have seen many of them. Beaded jet, is jet formed into beads. STEEVENS. P. 719, c. 1, l. 39. Upon whose weeping margent she was set, Like usury, applying wet to wet,] In King Henry VI. Part III. we meet with a similar thought: "With tearful eyes add water to the sea, And give more strength to that which has too much." These two lines are not in the old play on which the third part of King Henry VI are formed. Again, in Romeo and Juliet: "With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs." Again, in As You Like It: Thou mak'st a testament As worldings do, giving the sum of more Upon whose margent weeping she was set." The words might have been accidentally transposed at the press. Weeping margent, however, is, I believe, right, being much in our author's manner. Weeping for weeped or be-weeped; the margin wetted with tears. MALONE. To weep is to drop. Milton talks of "Groves whose rich trees wept od'rous gums and balm.” Pope speaks of the "weeping amber," and Mortimer observes that 66 rye-grass grows on weeping ground," i. e. lands abounding with wet, like the margin of the river on which this damsel is sitting. The rock from which water drops, is likewise poetically called a weeping rock: xpn' v devaov πέτρης ἀπό ΛΑΚΡΥΟΕΣΣΗΣ. STEEVENS. Id. l. 48. With sleided silk feat and affectedly--} Sleided silk is, as Dr Percy has elsewhere observed, untwisted silk, prepared to be used in the weaver's sley or slay. So, in Pericles : "Be't, when she weav'd the sleided silk," A weaver's sley is formed with teeth like a comb. Feat is, curiously, nicely. MALONE. With sleided silk feat and affectedly Enswath'd, and seal'd to curious secrecy. To be convinced of the propriety of this description, let the reader, consult the Royal Letters, &c. in the British Museum, where he will find that anciently the ends of a piece of narrow ribbon were placed under the seals of letters, to connect them more closely. STEEVENS. Florio's Italian and English Dialogues, entitled his Second Frutes, 1591, confirm Mr Steevens's observation. In page 89, a person, who is supposed to have just written a letter, calls for some wax, some sealing thread, his dust-box, and his seal.” MALONE. Id. c. 2, 1. 2. that the ruffle knew-] Rufflers were a species of bullies in the time of Shakspeare. "To ruffle in the common wealth," is a phrase in Titus Andronicus. STEEVENS. In Sherwood's French and English Dictionary at the end of Cotgrave's Dictionary, Ruffle and hurliburly are synonymous. MALONE. Id l. 3. and had let go by The swiftest hours, &c.] Had passed the prime of life, when time appears to move with his quickest pace MALONE. Id L. 5. this afflicted faucy-] This afflicted love sick lady Fancy, it has been already Sighs and tears, poor fancy's followers" MALONE. Id. l. 8. his grained bat,] So, in Coriolanus: "My grained ash." His grained bat is the staff on which the grain of the wood was v sible. STEEVENS. A bat is a club. The word is again used in King Lear: Id. l. 26. "Ise try whether your costard or my bat be the harder." MALONE. ld. l. 13. her suffering ecstasy-] Her painf perturbation of mind. MALONE. made him her place;] i. e. her seat, her mansion. In the sacred writings the word is often used in this sense. STEEVENS So, in As You Like It: "This is no place: this house is but a butchery." Plas in the Weich language signifies a mansion-house. MALONE Id. 1. 32. What's sweet to do, to do will oply find:] I suppose he means, things pleasant to be done will easily find people enough to do them. STEEVENS. Id. Id. 1. 37. His phoenix down-] I suppose he meats matchless, rare, down. MALONE. P. 720, c. 1, Z. 18. -following where he haunt ed:] Where he frequented. So, in Rome and Juliet: Id. MALONE. here in the public haunt of met 1. 32. And was my own fee simple,] Had an Id. l. 50. of the passage then should seem to be-My illicit amours were merely the effect of constitution, and not approved by my reason: pure and genuine love had no share in them or in their consequences; for the mere congress of the sexes may produce such fruits, without the affections being at all engaged. MALONE. P. 720, c.2, 1.22. And lo! behold these talents of their hair, &c.] These lockets, consisting of hair platted and set in gold. MALONE. Id. 1. 23. -amorously impleach'd] Impleach'd is interwoven; the same as pleached, a word which our author uses in Much Ado About Nothing, and in Antony and Cleopatra: 66 Steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles ripen'd by the sun Forbid the sun to enter-" with pleach'd arms bending down His corrigible neck." MALONE. Id. 1. 30. Whereto his invis'd properties did tend ;] Invis'd for invisible. This is, I believe, a word of Shakspeare's coining. His invis'd properties are the invisible qualities of his mind. So, in our author's Venus and Adonis : "Had I no eyes, but ears, my ears would love Thy inward beauty and invisible." MA shun.] Who lately retired from the solicitation of her noble admirers. The word suit, in the sense of request or petition, was much used in Shakspeare's time. MALONE. Id 1.53. Whose rarest havings made the blossoms date; whose accomplishments were so extraordinary that the flower of the young nobility were passionately enamoured of her. MALONE. Id. 1.54 For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,] By nobles; whose high descent is marked by the number of quarters in their coats of arms. So, in our author's Tarquin and Lu P. then composing-The lover is speaking of a nun who had voluntarily retired from the world. -But what merit (he adds), could she boast, or what was the difficulty of such an action? What labour is there in leaving what we have not, i. e. what we do not enjoy, or in retraining desires that do agitate our breast? "Paling the place," &c. securing within the pale of a cloister that heart which had never received the impression of love.-When fetters are put upon us by our consent, they do not appear irksome, &c. Such is the meaning of the text as now regulated. In Antony and Cleopatra the verb to pale is used in the sense of to hem in: “Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, Is thine, if thou wilt have it." The word form, which I once suspected to be corrupt, is undoubtedly right. The same phraseology is found in Tarquin and Lucrece : the impression of strange kinds Is form'd in them (women), by force, by fraud, or skill," It is also still more strongly supported by the passage quoted by Mr Steevens from Twelfth Night. MALONE. I do not believe there is any corruption in the words "did no form receive," as the same expression occurs again in the last stanza but three: a plenitude of subtle matter, Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives." Again, in Twelfth Night: "How easy is it for the proper false In women's waxen hearts to set their forms?" STEEVENS, 721, c. 1, 18. My parts had power to charm a sacred sun,] Perhaps the poet wrote-" a sacred nun." If sun be right, it must mean, the brightest luminary of the cloister. So, in King Henry VIII.: When these suns (For so they phrase them) by their heralds The noble spirits to arms, they did perform In Coriolanus, the chaste Valeria is called "Love's arms are proof 'gainst rule, &c." The meaning however of the text as it stands, may be-The warfare that love carries on against rule, sense, &c. produces to the parties engaged a peaceful enjoyment, and sweetens, &c. The construction in the next line is perhaps irregular.-Love's arms are peace, &c. and love sweetens. MALONE. Perhaps we should read: "Love aims at peaceYet sweetens," &c. STEEVENS. Id. l. 34. -gate the glowing roses That flame-] That is, procured for the glowing roses in his cheeks that flame, &c. Gate is the ancient perfect tense of the verb to get. MALONE. Id. c. 2, l. 6. O cleft effect! O divided and discordant effect!-0 cleft, &c. is the modern correction. The old copy has-Or cleft effect, from which it is difficult to draw any meaning. MALONE. Id. l. 11. — and civil fears;] Civil formerly signified grave, decorous. So, in Romeo and Juliet: THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM. I. Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook, With young Adonis, lovely, fresh and green, Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen. To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there: But whether unripe years did want conceit, Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward ; II. Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, A brook, where Adon us'd to cool his spleen: And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim; Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, See, in my thigh, quoth she, here was the sore: IV. Venus with young Adonis sitting by her, Even thus, quoth she, he seized on my lips, V. Crabbed age and youth Age like winter weather; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is wild, and age is tame. O, my love, my love is young; O, sweet shepherd, hie thee, For methinks thou stay'st too long. VI. Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon faded, VII. Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle, Her lips to mine how often hath she join'd, She burn'd with love, as straw with fire flameth; VIII. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument, Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment. A woman I forswore; but I will prove, Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee: My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love; Thy grace being gain'd, eures all disgrace in me. My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is; Then thou fair sun, which on my earth dost shine, Exhal'st this vapour vow; in thee it is: If broken, then it is no fault of mine. If by me broke, what fool is not so wise To break an oath, to win a paradise? IX. If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love? O, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd: Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll constant prove; Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers bow'd. Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes, Where all those pleasures live, that art can comprehend. If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice; Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend; All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder; Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire: Thine eye Jove's lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful thunder, Which (not to anger bent) is music and sweet fire. Celestial as thou art, O do not love that wrong, To sing the heavens' praise with such an earthly tongue. X. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud; And as good lost are seld or never found, XI. Good night, good rest. To descant on the doubts of my decay. Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, XII. Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east! My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise Doth cite each moving sense from idle rest. Not daring trust the office of mine eyes, While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark, And wish her lays were tuned like the lark; For she doth welcome day-light with her ditty, And drives away dark dismal-dreaming night: The night so pack'd, I post unto my pretty: Heart hath his hope, and eyes their wished sight: Sorrow chang'd to solace, solace mix'd with sorrow, For why? she sighed, and bade me come to-morrow Were I with her, the night would post too soon; But now are minutes added to the hours: To spite me now, each minute seems a moon; Yet not for me, shine sun to succour flowers. Pack night, peep day, good day, of night now borrow. Short, night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow. Her fancy fell a turning. Long was the combat doubtful, that love with love To put in practice either, alas it was a spite But one must be refused, more mickle was the pain. That nothing could be used, to turn them both to gain, For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain: Alas, she could not help it! Thus art with arms contending was victor of the day. Which by a gift of learning did bear the maid away; Then lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay; For now my song is ended. XIV. On a day (alack the day!) Love, whose month was ever May, That I am forsworn for thee; Juno but an Ethiope were; XV. My flocks feed not, My ewes breed not, My rams speed not, All is amiss: Love's denying, Faith's defying, Heart's renying, Causer of this. |