Line 55. I nill relate;] The further consequences of this storm I shall not describe. MALONE. Line 57. Which might not what by me is told.] i. e. which might not conveniently convey what by me is told, &c. What ensues may conveniently be exhibited in action; but action could not well have displayed all the events that I have now related. MALONE. ACT III. SCENE I. Our Line 84. Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.] author uses the same expression, on the same occasion, in The Tempest: "You mar our labour;-keep your cabins; you do assist the storm." MALONE. Line 92. Vic honour with yourselves.] The meaning is sufficiently clear. In this particular you might learn from us a more honourable conduct. MALONE. Line 107. -I do not fear the flaw;] i. e. the blast. MALONE. 137. Bring me the saltin coffer:] The old copies havecoffin. It seems somewhat extraordinary that Pericles should have carried a coffin to sea with him. We ought, I think, to read, as I have printed,-coffer. ACT III. SCENE II. Line 173. The very principals did seem to rend, MALONE. And all to topple :] The principals are the strongest rafters in the roof of a building. MALONE. MALONE. Line 178. 'Tis not our husbandry.] Husbandry here signifies economical prudence. Line 204. To please the fool and death.] The Fool and Death were principal personages in the old moralities. They are mentioned by our author in Measure for Measure: ―merely thou art death's fool," &c. Line 242. mundane-] i. e. worldly. MALONE. MALONE. ACT IV. Line 12. oft the wrack served. Line 21. Of earned praise,] Praise that has been well de -or when to the lute She sung, and made the night-bird mute, MALONE. That still records with moan;]" A bird (I am informed) is said to record, when he sings at first low to himself, before he becomes master of his song and ventures to sing out. The word is in constant use with bird-fanciers at this day." MALONE. Line 31. With absolute Marina :] i. e. highly accomplished, perfect. MALONE. Line 45. Prest for this blow.] Prest is ready; pret, Fr. ACT IV. SCENE I. MALONE. Line 59. No, [no], I will rob Tellus of her weed, To strew thy green with flowers:] Thus the quartos. By the green, as "the green turf In the folio grave was substituted for green. Weed in old MALONE. Line 93. With more than foreign heart.] With the same warmth of affection as if I was his countrywoman. MALONE. Line 95. Our paragon to all reports,] Our fair charge, whose beauty was once equal to all that fame said of it. MALONE. That excellent complexion, which did steal guard, to preserve carefully. MALONE. Line 121. That almost burst the deck,] Burst is frequently used by our author in an active sense, MALONE. Wash'd off a canvas-climber:] A ship-boy. MAL. ACT IV. SCENE III. Line 196. Ay, she quickly pooped him ;] The following passage in The Devil's Charter, a tragedy, 1607, will sufficiently explain this singular term: -foul Amazonian trulls, "Whose lanterns are still lighted in their poops." Line 230. Unripe, unskilful. Line 286. bends. MALONE. -that she may not be raw in her entertainment.] MALONE. that cowers the hams?] Cowers, i. e. Line 289. he offered to cut a caper at the proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see her to-morrow.] If there were no other proof of Shakspeare's hand in this piece, this admirable stroke of humour would furnish decisive evidence of it. MALONE. Line 297. -we should lodge them with this sign.] If a traveller from every part of the globe were to assemble in Mitylene, they would all resort to this house, while we had such a sign to it as this virgin. MALONE. Line 310. for your bride goes to that with shame, which is her way to go with warrant.] You say true; for even a bride, who has the sanction of the law to warrant her proceeding, will not surrender her person without some constraint. Which is her way to go with warrant, means only-to which she is entitled to go. MALONE. ACT IV. SCENE IV. Line 355. Unless you play the impious innocent,] She calls him an impious simpleton, because such a discovery would touch the life of one of his own family, his wife. An innocent was formerly a common appellation for an ideot. MALONE. Line 376. wench. a malkin, Not worth the time of day.] A malkin, i. e. a coarse Line 380. It greets me, as an enterprize of kindness, Perform'd to your sole daughter.] me, may mean, it pleases me; c'est à mon gré. Perhaps it greets MALONE. Line 394. Doth swear to the gods, that winter kills the flies ;] You resemble one who is angry with heaven, because it does not control the common course of nature. Marina, like the flies in winter, was fated to perish; yet you lament and wonder at her death, as an extraordinary occurrence. MALONE. Line 398. Sail seas in cockles,] We are told by Reginald Scott, in his Discovery of Witchcraft, 1584, that "it was believed that witches could sail in an egg shell, a cockle, or muscle shell, through and under tempestuous seas."-This popular idea was probably in our author's thoughts. MALONE. Line 429. who first is gone.] Who has left Tharsus before her father's arrival there. Line 454. cease. MALONE. −(and swears she'll never stint,)] She'll never MALONE. ACT IV. SCENE VI. Line 493. How now? How a dozen of virginities?] For what price may a dozen of virginities be had? So, in King Henry IV. Part II: "How a score of ewes now ?" Line 533. MALONE. -without any more virginal fencing,] This un common adjective occurs again in Coriolanus: "the virginal palms of your daughters-." MALONE. Line 539. My lord, she's not paced yet ;] She has not yet learned her paces. MALONE. Line 651. -to every coystrel That hither comes enquiring for his tib;] To every mean or drunken fellow that comes to enquire for a girl. Coysterel is properly a wine-vessel. Tib is, I think, a contraction of Tabitha. It was formerly a cant name for a strumpet. MALONE. ACT V. Line 6. Deep clerks she dumbs ;] Theseus confounds those who address him, by his superior dignity; Marina silences the learned persons with whom she converses, by her literary superiority. MALONE. Line 6. and with her neeld composes-] Neeld for needle. MALONE. 11. Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:] Inkle is a species of tape. ACT V. SCENE 1. MALONE. Line 141. - -and aukward casualties-] Aukward for ad verse. Line 168. Who starces the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry, The more she gives them speech.] So, in Antony und Cleopatra: "Other women cloy "The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, MALONE. Line 175. And how achiev'd you these endowments, which possess. Line 245. This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep-] The words, This is the rarest dream &c. are not addressed to Marina, but spoken aside. MALONE. ACT V. SCENE II. Line 344. goddess argentine,] That is, regent of the silver MALONE. moon. MALONE. Line 373. Till he had done his sacrifice,] That is, till Pericles had done his sacrifice. Line 375. The interim, pray you, all confound.] To confound here signifies to consume. MALONE, END OF THE ANNOTATIONS ON PERICLES. |