"Then, if, when I have lov'd my round, With spoils of meaner beauties crown'd, Ev'n sated with variety." Pleasant'st, I imagine. Carew, ed. Clarke, v. p. 22,- Thou but appear, He then, all pale with shame and fear, Lege, tum metri tum sententiæ gratia, brightest.5 In the two latter instances the mistake was particularly easy. 2,-Knight properly reads the passage, "I stay but for my guidon. To the field;" instead of "guard. On to the field.” Heywood, Four Prentices of London, Dodsley, vol. vi. p.473, "Take thou the cornet, Turnus, thou the archers, 4, Be thine the guidon, I the men at arms, Be mine this ensign." "Thou damned and luxurious mountain-goat, 5 The ed. 1640 reads brighter. See Gifford's Massinger, vol. i. p. 192, n. 4. Though emendatory criticism has not given here the exact word of the poet, it has approached it, and has at least detected error.-Ed. 6 This excellent conjecture was made by Dr. Thackeray, late Provost of Eton. See Notes and Queries, vol. vi. p. 393.-There is evidently something wrong in the passage quoted below from Heywood.-Ed. VOL. III. 10 The common people in Yorkshire call money in general by Of malady of France; and there my rend'vous [so write; fol., rendevous] Is quite cut off. Old do I wax," &c. 2,-dialogue between Katherine, the Lady, and Henry,"I cannot tell what is baiser, en English." The folio has en Anglish; and likewise, here and throughout the dialogue, wat for what in the speeches of the French ladies. W and wh, I imagine, were different sounds at that time, as they are still with the Scotch; and the commentators, I suppose, not being aware of this, took it for granted that wat was an error, and altered it to what. Ib., near the end of the play,— and this dear conjunction Plant neighbourhood and christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance Her bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France." Their means strictly the lands of England and France, "whose very shores," as he says just before (alluding to the white cliffs),— look pale With envy of each other's happiness." Sweet is thus appropriate. (Compare, for instance, King Richard II. iii. 2, 1. 12, "Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth, Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;" &c.) For never we should write, I think, ngʼer、 See S.V., Art. ix. 147 i. 1, I. KING HENRY VI, "Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears. Pope's marish is undoubtedly right, and so Dyce.1 Ib.,—I doubt not that we should read with Johnson,— "A far more glorious star thy soul will make, Ib., Than Julius Cæsar, or bright Berenice." Among the soldiers this is muttered, That here you maintain several factions." Maintain is not unfrequent in the Elizabethan poets. Greene, Friar Bacon &c. Dyce, vol. i. p. 204, "And what I spake, I'll maintain with my sword." George-a-Greene, vol. ii. p. 203, "Thou shalt have more to maintain thine estate." Titus Andronicus, v. 2, "Whate'er I forge, to feed his brain-sick fits, Do you uphold, and maintain in your speeches." Contention of the Houses, P. i. v. 1 (Knight),— "And for thy maintenance, I freely give A thousand marks a year to maintain thee." So in an earlier poet, Sir Clyomon &c., Dyce's Peele, vol. iii. p. 115, "To maintain your estate while you here live and do remain." 1 Remarks, p. 123. Shakespeare was probably thinking of Ezechiel, xlvii. 11, thus translated in the Bible of 1578,-"But the myrie places thereof, and the marises thereof shall not be wholesome: they shall be made saltpits."-Ed. Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 1,— 66 and with them, fair coz, I'll maintain my proceedings. Pray be pleas'd To show in generous terms your griefs," &c. Daniel, Musophilus, 1623, p. 105,—— "To maintain a respective reverence." Spenser, F. Q., B. v. C. viii. St. xiv.,— swearing faith to either on his blade, Never thenceforth to nourish enmity, But either others cause to maintain mutually." Shirley, Wedding, iii. 1, Gifford and Dyce, vol. i. p. 399,he that suffered such a loss of blood, Had not enough to maintain life till this time." Ib.,-"A third thinks," &c. and Var. note. Ib., "Were our tears wanting to this funeral, These tidings could call forth her flowing tides." Their. On the other hand, King Henry VIII. iii. 2,— "There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin," &c. I suspect his.3 2 The second folio reads man. The same word we know to have been accidentally omitted in Mr. Collier's first and second editions, Cymbeline, v.5; and may, therefore, reasonably infer that a similar accident happened in a worse printed book.-Ed. 3 I should say that the context requires also he for we in the preceding verse. Both these are neglected corrections of Hanmer's.- -Ed. Ib., penult. Of course, "The king from Eltham I intend to steal," loco ipso clamante. [So M. Mason, the Old Corrector, and Mr. Dyce has shown the cause of the recent editors. blunder.-Ed.] 2. I think, 3, "Then come, a God's name; I do fear no woman.' "Break up the gates: I'll be your warrantise." So bastardise for bastardy, Chapman, Il. iii., Taylor, vol. i. p. 90, 1.7, "And let their wives with bastardise brand all their future race." Ib., "Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law, But we shall meet, and break our minds at large. Winchester. Gloster, we'll meet; to thy dear cost, be sure : Thy heart-blood will I have for this day's work." Fol. (p. 99, col. 2),— "Gloster, wee 'le meet; to thy cost, be sure." The dear is from the second folio. Qu., "Gloster, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure;" the will emphatically; as I have elsewhere corrected King Richard II. ii. 1,— 4. "Tends that thou wouldst speak to the duke of Hereford ?" Of course (see Var. notes),— "Rather than I would be so vile-esteem'd." 4 For vilde and pilde, see Mr. Dyce's Remarks, p. 20.-Ed. |