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PLAYS
O F WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE*
VOLUME the NINTH,
CONTAINING
tROlLtJS AND CRESSIDA.
CYMBELINE.
£ING LEAR*
t O N t> O %
TmnA Ear C. Bathitrst, J. RiviNOtdN an^ Soul, T. Patm I ud Son, L.DAVI 1, W.Owen, B. White ml Son, T. Longman, B. Law, T. Bowles, J. Jornsoh*
C. D I L t Ti J. R O B S O N, G. G. J. IDd J. R o B I H s o K,
T. CADEi-t, H. L. GAitBHei, J- Nichol», J. Bew, W, Stuart, R. Baldwin, J. Murray, A. StRAHAW, T. Vernor, J. Barker, W. Lowndes, S. Have*. G. and T. Wilkii, ScatchkrD and WHITAKEb T. and J. EcEtTOH, W. Fox, and E. Newbbrt.
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Prekacbco the quarto edition of tlus play, 1(09.
A never witter, to an ever reader. Newei.
Etemall reader, you have heere « new play, never ftal'd with the ftage, never clapper-claw'd with the palme> of the vnlger, and yet paffing full of the palme comican ; for it it a biitb of
four bratne, that never nnder-tooke any thing commicall, vaine- y : ai^^werebtit iHe value namn of commedieidiaogde for the lirlea Qfcommodittes, or of pl»ei for pleas; yo« (heuld fee all thofe srand cenfors, that now ftile them fuch vanities, fioA to them for the maine gnce of their gravitiei : efpectally thit au- thors commedie*, that are fo iram'd to the life, that Aty ferve for the moll common commcBtariei of all the anions of oar lives, fhewiog fuch a dexteritie and power of witte, that the nx^ dif- pleafed with pUyu, are pleaid with hi) commediei. And all fuch dull and heavy witted worldlingB, as were never capable of the witie of a ccmmedie, comml^ by report of them tn Ui re- prefentationi, have found that witte there, that they never found in ihem-felves, and have parted better-witted then they came: feeling an edge of witte fet upon them, more than ^er they dreamd they bad bratne to grind it on. So mnch mnd fuck fa- vor^ fait of wjtte it fi his cRpmediea, that tkey fee«e (for thchr height of pkafnre) \o be bonie in that fat that brouhc foc^ \eaus. Amongfl all there is none more witty than ^ii: and had X time 1 would comment upon iti though I know it needs not, (for fo much as will make you think your teSeme well be- ftowd) but for fo much worth, as even poore I know to be ftuft in it. It deferves fuch alaboar, as welfas the bcft commedy in Terence or Plautus. And beleeve this, that when hee is gone, ind his commedies out of file, yon will fcramble for them, and
fet up a newEngliJhintjuifition. Take thi^ for a warning, and aiVne perill of your plea fu re a lofie, and judgements, refa^ not, nor like this the lefle, for not bring fuUied with the fmoakv
breath of the multitude ; but thanke fortune for the fcape it hath made amongft you. Since by the grand pofleAbrs wuls I believe you IhouJd have prayd for them rather then beene prayd. And fo I leave all fuch to bee prayd for (for the ftatei of thor wits healths] that will not praife it. Fait,
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P R O LOG U E.
jNfroyt there lies tbe/eene. From ijles of Greece
Tbefrituet * ergilieuj, tbar bigb bleed cbaf4> Have to the port of Athens Jtnt their fl>ifs Fraught with the minijiers and ir^firuments Of cruel war : Sixty and niae, that were Their crownets regal, from the •jHbenian baj To ranfack Troy-, within whtfefhovg irrtmitres ' ' "'• The revifb'd Helen, Menrlaus'. queen, IVith wanton Paris Jleeps ; Aitd that's the ^uarreL To Tenedos they come i
And the deep-rawing barks do iherr difgcrge Their warlike fraugbtage : Now on Dardan plains Thefrefi) and yet unbruifcd Greeks do pitch Their brave pavilims : * Primm't fix-gated cHy {Dardan, and Tbymbria, Bias, Cbetas, Troyart, And Jntenoridas) with ms^Jiapieit
■ And
* TiS^/rrvruorgiUoiUi-— ] Orgilloi»» i. e. proud, difilain- AiL OrgMtilliiix, Ft. Tku wotd 19 aied in the tncient tvo^i* afXifiarti Cutur.Jt LytH :
" His at/re was «r^&«x." Stibvixsi
* Priam's fiif-gtutd city,
\Pmrdm and Ttmbria, Heliu, Cbttai, TrtiiM,
Ami Ameaonidni) >u>ith aa^tSafhi,
Amd earrt/paMjivi andfulfilUng beltt,
Sdne ^ tbiftut tfTrBju- • ■] This hu been a moil nl&r- abl/maiigledpafiageUirongh all the editions I corrupted at once into ^ie concord udblfereBfeiilng. Yi\»m'iJix-gMMldtyJUTrt up the fonsofTroy? — Hert'iaTerb/ZHra/goremed of a nbmi- jA^-nfiigiJar. Bnt thu u eafily remedied. The next qucilion lobemed ii. In what Tenleaci^, having fix Oroig ^ei, and tliofe well barred mnd bolted, can be faid r« fiir np m inhabi- tanu ? anlds they may be fuppofed to derive Ibnie Ipirit from the ftrength of their fortificauoni. But thii could not be thie poct'i thought. He muft mean, I take it, that ^e Greeks had ntched their tents open the pUins before Troy ; and that the Trojan* were fccnrelj barricaded within the walU and gates of £ I their
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PROLOGUE.
And eorrefponfive and fulfilling bolls ', Sptrrt up tbtjons. f(fT^r^>*~—* ,- , '
^J - Now
their dtjr. Thii fenfc my correflion .rellores. To fptrrt, or /ptiti irom tlie old Teutmiic v/6rd Sfcreri, fi?infie'a ta /but tip, diftmiJtfihmr$,tE(i. ThioXacD.. '.V
So, in Spcafer*! Fatry ^yeif, b. ;. c. lo :■ > . - -
" The other chat wu cAtred, labouc'd /aft ,
" TojJerM the gate, ic." " '" '"■ ■ Again, in the'romance of the S^uir eflimt Ifipri ' '* SptrJe wiliimsta£»dyven pyanc":' And in the VifioDi of P. Flowmaa it is faid dtat a blioJ mad ** majparryd his eine." , ^
A Min, in Warner's Alltin's England, i6oz,B- It. chap. 12 : ' ** wiieit chafed homeistohw-holaes't there^nfyA^upingatej.'* Again, in the ind Part of Bale's v/a*fD/:£«^; AWaryw; "Thtf ilore thereof oft tyme* ofttnt^^ad^nrf^aga^tae." Sthcvmi. " Therto his cyte \ compaiTedenuyrowne- . , ., -;
' '• Hadde gates "Vj to entre into thet6«>ne ; " _"■
" Thefiriteof Jtj^^id ftFengeftvkewjthflll, . '' ' - " Largeftallb ( atfdvolt^ prypcypnU^ ■ " OCmy^htykj^dyng I aloEie perelo^ , , . ■, ■
" Was by the kinge called } D^rdaDydM; •' And in ftoryt'l lyke U It ii fflmde,' ■ ■ V " Tymbria I was named the feconde ;
" And [he thyrde | called Helyai, *' The foorthegate |^ hyghte alfo Cctheas ; " iTie fyfthe Trojana, | the Tyxth Anthonydes, -■ ■ " Scronge and myghty f both in werre and pes."
Lond. empr. by R. Pynfon, IC13, Fot. b. ii. ch. 11. The Treyt Beit was fomewhat modernized, and reduced into regularlianzas, about the beginniifgof the ktl century, under the name of. Tit Lift and Dtatb cf Btasr — lubr fought a Hundred majHt Baltailtt in apen Fitld agalnfl the Grenaiii ; •wfrertia ihert iMrtJlaine e» ieib Sidts Fourteene Hundred and Sixc Thoufand, Pourfcorc and Sixe Mm.— Fol. no date. This work Dr. Ful- ler, and ftveral other critics^ have erroneoutly quoted as the ari- pnali and'Obferve in confequence, that " if .Chaucer's coinwete ofrrtater lueight for deeper liarnitig, Lydgaie's were of a mOre rtjmtd fioMdard hit purer language: (o that one might miltakc liiin fcft- a modern writer." Parmer.
On other occafioas, in the courfe of this play, I fhall infert quotations from the Troye Ssie madermzed, as being the molt in- . telligible of the two. Steevbks.
1 -a-fulfiUing ieltJ,] To fulfil in this place means to fill till
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New expeltafioni tickling- Jkiitijb fpritSy On one and other ftde, Trojan and Greek, Sets all on hazard : — And hither am I come * A prologue arm^d, — but not in confidence Of author's fen, or aifor's voice; but Jutted
In like conditions as our argument, '-
To tell you, fair beholders, that our play
Leaps o'er ' ike vaunt andfirjH^vs ofthoje broils,
'Ginning in the middle ; fiarting thence away
To what may be digejied in a play. .
JJke, or find fault ; do as your pleafures are ;
Now good, or had, 'tis but the chance of war.
there be nd room for more. Is-thu feafe it is now oblolete. SOf inGower, De Co^/c^mi Amaafii.Vib- V. fol. 114: ' " A luftie maide, a fobra, a meke, " f K^Z/ri of ali cartofie." Again:
" FulJiUeJ of a\\ nftkindlbip." Ste(vens. To be " fidfiiUd with grafe and benedifUon" is fttit the lan- guage of our Litany. Beackstohb.
♦ A proUgiu arm'd, ] I come here to fpeafc the prologue,
and come in armour ; not defying the audience, in confidence of cither the author's or aAor'i abilities, but merely in a charaAec fatted to the fubjeft, in a drefs of war, befare a warlike play.
Johnson.
* t'—lhe f<nCTf— — -] i. e. the ^aul, what went before.
Stieveks.
B 3 Ferfons
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Perfons Reprefented/
Priam,
IIcAor,
Troilusj
Paris,
Deiphobus,
Hcicnus,
Mneas,
Pandarus,
Calchas,
Antenor, J
Margardon, ahafiarijimsffrvtm*
Agamemnon>
Achilles,
Ajax,
Menclausi
Ulyfies,
>Jeftor,
Diomedes,
Patrocliis»
Therfues,
Helen, wife to Menelaus. Andromache, -mife to lU^af. CalTandra, dauz^ter la Priam, a prepheti/i, CrelTida, daugoter to Calcbas.
Alexander, Creffida'sjervdnt.
j5ey, page to Troilus.
Servant to Diomed.
3rejan~and Greek Soldiers, with other attendants.
SCENE, Troy, andtU Grecian Cmp before it.
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ACT I. SCENE I.
TROT,
Priam's falace.
Enter Fandarus and •Troilus.
frw. Call here my varlet *, I'll unarm again t Why Ihould I war vithoDt the walls of Troy^ That find fuch cruel batde here within ?
Each
* T&efoijwaioriMiially written by LolIi>u,an oldLombard aatlior, uid fince by Chaucer. Pope.
Mr. Pope (ftfter Dryden) informi ai, that the fioryof TVoi'/m wtd CriJ^a wat originallv the work of one Lollins, a Lombard ; (pf wkota Gafcoigne fpeaJci in Doh Barlinlmewt biifirfi 7rimifh ,■ " Since £«D(wa»l Chancer both, make dgabt upon that glofe") bat Dryden nm yet farther He declare* it to have been writtcq in X-aOB Terie, and that Chancer tranllated it. Lotlius wm a hiAortognpher of Urbino in Italy. Shakfpeare received the zreateft part of bu materials tor tbe ftradnre of thia play from the TVf^ £*(( of Lydgate. Lydgate was not much more than a traaAUorof GaudoofColumpna, who waiof Meffinain Sicily, and wrote his B^arj '/Triy in Latin, after Di£t/s Crctenfis, and Dttet Phryciu, io 1x87. On thefe, ai Mr. Warton obferves, he engrafted many new romantic inventions, which tbe uAe of hi* age dictated, and which the connection between Grecian and Go^ic fifiioneafily admitted} at the fame lime comprehending in his plan tbe Theban and Ai^nautic Itories firem Ovid, Sta- tin*, and Valerins FUccd). Guido's work was pablilhed at Cologne in 1477, agun 1x801 at Slrafburgh i486, ttaAihAm 1489. It gqxpeari to have been tranHated by Raonl le Peure, at O^gne, into French, from whom Caxton rendered it inio Eng- KA in 1471, nnder the title of his A«-Ht#/,&c.ib that there muft bare been yet fome earlier edition of Qaido's' performance thaa I luTc hitherUt feeo or heard of, anlefi hia firA tranflator had re cosrie to a manufcript.
Gnido ai CoUmpna ii referred to as an authority by onr own
^roaider GraAon. Chaucer had made tlic lovei el Trailui sm)
fi 4 Creffida
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Each Trojan, that is mafler of his hearty Let htm to field ; Troilus, alas ! hath none.
Pan.
Crefiida famous, which very proba'bly might have \xen Sliak^ fpeare's inducement to try their fortune on the ftage.— Lydgate'i Triyt Boil was printed by Pynfon, 1513- In the books of the Stationers' Company, anno 1581, is entered "'A proper ballad^ dialogue- wife, between Treilus and CreJpJa." A^ain, Feb, 7, i6oz; " Thebookeof TroilusandCreffida, asit isafledbymy Lo. Chamberlain's men." The fifft of thefe entries is in the name of Edward Whiilb, the fecond in that of M. Roberta. Again, Jan. 28, 1608, entered by Rich. Bonian and Hen. What. Jey, " A booke called the hiftoiy of Troilus and Creffida." STEEvaws.
Trailui ai^d Crijfida.^ Before this play of freilas and Criffida, printed in 1609, is a bookfeller's preface, ibewing tliat firfi im- preffion to have been before the play had been afted, and that it wa»piib!ifhed wichonc Shakfpeare's knowledge, from a copy that kad fallen into the bookfelter's hands. Mr. Dryden thinks this one of the £tfl of our author's plays: but, on the contrary, it nay be judged, from the fore-mention cd preface, that it was one of his lafl ; and the great number of obfervacions, both tnora] and politic, with which this piece is crowded more than any •ther of his, feems to confirm my opinion. Pope.
We may learn from this preface, that the original proprietor! of Shakfpeare's plays thought it their interefl to keep them ua- printed. The author of it adds, at theconclufion, thefe words : " Thank fortune for the 'fcape it hath made among you, fince, liy the grand pofleflbrs wills, i believe yon ihonld rather have prayed ftr them, than have been prayed," Sic. By the^iM^ fafftffoTi, I fuppofe, were meant Hming and CsndiU. It appears that the rival playhoufes at that time made frequent depreda- tions on one another's copies. In the Induftion to the Malt' etnliHl, written by Webfter, and augmented by Marfton, 1606, is the following pafTage :
•< I wonder you would play it, another company having tnte* left in it."
•' Why not Maleveli in folio with us, as ytremimo In dectm* fcxto with them } They taught us a name for our play ; we call it Onefsr anelher."
Again, T. Heywood, in his preface to the EngUfi) Tra-ueHer, 163]: " Others of thenf are Hill retained in the hands of fome Kftors, who thin kit- again ft their peculiar profit to have them tome in print." Steevens.
' It appears, however, that frauds were prafiifed by writers as ^11 as aAors. It ftandt on rectvd againft Rtitrt GruM, the au.
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Pan. Wiil this geer ne'er be mended ' ?
Trei. The Greeks are ftrong, and (kilful ro theip ftrcngch. Fierce to their fkil), and to their fiercencfs valiMit ; But I am weaker than a woman's tear.
thor of Friur Bacon and Ffiar Bungny, and Orlanda Furie/a, 1594 and 1599, thachefold thelaft of thefepiecei to twaditFerenc ihcaties : " Mafter R. G. would ic not make you blufh, Sec. if you fold not Qrlanda FurU/a to the Queen's players for (went/ nobles, and when they were in the couDtty, fold the fame play to the Lord Admiral's men for a« much more ? Was not this plaitt- Coney catching M. G. i" Diftnct ef Centycatching, 1591.
This note was not merely inferted to cxpofe the era.p of am- therfiif, but to Ihow thc/riV< which was andentty paid for the copy of a play, and to afceriain the tiamt of the writer of Ortatidt furie/c, wnich was not bithertn known. Griiae appears to have been the firll poet in England who fold the, fame piece to diffe- rent people. Ftltaire Kt much belied, if he hai not followed his example. Collins.
Notwithflanding what has been faid by a !ati editor, I have a copy of Xiicfrft folio, including Troilai und Crcjfda. Indeed, as I have juft now obfcrved, it was at tirit either unkaotua or forgot- tm. It does not however appear in the lif ai the plays, ::nd is thrnfi in between the hifturiti and the tragtdiei without any enu- meration of the pages ; except, I think, on one leaf only. It differs intirely from the copy in t\ieftcondfclio. Farmer.
I have confulted eleven cepict of x^tfirfi folio, and Troilut and Creffida is not wanting in any one of them. Stibvens.
• -my varlet,] This word anciently lignificd a fervant or
fixjtman to a knight or warrior.^ So, HolinJhed, fpcaking of the battle of Agincourt : " — dlvcrfc were releeved by their ■varleii, and conveicd out of the field." Again, in an ancient epitaph in ihe church-yard of faint Nicas at Arras:
" t-y S'*^ Hakin el fon varlet, " 'i'out di-arme et tout di-ptet, " Avec fon cfpe et fallocbe. Sec." Steevbhi. Concerning the word VMrUt, fee Ketbtrehtt hifiariquti /mt let fOTtti ajaair. Lyon 1757, p. 61. M. C ']',
* Will ihii geer le'ir (t mended f] There is fomewhat prover- bial in this quelllon, which I likewife meet with in the Imerludt »fK> Darius, 1565 :
^ " Wyil not yet ibi, gen if amended,
" Nor your finful atU^orredtidj" Stievens.
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Tamer than deep, * fonder than ignorance ; Lefs valiant than the virgin in the night, ,* And (kili-lefs as unpraftis'd infancy.
Fan. Wellj I have told you enough of this: for my part, I'll not meddle nor make no further. He, that \i\\\ bave a cake out of the wheat, * muft tarrjr the grinding.
?>«". Have I not tarry'd ?
Van, Ay, the grinding j but you muft tarry the bouhing.
7r6i. Have I not rarry'd ?
Van. Ay, the boultingi but you muft tarry the leavening.
Troi. Still have I tarry'd.
Pan. Ay, to tht leavening: but here's yet in the word — hereafter, the kiteading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you muft ftay the cooling coo, or you may chance to burn your lips.
Tro'i. Patience herfclf, what goddefs e'er ftie be. Doth Jefler blench ' at fufftirance than I do. At Priam's royal table do I fit j And when fair Creffid comes into my thoughts, — So, traitor ! — * when Ihe comes ! — When is jhe thence ?
Van. Welt, ftic look'd yefter-night fairer than ever I faw her look j or any woman elfe.
* fonder than igmtranci j] Ftmjtr, for mon chiidilh.
Wakbuktoh.
' Jmifiitlh/i.ke.l Mr. Dryden. in his alter»tion of ihii phy, \ij.i tnkcn ihii fpeech u it ftartdi, except th it he hia ehan^td Jiill-/»Ji to tirfltfi, not for ikc better, beaufe JtiiJ-itfi ftfrrs to/iV/and/f^iJ. Johnsoit.
* -^Biifi imny the griiiJin^.^ Folio ? moft neeJa Mrry, Sic,
Malonb.
» D»ib Itfir blencli ] To hItHch U to fluiDk, ftart, or &j
mS. See Vol IV. p. 32(. Stkktens.
• ^lubn Jht tMi€i .'—tfhti, h fi>t ibtmtt f] Folios
Then ihe comes whea (he u tkence. Malonb.
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Trot. I was about to tell thee,— When my heart. As wedged with a £gh, vould rive in twaia t Left Heftor or my father fliould perceive me, I hare (as when the fun doth Jight a ftorm) Bury'd this figh in wrinkle, of a fmile : But forrow, ^at is couch'd in feeming gladnefi. Is like that mirth fate turns to fuddcn fadnefs.
Pan. An her hair were not fomewhat darker than Helen's, (well, go to) there were no more comparifon between the women, — But, for ray part, (he is my
kinfwoman ; I would not, as they term it, praile Jier, — But I would fomebody had heard her talkyef-
terday, as I did. I will not difpntife your Gfter Caf-
fandra's wit : but —
Trot. O Fandarus I I tell thee, Fandarus,—
"When 1 do tell thee. There my hopes lie drown'd.
Reply not in how many fathoms deep
TheyJie indrench'd. I tell thee, I am mad
In Crcffid's love : Thou anfwer'ft. She is fair j
Four'ft in the open ulcer of my heart
Her eye^, her hair, her cheek, her gait; her voice
Handleft in thy difcourfe : -O that her hand !
Jn whofe comparifon ' all whites are ink.
Writing
• Pamr'Ji in lii afm mlttr »fmf html
Her tjes, htr hair, htr chttk, btr gait % htr voict, HandUfi in thj difceurft .— O that htr band! IniabtftctmfBTifen, &c.] Tkerc u no reafon why Troiliu Aoald dwell mi Pandu-ns*]) I in hit di/ctnrji the «ww of hit miftreri, more than her
nt*t her i«fr, ttc. at he is made to do by thii ponAnadoDi to bj nothing of the harfliaelf of the phrafe — m handlt m v»ict. The paSige, in my apprebenfion, ought to be pointed thus :
ThoB anfwer'a. QuUhir;
Ponr'fl in the open bImt of nijr heart Hereyei, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice; Handleft, in ihy dilcoarfe, o that her hand. In whole cmnparifon all whitei are ink, tec Haniltfi is here ufed metaphorically, with an allnfion at the iaflte time to its literal meaning ; attd tbe jingle between hand aad btm^fi i* perfeflly in oar aathoi'a nnnner.
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Writing their own reproach j to whofe foft ftizurp The cygnet'sdown is narfli, ' arid (piritof fenfe Hard as the palm of ploughman ! This thou tejrft me. As true thou tell'ft me, when I fay— rl love her; But, faying thus,, inftead of oil and baltn; Thou lay'ft in every gafti thai love hath givftn mc The knife that, made it.
Pan. I fpeak no more than truth.
Trot. Thou doft not fpcak fo much.
Pan. 'Faith, I'll not meddle in't. Let her be as flieis: iflhebefair, 'tis' the better for Tier ; an ftie be not, * fhc has ^e mends in her own hands.
TreL
The circiimftaiice itfdf fwms to have ftrongly imprefled itfclf on his miiul. Antooy canaot endore that the hand of CleopA- Ira Ihould be touched :
■' —^7 — To let a fellow that will take rewards
" And fay, God quitjou, be familiar with
" My play-fellow, yoa.r hand — this kingly feal
" And plighter of high hearts." Maloki,
». and if\xii Bf/in/e
Hard as ibi palm af phaghman .'——»] /« etmparifin luitb Creffid's hand, fays he, ibt fplrit of Jin/i^ the uimolt degree, the moft cxqutfite power of fenfibilicy, which impliei a fo^ haiid, fince the fenfe of touching, as Scaltger fays in his Extreiiatkns, refidos chiefly in the fingers, \s hard ai the callous and infEofible ^ aim of the ploughman. Warbt;r-
'°°'"— — '■''""■^>-*'
Hanmer.
r-toth'^/r// »//«/«.
It IS not proper to make a lover profefs to praife his miitreff in /fiti ef/in/c ; for though he Often dues it in /pile »f the fin/i of Others, his own fenfes are fubdued to hij defires. Johnson.
*■ . Jht htii tht.»iiiidi< ' ] She may mend her complexion by the afliRance of cofmetics. Johnson.
I believe it rather roeansr— ^^'mji itakt the bifi of a had bar- So, in If^amam't a Wialberoti, 1612 : " I Ihall ftay here and have my head broke, and then I have 'tht mendi immj t-wn bandi."
. Again, in i.GoSan't Sehodl ef Aiu/t, 1579: " — tnme him ^ • with.
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iTroi. Good Pandarus ! How nowj Pandarus ?
Pan. 1 .have had my labour for my travel; ill- thought on of her, and ill thought on of you: gone between add between, but fmall thanks for my labour. . .
5V«'; What, art thou angryj Pandarus? whatj with me?
Pen. Becaufe ihe ia kin to me, therefore (he's noc fo fair as Helen : an Ihe were not kin to me, Ihe would be as fair on Friday, as, Helen is on Sunday. But what care I ? I care not, an Ihe were a black-a- moor ; 'tis all one to nae,
3>o/. Say I, fhe is-nbt fair ?
Pas. t do not care whether you do or no. She's a fool, toftay behind her father; let her to the Greeks ; and fo I'll tell her, the next time I fee her : for my part, I'll meddle nor make no more in the matter.
Ti^o;. Pandarus, — .
Pa/I. Not I.
Trei. Sweet Pandarus, —
Pan. Pray you, fpeak bo more to me ; T will leave
all as I found i^ and there an end. [£xfV Pandarusi
\_Sound alarum.
Trot. Peace, you ungracious ckmoursi peace, rude founds ! Fools on both fides !. Helen muft needs be fair. When with your blood you daily paint her thus. IcannoLfight upon this argument; It is too -ftarv'd a fubjeft for my fword. But Pandarus — O gods, how do you plague me I I cannot come to CreQld, but by Pandar ; And he's as teachy to be woo'd to woo,
with his back fall of Rnpei^ end ih bandt hdtn 'wiib hii otim
- Again, in the Wlli-Gtisji Chan, hj Bcaamont and Fletcher : " The BMHiii art in mm »wa hen4i, or tke fnTgeoa'a." Stiivens.
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As (he is ftubborn-chafte againft all fuit. Tell mc> Apollo> for thy Daphne's love. What Creflla is, what Pandar, and what we f Her bed is India ; there fhe lies, a pearl : Between our Ilium, and where Ihe reCdes, Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood i Ourfclf, the merchant } and this failing Pandar, Qur doubtful hope, our convoy, and our bark.
\^Alartim.} Enter JStuas.
Mne. How now, prince Troilus ? wherefore not afield r
^Tdi, Becanfe not there; This wonua*8 anfwer forts. For. womanifli it Is to be from thence. What news, JEncas, from the field to-day ?
Mnt. That Paris is returned home, and hurt.
jVoj. By whom, ^neas ?
Mne. Troilus, by Mendaus.
TVs/. Let Paris bleed : 'tis but a fear to fcom } Paris is gor'd with Menelaus' horn. ' \Alanmt,
Mnt. Hark ! what good i^it is out of town to- day! '
Trof. Better at home, if a»Mi//«MV*/, were «^,.^ But, to the fport abroad J — Are you bound thither?
Mnt. In all fwift hafte.
Trtfx. Come, go we riien together. [£vfln)ir.
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SCENE II.
Afireet. Enter Creffida^ and Alexander her firvant.
Cre. Who were th{rfe went by.
Serv. Queen Hecuba and Helen.
Cre. And whither go they i
Sera. Upao the eaftern tower, Whofc height commands as fobjeft all the valc,_, To fee the battle. ' Heiflor, whofe patience Is* as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was mov'd : He chid Andromache, and ftruck his annoureri And, like as there were husbandry in war, * Before the fun rofe, ho was harncfs'd light.
And
» ■■ , I I iJtStr, •utho/e patitnc* It, at a virtue, ySJrV,— 3 Patience fore was a TUtoe, and therefore cannot, in ^ropAttf of exprefSon, be faid to be Hit one. We Ihould read :
Is as tht virtut fiji'd, ■ ■ ■ i. e. ki) patience is as fixed as the goddefs Paiience itfelf. So w« find Troilns a little before faying :
Patitnei htr/rtf, w^tx gaddtfi en ftie be', Doth lefler blench at fufferance than I da. It is mwiTkable that Diydcn^ when he altered this plajc, and fbund this falfe reading, ahered it with judgment to : ■ - - ■ .wEofe patience 'Is £x'd like that of heaven. WUch he woald not have done had he feen the i^ht reading^ liere given, where his thought is lb much better and nobler ex- preA«l. Wakbvrton.
I think the pre&nt text may ftand. He^r*t patience was as a virtue, not variable and accidental, bttt fixed and conftani. If i woi^d alter it. it fltould b» thus: ——HeSor, whoft paiieace Is all a virtue fet'd,— — — .M, ia old Bnglifl), ii the inttnJiiM at enforcing particfc.
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And to the field goes he i where every flowpr Did, as a prophet, weep what it forefaw In Heftor's wrath.
Crtf. What was his caufe of anger?
Serv. The noife goes, this: There is among thd Greek*
aiMB {&ys Mr. Theobald) tiat HeAr had fta an light anmitrr mean ! what elfe could he mean ? He go<s to fight on foot ; and was not chat the armour for his purpofe ? So, Fairfax, iii TaiTo's
" The other princes pat On hamtfi light
" As footmen ufe . - ■ ■■ "
Yet, as if this hud been the higheft abfurdicy, he goes on,' Or Jaei he mean that HeBer •wai /f rightly in his armi cutn hifirt fuH~ rife f er ii a n'tmndrum mvtti at, in fun rafi and barne/i V light f Was any thing like it ? Bat to get ont of this perplexity, he tells us, that a •virj flight akeratitn maies all ih^i conftruSitnt imntceffary, and fo changes it to barm/i-digbl. Yet indeed the very flightelt alteration will at aiiy time let the poet's fenfc through the critic's fingers ; and the Oxford editor very content- edly takes up with what is left behind, and reads harne/s-dight too, in order, as Mr. Theobald well expreJles it, ta mak» all ctnflruaion unnecejfarj. WARBUaxoN.
How does it appear that Heftor was to fight on foot rathef to-day, than on any other day ? . It is to be remembered, that the ancient heroes never fought on horfeback ; nor does their manner of fighting in chariots feem to require lefs aftivity than
«n foot, JOHKSON.
It is true that the heroes of Homef^Acrer fought on horfeback ; yet fuch of them as make a fecond appearance in the ^nad, like their antagoniAs the Rutulians, had cavalry among tbeir troops. Little can be inferred from the manner in whicli, Afcanins and the yonng nobility of Troy are introdaced at the conclufion of the funeral games, as Vitgil very probably, at the eirpence of an anachronifm, meant to pay a complimeitt to th£ military exercifes inllituted by Julius C»far, and improved by Auguftus. It appears from different pafTages in this play, that HeAor fights on horfeback ; and it Ihould De remembered, thac , Shakfpeare was indebted for moft of his materials to a book which enumerates Efdras and Pythagoras among the baftard chil^ dren of king Priamus. Shakfpeare might have been led into his millake by the manner in which Chapman has tranllated feveral parts of the Iliad, where the heroes mount their chariots or de^ fcend from them. ThusB. 6. fpeakingof Glaucas andDioffled: <> .-wFrom b»rft thea both dcfcend," Stbbtbiti.
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A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Heftor ; They call htni> Ajax.
Qrf. Good ; And what of him i
Serv. They fay he is a rery man ^ferjit And ftands alone.
Cre. So do all men ; unlefs they are drunk, fick,^ or have no legs.
Ser^. This man, lady, hath robb'd many beafts of their particula* additions j he is as valiant as the lion» churlifli as the bear. How as the elephant : a man ioto whom natune iiath fo crowded humours, * that his Talour v^ cnifhed into folly, his folly fauced with dif- crction : there is no man hath a virtue, that lie hath not a gltmple oft nor any man an attaint, but he camcs ibme ftain of h : he is melancholy without caufe, and merry againft the hair ' : He hath the joiats of emy thing ; but every thing lb out of joint, that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no u/e; or purbliiid«l Argus, all eyes and no fight.
Crt, But how Ihould this man, that makes me fmile, make Hedlo'r angry.
Sero. They fay, he yefterday cop'd Hcftor in the. battle, and ftrnck him down -, the difdain and Iliame whereof hath ever fince kept Hcftor fafting and waku^.
» ■ I ■ ■ ^ jt.r'— ] So in C\<Mitia'*fiflamiitiifCT^lftidt; " Of fiitt Crclleide tbt floorc and « ftr/i *' Of Troie and Gwecc." Agna, in lk« old comedy of Wily htgniltdi ** In'frtA, my fwMt honcj'coRib, I'lilanAtttMfitfia.'* Ajaik, B BImM Mafitr QanfitAk, i6oa :
" Hisf i*tbe4/«r>ofaU, the crcttuc lof «U."
* '-"^rn-hu vmUmr li crnfhed into folly.—} To be trufi>tdimit
fih, li -tt be mmjk/id wai misgled with /iSj, fo u tbac ther wmamne —ft wgiittcr. Jomniov.
'"'''''*' iphraft eqaivalent to mother now T^fxtaskbij-'^ftntrtfoii. See
t^mUp^ hair .■] it k phraft eqatvalent to mother now .... Tfce" ■ ' " .. -
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Enter Pandarus.
Cre. Who comes hf re ?
Serv. Madam, your uncle Pandara*. ,
Cre. Heftor's a gallant man.
Serv. As may be in the world, lady.
Pan. What's that ? what's that ?
Cre. Good morrow, uncle Pandarus, ■ Pan. * Good morrow, coufm Creffid : What do you talk of? — Good morrow, Alexaoder. — How d* you, coufin^ When were you at ' Ilium!
Cre: This morning, uncle.
Pan. What were you talking of, when I came ? Was Heftor arm'd, and gone, cre ye came to Ilium ? 'Helen was not up, was me ?
Cre. Heftor was gone ; but Helen was not up.
Pan. E'en fo ; Heftor was ftirring early.
Cre. That we were talkingof, ana of his anger. ' Pan. Was he angry ?
Cre, So he fays here.
. * GaoJmarnio, teufin Crt^J .' Whai J» jm tali rft—Gtad porrB-w, Alex&oder. — Hbiw Jf jau, teafim f~-\ GmM marroiu, Mtxandcr, ii added in all the editions, fkysMr.Pope, very ab- furdlv, Paris not being on the ft«ge.— Wonderful acutenefs ! Bill, with fubmiflion, this ^ntleman's- note is much more ab- furd ;- for it fall« out very unluckily for bis remark, chat though' Paris \i, for the generality, in Homer called Alexander ; yet, in this play, by any one of thr charaOers introduced, h« is called ' nothing but Pari;. The truth of the faA is thi& : Pandarus is of ii'ho.iy, impertinent, infinuacingchara£ler; and it ii natural for him, fo foon as has given his coufin th« good-morrow, to psjr his civilities too va lier attendant. This Is purely » vSx, as th« grammarians call it j and gives us an admirable touch of Pan- darus'i chara^r. And why might not AUlmudtr be the name of Crefiida's man ? Parii bad no patent, I fuppofe, for engrolT- iag It TO himfelf. But the late tdittr, pin-l^aps, becaulc we havtf had jf/«aiMVr tbe Grvat, Pope JitxaH^tr, and ^»«x^<r Pope* would not hivefo eminent a name proftituted to a com AOa vxr- Ut. Thkobald. • Ilium ?} Was the palace of T/oy. Jobkson.
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Paa. True, he was fo ; I know the caiife tooj he'll lay about him to-day, I can tell thcfn thdt : and there's Troilus will n6t come far behind him; let them take heed of Troilus ; I can tell them that too.
Cre. What, is he angry too ?
Pan. Who* Troilus i Troilus is the better man of the two. . Oe. O, Jupiter I there's no comparifon.
Pom. Wmi, not between Troilus and Heftor? Do you know a man, if you fee him ?
O-e. Ay ; if I ever faw him before, and knew him.
Pan. "Well, I fay, Troilus is Troilus.
Cre. Then you fay as I fay ; for, I am fure, he is not He£tor.
PoH. No, nor HeAor is not Troilus, in fomc de- grees.
Cre. Tis juft to each of them ; he is himfelf.
Pati. Himfelf? Alas, poor Troilus ! I would, he were,
Cre. So he is.
Pan. — 'Condition, I had gone bare-foot to India.
Cre. He is not Heftor.
Pen. Himfelf? no, he's not himfelf, — 'Would 'a were himfelf! Well, the gods are above;, Time muft friend, or end : Well, Troilus, well, — I would, my heart were in her body I — No, Heftor is not a better man than Troilus.
Cre. Excufe me.
Pan. He is elder.
Cre. Pardon me, pardon me.
Pan. The other's not come to'c j you Ihall tell me another talc, when the other's come to'i, Heftor Iball not have his wit this year.
Cre. He ihall not need it, if he have his ovn.
Pan. Nor his qualities. - Cre. No matter.
Pan. Nor his beap^y. . Cre. Twould not become him, hi< owil's Better. C 3 Pan.
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Pan. Voa have no judgment," hi'ece ; Helen hfer* fclf fwore the other day, that TfoHiis, for a broWn favour, (for fo "tis^ t moft confefs)^*— ^Kot browij neither.
Cre. No, but brown.
Pan. 'Faith, to fay truths bttfVhahdVkft br*irh,
Crt. To fay the truth, true and not true.
Pan. She prais'd liis'cofnplexion above Paris.
O-f. Why, Paris hath colour entfu^.
Pan. So he has.
Cre. The^, Troilu8&ofiIdhavetoc(iTiuc}i: ifflie , prais'd him abovci his complexion is higher than his; lie having colOiii- thougb, and the otner higher, is too flaming a praifc for a good complexion. I had as lievcy Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nofe.
Pan. I fwear to yoUj I thinks Helen loves him better than Paris.
Cre. Then Ihe's a merry Greek ', indeed.
PaH. Nay, I am fore Jhe does. She came to him the other day Into the* compafs'd window, — -'and, you know, he has nor paft three Or four hail-s oh his chin;
Cre. fndeed, a tapfter's arithmetic may foon bring his particVilars therein to a total.
Pan. Why, he is very young : artd yet Will he, within three pound, ixfi asmuch as his brother Heftor.
Cre. I» he fo young a man, and fo old a lifter ' ?
• ——a mirty Grid ^ '*-•'] Gr'acari among the ItoAiafis figni- •fi(d to play the revelkr. Stibvens.
• ct^fii//d4ainJB'ui, — J The emr^ViuiWrnictbe Tame
as the hotu-'wiTidno. Johnson.
» y; old a lifter f ] The word liptr is ufcd for a ^Bitf^
GfteatinViiJrt »f Caii^.tiadniig. jninted i^i : bn this the humour of the paiTage may be ftfppofedto turn. WeiUltalla perfon Who plunders Ihops, a fi^-Ufin. Jottfini oAs the ex- jweffion in Cyntbia^i Rtvelt :
" One other peculiar virtiicyon polTeft b, Hflikg.**
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Pan, But, to prove to you that Helen loves him ;— ' Aie came, and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin,
Cre. Juno haw mo-cy \ — How came it cloven ?
Pan. Why, you know, 'tis dimpled: I think, his fmiling becooQcs him better thaa any man in all . . Phrygia.
Cre. O, he fmiles valiantly.
Pan. Ppf s he not ?
Cre. 6, yes; an 'twere a cloud in autumn.
pan. Why, go to them But, to provB to you
tliat Helen loves Troilus,
Cre. Troiius will ftand to the proof, if you'll prove it lb.
Pa*. Troilus ?.why, lie efteems her no more than 1 efteem an addle egg.
Ov. if you love an addle egg as well as you love an idJe head, you would eat chickens i' the fliell.
Pan. I cannot chufe but laugh, to think how Ihe dckled t^s chin;— Indeed, (he has a marvellous white hand, I muft needs confcfs.
Crt. Without the rack.
Pan. And Ihe takes upon her to fpy a white hair on his chin.
Cre. Alas, poor chin ! many a wart is richer.
Pan. But, there was fuch laughing ; Q^ccn
Hecuba laugh'd, that her eyes ran o'er.
Cre. With mill-ftones.
Pan. And Caflandra laugh'd.
Cre. But there was more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes ; — Did her eyes run o'er too ?
Pan. And Heftor laugh'd.
Agaia, in ths Rtmraig Girl, i6ti :
" ^^— cheaters, Ufttri, nipa, foifts, pugg&rds, courbeis."' Again, in HtiUn/i Liaguir, 1633 :
"' Rroker'or pandar, zhtklts or lifier." Stjevbns. Hlifim*, in tkc Gothic. language, lignifiei a ihitf. See ^rth^tf. Vol.V.p.3n.' Blackstoni. ■
C 3 Cre.
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Cre. At what-was all this laughing?
Pan. Marry, at the white hair that Helen fpied on TroiUis' chin.
Cre. An't had been a green hair, I Ihould have laugh "d too.
Pan. They laugh'd not To much at the hair, as at ]iis pretty anfwer.
Cre. Whai was his anfwer?
Fan. Quoth Ihe, Here'i hut ctu and fifty bairs on your chin, and one ef tbem is white.
Cre. This is her queftion.
Pan. That's true } make no queftion of thiat. *One and fifty bain, quoth he, and one white: That white hair is my father, and all the reft are his font. Jupiter ! quoth me, which of tbefe hairs is Paris, my hujband? The forked one, quoth he ; pluck it out, and five it him. But there was fuch laughing] and He- Ten fo blulli'd, and Paris fo chaf'd, and all the reft fo.laugh'd, that it pafs'd.
Cre. So let it now j for it has been a great while going by.
Pan. Well, coufin, I told you a thing yefterdayj think on't.
Cre. So I do.
Pan. I'll be fworn, 'tis truC) he will weep you, an 'twere a man born in April. [Sound « retreat,
Cre. And I'll fpring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle againft May.
Pa^- Hark, they are coming frorp the field: Shall we ftand up here, and fee them, as they pafs toward Ilium ? good niece, do; fwcet niece Creflida.
Cre. At your pleafure.
Pan. Here, here, here's an excellent place j h*re we may fee inoft brawly : I'll tell you them all by
* Two antf fiftf kairt,—'] I have ventuKd lo fubftitate m AT.d fifty, ] dii:iK with foine cenaijity. How elfe can the vum- l>t. iD^'keoutFriuB and Itii fifty l<»i? Tviobalb.
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their names, as they pafs by, but mark Troilus nbove the reft,
Mneat pajjes ever the fiage.
Cre. Speak not fo loud.
Pan. That's ^ncas ; Is not that a brave man ? he's oneof the flowers of Troy, I can tell youj But mark Troilus ; you fhalt fee anon,
<>f . Who's that ?
4ntmar faffes «ver.
Pan. * That's Antenor J he has a (hrewdwit, I can tell you ; and he's 4 man good enough ; he's one o' the fouDdeft judgment in Troy, whofoever j and a proper man of perfon : — When comes Troilus ?— I'll fliew you Troilua anon ; if he fee me, you fliall fee him nod at me.
Cre. Will he give you the nod ?
Pan. You Ihall fte. •
Cre. If he do, " the rich Ihall have more.
HeiJor
* nat'i Jnftaer i hi baj a fi/rrwdivil, ]
'* Anthenpr was— —
" Copioua in words, and one that much time Tpent " To jeft, when he was in companie, •• So dricly, that no man coutd it eQiie i ■' And therewiih held hii coancenaance lo well,
•" That every man received great content " To heare hito fpealce, and pretty jefls to tell, " When he wat pleaiant, and in merriment : " For tho' that he moll commonly was fad, *' Yet in hii fpeech fome jeft he always had."
Lidgoic, p. lOJ. Stbeveks.
• .—th4nAfi>enhevtm»Ti.'\ To givt mt lit wJ, was « phrafe figniiying to give one a mark of folly. 'I'he reply turns dfMin this fenfe, allading to the exptcdion giiu, and ftioald be readthoa:
— ■■! the miciij&i'il iavt m«rt. i. e. rniit^. He that ha« mijch folly already ihall then have more. C 4, This
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He£lor pttjfes over.
Pan. That's Hcftor, that, that, look you, that j There's a fellow! — Go thy way. Hector; — ^There's a brave man, niece. — O brave Hcftor ! — Look, how he looks !— there's a countenance : Is't not a brave Bian?
Cre. O, a brave man !
Pan. Is 'a not ? It does a man's heart good — Look you, what hacks are on his helmet ? look you yon- der, do you fee? look you there! There's no jerang: laying on } take't off who will, as they fay : there be hacks. I
Cre. Be thofe with Iwords ?
■Pttris fetjf's ovir.
Pan. Swords ? any thing, he cares not : an the devil come to him, it's all one : By god's lid. it doe< one's heart good: — Yonder comes Paris, yonder •tomee Paris : look ye yonder, niece; Is't not a gal- lant man too, is't not? — Why, this is brave now. — Who faid, he came home hurt to-day? he's not hurt:, why, this will do Helen's heart good now. Ha !
This wu a proverbial fpevcb, itbpl^ing that benefiti fall npon the rich. The Oxford tiifr alien It to :
T—r^tht 1V& fiall bavt KQtit. Wailiurtok. I wonder why the commentator fhould think aoy emAidation liecefliry, fincc his own fenre is fnlly exprelTed by the prefent fending. Hanmer appears not 10 have underftood the paflage. That to giv* tbi mad Ggnifies \ofit m mark if felly, 1 do not' know ; the allufion is to the word nn/^, which, as now, did in pur author's time, and long before, fignify a fillj ftllait), and may, by its etymolngy, %nify likewifeyii/f *^ «0^.r. CreKd inrans, that a laiAAy pail iavt men aedt. Of fnch rMnark* V 'fhefe is a com;nent to coiifilt i Johnson.
1 o gi'vi tht ued, was, i believe, t term in the game a( eaitU called litd^. This game is perpetually alliidea to in the old cc^edies. See Vol. 1. p. 14.3. tmtvsNi.
'would
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'would I could fee TroUus now ! — ^you fhall fee Trol- lus anon.
Cre. Who's that?
HeifMKS pajis over,
Pag. That's Hclcnus, — I marvel, where Troilus is : — That's Helcnus ; — I think he went not forth to-day; — That's Helenas.
Cre. CflD Helenus Bght> uncle i
Pom, Hclentis? no; — yes, he'll fight indifferent well : — I marvel, where Troilus is !— Hark; do you not hear the people cry, Troilus? Helenus is s prieft.
Cre. What fneaking fellow comes yonder ?
Troilus faffes ever.
Pan. Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus: Tis
Troilus! there's a man, niece! Hem! — ^Brave
Troilus ! the prince of chivalry I
Cre. Peace, for fiiame, peace ! - Pan. Markhim; notehim; — O brave Trojlus!— look well upon him, niece ; look you, how his fword is bloody'd, and his helm more hack'd than Hec- tor's'; And how he looks, and how he goes! — O admirable youth 1 he ne'er faw three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way ; had I a filler were a grace, or a daughter a goddefs, he fhbuld lake his choice. O admirable man ! Paris ?— Paris is dirt to him ; and, I warrant, Helen, to change, would give ■ an eye to boot.
* ^^tii ittm Hire back' J than Ar^«rV;— ] So in Chaucer's Trmlut and CrtffiUt, b. lij. 640 :
' " Hi* hilMt te btviin wa* in twtnty place), &c:"
STBEVEHg.
* —en rjt if het.'] So the qnarto. The folio, with Ufi force. Give mmtj to boot. Jouhion.
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Enter foldiers, fc?c.
Cre. Htre come more.
Parf. Affcs, fools, dolts 1 chaff and bran, chaff and bran ! porridge after meat ! I couid live and die 'i the . eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look j the eagles are gone ; crows and daws, crows and daws ! I nad rather be tuch a man as Troilus, than Agamemnon and all Greece,
Cre. There is among the Greeks, Achilles -, a bet- ter man than Troilus.
Pan. Achilles ? a dray-man, a porter, a very camel.
Cre. Weil, well.
Pan. WeUjWell?— Why.haveyouanydifcretion? have you any eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? (s not birth, beauty, good fhape, difcourfe, manhood, learning, gentienefs, virtue, youth, liberality, and l!lich like, the fpice and fait that feafon a man ?
Cre. Ay, a minc'd man : and then to be bakM -with no date in the pye *,— for then the man's jjate is out.
Pan. You are fuch a' woman ! one knows not at what ward you like.
Cre. Upon my back, to defend my belly,; 'upon tny wit, to defend my wiles ; upon my fecrccy, to
• ——udatera'jk/j',-— ^ To accoant forlheintroduflion of thi« quibble, it Ibould be remraibered that Jatti were an ins gredient in ancient paSry of almoft every kind. So, la Jtarup
" They call for i/atiia.ai quinces in the pa&xy." Again, in JIl'i lutlt thai tM^j 'wtll, Aa I. "' -^yonr /o/f ia better in your^jv and porridje than in yoor cheek." Stievbm*.
' ■' i^eit luf luit. It JtftnJ my wilei ;— ] So read both the copiei : yet perhaps the anibor wrote :
Upon my wit to defend my luiU- The tcrmi loii tad •will v/ete^ inthe language of that time, put •ften in oppofition. Jokkiox '
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defend mine honelly ; my maOc, to defend my beau- ty i and ^ou, to defend all thefe : and at all thcfe vards I he, at a thoufand watches.
Pan. Say one of your watches.
Cre. Nay, I'll watch you for that ; and that's one of the chiefeft of them too; if I cannot ward what I would not have hit, I can watch you for telling how ] took the blow; unlefs it fwell pall hiding, and tkta it is paft watching.
Pom. You are fuch another !
Enter Treilus' Bey.
Boy. Sir, my lord would inftantlylpeak with you.
Pair. Where?
Boj, * At your own houfc j there he unarms him.
Pan. Good boy, tell him I come {^Exit Boy."] i I doubt he be hurt. — Fare ye well, good niece.
Cre. Adieu, uncle.
Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by and by.
Cre. To bring, uncle,
Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus.
Cre. By the fame token — you are a bawd.-—
{Exit Pandarus, Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full facrifice, He offers in another's entcrprize : But more in Troilus thoufand fold I fee Than in the glafs of Pandar's praife may be ; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooingj ■ Things won are done, * joy's foul lies in the doing :
* At j»»r «v>* h«uj*; ibirtbt unmrmi tim-l TJiefo neccflkry words are added irom the qau-to edition. Po?b.
The words added are oafy, there bt uaarmi him. Johnsoii.
* —^tfi'i/ttil Uti in ihi diing .*] So read both the old editioiu, <^hr whicti the later edidona have poorl)' given :
*^ ^1. 1 ,—the/iMl'ijej lies in doing. Johmsoh, ' ^t i* the reading of the ad ft^. RiHAaas.
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That niebeJov'dknowsDOtigfati that knows not tfais>-M Men priac the thing ungain'd moreuhan it is : * That flic was never yer, that ever knew Love got fo fweetj' as when tlefire did Ibe : Therctore this maxim out of love I teach,— .-- Alchievement is, command; ungain'd, bcfecch: ■ ' Then though '' my heart's content Bixn love doth
bear. Nothing of that Iball from nline eyes ^pear.
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SCENE IIL
The Greciax camp.
Trimfets. Enttr y^ammfiotiy NejUr, Ulyffes^ Mene* laus, wiib oiiurs,
ylgatn. Princes, What grief hath fee the jaundice on your cheeks? The ample propofition, that hope m^es In all defigns begun on earth below. Fails in thepromis'd largenefs : checks and difafters Grow in the veins of aftions highcft rcar'd ; As knots, by the conAux of meeting fap, Infc£t the found pine, and divert his grain Tortivc and errant from his courfe of growth.
• Nor, princes, is it niattcr new to us, That we come fliort of our fyppofc fo fsfc^
■ That, after feven years' fwge, yet Troy walls (land j Sith every aftion that hath gone before. Whereof we have record, trial did draw Bias and thwart, not anfwcFirig the aim, ^nd that unbodied figure of the thought
* Wa/jftp— f-] Mt«ni. (hat woman. Jokhson. ^
< -7 iea tivigi~- — ] The quarto reads '^» ; the fpjio an Aie mo^erDcditioDi rcul impropieTly, /^.t^. Johnsok.
• mj itart'i mnteai—] Canitm, for eafiacity, Warbvktov.
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*Tba.t gav't fiiHnifcd fhi^. Why then, you prir.c«, Va you with cheeks dtmfli'd behold our works ; And think them firaaws, which are, indeed, nought
elfe But the ^Hiraftivc trials of great Jovc^ To fihd ^tfjftive coftftancy in men ? The fin6Tief« df Which unecat is not found In fortune's k>ve ; for then, the bold and cowatd. The wife and fool, the artifl: and unread. The hard and loft, item all affin'd and kin : Btit, in the frind and tetnpdt of her frown> Diftin^Hon, ^th a ' broad and powerful fan* Fuffii^ ikt fttl> winn6W6 the light away ; And what Aath maft, or matter, by itfelf V,iH, rich in virtue, and unmingled.
Nefi, ' With due obfervance of thy godlike feat, Gr6at Agannemneit) ' Neftor Ih^H apply Thy latcft Words, tti the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men: The fea being fmooth. How many fliallow bauble boats dare fail Upoh hih- * patiout brtaft, making their way
' Brfo^ Ba tflis'^uarto; tlie folio reads &ai/. Johhion. ■ Wi/A dMeot_/frva)ttte/ tfy goodly /f«/,) Gnadlfii br epithet dtitcarrin ab veVygroi complimentwith it; and Neftorftenw
kere to Ik myinz deferMce to Agaraemnon's lUte and p nence. The old book* hnfc it, — ib thy godly Jim : goJlHut as [ lave Tcfonned tfictext, feenia to me the epithet defigned ; and it very coaformable to wliat jEneas afterwards Aiyg of Aga- nemnon :
Which is that ;«</ in olice, gniding meD ? So MKWf/itft &^Me, Itatt fQfii«nc above all other cAntnenden. Thbobald. Thti emendatuRi Theobald ini^it have fbund la ihe^vaTM, ivhiehhlfe:
-.iitiinir, riiejprfffirfttt JoHNMif. * TtMrfi^l apply tif'bitijl •uhrJtA t^tOtirafplhi the fror^ ft> IVStfier ut-
■ -^^'fatifnt ireafl, ] Tfte^Uarto nM fe-wtH:
^'•'•aneini bieaft. Johitiom,
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* With thofe of nobler bulk f
But let the rQflian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold
Theftrong-ribb'd bark chroughliquid mountains cut.
Bounding between the two nnoift elements.
Like Perfeus' horfe : Where's then the faucy boa^
Whofe weak untimber'd fides but even now
Ca-rival!d greatnefs ? either to harbour fled.
Or made a toaft for Neptune. Even fo
Doth valour's ihew, and valour's worth, divide
In ftorms of fortune : For, in her ray and brightnefs.
The htfd hath more annoyance by the brize'.
Than by the tyger : but when fplitting winds
Make fiexible the knees of knotted oa^s.
And flies flee under fhade. Why, then, the * thing of
courage. As rowz'd with rage, with rage doth fympathtze. And with an accent tun'd in felf-fame key, ' Returns to chiding fortune.
■ l^ti tbafe tf nahltr hulk ^] Stitiiu has the fune thOBght, though more dilfufedly exprers'd :
" Sic ubi magna novum Phuiode littOTC pDppis '< Solvit iter, jamtjue innnmeroa utrinqite ludcato *' Lataque velifeti porrexit brachii mili, ** Inwautqae viai j it eodem auguft* phaiielui '* JSt\a.axt, ei itnmeDG partem fibi vendicat auftri." pope baa imitated the paJTage. Stikvini.
> hj tht brize] The brisu it the gad at htrjt-fy. So, in
Mt-tfiturTbamai, 1639:
" Have ye got the hrixt there i
" Give mc the holy ^rinkle." AgliD, \a Fitiari* Certmiaaa, «r tbt fnitt Devil, l6ia: " I will put iriiu in hi* tail, fet him a gadding prelcatly.** $ee Vol. Vlil. p. 238. Stiiviri.
* . . ■ —tht tbinf *f etfragi^ It ii iaid of the tyger, diM ift florm* and high winds he rages and nun moft furioafljr.
Hakmii. , ' Retnnu H tbidimg ftrhott^ For rttarm, Hanmer readt rt^ia, nnneceilarilj, the fenre being the fane. The ftljo and quarts have rttirttt corroptly. Jokmioh.
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Vhfff. Agamemnon,-^— Thou great commander, nerve and boncof Greece* Heart of our numbers^ foul and only fpirit. In whom the tempers and the minds of all Should be fliut up,— —hear what Ulyfles fpeaks. Bc&des the applaufe and approbation The whichj— moft mighty for thy place and fiyay,— [Jff Agmiemrtvn, And thou moft reverend for thy ftrctcht-out life, —
I give to bothyour' Ipeeches,— which were fuch.
-As
* ■ ^itchts,~~^iitSi vMft/Mth,
Ji JttUHtmman end tbt band of Grttct
SttaU bald mp high in brafi ; and fitch again.
As •ventratit Ntficr, liaieh'd in filiier,
SitaJd hii/ ali Grttkifi tari
T* bii ixttriinc'Jtetignt: 1 •
Ulyfles bcgiai Itu oration with praiGng thoPe who had fpoken before him, and markj the chara&nftic excellencies of their diftrcDt eloquence, Orength, and fweetneri, which he expreOn by the dificrent metals on which he recomniends them to be en- gravea for the inftrnfUon of pofterity. The fpeech of Agamem- non ia fucfa that it ought to be engraven in brafs, and the tablet held lit) by him on the one fide, and Greece on the other, to ihew the union of their opinion. And NeJlor ought to be ex- hibited in £Iver, uniting all his audience in one mind by his Soft and gentle elocntion. Brafs i* the common emblem of ftreogch, and fitver of gentlenefs. We call a fofi voice ^.fihitr voice, and a perfuafive tongue »fit-vtr tongue. — I once read for
band, the hand of Greece, but I thinic the text tight Ta
batch ia a term of art for a particular method of tngraviar Bacier. to cut, Vv. Johkion. * *
In the defcripiion of Agamemnoa'a fpeech, there is a plain nllnfion to the old cuftom of mgraving lawi and public recordi in brafi, xnd hanging up the tables in temples, aDd other places of general rerort. Our anthor has the fame allufion in Mta/ure fir Aba/are, aft V, fc. i. The Duke, fpeaiung of the merit of Angela and Efcalus, fays, thai
'• ——it deferves -with cbaraatn afbrajt
•• A ftirted refideace, 'gainft the tooth of time
" And razure of oblivion."- ' — S» fcr therefore is clear. Why Neflor is faid.to be A^ircAV/i. fiivtTt i) much moEC obrcnrc. i once thought that ive ought to
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As Agamemnon and the h»nd of Greece Should hold up high in braTs } and fuch ag&in,
- As-*
read, — thaleb'd in filvtr, alladii^ to \m JSver hair t tke &Bie metaphor being ufcd by Ttmon, »& IV. Jc. iv. to Phryoe uid Timandra :
" -"ihateb yonr poor thin roofi
" With burdiens of the dead ^"
, Bui I know not whether the present reidnK viy not be otiiier- Hood to convey the fame allurion ; m I find, that the fpeciei af engraving, catled baiibing, was particularly ufed in the kilu af /laardi. SeeCotgrave in v. Hacbi; harked, kc. atfo, Haichtd, ett tbt hill af a fwerdi and in v. Hacber ; to hacke, &c. aUb ts batch a bill. Beaumont and Fletcher's Caflam aftbt Caumtry : . " When thine own Woody fword cried oat againfttfaee,
" Heuh'd\ti the life ofhim.- "
Aa to what follows, if the ittAtt Ihonid hive Ho mere conop- tion than I have, of
M ■ •'—a band o/"air, ftrrnigtu tht iotlt-tm On labtch tbe hea^ent ridi ;--■ he will perhapi excafe me for hazarding t conjeAore, Utit the true reading may poflibly he :
Tbe expreflion ii ofed by Fairfax in hii 4tb Eclogne, Unfit Liirarj, p 368 1
" Unty tbefe bendi ofawi and corii of doty." After all, the condj-uflion of iMi pafla^e is very hflilh >»d irregular; but with that 1 meddle not, believiDg it was'Iefc fo by the author. Tyrwhitt.
Perhaps no alteration is neceflary. ; batch' din^ytr, may tneiD, whofe white hair and beard make him look like a figure en- graved on filver.
The word is metaphorically nftd by Heywood in tbe Irtn^l^, 163a:
" ■■ his face
" la batcb'd with impndency three-fold thidc." And sgain, in Beaumont and Fletcher'a Hnmawrtnt iiitaUHomt t " His weapon hateh'd in-blood." Agiin, literally, in the TW Mrr^ Milk»aidi, l6zo: . " Double and treble gilt,— — - " Hatch' di.iA inlaidt not to be worn widi tinfe," Again, more appolttely, in Levt in a lHaxt, 1652: " Thy hair is fine as goid, thy cfain is hatth^ " mth_filvtr.'*~— The vmce of NeRor, which on all occafioni enforced Mtentioii, m^ht b«, I think, not unpKtically called, « bvnd a/tdr. fcoMnfe.
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As venerable Ncftor, hatch'd in filver, Shou]d with a bond of air (ftrong as the axle-tree Oh which heaven rides) knit all the Greckifli ears T6his experienced tongue, — yet let it pleafe both,— Thou great, — and wile, — to hear Uly^es fpcak. '' Jgam. Speak, prihcb of Ithaca ; andbc'toflefa expeit Tiiat matter needlefs, of importlefs burden. Divide thy lip's j than we are conBdent, When rarik Therfitcs opes his maftiff jaws,
id opentdons were viliblc, tbougli his voice like tlie wind, was infaeni STiivENs.
In the following verfes in oar author's Rapt of Lucrtce, nearly the {ame pifiore i) given. The fifth line of the firll fUnz^ fltongly coDfiriBV Mr. Tyrwhict's conjefture, who wiihes tor
read tkaieiett in filver ; or rather fupporti Mr. Steevens'a
interpretation of the word in the text> which be has fliewn might bear {he fame tneauing. With rdpe£t to the breath or IpKch of NeAor, here called z ^mi/ ^ «>, wliich.Mr. Sceevens haj well explained/ it is (o truly Shakrpearian, that I have not the fmalleft JonSt of the ^nulnenefj of tUe cxprelfion. The ftanzu above alluded to are thefe i-
" There pleading you might fee grave Nffite lUnd, •• As 'twere encouraging the Greeks to fight, " Making fuch fober auion with his hand, " That it begnil'd attention,' charm'd the figKt ; " In fpeech, it fecm'd his biat:4 all filtitr lobiie " ^a^'d up and down, and from his lips did fly <« Thm winding breach, which pUrl'd ap to the Dcy' ** About hint wa» a preis of gaping faces, <* Which feem'd to fwallo'w up his fodnd advice,' " All jointly Iift'ning but with feVeral graces, '" At if fotne mermaid did their ears entice, " Some high, fome low ; the gairfter was To" dkc ; V The fcatps of many almaft hrd behind " To jtimp vo higher feem'd, to fhoclt the mind." What iJ bete called jpttcb that begalleJ attmisH, is in the textf i htn^tfair. Sfaatlpeare frequently calls words <iMind'. So, ia' ««eof«it[K>eiiit:. .....
" — >Sociow chbl,' beii/g blown with imitd of words." Malonb. * Again. SftAt ftc.} This fpe£^' it dot ia fhe quarto.
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We fhall hear mufic, wit, and oracl£.
Ulyff. Troy, yet uport her bafis, had been dowtl. And the great Heftbr's fword had lack'd a maftef, BiiE fdr tnefe inftahces. •The fpecialry of rule hath been negle£b?dj And, look, how maiiy Grcciaii tertts do ftattd Hollow upon this plain, fo nnany hblbw faftions.
• When that the general is rtbt like tht hive. To whom tht foragers fliall all repah".
What honey is expefted ? Dcgfee being vizardfd. The unworthieft fliews as fairly in the maOc.
* The heavens themfclves, the planets^ and tKU
center, Obferve degree, priority, and place, Infifture, courft, proportion, JCafon, fonn. Office, and coftonl, in all liniE of order : And therefore is the gl6rious pUnec, Sol, In noble eminence enthron'd and fpher'd Amidft the other ; whofe Iticd'cinable eye Correfls the ill afpefts of planets evil, And pofta like the comiViandrnent of a king,
■ Tht/fttUhy ef mlf ] The particular ilglitt rf -Apreroe
authority. Johmon.
* Wbtn that tht gniral'ii not like ibt iiv*,"] The meaning it. Wbin tbt general is ntt to the arinr lUi the hive ta the ban, the repolitory of the ftock of every individaal, thac to which each particular referts with whatever he has colieAcd for the good of the whole, lubat ieny ii txptHid? what hope of ^vaatage ? The fenfe Is dear, the exprei&oii ii confufed. JOHNjax.
' Tht htavtm ibimfiitjei,—— ] This illuftratlon wai pobably derived from a pailage in Hooker: " If celeltial fpherei (hovld forget their wonted niotion ; if tbefirinceof the ligWof hearca ihould begin to lUn4 ; if t'he moon [hould wander from herbcaictt way j and the learoot of the year blend thetdfelves ; wbat would become of man?"
Thebiavnu tbemfthott, ihtfiaiuti, aw J this ctnXfr^ \,t, the center of the earili, which, according to the Ptolemaic fyftem, then in voeue, it tkc ccnKr of ibc (dar fyftem.
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Stat fihed^, to good aqd h^ : * ^^^^ ^l^cq (M
planets. In nil mtztMTe, to dtforder w^ndpr, Whaf pla^Uj a,nd vbat pqrtents i v^ft mutinv f WKac raging of the Tea f iha)cing of earth ? Commotion in chp winds f frights, c^aiig^, horfQn> Divert ^d oracle, rend an4 deracinate The uaizf and marticd e^ni of iUte^ f.
Qijite
Im t^l mfxiwrt, t» difiirjtr luttnAr, &C>] 1 bcBne dw poet, acoonlfiig to aftrological OfMaions, meinSf wlioi the planets form nulig^ant CDDGgarattoni, when tknr «f- pefti ue ml (owariii one a^qtb^i. TaU be ccio^s nii/ mitu^K*,
The poefi muQlng may be foiiiewh»t tx^\i^^t^'hy Spcnfcr, IP vAam b &*iiu to b« iiuiebted for hii prriem allafioQ : " Fi|r who ffl lift into iht hcswnt lookr* " And rearch the courfes of the rbwllng fpherei, " SWt find tUe froRi the pqlpt "she^ tney firtt tooks " Thdr fettlng fbrtli, in tbere few tboufahd yeares " They all are lutaidrtd much ; thai plaine appeare*. " For that lame golden fleecy raip. whicl} l^ore " Phrixns and Helle from their ftepdames feare;, " Hath now forgot where {le nru plajl of yore, " And Ihoaldred hath the bgll tyhich fayre ^^pjl bore. <f And eke the bull hath with his bow-bent borne " So baldly butted thoic two twinnei of Jore, " Tlut they have craOt'd the crab, and quite hitn borne " Ipto the gteat Nemzan lion's grave. " So BOW all rangt, and do mtramitm rwt " Out of their proper placet far away, ■* And all ibis world with tfaem amilTe 4oe mo^-e, w And all bii cteatnres from their courlc a&ray, f Tifi they auuve at the!/ laft ToiDOBi decay."
Fiury 5«w«, B. V. c. i! Steevens. The aptnreat irre|nlar niotioni of the pl«neti wsf fuppofed to portend ibme difaflen to manhiiid ; indeed the pianeti ibem- ttres were not thought formerly to be coq^aed in any fixed orbit* ef their own, but to wander aboot aJ libiixM, as lag tiymblog/ •f theirnameidcnonllntes. ANONririous.
* ■ ■■■niirrinl tJm *f S»ut\ The epithet married, which i<
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Qvite from their fixurc ? *0, when degree is Ihak'd,
"Which is the ladder to all high defigns,
' The enterprize is fick ! How could communities-,
Degrees in fchools, and ' brotherhoods in cities^
Peaceful commerce from dividablc Ihores,
The primogenitive and due of birth.
Prerogative of age, crowns, fceptcrs, laurels.
But by degree, ftand in authentic place ?
Take but degree away, untune that ftring,
And, hark, what difcord follows! each thing QieetS
In mecr oppugnancy : The bpunded waters
Should lift their ^bofoms higher than the fhorcs.
And make a lop of all this folid globe :
Strength fhould be lord of imbecility.
And the nidc fon fhould (Irike his father dead :
Force Ihould be right j or, rather, right and wrong
(Between whofe endlefs jar juftice refides)
tfffd to denote ao intimate union, ii employed in the lame dafo hy Milton :
" - Lydian airs
" Married to iramortal verfe." Again,
" Taice and verfe
" TftJ your divine founds." Jlgain, in Sylrefter'a tranllation of Du fiartas's EdiM : " — '■■■fliady groves of noble palm-tree fprays, " Of amorous myrtles and immortal bays ; " Never unlear'd, but evermore they're new, " Self-arching, in a ihoufand arbours grew. " Birds marrjiHg their fweet tunes to the angels* Jays, *' Sung Adam's blifs, and their great Maker's praife." The liibjeA of Milton's great poem would naturally have led him (o read this delcriptlon in Sylvefter. This quoution lowe. -I;q Dr. Farmer.
Shakfpeare calls a harmony of features, married Ihtamintit iii Jtunee aattyulitt. Steevens.
* .^—O, •wben dtgrei iipjai'd,'] I would read :
~-^^o tvbeii dttrte is Jbek'd. Johnson.
^ The eaterprizt——] Perhaps we Ihould read :
Then emerfrixt isfi<k ! ■ Johkion.
* Bntbtrbaadi im <itilt,'\ Corporaoons, CDBipuiu, fe«. ' fiainultH, JoUHtON.
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Should lofe their names, and fo Ihould juftlce too.
Then every thing includes itfelf in power,
Power into will, will into appetite j
And appetite, an univerfal wolf.
So doubly feconded with will and power,
Muft make perforce an univerfal prey.
And, laft, eat up himfelf. Great Agamemnon,
This chaos, when degree is fufFocate,
Follows the choaking.
And this negledtion of degree it is,
' That by a pace goes backward, * with a purpofe
It hath to climb : The general's difdain'd
By him one ftep below ; he, by the next j
That next, by nim beneath : fo every ftep,
Exampled by the firft pace that is fick,
Ofhis fuperior, - grows to an envious fever
Of pale and ' bloodlefs emulation :
And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot.
Not her own finews. To end a tale of length,
Troy in our weaknefs ftands, not in her ftrength.
Neft. Moft wifely hath Ulyffes here difcover'd The fever whereof all our power is fick.
Jgam.-The nature of the ficknefs found, Ulyfics, What is the remedy ?
l%ff. The great Achilles,— whom opinion crowns The Gnew and the forehand of our hoft, — ■ Having his ear full ofhis airy fame. Grows dainty of his worth,, and inhis tent Lies mocking our defigns : With him, Patroclus, Upon a lazy bed, the livelong day
' That iy a pate— ^T\iMff<ihsxkvixcdi fief ly ^p. }oHViou.
• ■ 1- inith a purpafe
It hoj to clmi .— .]
Will] a ddign in each man to aggrandize himfelf, hj flighilng Va imnieJiate fuperior. Johnson.
Folio in a purpofe, Malone.
* ——tleeJlefi emulatiex .-] An emulauoa not vigOTOOs an4 ac- ii.*f, bat malignaat and lluggilh. Johnson.
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Breaks fcurril jtfts ;
And with ridiculous and atakvard adrion
(Which, flande'rerj he imitation calls)
He pageants us. Sometime, great Agafflcmaon^
* Thy toplefs deputation he puts on i
And, like a ftrutting playcrj — whofe conceit
Li^s in his ham-ftring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue aqd fouad
Twixt his ftretch'd footing and the fcaffoldage %^-h
Such to-be-piticd and o'er-wi-efted fcctning *
He afls thy grtatne^ in : and when he fpeak9>
'Tis like a chime a mendifig j with terms unfquaf'd^
Which, from the tongue of roaring Typbon orqp'ill^
"Would feem hyperboles. At this fyfty fhifft
The large Achilles, on his preTsM btdldHing,
From his deep cheil laughs out a Joud apfiiuCc ;
Cries— £*«//?»/ .'—';« /^amerff»ouji^.
Now play me N<ft<yr i-^bem, andftroke tby heAfJ, 'A$ be, being 'drefi tojhme orstion. That's done [-! — ♦as near as the ettrerneft end^ Of parallels s as like as Vulcan ahd Jiis wife :
■ Tfy npieh dtfatatifH — } '7»fU/i ii tbat lyhkh t|u oodiiDe opting at ifdtTiepp»ig\\; fupreme; fevcicign. Johnsov. So, ia Deatr Faufiui, \6a^:
" 'Was thfe'tWeTacethatlamtcW a'thoufaBd Ikipb', " Aod burnt the t^UJt towew of f Ihim .'" Again, m \\\e Slind Btggar of Alaeamiria, 1598: " And upltfi honours be beA6w'4 on tlite." , SteeVens.
• 'T^hit tit .]htuhy/iiti»g MnJ ih* reaaXAngt.'l The feak \txvM of the theatre, in the ttDlcof our author, were foiMethae^ termed ibt/cafuldi. See Tbt Jceaumt ef tauiint ThtalmK
Malokb.
» Such n-ht-fitirJ flW/ o'er-'reJlefl feminr ] "We Oiould
read, I thinlc.— o'er-'u-c*^*.^. "Wrefted beyond the truth \ overcharged. The wordhicfaerugiVehhM no itifean!ng.
IVIaXoni.
♦ tu mar lu the txtnmtfi tads, &c.] The^arallets to wfaiclt
the allufioa feenis to be made, oc the foritllel] On h map. As HIm ai esft'to'wcft. ]oHKio)(.
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Yet gpod Adiillcs ffill cries. Excellent !
'Tis Neftor ritbt I Now play him nu^ P^tnclus,
yfrming if a^ver in 0 night alarm,
Aji4 tiien, fgrfooth, the faiat defects of age
Muft be t^e fcenp of mir(Ji j tp cpygb, and fpit.
And with a palfy-fMipbling ' OQ his gorget,
Shake io ^W <wc c^ rivet : ■ - and aC this Tport,
Sir VaJour dies ; criics, Q 1 — ejieugi, Pairvclut j—
Or gm m riki of pel ( /JhaU/flU all
In pUaffirt ffw^fpUea. Ajn<J if> thU ^afhion,
* All our abilities, gi^ts. iiat^rcs, ih^pes,
Scv^rsls 4nil generis of grace .exa£t,
Atchicvcmexijs, plots, orders, preventions,
Exciteaiests to the fidd> or fpeech for truce.
Succefs, or loti, what is, or is not, ferves
As ftuS^for tj)«fe tVQ xp ^ mi^e paradoxes,
N^. And in the iinitjKion oTtheft twain (W^om, as )Jly0e> &ys, Of^mon crowns Wiftii ;m imptyifll voice) many are infeft. Ajax is gcown b^-v^VA ; ^d * befir^ his hc«| In fuch a rein, in full as proud a place As broad Achilles : keeps his tent like him; Makes faftious feafts ; rails 00 our ftate of war, Bold as an oracle : and fcts Therfites (A Have, whgfc gaU ccMns danders Uke a mint)
* ■ ■ tt folfy famhling ] Thii Jhonld be writteilr^.i^4
fitMimt, I.e. pataly tic fumbling. Tykwhitt. * Jtttmr eUiitui, gifh. natn-n, Jbafu. Stvtrals anJgemtrali p/" grace KXa&, Mukiivmmi, fhtt, Ac.] AAonr good £ract moG, nwaiii onr txtelUnu irrtprehittfiiU'
JOHJItOK.
^ ——la mmit paradBxti.l Ptrtuhjefi mty \iX9* a. foeaaing, but it is not dqar-^nd dtftiaa. I .wi(b the copies bad given : ■ . — ta fuakt parodiet. Johmiox. ' ' — ■■ heart bh btad
That b, 'bold> up his head u haoghtily. We Aill fay of agirl, ^irUUi, JoHMiOH.
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To match us in companfohs with dirt j To weaken and difcredit our expofat-e, ?How rank foever rounded in with danger.
Ulyjf- They tax our policy, and call it cowardices Count wifdom as no member of the war ; Foreftall prc-fcience, and efteem no aft ' But that of hand ; the ftill and menta! parts,^ That do corttrive how many hands (hail ftrike, "When fitncfs calls them on ; ' and know, bymeafunj Of their obfervant toil, the enemies* weight, — why, this hath not a finger's dignity; They call thisr— bed- work, mHppcry, clofet war : So that the ram, that batters down the wall. For the great fwing and rudenefs of his poize. They place before his hand that'made the engiae; Or thofe, that with tlie finenefs of their fouls ' By reafori guide his execution.
Neft. Let this be granted, and Achilles' horfe Makes many Thetis' fons. {Trumpet /oUTidst
' ^gam. What trumpet ? look, Menelaus. "
Men. From Troy.
Enter ^neas.
Aram. What would you 'fore our tent !
:Mne, Is this great Agam^non's tent, I pray you ?
Agam. Even this.
Mm. yivj one, that is a herald, qnd a prince,
, » llvui rank fievtr rtundtd in luiti Janger.') A rani vittd is a high ^tti: The inodeTo editions flleatly read : ' Hew haidjiever- ■ - Johnson.
• ■■^■attJinttv, iy mtajmri
Oft^tir eh/trvatt tail, ihc tiumiti «urffi*,— J {.think ic were better to reac) : >
' ■ awJ imtnu l\ie mtafare,
iy titir ti/trvtJit tfii, of ti' tnmit)' •uitight, Joknsow,
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Do a fair meffage to his * kingly cars ?
^ga. With furcty ftronger than ' Achilles' arm 'Fore all the Greekilh heads, which with one voice Call- Agamemnon head and general.
jEm. Fair leave, and large fccurity. Hot? may ■*■ A ftranger to thofc moft imperial looks Know them from eyes of other mortals f^
j^gam. How ?
j£m. I afk, chat I might waken reverence *, And ' bid the cheek be ready with a bluih Modefl as morning when the coldly eyes The youthful Phcebus : Which is that god in qAicc, guiding men i
' __jj),2^ ears ?] The quarto : —iagiftyei. joHNsoM.
* 'Achillti^ aru} Sq the cofics. Perhaps the aathoi wrote :
'-''—Akidii' arm. Johnson.
t A ftrekgtr to theft utefi impirial /soi/] And yet this wai the feventh year of the war. Shakfpeare, who fo wonderfully pre- fervM charaAer, afHally confounds the cuftoms of all nations, apd probably fuppofed that the andettu (like the heroes of chi- valry^ fought with beavers to their helmeu. So, in the fourth i& of this play, Neltor fays to Heflor :
Bat tbii tirf teimttnOnci, fiUlk(k*i in fteii,
I nivtrjig'to till una. Shaklpeare might have adopted this error from the illuminators of manufcripts, who never feem to have entertained the leall idea of habits, manners, or cuftoms more ancient than their own. There ate bi^ks in the Britifh Mufeum of the age of king Henry VI ; and in thcfe the heroes of ancient Greece are re- preiented in the very drelles worn at the time when the books re- ceived their decoration. StibvsNs. ' ^ I aft thai I might iMakn revtrtnte,'] The folio has :
i i I aft, &c. which is, J be'lieVe, right. Agamemnon fays with farprize,
" Do yon alk how Agamemnon may be known ?" ^neas replies :
" Aj, I afk (that I might waken reverence)
■■ Which is that god in office, &c." Maloke.
* .^—tid the tbtti J So the quarto. The folio has:
— ■ "On ibt eieei ^ ••'• Johhsoj).
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Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon ?
Jgam. ThisTrcganfoomstjs; or the men of Troy Are ceremonious oourtkrs.
JSne. Courtiers as free, as debonair, uaann'd, As bending angels i thiu's their iame in peace : But when thcf wouH fcem foldiers, they have galU', Good arms, ftrongjoiacs, truefvords; aad, JoWft
accord; Nothing lb fuU of heart. But peace, MasaSf Peace, Trojan ; lay thj finger on thy lips ! The worthisefs of praiac diftains his worth. If that the prais'd hitnfelf bring the praiJe forth : But what the repining onemy commends. That breath fame blows j that praife, fole pure, tranfcends.
j^gam. Sir, you of TToy,-call you yourftif ^neas?
JSne. Ay, Greek, that is my name.
Jgam. What's your afiFair, 1 pray you ?
Mne. Str, pardon { 'tis for AganKinnon's ears.
Jgam, He hears nought prirately, that comes from Troy.
.Ene. Nor I from Trc^ come not to whilpcrJiim; I bring a trumpet to awake bis ear; To fet his fenfe on the actemive bent. And then to (peak.
-tb^ have gaiis.
•OnBdanms, Jlraiigj*ug3, trmt/tuordi ; mndjtvt^i accord^
httbimgfs.fdl ofbeart.\ As iiti< pxlTage u printed, I caiurot dircorer any meaning in it. Jf tliere be no corrupiioa, the femicolon which is pbcM »fter J-ujcrdi, nought rather to be plaoed after .the •■ow atanJ; of which however the fcnfe is not very clear, i fafpcft that the Iranfcriber'f eartleceivedhim, 4iid would Tcad
■ - -'- ■ they hwe galla.
Good arms, {irong joint), true fWords ; and Jore'j « gat
Nothing fo-fuU of heart, Sq, in Marhetb :
" SleeJi o'er your ringed tookt ; be 'bright aniJivHil
*' Ajnongyoor gaefta-Hh^igfat.", Ma-loni.
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Agam. SpMk ffftnkly as the wind } It is not Agimemnoh's flecping hour ; That thofl Tbalt kn«r, Trcgan, he is awake. He t«lh dice fo himfelf.
Mne. Ti^nipet, bk>w loud. Send chy brafs toicc through all thefc lazy tents i— And every Greek of mettle, let him know, WhatTrfty ineans faiiy, Ihall be fpoke aloud.
\^rumpets Jomd, We ha»6, great Agamemnon, here in Troy A prince caJlM H«bor, Priam is his father. Who ift this doll and * long-cpntinu'd truce Is ' rafty g?irt™ J h« t)adc me take a trumpet. And » this pUrpsfe fpcak. Kings, princes, lords \ If thete be one, amongft the fair'ft ot Greece, That holds his honour higher than his cafe j That fircks his praifc more than he fears his peril; That knows his valour, and knows not his fearj That ififVes his miftfefs ' nrrore thaft in confeffion (With truant vows * to her own lips he loves) And Ann. avow her beauty, and her worth, ' In other afiwsrhan Tiers,— to him this challenge, HeAw, in view of Trt^ans and of Greeks, Sfa^ mike it g;oed, -err do his bcft to do it» He haih a lady', wifer, fairer, truer, Thih evn- Greek dtdcempafs in his arms ; And will to-morrow with his trumpet call, Mid-way between your tents and walls of Troy,
• ■ • I Lng-ccntinnid truce] Of this long truee iherc has hccij BOBOlice taken ; in this ver/sA it is r:Lid, x.ha.1 Ajax coped Heilor jtftrditj in tht bauU- Johnson.
*—TMfy — ] Qaarto, rfjiy. Johnsok,
■ -mmert than in coniefiton,] C»afcjjiui, -for prefijiea.
Warbvrtok.
• ~~~4t h*r own lift it Uvti)} That is, canfiffieit ntade wirb idle vrwtte the lips of htrlnbomhe laves, Johkgon.
' In fiber xivti than hers ■] J^rnu is here ufed equiTOcally
for the anus of the body, and the araoar of a foldier.
Malokb.
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To roufe a Grecian ihac is true in love :
If any come, Heiftor Ihall honour him ;
If none, he'll fay in Troy, when he recires.
The Grecian dames are fun-burn 'd, * and no: worth
The fplintcr of a lance. Even fo much.
Jgam. This Ihall be told our lovers, lord iEneasj If none of them have foul ih fuch a kind. We left them all at home : But we are foldicrs ; And may that foldier a mere recreant prove, That means not, hath not, or is not in love ! If then one is, or hath, oi* means to be. That one meets Heftor ; if none elfe, I am he.
Neji. Tell him of Neftar, one that was a man When HcAor's grandfire fuck'd i he is old nowj But, if there be not in our Grecian hoft * One noble man that hath one fpark of fire. To aufwer for his love. Tell him from me, — " I'll hide my filver beard in a gold beaver, * And in my vantbracc put this wither'd brawn j. And, meeting him, will tell him. That my lady Was fairer than his grandame, and as chafte As may be in the world : His youth in flood, I'll pawn this truth with ray three drops of blood.
Mne. Now heavens forbid fuch fcarcity of youth [
UlyJ. Amen.
j^gam. Fair lord ^ncas, let me touch your hand j
• and net lusrii
rhi/flimir »fa lanct. ^]
ThU 19 the laneaage of romance. Such a chalfenge wduI4 bet- ter have faited Palmcrin or Amadis, than Heftor or .^neas.
' Sut if ihtre he tut in our Grttian heft'] The firll and fccond
folio read Grecian rnDuU. Malonb.
* And in my vanlbrace— ] An armour for the arm, avanthrai.
POFE.
Milton ufet the word in his Stmffin Aganifiii, and Hcywood in his Inn A^e, 1631 ; .
" -.., . perufe his armour,
■!• The cTiBt's ftill ia ;hc tisaUhraKt** Stesvski.
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To our pavilion ftiall I lead you, fir.
Achilles Ihall have word of this intent;
So (hali each lord of Greece, from tent to tent ;
Yourfelf fliall feaft with us before you go,
And find the welcome of a noble foe. {^Exsuitt.
Manent U^jfjis, and Nejior.
XJlyJf. Neftor, .
Neft. What fays Ulyffes ? .
Uljjf. I have a young conception in my brain, ' Be you my time to bring it to foine fhapc,
Ntfi. What is't ?
[//y/. This 'tis ; Blunt wedges rive hard knots : The feedcd pride • That hath 10 ' its maturity blown up In rank Achilles, muft or now be cropt. Or, ihedding, breed a ' nurfcry of like evil. To over-bulk us all.
mfi. Well, and how ?
Ulyf. This challenge that the gallant Heftor fends. However it is fpread in general name. Relates in purpofe only to Achilles.
jW^.*Thcpurpofeisperfpicuouseven as fubftance, Whofe
' Btyemwff lime, &c.] i.e. be you tcTmy prefent purpofe what time is in refpcft of all other fchemes, viz. a ripeaer snd bringer of them to maturity.
* ^~~—tbe feidtd pridt, &c.] Sliakfpeare might have taken thii iisA from Ljis' J Hirial, 1578 and 1579. The Oleander tree or Neriam " hath fcarce one good propenie. It may be compared to a Pharifee, who maketh a glorious and beautiful Jhow, but in.
wardly is of* corrupt and poifoned nature." *' It is high tttnc
&c. to fupplant it (i. e. pharaf^ifm) for it hath already floured, fa that 1 leare it will Oiortly /eeJe, and iill this wholelbme foyle full of wicked Nerium." Tollet.
» itj Moiuritj^ folio— ^i« maturity, Malone. ■ 9jtrftTj — ] Alluding to a plantation called a nurfeiy. Johnson.
• ^Titfurpef* it ftrjfkmus tvin ai futfianee,
Whe/i gntjfnt/t liltlt (baraamfum vp ;] That ii, the p»rpofe
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Whofe groflhefs little charaftcrs futn Up : ' And, in the publtcacion, make no ftraili. But thac Achilles, were his brain as barren As banks of Libya,— though, Apoljo knows, 'Tis dry enough, — will with greatfpeed pf judgtnen^ Ay,' with celerity, find Hector's purpofe Pointing on him.
Vlyjf. And wake him to the anfwcr, think you ?
Neft. Yes, 'tis moft meet i Whom may you elfc oppofe. That can from Heilor bring * thoft honour^ off. If not Achillea? -Though't be a fportful combat. Yet in this trial much opinion dwells j For here the Trojans tafte our dcar'fl repute With their fin'ft palate : And tryft to mc, Ulyffitfi, Our imputation kwU be oddly pQii'd In this wild aftion : for the fgcccfs. Although particular, flwU give a ' fcantling Of good or bad unto the general i
is ai pljUD ai heiy or fubftanca ( and thougK I hjiye collefled thii purpofe from many minute particulars, u a grois body js ii)ad« up of fmall infenfihie parts, yet the refult is ai dear and certain as a body thus made up U palpable and vi^bte, Thij k tha thought, though a little ^fcurcd in the coacifcae& of theex- preflioti. Warburton.
Sahjlanet is eftalc. the value of which is afcertained by the ufe of foiall tkaraatri, \. e. aamtifis- So u) tha proWus to K. Hmty V :
- a crooked figure may
Att«ft, in )iitl« place, a viljioa.
The grc/i/tm u a term ufed in the Jlf.Tfi*./ tfVmth Qrif. nt/i hiu the fanii meaning in thiiinlUac;. Stejivih*.
' And, in tbt puhlUAtint, ma^t mb OraU,'] Nnftor goc> oq f9 fay, make no difficulty, no doubt, wh^p thit 4)^1 ^qurs of ^ proclaitn'd, but that Achilles, dull as h« U, will dilcovvr fht drift of it. This is themeaAingof thf line. £0 i(fwnvard#j jtt this play, Ulyfles fayi :
/ do net ftrain at tit paStiBK- i. e. I do not heficate at, \ make no dificeltyflf it. TjijMajiL&.
♦ thofi hemtaTt ] folio — ^//honour. Maloni.
■ ft^atitlingl Tk»t is, a nj»/irr#, /rrtw</«r. Thl Mip«i-
ter cuu hij wood » a <:aim /(4ttlmf. l^Hanfn. ,
And
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And in fuch indexes, although * fmal) pricks
To their fubfcquent volumes, there is feen
The baby figure of the giant mafs
Of things to come at large. It is fuppos'd.
He, that meets Heftor, iifues from our choice :
And diotce, being mutual aA of alt our fouls.
Makes merit her eleftion ; and doth boil.
As 'twere from forth us all, a man diftiJl*d
Out of our virtues; Who mifcarrying,
What heart receives from hence a conquering part.
To fteel a Itrong opinion to themfclves ?
' Which enterrain'd, Hmbs are in his inftruments.
In no lefs working, than are fn^irds and bows
Direftive by the fimbs.
Ulyjf. Give pardon to my fpeech ;— Therrtort 'ds meet, Achilles meet not Hc^lor. Let us, like merchants, fliew our fotileft wares. And think perchance, they'll fell ; if not, ' The luftre of the better fliall exceed. By {hewing the worft firft. Do not confent. That ever Heftor and Achilles meet ; For both our honour and our fhamc, in this. Are dogg'd with two ftrangc followers.
Neji. I fee them not with my old eyes ; What arc they-?
Ulx^. What glory our Achilles fhares from Hciftor, Were he not proud, we all fiiould " lliare with him ; But he already is too infolent ; And we were better parch in Africk fun,
• ——/xia/l frith] SniKll ptimt nmfmred with the volumes.
}OBK»ON.
' ff'jftirioiffftxAiV,— J'Thefetwolineiareiuit iniheqasrnik
JOHKiOK.
' 7ht lufirt e/ tht iuter fiioli txtltd,
£yfiirmiiig tit viarft firft.] The folio reads : The luftre of the tetter, yet Hptin, Shall fiitw the heittr. The alteration was probably the author's. ftlu.ONi.
• —-part—] SouequKTto. The folio, -wwr. Johhsok.
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Than in the pride and fait fcorn of his eyes.
Should he 'fcape Hcftor fair ; If he were foil'd.
Why, then we did our main opinion crufh
In faint of our bell man. No, make a lottery j
Andj by device, let blockilh Ajax ' draw
The fort * to fight with Heftor : Among ourfelvesy
Give him allowance as the better man.
For that will phylick the great Myrmidon,
Who broils in loud applaufe; and make him fall
His creft, th^t prouder than blue Iris bends.
If the dull brainlefs Ajax come, fafe off.
We'll drefs him up in voices : If he fail.
Yet go we under our opinion ftill.
That we have better men. But, hit or mifs.
Our project's life thisfhapcoffcnfe affiimes, — =
Ajax, employ'd, plucks down Achilles* plumes*
Neji. Ulyffes, Now I begin to rclifh thy advice ; And I will give a taftc of it ferthwith To Agamemnon : go we to him ftraight. Two curs fhall tame each other j Pride alone ' Muft twrc the maftiffs on, as 'twere their bone.
[Exeani: AGt
■ bhrkijb Ajax '] ShakTpeare on this occalion has dc-
ferted Lidgate, who ^ives a very different charafter of Aj&x : " Another Ajuc (Oirnamed Telamon) " There was, a man that Itarning did adare. Sec." " Who did fo much in eloquence abound, " That in his time the like coutd not bt foand." Again:
" And one that hateifridt aitifiatttrj, ftc." Our author appears to have drawn his portrait of the Grecian chief from the inveftivej thrown oot againft him by Ulyfles in the' thirteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphofi* ; or from the proroguer to Harrington's Meiamorpbifii sfAjax, 1596. in which he is re- prcfentcd as " ftrong, heady, boifterous, and a terrible fighting lellow, but neither wife, learned, flalde, nor potliticke."
SxfiBVEKS.
' Thifart ] i. e. the lot. Steevjns.
' Muft urw thi maflifi c«r— ] tarn, an oU Engli (h Word fignify-
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♦A C T It. S C fe N E I.
'The Grecian eamf. Enter Ajax^ And Tberfites4
Ajax. Therfitca,-*— ■
Ther. Agamemnon— how if he had boils ? full, all over, generally ?
Ajax, Therfites, .
Tber. And thofe boils did run ?— Say fo,— — did not the general run thea ? were not that a botchy core!
^<w. Dog,- — -
Tbtr, Then there would eome fome matter from Jlim ; I fee none now.
Ajax. Thou bitch-wolf's fon, canft thou not hear? Feel then. [Strikes bim,
Tber. * The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mungrel beef-witted lord * !
j^ax. ' Speak then, thou unfalted leaTCn, (peak : 1 wUl beat thee into bandfomeaefs.
ner.
figniiying to pfovofce or •arge on. S« King JiAn, A& tV. fc. u
" Saatcb at hii mailer that doth tar him on." Pope.
* Act II.) This play is not divided into a£b in saiy of th« origbkl editwna. IoHhjom,
' Thi flmpu ef Gfttci -1 Alludiifg perhapa to the plagne
lent bj* Apollo on the Grecian army. Johnson.
' tpeef-witted Itrdll So in Tiatipb-Nithi :
" '■ I am a freat eater of it//; and I Delieve that does kann to myuFiV." Stibvbns.
' SftaJk thai, tbtM uii/alieii Uaven, J^ai :\ fhe readmg ob« traded upon at by Mr. Pope, was totfalttd liatin, that has no Uthortty or countenance frorti any of the copies ; not that •pproaclief in anj dcfifce to the Uacei of the old reading, yoa iioiMtB leaven. Tai«, it is trucj It cotrupted and Dnintelligi- " Vol,. IX. £ ble.
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^ber. I Ihall fobncr rail thee into wic and hoH- ncfs: but, I think, thy horfe will fooner con an oration, than thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canft ftrike, canll thou ? a red murrain o' thy jade's tricks!
jljax. Toads^llool, learn me the proclamation.
Tber. Doft thou think> .1 have no fenfe, thou ftrik'ft me thus ?
Ajax. The proclamation,
Ther. Thou art proclaim'd a fool, I think.
j^ax. Do not, porpentine, do not; my finger* itch.
^er, I would, thou didft itch from head to foot, and I had the fcratching of thee ; I would make thee
ble; bat the emendation, wbichlhave coined out ofit, gives u> a fenfe apt and confonant to what Ajait would fay, ttnisinnt'wd'fi Uttytii.- ' — " Thou lump of four dough, kneaded up out of a flower unpurged and unlifted, with ail the drof* and bran in it.-^ Theobald.
Sftah ihtn, thou whinld'A Uanitn^ This is the reading of the old copies : it fliould be •wUiijeJ), i. e. moil wind/ ; leaven be- ing made by a great fermentation. Thia epithet agreet well with Therfiies' charaaer. Warburton,
Hannier preferves tuhiniiPfi , the reading of the folio ; but does not explain it, nor do I underfland it. If the folio be fol- lowed, I read, 'p;irM*'V, tbat is tttnuUy Iranjtn. Thou'compoli- aon ot muflint/i and fournt/i. — Theobald's alT^rtion, how.ever conHdent, is falfe. Vn/ahcd \eavtn is in the old quarto. It means finr without fait, malignity without wit. Shakfpeare wrote firft Bi/a///^; but recollcfling that want oi /alt was no fault in leaven, changed It tovirmv'd. Johnson.
Vn/alitdii the reading of both [he quartos. Francis £eJiumontj in bis letter to Speght on his edition of Chaucer's works, i6oz, fays : " Many of Chaucer's words are become as it were •vht^o'j and hoarie ivitb over long lying."
Again, in Tho. Newton's Htriel ib tie BiiU, 2vo. 158;; •' i'OT being long kept they grow bore and vineiviji."
STtEVEKt.
_, In the preface to James Ift's Bible, the tranflators fpeak of ftjii'mtd (i. e. vincwed or mouldy) tradition!. BLACKSToita.
In Dorfetfliire they at this day call cheefe that is become mouldy, 'uinny cheefe. There can be no dogbt therefore tbat Shakfpeare v^tMt^—viaiii'fi tcaren. Malore,
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tlie loathfomcft fcab ' in Greece. When thou art forth in the incurfionsj thou ftrikeft as flow as an- - other.
^■fl*. I fay, the proclamation,
Tber, Thou gfumbleft and railed every hour on Achilles; and thou art as fujl of envy at his grcat- ncfs, as Cerberus is at Pi;oferpina's beauty, ' ay t^at thou bark'ftat him.
^ax. Miftrefs Therfites !
^ber. Thou Ihcfuldftftrikc him.
Ajax, Cobloaf M
Iher. He would * pun thee into fliivers with his ftft, as a failor breaks a biflcet.
Ajax. You whorefon cur I \Beatm^ km*
7ber. Do, do.
^'ax. ' Thou ftool for a witch !
Tl>er. Ay, do, do ; thou fodden-witted lord ! thou
haft no more brain than I have in my elbows; *an
afllnego
■ in Grnct.] The quarto idds theft words : tvira titm
grt fartb in lie incurfiani, ihau ftriktft aijlaw at anotber.
JoHuton.
» . ay that ihiu hark'fi at -Urn.] I read, 6 that tlioi
harVilft at him. Johnson.
The old reading is /, \yhich, if changed at allt fliould have been changed into ey. Tvrwkitt.
' CBbi.af!'\ A crufly uneven loaf is in fome coaoties called by this name. Steevilks.
* ^pun ibee intafii-virs ] Pun is in the raidtaod coun- ties the vulgar and collnquial word for foiuii. Johnson.
It is ufed by P. Holland in his tranflaiion of Pliny's Nat, Hill.
b. xicviii. ch. iz: " ^jurat^ altogether and reduced into a ]i-
ciment." Agsin, b. xxix. ch. 4. " The gall of, thefe lizards ^Bjnit^ and diSblvcd in waier." Steevbns.
' TbeuJIeol/ir a-uiiici .' — J In one way of tryingaiMffi^ the/ nfcd to place ner on a'chair or flool, with her legs tied acroA> tiut all theweigltfof her body might refl upon her fcac; and hy that mean], after fome litnf, the circulation of the blood would bcinuch Aoppcd, and her fitting woald be as painful as the wooden horle. Dr. Grey.
* .—tf* afilnegc— — ] I itn not Tcry certain what the ide» «oaveyed by this woi4 was meant to be. Jjinaio is Italian, fayi
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aflinego may tutor thee : Thou fcurvy valiant afs! thou art here put to thralh Trojans; and thou art bought and fold among thofe of any wit> like a Bar- barian flave. If thou ufe to beat me, I will begiti at thy heel, and tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of no bowels, thou !
jyax. You dog I
Tber. You fcurvy lord !
Ajax. You cur ! {Beating him,
Tber, Mars his ideot ! do, rudencfsj do, camel i doi do<
^nter ^cbillei, and Patroclus.
Acbil. Why, how now, Ajax f wherefore do you thus ? How now, Therfitcs ? what's the matter, man ? Tber. You fee him there, do you? jicbil. Ay i What's the matter ? ^her. Nay, look upon him. Acbil. So I do i- What's the matter ?
Hanmer, for an efs-Jri-uer : bat in Mirxn,, % ttigedj by Rob, Baron, Aft III. the following piiffagt occon, with a note an- nexed to it :
" ■ ' ' the ftont irofty blade,
" That at one blow hag ctrt an stfineie " Afunder like a thread."— — *' This (fayi the author) is the ufu:i) trial of the-Perfiau fbam> Jheers, or cemiters^ nhich are crooked lite a crefccnt, of fo good metal, that they prefer them before any other, and To Iharp as any nttor."
I hope, for the credit of the i»ince, that the experiment wi* rather tnade on an ^/i, ilian an dfi'/river. . From the following pairage I fhould fuppofe iifi'V* to be merely a cant term for a noliin firflow, an icnbt : " They apparell'd me as you fee, made a fool, or an efiingt of me." See fh* Jntijaaty, a comedy, by S. Marmion, 1641. Again, in Beagmont ao4 Flctcher't Sarm- filLaJj!
" >.i all tbii would be ibrrwom, and I ag^o an afiweg«, as your lifter left me." Stiivbni. AJtMgv ii Portugacfe Ar a Uttk ^i. Mviokave.
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^ber. Nay, but regard him well.
jfcbil. Well, why 1 do fo.
Tber. But yet you look not well upon him : for, whofoever vou take him to be, he is Ajax.
jtcbil. ] know that, fool.
Tber. Ay, but that fool knows not hlmfelf.
^ax. Therefore I beat thee.
Tb(r. Lo> lo, lo,' lo, what modicums of wit he utters! his evafions have ears thus long. I have bobb'd his brain, more than he has beat my bones : 1 will buy nine iparrows for a penny, and his pi* t^ater is not worth the ninth part of a fparrow. This lord, AchDIes, Ajax,— who wears his wit in hi*
belly, and his guts in his head, :rtl tell you what
I fay of him.
^tM. What?
Tbir. I fay, this Ajax-^-^
jScbil, Nay, good Ajax.
[^ax ^er$ loJlrUe &u», JtebiUes htterfe/a.
^ber. Has not fo much wit^ '
jicbiL Nay, I muft hold you.
?2vr. As will ftop the eye of Heleq's qeedle, for vhom he comes to fight.
Aehil. Peace, fool!
Tber. I would have peace and quietneft, but thC' fo(^ will not : he there ; that he ; look you there.
Ajsx, O chou damn'd cur ! I Jhall — -
jtcbil. Will you fet your wit to a fqol's ?
Tber. No,] vrarrantyou; for a fool's will Ihameiti
Pair. Good words, Therfitcs,
JUbU. What's the quarrel ?
u^. I bade the vile owl, go learn me the tenoitr i£ toe proclamation, and he rail^ upon me.
fbtr. I ferve thee not.
■/^ax. Welt, go to, go to.
Tber. I lerve here voluntary.
^biK Tour laft fervice was fufieracce^ 'twas not
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voluntary; no man is beaten voluntary: Ajax was here the voluntary, and you as under an imprefs.
fhfr. Even fo ? — a great deal of yourwit too lies in ybur finews, or elfc there be liars. Heftor fhall have a great catchj if he knock out either of your brainsj *awcre as good crack a fufty nut with no kernel.
j^cbil. What, with tne too, Therfites ?
Ther. There's UlyiTes and old ' Neftor,-^whofo wit was mouldy ere your grandfires had nails on their toes, — yoke you like draft oxen, and make you plough up the war.
^chil. What, what ?
^ber. Yes, good footh j To, Achilles 1 to, Ajax ! to!
jfjax. I (hall cut out your tongue.
Tier. 'Tis no matter ; I fhall fpeak as much as thou, afterwards.
Pair. No more words, Therfites J peace.
Tbtr. I will hold my peace ' when Achilles' brach bids ihe, (ball I i
Jcbii. '
' — — iiefiar—r<wh»ft neil laai mauUy ert their grandErti ba4 MiA— ] This is one of ihereediiQrj' wife riddles. What! wa» Nefior'a wit mouldy before his grandlirc] toes had any nails f PrepoAerous nonfenfe! and yet to eafy a chanee, a one poor pronoun for another, fets s.W righi: and clear. Theobald.
' —'whtH ^cbillii' brach iiJs nf,— ] The folio and qaarto read, — Achilles' ireeci, Brec^i is an appendant ornament. The meaning may be, (quivalent to one of Achilles' hoMftri-en, John sow. Braeh I believe to be the true rending. He calls Patroclus, in contempt, Achilles' dog. Stbevens.
.5««i, which i; the nadingof al! the old copies, had perhapa formerly fome meaning at prefent unknown. In the following pafiage in hoige'i Re/eljnd» vr Eufbuci' GeUtn Ltgacii, 159a, It feems to fignify fom'ething very difFiTent from a pin or a bod- kin ; " His bonnet was green, whereon flood a copper hrcech with [hepiflureofSt. Denis."
Perhaps Achillcs's tiac-A may mean, the perfon whom AchiU Ips holds fo deeri fo highly cftunatcs. So, in Han^i : '
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jfcbil.- There's for you, Patroclus.
^ber. I will fee you hang'd, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to your rents; I will keep where there is wit ftirring, and leave the faction of fools.
[Exit,
Patr. A good riddance.
AsMl. Marry this, fir, is proclaim'd through all our hpft : That Heftor, by the fifth hour of the fun. Will, with a trumpet, 'twixt our tents and Troy, To-morrow morning call Tome knight to arms. That hath a ftomach ; and fuch a one, that dare Maintain — I know not what ; 'tistrafli: Farcwel,
Ajax. Farewel. Who (hall anfwcr him ?
Achil, I know not, it is put to tottery j otherwife. He knew his man.
Jjax. O, meaning you ; — I'll go learn more of it.
S, C E N E II.
t Ko r.
Priam's palace. Enter Priam, He£ior, Trotlus, Paris, and Hilenui,- Pri. After fo many hours, lives, fpeeches fpcnt,
" -^^He is the hroa'tb indeed,
" And gem of all the nation." Malohi.
T have Utile doubt of iretb tving tht true meaning as a tenn of contempt.
The meaning of Iratbi it well afcertaincd-r-a Tpj^-a itdihi ; which heing formerly ufed in the Ladies' drefii wai adorned with jewel), and gold and filver oraamentt. Hejif:e iti old Lifts of jewels are found brtuhei,
J have a vfirymagnilicent one, which is figarsdind defcribed by Pennant, in the fecond volume of hU Tour to Scotland, p. 14, in which the I'pit or bodlcin forms bat a very fmall part of Ike whole.
The prefent fi>irt iucktei may well be called hrertn.
{{ence, to jr«M<6acalkof liqiui^-Tam-bioche, &;. Sec. L.
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Thus once again fays Neftor from the Greeks j
Deliver Helen, and all damage el/e —
As bpnour, lo/s of fime, travel, expence^
Wounds, friends, add vibat elfe dear thai it eonfum'd
In hot digeftion of this cormorant war, —
Shall beftrutk off: — Hcdor, what fay you to't ?
Heil. Though no man Jefler fears the Greeks than I, As far as toucheih my particular, yet, Dfcad Priam,
There is no lady of more fofter bowels. More fpungy to fuck in the fcnfe of fear, jVlpfe ready to cry out— If^he knows what follows ? Than Heftor is : The wound of peace is furety, Surety fccurej but modeft doubt is call'd The beacon pf the wife, the tent that fcarchcs To the bottom of the worft. Let Helen go ; Since the firft fword was drawn about this queftjon. Every tjthc foul, 'mongft ^ many thoufand difmcs. Hath t>een as dear as Helen ; I mean, of Qurs : If yre have loft fo many tenths of ours, -' To guard a thing not purs j not worth to us. Had it our name, the value of one ten ; What merit's in that reafon, which denies The yielding of her up ?
Itroi, Fie, fie, my brother ! "Weigh you the worth and honpui; of a kiugj So great as our ilread father, in a fcale Of common ounces ? Will ypu with counters fun:> ! The paft-proportion of his infinite ?
f maiTf thatiJiuU AMmtt,\ Dl/m*, Ft. it ihe tithe, the
tenth. So, ia the Prblogds to Gmm'i CtnfiJ^ jmanlit, I J5^ i ** ThciV/Rf goeth'to the tiattaile."
Agtin, ia Hofinfhed't Reign of Rich. H :
" — lb iHat there wu levied, whatof the <^Aw, and bjr the devotlori of the people, &c," STEirsMs. - * The vtA-freftriian *f hit h^itt ri Thus read both the oo< piei. The meaniDg b, tiai grimtnt/i la ivtUb a* wuafwnhtar§ 4»f fnpirtitn. The modem aditon filently gire : fbt v^ frtpirtimif — ■ JosKSO*.
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And buckle-in a wa'ift moft fathomlefs.
With fpans and inches fo diminutive
As fears an<} reafons ? fie, for godly Ihame !
Hel.J^o marvffi, though you bite fofliarpat reafons, You are fo empty of them. Should not our father Bear the great fway of his affairs with reafons, Becaufc your fpeech bath none, that tells him {oi Trot. You are for dreams and Uumbers, brother prieft. You fur your gloves with irafon. Here are your
reafons : You know, an enemy intends you harm } You know, a fword employ 'd is perilous* And realbn flies the object of all harm : Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds A Grecian and his.fword, if hedo (et > The very wings of reafon to his heels-, * And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, Or like a flar dif-orb^d ? — Nay, if we talk of re^bn, Let's jbut our g^es, and Deep: Manhood and honour Should haye hare hearts, would they but fat their
thoughts With this cramm'd reafon : reafon and refpcd Make livers pale, and lu&yhopd de}e£t.
He3. Brother, flw is not wprth what ftc doth coft The holding, 7W/. What is audit, but 04 'tis v^u'd f Heff. But value cuvells not in particular will i It holds his eftimate and dignity A&well wherein 'tis precious of itfclf. As in the prizer : 'tis mad idolatry. To mak.e fhe fervice greater than UiC godj f And the will dote«, that is iocltnahle
To
* Aidfy lilt ehiddtm Mgrmyifrcm Jcve, '
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' AnithmuilUeiti,thMtu\wX\XisAAx'\ Qld edhioB, not fo well, has it mriiitti^. Pofi.
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To what infedioufly- Irfclf affefts, • Without Ibmc image of the affefted tntrit. ■ Troi. I take to-day a wife, and my cleftion Is led on in the condud of my will ; My will enkindled by mine eyes and cars, ' Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous Ihores Of win and judgment; How may I avoid. Although my will didafte what it cleifbed, The wife I chofe ? there can be no evaflon To blench from this, and to (land firm by honour ; We turn not back the filks upon the merchant. When we have ' foil'd themj nor the remainder
viands We do notthrow in * unrefpeftive fievc, Bccaufe we now are full. It was thought meet, Paris ftiould do feme vengeance on the Greeks: Your breath of full confcnt belly'd his fails i The fcas and winds (old wranglers) took a truce. And did him fervice; he toiich'd the ports defir'd; And, for an old aunt, whom the Greeks held captive, He brought a Grecian quecn^ whofe youth and
freflinefs
By the old edition Mr. Pope means the old qaarto. ' The foli*
hii, as it (lands, incIinahU. 1 think the (irll reading betten
tbiifill doiii ttat attriiiUti or gives lbs qualitiu ivbUi it 'ffiS' \ that firftcnufcs excdlencc, and then admiret it. Johnson.
' IJ'ithoBt /<.«<! iiitagi of, he affefied mtrii.] We ihould read :
ibi aftet'led's merit.
i. e. wi.bout feme mark of merit in the thing afFefled.
War'burton.
The prefcnt reading is right. The will ajiai an objeft ftw fome fuppofed merit, uhieli Heilor fays is vnJiirabte, onlels tho »tr-it fo affiStd 1-e really there. Johnson.
s Jbii'd them ; } So reads the quarto. The folio
■ fpoil'd tbtrn.—^ JoHMSOK.
• -~~^uurtfpi3ive Jieve,] That is, into a camman voider, Sitvt is in the quarto. The folio reads,
fbr which the fecond folio and modcrD editions have iilent!/ printed,
unrijfeillvt place. Jobksok.
Wrinkles
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"Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes ' pale the morning. Why keep we her ? the Grecians keep our aunt : Is Ihe worth keeping ? why, flie is a pearl, "Whofc price hath Uunch'd above a thoufand ihips. And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants. Jf you'll avouch, 'twas wifdom Paris went, (As you mull needs, for you all cry'd — Go, go") If you'll confefs, he brought home noble prize, (As you muft needs, for you all clapp'd your hands. And cry^d-—~Ine/imaile !) why do you now The iffue of your proper wifdonis rate ; * And do a (Jeed tnat fortune never did. Beggar the eftimation which you priz'd Richer than fea and land ? O theft moft bafe ; That we have ftolen what we do fear to keep ! ' But, thieves, unworthy of a thing fo ftolen. That in their country did them that difgracc. We fear to warrant in our native place 1
Caf. [wi'/i/n] Cry, Trojans, cry !
Fri. What ooife ? what Ihriek is this ?
Troi. 'Tis our mad Cfter, I do know her volcij
Caf. I'SPitbin] Cry, Trojans!
Heff. It is Cafiandra,
Eater Cajaudra, raving.
CaJ. Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thoufand eyes. And I will fill them with -prophetic tears.
' ' ■■ pale tht morning.} So the i^aarto. The folio and nra- dein editor;,
— , . — - Hale tie morning. Johnson. • JnJ Je a liiid llat farluni never liii/,] If I underftaod chU paflkge, the meaning is : " Why do you, by eenfurioe the de- termination of. your own wifdoms, degrade Helen, whom for- tune hat not yet deprived of her value, or againft whom, as the wife of Pari), fortune has not in this war To declared, as to make lis vaJne her lefs }" This is very haiQi, and much Arained, Johnson.
T fia //■»>*«»—-] pannier reads, — £e/i ihUvei ,
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Hea. Peace, filler, peace.
Caf. Vii^ns and boys, mrd-age and wrinkled , elders % Si»ft infancy, that nothing tan'It but cry. Add to my clamours*! let us pay betimes A moiety of that mafs of moan to come. Cry, Trojans, cry ! praftife your eyes with tears ! Trt^ nvuft not be, nor goodly Dion ftand j Qur fire-brand brother, Paris, bums us all. Cry, Trcyans, cry! a Helen, and a woe : ■ Cry, cry ! Troy burns, or elfe let Helen go. \Exit.
Hea. Now, youthful TroUos, do not thefe high ftraina or divination in eor fifterwork - Some touches of remorfe ? or is your blood So madly hoc, that no dlfcourfe of reafbn. Nor fear of bad fuccefs in a bad caufc, Can qualify the fame ?
^Toil. Why, brother Hc<tor, We may not think the juilnefs of each aft Sueb and do odicr than event doth form itj Nor once dejcft the courage of our minds, Becaufe CafTandra's mad i her brain-fick rapture^ Cannot * diftafte the goodnefs of a quarrel. Which hath oar fevcral honours all cngag'd To make it gracious. For my private pare, I am no more louch'd than all Priam's Tons j And Jove forbid, there fhould be done amongft us Such things as would offend the wcakefl fpl^n To fight for and maintain !
^ar. EJfe might the world copvipceof Ifvicy
* ,.~—mU-aet and lorinkUd t\itt\.'\ The Waa bas;
wiftlcled «U.
■■ perhaps the poet wrote ;
wrinkled ^W. Malonb.
* AM itn^ Aamf»ViJ%\\ Folio— f/omcvr. Maloke.
* -^ifiafit-rl Corrupt; change to 8 woffeltate. Jorksok,
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As well my undertakings, as your counfels ; But I aitefl the gods, your full confent Gave wings to my propenQon, and cue off" All fears attending on fo dire a prqjcA. For what, alas, can thefe my fmglc arms f What propugnation is in one man's valour. To fland the puih and enmity of thofe This quarrel would excite ? Yet, 1 proteft. Were I alone to pafs the diiHculties, And had as ample power as I have will, Paris fhould ne'er rctraj^ what he hath don^ Nor faint in the purfuit.
Pri. Paris, you fpeak Like one befottcd on your fwcet delights : You have the honey ilill, but thefe the gall i So to be valiant, is no praifc at all.
Par. Sir, I propofe not merely to myfcif The pleafurcs fuch a beauty brings with itj But I would have the foil of her fair rape Wip'd off, in honourable keeping her. What treafon were it to the ranfack'd queenj Difgrace to your great worths, and (hame co me. Now to deliver her pofTcnion up. On terms of bafc compulfion ? can it be. That fo degenerate a ftrain as this. Should once fet footing in your generous bofoms ? There's not the mcaneft fpirit on our party. Without a heart to dare, or fword to draw. When Helen is defended i nor none fo noble, Whofe life were ill bcftow'd, or death unfam'd. Where Helen is the fubjcft : then, I fay. Well may we fight for her, wJiom, wc know well. The world's large fpaces cannot parallel.
H^. Paris, and Troilus, you have both f:ud well ; And on the caufe and queflion now in hand Ha?e gloz'd, but foperficially j not much
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Unlike young men, whom Ariftotle' thought
Unfit to hear moral philofophy :
The rcafons, you altedge, do more conduce
To the hot pafHon of diftcmpcr'd blood.
Than to make up a free determination
'Twixt right and wrong ; For pleafure, and revenge.
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decifion. Nature craves.
All dues be rendeit'd to their owners; Now
What nearer debt in all humanity,
Than wife is to the hulband ? if this law
Of nature be corrupted through affeftion ;
And that great minds, of partial indulgence
To thtir' benummed wills, rcfift the fame,-
* There is a law in each well-order'd nation.
To curb thofe raging appetites that are
Moft difobedient and rcfraftory.
If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king,
As it is known (he is, chefc nwral laws
Of nature, and of nations, fpeak aloud
To have her back rcturn'd ; Thus to perfifl:
■In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong,
But makes it much more heavy. Hedor's opinion-
> ^.~~jfri^etle—']. Let it be remeinbered as often as Shak- fpeare'b anachronifms occur, that errors in computiag time were very fretjuent in thofe ancient romhjices which .feem to have formed the greater patt of his library. I may add, that even clalliclc authors are not exempt from fuch mift^kes. In the £fih book of Statius'a Thrhaiii, Aphiaraus talks.-if the fates of Neftor and Priam, neither of whom died till long after him. jf on this occaGoD, fomewhat Hiodd be attributed to his augu- ral prnfellion, yet if he could lb tR'ely, nay, even quote as ex> ample: to ihe whole army, things that would not happen till the next agr, they mult all have been prophets as welt as him- feif. or they could not have undcrAooil Lini. Stbevers.
* — iinaraaud ivi/li,---] That is, inflexible, immoveable, no longer obedient to fupenor dircflion, Johnson,
' 7biri ha /<M*i ] Wnat the l.iw does in every nation
between iodividualij jultice ought lo do bctwean nations.
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* Is this, in way of truth: yet, ne'crthelcfs. My fprightly, brethren, I propcnd to you In refolution to keep Helen (till ; For 'tis a caiifc that hath no mean dependancc Upon our joint and fevcral dignities.
Trot. Why, there you touch'd the life of our defign: Were it not glory that we more affected Than ' the performance of our heaving fpleens, 1 would not wi(h a drop of Trojan blood Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hcftor, She is a theme of honour and renown ; A fpur to valiant and magnanimous deeds; Whofe prefcnt courage may beat down our foes. And fame, in time to come, canonize us : For, I prcfumc, brave Heftor would not lofe So rich advantage of a promis'd glory. As fnniles upon the forehead of this aftjon. For the wide world's revenue.
He^. I amyours. You valiant offspring of great Priamus.^^ I have a roifting challenge fcnt amongft The dull and faftious nobles of the Greeks, Will ftrike amazement to their drowzy fpirits : I was advcrtis'd, their great general Hept, Whilft * emulation in the army crept ; This, I prefume, will-wake him. {^Exeunt.
* Ii tbii, '« i»^y eflraih .■— ] Though confidering timtb and jufiict in this quellion, this is my opinion ; ^t as a queitioa of boDOur, I think on it as you. Joh.nsok.
^ —ikt ptrformanci Bf Dur hta-\^lng fpUint^l The epteculion of ff ite and refentmrnt. Johnson.
•— v»Wn«>»—] That ii, envy, faftious contention. Johnsob.
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SCENE III.
^he Grecian Camp,
AbiBei Tent.
Enter Tberjltet.
How now, Therfites ? what, loft in the labyrinth of thy fury ? Shall the clephEuic Ajax carry it thus f he beats me, and I rail at him: O worthy fatisfaftionf *would, it were otherwifc, that I could beat him, whilft he rail'd at mc : 'Sfoot, I'll learn to conjure and raile devils, but I'll fee fome ifTue of my fpiteful eiecrations. Then there's Achilles, — a rare en-
Sineer'. If Troy be not taken 'till thefe two un- ermine it, the walls will ftand 'till they fall of rhem- fclves. O thou great thunder-darter of Olympui, forget that thou art Jove the king of gods ; and, MercuiT* lofe all the ferpentJne craft of thy Cada- €eus i if ye take not that litdc little lefs-than-little wit from them that they have ! which fhort-arm'^ ignorance itfelf knows is fo abundant fcarce, it will not in circumvention deliver -a fly from a fpider, ' without drawing the mafly iron, and cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the whole camp ! or, rather, the ' bone-ache I for that» mcthinks^ is the curfe dependant on thofe that war for a placket.
' Then tbtrt'f AehilUt, — a rate engineer.] The f«lji> Inn ■■- (^iHfr,— which feenu to have been the word fonnerl/ tifed. So, iTunchnner, fi^ntr, muliiur. Sec. MaioKE.
* -^•'uiithcat Jraiviag ibi leffj (>«■,—] That ii, •withm drma' i^ thtir/ieirdi le cut iht tMib, They ufe no meuH but dwft af violence.. Johnson.
■ witbaut JravuMg tit m*£j iran,] Folio«»irmi/.
Malori. 9 —thi tnt-ati /—] In the quarto, tit Ift^tStm itm-txii.
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{havefaidiny prayers; and devil envy^ ^yAmen. What, ho i my lord Achilles ! '
Enter PatrevlttS.
. Pair. Who^ there? Therlitcs? Cood Therfitcsj come in and rail.
^er, ' If I could have rftmember*d a gilt coiin- terfieit, thoil wouldft not have (lipp'd out of my contemplation : but it is no matter, Thyfelf upon thyfelf ! The common curfe of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue ! heaven blefs thee from a tutor, and difcipline come not near thee ! Ixt thy blood be thy dirfiftion 'till thy death ! theft if Ihe, that lays thee otitj fays— chou art a fair corfe, I'll be fworn and fworn upon'c, die never flirowded any but lazars. Amen. Where's AchiUes?
Pa/r. Whatj art thou devout? waft thou in prayer?
Tier. Ay j The heavens hear me !
- Ettter Acbilles.
jcbil. Who*s there ?
Pair. Therfites, my lord.
jltbil. Where, where? — Art thou corae? Why* my cheefc, my digeftion, why haft thou not fcrv'J thyfelf in to my table fo many meals ? Comej what's Agamemnon ?
Tber./ Thy commJlnderj Achilles }— ^Then tell me, Patroclus, what's Achilles ?
* t/ i nidd bavt wwMffcrV II gilt counterfeit, thoa twoullfi to/ bttvt ilipp'd ant efntf cinltmfilatiDH :] Here is a plain allufion U the counterfeit piece of money called a ^if, which occurs Igaln in Ramta andJalUt, hSt II. fc. iv. and which has baeii liappily iUaftrated in a. note on that paillige. There is the fame allufioD in Etitrj itan in bu HumoM: Ait U. fc. v.
Whalley.
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Patr, Thy lord, Thcrfitcs; Then tell me, I pfay thee, what's thyfelf ?
Tber. Thy knower, Patroclus j Then tell me, Pa- troclus, what art thou ?
Pair. Thou may'ft tell, that know'ft-
Jcbill. O, tell, tell.
Tber, I'll * decline the whole queftion. Agamem- non commands Achilles; Achilles is my lord ; I am Patroclus' knower; and ' Patroclus is a fool.
Pair. You rafcal !
^ber. Peace, fool ; I have not done.
j^chil. Heisaprivileg'd man. — Proceed, Therfitei,
Tber4 Agamemnon is a fool j Achilles is a fool} Thcrfitcs is a fool } and, as aforcfaid, Patroclus is a fool. , ^
j^cbii. Derive this ; come,
Tber. Agamemnon is a fool to ofer to command Achilles ; Achilles is a fool to be ccnmmanded of Agamemnon; Thcrfites is a fool, to ferve fuch a fool j and Patroclus 'is a fool pofittve.
Patr. Why am I a fool f
Tber. Make that demand * of the prover.— -It fuffices me, thou art.. Look you, who comes here?
Eatef Jgamsmnent UtyJfeSf Neftofy HionutitStOnd ^ax,
AtbiL Patroclus, I'll fpeak with no body: — Come in with mcj Therfites. [Exit.
Tber. Here is fuch patchery, fuch juggling, and fuch knavery ! all the argument is— a cUckold, and a whore ; A good quarrel, to draw emulous fadions,
*^4ecline them/btlt qiufiien.^] Dedncr the qncAion from the £rft cafe to the laft. Johnson.
* •-^^Patrtchi ii a /btl.] The fov next Ipeechet *re nW in the quarto. Johmiok.
* .■■■» af thi frvotr,- ■■ ] So the quarto. Johujon. The folio profaDcl/ read*y»r« tbi mater. Stssti k e .
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ind bleed to death upon. ' Now the Ary/erpigo on the fubjcft ! and war> and lechery, confound alt 1 '
Agtttn. Where is Achilles ?
Patr, Within his tent ; but ill-difpos'd, tttf lord.
Agam. Let it be known to him, that we are here. ' He Ihent our mcffengcrs -, and we lay by Our appertain ments, viGting of him : Let him be told foj left, perchance, he think We dare not move the qucftion of our place. Or know not what we are.
Patr. I (ball fo fay to him. {Exit.
Ulyjf. We faw him at the opcfting of his tenti He \t not (ick.
Ajax, Tfes, lion-fick, fick of a proud heart : you may call it melancholy, if you will favour the man i but, by my head, 'tis pride : But why, why ? let him fhcw us a caufc. — A word, my lord.
[TV Agamemnon.
Nefi. Vfhat moves Ajax thus to bay at him ?
Vlyff. A'chiltes hath inveigled his fool from htm.
Neft. Who ? fherfites ?
Vijfff. He.
Nejt. Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have loft his argument.
Ul^. No ; you fee, he is his argument, that has. his argument j Achilles.
* Nav) iht irj, &c.] Tbu ti ^dded in the folicf.
JOHK«0».
* H* lent tnr pujingtrs ;— ] This notareore fllooM be reid : SIt^W.tHrmt£iTigtri; I.e. itbuked, l-ated.
Tilts word 15 nrcd in common by all Our aqCient writers. So, ill Spenfcr't Fati^y ^mm, b. VI. c. vi. '
" Yet for no bidding, not for ^^iAa,%jlmt, '"Woatdhefeltraiaed be fjfsm bis attcHdeffleat." Again, ibid.
" He for fitch baleneft Ihamefully kim^n/." '
Stistiki.
F a Nefi.
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Neft. All the better ; their fradloa i» more our ivilh, than their faftion : But it was a Qrong ^ com- pofure, a fool could difunite.
Ulyjf. The amity, that wifdom knits not, folly nwy eafily untye. Here comes Patroclus,
Re-enter Patreclus.
Nefi. No Achilles with him.
vty^. The elephant hath joints 'j but none for courtefy ; His legs are for ncceOity, not for flexure.
Patr. Achilles bids me fay — he is much (brry. If any thing more than your fport and pleafure Did move your grcatncra, and this ^ noble fUtei To call on him ; he hopes, it is no other. But, for your health and your digeftion fake. An after-dinner's breath.
Agam. Hear you, Patroclos;
^ — feiw^D/frf,— ] So reads ihe qoano Tery properly ; bat the folio, which the moderna have followed, bu, (> •^ot afirtng Counfel. Johnson.
*Tb*tUpbatnbathp\m3,Uii.'\ So, \a AiViUfi hjLafi, 1633 -. "
•• la flie pliant ?
" Stubborn 15 an tUpbant's kg, me bending in hu." Again, ia jtii Faeli, 1605 :
" I hope yon are no elefboM, you hncJeitUt. '
Stbeveits. ' atbh j?g».] Perfon of high dignity ; fpoken of Aga-
memnon. Johnson.
Noble fiatt rather means tbi ftaidy train ef atiendiitg nahiti ivbta jfeu bring laitbjeu. Stebvens.
In fupport of Dr. Johnfbn'a expofition of this word, it may he obferved, that_/7i9/« was formerly applied to a fingleperfon. So,
in Will, Fits, end Fanciei, 1595: " The archbiftop of
Grenada faying 10 the archbithop of Toledo that he much mar- rclled, he being fo great a.Jlaie, would vlfit hofpitals." Again, in Harrington's tranOaiion of Ariojlti ;
'• The GrecK demands her, whither Ihe was going, " And which of thefe two great ijiattt her keeps,"
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We are too well acquainted with thefc anfwcrs ; But his evafion, wing'd thus fwift with fcom. Cannot out-fly our apprchendons. Mucli attribute he hath ; and much the reafon Why we afcribc it to hina : yet all his virtues,— Not virtuoufly on his own part beheld, — Do, in our eyes, begin to lofe their glofs ; Vea, like fair fruit in an unwhotefome difh. Are like to rot un^afted. Go and tell him. We come to fpcak to him : And you fliall not fin. If you do fay — we think him over-proud. And under-honefl: ; in felf-afiiimption greater. Than in the note of judgment} and worthier than
himfelf. Here tend the favage ftrangenefs he puts on ; Difguife the holy ftrength of their command. And • under-writc in an obfcrving kind His humourous predominance; yea, watch * His pcttilh Kines, his ebbs, his flows, as if The paiTage and whole carriage of this aftion Rode oo his tide. Go, tell him this; and add. That, if he over-hold his price fo much. We'll none of him ; but let him, like an en^ne Not portable, lie under this report—— Bring action hither, this cannot go to war : A ftirring dwarf we do allowance give '
' >imirr--a»-iu ] To/uh/eriie, in Shakrpeare, it ta
thtj. ]0HKS0W.
S« in Kiitg Liar : " You owe me do fubfcripDCH)."
Stebveni.
* HUtettifi limit,-— } This is Humer's emeodation othU pettilh fiair. The old quarto reads :
His tBKr/e and lime. This speech is unfaithfully printed in modern editions.
JOHWSOH.
* ... ■-allowance ^ive\ JHtwaaet is afprahaiitn. So, in < $iMg Ltar .-
if yonrfweet fway
JiUni obedience." Stbeveks.
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Before a flcepmg giant : — ^Tell him fo.
Patr, I Jbali ; and'bring his anfwer prefently. [£*//, Jgam. In fecond voice we'll not be fatisfied. We come to fpeak with him.— Ulyffes, enter jiou. [Exii. Ulyps, Jjax. What is he more than another ? Jgam. No more than what he thinks he is. Ajaxl Is he fo much ? Do you not think, he thinks himfelf A better man than I i Jgam. No qucftion.
Jjax. Will you fubfcribc his thought, and fay- be i&i y^jf». No, noble Ajax; you are asfljong, as valiant,. As wife, and no lefs noble, much more gentle. And altogether more tradable.
/ijax. Why fliculd a man be proud ? How doth pride grow ? I know not what pride is. Jgaa. Your mind's the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues The fairer. He that's proud, eats up himfelf; Pride is his own glafs, his own trumpet, his Own chronicle ; and whate'cr praifcs itfelf But in the deed, devours the deed i' the praifr.
j^ax. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the e^igea-; dering of toads *.
10. [y^i^f-] And yet he loves himfelf J Is It not ftrangc ?
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Vlyff. Achilles will not to the field, to-iporrow. y^^flW. What's his excufe ? Viyjff. He doth rel)r on none ;
* ~—tit eMgndmag effeadi.') Whoever wiihe* to commii- hend the nfaale force of this aUufion, nay confult tlu Ute' Dr. Gol^mith'i UiJIwy oftbt WwU, aU MimaieU N^tart, yol. VII. p. 91, ^3. Stbeven*.
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But carries on the ftream of his difpofc. Without obfervance or refped of any, Jn will peculiar and in felf admiflion.
jigam. Why will he not, upon our fair r^ue(t, Unient his perfon, and fhare the air with us i
Ulyjf. Things fnfiall as nothing, for reijuefts fake only. He fiiakes important : Poffeft he is with grcatnefs % And Ipeaks not to himfelf, but with a pride That quarrels at felf breath : imagin'd worth Holds in his blood fuch fwoln and hot dilcourfe* That, 'twixt his mental and his aftivc parts, Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages. And batters down himfelf: What fhould I fay ? He is fo plaguy proud, that the death tokens of it *. Cry— ^c recovery,
jigam. Let Ajax go to him. — <- Dear lord, go you and greet him in his tent : 'Tis faid, he holds you well j and will be led. At yopr requcft, a tittle froni himfelf.
UlyJf. O Agamemnon, let it not be fo I We'll' confecrate the fteps that Ajax makes. When they go from Achilles : Sliall the proud lord. That baftes his arrogance * with his oiyn feam ; And never fufFcrs matter of the world Enter ht? thoughts, — faye fuch as do revolve And ruminate himfelf,— fliall he be worlhipp'd Of that we hold an idol more than he ? Noi this thrice-worthy and rigl\t-valiant lorij Muft not fo ftale his palm, nobly acqulr'dj Kor, by my will, afTubjugate his merit. As amply titled as i\chilles is,
I —tie death-tokcnt tf if] AIIii4ing to the dedfire Ipou wpeariDgon ihofeinrefUabythepbgne. So. io B<eauq»at uA Pctcher's falmtiniaK ! '
" Now like th,e fearful tttim of the plague " Are mere fcnV'runners of their enot. STEariirt* % .-.jiUPiVA bit rwu ieua ;'] Stamhgree/i, SrSfrEiit.
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By gbing to Achilles :
That were to cnlard his fat-already pride;
And add more coats to Cancer, when he burns
With entertaining great Hyperion.
This lord go to him ! Jupiter forbid ;
And fay in thunder — AcbilUs, ga to him.
Neji. O, this is well ; he rubs the vein of him.
Dio. And how his filence drinks up this applaufe \
- yfid,,
Ajax. If I go to him, with my armed Hft 'I'll pafh him o'er the face.
jigam. O, no, you Ihall not go.
Ajax. An he be proud with me, I'll ' phceze hi^
pride : — Let me go to him.
Ulyjf. ' Not for the worth that hangs upon our
quarrel. Ajax. A paltry infolent fellow,-^— Neft. How he defcribes himfclf ! i4fi^.
Ajax. Can he not be fociable ? UlyJf. The rayen chides biacknefs, [4fi^'^
^ I'llj^ih him a'er ibi fatt.'] i. c. ftrilce hioi with violence. So, in Ti>e Virgin Martjr, 1613 :
^' when the batl'nng ram
" Were fetching bis career backward, tepafi " Me with his norni to pieces." Again, CburciyarJ'i Cballtngi, IJ96, 01 : "-•■■. the pot !' which goeth often to the warer comes honie with a knock, *' or at length is pafiied all to pieces. Editor.
• ^—phceze hit pridi .•— ] To fbiexe is to nmb or cany,
JOHNION.
Mr. Sfeevens has exptaised the word Fttau, as Dr. JohaAn does, to mean the DncwilltDg or uDravelliog a knotted (kain of filk or thread. 1 recoileft no authority ibr this ofe of it. To Jiisu is to drive away } and the expreffion I'll flAxi his pridor •Tav% fignify, I'll hamble or lower his pride.' See Vol. III.
p. 4,17. WHiLLBr.
» Hat far tb* wtrtb ] Not for Uw y»\M of all for which
fr ue fight^g, JOKHSOK, .
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^Mt. V\\ let his humours blood.
4£tt»i' He will be the ph)riician> that fhould be the puknt. \^Afide.
j^ax. An alt men were o' my mind,—
UlyJ'. Wrt would be out of fafhion. [jffide.
j^ax. He ihould not bear it fo. He Ihould eat fwords firft : Shall pride carry it ?
Ne^. An 'twould, you'd carry half. lAfiJg.
Ulyjf. He would have ten iharcs. yAfide.
■ Ajax. I will knead him, I'll make him fupple:—
Heft. He's not yet thorough warm : • force him with praifes : \Afide.
four in, pour in j his ambition is dry.
Uh/Jf. My lord, you feed too much on this diilike. [7*0 jfgamemnop.
N0. Our nobl J genrral, do not do fo.
IHo. Tou mull prepare to fight without Achiiles.
Uljlf, Why, 'tU this naming of him does him harm. . Here is a ijian— — But 'tis bcfor»,his face j I will be filcnt.
Nefi. Wherefore fhould you fo ? Jle is not emulous, as Achilles is.
Ulxlf- Know the whole world, he is as valiant.
j^ax, A whorefon dog, that ihall palter thus with us! *Would, he were a Trqjan !
' Ajax> I toill intad him, I •will mail him fit f pit, he'i not yet thorough warm.
' Neft. Ftrrt himviithpraifis, &C.] The latter part of Ajax's fpECch u certainly got out of place, and oDght to be affigned to Neftor, as I have ventured to tntnf- pofe it. Ajax is feeding on hit vanity, and boailing what he will do to Achilles ; he'll palh him o'er the face, tte'll make him cat fwords, he'll knead liim, he'll fnpple him, &c. Neitor and UlylTea flily labonr to keep him up in thie vein ; and to Uiii end NeAor craftily hinia, that Ajax ii not warm yet, but muft |ie crammed with more flattery. Thiobald.
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Nefi. What a vice yi^c it ip Ajax bow—- m-t
t//^. If he were proud ?
Dio. Or covetous of praife ?
Uixff. Ay, or furif borne 3
iJ/o. Or ftrange, or fclf afFefted ?
Ulyjf. Thank the heavens, lord, thou art of fwee? compofure ; Praife him that got thee, Ihc that gave rfiee fuCk ; Fam'd be thy tutor; and thy parts of nature Thrice-fam'd, beyond beyond all erudition: But he that dil'ciplin'd thy arms to fight, Ixt Mars divide eternity in twain. And give him half: and, for thy vigor. Bull-hearing Milo his addition yield To finewy Ajax. I will not praife thy wifdom. Which, like a bourn S a pile, a'lhore, confines Thy fpacious and dilated par(s: Here's N€ftor,-r^ Initrueted by the antiquary times. He nnuft, he is, he cannot but be wife ; — But partjon, father Neftor, were your days As gieen as Ajax, and your brain (a tempcr'd. You Ihould not have the emineitcf of him, . Put be as Ajax.
J),^x. Shall I call you father ?
*Ntji. Ay, my good fon.
J}io. Be rul'd by him, lord Aja^.
UlyJJ'. There is no tarrying here J the hart Achillea Keeps thicket. Pleafe it our great general
' -~—liif a bourn i-TT^] A hurn^ ia aboundary, afld fotnetifnei a rivulet dividing one place from another. So, in K. Ltar, aftUl' fc.vi:
" Ccme o'er the ioKm, Beffy, tome." See a note on this paJTage. Steeveks.
* Nelt. ^, mj gotd/fiH.] In the folio and ia the modern edi- tions Ajax delires to give the title ai fatbir to Ulyflcs j in the quarto, more naturally, to NeAor. Johkson.
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To !C»I1 tpgpthpr all his ftafe Qf war ; Frclli kings are come to Troy : To-morrow, We muft with all pur niiin of power lUnd faft : And here's a lord,— come knights from eaft to welt. And cull their flower, Ajax fliall cope the beft. Agam. Go we to council. Let AchUlcs fleep : l^ighc boats fail fwift, though greater hulks draw ticep. ' [£*«9A
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^he Palau. Enter Pandarus, and a Servant, ^Mu/ick within^
Pan. Friend \ you ! pray you, a word : Do not you follow the young lord Paris ?
Serv. Ay, fir, when he goes before me.
Pan. You do depend upon him, I mean ?
Serv. Sir, I do depend upon the lord.
Piui. You do depend upon a noble gentleman ; \ muft needs praife him.
Serv. The iord be praifed 1
Pan. You know me, do you not ?
Stra. 'Faith, fir, fuptrficially.
Ptm. Friend, know me better; I am the lord Pan- dams.
Serv, I hope, I fliall know your honour better.
Pm. I do dcfire it.
Serv. You are in the ftatc of grace f
Pan. Grace 1 not fo, friend ; honour and lorddi!|> are my titles : — What mufick is this ?
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Serv. I do buc partly know, firj it is rmifick in parts.
Pan. Know you the muficians?
t'lrv. Wholly, fir.
Pan. Who play they to ?
Serv. Te the hearers, fir.
Pan. At whofc pleaRire, friend ?
Serv. At mine, fir, and theirs that love mufick.
Pan. Command, I mean, friend,
Serv. Who (hall I command, fir ?
Pan. Friend, we underftand'not one another; I am too courtly, and thou art too cunning: At whofc requeft .do thefe men play ?
Serv. That's co't, indeed, fir : Marry, fir, at the ■ requeft of Paris my lord^ who is there in pcrfon; with him, the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, * love's invilible foul,
Pan, Who, my coufin Creffida ?
Serv. No, fir, Helen i Could you not find out that . by her attributes?
Pa«. It fhould fcem, fellow, that thou haft not feen the lady Creffida. I come to fpeak with Paris from the prince Troilus: 1 will make a complimetual -b£> fault upon him, for my bufmefs feeths,
Serv. Sodden bufmefs I there's a ftew'd phrafe, indeed 1
Enter Paris, and Helen, attended.
Pan. Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair company ! fair defires, in all fair meafure, fairly guide them !— efpecially to you, fair queen ! fair thoughts be your fair piliow !
Hr/nf. Dear lord, you are full of fajr words.
* itvi't rifible_/oB/, — ] So Harnner. The other ediiicmf bare invifihlt, which perhaps may be right, and mxy meaa the ^Itflvot innfible every where elfc, Johksoh.
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Pan. You fpcak your fur plcafure, fweet queen. Fair prince> here is good broken mufic.
Par. You have broke it, coufin : ' and, by my life, you fhall make ic whole again ; you fliall piece it out with a piece of your peHormance : — Nell, he is full of harmony.
Pom. Truly, lady, no.
Heleiu O, fir,- —
Pan. Rude, in footh j in good footh, very rude.
IPar. Well 4aid, my lord! wdl, you fay fo * in fics.
Pas. I have bulinefs to my lord, dear queen :— My lord, will you vouchfafe xbc a word i
HtUn. Nay, this fhall not hedge us out; we'll hear you Gng, certainly.
Pan. Well, fweet queen, you ire pleafant with
me. — But (marry) thus, my lord. My dear lord,
and moft cftcemcd friend, your brother Troilus—
/£r/rs. My lord Fandarus ; honey-fwcet lord,—
Pan. Go to, fweet queen, go to :— -commends himfclf moft afib£tionately to you.
Helen. You (hall not bob us out of our melody { If you do, our melancholy upon your head !
Pm. Sweet queen, fweet queen -, that's a fweet queen, i'faith.
Helen, And to make a fweet lady fad, is a four offence.
Pan. Nay, that Oiall not ferve your turn ; that (hall it nor, in truth, la. Nay, I care not for fuch
' /«£».] i.e. now and then, by fitii or perhaps a
!|uibble is inienaed. A jEr wu a -pan or divilion of a fong, Qmednin a flrain in mufic, and rometimes a meafure in danc- ing. The reader will find it fafficicntt]' illuftrated in the two former fen fes by Dr. Percy, in the firft vajumeof hi> ktlifuti ef atttitut Ea^Ufii Paltry : in the third of thefe iignificacions it oc- cur* in Jilfor Meaej, a tragedy^ by T. Lupton, 1574: "Satan. Upon thefcchearfulwordi I needs maft dance a/'ru," Stbbvens.
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words J nO) no. — 'And, my lord, he defircs yodj that, if the king call for him at fuppcfj you will make his excufe.
Helen. My lord PandaruS, — '—*
Pan. What fays my fweei queen j my vity very fwect queen i
Par. What exploit's in hand f where fups he ttfj night ?
HeitHi Nay, but niy !ord, •
Pm. What fays my fwcet quetn ? My coiifin wili ^I out with you.
He/en. You muft riot know ifrhefe he fups.
Par. I'll lay my life^ ' with my difpofer Crcffida;
' Jiid, wf UrJ, bt Afirttygit, ] Here I tbiok the fpeech
bf Fuiilarus fhOHid begii), aod tbe reft of it fiwuld be ■dded to tliat of Helen, boti have followed the copies. JoHNtoM.
• 'With mj difpofer CrtJ^da,'] I think di/p>/tr Ihould, in
thefe place;, \xnaA JiJ^eK/er; fhe tbst would teparale Helen froin niin. Wakbuktom.
I fufpeft that, Tbk Muft net knutu •uihtrt bi /aft, fhould hi added to the fpeech of Pandarus ; and th»t the following one of Paris OiOUld b^ |iren to Heleti. That Crcllida wanted to fepa- raCeParia from Helen, or that the beauty of Creffida had an/ power over Paris, are drcumftaceet not evident from the play. The one is the opinionof Dr. Warburton, the other aconjeduie by the author of Tbe Rtvi/al. By giving, however, this line', 77/ lay my Ufi, ^iib mj iifptftr Cit£!Ja, to Helen, and by changing the word MJ^e/tr into depefir, fome meaning may bd obtained. She addrefles herfelf, I fuppofe, to Pandarus, and, by her drfofir, ineans->-(hc who thinks her beauty (or, whofh beauty you fuppole} to b£fuperior to mine. Steevbks.
I'll lay my life, •with my dij^/ir Crefda.] The words: I'll tay my Ufi — are not in the folio. Malone.
The dialogue ikoald perhaps be regulated thusi
Par. Where fup» he to-night }
Htlen. Nay, but my lord,-^—
i*fl». What fays my fweet queen f
Par. My coufin will fall ant wiih you.' [Tt Helen>
Pan. Vou mull not know where he fups. [To tarii.
HtUn. I'll lay my life with tny depofer Creiljda.
bhe calls CreQiJa her dfpefir, becaufe fhe had depafid her in the aJTcAiont of Troilus, whom Pandarus in a preceding fcene it ready to fwear flic /«vVn;r«/iijia Parii. Rim arks.
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Pan. No, no, no fuch matter, you arc wide; ■ come, ytnir difpofer \& fick.
Par. Well, ril make- cxcufe.
Pan. Ay, good my lord. VVhy Ihould you fay— Creflida ? no, your poor difpofer's Tick.
Par, I fpy ».
Pan. You fpy ! what do you fpy ? — Come, give me an inftrument. — Now, fweet queen.
Helen. Why, this is kindly done.
Pan. My niece is horribly in love wiA a thine you have, fweet queen. ■
Helen. She Ihall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord Paris.
Pan. He! no, Ihe'U none of him j they two are twain.
Helen. Falling in, after falling out ', may make them three.
Pan. Gome, come, I'll hear no more of this ; I'll iing you a fong now.
Helen. Ay, ay, pr'ythec now. By my troth, * fweec lord, thou haft a fine forehead.
Pan. Ay, you may, you may*
lUlen. Let thy fong be love : this love will undo us »1). O] Cupid, Cupid, Cupid 1
Pan. Love ! ay, that it (hall, i'faith.
Per. Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.
Pan. In good troth, it begins fo :
Love, love, nothing hut leve,JlHl more I For, oh, love's bovj Shoots buck and doe :
* Par. I/fy.} Thii i» the ufual ntclamation at a childiJh game called IIif,/fy, biti Stbevbns.
' Feiliag in, afitr faUljig eat, ice] i. e. The reeonciliation and waotoa dalliance of two lovers after a quarrel, ma/ produce a chUd, and fo make three of two. TolLet.'
* ■"/'Wfet ifnti-^.-y In the ijuarto/iw/r /««". Johksok,
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Tbe^aft confounds Net that it wounds % But tickUspU tbejtore,
Ibeje lovers cry — Obt ob! tbeydie!
* Tet tbat wbicbjeems tbe wound to kiltf Doth turn obi obi to ba! bal be!
So dying love lives ftill: Oh! ob! a wbile, but ba! ba! ha! Oh! tbi groans out fir ba! ba! ba!
Hey ho!
I&len. in love, i'faith, to the very tip of the nofe*
Par, He cats nothing but doves, lovej and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood begets hot thougKts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hoc deeds is love.
Pan. Is this the generation of Jove? hot bloodi- hot thoughts, and hot deeds ? — Why, they arc vipers : Is love a generation of vipers ? Sweet lord, who's a-field to-day?
Par. Heftor, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and
' —lial il 'unaaJi,^ 1. C. that which it WODnds. MuaCEAVEi * ret that luhltb film tbt •atauni te kill, ] To till tbi mtutid is Ho vtry intelligible expreffion, aor is the meaTuc preferved. Wc night read :
Tbt/t lo-veri cry,
Ob! obi tbiyJiel
Bnt tbat tubicbfiim te kill,
Dttb tKm, Sec. S» dfing Icvili-vii fiill. Yet a.i tbt itiaund It kill may tntm tht <w»imd thai fimt amtai, X, aJter nothing. Johnson.
Thtfi Imeri cTj,—Ob ! eh! tbtf dU!
Ytt tbat 'uibitb finni tbt lainatdtt kill, Deib lurk ab ! oh ! te ba ! ba ! be / St Jjing Itvt livci ^ill ;'\ So, in ouraathor's r»«f ««^
" For I have heard it [love] is a Ufi in dtatb,
" That Untbt aD4. tiw^i, ud all but in a breath !"
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all the gnllantry of Troy : I would &in have armM to-dxy, but my Nell would not have it fo. How chance my brother Tfoilus went not f
iytn. He hangs the Up u l(Hnethiogi-»you knov allj brd Fandams.
Pan. Not I, hoticy-fweet queen.— I long to he^r how they fped uniay.-*- You'll remember your bn? ther's ezcufe t
Par. To a hair.
Pan. Farewell, Tweet queen.
iHnr. Cotnmcild me to your niece.
Pm. I will* IWeet queen. [£«/. Sumdarttrtaf*
Ptr, They are come fnmi field : let us to Priam's hall. To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, 1 muft woo you To belp unarm our Heflor: his ftubbora buckles. With tfaefe your white enchanting fingers touch'd> Shall more obey, than to the edge of fteel. Or &rce of Greekilh finews ; you ihall do more Than all the tfland kings, difarm great He&or.
Hdm. "Twill make tu proud to be his fervantj Paris: Tea, what he ihall receive of us in duty Gives us more palm in beauty than we havej Yea, over-Ihines ourfelf.
Par, Sweet, above thought I love thee. [£«ffW/,
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Pandarwf garden.
Enter PandaruSy and Tr^Ius' man,
' Pan, How now ? where'a thy mailer i at my ccm->. £n Creffida'a i
Serv. No, firj he fiays for yoo loecHidoA him tbither.
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■Pan. O, here he. corries,— ^How nofr, how now ? SVof. Sirrahj walk off.
■ ■ Pan. Have ydti fepn my coufin ?
"- ffrs/. .No,T-an^ar-us^:- 1 ftalk about her door. Like a ftrange foul upon the Stygian'banks . .
Staying for wafrage. O, be thou my Charon, And give me fwift tranfportance to thofe fields*. "Where I may waHow in the lily beds 'Prdpos'd for iKedefcrver! O gentle Pandaras, .
■■ From Cupid's flioiilder pluck his painted wings. And fly with me to Creffid ! '
-PdW.-Walk hei^-i'the orchard, I will bring h&r ftraighr. • {Exit PanJarus.
^- Treu lamgiddyj expcftarion whirls me round. The imaginary rclilh is fo fweec That it enchants my fenfe j What will it be, "When that the watry palate taftes indeed
'Love's thrice- reputed nedar ? death, I fear me j Swooning deftruiftion ; or fome Joy too fine. Too fubtle-poteriti *'tun'd'ioo-lnarp in Iwcetnefc,' For the capacity of my ruder powers : I fear it much j and I do fear befides. That I (hall Icrfc diflin^tion in my joys } As doth a battle, when they charge on heapl The enemy flying.
Re-enter Pandarus,
, Pan. She's making her ready, flie'U come Ilraight: you muft be witty now. She does fo blufti, and fetches her wind fo Ihort, as if Jhe were fray'd with a
' and taefi-arp in f<uiutntfi ^ So the ftlio ud all
. cAiuAiu ; bnt iht quarci> more accurately :
■ . "" tun d fgtfiarf in pu!itt!te/$, Johkspk. ,
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fynut I'M fetch her. Ic is the prcttieft villain: — flic fetches her breath as fhort as a ncw-ta'cn fparrow. lExit Pandarus. Trot. Even fuch a paffion doth embrace my bofom: My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulfc ; And all my powers do their beftowing lofc. Like vaflalage at unawares cncount'ring The eye of majefty '.
Enter Pandarus and Cr^da,
Pan. Come, come, what need you blufli? flianie's a baby. — Hert flie is now : fwear the oaths now tp Jier, that you have fworn to me. — What, are yoa gone again ? you muft be watch'd ere you be made tame ', muft you ? Come your ways, come your ways ; ail you draw backward, * we'll put you i'the files. — Why do you not fpcak to her ? — Come, draw ' this curtain, and let's fee your pi&ure. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend day-light ! an 'twere dark» you'd clofe fooner. 'So, foj rub on, and
ki&
* hiki vojfalagi at unaraiarei enetata'rmg Tie tyt B/maJify.] Rowe leem) to have imitated tUs paf- &ge in his Amiitiaiu Slifmttier, A& I : " Well may th' Ignoble herd " Sun, if with hcdHefi ftepa thejr unawares " Tnad on the lion't walk : a prince's genius " Awes with fupeiior greameft all baneath him."
Stesvins.
* jtm muft it watch'd trtjtu it made tam*,—^ Alluding to the maimer of taming hawk). So, in thtTamiifgi/'aSimAn
— "to ititUti her a* we watch thefe iiiti,_ STiavixt.
■ Fuw'// pui jeu i'lie fitt. ] AllndiDg to the cnftoia
Afpotdiig men fufpefled of cowardice in the middle places. Han KB a.
* Se, ft ; T^ aa, *u4 ki/i tit mifirtfi.'\ The allufinn is to trwlimi. What we now call lii jack, feeqit in Shakfpeare'i tinu to have been termed tbt mtftrtfi. A bowl that ii^i tit
jmckf or mfirt/i^ ii is the moft advaatagesai fitoatiaD. EjA m Ga in
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Icifs the miftrcfs. How noir» a kifs in fee-farm! build there, carpenter} the air is fweec. Nay, you ihall fight your hearu out, ere I part you. • The faulcon as the tercel, for all the ducks I'the river : go to, 'go to.
Trof. You hate bereft me of all words, lady.
Pan. Wordi pay no debts, give her deeds: but Ihe'll bereave you of the deeds loo, if flie call your adivity in question. What^ billing again? here's-*
11 a teim at the fame gune. So, io N» Wit like m tfoma^t, » comcily, bjr Middlecon, 1657 :
" .1 . .--So. a fair ridtLmce } " There'* three rubi gone ; I've a clear way to the; mijlrifi." AgatD, in fittaria Ctrrtmhna, a tragedy, by Webfter, 1612: Flam. " i hope you do not think— Cam. " Thai noblemen htvut bootjr : 'fattb hii check
" Hath a moft excellent bias; it woaM Jain jninp with my mifirefi." hgsatt, in Decker*! Satinmaftut, i6ez :
" Mini. Since he bath hit ib* mijirt/t to vSvot hi tbe Sore- jame, we'll even play out the rabbcri.
" Sir Vaugh. Play ont yoar rubbers in God's name ; by Jefii I'll never i<f^/ in your alley," Malone.
■ fhtfmtktm ai tht Itrcel, far all ibt daekt P tb' riijtr : — ^]
Pandarns means, that he'll match hit niece againft her lover for any bett. The urctl h the mali hawk ; by th.e/aule*» wc gene> rally underOand the/raale. Theobald. I think we fhould rather read :
at Ike lereil,— — Ty«whitt.
In Chaucer's Trailni and Crefiidi, 1. iv. 410. it the following Sanza, from which Shakfpeare may have caught a glimpfe of meaning, though he has not \Ny clearly exprelfed it. Pandaru* ii the fpeaker :
■' What? Ood forbid, alway that eche plefiunce
" Ino^ngwere, and in nonothir wi^t; *' If one can nnge, anothir can wel daunce, " If this be godely, fbe is gktd and tight. ■* And this is faire, and that can gode aright, *■ Eche for his vertne holdin is full dere, •* Bath hemer mtd fan(»n fur rr^ert" Again, in Fenton's Tragieall Di/fmr/ei, bl. I. 4to. 1567 : " ——how is that poffible to make a A-oward kite, a forward "itrvikt ta tie ryvtr." P. ijij.-fc. STBITiNa.
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Ih mtnefs whereof the parties interfhangeably — Come in, come in j I'll go get a fire. [£*// Patidarus,
Cre. Will you walk in,- my lord ?
7r«. O Creflida, how often have I willi'd me thus?
Cre. Wifli'd, my lord?— The gods grant!— O my lord !
5V«. Wijat (houM they grant ? what makes this pretty abruption / What too curious dreg efpies my Iveec lady in the fountain of our love ?
Cre. More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes. ^ym. Fearsmaiscdevihof cherubimsi they never fee truly.
Crf. Blind feaTj that feeing reafon leads, 6nds fafer footing ttian blind reafon flumbUng without fcar: To fear, the worft» oft cures the woril.
?V#. O, let my lady apprehend no fear : in alj Cupid's pageant there is prefented no monAer.
Cre. Nornothhig mopHirous neither?
TVvi. Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vov to«^eepfeas,live in fire, eat rocks, tametygers; tkinkiog it harder for our miftrefs to devife impofir tioa enot^h, tftan for us to undergo any difficulty Jmpoftd. This is (he monftruofity in love, lady,— that the will is inBaitc, and the execution conBn'd ; that the defire is boundlefs, and t he aA a flave to Hmit.
Cre. They fay, all loyers fwear more performance than they are able, and yet ref^rve an ability tha; they never perform j vowing more than the perfec- tion of tea, and difcharging Icfs than tl^e tenth part of one. They that have the voice of lions, and the ^ft of hares, are they not monfters i
Troi. Are there fuch? fuch arc not we : Praifeu? as we afc tafted, allow us as we prove ; ouf head fliall go bve« 'tjUnierircf^wn it* : aoperf«£liQninrever-
*■ jtw tiaJjMt g»itft,'t!Ji mtriterevm it .-^l Icunotfbr-
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fion Hiall have a pratfe in prefenc : we will not namq defert, before his birth ; and, being born, * his addi- tion Ihall be humble. Few words to fair faitb : Troilus {hall be fuch to Creflid, as what envy can lay worft, (hall be a mock for hts truth j and whaC ' truth can fpeak truefl, not truer than Troilus. Cre. Will you walk in my lord \
Re-entfT Pandarui.
Pan. What, blufliing ftill ? have you not donq talking yet?
Cre. Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.
Pan. I CftSnk you for that ; if my lord get a boy of you, you'll give him me : Be true to'mylordj if he flinch, chide me for it. ■ . .
ITroi. You know now your hoftages ; your uncle's ■word, and my firm faith.
Pan. Nay, I'll give my word for her tooj our kindred, though they be long ere they arewOo'd, they are conftant, being wonr they are burrs, I cart tell you J they'll flick where they are thrown*.
' Cre. Boldnefs comes to me now, and brings m^ heart: Prince Troilus, I have lov'd you night and day. For many weary months. ' ^roi. Why was my Creflid then fo hard to win ?
hare, 'till merit louer part no aiFcfUon, in rvutrfitn, ten. HmI there been no cither copy, how could thU have beefi corTeflxd? The uue readiog is in the felio. Johnsoa.
' — iiV adiitian fiifill he bimbU.—^'\ We will give him no liigh or pompom titles. Johnsok.
Addition is ftill the term afed by convtyincen in deTcnbing theqnality and condition of the pu-tiei to dced>, &c Editor.
* they'll flick lubert tbtf are thratim.^ f his allufion hss
already occurr'd in MiafiirtftT Mtafnti ;
Nay, fiiar, I am a kiad ofimr, J Jhall JUok.
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Cre. Hard to fecm won j but I was won, my lord.
With the firft glance that ever Pardon nic; —
If I confefs much, you will play the tyrant.
J love you now; but not, 'till now, fo mucJi
But I might maftcr it: — in faith, I lye;
My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
Too headflrong for their mother : See, we fools I
Why have I blabb'd ? who (hall be true to us.
When we arc lb unfecrct to ourfcives ?
But, though 1 lov'd you well, 1 woo'd you notj
And yet, good faith, I wifh'd myfelf a man ;
Or, that we women had men's privilege
Of fpeaking firft. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue j
For, in this rapture, I Ihall furely fpcak
The thing I Ihall repent. See, fee, your filence.
Cunning in dumbnefs, from my weaknefs draws
^7 very foul of counfcl : Stop my mouth.
Trn. And Ihall, albeit fweet mulick iHue; thence.
Van. Pretty, i'faith.
C«. My lord, I do befeech you, pardon mej 'Twas not my purpofe, thus to beg a kifs : ^
I am afham'd i-;— O heaven's ! what have I doi\e ?— ^ For this time will I take my leave, my lord.
3ro(. Your leave, fweet Creffid \
Pan. Leave ! an you take leave' 'till tO'inorrov; morning - .-•
Cre. Pray you, content you.
Trei. What offends you, lady? ;
Cre. Sir, mine own company. '
Trot. You cannot Ihun yourfclf. ■^ ■. ^
Cre, Let me go ^ndiry: * I have a kind, of felf refidcs with you j ^ut an unkind felf, that itfelf will leave,
* I bavt m laud tf/elfrtj^4*t ttatbyau ;] So, in oaz tnthoi^
" ^ ■ ■ ■ — fer I, being pent in tliee, .
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• To bcfiaother's ftwi. I would be gone:—
Where U my wit ? I fpeak I knpw not wh^t.
Troi. Well know they what they fpcak> that fpeak fo wifely.
Cre. Perchance, my lord, I Ihcw more craft than love ; Atid fell ii> roundly to a large confeflionf To angle for your thoughts: '^pt you are wile; Or elfe you love not j ' For to be wife and love. Exceeds man's might ; that dwells with gods above.
Tret. O, that I thought it could be in awoinany (As, if it canj I will prefume in you) To feed for aye her lamp and flames pf lovff j To keep her conftancy in plight and youth, ' Ouc-living beauties outward, with a mind That doth renew fwifter than blood decays ! Or, that pcrfuafion could but thus convince'me,T- That my integrity and truth to you 'Might be anronted with the match and weight
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Or tlji y&u t6v* Kti ; Ar t« it fvifi and love, £»ettA mam'i mtgh, ftc] I lelul': - ■ ■ "btit •i(w'r< nM wile. Or elfe w love not ; to be wife oa/ love, ^ceeds man's might ; ■ CreSda, in recnni 10 (he prailp giiicQ by TroQiu to her wifileiii, npUes : " l^ai lovers we never wife ; that it ii beyond th6 power ofmaHlio bring love and tVifiloia 19 an union," JoiiitsoK. V — . ... It itviifi 11^ Uv*. FxtitJi man' I m'irii i ] TU( i« ftom Spenfer, Si**-,
' ** To be Wife, and eke to love, ■^ !■ granted (caiie to gbd> above." TrawNiTT. ** Jm^rt (f/^n vw a Z>» ttmi£tmr." Pub. Syr. ' Syenftrj'^hoin Shakjpeare follbv^, feemi to hire mifunder- ftoedthiiprovcib, Marlbri, in thePwrACow/nM*, 1606, hi|| riM Aau univyht, and the line U piriated at i quotation : ' * ' ** Bnt r..«n)t Inft my fate all ftrong doth move, *' Thgiditbm/ihiti ianttUioifimdUvt."
MavOMB.
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Of fuch a, winiiow^ purity in loiv ; '
How were I fh^n uplifted \ but, alas,
1 am as true as truth's funplicity,
^ iVnd fimpier than [be in^cy of ccutht
Cre. In that I'll war with you. '
ffrw. O viftuous fight, Vfhai right with right wars who Ihall be mtA riglitl
• True fwaips in loye fliall, in the ^orid to rome. Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhynw, FuU of proteft, of path, and big copiparc.
Want fimiliea, truth tir'd with iteration,
* As true as ftjEclj as ^plantage to thp moon,
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• grity wa^t be me^ and aittclied wjil) fuel) «q«klity mi force of ^nic nnaisgled lore." Johnsos.
* J»d Jmf^_ tbm tht infamy tf truth.'] Thii is fine; and IMam, " Et^ triick, to defend itfttf agiunlt dgccit in the com.. jIMvedif^ world, kad^ out of Beceffiiy, learned wordlj poligr.'* * ' Wakbuktoh.
* ^nu/immMihiffvtAaU, in ttfttitrU lo et/ae, J^fnn* thtir triuhf or Treilai ; •uihtx their rbjw^it, WmI *ffr»tefi, tftttb, »n4 hig eompart, i^tmtfiiiiUtii trjtti, tir'ti itiitb iUrMtUK,^-^\ Tke metK, ai well u the .'fenfc, of the \a& verfe ^ be inf. |nwed, I think, by reading ; ' '
Wamfiniliet tfm^h, tir'd vfitb ittrtlutf. So, a little lower'in the (aine fpeecli :
/« ^if r «Zf coinparilbiic ofTratfa. Ttkwhit^. * Ai irmt at fitthi^t-'^ It AiouM be remieBibered that mirran, bdc tiBwofoiirautlior, were Bade ofpUteiof politb^rdfte^ !», a 72f JlAtf^M^a, by MaSnger :
" Take 'down tbe looking-glals;-;^ieie is x mrrtr " StttPJ io txaEAy, &c." A{dii.'iB fit ■Dant^id'a/ Rattrt Sari if H^u^fim, bjr
*• V<a ^y Jhtl-gla.fi wbcTria tboa woat'fi to Utk,
** Tbv u^rAal eya gaze iq a ckryAal brooke.'^
paaof Gal^nie'* piecet is called die Sutl-gkfi ; a title, wU^
■■■te'liilqraof uiepoein, he appcan cvideBd/ to hstvt tifed
« Amomwot to m»tm-.
' "ne ame aUofion n fooad in an old piece oatitled TV Mm||6m( ^ ^tfn?, so date, but pinud ia tVe ttme of ^accit
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As fun to day, as turtle to her mate^ '
" Behold in her the \ive\y gitiji, '• The pattern inu atfiul — —" Ji true aifietl therefi)!^ means— —a/ irut at ibt mirror vthUh, faith/idly rifre/tnlt ivery image that ii prrfinttd heferi it.
* ——pUmtagt to tht MBu,] I formerly made a filly coDJe^are itax the true reading was :
„ ...plantu to ihtir motm, Sue I did not reflefl that it was wrote before Galileo bad dif-. covered the Satellites of Jopiter : fo that plantagt t» the mmv ii right, and alludes to the common opinion of the iitfluenoe ibe moon hat over what is planted or fown, which waj therefore 4oii« ^ the iDcreafe :
" Rite Latonx pnerum canentes,
" Rite crefcentem face noflilucam,
'* Profpcram froggm*' H*r. lib.iT.od.6.
WAKIirKTON.
Phntageii noti I believe, a general tenn, bat the herb which yie qow call plantain, in Latin, planlagi, yyhich ww, I Aippofe, imagined to be under the peculnr inflaeiic* of the moon.
JOHHSOK.
Planlage it the French word for a planlalitn, a pleating, or Jitiittr. See Boyer'a and Cotgrave's Diftionariei. In the Fieiich trandation of Dr. Agricola'i Agrienlture, Platimge a rtbtnrt ia frequently nfed for planting rever/e. Toll'et. ' Shakfpeare fpeaks of pUniain by its common appellation in Komi« and Juliet I and yel la Sapbe and Phao, 1591, MmndrAki 19 called Mandrmge : '
" Sow next thy vines mandrage." From a hook eniil\cA 7he prejitaite Art ef Garitming, &C. by Tho. Hill, Londoner, the third edition, printed in 1579, I learn, Ihacneilher fewittg, planting, nor grafting, were ever uii- dertaken without a fcrapaloui attention to the encreafc or waqiiig of themoon.— — Dryden does not appear to have underftood tbe palDtge, and has therefore altered it thai ;
' ^//rwf AJ flowing 'ides or/ i«/^ mMji.'
Jt true ai fiiel \i *a ancient proverbial fimile. I finditinf^yd- gate's T'riy tfwii where he fpeaks of Troilus, l.ii.ch.i6: " Thereto in love irtiiat ai anj fielt." STEEVEwa.
7nt# Mi plantagt t* the m»eti.'\ This may be fally itluflrated by a qneiation from Scott's Difctvtrii cf ifitcberafi : " The poote hufbandman perceiveth that the increafe of the mmm maketh pianli 'fir4t«full : fo as in the /nil mtene they are in the beft Ametb-; deCaieing.in the lyotf ; and in the f«MJn<?n« do iitMri lie wither tad vade." FAausa, '■".'.
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As iron to adamant *, as earth to the center. Yet, after all comp^Tons of truth, -' As truth's authen^ author to be cited. As true as Troilus iriaU crown up the veric. And fanftify the numbers. "Cre. Prophet may you be 1 ]f I be falfe, or fwfrve a hair from truth. When time is old and hath forgot itfelf, "When water-drops have worn the ftones of Troj, And blind oblivion fwallow'd cities up, ^d mighty ftates charaftcrlefs arc grated To dufty nqthing : yet let memory. From falfe to falfc, among falfe maids in love. Upbraid my falfehood ! when they have faid — as fa]ft As air, as water, wind, or fandy earth, As fox to lamb, as wolfto heifers calf, Pa^d to the hind, or ftcp-dame to her fon ; Yea, Jet them fay, (o ftick the heart of falftiood, As falfe as Crellid.
Pan. Gk> to, a bargain made ; feal it, feal it i ITJl
be the witncfs. Here Ihold your hand; hgre, my
toufin's. If ever you prove falfe to ont another^ iifice I have takeii fuch pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end after my name, call them ^!1 — Pandarsj let all ^ inconAant men be Troilus's, all falfe womeii Creffids,
• at irem It aJMutnl ] §o, in Greene's Tu ^eqa,
" At true to x}m 33 Jletlta adamant." Malowe.
^ Jt truth's authentic author to 'ii tiled,] Troilus Ihill ertvm 'tie 'ver/e,' as a tnan t» bi tiled as ibe aulbtatic anther of truth ; U tee whofc protef1:a.ttons were true toa proverb. Johnson.
'-^intsnftant mm- ■■] So H^nmer. In the copies it i3 earn- fiant. Johnson.
Though HaoRier's emendation be phnfible. I believe Shak- Ipeaxc wrote tanfiant. He feema to nave been lefs attentive to tnalce PanJar talk con fequcnti ally, than to account for the idea* f&ifMlljf aiinixt4 to the three names. Now it it certain, that.
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Crcflids, and all brokers- between Pandars! fay, amen.
Troi. Amen.
Cre. Amen. *
Pan. Amen. Whereupon I will fliew you a bed- chamber } which bed, becaufe ic fiiall not fpeak of your pretty encounten^ prcfs it to death : away.
And Cupid grant all tongue-ty'd maidens here.
Bed, chamber^ Fandar to provide this geer I
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SCENE III.
The Grecian Camp.
Enter Aiaptemnpn, Utyffest Diemd, Ne/forj ^jax^ fdenehuSi and Calcbas.
Cal. Now, princes, for the fervice I have done you. The advantage of the time prompts me aloud To call for recompencp. ' Appear ic to your mind,
that,
in hii dmfc, « Traihu yiu ai detn an expreffion for tt tmifiaaf Icvtr, ta 4 Cn_^Ja and « PomJot were for ^jtit and m fmp. Ttewuitt. ' JfftMr it t«jw- mimJ,
Titt, tbrtngb thtfigkt I itttr /> thinri U ttau,
ihfivt ah^MJ y^-rrr ]
This rcafiining petplcxps Mr. Theobald ; '* He forcTaw tax coaiuty wat jindone ; he ran oyef to the Greelit ) and thii he makes a mtja of (fayi the editor). I owd (contiQue* he] the notivci of hij oratory Teem to be ^mew}rat peryerift xnd aowy tural. Nor do I know how to reconcile it. unlefs onrpeetpnr- pofcly intended to make Calchai 9& the part of a (ne M*fir and ui from nioiives of felf-iatrreft infinDate the merit of (er- irice." The editor did not know how to reconcile th)j. (^or \ neither. For I do qat know \vhat he (Beans by " tbs motirea f>f hh oratory," or, " from inotiTes of felf-intereft to io&niats metit." But if he would infinuate. that it was the poct'i de- ten P nake hi} p^eft fclf-inicrclled, and to repreKot to tto
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That> ' through the fight I bear in things, Co Jorc I hare abandon'd Troy, Left my po0effions,
Incurr'ct
Grecki that whii he did ftir hit omi prefemdon, was done For their lervice, he is miftaken. Shahlpeare ihoa^ht of nothing fd filly, as it wonid be to draw his prieft a inavi, in order to make him talk like a /««/. ThoDgh ihat be the fate which generally attends (heir abufcrr. Bot ahakfpcarewatno fnch j and con fe- qoently wanted not this corer for dDlnefi, The fimtrfnifi ia all the editor*! owot who isterprets,
. > ■ -tbnugh the fight I baivt in tbingi ta etmtt '
J bmve aianJn'd TrBj~-— • fofignifj, "bymypowerof prefciedce finding tnycoantrymtiS be mined, I have therefore abandoned it to feek refuge with yon ;" whereas die true Anfe is, " Be it known unto you, that on ao count of a gift or faculty I hare of feeing things to come, which faculty I fuppofe wonld M efteemed by you as acceptable and ule- fal, I bafe abandoned Tfoy m^ i»ti*e country." That he could ' not mean what the editor <opi»f«, appears 6am thefe confidera- tioDs: Ftrft, if he had reprdented Mmfelf as ronning from a fidlicg city, he could never bare fud :
I havfr- ■ expoi'd myfelf.
Prom certmn and poflefs'd conrenicnciei.
To J»nht/Ml fortunes ;- •■ ■ ■ Secondly, the abfolnte knowledge of the fiill of Troy was a fecret hit from the inferior gods themlelves ; as appears from the poeti- cal hiAorr of that war. It depended on many contingencies, whole exiftence tbiy did not forefee. All that they knew was, that if fuch and fnch things happened, Troy would fall. And this fecret they communicated to Caflandra only, but along with it, the fate not to be believed. Several othen knew e^h a ^t- r^ pan of riie fecret; txt, chat Troy could not be taken nnlefs Achilles went to the war ; another, that it could not fall while h had the fallaJium ; and lb on. Bot the lecrer, that It was abfblntely to fall, was known to none.-^^The fenfc here given will admitof bo difpute amongft thofe who know how acceptable */ttr was amongft the Greek). So that this Calchas, lih « irut fritfi. If it needs muft be fb, went where he could exercife his proAffon with moft advantage. For it being much lefs common ifflongft die Greeks than the Afiatici, there wonld be a greater demand for it. Warexjutoh,
I am afraid, that after all the learned commentator's eSbrti ta clear the atgnmcnt of Calchas, it will iHU appear liable to ob- jeftion t nor do I difoover more to be urged in his defence, than that though his Ikill in divinatioQ determined him to leave Tro^, /et that he joined himfelf xo Agamemnon and his army by gn- con drained
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Incurr'd a traitor's name j expos'd myfelfi
From certain and poffeft coiiveniencies.
To doubtful fortunes ; fequeftring from me all
That time, acquaintance, cuftom, and condition.
Made tame and moft familiar to my nature i
And hert, to do you fervice, am become
As new into the world, ftrange, unacquainted i
I do befeech you, as in way of taftcj
To give me now a little benefit.
Out of thofe many rcgiftred in promifei
T/Vhich, you fay, live to come in my behalf.
Jlgatn. What wouldft thou of us, Trojan? make demand.
Cal. You have a Trojan prifoner, call'd Antenor* Yefterday took; Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you (often have you thanks therefore) Defir'd my Creffid in right great exchange. Whom Troy hath ftill deny'd : But this Antendr^ I know, isfuch a wreft in their affairs. That their negotiations all muft flack. Wanting his manage; and they will almoft Give us a prince of blood, a fon of Priam, In change of him : let him be fentj great princes. And he Jhall buy my daughter; and her prefencc iShall quite ftrike off all fervice I have done,
conllrained good-will ; and though he came as a fugitive ercap- ing from deftruftion, yet his fervices after his reception, beinjg ToTuntary and important, deferved rewaM. This argamentis not rcgulaily and diftinftly deduced, but this is, I think, the beft explication (hat it will yet admit. Johnson.
• tbreiigh the fight t btar ia tbingi, « Jove] Thb paflage
in all the moi^rn editions ia £lently depraved, and printed thus :
^—Ibreugb the fight I hiar in things tt come. The word is fo printed tha( nothing but tlie fecfe can determine whether it be laiit or ys-ue. I believe that the editors read tt u Itve, and therefore made the alteriilion to obtain fome meaning.
JoHNSOM.
— ~to Uvt, might meaa— to tlie confc^u^cea of Paos'* lavt for Helen. STBEv»t(>.
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' In moft accepted pain.
^am. Let DionnedeS'bcar him. And bring us Crefiidhither; Calchas Ihall have- What he requefts o£ us.— Good Diomed> Furnifti you fairly for this entcrchange: Withal, bring word-r'-'if Hefltor will to-morrow " Be anfwer'd in his challeage t Ajax .is ready.
Biom. This fliall I undertake! and, 'tis a burdea Which I am protid to bear.
\Exeunt 'Diomedt and Cakbaj,
Enter JchllleSy and Patroclus, hefsre tkiir tent,
XJlyJf. Achilies ftands'i' the entrance of his tent :— Pleafe it our general to pafs ftrangcly by him. As if he were forgot ; — and, princes all. Lay negligent and loofe'regaixi upon him :— — — ■ 1 will come laft : 'Tis like, he'll queftion me. Why fuch unplaufive eyes arc bent, why turn'd on s him : ■ '
If fo, 1 have ' derifion med'cinable. To ufe between your ftrangenefs and his pride. Which his own will ihall have dcfije to drinkj It may do g6od : ptride hath no other glafs To ihew itfelf, but pride ; for fupple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.
AgamC We'll execute your purpbfe, and put on A form of ftrangenefs as we pafs along';
• /» moft acetfuJ ^^a.^ Sir T. Hanmer, aad Dr. Warimrton afWr hitn, read :
In Haft aeftftid pay> Tlie7 do oot fcf m to anderftand the cimftniaion of the pafliuw. BrrfTifnct, ivftdttHMifiiaUftTikteff, Qr ncompcnce tit /tt^ vice / iave dan*, eren in tbcfe iaBeuri which were Mojl atctpiid.
JORXtOM.
■ — ».-derifioD mtd'tinaiU,'\ AlLthe modtrr edition) hnre dtif- Jiaf. The old copies are apparently {ig)LC. . Theiblio in thii place agrecj with uw qoarto, fo.that the cbrrupiion wai at firA norety accidental. Johnson. '" "" --' -
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So do each lord ; and either greet him not.
Or elfe difilunfullr, which fiiall Ihake him ai(x«
Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way.
Jtbil. What> comes the general to fpeak with mef Tou know my mi nd, 111 fidrt no more 'gajnft Troy.
Jram. Whatfaya AchiUcs? -would he aughc with us?
Ifefi. Would you, my lotd, au^t with the general ^ , ^chil. No.
A"^. Nothing, my lord.
jgam. The better.
^cbil. Good day, good day.
Men. How do you f how do you ?
Jcbil. What, docB the cuckold fcom me ?
j^. How now, Patroclus ?
j^ciil. Good morrow, Ajax.
J^ax. Ha?
j^cbtl. Good morrow.
^jax. Ay, and good next day too. lExtunf,
Itbil. What mean thcfe fellows ? know they not Achilles ?
Pair. They p^s by ftnmgdy : they were us'd M bend. To fend their fmilcs before them to Achilles f To come as humbly, as they us'd to creep To holy altars.
Jcbil. What, ami poor of late H *Tis certain, Grcatneis, once fallen out with (brtunCi Mufl. fall out with men too : What the declln'd is. He (hall as foon read in the eyes of others. As feel in his own fall: for men, like butterflies. Shew not their mealy wings, but to the fummer t And not a man, for bring limply man. Hath an^ honottr ; but's honour'd for thofe honoun That are i^thout hiffi, as place, riches, favour, . Frizes dT accident as oft as merit:
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Which when they fall,' as being flippfry ftanders. The love thac lean'd on them as nippery too* Doth one pluck down another, and togethcc Die in the. fall. But 'tis not fo with me : Fortune and I are friends } I do enjoy . At ample point all chat I did po0efs. Save thefe men's looks j who do, methinks, find out Something in me not worth thac rich beholding As they have often given. Here is IJIyfleS} I'll interrupt, his reading. — —How now, yiyffes ?
Ulyjl. Now, great Thetis' fon ?
AchU, What arc you reading f
XJlyJ. A ftrangc fellow here Writes me. That man — * how dearly ever parCedj
How much in having, or without, or in,
Cvinot make boaft to have chat which he hath. Nor fceis not what he dwes, but by refleflion j As when his' virtues fliining upon others Heat chem, and they retort that heat again To the firft giver.
Aibil. This is not ftrange, Ulyffes. The beauty thift is borne here in the face. The bearer knows noc, but commends itfelf
*.■■ I J>wAar^»t«r parted,] i.e. how exqaiGtel/ foerer liu nnocj be ilivided and balanced in him. So, in Remte tmd Juiitt: "StQff'd, as they lay, with hanoanhle parts, pnporihntd as one's thoBghts would wiflt a man." Wakburton,
I do not thmk that in the wordfarttJ is included any idea of •Hvifiui it mean), hvwfotr txciiltntlj tndati/ed, with however dear at pttoaat parti enriched or adorned. Johnson.
Dr. Johnlbn'a expolition is ftrongly Aipported by a fubfeqoent Kne:
" ~~-That no man » the lord of any thing, " (Though in and of him there is much confilling) " Till he communicate itispartt toothers." So. firfimt:
" Scue tuum nihil eft, ntfi te fcire, hoc fciat alter." See alb the Dr/maih Pirfintt of B. Jonfon's Et/try Man eat tf Bwmnr i f Macilbnti, a man yttW-paritd ; a fafficient nolar, ttc." Malom.
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' To othew' ey« : nor doth the eye itfelf +, (That moft pure fpirit of fenfc) behold itfelf, ■ Not going from ittelf j but eye to eye oppos'd Salutes each other with each other's form. For fpeculation turns not to itfelf, 'Till it hath travell'd, and is marry'd there Where it may fee icfelf : this is not ftrange at lU*
Ul^. 1 do not firain at the pofttion, It islamiliar ; but at the author's drift : WhOj ' in his circumftatiee, cxprefsly provc»— That no man is the lord of any thing, (Though in and of him there is much conQfting)^ 'Till he communicate his parts to others i Nor doth he of himfelf know them for aught 'Tilt he behold them form'd in the applaufe Where they are extended j which, like an arch, r»>
verberates The voice again j or like a gate of fteel - Fronting the fun, receives and renders back His figure and his heat. I was much rapt in thn;^ And apprehended here immediately *.Thc unknown Ajax.
Heavens, what- a man is there ! a very hoHe j That has he knows not what. Nature, what things
there are. Molt abjeft in regard, and dear in ufc I What things again moft deat in the efteem,
• Ta tlheri' tjti. Sec {That mfi pure Jiirif, SkA Thde two lion trc totally omitted in all the edidoM bat Ike fir{| qnarto. Popb. ■• — -w dub tht ^ ir/tl/,} So, in Julius Cefar : " No Caffini ; Jbr the eye fen not itfelF, *' Bnt hf reflexios, by Mme other things."
' ■ "t'» til rirewmfitnei,--—'\ In the detail or circamda&ion •f hu ttgQtnent. Johnson.
• Tb§ nhitvm JJmx,] Ajax, who his abilities which weie nem brought into view or nfe. Johkson. •
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And poor in worth ! ' Now fhall we fee to-momw
An aa that very chance doth throw upon him,
Ajax rcDOwn'd. O heavens> what Ibme men do.
While Ibme men leave to do !
* How fome men creep in flcittifli fortune's ball.
While others play the ideots in her eyes 1
How one man eats into another's pride.
While pride is ' feafting in his waatonnefil
To fee thefe Grecean lords ! — why, even already
They clap the lubber Ajax on the Ihoulder j
As if his foot were on brave Hci^or's breaft.
And great Troy fhrinking.
Aebil. I do believe it :' for they pafs'd by me. As mifers do by beggars -, neither gave to me Good word, nor look : What are my deeds forgtn ?
Ui^' ' Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his backy Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, - A great-fiz'd monfter of ingratitudes: Thofe fcraps are good deeds paft ; which arc devoured As faft aq chey are made, forgot as foon As done : Pcrfevcrance, dear my lord. Keeps honour bright : To have done, is to luug Quite out of fafhion, like a rufly mail
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^ aS that very cbanci Jotb ihravi up«n him jl/ax r«R0Tvi)V-] 1 would read : Ajax rtnetun. Xht piCage u it ftajids in the rolio Is bstrdly fenre. If riiuwm'4 ht right, we ooghc to read :
Bj ui tOi, ice. Maloni.
' Hmiftmi ami Creep in jkittifii fcrtum's haH.) To truf u to Jtttf *Mt tf Jtght ffom whatever motive. Some mx.^ kttf tut ^ maiiei im tbt bail Bf fertnt, while others, though they bat /Zof tWidnt, sre always in btr tje, in the way of diftinfUon.
JoKHSON.
» -fiafiing ] Folio. The quarto has /atf/iij'. Either
word may bear a good fen fe. Jokmson.
* Tim* hmtb, uj Urd, a -walltt at bis back,'] .This fpeech il printed in all the modern editions with fuch deviatioiis from iha oUcopy, as exceed ihe lawful power of an editor. JoaMioit.
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In monumental mockery. Take the inftant way ;
For.honour travels in a ftreight fo narrow,
Where one but goes abreaft : keep then the path :
For erciulatjon bath a thoufand Tons,
ThSt one by one purfuc; If you give way.
Or hedge afide from the direft forthrightj
Like to an enired tide, they all rulh by.
And leave you hindmoft* j —
Of Iik« a gallant horfe fallen in Brtl rank.
Lie there for pavement ' to the abjcft rear,.
* O'er run and trampled on : Then what they do in
. prcfent. Though lefs than yours in paft, muft o'er-top yours : For time is like a fafhionable hoft. That flightly (hakes his parting gueft by the hand ; • And with his arms out-ftrctch'd, as he would fly,
Grafps-in the comer: Welcome ever fmiles, , And farcwel goes out fighing. O, let not virtue feck *■ Remuneration for the thing it was ; * for beauty, wit. High birth, vigour of bone, dcfcrt in fcrvicc. Love, friendftiip, charity, arc fubjeils all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,—
' ^— and there you lie:] TheCemotds ate not in tbe folio.
JORKION.
Nor in any other copy ihat I have feen. I have given the palTage as I found it in tne folio. Steevehs. ' * ' te tie afijta rear,] So Hanmer, All the editott be- fore him read ;
ttthtahjtB, near. JoRNtON.
♦ OVr TiM, tc] The qaarto wholly omiti llie fisile of the horfe, and reads thus :
And leatityett hmimaft, ihin vfhai thtj da at frtftnt. The folio ferms to have fome omiSion, for the fimile begins,
Oi. like a galloiii horfi Jobhsom.
' The modern editors read :
Fsr btttMij, ivil, high binb, dtfirt im/trvici, tic. I da not deny but the changes produce a roorc eafy lapfe of num- ber]; bat they do not exhibit the work of Shakfpearc.
JOHNIOI*.
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That alJ, with one confcnt, praife ncw-bom gawds. Though they are made and moulded of things paft ; * And fliew to duft, that is a little gilt. More laud than gilt o'er-duftcd. The prefcnt eye praifes the prefent objeft : Then marvel nor, thou great and complete man. That all the Greeks begin to wbrihip Ajax ; Since things in mption fooner catch the eye. Than what not ftirs. The cry went once on thee ', And ftill it might, and yet it may again. If thou would'ft not entomb thyfelf alive. And cafe thy reputation in thy tent ; Whofe glorious deeds, but in thefe fields of late, •Madecmulousmiflions'mongft the gods themfelves.
And
* JiiJffi tt> Jufi, that ii a Jittlt gilt, MtrelaiiJ than gilt e'lr-Jufliii^ In thu loangled condition do we find this truly fine obrcrvation tranrmitted in the old/hliBt. Mr. Pope faw it wai corrupt, and dierefore, as I prefume, threw it out of the text ; becaufe he would ttot iniiMlgt hii frivtiu Jtn/e in attempting to make fenfe of it. I owe the foundation of the amendmcRt, which I have
f'vcD to the text, to the fagacity of the iDgedious Dr. Thirlb)'. read:
.ArfgiPC ta duft, thai it a Ultle gitt.
Mart laud than they wilt give to gold a'tr-dmfted,
Tkeobalb. Thit emendation has been adopted by the fucceeding editor*, bat t«cedes too far from the copy. There is no other corrapik>a than fnch a* Shak(j>eare's incorreAnefs often refembles. Hq has omitted the article /d in the fecond tine : he Ihoald have written :
Mare laud ibax Xo gilt a'ir-dufied. Johnson.
' «(<-rr-u-«<on««/A«,] ThefoIioh»s:
out on thee, Malokr. .
* fSadt tmulaui milTionj ] Mijiens for diiiifians, i. t, going!
oot, on one fide and the other. Warbuktok.
The meaning of mijpa* feems to be dij'paichei of the god9yr«ar hufvtn about mortal bufmefs, fuch as often happened at the Itege ofTroy. Johnson.
It means the defcent of deities to combat on either lide ; an
ides which Shakfpearc very probably adopted from Chapmaa'a
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And dravtf great Mars to faftion.
Jcbil. Of this my privacy I have ftrong rcafons.
UlyJ. But 'gainft your privacy The reafons are more potent and hcroical : 'TJs known, Achilles, that you are in love • With one of Priam's daughters*. Achil. Ha ! known ? XJiyJf- Is that a wonder? ' The providence that's in a watchful ftate, •Knows almoft every grain of Pluto's gold ( Finds bottom in the uncomprchenfive deeps; *Keeps place with thought; and almoft, like the gods. Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There is a myftery (' with whom relation Durft never meddle) in the foul of ftate j "Which hath an operation more divine. Than breath, or pen, can give expreflure to : All the commerce that you Have had with Troy, -
tnnfl«tioii of Homer. In the Gfth book Diomcd woundi Mirt, who on hit Ktura to heaven is rated by Jupiter for having inter- fered in th« battle. Thb difobedience ii the faait» which t fuppofe UlylTes woald defcribe. Steevens.
> ^—tBt t/ Priam's t/oKgiteri.] Holyxena, in the afl of mar- ryinf! whom, he was afterwards killed by PaFis. Stbeveks. ■XiiMaf almrfi, &c.} For this elegant line the quarto has only,
Kmcuji almcft every thing. Johnson. I diink we fiiould read, efPlutiu' gtid, Soi Baaamont and Fletcher') Phihfttr, Aft IV :
" 'Ti» not the wealth of Pluiiu, nor the gold ' r
" lAck'd in the heart of earth"
It fttould be remember'd however, that minet if gold were an- ciently fuppofed to \x guar Jed by dirmeas. 'Steevehs.
* Keepi place wiVi tbeugbf^' ] i. e. there is in the provi-r
tlence of a ftate, as in the providence of the univerfe, a kind of mHjuitj- The expreffion Is exquifiiely fine : yet the Oxford editor alters it to ieept face, and fo dellroyi all its beauty.
Warivkton. • I. {viilb VKhBtn relation
Darfi ne^er meddle) ] There is a fecrel admiDiftratlon
ef affairs, which no Ai/fwy was ever able to difcover. Johnson,
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As pafeQif is- ours, as joun, m^ lordj
And better would it fie Achilles much. To throw down Heftor, than Polyxcna : But it muft grieve young Pyrrhus now at home^ . When fsune (hall in our iflands found her trumps And all the Greekifli girls Ihall tripping fing,« Great Heaer'sjifter did ^cbiliei win; But our brave iijax bravely beat down him. Farewel, my lord ; I as your lover fpeak j The fool Aides o'er the ice that you fliould break.
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Pat. To this efie£t, Achilles, have I mov'd y^u t A woman impudent and mannifli grown Is not more loath'd, than an effeminate man In time of aftion. ' I ftand condemn'd for this ; They think, my little ftomach to the war. And your great love to me, reftrains you thus : Sweet, roufe yourfelf i and the weak wanton Cupi4 Shall from your neck unloofc his amorous fold. And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane. Be Ihook *to air.
Acbil. Shall Ajax fight with Hedor f
Pstr. Ay i and, perhaps, receive much honour hf him.
Achil. I fee, my reputation is at ftake j My fame is fbrewdly gor'd.
rtOr. O, then beware j Tbofe wounds heal ill, that men do give th^mleJves i ' Omiflion to do what is neceiTary Seals a commifTion to a blank of dangeri And danger, like an ague, fubtly tainrs ^ven then when we lit idly in the fun.
* ^11 ■■ ft «|r-] So tbe qnuto. Tlie folia ; . ■■' '4» *ay mir, Johnson,
* Omijian t» it ftc] By V'j/n9'n; our dot}' we fMm^a c^ mable that «/>ivn- of dilhJotiaur, which could not i«acb u be f0tt, tolaylidA upon i\. JoHitsotr.
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Acbil. Go call Therfites hither, fweet Patroclus t I'll fend the fool to Ajax, and dcfirc him To invite the Trojan lords after the combat, To fee us here unartn'd : I have a woman's longing> . An appetite that \ am fick withal. To fee great Heftor in his weeds of peace ; To talk with him, and to behold his vifagf. Even to my full of view. A labour fav'd \
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Ther. A wonder !
Jchil. What?
^ber. Ajax goes up and down the field, a/king for himfeif.
Mbil. How fo ?
Ther. He muft fight (ingly to-morrow with Hec- tor; and is foprophctically proudof an heroical cud- gelling, that he raves in faying nothing.
j4cbil. How can that be ?
^ber. Why, he ftalks up and down like a peacock, a ftridc, and a ftand : ruminates, like an hoftefs, that hath no arithmetic but her brain to fet down her reckoning: bites his lip 'with a politic regard, as who Ihould fay — there were wit in this head, an 'twould out; and fo there is ; but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a dint, which will not fhew without knocking. T4ie man's undone for ever; forifHe'c- tor break not his neck i'the combat, he'll break it himfeif in vain-glory. He knows not me: I faid, Goed-morrew, AJax; and he replies, Tbanks, Ags- Ttumnon. What ihink you of this man, that rakes me for the general ? He's grown a very land-fifti, lan- guagelcfs, a monfter. A plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on both fides, like a leather jerkin.
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^cbil. Thou'muft be my embaflador to him, TherGtes.
Tber. Who, I? why, he'll anfwer no bodyj he profelTes not anfwering j fpeaking is for beggars ; he wears his tongue in his arms. I will put on his pre- fenccj let Patroclus make demands to me, you fhall fire the pageant of Ajax.
jieiii. To him, Patroclus : Tell him, — I humbly deflre the valiant Ajax, to invite the moft valorous Heftor to come unarm 'd to my tent;' and to pro- cure fafe conduct for his perfon, of the magnani- mous, and moft: illuftrious, fix-or-fevcn-times-ho- nour'd captain-general of the Grecian army, Aga- memnon, &c. Do this.
Pair. Jove biefs great Ajax !
7ber. Hum!
J*atr, I come from the worthy Achilles.
ntr. Ha!
Patr. Who moft humbly dcfires you, to inrite He£tor to his tent.
Tier. Hum!
Pair. And to procure fafe condud from Aga- memoon.
Tber. Agamemnon ?
Pair. Ay, my lord.
Tber. Ha!
Patr. What fay you to't ?
Tbtr. God be wi'you, with all my heart.
Patr. Your anfwer, fir.
Tb€r. If to-morrow beafairday, by eleven o'clock it will go one way or oiherj howfoever, he fliall dot for me ere he has me.
Patr. Your anfwer, fir,
Ther. Fare you well, with all my heart.
jicbiL Why, but he is not in this tune, is he f
Tber. No, but he's out o'tune thus. Whatmuficfc
will be ia him when Hedor has koock'd out hii
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brains, I know not: But, I am furft, none t ut^ets the fidlcr Apollo get his finews to make catlings on'.
^rW/.Conie,thou(halt bcara letter to himftniight.
Ther. Let me bear another to his horfe j for that's the more capable creature.
jfebil. My mind is troubled, Kke a fountain ftirr'd; And 1 myfelf fee not the bottom of it.
r Exeunt jichtlUs, and Patreclus.
Tier. 'Would the fountain of your mind were clear <^^in, that liiiight water an ajs at it! I had rather be a tick in a llieep, than fuch a valiant ignorance.
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A C T IV. S C E N E I.
A fireet in Trey.
Enter at one doer Mtteas, and Servant, xoUb a torch ; at another. Parts, Detphohus, Antenor, ondDiomed, kic. with torehts.
Par. See, ho ! who is that there ?
Dei. It is the lord jEneas. ■ jEne. Is the prince there in perfon ?-;- Had I ib good occafion to lie long, , As 70U, prince Faris, nought but neavenly liufinefs Should rob my bed mate of my company.
J)i$, Thai's my mind too.-— Good-morrow, lord £neas.
Par. A valiant Greek, ^neas ; take his hand : Witncfs the procefs of your fpcech, wherein You told — how DJoHKd, a whole week by days, pid h^unc you in the field.
» tt moil calling* »*.] Ft Iim heen AtkhAj obfe'rred Att
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JSne. Health to jooy valiant fir, ^ During all queftion of the gentle truce : But when I meet you arm'd> as black dcfiaoce. As heart can think, or courage execute.
Dio. The one and other Diomed embraces. Our bloods arc now in calm; and, fo loog, health: But when contention and occaGon meet, B]r Jove, I'll play the hunter for thy life» With all my force, purfuit, and policy.
jEne. * And thou fhah hunt a lion, that will (ij With his face backward. In humane gcntlened. Welcome to Troy ! now, by Anchifes'life,. Welcome, indeed ! ' By Venus' hand I fwear. No man alive can love, in fuch a fort. The thing he means to kill, more excellently.
' Dtriifg a!i queftion »f ihtgntU trat$ .-] I once ^ughf w read:
Daring ^l quiet af ihi gmtiU'lruct. But I think quefiian means intercourle, inurctiuge of coiwerfiu tion. JoHNiDN.
• AnJiiraufi/Bh bmtalian.thaiwiU/y
fTith biifa<i iaci m bunair gmlllni/i.'] Thui Mr. Pope is his great fagucity pointed this paflage in bis firjl edition, soi de* naang from the error of the old copies. What conception he had to himfelf of a lion A/'nf in bumami gtjiilfnt/t,lwi]l notpre- teod ta«Snn : I^ppole lie had the idea of tu gently at * lamf, or, u what our valgar call an Eflex lion, a calf. Ifan^other lion fly with his face turned backward, it is fighting all the wajr ai he retreats ; and in chij manner it is £oeai profefles that h^ Jhall fly when he's hunted. Bat where then are the fymptomi Of hiaaiaie gntim/t f My coireAion of the pointing ri^ftom good, ftofe, and a proper behaviour in £nea». AifooDatevcrhe has returned Diomedes' brave, he Itops fhort, and coricfls hinfelf fiiT expreffing To mach fury in a time of truce ; from the fierce Ibldier becomes the courtier at once ; and, remembering hit enemy to be a gnefl and an am(>aJEidor, welcomes him as fuck to the Trepan camp. Theobald.
• ~—Bj ytnn.'-band 1 fwtar,] This oath was ufcd to infi- anate fiis refentment for Diomedes' wounding his mother ill tlie band. WAaBiiitTON.
I believe Shakfpeare had no ftich allulion in hi) ihoQghti. life would hardly have made jSneas' ciril and uncivil In the fiuas bivath. Stekvehs. '
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Dig, We fympathize : — Jove, let JEneas live. If to my fword his fate be not the glory, A choufancf complete courfes of the fun ! But, in mine emulous honour, let him die, With every joint a wound j and that to-morrow !
j^ae. We know each other well.
Dio. Wc do ; and long to know each other worfe.
Par. This is the moft defpitcful gentle greeting. The nobleft hateful love, that e'er 1 heard of,— What bufinefs, lord, fo early ?
jEne. I was fent for to the king; but why, I know not.
Par. ' His purpofe meets you ; *Twas to bring this Greek Tp Calchas' houfc ; and there to render him For the cnfrecd Antenor, the fair Creffid : l^et'shave your company; or, if you plcafe, Halte there before us: I conftantly do think, (Or, rather, call. my thought a certain knowledge) My brother Trollus lodges there to-night ; Roufe him, and give him note of our approach, ' With the whole quality wherefore : I fear, Wc lliall be mach unwelcome.
^se. That I alTure you ; Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece, Than Creffid borne from Troy.
, Par, There is no help ; The better difpofition of the time Will have it fo. On, lordj we'll follow you.
j£ne. Good morrow, all. [£*»/.
Par. And tell me, noble Diomed ; 'faith, tell me true. Even in the foul of found good-fellowlhip, — Who, in your thoughts, merits fair Helen beft, Myfelf, or Menclaus i
* Iii>piirfiiJimeelijemi—^~~~'] I bring jrou hb toeaning and biioidcn. JoHHsoK.
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Dio. Both alike : He merits well to have her, that doth fcek her (Not making any fcruple of her foylurc) with fach a hell of pain, and \y6rld of chaige; And you as well to keep her, that defend her (Not palating the tafte of her diilionoiir) With fuch 9. coftly lofs of wealth and friends: He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up The lees and 'dregs of * a flat piece; You, like a lecher, out of whorifli loins Arc pleas'd to breed out your inheritors: ' Both merits pois'd, each weighs nor Icfs nor more; But he as he, the heavier for a whore.
Par. You are too bitter to your country-womao.
Dio, She's bitter to her country: Hear me, Paris,— For every falfe drop in her bawdy veins" A Grecian's life hath funk ; for every fcruple Of her cootaminated carrion weight, A Trojan hath been {lain : fince Ihe could fpeak. She hath not given fo many good words breath. As for her Greeks and Trojans fuffer'd death.
Par. Fair Diomed, you do as chapmea do,
*— v«jftu tuaed/uc«;] i.e. apUceofwIneonCof wUch tlkelpirit U alt flown. Warbukton.
' Beth mtriti pois'd, tach lutighi ne Icfi nor mert ; Bm hi at be, which htaijitr for a luiuirt.] I TCiad :
But he ai he, eaci heavier for a whore. /Truvf is rakea botli for luiighiy, and {oc/aJ or mi/eratU. 1^ qnaito rexda :
But hs aa he, the heavier for a whore. I know not whether the thought U not that of a wager. It ravft then be read thus :
fiat he u he. Which heavier for a whore .* Th«t ii,/0r 0 lahwt flaked down, i»bick it tit itaviif.
JOHHSOK.
Ai tke qiuno reatli,
tit heavier for a whore. I think all new pointing or alteration unnecelTary. The (enfa np- peiTi to be this : the merita of either are fnnlc in Talae, bectoM tbecontefi between then is only for a {trumpet. Stibvini.
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Dirpnufe the thing that you dcGre to buy : But we IB fUcnce hold this virtue well, — — • Well not commend what we intend to fell. Here lies our way. lExeimt.
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Pandarus' bsufe. JEnter TreHus, and Creffida.
Trft. Dear, trouble not yourTelf ; the mom is cold.
Ov. Then , fweet my IokI, I'll call my uncle down ; He fhall unbolt the gates.
Tret. Trouble him not ; To bed, to bed : ' Sleep kill thoie pretty eyes. And ffive as foft attachment to thy feuies, A;s infants' empty of all thought 1
Or. Good morrow then.
Trw. I pr'ytbee now, to bed.
Crg, Are you aweary of me?
Trei. OCrellida! butrthat the bufy day, Wak'd by the lark, has rouz'd the ribald crows, 7 And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer, I would not from thee.
Cm. Night hath been too brief.
ing it only this : thoagh yon praflile ihe Dayer** art, we will not praAilii the feller't. We intend to fell Huen dear, yet will not commend her. Joknmn.
Dr. Warborton woold read, mt fell. StietbAi.
The fenfe, 1 ikinlc, tcquirci we &oold read e»m/tm*.
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Tret. Bdhrew the witch \ with venomous mgbti' ' flic ftays, * As tediouHy as hell i but fliiES the grafps of lore, / 'Witli wings more piomentary-fwift than tlu>ught* You will catch cold, andcurfcmc.
Crf. Pr'ythce, tarry ; — you men will neirer tarty. .
0 fooiiOi Crcflida !— I might have ftill held off. And then you would have tarry'd. Hark I dim'*
one up. Pan. {vfitbi/ij What's all the doors open here? Trffi. It is your uncle.
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Cre. Apeftileace on him ! row will he be mockiDg:
1 (hall have fuch a life,
Pm. How now, tww now ? how go maiden- heads F— Here, you maid ! where's. my cquHd Cref-
mi
Ov. Oo hangyourfelf, you naughty mocking unde I
* ^ laSu^—^] The folio has :
* t^ti w)»/< Mvrt momcotaiy-fwift tim tiaif^.'] Tke lecoB4 &lia,KMb:
With wiDgf more momentarj, fieiptr tkan thonglit. Malokb. ' X»ttr pMidarMt.'\ The hint fiir the fbllomng fhort converii- doD between Puiduiu ud Creffida u cakea from Chavei** Tnilmi »mJ Ct^Jt, book j. t. i$5i.
'* Pendwei a morot^ wbich that coramin wat
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