And welcome, general;-And you are welcome all. MEN. A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light, and heavy: Wel come: A curfe begin at very root of his heart, That is not glad to fee thee !—You are three, men, We have fome old crab-trees here at home, that will not Be grafted to your relifh. Yet welcome, warriors: We call a nettle, but a nettle; and The faults of fools, but folly. COM. COR. Menenius, ever, ever.4 Ever right. HER. Give way there, and go on. COR. Your hand, and yours: [To his Wife and Mother. Ere in our own houfe I do fhade my head, The good patricians must be vifited; From whom I have receiv'd not only greetings, 4 Com. Ever right. Cor. Menenius, ever, ever.] Rather, I think : Com. Ever right Menenius. Cor. Ever, ever. Cominius means to fay, that-Menenius is always the fame; -retains his old humour. So, in Julius Cæfar, A&t V. fc. i. upon a speech from Caffius, Antony only fays-Old Caffius ftill. TYRWHITT. By these words, as they ftand in the old copy, I believe, Coriolanus means to fay-Menenius is ftill the fame affectionate friend as formerly. So, in Julius Cæfar: "for always I am Caefar." MALONE. But with them change of honours.5 VOL. To fee inherited my very wishes, I have lived And the buildings of my fancy: only there Know, good mother, COR. COM. On, to the Capitol. [Flourish. Cornets. Exeunt in ftate, as before. The Tribunes remain. BRU. All tongues fpeak of him, and the bleared fights Are fpectacled to fee him: Your pratling nurse • But with them change of honours.] So all the editions read. But Mr. Theobald has ventured (as he expreffes it) to fubftitute charge. For change, he thinks, is a very poor expreffion, and communicates but a very poor idea. He had better have told the plain truth, and confeffed that it communicated none at all to him. However, it has a very good one in itself; and fignifies variety of honours; as change of rayment, among the writers of that time, fignified variety of rayment. WARBURTON. Change of raiment is a phrafe that occurs not unfrequently in the Old Testament. STEEVENS. • Into a rapture-] Rapture, a common term at that time ufed for a fit, fimply. So, to be rap'd, fignified, to be in a fit. WARBURTON, If the explanation of Bishop Warburton be allowed, a rapture means a fit; but it does not appear from the note where the word is used in that fenfe. The right word is in all probability rupture, to which children are liable from exceffive fits of crying. This emendation was the property of a very ingenious scholar long before I had any claim to it. S. W. That a child will " cry among nurses. itself into fits," is still a common phrase That the words fit and rapture, were once fynonymous, may While the chats him: the kitchen malkin' pins be inferred from the following paffage in The Hofpital for London's Follies, 1602, where Goflip Luce fays: "Your darling will weep itself into a Rapture, if you take not good heed. STEEVENS. In Troilus and Creffida, raptures fignifies ravings: her brainfick raptures 66 "Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel." I have not met with the word rapture in the sense of a fit in any book of our author's age, nor found it in any Dictionary previous to Cole's Latin Dictionary, 1679. He renders the word by the Latin ecfiafis, which he interprets a trance. However, the rule-de non apparentibus et de non exiftentibus eadem eft ratio-certainly does not hold, when applied to the use of words. Had we all the books of our author's age, and had we read them all, it then might be urged.-Drayton, fpeaking of Marlowe, fays his raptures were "all air and fire." MALONE. 7 the kitchen malkin-] A maukin, or malkin, is a kind of mop made of clouts for the use of sweeping ovens: thence a frightful figure of clouts dreffed up: thence a dirty wench. HANMER. Maukin in fome parts of England fignifies a figure of clouts fet up to fright birds in gardens: a scare crow. P. The Malkin is properly the diminutive of Mal (Mary); as Wilkin, Tomkin, &c. In Scotland, pronounced Maukin, it fignifies a hare. Grey malkin (corruptly grimalkin) is a cat. kitchen malkin is juft the fame as the kitchen Madge or Befs: the fcullion. RITSON. Minfheu gives the fame explanation of this term, as Sir T. Hanmer has done, calling it "an inftrument to clean an oven,now made of old clowtes." The etymology which Dr. Johnson has given in his Dictionary-" MALKIN, from Mal or Mary, and kin, the diminutive termination,"-is, I apprehend, erroneous. The kitchen-wench very naturally takes her name from this word, a fcullion; another of her titles, is in like manner derived from efcouillon, the French term for the utenfil called a malkin. MALONE. After the morris-dance degenerated into a piece of coarse buffoonery, and Maid Marian was perfonated by a clown, this once elegant Queen of May obtained the name of Malkin. To this Beaumont and Fletcher allude in Monfieur Thomas: "Put on the fhape of order and humanity, 8 Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,9 Clambering the walls to eye him: Stalls, bulks, windows, Are fmother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges hors'd In earneftnefs to fee him: feld-fhown flamens I Maux, a corruption of malkin, is a low term, ftill current in feveral counties, and always indicative of a coarse vulgar wench. STEEVENS. 8 Her richest lockram &c.] Lockram was fome kind of cheap linen. Greene, in his Vifion, describing the dress of a man, says : "His ruffe was of fine lockeram, ftitched very faire with Coventry blue." Again, in The Spanish Curate of Beaumont and Fletcher, Diego fays: "I give per annum two hundred ells of lockram, "That there be no ftraight dealings in their linnens." Again, in Glapthorne's Wit in a Constable, 1639: ·9 "Thou thought'ft, because I did wear lockram fhirts, "I had no wit." STEEVENS. " az her reechy neck,] Reechy is greafy, fweaty. So, in Hamlet: "a pair of reechy kifles." Laneham, fpeaking of "three pretty puzels" in a morris-dance, fays they were bright az a breaft of bacon," that is, bacon hung in the chimney : and hence reechy, which in its primitive fignification is Smoky, came to imply greafy. RITSON. Ifeld-fhown flamens-] i. e. priefts who feldom exhibit themselves to publick view. The word is ufed in Humour out of Breath, a comedy, by John Day, 1607: 66 O feld-feen metamorphofis." The fame adverb likewife occurs in the old play of Hieronimo: "Why is not this a ftrange and feld-feen thing?" Seld is often ufed by ancient writers for feldom. STEEVENS. 2 a vulgar ftation :] A ftation among the rabble. So, in The Comedy of Errors: "A vulgar comment will be made of it." MALONE. A vulgar fiation, I believe, fignifies only a common ftandingplace, fuch as is distinguished by no particular convenience. STEEVENS. Commit the war of white and damask, in 3 Commit the war of white and damask, in Their nicely-gawded cheeks,] Dr. Warburton, for war, abfurdly reads-ware. MALONE. Has the commentator never heard of rofes contending with lilies for the empire of a lady's cheek? The oppofition of colours, though not the commixture, may be called a war. So, in Shakspeare's Tarquin and Lucrece : "The filent war of lilies and of rofes, JOHNSON. "Which Tarquin view'd in her fair face's field.” Again, in The Taming of the Shrew: "Such war of white and red," &c. Again, in Chaucer's Knight's Tale, Mr. Tyrwhitt's edit. v. 1040: "For with the rofe colour ftrof hire hewe." Again, in Damætas' Madrigal in Praife of his Daphnis, by John Wootton; published in England's Helicon, 1600: "Amidft her cheekes the rofe and lilly frive." Again, in Maffinger's Great Duke of Florence: 66 66 the lillies Contending with the rofes in her cheek." STEEVENS, Again, in our author's Venus and Adonis : "To note the fighting conflict of her hue, "How white and red each other did destroy." MALONE. Cleaveland introduces this, according to his quaint manner : 66 - her cheeks, "Where rofes mix: no civil war "Between her York and Lancafter." FARMER. As if that whatsoever god,] That is, as if that god who leads him, whatsoever god he be. JOHNSON. So, in our author's 26th Sonnet : "Till whatsoever ftar that guides my moving, Again, in Antony and Cleopatra: 66 he hath fought to-day, "As if a god in hate of mankind had |