A ring in chase of you; so did I abuse Have you not set mine honour at the stake, Enough is shown; a cyprus, not a bosom, OLI. That's a degree to love. 8 VIO. No, not a grise; for 'tis a vulgar proof," That very oft we pity enemies. I could add twenty other instances, were they necessary. Throughout the first edition of our author's Rape of Lucrece, 1594, which was probably printed under his own inspection, the word we now spell here, is constantly written heare. Let me add, that Viola had not simply heard that a ring had been sent (if even such an expression as-" After the last enchantment, you did heare," were admissible;) she had seen and talked with the bearer of it. MALONE. To one of your receiving-] i. e. to one of your ready apprehension. She considers him as an arch page. WARBURTON. See page 281, n. 8. STEEVENs. 6 —a cyprus,] is a transparent stuff. JOHNSON. 7 Hides my poor heart: So let me hear you speak.] The word hear is used in this line, like tear, dear, swear, &c. as a dissyllable. The editor of the second folio, to supply what he imagined to be a defect in the metre, reads-Hides my poor heart; and all the subsequent editors have adopted his interpolation. MALONE. I have retained the pathetic and necessary epithet poor. The line would be barbarously dissonant without it. STeevens. a grise ;] is a step, sometimes written greese, from degres, French. JOHNSON. OLI. Why, then, methinks, 'tis time to smile again: O world, how apt the poor are to be proud! [Clock strikes. The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you : And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest, Your wife is like to reap a proper man : There lies your way, due west. VIO. Then westward-hoe:' Grace, and good disposition 'tend your ladyship! You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me? OLI. Stay: I pr'ythee, tell me, what thou think'st of me. are. OLI. If I think so, I think the same of you. V10. Then think you right; I am not what I am. OLI. I would, you were as I would have you be! V10. Would it be better, madam, than I am, I wish it might; for now I am your fool. OLI. O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful So, in Othello : 9 "Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers." STEEVENS. 'tis a vulgar proof,] That is, it is a common proof. The experience of every day shews that, &c. MALone. 1 Then westward-hoe:] This is the name of a comedy by T. Decker, 1607. He was assisted in it by Webster, and it was acted with great success by the children of Paul's, on whom Shakspeare has bestowed such notice in Hamlet, that we may be sure they were rivals to the company patronized by himself. STEEVENS. In the contempt and anger of his lip!2 A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon By maidhood, honour, truth, and every thing, OLI. Yet come again: for thou, perhaps, may'st move That heart, which now abhors, to like his love. O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful [Exeunt. In the contempt and anger of his lip!] So, in our author's Venus and Adonis : 3 "Which bred more beauty in his angry eyes.” STEEVENS. maugre] i. e. in spite of. So, in David and Beth sabe, 1599: 66 Maugre the sons of Ammon and of Syria." STEEVENs. And that no woman has ;] And that heart and bosom I have never yielded to any woman. JOHNSON. save I alone.] These three words Sir Thomas Hanmer gives to Olivia probably enough. JOHNSON. SCENE II. A Room in Olivia's House. Enter Sir TOBY BELCH, Sir ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK, and FABIAN. SIR AND. No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer. SIR TO. Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason. FAB. You must needs yield your reason, sir Andrew. SIR AND. Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the count's serving man, than ever she bestowed upon me; I saw't i'the orchard. SIR TO. Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that. SIR AND. As plain as I see you now. FAB. This was a great argument of love in her toward you. SIR AND. 'Slight! will you make an ass o' me? FAB. I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of judgment and reason. SIR TO. And they have been grand jury-men, since before Noah was a sailor. FAB. She did show favour to the youth in your sight, only to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart, and brimstone in your liver: You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged the youth into 6 Did she see thee the while,] Thee is wanting in the old copy. It was supplied by Mr. Rowe. MALONE. dumbness. This was looked for at your hand, and this was baulked: the double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash off, and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt, either of valour, or policy. SIR AND. And't be any way, it must be with valour; for policy I hate: I had as lief be a Brownist, as a politician. SIR TO. Why then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. Challenge me the count's youth to fight with him; hurt him in eleven places; my niece shall take note of it: and assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman, than report of valour. 7 as lief be a Brownist,] The Brownists were so called from Mr. Robert Browne, a noted separatist in Queen Elizabeth's reign. [See Strype's Annals of Queen Elizabeth, Vol. III. p. 15, 16, &c.] In his life of Whitgift, p. 323, he informs us, that Browne, in the year 1589, "went off from the separation, and came into the communion of the church." This Browne was descended from an ancient and honourable family in Rutlandshire; his grandfather Francis had a charter granted him by K. Henry VIII. and confirmed by act of parliament; giving him leave "to put on his hat in the presence of the king, or his heirs, or any lord spiritual or temporal in the land, and not to put it off, but for his own ease and pleasure." Neal's History of New-England, Vol. I. p. 58. GREY. The Brownists seem, in the time of our author, to have been the constant objects of popular satire. In the old comedy of Ram-Alley, 1611, is the following stroke at them: 66 of a new sect, and the good professors will, like the Brownist, frequent gravel-pits shortly, for they use woods and obscure holes already." Again, in Love and Honour, by Sir W. D'Avenant: "Go kiss her:-by this hand, a Brownist is "More amorous " STEEVENS. |
