And therefore take the present time, With a bey, and a ho, and a hey nonino Clo. Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable '. 1 Page. You are deceiv'd, fir; we kept time, we loft not our time.; Clo. By my troth, yes, I count it but time loft to hear fuch a foolish fong. God be with you; and God mend your voices.-Come, Audrey. [Exeunt. SCENE IV. Another part of the foreft. Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, Jaques, Orlando, Oliver, and Celia Duke Sen. Doft thou believe, Orlando, that the boy Can do all this that he hath promifed? Orla. I fonetimes do believe, and fometimes do : not; As thofe that fear they hope, and know they fear *. Enter Rofalind, Silvius, and Phebe. و) Rof. Patience once more, whiles our compact is urg'd: You Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable.] Though it is thus in all the printed copies, it is evident from the fequel of the dialogue, that the poet wrote as I have reform'd in the text, untimeable.— Time and tune, are frequently misprinted for one another in the old editions of Shakspeare. THEOBALD. This emendation is received, I think very undeservedly, by Dr. Warburton. JOHNSON. 2 Asthofe that fear they hope and know they fear.] This ftrange nonfenfe fhould be read thus: As You fay, if I bring in your Rofalind, [To the Duke. You will beftow her on Orlando here? Duke Sen. That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her. Rof. And you fay you will have her, when I bring her? [To Orlando. Orla. That would I, were I of all kingdoms king, Rof. You fay, you'll marry me, if I be willing? [To Phebe Phe. That will I, fhould I die the hour after. Rof. But, if you do refufe to marry me, You'll give yourfélf to this moft faithful fhepherd? Phe. So is the bargain. Rof. You fay that you'll have Phebe, if fhe will? [To Silvius. Sil. Though to have her and death were both one thing. Rof. I have promis'd to make all this matter even. Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daugh ter; You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter: As thofe that fear their hap, and know their fear. i. e. As thofe that fear the iffue of a thing when they know their fear to be well grounded. WARBURTON. The depravation of this line is evident, but I do not think the learned commentator's emendation very happy. I read thus: As thofe that fear with hope, and hope with fear. Or thus, with lefs alteration: As thofe that fear, they hope, and now they fear.. The author of the Revifal would read: As thofe that fear their hope, and know their fear. Perhaps we might read; As thofe that feign they hope, and know they fear. I would read: As thofe that fear, then hope; and know then fear. MUSGRAVE. Keep Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry 'her, [Exeunt Rofalind, and Celia. Duke Sen. I do remember in this thepherd-boy Some lively touches of my daughter's favour... Orla. My lord, the first time that I ever faw him, Methought, he was a brother to your daughter; But, my good lord, this boy is foreft-born; And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments Of many defperate ftudies by his uncle, Whom he reports to be a great magician, Obfcured in the circle of this forest. Enter Cloren and Audrey. Faq. There is, fure, another flood toward, and thefe couples are coming to the ark! Here comes a pair of very strange beafts, which in all tongues are call'd fools. Clo. Salutation and greeting to you all! Jaq. Good my lord, bid him welcome: This is the motley-minded gentleman, that I have fo often met in the foreft: he hath been a courtier, he fwears. Clo. If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; have flatter'd a lady; I have been politick with my friend, fmooth with mine enemy; I have undone three taylors; I 3 Here comes a pair of very strange beafts, &c.] What frange beafts? and yet fuch as have a name in all languages? Noah's ark is here alluded to; into which the clean beafts entered by fevens, and the unclean by two, male and female. It is plain then that Shakspeare wrote, bere come a pair of unclean beafts, which is highly humorous. WARBURTON. Strange beafts are only what we call odd animals. There is no need of any alteration. JOHNSON. 4 trod a measure ;] See vol. ii. p. 503. EDITOR. have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one. faq. And how was that ta'en up? Clo. 'Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the feventh caufe. Jaq. How feventh caufe?-Good my lord, like this fellow. Duke Sen. I like him very well. Clo. God'ild you, fir 4; I defire you of the like. I prefs in here, fir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to fwear and to forfwear; according as marriage binds, and blood breaks":-A poor virgin, fir, an ill-favour'd thing, fir, but mine own; a poor humour of mine, fir, to take that that no man elfe will: Rich honefty dwells like a mifer, fir, in a poor houfe as your pearl, in your foul oyster. Duke Sen. By my faith, he is very fwift and fententious. Clo. According to the fool's bolt, fir, and fuch dulcet difeafes 7. God'ild you, fir;] See notes on Macbeth, act i. fc. 6. Faq. STEEVENS. S -----I defire you of the like.] We fhould read, I defire of you the like. On the Duke's faying, I like him very well, he replies, I defire you will give me caufe, that I may like you too. WARBURTON. I have not admitted the alteration, because there are other examples of this mode of expreffion. JOHNSON. See a note on the first scene of the third act of the Midfummer Night's Dream, where many examples of this phrafeology are given. STEEVENS. 6 According as marriage binds, and blood breaks: To fear ac cording as marriage binds, is to take the oath enjoined in the ceremonial of marriage. JOHNSON. Dulcet difcafes.] This I do not understand. For difeafes it is eafy to read difcourfes: but, perhaps, the fault may lie deeper. JOHNSON. Perhaps he calls a proverb a difeafe. Proverbial fayings may appear to him as the furfeiting difeajos of converfation. They are often the plague of commentators. Dr. Jaq. But, for the feventh caufe; how did you the quarrel on the seventh cause? find Clo. Upon a lye feven times removed ;-Bear your body more feeming, Audrey :-as thus, fir. Í did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard; he fent me word, if I faid his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was: This is called the Retort courteous. If I fent him word again, it was not well cut, he would fend me word, he cut it to please himfelf: This is called the Quip modeft. If again, it was not well cut, he difabled my judgment: This is call'd the Reply churlifh. If again, it was not well cut, he would anfwer, I fpake not true. call'd the Reproof valiant. If again, it was not well cut, he would fay I lye. This is call'd the Countercheck quarrelsome; and fo to the Lye circumftantial, and the Lye direct. This is faq. And how oft did you fay, his beard was not well cut? Clo. I durft go no further than the Lye circumflantial, nor he durft not give me the Lye direct; and fo we meafur'd fwords and parted. Dr. Farmer would read-in fuch dulcet diseases-i. e. in the fweet uneafineffes of love, a time when people usually talk nonfenfe. STEEVENS. A writer in the Gentleman's Magazine proposes to read dull set diftics, or diftiches. "The fool's bolt "Is foon fhot. EDITOR. 8 As thus, fir. I did diflike the cut of a courtier's beard;] This folly is touched upon with high humour by Fletcher in his Queen of Corinth: -Has he familiarly "Diflik'd your yellow ftarch, or faid your doublet -or drawn your ford, Cry'd'twas ill mounted? Has he given the lye "In circle, or oblique, or femicircle, "Or direct parallel; you must challenge him." WARBURTON, Jaq |
