« as a fiend, confin'd to tyrannize < 

On unreprievable^ condemned bk>od. 

Enter FauIconbridgCr 

Faulc. Ohy I am fcalded with my violent motion. 
And fpleen of fpeed to fee your Majefly. 

K. John, Oh, coufin, thou art come to fet mine eyei 
The tackle of my heart is crackc and burnt ; 
«And all the (hroads» wherewith my life (hbuldTsA^ 
Are turned to one thread, one little hair : 
My heart hath one poor firing to flay it by. 
Which holds but till thy news be uttered ; 
And then all this thou feefl, is but a clod. 
And module of confounded royalty. 

Faulc. The Dauphin is preparing hithcrward. 
Where, heav'n he k6ows, how we fliall anfwer him* 
For, in a night, the befl part of rtiy power. 
As I upon advantage did remove, • 
Were in the wafhes, all unwarily. 
Devoured by the unexpected l^ood. [The Kings dks* 

Sal, You breathe thcfe dead news in as dead an ear ; 
l^y Liege ! my Lord ! — but now a King — now thus. 

Henry, Ev'n fo mnfl I run on, and ev'n fb flop. 
What furety of the world, what hope, what flay, 
^hen this was now a King, and now is clay ? 
» Faulc. Art thou gotve fo \ \ ^o\i\x\.^vj\i^JK«A^ 
To do the clRce for lYvce ol tw^Xi^^ •• 



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And^n i»y fedl ihalt wait on thee to liea?'n, 

As it on «arthi.}i»th been thy fervaiat ftill. 

Now, now, you Aap$^ that piove in your bright ipheres» 

Where be your pow?r8 ? fliew now your mended faiths^ 

And inftantly retuni with me again, 

To pa(h deftrafbioa and perpetual (faame 

Out of the weak door of Ottr fainting hnd : 

Strait kl us feek, or ftratt we fhall be fought ; 

The Dimphim rages at our very heels. 

SaL It feems, you know not then fo much as we: 
The Cardinal Pandulpb is within at reft. 
Who half an hourfince came from the Dauphiii; 
And brin|;s from him Aich offers of our peace. 
As we with honoor and refpedl ma^ take. 
With purpofe prefently to leave this w^r. 

FauUi He will the rather do it, when he fees 
Ourfelves well finewed to our defence. 

Sal. Nay, it is in a manner done already ; 
For many carnages he hath difpatch'd 
To the fea-fide, and put his caufe and quarrel 
To the difpofing of the Cardinal : 
With whom yourfclf, myfelf, and other Lords, 
If yon think meet, this afternoon will poft 
To confummate this bulinefs happily. 

Faulc. Let it4M lb; and^yon, inynobleiPrince, 
With other Prhiccs that may beft, be fpar'd. 
Shall wait upon your father's faneral. 

Henry, At lf^orc€fieiLmnftkhbf>dy^t*inten*i, 
Forfohe will'dit. 

Faulc. Thither ihair it tl^n. "" 
And happily may your fweet felf put on 
The lineal ftate, and glory of the land ! 
To whom, with all fubmiifion on my knee, 
I do bequeath my faithful fervices. 
And ttue fubje^ioa everlaflingly. 

So/. And the like tender of our love we make. 
To reft without a fpot for evermore. 

Herny. I have a kind foul, that would give you thanks^ 
And knows Aot how to do it» but V4\x\k \ft^^% 

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430 King JoH 

. Faulc. Ohy let us pay tlie time biil iiie^ful wq|^ 
Since it hath been before-tiand with our. griefs. 
This £«^/ffW never did, n^r never (hall. 
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, 
Biu when it firit did hejp to wound itfelf. 
Now thefe her Princes are come home again. 
Come the three corners of the world in- arms. 
And we fhall fhock them ! — Nought (hall make tis roe. 
If England to itftlf do rdl but true. \Ex€unt cmneu 



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